Rehashed Run No: 1659; Hare: Bui Dai Aik a.k.a. Rubbish Bui; Date: 10th October, 2006; Venue: Jasin Estate, Bemban-Jasin Road, Jasin.
Rubbish Bui is an avid and devoted hasher known to me since a few years ago. A retiree like me who has plenty of time of our own, instead of banging balls, he devotes them gainfully in hashing. He runs on every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday with the Malacca hashes and once a month on the first Friday with Muar & Malacca Hash. You can imagine how well and joyful he spends his time.
Sometime last month, I had on his request agreed to be the co-hare of his run. As appointed, we met at the entrance of Jasin Estate, Bemban-Jasin Road, Jasin which is some 30 km east of Malacca city at 3.25 pm a day before the run to conduct a ‘reccee’ (pre run survey) on the runsite. After a small discussion on the intended pattern of our running trail and armed with the necessary paraphernalia such as shredded white paper, a knife, a mobile phone, a torch light and a bottle of drinking water each, the 3 of us namely, the hare, my partner and I, set out for the mission.
It was a hazy afternoon. We took the trail on the left into a matured oil palm plantation beside the Jasin police quarters. Headed north-west for some 25 minutes through the mild undulating terrain, we then turned right towards the north-east across a ditch. After trudging for another 25 minutes through the rubber estate and another ditch, we decided to make the home trail by turning right to the east across another deep ditch, a short stretch of thick bushes and high tension wire into another oil palm plantation. At its fringe we turned down slope to the south along the bushy path for some 1.5 km with the intention of cutting back to the runsite. However, we could not make it as there was a deep drain on the right. After consulting an Indonesian plantation worker, we made a U turn for some ½ km where we turned left across the said drain through a bridge into an oil palm plantation. From then on, it was another some 1 km trudge before arriving back at the runsite at 5.20 pm. It was a moderate trail of some 7 km through the oil palm, rubber and fruit plantations. On the way, we were engaged in exchanging grandfather stories. For ease of later identification, we spread some shredded papers on the trail. The check and false trail will be decided and set on the following day. We then adjourned to the nearby Indian stall where we had our drinks and some bites.
It was another hazy afternoon on the following day. As appointed, the 3 of us met at the same runsite at 3.00 pm. After putting up 2 signboards at the entrance of the main road and another 1 at the runsite, we equipped ourselves with all the necessary paraphernalia. We then set out to lay the paper on the ‘recceed’ trail. Owing to the difficulties in finding some earlier paper which had been washed away by the early morning rainfall, we were forced to make a slight change to the ‘recceed’ trail in the oil palm plantation before setting the first and only check after 25 minutes walk. It was a simple check. Its connecting paper was placed some 100 meters ahead in the rubber plantation across a ditch.
The first false trail was placed beside a makeshift hut across a drain and a wooden bridge after a 20 minutes walk. It was a simple one with its connecting paper laid on the left of back trail some 100 meters away. It was followed by the second false trail placed at a cross junction near the fringe of the oil palm plantation after another 25 minutes walk. Its connecting paper was placed on the left of the back trail some 80 meters away. The third and last false trail was set on the bushy path in an open land. It was a tougher one which took us quite some time to set up. The connecting paper was placed some 150 meters on the left of the back trail across a drain in the oil palm plantation. From then on, it was a home trail walk through the mild undulating terrain. We arrived back at the runsite at 5.15 pm after 2 hours and 10 minutes walk. We then adjourned to the same nearby Indian stall to have our drinks. Whilst there, we saw some 20 familiar cars trickled in. They belonged to the regular hashers.
It was at 6.05 pm that we saw a pack of some 20 hashers started running into the in-trail. Among them were Yogi Bear, Dr. Pandirajah, Holly, Helen, Biggles, Killer Tony, Sexy Chan, Blombastic, Dennis the Menace, Carol, GM Cocker, Sharpshooter Robert, Laughing Buddha, Maureen, Viagraman, Nancy and Hawaii Goh. They were later joined by late starters Ranger and Pecker.
The first runner who emerged at 6.55 pm was energetic Dr. Pandirajah. He was followed by Ranger who took 38 minutes to complete the run. The last runners were back by 7.15 pm when the sky began to turn dark. We were glad to hear from their comments that it was a good run. As a reward, each runner was given a plastic car seat cover by the hare.
Hash circle was conducted by GM Cocker. As usual, the hare and a few sinners were put on ice and on-downed.
On-on was held at Midnight Restaurant & Beer Garden in the nearby Jasin town. Three tables were fully occupied. A delicious 6-course Chinese dinner was served with 2 bottles of whisky. On-down sessions were held to the tune of the evergreen hash songs. It was a wonderful night. The dinner was on the hare and the whisky was on Dennis the Menace. The pack had only started to leave at 9.15 pm after a good run, good food and good fellowship. Thank you, hare! On! Oh!
Scribe: Drug Buster
Date: 13th October, 2006.