[[Scouts Tenderfoot Camp]]

Day 1: Friday, 6th February 2009

We first gathered in school in front of the function room at 5.00 pm. First,us seniors collected the penknives, handphones and accessories from all the scouts. Then we took attendance. After that, we conducted the ice breaking session (introducing ourselves and etc.). We then pitched up tents, according to our petrols. We then had time to shower. After that we were supposed to have our dinner but dinner arrived late so we had free time until the food arrived. When we ate dinner, we had to elect our fellow assistant petrol leaders and quarter masters while sitting in different boxes, according to our petrols.

It was finally class time, which means teaching for us seniors. Johann started it of with the teaching of istiadat and morning inspection while us seniors prepared the classes for sejarah pengakap and undang-undang pengakap. After that, the juniors were split into two classes; One class sejarah pengakap taught by Kareem; and the other undang-undang and persetiaan pengakap taught by Tzer Thorng, Erik and Azraei.

The juniors really needed a break from all that learning so we had a fun and games session. The game was organised by casper and it was called "box". It went as follows; the whole scout troop was split into groups according to the petrols. Each petrols were to take an own area at the foyer. Casper and Mr Ong told us how many hands, legs, knees and feet were to be put on in a random amount of boxes. It was alot of fun and it felt as is we were playing a game of twister!

At twelve midnight, everyone was given the option to either sleep or take tests until 2.00 am.

Day 2: Saturday, 7th February 2009

We got woken up at 6.00 am and did some morning exercises conducted by Kareem before we made our way to a cross country run. After that, each of our patrols were given a rafia string to hold on to while running so that we all jog at the same pace and so that we don't loose each other. We took around an hour to finish the race as we stopped for many breaks along the way.

We came back at 8.00 am and were given time till 9.00 am to eat, shower, prepare for morning inspection, and rest. At 9.00 am, a demonstration of morning inspection was done. Then it was time for everyone else to get checked by the morning inspectors. Many push ups were handed out during the moning inspection because we either brought something wrong, put our stuff in the wrong place, or it was just way too messily put out! We were given half an hour to pack all our stuff back into our bags and tents.

It was class time again with the teaching of knots taught by Daniel and assisted by a few of the other seniors that were free at that time. Many questions were poured out at the seniors so it made all seniors very busy. We had to extend the class because all the seniors were having difficulties in teaching many juniors the various knots.

At 1.00 pm, the cooking session started with all the ingredients brought by each and every scout with a few extra ingredients brought by the seniors. We were given until 3.00 pm to cook, eat and clean up. Unfortunately Rajawali's portable stove gas can broke into flames! The other patrols were fine, working together and having lots of fun cooking. The result was that all the patrols food were edible and none of us got any stomach aches from the food. Well done, juniors!

The classes commenced at 3.00 pm with the teaching of lambang by Wu Ping and Yu Yang. After that, Casper and Yasmin taught the juniors about the scouts uniform, the hormat pengakap and the cogankata.

We were all told to change into black t-shirts and track bottoms that were not the nicest that we brought. Then we had the halangan komando where all scouts get wierd obstacle courses and get eggs, flour and mud thrown all over each and every one of us. We all had lots of fun doing those obstacles in our respective patrols. After that, we were given half an hour to wash up.

When we came back, each patrol was given a word to prepare a skit for malam kebudayaan. Tiong was given the word shampoo; Rajawali was given the word super; Helang was given the word spoons; and Kenyalang was given the word hook. Each of the patrols were given two whole hours to prepare their respective skits.

At 8.00 pm, the seniors prepared a barbecue dinner for the juniors. At 9.30 pm, the Malam Kebudayaan started with a treat from Casper and Azraei playing a beautiful guitar piece. Then began the skits with Tiong and their title "shampoo". Next was Helang with their title "spoons". Then came Rajawali and their title "super". Last but not least was Kenyalang with their title "hook". All the patrols skits were performed well. Next came Johann with some dances that amazed the crowd. After that, all the seniors that were not in any patrols performed the chicken dance. Then came the results of the skit competition, in third place came Kenyalang with"hook". In second place came Helang with "spoons" and in first came TIONG with SHAMPOO! *cheers and claps. The judges who judged the competition were, Mr Ong, Ms Lydia and Ms Yee. The loosers were Rajawali and as a punishment, they had to spell some words with their buts but they werent doing it properly so all the seniors had to show them how to do it by orders from Ms Lydia.

Then the juniors were given the option whether to sleep or to study for their tests while the seniors were having a meeting. After that, we had an hour of test taking. Later, we all went to sleep at 12.00 am.

Day 3: Sunday, 8th February 2009

We all got woken up at 7.15 am and did some morning exercises conducted by Kareem.

Next, we were given until 9.00 am to eat, shower and prepare for morning inspection. At 9.00 am that day, less push ups were handed out because the scouts were more familiar with the placings of their stuff. We were all given until 10.30 am to pack up our stuff and to put away our tents. Many patrols were not very sure how to fit the tents in the small bag so the seniors had to go and help roll it all up and teach them how to fit it in the bag. At 10.15 am, everyone had to help put away the patrols' things in the scouts den (cca room).

Then it was time for test takings and studying. One test was the rukunegara which many juniors were not sure about so, Yasmin had to go to a class and start to teach the rukunegara to the fellow juniors.

After that, it was serious test taking from 11.00 am until 12.45 pm.

Finally, it was time for the istiadat penutup. Sean Poon got rewarded for becoming the first scout of 2009 and Tiong got best patrol award. We all had a good time at this camp and we are hoping there will be many more in the future.

~Written by Yasmin Fareed :)

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

[[Knowing Your Patrol Leaders]]

For today, juniors were divided to 4 groups, which is Rajawali, Helang, Tiong and Kenyalang. Refer to the list at the previous post to know your patrol leaders.

For the first patrol activity, the juniors were taught about the basic command and respond for scout.

Those include 'masuk baris, senang diri, rehatkan diri, baris, baris sedia and keluar baris'

Comments from patrol leaders

Wu Ping :'there is time to play and time to be serious,don't fool around too much when were are serious'

Yu Yang :'Today was my first day being a patrol leader, after today's session, i hope that my juniors will pay more attention and will be much more loud during the counts.'

Update by Wp and Yang

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

[[First Scout Meeting]]

So, we started our Sri KDU Scout Troop Blog today. The purpose is to inform you guys about our meeting on any meeting that took place in the whole year.

Well, we also had our first meeting today at 1pm to 2pm. We had about 20 scouts last year attending the first meeting. This year, we have approximately 52 juniors who attended today! Woots! *Clap clap*. We started this meeting by cutting the chocolate cake and share it to everybody as to welcome our new juniors. Then we introduced the new committee for this year to them. I, Lim Wu Ping am the Patrol Leader for Helang this year. *Clap clap*. Time flies, it was 2pm at the blink of an eye. We said goodbye and went back home.

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Let us introduce you to our committee.

Troop Leader - Johann Razali (2009-10)
Asst. T.Leader - Daniel Chew
Secretary - Yasmin Fareed
Asst. Sec - Lih Seng
Treasurer - Haw Donq
Asst. Trea - Nicholas Seng
Quatermaster - Tzer Thorng
Asst QM - Andrew
Patrol Leader
- Casper (Tiong)
- Yu Yang (Rajawali)
- Wu Ping (Helang)
- Ryan Ritchie (Kenyalang)

Anyway this blog will be managed by us seniors, maybe a couple of juniors that are good with blogs.

This edit was brought to you by Yu Yang =D

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