Rehashed run 1828 - Nandagoben 12/1/10

Rehashed Run No: 1828; Hare: Nandagoben; Date: 12th January, 2010; Venue: Durian Tunggal.

An Enjoyable Confusing Run

Nandagoben is a senior police officer attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Melaka. An energetic front-runner, he has been running with Malacca Hash House Harriers for the past few years.

As scheduled, yesterday was his turn as hare on rotation for the weekly run at the unfamiliar run site in Durian Tunggal. As expected, it attracted a fairly big turnout of some 40 hashers who included a few guests.

As usual, looking forward for a good sweat-out, my partner and I arrived early at the run site by the side of Auyin Hill - Macap Baru Road. Not surprisingly, only 4 cars belonging to the hare and his co-hares Bombastic and Govind were seen there. Understandably, their owners must have left earlier to set the running trail. Very soon, we were joined by Dirk Limann, another early bird.

It was a fine Tuesday afternoon when the three of us started the run as early birds at 5.15 pm after equipping ourselves with a GPS, a torch light and a bottle of drinking water each. Led by Dirk Limann, we followed the paper which led east along the said road for a short distance before turning left northeastward into a rubber plantation, a short stretch of oil palm plantation, 2 barbed-wire fencings and a deep ditch for some 25 minutes before hitting the first simple check at a T-junction but yet took us oldies some 5 minutes to find its connecting paper some 100 metres away on the right after a spread-out search. It was found by me and as usual, as early birds and to avoid sitting on ice during the hash circle later, we did not join it.

The paper continued to lead northward through the rubber plantation and across a chicken farm for another some 15 minutes before hitting a simple false trail at a path. Another spread-out search led Dirk Limann to finding its connecting paper a short distance ahead a little while later.

The paper continued to lead ahead and meandered through the undulating terrains of rubber plantation, across a village on a tarred road which could lead to the run site a short distance away but turned right instead into another rubber plantation for another some 40 minutes across another deep ditch before we were overtaken by the first energetic scheduled runner Ranger followed closely by Dr. Pandyarajah, a Mat Salleh guest, Speedy Gonzales and Camel Lok at an uphill slope. Not long after that, we were caught up at a complicated check which led to a few connecting papers. By that time, we were joined by a bigger pack of runners who included Gobal Taekwando, Super 96, SYT and Horlicks. It was then that we were separated with SYT, Horlicks, Camel Lok, my partner and I following the paper which went across an oil palm plantation abreast a lake before hitting the in-trail from the said chicken farm back to the run site led jointly by Speedy Gonzales and Gobal Taekwando. The rest followed the different paper trails out. We arrived back at the run site at 7.25 pm when the sky was still bright and where the hare, the co-hares, a big pack of front-runners, SCB and non-runners were enjoying their drinks around the beer wagon. We were then told by the co-hare that we had followed the wrong paper out. The correct exit was from the left of the run site along the Auyin Hill – Macap Baru Road.

It was an enjoyable medium run of some 8 km on confusing trails at this seldom-patronized run site which took the hare and his co-hares some 2 hours plus to set without recce. The last runners were back at around 7.40 pm when hash circle was in progress. They included Kukah and Dr. Linkun.

Hash circle was well attended by some 35 hashers who included a few guests. In the absence of GM Dennis the Menace who was busy at work, it was conducted jointly by ex GM Cocker and Speedy Gonzales. It saw a number of sinners being put on ice and on-downed.

On In was held at the nearby popular Indian restaurant in Batu Berendam. It was well attended by a big pack of some 30 plus hungry hashers who included Carol the Twin Towers, Henry, Kiasu Lee, ICI Chee, Pramjit Singh, Edarjit Kaur, We We, Horlicks and Albert. For a change, a delicious mouth-watering banana leaf dinner was served with nasi beriani, chicken and mutton curries, curry boiled egg, pickle mixed vegetables, iced tea and free-blowing beer. Another on-downed session was conducted by Ex GM Bombastic for a good number of sinners and a birthday cake was cut for hashers who were born in January. The dinner was on the hare. A big thanks. It was at around 10.20 pm that we began to disperse.

See you at the coming run of Ranger at Semabok, fellow hashers!

On! On!

Scribe: Drug Buster,
Malacca Hash House Harriers.

Date: 13th January, 2010.