Rehashed run 1838 Khoo Ka 23/3/10

Rehashed Run No: 1838; Hare: Khoo Ka; Date: 23rd March, 2010; Venue: Taman Sri Bertam, Bertam Ulu.

An Enjoyable Medium Run

Khoo Ka is a known devoted hasher cum active marathon runner who has been running with MH3 and a few other hashing chapters in Malacca for many years. As scheduled on rotation, it was his run yesterday which had attracted a fairly big turnout of 34 hashers who included 4 guests. It was held at the popular hashing run site of Taman Sri Bertam which is covered with hilly oil palm, rubber and fruit plantations.

It was a cloudy and cool Tuesday afternoon after an early morning downpour. As usual, looking forward for a weekly good sweat-out, my partner and I arrived early at the run site which is some 6 km away from our house. No single soul was seen there other than 2 cars belonging to the hare and his co-hare Peter Loi, a veteran hasher who is known to set exciting run without recce and the use of GPS. Understandably, they must have left the run site earlier to execute their mission.

It was at 5.10 pm that the two of us started the run as early birds after the arrival of ICI Chee who was on his way home from work in Tangkak, Johor. The paper led westward on a broad laterite road into a shady oil palm plantation. It then meandered up and down 2 small hills through an oil palm and a rubber plantation for some 35 minutes before hitting the first simple check on a path. A spread-out search led to the finding of its connecting paper by me uphill some 100 metres away on the left of the back trail a few minutes later. It was then that we were being caught up by Oil Rig Lim who is a long-lost ex MH3 member. As usual, as early birds, we did not join the paper to avoid sitting on ice during the hash circle later.

The paper then led northward downhill and meandered through the oil palm plantation for another some 20 minutes before hitting the second simple check at an open land beside a deep ditch. On the way, we were engaged in exchanging grandfather stories. Another spread-out search led to the finding of its connecting paper by me in an oil palm plantation some 100 metres away downhill on the right a short while later. As usual, to convey the result of my finding to my partner who was standing by the side of the check point and Oil Rig Lim who went downhill on the left, I shouted ‘On! On!’ for them to join me.

The paper continued to lead into the oil palm plantation for a short distance before turning right eastward into a rubber plantation and another oil palm plantation for another some 25 minutes before hitting the third and last tricky check at a T-junction. Thinking that its connecting paper was placed in the forward vicinity, a spread-out search of some 10 minutes was conducted to no avail. It was only after we were being joined by a young and avid guest runner that we managed to find it some 150 metres away on the left of the back trail. From then on, it was another some 40 minutes trudge zigzagging through the undulating terrains of an oil palm plantation, a durian plantation, a bushy secondary jungle, across a couple of drains and barbed wire fencings before arriving back at the run site at 7.20 pm where a big pack of front runners were enjoying their drinks around the beer wagon. On the way we were being over taken by a big pack of scheduled runners. Among them were Dr. Pandyarajah, Govind, Albert, Simon Cheong, Kiasu Lee, ICI Chee, Hawaii Goh, Nancy, Holy, Camel Lok, Pramjit Singh, Utom Singh, Killer Tony, Sexy Chan and Asst. On Sec. Carol the Twin Towers who was smiling in the absence of GM Denis the Menace. More runners trickled in as time passed by. They included Wee Wee and 2 Mat Salleh guests. The last runner who exited after being led out by a search party led by the hare at 8.20 pm when the sky was dark was Henry.

It was an enjoyable medium run of some 8 km which took the hare and his co-hares Peter Loi and Sharp Shooter Robert some 2 hours to set.

Hash circle was jointly conducted by Carol the Twin Towers and GM Denis the Menace who did not join the run due to his work commitment. It saw a big number of sinners who included the hare and a few guests being put on ice and on-downed.

On In was held at the nearby The Harriettes Bistro in Sungai Udang operated by On Sec. Chickadee. It was well attended with 4 tables fully occupied. A delicious 5-course dinner was served with drinks. Another lengthy on-downed session was held for the sinners. The dinner was on the hare. A big thanks! It was at around 10.15 pm that we began to disperse.

See you at the coming joint run of Gary Tan and Evelyn Cheong at Cheng, fellow hashers!

On! On!

Scribe: Drug Buster,
Malacca Hash House Harriers.

Date: 24th March, 2010.