Hash House Harriers

The Hash House Harriers (abbreviated to HHH, H3, or referred to simply as hashing) is an international group of non-competitive running, social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a hash or hash run, with participants calling themselves hashers or hares and hounds.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Why Danok?

Scribed by Coconut Kernel
I first started hashing in Alor Setar at the end of 1982. Since then, until April 1986, when I was transferred from Alor Setar to KL, I had remained a member. At my parting, I remarked that “I never had such unadulterated fun and the only regret was not having joined the Hash sooner.” After leaving Alor Setar, I made it an effort to attend all its celebration runs and I believe I had not missed one since then. All the runs were great, especially for me to meet old friends, and the last, the 33rd Anniversary held over the weekend of 11 & 12 December, 2010 at Danok was no exception.

Why hold a hash run at Danok? “Why not?” is my answer. Danok is one of 4 border crossings between Malaysia and Thailand, the others, being Padang Besar, Betong and Golok. Danok, one could say is a miniature of Pattaya, renown amongst sex-tourists as the raunchiest city in the World, beating near competitor Angeles City in the Philippines. Danok has duty free beers, great cheap food and numerous nightclubs, “manned” by unmentionables from as far as Cambodia and China. Mandarin is commonly spoken, which goes well with the Chinamen Hashers of Malaysia. Add on the anything-goes attitude of the Thai authorities, does one need more justification?

In the 90’s, Alor Setar’s best kept secret was its regular Cross-Border runs to Danok, for its members only. When many Hashers, including your Scribe got wind of this, Alor Setar was requested to throw this open to others and better still have their future celebrations at Danok. They did, including when Alor Setar hosted the Northern Quadrangular in 2003 and 2007. (The Quadrangular is a gathering of 4 hardcore batang chapters, including Ipoh, Kampar Jaya and the PJ Animales, all more than 30 years old)

Although the official event was the run on Saturday, on Friday at least a couple of hundreds of eager hashers were already in Danok, including the busload from the Animales, supplemented by several from the western Australian city of Perth. These wankers had heard so much about Danok runs, that they were ready to subject themselves to bodily risk by crossing the airspace of Indonesia, to get here. Although uncalled for, the hosts welcomed all to drink-ups at the KPK main hotel. The basement karaoke had the lure of GROS and plenty of cold beers. The GROs of course came at one’s own expense. Late in the evening, many, especially the unmentionables were in the ritual of “head-shaking”. A surprise find was the bar at the back of the KPK Garden, a wing of the main KPK. It had a live band which played nostalgic country and western music. A few Animales, led by GM Wank-Wank and OC Hardwhore, danced till the wee hours of the morning.

Registration, a Record For Batang Hashes?

Registration was open at 1.00 p.m. A total of more than 800 turned up. “Why so many?” scribed asked GM “Tits” Ooi. “What to do, they all called up. No freebees never mind, they just wanted to attend.” And attended they did and had a good time. Worthy of mentioned is the almost 60-member contingent from Batang Jaya of Medan, Indonesia. The rest came from all parts of Peninsular Malaysia. Quoting “Shit-head” of South of Perth City Hash, “During the last couple of years, I had been to this part of the world 4 times, one in Betong (for the Batang Nash Hash) and 3 times here. Once was after the PJ Animales’ 33rd Anniversary.” This must certainly be the highest Batang Hash gathering in this region and probably the world and all being FOC! This must be a record!

True to Malaysian hash culture, food was already available. The favourite was the “char-kway”, rice cake fried “char-kway-teow” style. The chef fried non-stop, till the dish ran out in the evening!

The Run

The run started from the grounds of the KPK Garden at 4.00 p.m. sharp, but not before recognition was given to the main sponsor, who had donated RM20,000. The lit firecrackers heralded the start. MC was the diehard “Cow”, speaking in near-perfect “Queen’s” English and ably translated into Mandarin by KK, “Today there is only one run. Just follow this paper. You have to climb only a few small hills. Front runners will come out between 1 hour and 1 hour 15 minutes. The last runners should be out between an hour half to 2 hours.” GM “Tits” flagged off the run.

Immediately the busy Danok/Hat Yai Highway was crossed. On the other side of the road, a soi (lane) was traversed. After a few turns, in about 20 minutes the rubber was estate was reached. Run direction was generally to the right for a counter-clockwise run. About 45 minutes into the run, a metalled road was crossed, and the mentioned small hills were encountered. FROBs climbed and SCBs tracked between the hill and the road. Soon the road was crossed again taking runners to the edge of the scenic Water Lake. (The Water Lake is fringed by several restaurants. The previous night the Animales had a feast there.) Around the lake, paper went uphill again and FROBs were observed to be going to the left for the home run. Scribe decided that it was enough and went right along the edge of the lake. I took the road towards Danok. After a km or 2, the hotel van came from behind and offered a welcomed ride back to the hotel. Along the way, some “lost” souls were seen going back into the rubbers for a short-cut. The van further picked up 3 hashers, one of whom was “Tokyo” of AS and was warmly greeted by Scribe.

Back at the hotel, the mid-pack was coming in. The time was about an hour and a half. Tiger beers welcomed the thirsty runners, finger food was there to replenish energies. Over beers, camaraderie was renewed. For Scribe, it was opportune to meet old friends, especially from AS. Peter “Guitar” Tan is still single at 62 years old. “Lubang Hidup” had still not lost his habitual twitch. “China Gila” after more than a decade of being GM of Kota Setar, had finally stepped down. “Sardine” Singh left early and so I missed him. I shall stop here, otherwise, this article would be too boringly long.

The Circle and More Entertainment

Soon after the main buffet was served, all GMs and representatives were called on stage and accorded recognition. There were about 40, indicating the number of Batang chapters attending. One thing is for sure, the batangs are not going to be overwhelmed by the more numerous mixed chapters! After the GM on-downs, there were calls for hash performers. The few who went on stage to sing was coolly applauded. The audience slowly fizzled out to more interesting pursuits, like talking cock over cold beers. But the atmosphere changed, when show-time was announced. As the scantily-clad showgirls appeared on stage, the empty chairs in front of the stage were quickly filled. Loud disco music, perfect and gyrating female bodies never fail to attract men’s attention. The show lasting about 45 minutes was needless to say, well-received.

At the end of show-time, and warmed by it, hashers were seen going to their rooms, where their bought unmentionables were waiting to give sexciting service. Many went for more beers and “hunting” at the numerous bars and karaokes. The diehards just stood around at the site and justified the beers that were lavishly served by the gracious hosts. Past mid-night, the live-band next door was a ready alternative for more beers. Even at this hour, fresh seafood was available at reasonable cost. Ask “Balancing” and his Bhayi companions. GM “Wank-wank”, together with “Tits” of AS showed good leadership by dancing till they nearly dropped. Special observation was that “Tiger” was still energetic, while his companion showed sign of fatigue. What medicine did “Tiger” take and what did he do to the companion?

This party ended well past 3.00 a.m.

Farewell

At the KPK Coffee House where breakfast was served on Sunday morning, hungry hashers dived into the breakfast and kept the cooks busy dishing out food continuously. The scene is probably repeated at a few other hotels in town. “The bus leaves at 10.00 am,” announced OC Hardwhore and echoed by Tiger. Joint OC, Puduku was not seen, probably nursing a hangover with fellow drunkard, Kupu-kupu.

Hasty goodbyes and thank you’s and “you guys did a great job” were said to Tits, Loh-hai and the AS mob. Scribe, together with some Animales took the hotel van to the Immigration. After immigration formalities, they boarded the bus for the mundane trip home, where they would say to their unmentionables, “Normal run-lah, lot’s of beers and food only-lah.”

Your Scribe then did the opposite from Friday’s routing, taking the one and half hour van ride from Danok to Hat Yai. Then it was a hazardous 30 minutes trip by tuk-tuk to the airport. On the 1 hour fifteen flight to Bangkok, I was thinking about what I would write for this outing. Undoubtedly, I would end by saying, “Alor Setar you have done it again. You now stand taller than before. I am proud to claim that Alor Setar is my alma mater of Hash.” We look forward to your hosting the Northern Quadrangular next year.

On on!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

33rd Anniversary Run News

亚罗士打野兔俱乐部主席黄新庆医生强调地说,没有会员们的鼎力配合和支持合作,相信任何活动都无法顺利成功举办。

他是在亚罗士打野兔俱乐部位于泰国南部丹洛镇举行成立33周年跑步会受邀致词时如此表示。并呼吁人们必须多运动来加强本身的健康状况。

他认为只有通过运动,人们才能拥有防备体力来应对日常疾病和社会压力。

也是大会主席的他感谢来自澳洲,印尼,以及全马各地的野兔俱乐部之八百位成员前来参与。


他也感谢友族企业PZS屋业发展商慷慨捐助2万令吉作为该活动衣裳费用。

他赞扬该公司董事主席佐哈里在马来西亚不分彼此下的慷慨解囊,大力协助该俱乐部完成第 33周年的纪念跑步会。
黄新庆也感激亚罗士打野兔俱乐部所有成员能在一个屋檐共同承当的精神,大家同心协力出钱出力把纪念跑步会办妥。

在仪式上,大会也邀请工委会主席沈俊伟颁发纪念品给于PZS屋业发展商代表,以及来自各地的友会主席。

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

MAPS


Date : 11-12-2010
Run Site : KPK Hotel
1:00 pm Registration
4:45 pm Group Photo
5:00 pm ON ON
(All in Malaysian Time)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Invitation Runs

9 Okt 2010 Star Friday HHHH

9-10 Okt 2010 IPOH HHH 45th Anniversary Run

20 Nov 2010 8888 Pokok Sena HHHH (RM50)

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Mederka

Wedding Invitation

Chan Boon Chiin a.k.a. Chuni Walker invites all members to his son wedding on 09-09-2010(Thursday), at Keat Hwa Private, Dewan Dato Lee Seng Cheng.

On wedding eve, 08-09-2010 (Wednesday), there is a run at 29, Taman Berjaya, Alor Setar at 6:30p.m.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Xrun On! On!

Those who didn't went to outstation run, you can join Xrun at Pokok Sena.

We run when as3h don't have run on alor setar, only as3h member invite as as3h Xrunner.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Invitation Runs

14 Aug 2010 Sepang 3H RM60

8 Sep 2010 Subang Wankers FOC

18 Sep 2010 Baling 3H FOC

7 Okt 2010 Star Friday H4 RM50

9-10 Okt 2010 Ipoh 3H 45th Anniversary Run

20 Nov 2010 8888 Pokok Sena H4

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Run 1720....24-07-10....Bukit Wang

Lee Hoon, Lan Cheow Poay & Sibak

lawyer 1 vs lawyer 2

mirror ????

GM on ice........


Tomoro

Tongkat Ali



Thursday, July 08, 2010

Run1716 Malau

bukit ayam di Malau
berhati-hati di jalan raya
circle ? wait for makan.
chempeda
Hash Cash: paid up!

Committe Meeting 07062010





alor setar 3H committe members meeting must serve with anchor beer. On! On!

5th Jun 2010

soup ikan ah yam, sedap!
kisihua dah jadi gila?
tomorrow boltte up!
dragon give speak
ini adalah hasher yang tergila di alor setar.

5th Jun 2010

ikan bakar AS3H.
nanpor qiao?!
mari, hidang, ini adalah ikan bakar terbagus di jelapang padi.
makan ikan bakar boleh sihat badan.
On! On! Hasher yang tidak turn up di outstation tapi di pokok sena.