Brain Twister (Day 1)

Saturday on 23rd of April 2016 marked another date for another anticipated programme of the semester for Sakura residents. As the name of the programme has it, various activities that branched out of it were all required the participants to work more to solve such tasks and games using their way of thinking and how creative they are to get everything done in time.

The morning of the first day witnessed the participants rushing around Sakura College as to complete the IQ Trail Hunt. A total of 7 groups with 5 members in each group were given hints (one hint per group) at the beginning of the game. The hint was in a form of a picture which tells the venue of the first station that they had to head up to. There were 6 stations altogether which located at or in Seminar Room, FIT car park, in front of FIT/FRST building, walkway that connects Sakura and Allamanda, sports court and Block C car park. For each station, all groups had to complete two set of games, and punishment had to be made if they failed to complete the game on the given time.

In the afternoon around 1:30 PM, Spell It Right Jawi has taken its place in Seminar Room. A lecturer from FLSCS (formerly and still known as CLS), Mr Fairuz Ali had been the judge for the competition. Of about 33 contestants competed in the spelling competition. For the first round, all contestants were given 3 words to spell. The rule of the competition was – once the word spelt, it is considered as the final decision. Another round was made for the contestants with all three correct spellings from the previous round, and they were given 3 words to spell as of the second round. The next round was for searching the third placer of which the contestants were given 2 words to spell. For the final round, it was when the first and second placers were decided with which the 2 contestants given 5 words to spell.

Around 4:00 in the evening, the Seminar Room again being the chosen venue to conduct Spell It Right English. The judges of the competition were students from FENG’s Chemical Engineering. Of about 22 contestants dared to be challenged to spell the English words that given. For the first round, each contestant had been given 1 word to spell, and there were 2 cycles for the first round. The top 5 contestants were qualified to be next round, the second round with 3 cycles with 1 word each cycle. The third round, which was the final round, saw 2 contestants compete among each other to grab the first or second place.

The programme proceeded even at the night of the Saturday around 8:00 PM as the Sudoku game has taken its place in Seminar Room. Each 7 groups with 5 members in each group had been given 7 sets of Sudoku to be completed. And the duration time to finish the brain-engaging game was only an hour.

Prepared by: Dayang Nadila F. D.