Venue : Nambi Estate
Hare : Abraham KLOK
Co-Hare : Kana B & Don C.
Scribe : Hornblower
The hares stepped in at short notice to fill a hareline hole (which is quite different from a hareline crack) and the venue was declared to be Nambi Estate. Since Abraham set a JHHH run here 3 weeks ago, your correspondent’s expectations of a good run were a bit on the low side. However, low expectations are easily surpassed and this turned out to be a good run.
Nambi Estate was “discovered” for PH3 by Patrick Clews in about 1996/97 with a Medal Run and has rightly been a very popular venue ever since. However, the estate has been devastated by clearing all the rubber presumably to replant as oil palm, and the operations of sand-miners have blighted the riverside and the track in.
Whatever, we dragged ourselves thru the traffic and managed to get to the run-site on time to find a substantially smaller than usual crowd, under 100, which was mostly put down the swollen condition of the St David’s testicle, enlarged by the twinkle toes of PH3 hashers traipsing around the Mutiara ball room room.
As one often finds, a slightly smaller pack did the run itself no harm at all. I was expecting the JHHH run + a bit, but it was better than that. On On was called about 4.35 on my watch and off we went.
The run took us south west into unexplored quarters of this vast estate, looped around a bit in a counter clock-wise direction and eventually (inevitably) came back to the river. There were several checks including a cunning circular that helped to keep the pack together a bit. There was plenty of paper. There seemed to be a shortage of horns, altho’ the bugle got a good clearing of the tubes.
By and by we exited mature oil palm and entered into semi-abandoned rubber, which can be quite heavy going, but the path was well cleared. A bit of up and down, Knut as usual coming round in the wrong direction indicating that we were more than half way and then back down thru a gully and a short shaggy section into the crystal clear river, which as any fule kno, lead back to the run site. With two shoes already full of sand, I short cut (or long cut) here along the river side because a km+ on a sandy river bottom is very slow going.
I got back to the run-site at 6.00 pm on the dot. I assume front runner was 15 mins in front. I must have short cut because Castleman J who was with me at the river took another 20 mins to turn up.
All in all, a good run with unexpected vistas of an area I thought I knew very well. Unusually for an Klok effort, it was not an overlong dry-run for a the worst section of the hash challenge. Front runner must’ve been back in 1hr 15 or so. Most of the pack were in by 6.15, so there was plenty of time to sit around, enjoy a cigar and shoot the breeze, and a pleasant time it was too - although for some reason Amelia was giving me the evil eye. What have I done, oh sweet one?
Stand-in GM Dave ‘heart-breaker’ Wilson ran the circle, ably assisted by Mothersheep Murray. Just for a nice change, we had a ‘square’ instead of a ‘circle’. An interesting geometric note is that a ‘square’ is much shorter and more to the point than a ‘circle’. As you know, geometrically speaking, circles have no point. I have been on runs this year (quite long runs, actually) where total circle time (run site + restaurant) has somewhat exceeded total running time – which is to say slightly over 2 hours. I kid you not. Maybe we should rename the club the Petaling Rotary as there too often seems to be more emphasis on the circle than the run.
There were a couple sinners, and a couple of announcements INCLUDING THAT THERE WILL BE A VOTE AT THE AGM ON RETAINING THE NEWSLETTER (or not). {and only if you are paid up with your subs – we look after the money first}So exercise your democratic prerogative – and there’s an offer you don’t get in Malaysia every day!
On-On was five tables at Lot Fatt Fatt near Ulu Yam. The hares kindly sponsored 2 bottles per table and food was good, with plenty of MSG, but served really too late at 9.00 pm and this restaurant is a bit too barn-like to keep in the On On atmosphere – which was a bit subdued.
With the late makan it was almost 10pm before we got round to the awards ceremony. 4 virgins / visitors were on-downed and the hares were duly awarded a T-shirt for their efforts – making this I think the 4th consecutive T shirt run in a row – a bit of a purple patch for Petaling. As I was leaving Abraham was launching into Father Abraham….
The smaller packs which coincide with events like St David’s Ball often make for good runs and you should try not to miss them.
Thanks to the hares.
Posted by onsec at March 1, 2004 09:51 PM