MALAYSIAN MENSA SECRETARY DROPS IN FOR DINNER
PRG Committee Members met up and had dinner with visiting Secretary and his wife on 12.11.2000
MENSA INVITATIONAL SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT 2000
Report by Ms Chuah Sim Swee
A very merry time was had by all in room 24, Dewan Masyarakat Penyayang on 3rd June, 2000. Fourteen scrabblers, mensans and non mensans alike cracked their heads from 9.00pm till 5.00a.m. trying to outwit and outscore each other while stuffing themselves with cakes and cream puffs.
The moans and groans tha filled the air were not caused by upset tummies but by bad tiles and inablities to find parking spaces on the board for beautiful bingos.
After the dust had settled, the winners for the open category were:
Dr. Mohd Salahuddin b. Mohd. Ariff(champion),
Chuah Sim Swee (first runner-up),
Lim Shalyn (2nd runner-up),
Ricky Chan Ewe Hock(3rd runner-up)
and seven year old Ong Suanne (fourth runner-up)
In the closed category which is for Mensans only, Chuah Sim Swee took home the first prize trophy and also the championship trophy, Terence Ooi was first runner-up and Kelly Lim Suan Ling, second runner-up.
The highest bingo was scored by Dr. Salahuddin while Ricky Chan Ewe Hock had the highest game spread. The trophy for the most number of bingoes went to Chuah Sim Swee with 14 bingos in 7 games.
Yours truly would like to once again thank all the scrabblers and helpers who managed to squeeze themselves into our tiny cubicle of a room to make this competition a success. The one horsepower air-con was literally flogged to death to keep temperatures down. The overwhelming response resulted in some having to play outside.
A special thanks to Chin Siew Yen for bearing with us for nine hours while manning the computer and nipping out to get our lunch, Cindy Ooi for running herself ragged checking out all the challenged words and Jackie Cheah (Kelly’s mom) for her delicious cakes.
I must also not forget Penang YMCA for generously loaning us their scrabble sets and chess clock. I hope we will again receive such an enthusiastic response for our scrabble competition next year but we must find a bigger venue for the event!
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MENSA INTERACTION GET-TOGETHER 2000
Date: 23 April 2000 (Sunday)
Time: 4.00 – 9.00 pm
Place: Clubhouse, Lavinia Apartments, Taman Sri Nibong
Report by Mr Sam Lim
The 8.00 am wake up call was a cruel start to the day(for me, at least). I had to leave by 9.00 am, and after some coffee and bread, I was on the bus and on my way to Butterworth. After arriving at the Jetty(Butterworth), I had to wait for a Mensan from Perak at 12.30pm. Fortunately, I was able to catch him as the clue he informed me was – he’ll be wearing pink t-shirt!! (Later I found out that he likes pink panther….)
After having our lunch, we crossed Penang Straits by ferry, then proceed to Penang Mensa Gathering, our destination, by bus. However, the bus ride was not a pleasant one and in addition, we had to take a long walk to the Lavinia Apartment where the gathering was held, thanks to our lousy tour guide(me) who stopped the bus at the wrong location!!
Arriving red hot, we found more than 20 cool mensans sitting in the club house, chit-chating while waiting for us!! (Haha… actually they were not waiting for us, but the first actitvity had just started) The gathering started off at 4pm sharp with brief introduction of ourselfs. And the best introductory award was won by Sam who gave every attendee, including a 5 year-old girl who swims in baby swimming pool, his full write-up resume, beside, he read like a news reader. A totally deserved winner.
The first activity has to be followed by the refreshment as Mr. Sam resume reading was a bit too long causing the refreshment an absolute need!
After the refreshment, we are forms into 4 groups and the second activities, the treasure hunt, started. We were told to look for 4 different kind of leaves, 4 kind of blue colour cards, 4 different coins, 4 kind of hair pin, a screw and a white hair. The game was won by group A which has strange behaviour – they have got all those strange things in their pocket! Anyway, the best contributor is the white fur cat which I think, would never dare to appear at the clubhouse anymore….
The third game prepared was the “draw and guess”. The game was won by Group A which had a genius drawer from Australia, Simon and a wild guesser, Ms. Jennifer. Then, it was the “bing bang boom” game where 5 groups were formed and each need to boom other groups (which were labeled with country names). This game was won by XXX country (given by Ms. Koay, but until now I still don’t know what’s that country name!).
It’s about 7pm when the games ended, and it was dinner times, which was a bit of a problem…the food was delicious and all were as hungry as vultures (new to me too). Guess what,everybody ate like vultures too!! …. but the style really kept the table clean! Well done!!
After the vulture-style dinner, we had the lucky prize draw. There are 8 lucky prizes and I was lucky enough to take the grand prize!! Finally, the photo session for the gathering and our checker competition winners – Terence(Man) and Cindy(Woman).
We were all exhausted after a day of exciting games, However, after having a couple of glasses of superb orange juices, and it was a happy end to a beautiful day.
(I would like to thanks Penang Mensa Chapter for contributing foods, thoughts and efforts to make this gathering a success. Thank you)
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MENSA CHECKERS INVITATIONAL COMPETITION
This competition is open to all Mensan and invited friends.
Date: 16th April 2000
Time: 8.50 am – 4.00 pm
Place: Mensa Office in Caring Complex
