I'm here for two things : 

1. SUBSCRIBE / FOLLOW THIS BLOG! 

2. VISIT OUR MAIN WEBPAGE. (just click and you'll be redirected) 

and, anyone willing to sponsor your old computer, or computer table to us?
we urgently need them! 

our current computer is too old to function.
and our current computer table is dying too. 

sooo, since the New Years are coming,
I'm sure some of you are going to throw out things, right? 

so so so,
if you're planning to throw out your old computer / table,

please donate them to us, okaaaaay? 

as long as it's working, we'll accept it! 

andddd since school is starting,
remember to patch up your scout uniforms. 

make sure your badges are correct and the measurements are correct,
or if you've gotten fatter,
get one that fits you. 

some goes to those who lost weight (: 
or those who grew taller. 

well, you get the idea. 

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remember to follow this blog & visit the main webpage!

yours in scouting,
melinda

Warm up your scouting!!!

Yea the year is ending and all of us are gonna get back to scouting,so now let's all just recall what we have learnt like our knots,SKILLS other stuff you should remember yourslf.I have a great feeling somethings good gonna happen next year so BE PREPARED!!

Science in Scouting: OMG! My parang sucks!!

Sigh... sooner or later, you have to sharpen that tool. But then again, why must we sharpen in? Well, the reason are obvious right? A blunt machete won't be good for cutting.

There are quite a number of factors that cause the machete to go blunt, like how frequent you use it and how often do you maintain it. A machete should be treated like your own child, with care and love. Awh... but instead of rubbing it with baby oil, coat it with oil other than baby oil, maybe cooking oil?? It's just to protect it from rusting. Rust makes it fragile, which is a big no-no. I'm not sure whether baby oil works, but anyway, the oil just prevents water vapour and oxygen from turning the cool-looking and shiny metal into horrible-looking orange-reddish colour metal.

Another reason why you don't want your parang sitting at the back of the QM Room to rust is because getting cut by a rusty metal could infect you with the deadly Tetanus disease.

Ok, I know I suck at drawing. This is the best I can do to demonstrate how does the edge of the parang look like when it is sharp and blunt.

Let's insert some science into this. Here's a formula, Pressure=Force/Area. When you want to cut something, you want the edge of the parang to be as sharp as possible, right? When it is sharp, the area of contact between the parang and the object-to-be-cut is small. And from the formula, as the size of the area decreases, the pressure increases. That way, you will exert lots of pressure, just enough to slice something.

But imagine if it is blunt. The parang was abused and unloved for many years. When it is blunt, the area of contact increases, decreasing the pressure exerted on the object. That's why sometimes it's hard to cut something with a blunt cutting tool.

This knowledge can be twisted around so you could apply it in muddy swamps. If you were to be jungle hiking, in a swampy area, and your shoes are always sinking into the mud, you need to decrease the pressure exerted by your shoe on the mud. Obviously, the force cannot be changed, because you can't change your body weight. But you can change the area of the sole of your shoe. Just stick a large piece of cardboard under your shoe, and you shouldn't sink that easily. Ok, this is out of the topic already...

So, the next time Sir says "You! Go sharpen that parang, NOW!", he is right! It may mean dinner for tonight, or push ups until your arms break.

HELLO

I added the 'follow' blog widget!
please, please click on that and follow this blog if you're a scout!

cuz' this will make sure whatever that's up here
will be read by you!

in other words,
follow this blog and you'll always be updated!

so please for goodness sake,

FOLLOW THIS BLOG.

yes, I need to emphasize!

but anyway,

guess what ?

I got the scout website up and running again!

hahahahhaha.

so click click!

www.boxingkangaroo.tk
(yes, its the same as the old URL)

don't forget to sign up and be a member of the site!
anddddd,
join the forum ok ok ok?!

I already started a few crappy topics to talk about,
(stupid ones, in fact)

soooo,
get your bollock over there!

that's all !

yours in scouting,
melinda.

Science in Scouting: Fire!!

It's HOT!!

It's Bright!!

It provides us light!

It's........ FIRE! It's almost impossible to separate fire from camp. It's like a tradition to have a campfire during a camp, no? Be it a big one, or a small one, a campfire is always a marvelous light show.

As we all know, there's this thing called the fire triangle, which just states 3 most important things needed to sustain fire. Come on, you can name them right? Oxygen, Fuel and Heat. Take any of these babies out and your fire will no longer be one.

Anyway, let's say you're trying to start a small fire to barbecue some of your OH-SO-DELICIOUS chicken wings. The first thing you might want to look for out in the jungle are some dry twigs and branches as the fuel for your fire. Then, all you need to do is just pile it up and give it some heat (maybe by friction or from matches/lighters) and BAM! There's your fire!

What's really happening behind the scene is this: A fire starts when there is enough supply of oxygen and given enough amount of heat and is able to sustain its own chain reaction, that is, it must keep producing enough heat to keep burning its fuel and oxygen. The oxygen here acts as the oxidizing agent.

So, I shall stop here for now. Keep those fires burning!!
-Bee Lee

sat camp equip cleaning

So camp just ended well not really just ...... Sat the 6 of dec we had cleaning not alot of ppl turn out so there were more work for the 1 who turn out let me try to list them out

yew leung , poh yee, shannen , sze ting , li ching, kean ping , gabriel , wei yao ,sheng khai, jian han ,yen lin , kerwiin(me) haha sorry for those who names are not mention but u came . It was actually quite fun haha we got wet as usuall haha...... sorry that i didnt update blog ...... yeah im the junior it head and gabriel is my assistant but he done alot more than me i think so yeah thats yall ....

say hello!

so I'm here again !

I'm actually struggling to keep this blog as alive as possible!

but anyways,
I need to REMIND you all that this blog layout was NOT designed by me.

in other words,
I was bored,
so I hit the google button and started searching.

it was supposed to be for my own use,
but then I decided to use it for scouts anyway.

and also,
I know I'm a big fat failure,

but the Scout Website has been deleted because the whole thing was pissing me off.

I'm working on a network instead!

but no promises,
it might and might NOT work out (:

yours in scouting,
melinda.