Amazing Race Majalah Mangga 2013

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Amazing Race Majalah Mangga 2013

16 Februari 2013, FRIM, Kepong.

Edisi Amazing Race bersama Majalah Mangga, terbitan Utusan Karya Sdn Bhd dianjurkan sempena ulang tahun ke-18 Majalah Mangga. Melalui Fan Clubnya, acara ini diadakan di FRIM, Kepong. Sebanyak 18 pasukan telah mengambil bahagian, termasuklah pasukan kami yang terdiri dari Fakri, Elah, Lek dan saya sebagai Kapten. Anggota kelima adalah Keena, mentee Awie dalam program rancangan realiti Mentor.

There goes the introduction. Allow me to continue in both English and Malays. Comfortable writing that way I guess. Tak salah kan?  

 

I first saw the ads about the event during Jom Fiesta! held @ Utusan Karya here in Bangi. So I form a team, not knowing who our 5^th member will be, until that event day. Its more like spent-a-day-with-your-favourite-artist which is, for me, I hardly knew most of them :P but few are the famous one like Nelyda Senrose or Emma Maembong for example. *woot!!*

FRIM @ Kepong

Breakfast served, and registration began around 8.45 am. Once we get to know the celebrity that will be joining us, we went to say hi, and go for group photography (kenapa lah bukan Nelydia Senrose jd team mate kitaorg? *puft*) Ape pun Keena merupakan team mate yang superb dan sporting, even masuk race pakai suar jeans. 

Newly open rows of Cafe

Registration

Yummy! Eh, asal gmbr air jer :P

 Among the celebrities that day. Ayu O1AM pun ada.

 Utusan Karya dan majalah2 nya

Team Budget Good Good

Aksi model tak jadi

Aksi kembang idong! Bukan selalu.. 

Saya bukan lelaki itu.. *puft* haha..  

 Readyy?

The event started around 9.30 am, with 8 CPs to go through. Total distance around 4 km. A map was given, plus an egg for you to safe keep during the whole race. 

And our team made a mistake on CP1 :P – find a 5 glass marbles in a pool, and once we did, we didn’t submit it to the marshall for that CP and went ahead for the next CP! Boleh semua orang tak ingat tu, terlalu excited sbb jadi first team yang dpt kumpul kesemua 5 guli (few later team were manage to collect 2 marbles only). Less point lah. Tp diaorg ttp dpt markah sbb submit diaorg punya guli. Di setiap CP, kena buat task, dan kena shout team tagline sebaik/sekreatif mungkin. 

CP 2 was nearby, once we've collected all 5 glass marbles, rushed towards CP2 and get our next task, to ‘decorate’ ourselves with dead leaves to makes us look like org asli, and painted our faces the most interesting way. we had to say our tagline before we were allowed to go. 

Continue climbing the stairs and end up into the Rover Trail. Its helpful as I’ve been here too many times and we know exactly where to go. Few teams took the wrong turn. = buang masa.

Jungle trekking sket..

Everyone seem enjoying doin it...

 Arrived CP 3 after 10 minutes of running. 

CP 3 – all of us needed to play a malay traditional game called berjalan dengan tempurung, which you have to walk with it for few meters and back, under 5 minutes. Fakri was pretty good at this, siap berlari-lari anak lagi. Kind a hard for someone with bigger size like me, Lek n Elah. Again, we need to do our best to shout the team’s tagline. Ok. Sakit tekak dah. 

Ok, lets hear the group tagline?

off your shoes 

pick your tempurung (coconut shell)

and pose as cute as me! :P lol.. 

Continue running towards CP 4. We were still leading. But in an amazing race, team that leads doesn’t necessary gonna end up 1^st place. Total marks is what important. Timing is 2^nd.

Located under the huge mersawa gajah tree.

CP 4 – (treasure) a puzzle we need to complete (always hate it) and we weren’t told about the ‘treasure’ that we were supposed to ‘snap’ while we were there. again, shout the tagline first. We couldn’t complete it under 5 minutes, so everyone were punished to eat a slice of ‘peria’. Op! jgn lupa team tagline. Ok. Bosan pulak setiap CP kena ulang2 (2 kali setiap CP). Tp tetap penuh bersemangat kita org laungkan.

 almost!

Continue running/walking towards CP 5. More of downhill route.

enjoy the serenity!

Everyone has to do this

CP 5 - Aksi komando - where all of us need to crawl like a commando under tali rafia to complete the task. Jgn lupa shout the tagline again. Keena masih bertenaga. Harapan utk dia mintak dukung balik ke finish line takde lah nampaknya. Lek dan Elah kecewa. Haha.. 

Continue running/walking. This is the best part. Merentas padang under shady trees. 

CP 6 Arrived at the traditional house, the task - to stack those nails, and forming a shape like the pic below :

 *photo credit to its owner*

 

And we finish it like under 5 minutes. Senang! Tiap2 kali abis task kena shout team tagline. *dah takde sore* Oh yer. Our team tagline was : Ululululululu (use your own imagination) and shout, Apa Khabar Rockers!!! (suare serak2 basah) Note : Keena is the host of the show btw. < Jgn lupa tengok cite nih. Haha.

CP 7 – listening to instructions. 2 of the team members get blindfolded. The rest guide them to collect the color arrow according to the marshal’s instruction. Kecoh bagi arahan! Enjoy the vid!

they both really listened to my instruction! hehe (which only one was supposed to)

Still leading.. Yeah! Yeah! woit, mana nak pegi ni?

CP 8 – We took about 5 minutes to find this CP, only to find out that the marshall is yet to be there. Haha.. terlalu laju lah pulak.. 

Few tasks. 1. Fear factor challenge. We were blindfolded, and we need to get 2 (two) 20 cent coins in a bowl full of maggots and a 5 cent coin in an covered fish bowl (I think there’s a slimy fish inside). Senang jer. We have 3 Fear Factor winners in our group. :P

2^nd task - we need to write down all the task that we did just now. Hentam sajelah. Tak ingat sangat semua task yang marshal sebut tadik. Agak2 jer.

Once done, we submitted all the ‘treasures’ – glass marble, map, and egg and the picture of the -- tree. We were leading all the way till the end. Rasa cambest. Tp, belum confirm menang!

Apa Khabar Rockersss!! (suara serak2 basah)

Finish the race around 12.30pm. Another group photo, and sesi makan-makan dan sesi karaoke-tak-ok-sangat berlangsung. Food utk lunch sedap! Cake cutting and few artis pegang mic nyanyi. Tak kenal sangatlah sape on stage. :) Wifey wanted a photo with Nelydia, but she already left.  Keena was kind enough to say hi to us and our family members. 

Tetap support walau kami kalah.. 

 Keena live!

Prize giving ceremony around 2.30.  But lucky draws first lah mcm biasa dan acara-acara sampingan lain. Tiap2 kali event kalu ada lucky draw nih, aku rasa org yg dpt tu ‘pemenang’ sebenar. Sbb, grand prize? Dpt pegi Tioman 3 hari 2 malam okeh. Pemenang race ni? Dpt RM800 kongsi 5 orang :P. 

Happy 18th Birthday Majalah Mangga!

Dyat's Team! Congrats!

Eh? Mana thah gmbr team kitaorg? :P *akan diupdate kendian*

We end up @ no. 11.  Team Dyat at no. 12. I think most of the front team didn’t submit their glass marbles @ CP1 too :P. *sour face* kiciwa. Lesson learned. Next time jgn terlebih excited sbb ada artis jadi team member *lulz*

3 pm ended.

Pro :

Good session to meet up close with our favourite artist :P yelah, dpt jumpe Emma Maembong n Nelydia up close, siap amik gmbr dua-dua.. haa.. ok per? Bukan selalu kan.. 

Such a novel effort, yelah, organized by fan club for Majalah Mangga. and they (the fan club) handle everything! apa nama fan club x pastilah saya :) 

Makanan cukup dan sedap.

Route yang menarik dan task yang tak terlalu susah, sesuai untuk semua. Tapi tetap kena fit sebab bentuk muka bumi FRIM tu memang lah berbukit bakau. Sesetengah tempat agak fizikal.

Hadiah lucky draw yang best! Yang tak bestnye, kami yg tak lucky! :P

Cons:

Kul 8 tapi registration tak mula lagi. Race start lambat, dan penerangan tidak begitu jelas oleh Ketua Marshal. 

Hadiah kalu 1^st prize RM800 kongsi 5 orang, alahai, berapa lah sorang dpt ye tak? Kalu kecikkan team, kata lah 3 orang, mahalkan sket fee, orang tetap akan join punye :) dan penganjur tak disclose nilai hadiah masa register. 

Aksi mengada-gada beberapa ‘anak ikan’ yang tak reti ini adalah event keluarga, juga ada peserta dari kalangan ‘anak ikan’ membuat ‘pose’ yang tidak sesuai sewaktu pengumuman pemenang. Acara ni tetap meriah tanpa ada aksi-aksi ‘anak ikan’ ni sebenarnya. Dan penganjur juga patutnya tidak menggalakkan aksi sebegini berlaku. MC juga nampak terlebih excited dengan mengatakan ‘amboi, seronok ye anak-anak ikan dapat bergambar dengan mak ikan’ ? Ape makna anak ikan, mak ikan? Korang google lah ek? :P 

Note : aku mungkin salah. Ke dia cakap ‘anak ayam’ ek? Ok part tu je yg x sure.

Artis duduk dengan group diaorg jer. Bukan semua la. Tp still, lepak je ngan kitaorg, bukan kitaorg nak lebih2 tanya itu ini. Just to get to know our ‘team mate’ better, tu jer.. ye tak?

Event tee tak kualiti sangat. Best kalu dapat pakai lagi bawk gi jenjalan bagi orang lain jeles and at the same time, leh promote event ni. tul tak?

Harap pihak berkenaan blh terima teguran diatas. Ada lagi next year nak join! Losing an event is always a good experience. Tau mana silap, so next event kasi tapau! :) 

Tschuss!