LANGKAWI BEACH HASH HOUSE HARRIERS

RUN # 379

28 December 2007

Run number 379 was the LAST for the year 2007. The next run will,

consequently, be in the year 2008. Would you believe it, we are all a year

older!! Under clear blue skies 25 hashers turned up to sample the wares

proffered by Hares DETACHED, SEMI-DETACHED and TUPPY LOVE. But first we had

the pleasure of welcoming a couple of virgins, Katya and Ramon, new Langkawi

residents from Holland. Katya, in a successful effort to look nicely turned

out, put on her new shoes. Immediately spotted by the assembled group,

Katya?s initiation into the rituals came when she had to drink a beer from

her right shoe, she loved it. Hooters were issued and off we all went,down

the hill from Sri Legenda, following a marked trail. ? Marked? needed some

interpretation. The brief was to keep the pink ribbons on your left??.or was

it right. Didn?t matter really ?cause for the first half mile one had no

choice?..had to be on the right or down a drain one would go. The second

half mile was marked by flour and then we came across a question mark ( ? )

in flour. Shall we keep that on our left or right? No matter, a flour circle

gave us a clue but not to which way to go as a few metres away, up one

track, there was a pink ribbon cross nailed to a tree. Or was it a number

two (2), it could be a question mark! Welcome relief in the form of Santas

Elves appeared in a shady glade dispensing suspicious looking brown liquid

from a teapot. It wasn?t tea. More ribbons and more flour, I think they were

alternated, led us to thick undergrowth where the ribbons had dropped off

their perches. That was welcomed because the ankle grabbing ground vines had

to be avoided therefore one could kill two birds with one stone. Keep your

head down. Trouble was the low slung boughs with sharp points dug easily

into unprotected heads. Ah ha, a sign, ?Wimps right, Heroes left?. Heroes

follow red ribbon, wimps follow yellow. Those who are colour blind now had a

problem, (as if we all hadn?t before,) I think they went straight down the

middle keeping ribbons on both sides. The beer truck hove into view,

most of us were back at the car park at last and still breathing.

Circle time brought three new names (SQUIDGEE SPEEDO, SORE BUM and

CWIMSON KWOTCH), two virgins (see above),and a host of transgressors which kept the

Executioner busy. Night fell and our esteemed GM donned a miners lamp to

wind up his torture session, then it was off to KAKI JILAT’S (Kumars) Indian

restaurant where we feasted royally, great job Kumar and team! The next run,

No. 380, will take place on Jan.11th 2008 and promises to be a sedate affair

without the anarchic participation of many yachtie hashers who will be

otherwise occupied with the RLYC Regatta. Thanks to the virgin runners who

volunteered for the Hares job and thanks to DETACHED and SEMI-DETACHED for

offering coaching sessions. ON-ON.