it's all about the money

just did a job week camp for the scouts over the weekend. First time that i've ever seen a camp for job week. for those who don't know what i'm talking about, job week is when scouts go around Singapore doing jobs to earn money and raise funds for their units and the scout HQ. the objectives of job week are to teach the boys the value of hard work and also to help them realise that money isn't that easy to come by anyway.

so starting off with a target of $36k i.e. $90 per boy per day with 100 boys and 4 days(realistically it was $28k)by the end of the camp, the boys set off on saturday to various parts of the island to earn money. All 4 days were from 9 to 7 so the days were long and tiring, not to mention the hot sun giving them a nice lobster tan. By Sunday, the takings were only 13k. So the leaders talked to the boys and tried to encourage them not to give up and to improve their attitudes. I've never been much of a talker so i just sat down and listened. I think that motivating boys is one thing that i cannot absolutely do. Scold, teach and discipline can but i really suck at motivating. So after that superb talk, the boys came back on monday with 8k and 7k on tusday, thus reaching our realistic target of $28k. Deserving PL's were given the lanyards back and the boys all got to eat ice cream. Altough we averaged about 85 boys over the 4 days, i believe that they did a great job and that they would have reached $32k by the end of the camp. I can only hope that by tomorrow they would have earned another $2k in total to bring the final amount to $30k, just falling short of june ren's $35k 4 years ago.

over the camp, i got to know the teachers better, especially the new ones, and finally got the rover crew started. It's a new unit for our scouts and with our initial numbers of voluntary and volunteered members, we reached the minimum number of 10 rovers and i'll be going for a meeting at the national rover roundtable to present our new unit as the current chairman and representative to the roundtable.

on a side note, i've never seen so many ferrari's in the same spot at the same time.


no1 and no2. first 2 that i see when going to nearby esso to get a drink and a curry puff.


after buying my curry puff and halfway back towards school, i realise i haven't bought the New Paper. I turn around to find ferrari no3. It appeared out of nowhere.


2 days later, when i went to esso again to get a magnum, this red one was spotted. notice that the yellow ferrari is still there. I want to be so rich that i can leave one ferrari to be cleaned and still drive the other one to work.

lovely piece of work, the engine is so nice and neat and also huge, taking up half of the car as you can see in the previous photo.

also, i forgot to take a picture of the Lamborghini Gallardo that was there on the 3rd day of the camp. too many expensive cars around, it had to be parked next to the road.

also, C&C3 is mine soon.... thank you EA for releasing it exactly a month before my exams.