journey to the south 4 - camping

Yeah going to post about camp... one week after it.

once again, I went back to PJ, for the scouts camp in school.

I took a 730 bus from Penang and reached Pj at 1pm, then I headed to yee en house to hide/sleep/rest, till camp.

Yee en and I were late for the flagbreak, Yee En just came back from his exams and rushed to camp. What a dedicated scouter, went for camp despite having exams, of course with a heavy price to pay for.the recruits

For the first night, just taught them hoe to prepare their logbooks, then we had supper. At 1.30am, we scouters had our meeting, till 2 something. Then Yee En and I went on to make our stretchers , finally, I went to sleep by 3am.

the probationer scouters

Basically, for the first night of camp, I was very happy and delighted to meet up with lots of friends/scouters. What was their comments on me? Seck Houng, you are fatter!! the effect of rotting a home for 3 months.
At the same time, I wasn't in the 'camping mode' yet, maybe it is because I just travelled down form Penang, and not yet get used to the 'new' environment. haha, well, I must admit, I'm slow in adapting to new environment.

the juniors with their pioneering project

supper time

The next day,the very same morning, I woke up at 5.30 and went on patrolling the school with the small kids. For that day I had 2 lectures, 1. isyarat sulit 2. parang dan kapak. How were my lectures? according to their feedback, they were boring....
Ah, I feel so sad.... But did I really prepared the lectures? Did I really follow the movement's motto: be prepared? Well I guess not, but If I would be given a chance to teach in the future, I'll be prepared!!

sleeping juniors

During noon, while the recruits were having their lecture on " fundamentals of scouting" I went for backwoodsman, to cook Yee En's chicken (apparently, his original plan was to cook it during the night). I roasted half of the chicken, and 'mud-ed' the other half. How was the chicken? Looks quite nice, and tasted like a chicken. Well I didn't marinate the chicken with anything, so it was tasteless.

Can you spot the other chicken?


the mud chicken, notice the other part of the chicken was exposed to the fire( failure or sabotaged?) and got BBQ. Hence I would say that this is a all new 2in1 BBQ+ steam chicken...

This camp Malam Kebudayaan, it quite an interesting one, I really enjoyed it. Especially the seniors sketches, Night walk etc.... Overall I think this year scouts performances really got standard! For the night walk, it really brings back memories. When was the last time you played night walk?

Then OBH, supper, and open talk. haha sorry Yee En, miss communication. It was supposed to be a open talk with the recruits, but it ended up to be a open talk among scouters. 3am, sleep.

Woke up late for the last day of camp. Helped Guo Qiang to pass his tenderfoot. After flag break, went home with a smelly body and a bag fully of stinky shirts. Well not actually home, but Yee En's house.

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How was it, being a scouter?
Teaching is no easy task.
Thru this camp, I able to understand and know myself better.
After attending the Mani Kayu course, I learnt some theories on how to be a leader, how to pass down knowledge, but did I really put all the theory into practical? Was I able to do so? Sadly, I forgotten all the theories, and just did it my way or in other word ' hentam sahaja'. It is easy to talk about the theories, but can you practise it? Knowing the theory and putting it into practical are really 2 different things. So I'm A person who can talk to you about methods of teaching scouts for hours, but can't use a single method himself.

We also got quite a number of comments/complains from recruits parents.

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Finally,I would like to thank my parents for supporting me, financially. Thank you Yee en for offering me accommodation. I start to treat his house like a hotel, check in n check out the hotel quite frequently. If i would rate this 'hotel' it would be a 7 star hotel...haha