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RUN No. 1932 6th May 2008 HARES: Mike Stokoe
Back to Wanchai! START: Time: 6:45 p.m. prompt (note that, in addition to use of yellow font colour and bold style, I have increased the font size in an attempt to ensure that everyone knows the start time. You just need to read it and act on the information now! On Sec)
Place: Sitting out area at the eastern end of the Wu Chung House Podium, Queen's Road East, next to Hopewell Centre. it is just above the old Wanchai Post Office, now an EPD Resource Centre.
TRANSPORT: MTR to Wanchai and walk up Spring Garden Lane [past the site of the first Government House] to Queens Road East. Buses from all over HK, KLN and the NT travel along nearby Johnston and Hennessy Roads, as well as many on Queens Road East. Tram to Southorn Playground.
NECESSITIES: Don't forget a torch, mozzie spray, and if it’s to your taste, BYO wine for the On On!
ON ON: Chinese restaurant, probably 3, 6, 9 on O’Brien St. [corner of Jaffe Road, under the pedestrian bridge to Immigration Tower].
****************************************************************************************** RECEDING HARELINE RUN NO. DATE HARE/S
1933 13 May 08 Amanda Happy Valley 1934 20 May 08 John (Old Sock) Lok Fu Please volunteer your services to Hare Raiser May, if you have not set a run during the last three months. ****************************************************************************************** Run No. 1931 Hare: Linda & Chas Scribe: On Sec Jill
"Who's dioing the write-up?", enquired GM Karen as she handed me the down-down list. "Errhh, I guess it's me, again!" I sighed, resigned to spending yet more time on the computer putting the newsletter together. Never mind, only a month or so to go and then - freedom!
So there most of us were at 6:30 p.m. prompt, as clearly instructed by the hares, ready to set off on our junk trip to Po Toi when the phone calls began. One or two still missing but never mind as the hares had wisely given themselves 15 minutes of fall back time, which should have been enough for all latecomers but they had not counted on a very experienced hasher not reading her newsletter. Despite advice to get going anyway, the hares (well one of them, anyway) decided to hang on a few minutes longer and by the skin of her teeth the errant hasher finally appeared. (Apparently it was all my fault as I did not tell her about the early meeting time when we were out together the previous Saturday night – how remiss of me!)
It was cool and somewhat choppy journey over but most of us held on to our lunches until we reached Po Toi pier. Rachel, though was looking somewhat pale and weak but it did not deter her from joining the run, well, walk for her and various others. As we headed away from the pier the old Hong Kong hands were fooled into thinking that the trail would go off to the right but instead it headed left towards the beach and past the restaurant, which was packed with Tin Hau Festival celebrants. On On towards the temple where the hares had gone to a lot of trouble to arrange for a Cantonese opera performance to be amplified at full volume to accompany us throughout our run.
A tricky little check just after the temple caught out the GM and various others and then it was up up up over the rocks to the top of the hill, along a bit and then, to the surprise of all those who were expecting a full tour of the island, it was down down down the concrete path back towards the restaurant, beach, pier and boat. A shortish run then, but very welcome for that as we needed to eat before we cast off again into choppy waters. Some ten minutes or so later sweeping hare, Chas arrived, having abandoned the walkers/talkers on the concrete path as he could not walk that slowly or talk that much.
A splendid repast of Indian fare was revealed and partaken off with gusto! Lots of dishes for the non-carnivore, although no sign of the curried broccoli that had been promised. Then we cast off and took to the high seas again bound for Aberdeen Harbour and the ABC. Luckily the sea was calmer than on the outbound trip and the GM was able to hand out down downs without going over the side.
Down downs: (not necessarily in the order in which they were given!)
Sophia & Lee Two naked women showering at the back of the boat
Raymond Being a kind and thoughtful hasher, putting photos on a disk to help committee members do the magazine
Jill & Maggi Senior moments – Maggi for double-booking two international trips for next weekend and Jill for forgetting to attend a committee meeting.
Guests Nancy & Daniel
John Thorn attack
Tracy Getting engaged
GM Karen Who asked us to share a toast in celebration of her getting a contract for a job in Singapore (boo-hoo!)
Linda & Chas The hares – for the run, boat, food, entertainment
Chas was concerned about having over-catered but he had not counted on the extent of the local appetite and as we past the breakwater into Shum Wan Typhoon Shelter. doggy bags and lunch boxes had been filled the food trays were all but cleaned out.
Another great LH4 night out – thanks, Linda & Chas
Jill
p.s. If you have not done a write-up during the past three months, please volunteer your services to the On Sec – English or Chinese language both acceptable - as this is positively the last time during this term of office that I am going to do it myself!
****************************************************************************************** A Message from the Mays
Hi, LH4 friends, greetings from NZ! The May family plans to visit HK this summer, sometime between July 7-27. If any of you will be out of town during that time and have a space available, we'd love to housesit & look after your pets, etc. We'll do the gardening, fix the roof, paint the window, etc, etc at no charge!!! And if you ever plan a trip to down under, we'll of course provide free room & board at our beach front house, north of Wellington. If you have a place, please let us know: yonyisohn@hotmail.com.
Thank you and best regards, Richard, Yon Yi, Christopher & Sarah May
****************************************************************************************** Kenny G concert - Free tickets
6 FREE tickets to give away to you or your friends
Kenny G concert - Asia World Arena - Friday 9th May 8.00pm
Good seats from a representative of the promotion company, (our school alumnae)
Contact Lee Holloway on leektmc@yahoo.co.nz or 98638490 *****************************************************************************
Run No. 1929 Hares: Roisin & Sophia Scribe: Sheila A good sized group gathered at Pokfulam Public Riding School Car Park despite the fact that Roisin had instructed us to shout out ‘Pok Fu Lam seui jahm’ to get the mini-bus driver to stop! However, she did look cool and collected, but very un-hashlike at the start (it looked like she’d had a shower), when she briefed us about three trails, snakes and the fact that we had to stay together although it was a ‘short run’. Perhaps, Jacmi already knew this as she ran up and down past the stables to warm up; others just sprayed Off all over themselves to ward off the mozzies and stood around blethering. The GM, though, was nowhere to be seen at the start (she was doing Jacmi’s warm-up), so AGM Margie led us off down Pok Fu Lam Road, with Raymond and John hot on her heels, and turned left down the first path that led to the old horse trail. It was a real walk down memory lane for Chas, who had been instrumental in the design of the trail in the good old days of working at the Jockey Club. He even got into the spirit of it all as, running with a backpack, he was a bit like a pack horse. The views from the trail were lovely as it was one of those rare, clear nights in Hong Kong, but the steps down to Wah Fu played havoc with the knees. Once back on Pok Fu Lam Road people milled around looking for the trail, which, when found by Lee who’d come late and caught us all up, took us through the underpass and up the hill past the fire station and Lucky’s previous home. The bets were on as to whether B was at Wah Fu, Cyberport or Baguio but we’d to keep following the arrows which had suddenly become sparse. Running down Victoria Road, Jill spied Steve, John’s friend, so we knew we were on trail. I shouted warm greetings, (as friendly hashers do), about how lucky he was to have two young, fit, female hashers running behind him. When ‘Steve’ turned round, he’d been transformed into an 80-year-old Chinese gentleman who beamed at us and let us pass him. He probably did think we were ‘two young, fit, female hashers’; it’s all relative really. B turned out to be at Cyberport, with the bins at a beautiful open space with a fabulous view of the sea. Hashers appeared from all directions, depending which of the three trails they’d followed, but although Mike Stokoe was nowhere to be seen, the GM had reappeared. We later found out that he’d decided to follow all three trails since Roisin had said the run was short.
The On On was in Hang Heung’s Kitchen Chinese Restaurant, where we crammed 20 people round one huge table. The food was delicious – no MSG – and since the beer was extortionate everyone was drinking red, wine which is now so much cheaper since the budget. Frankie tried concocting his own wine cocktails, but maybe it’ll take a while for a French-Argentinian-Australian–Chilean wine to take off. Raymond expanded our Cantonese (yue kau – a duct between two mountains and dai boh – big ball); Parkie and Chas serenaded us. Even the waiter joined in as he poured all of the down downs (maybe his way of hinting that it was time to go.) A good run and a fun On On. Thanks, Roisin and Sophia. Down Downs Racine – (Guess who?) Having Irish coffee with Anne Bright…..
GM – Not knowing her authors, as it should had been Anne Enright
Non Runners – Ruth and Trevor Jill - Wind- up, environmentally friendly torch which she swished all the way around the run!
Chas & Neil – Big egos Jacmi – thinking she is still the GM
Hares – Sophia & Racine
Lee – 1st run after op & being lucky since window falling out
Raymond & Sheila- Teaching/learning new Cantonese vocab
Mike Stokoe – for doing 3 runs
Frankie – calling the GM Trevor
***************************************************************************** News from the Rabbits in Blighty Thought you would be interested to know that the Rabbits are far too busy enjoying life in Blighty to answer emails at length - they were just off for their first walk with the Ramblers. However, I did manage to get an email address out of them for general circulation, should you wish to make contact - don't expect much of a reply very soon though! ***************************************************************************** Run No. 1928 Hares: Lee – no sons! Scribe: John Old Sock
April 8th, a great day for a run – Albert Einstein unveiled his Theory of General Relativity on this day in 1906; Pablo Picasso passed from this life into eternity at the age of 91 in 1973; and, in 1879, for the first time, milk was package in glass bottles. It was a historical day of convergence between science, art, and technology! Several weeks, or even months, have passed since I did a Lee-inspired run, and as I approached the start, I was filled with grave trepidation – the pack was already moaning about how “this is going to be a long one” and “we’ll head off for the mountains immediately and will emerge in two hours” and “make sure you bring money and the Octopus.” I had run the Round the Island 66K event on Sunday, and the sentiments of the pack weighed heavily on my will. Lee was just describing the run as I arrived, running a tad bit late as always. I asked, in a friendly way, if there was any water for the run, and was bluntly told to hoof my way to the 7-11 and “buy your own damn drink.” Friendly lot, I thought…. Well, the visit to the shop separated me from the pack right away. And I immediately went right, instead of left, wandering in a meaningless fashion the canyons of the Hang Hau housing blocks. My legs were screaming even before the MTR station was out of sight. But Lee loves checks, especially tricky checks, which slowed the pack considerably. I imagine they had done two or three checks before I caught up with them, and it is a good thing I did catch up with them. I am not sure how I was elevated to the position of Gender Policeman, but after having been scolded by Jill and Indy, I realized that ensuring gender correctness is a vital responsibility within the Ladies’ Hash. Violations are rampant, and flimsy excuses for bad behavior seem to be on every ladyboy’s tongue. Anyway, I caught two of these lady-wannbees trying to break checks, and quickly corrected their errant behavior. GM Karen was glowering at me, as I think she was hoping for a smoke while sending the gents out for a trail search. Forced to do her general managering, she quickly led us all off trail. To be fair, it was a dastardly nasty check – one trail went up a hill which seemed to have a 1,000 violent carnivores just dying to get at us, one trail went steeply down a long lonely hill which probably ended at the bank of the River Styx, and one went into the shiggy. GM Karen led us up the shiggy trail, which auspiciously started with a good wade through a sea of dog pooh. The eye-gouging trees and the leg and thigh lacerating bushes punctuated a path which ended at a grave (was this intentional?) if you went one way, and into a pathless jungle if you went the other way. Her GMness was sending Ruth on various scouting missions, who seemed generally obedient, until she found a check-back mark written on a little tree...very sneaky. Now, we had to backtrack through the sea of pooh, and resume the trail finding mission. The GM was facing a mutiny… From a well lit public toilet with no running water, we hit another check. The light from the toilet helped the mosquitoes find us, but they would have smelled the blood from the wounds inflicted by the shiggy anyway. I somewhat gave up on the Gender Police duties as Raymond was constantly violating my orders. Besides, my legs were screaming, my shoes were smelling like dog pooh, and my mind was desperately searching for a way out of this circle of hell. Ah, unite oneself with the man-child, I thought. Yes, that was the key. For Lee had suddenly gone, well, lazy, I guess is the best descriptor. That is correct – she latched on to an old Little Sai Wan trail, and hoped we would just follow their arrows (even though she warned us not to follow their arrows). With the man-child at my side, I started quizzing him – “Does this look like your mother’s writing?” “Where would your mother normally go?” “Does Mom like uphill or downhill?” The strategy worked – this healthy, strong youngster was put in at the lead of the pack, and he knew almost all of his mother’s tricks. Good thinking! With no false turns, we were safely returned to that to that universal pleasure, ice cold beer! On On!! John Old Sock
On On to the roof garden of a Thai Restaurant where down downs were awarded to various errant hashers – if you were there you will know who, if you weren't you won't care! Here are a few photos, anyway: Ok, now that I have found Karen's list I will do the job properly! (On Sec) Down downs: Keegan having lived in the Hang Hau area for a number of years but still not knowing where he is.
May & Raymond modelling the new LH4 T-shirts
Jill wearing a Christmas T-shirt on the run
Ruth being the first to pay for the Brunei trip and for thinking she is going to see Abba
???? visitor from Holland
Kandi & Roisin dog owners Rachel & anonymous Dutch visitor for surviving Perth InterHash
Grace for T-shirt design
Luke for trying to hide his Sprite - unsucessfully
Lee for a great On On venue
Sophia still sick and coughing, spreading her flu to everyone
Rita non-runner
Grace 2 letting the torch go out
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Run No. 1927 Hares: Roger & Judith Scribe: Linda
A hardy bunch of around 40 hashers assembled at Tsing Yi Town Park for Judith and Roger’s farewell run. The weather had been miserable all day, but cleared up miraculously in time for the run. The theme was “April Fool” and looking around at the start, there were some pretty foolish accessories in evidence! The horn sounded and we set off through the park and over a pedestrian walkway. We skirted Tivoli Garden and headed down to the Tsing Yi water-front. What a great feeling – I’d managed to dodge Jill at the start, so that meant someone else was doing the write-up - right? Wrong! I was collared by Jill 10 minutes into the run. “But I don’t know Tsing Yi and I’ve no idea where we are!” was my feeble and utterly useless response!
Jacmi caught me up along the water-front. “So glad to have you back, Rita” she said. Wow, I thought as I was correcting her - I have been away for a long time! The hares kept the pack together with a few clever checks and we continued south to a check-back near the Hutchison Telecom building. We ran under two pedestrian subways and up a concrete path which lead into the hills. It was looking like a really great run until we hit the steps! They went up and up and when we thought we were at the top they went up and up some more! There were, however, great views on the way up which provided a good enough excuse to stop!
What goes up must eventually come down and so we descended down the steps at the other side of the hill. We ran through a housing estate and down into a valley where banana trees were growing – not that anyone was paying attention to the flora and fauna by this stage of the run!
A sign of things to come
We ran through a resettlement village and back into Tsing Yi Town Park.
It was a good length of run and the fast runners took just over the hour.
Beer was consumed at the bucket, then GM Karen presented Judith & Roger with leavers' T-shirts bearing a photo of the happy couple.
While T-shirts were being signed, the XGM’s disappeared for quite some time. Roger suggested we all hid and Mabel nearly had a fit, thinking we had gone off to the restaurant. APRIL FOOL!
Eventually the XGM’s made their grand entrance dressed in bunny outfits, complete with bells and handkerchiefs. They skipped towards us in two perfectly formed lines performing the Morris dance. It was a sight to behold – the grace and synchronization was astounding! Their red tights will be talked about for a long time to come!
At the end of their performance there were cheers and calls for an encore, so they happily obliged.
It was then the turn of Judith and Roger to be dressed up. Judith looked stunning in a pink tutu and fluffy white ears while Roger (Chippendale) looked sexy in black lycra pants, bow tie and bare chest. They both then showed us how Morris dancing should be done with a highly entertaining rendition.
Eventually, after photographs had been taken from every angle, 32 hashers headed to the Chinese restaurant in Maritime Square.
The food was excellent and wine and beer were consumed in copious quantities.
Down-downs were awarded as follows:
The guests: Mary and Lester from Liverpool (Neil’s brother and his wife)
Gloria and Nasher from Plympton
Alastair (younger brother of GM), and Jenny, the shameless hanger-on!
The non-runners: Trevor who fell asleep and missed the run! Parkie - for getting Margix’s smalls ready for the run! Karl - who went shopping for a toothbrush! Connie - who had everyone’s sympathy for using Terminal 5 at Heathrow on the day it opened!
Kandi and Choco - Kandi was desperate to go to the toilet and while she left Choco outside the toilet, Raymond took a photo (of the dog of course!)
Linda and Chas - for missing out on Antarctica because the engine on the ship broke down!
Chas - for being “knackered” with late nights and visitors - even though he’s retired! May - who was dressed as a “devil” not a “bunny”!
The XGM bunnies/Morris dancers – Ruth, Jill, Roisin, Grace, Mabel, Jacmi, Margix, Sheila and Rita
Judith and Roger – for their long membership of the Ladies Hash which they each explained: Judith first attended the Ladies Hash in 1983 and spent two years on the waiting list!
Roger first attended the Ladies Hash in 1992 and became a member in 1995. Judith then gave Trevor a down-down because he once told Judith she was beautiful and he fancied her!
Roger then gave Raymond a down-down because Raymond once fancied Roger. This news has to be regarded as worrying, especially as Raymond came along to the hash wearing Connie’s panties! The Hares – Judith and Roger for setting such a good run (apart from the steps!).
Raymond - who must keep up the pressure for “votes for male members”! Raymond then proceeded to pour his beer over his head and the restaurant carpet!
Judith thanked the Ladies Hash for all the years of hangovers, body abuse, etc. and a presentation was made to both Judith and Roger of two pictures of old Hong Kong, a tankard each and a farewell card.
And after all this we still hadn’t finished with down-downs! Linda – for meeting Judith on the Ladies Hash 22 years ago today!
The GM for enquiring about the high table in the corner of the restaurant! (This was actually dozens of tables stacked on top of each other for storage purposes!)
And last but not least - Judith and Roger awarded Tracy and Karl the prize of most outrageously-dressed couple!
It was indeed a great night and Judith and Roger will be sorely missed by everyone.
Safe travels to Tisbury and please keep in touch! On on Linda
J&R's Farewell T-shirt Design ****************************************************************************************** Sedan Chair Race
A message from the Sedan Chair Race Committee:
Dear Fundraisers, Thank you very much for your generosity
support and fundraising
efforts in 2007 Sedan Chair Race. Without your
contribution, the Event would not have been a successful one.
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RUN No. 1927 1st April 2008 HARES: Roger & Judith
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