Hare: Lewie Dekker
Co-hare: Salim Dhalla
Run-site: Sungai Batangsi, Semenyih
Scribe: Stephanie Choong
On that day, it was fine weather but there was a terribly long traffic crawl which lasted almost an hour to the run site. Saw Guiness’s car and Ramli’s beer wagon a couple of cars behind. I was following very closely to Jimmy’s four-wheel drive and was speeding very fast at one point. Noticed one side of the wheels wobbling for a few seconds. Luckily nothing happened.
Back at the site, Jimmy was seen directing traffic for some last minute hashers to the so-called parking area. While approaching the beer wagon, a couple of black hair strands were found strewn nearby presumably cut from a pony’s tail someone remarked. Lots of guests/visitors were seen arriving. Two motor bikes were spotted in front of the beer wagon. Come 4.30 p.m. no sign of the GM yet. Overheard a lady remarking Ah Wan is picking up his old flame and obviously he will be late.
Eight minutes has passed, still no sign of the GM, saw Jimmy giving some hash instructions, flagged down and off we go. Here we began with an uphill climb steep and long amongst rubber plantations. Groan! I realised it’s a killer hill. Gasping for breath, managed to find the first check and heard the on call to the right.
Breaking into a run at the second check when overlooking to the left, saw Dave running with his 2 dogs and a few others behind were following along a very deep and wide land clearing towards our direction. Heard him calling his dogs to behave.
At third check I could hear the horn blowing ahead. A tractor’s sound was roaring from behind, obviously clearing some land for palm trees. Dennis was telling me that our run started from back there and so we have been running in circles all this while.
About an hour later, Collin King and Paul Kirkman were zooming past followed by Arnie and Marlev. After a couple of weaving and winding in between rubber trees, past some jungle growth and down a very steep hill. By now I’m not sure how many checks we have covered. At one point while going down another steep hill Dennis was shouting to us to beware of dogs guarding the area nearby to the left where there were a lot of trees where we could hold on to. Nevertheless, the first runner out was Charles Lee with a record time of 1 hr 28 minutes. Length of run was 10 km with a total of 7 checks.
At 7.35 p.m. circle was called. GM Terry was given an on down for arriving late, Jimmy for being in Phuket and Collin King in Singapore. Dave charged GM for being in Hong Kong last week. YK (Charles) was charged for starting a bonfire causing smoke throughout S.E.A. last week. Jimmy called Jean a VIP wearing a big hat with Guiness as driver and Kwan as bodyguard in a BMW. So all three were given an on down. Alistair and Peter Brookes were on down for running past Jimmy 6 times. “Rat You Up” as Jimmy said with many hashers being called up and pointing after one another as latecomers.
Good food was served all round at the On On, only RM10 with the rest subsidised by the hare Lewie Dekker no doubt. Jenny, Fen Fen and Ah Wan were on down for plucking Tongkat Ali from the trees at the run site for Ah Wan. With that Ah Wan was named ‘Ah Wan Tongkat Ali’.
Terry was awarded a “Sheriff Star” for arriving late and being able to finish the run and got back so early. Dave charged Paul Kirkman for running back and forth 4 times. We also see Terry, Jimmy and Dave being on down once again for going away last week when we were all having a good time with Oprah, Nan and Don singing along the Ramadan song in the 12 days of Christmas version.
Finally, the time has come for the hare’s fate. Hare Lewie was given a round of applause for setting a good run and was awarded a T-shirt. He received a number of boos from the floor while changing into it. On On ended with the Ramadan song being sang again to cheers from the others.
Posted by onsec at December 1, 2005 10:21 PM