Memoirs of a Sea Scout: Entry 019

The camp is just around the corner and there are still so many tasks to complete. We're working more hours a day, sacrificing our sleep and we look like zombies now. We work ourselves silly to the extend using a mobstick to prod us won't be enough to wake us up. Come to think of it, I believe even an earthquake is incapable of waking us from our slumber.

The 1969 Scout Soap Box Derby Report

Here's the highly anticipated report of the historic first Scout Car Grand Prix back in 1969 - the Scout Soap Box Derby at the City Stadium - as reported in the Scouting Herald of Penang Free School 1969, Volume 1 No. 3. This is part of a series of articles to debunk claims that the pedal car race organised by the Penang Turf Club in August 2007 is the first ever pedal car racing in Malaysia as claimed by them and rubber-stamped by the Malaysian Book of Records. Let's now relive what happened on that historic day.