Date: 22nd January 2011 (Sat)
Venue: Genting Highlands, Mushroom Farm
Scribe written by Biji
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| Lion to bring good health and prosperity! |
Roads in Genting are always brightly lighted up and the restaurant's own spotlights enabled us to have our circle inside their compound. Tables, chairs, cooler boxes and other miscellaneous items were also available for our usage. The Run |
| The start of our CNY run.. |
Run Master Ben had, in the morning, gathered his team to set this run. Armed with GH5 hash papers, red logo for long run and blue for short, they went in promising to set a blazing trail. They have been forewarned to do a proper job as we have lots of guests from other very "keng" chapters joining us today. If run screwed up .. we'll @#$! all the hare and co-hares ... this is hashing mah!
Prior to the commencement of this annual GH5 run, a lion troupe was on hand to perform and specifically to bless all our members and guest with the best of luck this Chinese New Year. And of course, CNY events were never complete without Fire crackers. At 3:55pm, these were lighted to "fire" up the occasion before runners set off at 4pm sharp. |
| Pitcher Plant |
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| First World Hotel & Communication Towers |
Initial trail was downhill, long and winding on tarred-road. As the road approaches a bend, the paper trail took a left turn uphill on rocky surface. We trekked for a good 10 minutes. Subsequently, it was downhill along laterite path with light vegetation. Here, First World Hotel and the communication towers could be seen at a distance.
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| The Long March... |
This was a very long stretch, down and up, and finally we emerged onto a proper tarred-road. Here the trail forked - left trail being short run while the right trail took them all the way up to the communication tower.
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| Ada Hantu sini!! |
I happened to be in the "long run" group and we pushed upslope along yet another winding road. Then off-road again, this time taking a right turn downhill. Here we thought was the best part of the run. We passed by 2 blocks of abandoned apartments. With the fog partly shrouding these uncompleted buildings, a "ghostly" feel was unavoidable. We checked our watch and noticed it was already 5:30pm. We went behind the apartments before climbing up a short steep slope and back onto the road again. We paced ourselves, knowing it's a long run (10 km) and just before reaching the tower, we veered off-road to the right and into a jungle. And true to what the hare had promised us ... "wah-lau", we were rewarded with the sight of a very scenic "enchanted" forest. In fact, one of the Mantin hashers described it as almost similar to the forest in the Lord of The Ring movie. Yup, it was really beautiful, not one to be seen in our weekly runs.
The wet jungle path was very narrow and at times appeared like a maze. We snaked upwards slowly, everything being wet and covered with moss. Then the suffering began! Going downhill was no easy task brother! Luckily with the help of some ropes, we were able to slowly lowered ourselves down, almost vertically! But it was an experience to cherish! Finally we exit onto the tarmac where the Celcom tower stood majestically beside the road. By then, our hands and shoes and socks were covered with black earth. From here to run site was downhill all the way, but it was gonna be another 2.5 km!
Aiyoh yoh, it was a long but enjoyable run. The front runners clocked in within 2 hours while sweeper Baby Monkey and Jerry 100-plus (who later became our Choy-San-Yeah) came in at 7pm.
View photos of CNY run here! |
| Our guests .. On! On! |
Dinner |
| Beer drinking competition |
After the circle, we had our On! On! Dinner at the Mushroom Farm restaurant. There were free flow of beers and wine and to top it, our GH5 sent in a "Choy-San-Yeah" to bring better luck and prosperity to those present. Each person was given an "Ang-Pow" with a toto Power jackpot ticket. Dinner ended 10:30pm and hope our guests joined us again in our future runs. On! On!________________________________
The wet jungle path was very narrow and at times appeared like a maze. We snaked upwards slowly, everything being wet and covered with moss. Then the suffering began! Going downhill was no easy task brother! Luckily with the help of some ropes, we were able to slowly lowered ourselves down, almost vertically! But it was an experience to cherish! Finally we exit onto the tarmac where the Celcom tower stood majestically beside the road. By then, our hands and shoes and socks were covered with black earth. From here to run site was downhill all the way, but it was gonna be another 2.5 km!
Aiyoh yoh, it was a long but enjoyable run. The front runners clocked in within 2 hours while sweeper Baby Monkey and Jerry 100-plus (who later became our Choy-San-Yeah) came in at 7pm. 
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