… also known as “WE LOST!” Well, it was not totally unexpected. Ya lah, sure you think that I’m only saying that because we lost. Well, check with my other team members if you don’t believe me 😛
Me, KY, Red Mummy, Sultan Muzaffar and Babe in the City‘s other half, KK
The organisers put us up at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront hotel, and we met for breakfast on Wednesday morning. Had a short briefing, then off we went to Geek Terminal. Apparently it’s a popular cafe for events, and they serve awesome coffee. Turns out to be Illy.
There we met with members of Team Singapore – EastCoastLife, Sheylara, Aaron, Mr. Endoh and Wilfrid. EastCoastLife is the marketing director for MENSA Singapore. If that doesn’t scare the shit out of you when it comes to mental challenges like these and you are on the opposing team, I don’t know what will.
After a short presentation – an overview of the Asia Mental Performance Survey that was conducted by BRAND’S in 2007, the host introduced all 10 members from the two teams. There’d be 7 rounds of games to test our… uh, mental alertness 😛 And off we went!
Team Malaysia. Photo shamelessly nicked from Wilfred
Round 1: Unscrambling alphabets to form words. At this point, I was like, whaa… Where was the logic puzzle that I’d tried to brace myself for? So this is going to be like flash games or certain Facebook apps lah? Hah! Not that it would make things easier, but it’d definitely be less embarrassing. Maybe it’s just me, but I’d rather be embarrassed from not knowing how to unscramble words than not knowing the square root of 50. Punca kuasa dua I know lah.
Round 2: Math questions, a.k.a. my 2nd worst nightmare .The first would be a horrifying ghost with a tragically disfigured face chasing me down an empty road at night. Then I’d keep running and screaming and crying because most ghosts can fly and I can’t, so I’d automatically be at the losing end. But I don’t remember the ghosts wanting to kill or eat me or anything; they seemed happy by just scaring my wits out.
Team Singapore. Photo shamelessly nicked from Wilfred
Round 3: Watch a BRAND’S commercial, then re-arrange 5 screen shots in sequence. Tembak only lah.
Round 4: Guess the words. E.g. 18 H on a G C = 18 HOLES on a GOLF COURSE. Funniest part was 12 S of the Z, and KK answered, “12 STRIPES OF THE ZEBRA”. Stunned, then laughter all around 😛
Round 5: Boggle! Or at least a variation of. We didn’t do so well on this one, heh.
Team Malaysia, me pretending to be thoughtful. Photo shamelessly nicked from Wilfred
Round 6: Three bottles of BRAND’S, one contains a chicken, bottles of brands being moved around, guess which bottle contains the chicken. It’s a blink and miss thing. Nearly took my eyes out on this one.
Round 7: Watch a BRAND’S commercial, answer some questions such as, “how many friends were at the table?” If we hadn’t had known that we didn’t possess photographic memories, well… guess we found it out 😛
The final score for Team Malaysia vs Team Singapore was 47:54. Not that bad lah, kan? Hahaha we did try lah… seriously… so, like that lor. Congrats to Team Singapore! Was very nice to meet you guys and girls. We had fun, yah? Can hang out if and when you come to KL 🙂
Me with part of my prize! Brand’s chicken essence and bird’s nest
For our efforts, we received a nice hamper filled with BRAND’S essence of chicken and bird’s nest. I gave it to my Pinky, because she really loves their essence of chicken. Plus it was her birthday not too long ago 😛 Also received S$120 each. Yayness!
Well, thanks to BRAND’S, Cerebos and Burson-Marsteller for having us. We had lots of fun! Thanks to Winnie for coming over to laugh at me provide moral support. Thanks to those from the media who turned up; some of you were funny :P. Was lovely meeting you, Rinaz and congratulations on your upcoming marriage! Thanks to assorted friends for messaging me in various forms ordering me to do well or else. Thanks to the Scots for inventing kilts; really helpful to those who are in possession of wonderful imaginations. Well, I’m just saying, hah.
And thanks to KY, Red Mummy, KK and Sultan Muzaffar for being awesome team mates!
Group photo, shamelessly nicked from EastCoastLife
And that’s that 🙂
you are welcome! we were awesome!
it’s just that our singaporean friends were awesomer this time around
Great meeting you all! Ha ha ha … actually I was pretty scared by you all. Don’t know why.
It was fun. Very stressful though, especially came to the 2nd group challenge. I was like … oh crap … lol.
Catch up again with you soon. I drive up to KL / PJ / Highlands (not Genting) quite often.
Thumbs up for your performance, judging from the way u elaborated… everyone is a winner at the end of the day!
cheers!
Hope you guys had a good time in Singapore. Til we meet again!
hahaha losers!!!!
u guys were great! glad u all have fun. too bad i cant join in 😀
Hmm gee.. why was not XiaXue representing Singapore?
Jeff,
Why do you think Xiaxue wasn’t there? 😉
Aiyah, maybe next year we will be whacked upside down. 😀
ky: hehaha they were very fast 😛
Wilfrid: ahaha but we look so tame! you go to cameron highlands often? what other highlands are there? btw no one got any points at all for round 2 hahaha i think the host was a bit shocked
desmond: aww thank you 😀
Ed: we did! hehhe
eyeris: sftu 😛
jeff: i don’t know? singaporean blogosphere does not revolve around xx ? 😛
aaron: hehaheae next yr you stil want to participate ar? heahheae what if they really give you the REAL IQ stuff 😛
You wanna share some of that Brands with me? 🙂
All your Brands Essence of Chicken are belong to ME! lololol
ty darling. congrats on winning 2nd prize. :p muaks
losing to sgporeans is hell! but you look good doing it.
Hey, all of you did great! Your team was leading wor. Singapore team was lucky lah.
Your blog so cute and fun. hehe….
It was great to meet you and what a great body for hugging. 😛
I’m just doing Marketing for MENSA Singapore, no high IQ lah. Old Aunty no need to scared. haha….
I Don’t no why you are great? I think you did it well.
Why did you lose?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!
It’s not good for a good blogger like you and your best friend KY!
Hey eyeris
after losing something, there’s a winning. OK?
MENSA eh? Hmm…bit of a problem there then. 🙂
come again for lulz!
davidlian: it’s teh gone!
pinky: thank you my love 😀
suanie_admirer: lmao bwahaha thank you?
eastcoastlife: hahahah nah you guys and girls were better and quicker! congrats!
marine: maybe we weren’t that sharp after all 😛
HB: a lot you mean
ahseng: but of course! and teh home brew!
you should have drunk the brand’s chicken essence first before the contest lah… :-p