Overall, I found this photo hunt event very challenging and fun at the same time. But the weather was so so hot! My Game Master (GM) is Sebastian. It was good that at the start of the hunt, he told us that he wouldn’t reveal the other photos and didn’t want us to cheat. The instructions given about the hunt is very clear. We appointed a Group Leader (GL), Kee Min. Our photographer is Aisyah.
The starting point of our hunt was outside Bugis National Library. Upon receiving our first photo, our group was completely stunned by it. We started looking around and made wild guesses. We tried asking for help at the information counter at the Library, but they said that they cannot tell us. Then we decided to try Funan IT Mall. On the way there, we looked out for the bonus pictures. Then our GM gave us a clue on where the place is. One of our members figured it out immediately and we hurried there. On the way to Millenia Walk, we found quite a number of bonus pictures. Hurray! As we went from places to places, we got more tired and warm. The places were so “merry-go-round”-ish. After every photo, our GM will give us a new photo. And some photos were places where we walked pass before and we have to walk all the way back to the same place.
Despite all the walking, our GL is always in the front of the group. I was speeding along behind her and the other group members will trail behind and eventually catch up. Some photos were so impossible to find, the bonus pictures were so tricky. For example the bicycle picture, I thought it would be on ground-level, outside a building. But it was a display item in a shopping mall. Fortunately, one of our group members spotted it the minute we entered the mall.
Hurrah! At Funan IT mall, I was walking in front, searching for the Barney machine thingy beside a candy machine. We found a machine thingy, but it was not Barney. It was some other cartoon. We doubted it, but we figured that they changed the machine thingy. So we just took a photo of it. We walked to the Memorial Tower thing two times, back and forth.
We were walking through Citylink to get to the Memorial thing. Kee Min found a stairway up as a shortcut to the tower. Enthusiastically, we raced up the stairs. True enough, it was a really good shortcut. But we couldn’t use that stairs because one of our group members was wearing skirt. Then we walked further up to another shortcut to the tower. So, we walked all the way back down again.
After the Memorial Tower thing, we had to walk back to Marina Square. Some of us were complaining and whining. But we still managed to drag ourselves there. Some of us quenched ourselves with Bubble Tea. We concluded that our last stop would be the stop right beside the ending point (Esplanade) which is the Marina Square one. Many of us sat under the shade to wait for our dearest GL and photographer and our GM to search for the last photo. One of my group members sat beside me in the sun to wait for them.
We were so tired that we were lazy to get up into the shade. They hunted for quite long, but they didn’t manage to find it. Good effort though. Then Alex said he might have seen the photo on the other side of the building, so he ran there with another one of our group members to look for it. However, they didn’t find it. So, we declared that we finished. (If I’m not wrong, I think I’m wrong, we finished 5 stations only, out of a possible 10 stations) We assembled on the top floor of the Esplanade and ta-daa! Finito!
During the prize presentation, when they announced that our group got first and tied with two other groups, we were all shocked and surprised. All I heard from the rest of us were, “Cannot be... Cannot be..” and “Oh my gosh, really?!” Personally, I was surprised as well.
I think everyone of us in the group did contribute to the surprising win for the group. I think we won because of the bonus pictures. When we concentrated on the bonus pictures, our GM asked us to concentrate on the main pictures. Then our group members will constantly look out for the bonus pictures. During the whole journey, there were lots of complaints like, “Very hot!”, “Huh, go back there again!”...etc. Finally, thank you GM for guiding us!
Reflection by Jennifer Zhuang
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