rehashed run no.1809

Rehashed Run No: 1809; Hares: Utom Singh & Sukminderjeet Kaur; Date: 1st September, 2009; Venue: A Fomosa Resort, Alor Gajah.

An Enjoyable Challenging Run

A Fomosa is a well-known golf course cum holiday resort in the District of Alor Gajah which is some 40 km north of Malacca city. In my 19-years’ stay in Malacca, I have only run twice there comprising of one 8-km road run organised by the resort and another hash run a few years ago. It is a challenging run site with undulating hilly terrains of oil palm, fruit and rubber plantations and secondary jungle.

It was a cool and cloudy afternoon after a morning downpour. As announced by its hare Utom Singh during the last week’s hash circle and looking forward for a good run, my partner and I arrived at the run site early. Not surprisingly, only a motorcycle belonging to co-hare Raju and 2 cars belonging to the hare and Dr. Pandyarajah were seen there. Except Dr. Pandyarajah who was idling around, the hare and his co-hare were nowhere to be seen. Understandably, they must have gone in early to set the running trail. A short while later, we were joined by Gilbert Chee, Albert, 4896 and partner Ah Cheng, two youngsters who were said to be the hare’s son and cousin, and the hare, co-hares Pramjit Singh and Raju who exited from the south with sweaty and muddy bodies after laying the paper.

It was at 5.35 pm that the five of us who were made up of the hare’s son and cousin, Ah Cheng, my partner and I started the run as early birds by following the papers which led south into a short stretch of oil palm plantation. It then meandered into an open bush, across a high-tension cable and into a rubber plantation on wide laterite road for some 35 minutes before hitting the first and only complicated check at a slope. A spread-out search was conducted for some 20 minutes to no avail. We were then joined by a pack of scheduled runners who started the run at 6.00 pm. Among them were Dr. Pandyarajah, Chee Chin Seng, Albert, ex- GM Cocker, 4896, GM Dennis the Menace, Govind, Dr. Linkun, Tongkat Ali, Simmon Cheong and Nanda. To our surprise and relief, its connecting paper was found on the right of the back trail some 100 metres away by one of the scheduled runners.

The paper then continued to proceed eastward up and down a small hilly rubber plantation for the next 15 minutes before hitting a false trail which caught the front runners. Another spread-out search led to the finding of its connecting paper by me at a bushy slope a few minutes later a short distance ahead on the back trail. From then on, it was another some 40 minutes tough trudge zigzagging left, right and centre, up and down 2 bushy and slippery muddy hills of rubber plantation and secondary jungle, across several deep drains and ditches which required the assistance of fellow hashers to cross and some 2-km road run before arriving back at the run site as last runners at 7.40 pm when the sky began to fall dark. On the way, after crossing the last deep ditch assisted by the ever-helpful GM Dennis the Menace, we were being caught up by late starter Vibrator.

It was an enjoyable challenging run of some 6 km across the hilly, bushy, muddy and slippery terrains which made us sweating profusely, our backsides covered with mud and our balls shrinking. Well done, hares!

On rare occasion, On On was held at the open run site in buffet style. Delicious vegetable, mutton and prawn curries were served with rice, chapaty and free-flowing beer. It was on the hares.
Hash circle was conducted by the long-lost GM, Dennis the Menace, who was missing for the last 2 runs. It was attended by some 30 hashers. As usual, it saw a number of sinners who included the hare and co-hares being put on-ice and on-downed. It ended in some 30 minutes after which we left for our respective homes-sweet-homes. See you at the coming run of ex-GM Cocker in Bemban next week which is expected to be another enjoyable run, fellow hashers!

On! On!
Scribe: Drug Buster
Date: 2nd September, 2009.