Hare:Stephanie Choong
Co-hares Raymond Lai, Jimmy Leggett, Colin Hercus, Maya Hercus
Run-site: Bandar Sunway, Semenyih
Scribe: Toh Chuan Hock
Comic: Kwan
I have to say that sometimes we are thrust into the position of witnessing and recording history in the making. Run 1495 was a historic event in the sense that in the years since the formation of Petaling HHH, many members did not have the run instructions to get to the run site. The run instructions which are normally on the front page of http://ph3.org had mysteriously disappeared! Was it an act of cyber-terrorism? Have Osama and his henchmen finally discovered PH3? Was this one worldwide movement laying down a challenge to another? A coded message was transmitted on Saturday morning by the guilty party. Note the time it was sent. The names of the sender and receiver have been masked.
----- Original Message -----
From: *************
To: **************
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Revised code
> As is so usual with my programming efforts, it didn't work as
> intended and I had to spend a couple of hours last night figuring out
> why (until 2 am). It's like an addiction, you can't sleep until you
> figure out the damn thing. Here then is the rc2 version
>
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> if (!($lines = file("/****/****/****/referer.txt")))
> exit("Unable to open the referer file.");
>
> $refer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; // where did the person come from?
. code block deleted
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For lucky ones like me, I had a navigator that had a photographic memory. To get to the run site, the directions had a few key words such as Semenyih, Bandar Sunway and something about turning left after the traffic lights and 8.2 km after the traffic lights. Yes, we got to Semenyih and turned left and found ourselves heading towards some obscure place. We have not seen any hash sign and that doesn't look too promising. So it was a U-turn and back again to the traffic lights and we found ourselves heading past the another traffic light to Broga. My navigator then remembered something about Bandar Sunway. It was another U-turn and we found the right traffic light that turned into Bandar Sunway Semenyih. We had been so busy yakking that we had previously driven past a faarkin big hash sign at the traffic lights into Bandar Sunway Semenyih.
A small to medium size group had turned up for the run. We thought perhaps another group would have arrived for the Lewie Dekker run at Batangsi if they had followed the run instructions without checking the dates. The run started on time and it was straight into an oil palm plantation. The first check was called up the hill. Check was quickly broken.
I walked with Rambo and we took another route off paper but found ourselves on the wrong side of a swamp. We were going round the hill in a leftward sweep while the main hash group on paper was on the other side of the swamp on a different hill moving away. Calls of checking was heard on the hill and I believe this was the second check. After a feeble attempt to cross the swamp, I backtracked and found paper. It led to a steep slippery hill climb and here I was over-taken by Abraham. Up and up and onto a track that meanders over and around the hill and then downhill. Over took Hugh Murray and came across a David Winstanley sitting down. Further down, the run led onto the laterite road and came across a distraught-looking Nila Winstanley looking for her partner. Down and down onto a rock-strewn stream and onto a track. Caught up to couple of the long-time local hashers. The paper led through the oil palm and it was probably about 6:30 pm by now. Small chatter about the state of PH3 these days. There are too many outstanding scribe reports. Gone are the days when the Fuhrer was in charge and the hare could expect a phone call 6 weeks before the run demanding to know the would-be run site. Scribe reports were then fairly up-to-date. Run instructions were delivered by email and one could read the scribe report without having to be on the Web. Now, we have an on-sec that is IT literate and that would be an easy thing to do. A long walk through the oil palm and finally home.
It was also Guy Fawkes day and Charles Lee had set up an effigy hanging on a wooden teepee pyre. Charles had deprived of some immigrant workers of some wood for their family home. Circle was called and here, the memory is a bit hazy and the sequence of events is not in order. The Winstanleys was on-downed for hanging on to each other throughout the run and at the run site. Something about a new car as well. Charles Lee for the Guy Fawkes setup. Patrick Russell charged himself. Earlier, Dan Percival was on-down for the disappearance of the run instructions. In between all these going-on, the bonfire was lit and the fireworks set off.
On-on was called and it was something like 2 traffic lights to Semenyih and then right turn and then left and the Seven Wonders restaurant is on the right. We found the restaurant after a few false turns and could hear boisterous singing from the road. Parked the car in time to hear Sister Belinda pissing out of the window. Got ourselves seated and food was then being served. Four tables of hashers had congregated for the on-on. Opera, Patrick Russell, Abraham, Charles Lee, Hugh Murray and the hash were in good form with the boisterous singing and story telling. Many songs were sung but I did not recognise all of them. May tried to get Opera to do a Cantonese song. Opera started on it but forgot the lyrics after a few verses. Patrick Russell did the lobster song and Abraham led the Father Abraham song (of course!). Opera closed it off with Swing Low Sweet Chariot with Nan in support. Unusual finish though. The run was awarded a T-shirt run. The hare Stephanie Choong skillfully changed into the T-shirt. Co-hare Raymond and the hare were then on-downed. Food was decent at $130 per table. Wonderful evening had by all. Triple on was called at the Backyard pub.
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Addendum by the co-hare of last weeks run. Why does the then-hare have a fetish for Greta Garbo.. "She has such nice Chinese eyes" he said. So, will the ancestors be less pissed off with you lusting after a kwai-por if she looks a bit Chinese;-) I don't think they're that easily fooled.. Garbo Marx
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