Thursday, December 30, 2004
Phew! KX Blog Hunt II is finally over!! Yippee! Answers revealed!
1st Clue: The identity of the person is none other than
Mr. Brian Dunkleman!!! I gave real obvious clues such as he hosted for the first season of a worldwide telecast show... People that know me definitely will infer those kind of reality shows such as Survivor, American Idol and Amazing Race.. But since both amazing race and survivor has only one hosts for the 6 and 8 seasons respectively (Phil Keoghan and Jeff Probst), the remaning worldwide telecast show I could be referring to will definitely be American Idol, which one will definitely find out if he had the time to search something called the net... The other 2 clues were pretty much redundant, since there are a few people who also guess starred in the two sitcoms and the display picture dint really help much did it?
2nd Clue: The poem is as shown below: (the complete on of cos with those question-marked letters bolded.)
Excellence
Excellence is dedication , to a job that's hard to do.
Going the extra mile, and always trying to follow through.
Excellence is communication, sharing everything you know,
and learning how to listen, so your expertise will grow.
Excellence is appreciation , of the talent that you see.
Acknowledging a job well done, inspires success and loyalty.
Excellence is aspiration, with a higher goal in mind,
to trust in God, and reach for things of a more rewarding kind.
Therefore, the bolded letters will be
d e d a o p e s r and once unscrambled correctly, the song name will be
desperado by the eagles!!!
3rd Clue: the 3rd clue seemed to be some kind of killer for some cos people like daniel and khaiboon gave up here... Maybe its too tedious and all....
1st question: Ni hcihw yrtnuoc erew eht tnimelbuod' 'snitw detanimile ni eht gnizama ?ecar
The trick is real simple, many could get this: Spell everything backwards and the question will be,
"In which country were the doublemint twins eliminated from the amazing race?" If researched on CBS' Amazing Race official website @
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race3, you'll find out that the doublemint twins are the hot and sizzling Derek and Drew (wonder why one of em likes Flo, lol..) and that they were the 4th in the race and were eliminated in Vietnam... I shall cut short other details abt how they got eliminated... =D
2nd question:
TEUEMFOTMOAYRWSNOTEISOSNHCSAOOTEMZNRCEAGIAAHFNSEHIWIPTTPHFEOATARRPENCOUSMH
This proved to be a killer for all cos its real hard to decipher and the chunk of caps aren't a good sight at all.. Therefore, to those that asked me about it, my only hint was to stare at the question and umm.. shake your head.. Yupz, the professional way to decode this is the left-right theory, where one have to start from the first letter, then the last letter, the 2nd letter, then second last till the centre...
Once decoded correctly (or at least if you got all the words out), the question will be:
"The Museum of Comtemporary Art was one of the pit stops in which season of the Amazing Race?" Once again, this clue can be found on the CBS website but the museum itself holds lots of memories for me cos firstly, Blake and Paige (my fave bro n sis team in AR2) were last there!! But it wasnt an elimination leg and secondly, I've been there on my trip to Aussie and it really looks nice! Haha...
So if my instructions were read properly, the next blog address will be at vietnam-2.blogspot.com!!
Final Clue: This question stumped 95% - 100% of those hunt-ers until I posted the obvious hint on my MSN nick...
0... -2... -3... 8... 95... 684... x
My hint for the formula was
An exclamation mark without a 2D shape made up of congruent sides. This seemed to be yet another puzzle for all cos they thot that i was referring to the circle of the exclamation mark!!! Goodness! How can the formula be a circle? The mathematical decipheration of my formula was to see that the Exclamation mark in mathematical symbol is actually a factorial sign (!) and the 2D shape with congruent sides is none other than a square, unless there's something in mathematics called n^rhombus... Therefore the formula is factorial without square and once you get it, you'll automatically realise that 'without' is actually the subtraction replacement and therefore, the formula for this pattern is
Factorial minus Square!!! Isn't that damn obvious???
So, 1! - 1^2 = 0, 2! - 2^2 = -2.... and x is therefore
7! - 7^2 = 5040 - 49 = 4991!!! So my blog hunt treasure chest was at 4991.blogspot.com!!!
Nevertheless, only 2 pple solved it and congrats to Kian Hong and Mong who wrecked the brains with the other hunters and managed to get there before it ended....
Sigh, there shan't be any more hunts in near future until I am so godamn sian.. Haha...
Oh ya, let me blog abt my day today!! :D:D Band is real tired today.. Seriously....
Firstly, I woke up at 6.30 then took a bus at 7.30.. Surprisingly, it wasnt even packed... I dint even have to share seats and I arrived there quite early.. Then I saw ernest, mel liu and terence, in his HCJC uniform that looked so damn shitty... Lol, no offence but he did looked funny, cos mayb he aint that nerdy and all, the typical look HCJC-ians have on their overall image...
So band started at 8.30 and we went to the field to practice our marches in a U-shape arrangement.. It was quite chicken feet cos i memorised all the pieces already that's well nth really eventful happened.. So its like after the break at 10.35, we were in the field and were marching non-stop for like half an hr and we still had to play our march medleys and our entertainment sector that costed us antoher 25 mins and next, we had to march forward somemore, than more sala-ing so we had to march again and again until we were all exhausted and 3/4 dead...
Then we had our break at 12pm, had our u-shape arrangment again and we play yet another medley of songs and we were finally dismissed... sigh, band is really tiring but it really trains my endurance and willpower if i do have em.. No more outdoor pls... :S Haha..
Then after the practice, Sean, Rujun, Yikun, kianhong, ben ang, siyao and I went to KAP for lunch and we talked abt neopets and all cos yikun is a real businessman in neopets and talking to kh, sean and him abt neopets made me sounded like a beggar or at least some1 with only one hse - poor.. :(
So after I came back, i played the com, slept and now i am blogging cos i am freaking bored and i haf to go to my aunt's hse tmr for new yr's eve/day celebration = sianz...
Oh hahahahaha.. I now have A NEW HANDPHONE!!! MOTOROLA E398A!!!! Mwhahaha! Now I dun haf the latest non-colour nokia phone anymore.. Sean and Jianyi won't laff at me anymore!! It rox seriously, except I must get used to how the phone sends messages... Lol.. Yay! I feel so happy!!! :D:D Merry xmas merry xmas!!!
Signing off,
KX
12/30/2004 11:00:00 PM
