Venue : Ijok
Hare : Ah Wan, sub-contracted by Choo Nai Kwong, who was away
Co-Hare : Chris Tan
Scribe : Jothi Rama
Left early knowing runsite was far away. Run direction was a little bit better than the one given for Wednesday one and a half weeks ago, in that it at least stated it was about 22km to the Chinese cemetery from the Sungai Buluh toll – actually it was 26km, so first-timers to this area would have had to keep their eyes peeled for a Hash sign for 4 km, and in the rain too!
At the runsite spot Ah Wan, the Hare for the day, walking casually about and I ask him who then is the hare – he evades my question and I soon learn that he had sub-sub-contracted the job to Rob Stott and Chris Tan. Oh good, I think because on their Wednesday Run we had all reached the second check and couldn’t break it for ages and so everyone returned home after that without completing the run. Both the guys were disappointed and so I was sure they would have rectified their mistakes and done a good job for today.
4.30pm: the rain has stopped and our GM calls the Hash to order, and soon we are off. Down the bitumen road we go and drop left into the oil palm. Bottom of the slope we turn left and run for about 5mins. before we turn right and run down a long slope, and then suddenly – no more paper…. What’s up? Soon on-on is called to the right but turns out to be a false trail. Soon after on-on is called to the left and is declared a falsie too. Confusion reigns and finally on-on is called left again, and people are beginning to wonder whether we are actually running it all backwards because of the lack of a proper checkpoint.
When we reach paper, it is actually going up a hill not that far from home. A group (9) of us decides to follow this paper hoping that it is not taking us home. Another lot decides to follow the paper the other way to the right to see what happens. Within 15mins. of walking through bush we were back at the reservoir close to the runsite – what a shame. The others then were doing the run backwards – well good luck to them we declared and went back to the runsite.
At the beer wagon the cheeky duo of hare and co-hare declare they were recceeing for Mother Hash anyway! 5:45pm: Dave Wilson returns utterly confused. 6:22pm: 1st runner running backwards on paper, Andy Low, returns and just shakes his head. 5mins later, Lee returns and says everybody’s confused back there because when running backwards, you come to the end of paper and then have to look for the check. And then when you hit the paper in the middle, you don’t know whether to go right or left. He said people were all over the place arguing and lost. Whoa, what a disaster!
Dave Settergren returns and after drowning Chris Tan with a beer, sarcastically declares it the best backward run of the week. Colin King improves on that and says it is the best backward run of the year! First lady back, Sim, after catching her breath says, “But then, I like it backwards!” Paul Kirkman, our esteemed director of the forth-coming Xmas Panto, mused, “It would have made a good Aussie cum Irish run because everything was up-side-down and backwards.” Tony Morris cuts me short and bluntly retorts, “It was a F_ _ _ - UP!” No more need be said …..
Hare and co-hare saw some Indonesians while setting the run and told them not to pick up paper, but these sons of Mother Hash should know that besides throwing normal paper, they ought to have then also thrown torn up paper in case these guys were tempted to collect some for a notepad!
The duo further sub-contracted the responsibility of the On-on to Nan, and after hanging around for quite a while with no sign of our GM or more returning in the very near future, I too have decided to sub-contract the goings-on at the circle and the On-on to Jimmy (after all, he owes me plenty….). Thanks, Jimmy!
On-on!
Posted by onsec at November 16, 2004 04:09 PM