24 October
As I promised, I will upload some photos I took. But let me tell you guys about the AKELA award ceremony. Akela is the HIGHEST and BIGGEST award in cub scouts. They must accomplised several requirements before they could get the award. To be frank, as a cub scout during primary 3 to 6, I did not get the Akela award T_T. So today is the BIG day for some cub scouts. I reached the scout HQ around 8.30 am and I met Joshua, my senior. W ewent up together and we saw Sir Desmond and Sir Kiat. Gader was somehow behind us. We helped out all the Sir and Madam there like assemble stuffs, sorting out the Akela Cert etc. Then several cub scouts(underaged to get Akela) came to helped us. More and more people arrived and we were asked to be the traffic ushers. One of the Sir asked us to helped him shift the chairs up to the hall as there were not enough chairs so me and Gader went to helped out with several other unknown scout members. We settled down and we were swatting*phew*, I brought the young cub scouts whom helped us to the scout shop to buy some beverages. Then we settled down for the Akela ceremony. Sir Desmond said he was touched as during the videos or the song, everyone was so FOCUSED in it. Here are some of the pics I took during the ceremony:
Sir Kiat, the technical guy there, he control the slide shows and videos there...
Sir Desmond, the "DJ' there. He controls the loudness of the microphone...
This is the Akela Cert...
The shy Gader looking at the floor and the 3 cub scouts whom helped us...
One of the 2 MC. He also got the Akela but it is the highest ranking of Akela, Akela gold with Honest...
This is my "pass card"...
He is one of my colleagues. Arif, got a Akela with merit...
Arif taking his Aklea medal, Cert and his Akela badge...
After everything, we had buffet. We had to pack everything back and we chit-chat. Sir Desmond passed my Scout Standard and he bought me and Gader the Scout Standard badge and he also bought me the silver swimmer badge. COOL !!! Thank you, Sir Desmond. Sitr Kiat also said that he will test my advanced scout standard and he supported me the idea to organise a trip, Yeah!!!
Today is the best Scout ceremony EVER...
