Venue : Kundang Lake
Hare : Tweedle Dum (Hugh Murray)
Co-Hare : Tweedle Dee (Brian Cossar)
Scribe : Choo Nai Kwong for Christina Tan
It was another hot day when I arrived at run site with 10 mins to spare. Run directions were good although parking was quite out in the open and next to the Kundang Lake. A few scattered trees provided some respite to the heat. It was a surprisingly motley crowd of about 30-40 which is smaller than usual as some of the members had gone to the Nenasi Hash. The run started a few minutes later to accommodate latecomers.
The initial trial was towards the left alongside the road and thereafter into oil palm. As the Guthrie Corridor was under construcion to the left, I instinctively knew that it was going to be a clockwise unless the hare wanted to take us across the corridor. First check was called after about 15 mins of running and was easily broken when paper was found to the left of the check. Thereafter, there were about 2 to 3 checks (2 being circular checks) that were easily broken by the front runners. The last check was a circular with the paper cleverly hidden at the side ridge of a small valley. It was broken by Nick Morse who felt vindicated that after all these years of running, he was doing something constructive to the running fraternity.
The run was good on gently undulating oil palm and well shaded throughout. There were no steep hills and gullies and was fair game for everyone. The only setback was the whole run was in oil palm with no intermittent rubber nor any other flora. For me, it was nostalgia of sorts as this place was where I had my first hash run in 1990 with my neighbour Philip Lim who introduced me to the hash and as virgin hare with Nah in 1992. Ahhh..... those virginal days...
Lest I digress, let's go back to the run proper. First runner was in at 1 hour 17 minutes with the rest of the pack traliling in thereafter. I believe there were no lost souls.
After the usual bantering and drinks, circle was called quite punctually at about 7.00pm by the guest bomoh. Did not get his name but understand that he is a German who speaks with an American accent and rather quite quickly at that.
The hare/co hare for no apparent reason apart from the fact that they were hare/co hare were called up for on-downs. Thereafter a few otheres were also called and at the end, since this was the Chinese New Year weekendl, all the Chinese hashers were called up and given a rendition of gweilo accented "kong si, kong si-ni" song followed by on-downs. All in, another great day for the hashers.
As I had to go off, Yaso who came back from Singapore with Nigel for the holidays agreed to scribe the dinner.
Posted by onsec at February 18, 2005 07:01 PM