Bukit Cahaya
Hares Raymond Lai, Jimmy Legover , Amelia ‘Velu’, Stephanie ‘Wong’
With a combined number of Hashing Years between them of about 100 years it would be logical to believe that the run would have been perfect in length, composition , quality, perfectly planed [with 4 recce’s having been done by the hairs ]etc.
What a fuck up it turned out to be as was demonstrated by the award of a Toilet Seat by the hash committee.
To believe that the Hares with maps of the area, a G.P.S. , Years and bloody years of experience and an area that has been run in a large number of times, it just goes to show that with all things being equal this was a cock up of monumental proportion. First runner home in 2 hours and last one home the GM in about 3hours 15mins.
Actual run started up the road past the Cow shed complete with the strong smell of Bovine crap.
Trail then cut right up hill and followed secondary jungle trails to eventually come out in the Oil Palm. A wandering trail through the palm led around in almost circles [giving the impression that the Hares were lost and their GPS and Maps had let them down] Several checks later we came out the Nursery area and continued across the cow paddock [complete with a number of dog sensitive cows] to the Subang Dam .Trail followed the edge of the dam to the spillway and dam wall. Here we came across a number of Malaysia’s finest fighting men and women feeding themselves on some top Malaysian cuisine of Maggi Mee. [No guns allowed] It was then a trot back thru the palm to the Beer about 4+ Kms away.. Not a lot of happy campers today I’m sad to say.
The instruction to the On On were poor to say the least and it just proves that the Hare cannot assume that the members all know where to go even if it was the same Restaurant as the previous week.
Hare appeared to be quite pleased with his efforts and figured a T-shirt minimum would be his reward …
The On On was at Loong Foong same location as last week, food was RM15 per head.
Scribed by Moppy
Hare's (Raymond) Report
My sincere apologies to anyone who is feeling muscular pain starting 20.08.07.
The run did not turn out as wanted; it went off course after coming out from first jungle.
When we reached open area just before second jungle, it was about 1.5 KM extra in length.
We were caught by surprise there was a military training going on at the dam, but Jimmy, Emilia
& Nan did an excellent job explaining to them and we got through.
At home trail, we were worried we might be caught by front runners so we went slightly further
to our left. That decision we took would mean extra 2.5 KM and more hills.
The final length came up to about 13 KM which is 4 KM longer than we thought.
You might ask: how come with 4 recces, GPS device, Google Map application, compass, etc.
the run ended up a toilet-seat run? Well, it is all my fault for being confused at certain
stage and not depending on own memory to the maximum.(without GPS). I take full
responsibility & am sorry.
I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the following:
1. Mr David Hunter for helping me in 4 recces using GPS,
parang, compass, Google Map, providing rope, printing out maps & pictures (8),
bashing through jungles, etc. Unfortunately, Mr David could not come on Aug 18, 07.
2. Mr Jimmy Leggit for helping me in setting the run, providing
useful information, lending hash signs, etc. Just recovered from a dengue fever, Mr Leggit
was superb in health.
3. Mr Tee for helping in laying papers, setting checks & falsies, etc.
4. Ms Nan for convincing military men and informing GM about it before the run.
5. Ms Emilia for helping in giving rational advice, accompanying, etc.
6. Ms Stephanie for helping in caryying papers, food, drinks, etc.
To all who came for the run, attended the on-on, danced at Bojangle's, a BIG thank you.
Could we make it, on a voluntary basis, for hares to make a report so that there is less
misunderstanding? Since we have scribe report, why no hare's report?
On-on.....