Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Recruits Investiture 26 February 2011 By Scribe Marcus Choo The day all the recruits are looking forward to has come! Today was the Recruits investiture, where the recruits will receive their scarf, and become full fledged cub scouts. Before that, we had a short briefing on the upcoming Job Week, and were shown the new card. We were not paired today as quite a lot of the scouts were at the P5 Camp. We also had a little bit of time to group into six’s corner for us to share the purpose of job week and our past job week experience with the recruits. Most of the recruits look enthusiastic about their first job week! From my past 3 years’ of job week experience, it is certainly an event to look forward to! After that, it was time for the investiture rehearsal. By this time, some of the parents were streaming in, so only the first few groups could rehearse. I was quite nervous that I would do something wrong during the investiture, especially since this was a very big event, with pa...

MacRitchie Reservoir hike By Scribe Kimberley Song   94 cubs braved the tiring MacRitchie Reservoir hike on Saturday. This is our first hike after the long break. The day started out with Akela briefing us a few highlights of the hike. We then took attendance to make sure that we could account for everyone later during the hike. A few cubs were absent and some were late. Some cubs didn’t submit their forms. They were given a stern warning from Akela. We left and boarded the bus at exactly eight. At last, we arrived at MacRitchie after the long bus journey. We got down and lined-up in Indian fine. This year, 23 eagle scouts joined us as they had also planned to hike at MacRitchie. The eagle scouts’ adult leaders and some of the eagle cubs were grouped with us. Those who were ready could start the hike. A 5km hike was pretty tiring but exciting. My six and I came across 2 monkeys up close when we were taking a short break. Luckily, no one disturbed the monkeys and we left w...

Scout Meeting (Ang Pow Rabbits) 12 February 2011 By Scribe Jeremy Tan Today was no ordinary scout meeting. “Why?” you might ask. Today , the cub recruits joined their Sixes and the Pack learnt to fold “ang pows” or red packets into rabbits. This Lunar New Year is the Year of the Rabbit, one of the 12 zodiac animals in the lunar calendar. After the colour party, the cub recruits were assigned to their Sixes. Their faces were beaming with joy as now they belong to a pack and are ever eager to learn to “hunt” under their pack leader. For EMU, Yip Tze Ray, Daniel Chua and Traven Lim were assigned to Emu . The challenge then begun. Senior Sixers, Sixers and Assistant Sixers were taught by Aunty Janny and Mdm Kerina to fold “ang pow” packets into rabbits. It was hard stuff and required steady fingers and patience. After a few rounds, it got easier and my creation begun to look like a rabbit. My Rabbit….   Next, we had to introduce ourselves to the cub recruits and teach our ...

Lantern Making, 29th January 2011 by Scribe Brenda Wang The day started with the blowing of whistles and horseshoe, our usual ritual that marked the start of yet another scout meeting. After assembling in Indian file, we were told the good news: The water badges were finally here. We were given our badges one by one, each marveling at the beauty of each badge that we received. The blue badge with red wordings would fit perfectly to each of our collection of proficiency badges. Soon after, we were taught to make some beautiful lanterns made using red packets to decorate our home in time for Chinese New Year. Each of us had to make an individual lantern and each six would have to make a group lantern together. Each six had 3 individual lantern manuals to share around. Off to the six’s corners we went, with our scissors, stapler and ang paos, engrossed in the making of our individual lantern, all hoping to win and earn the group some points. Some made unique lanterns discovered by...