Longest break

Its been almost a month or more , that i've gone to group.

Happy gandhi jayanthi and Lal Bahaddur Shastri Jayanthi

We all remember the nations greatest freedom fighter , We all celebrate it with high vigour .

BUT

The nation is not made by A or The single person , we have easily forgotten many freedom fighters like Bose , Bhagat , Chandrashekar . It maybe the ;ack of part of nation to recognise or our lack of interest due to lack of a "NATIONAL HOLIDAY " , Which integrates or Whatever , Its also the birthday of Lal Bahaddur Shastriji     ex prime minister and Freedom fighter of India . Lets also remember him with the Mahatma .

guess who

to sum up this is the RAFTING we did last month

logo suggestion for Karnataka 24th jamborete

JOTA JOTI APR region 2010

Yup ; this year was a bit different as it was JOTI all in the jamboree . was good to chat with lots of scouts across APR.

This years participants were : Madhu ;Sharath ; Abhi ; Vivek .

Though couldnt figure out how exactly JOTI works .

Its a bit different as JOTA is all about maintaining log and finding the right direction for the conversation . achieving longer range , better quality etc . . .

We will be participating in the JOTA JOTI world oct 16-17 . a new game is on it called vuvuzela codes . . would be fun . to participate .

to know more about participation follow link

http://scout.org/en/information_events/events/jota/all_about_jota_and_how_to_join_in

Participate in it to recieve a badge this time . . .

White water rafting at dubare forest range

White water rafting is planned for this saturday  in dubare forest range .

                           Co ordinated by Madhu and Sharath .

Rafting costs will be 500 Rs . plus travelling extra .

will leave from group at 5am . have to travel 270km to reach the spot .

You knoe what to bring .

to confirm your participation rsvp in facebook before thursday .

happy rafting

jambooree song

Camp in rain

Last time we camped in a pouring rain was egjactly 9 years back in doddaballapur . pouring rain leaky tent frightened scout mates . . . was fun .

                                        this time it was a little different we had paid 10 times more for this camp . state of the art tents under a shed . . . was no fun
                               

                                       though we tried to do a scouting camp . we just couldnt . was too much luxury . but we did some river swiming . a failed effort to catch fish , where sharath tired to use sathya as bait . did a leeachy trek . it actually feels good to see our blood when it doesnt pain . one leech had the oppurtunity to travel with me till home . one sucked out sharath's wits out. was good over all. sad that couldnt doo rafting . after all coulnt ask more off "us" .

                                      willing to go on an other camp  . . .

Camp at gajnoor

to start with gajnoor is a small town in shivamogga .

 it has a very scenic location a dam ,and a small village .

participation for rovers and rangers and expats .

we'll be leaving to camp from bangalore on friday after 2200 hr . from majestic bus stand .

the camp expenses will be around R 900 including travel.

activities planned are river rafting , visit to elephant camp and a trek , rest are in syn with the scouting ways

things to get are your camp kit . personal medicines and yourself

will be back by monday .

"happy camping "

Trek to Davallappana Gudda

hi guys,
Ashi has planned for a trek to Davallappana Gudda on 10&11 of this month. The place is close to Chitradurga.

Regarding the place, travelling, things to bring etc... will be discussed in the group on coming Sunday(4rd July)

RIVER CAMPING

Guys,

A few years back I visited this lovely little river camp on the banks of the river Bhadra. It is close to Chikkamagaluru and easily accessible by road.All-in-all, great place, great food, and great people! You get to trek through a tiger reserve (if you behave, Peter would take you through secret routes that only a few know of), do some angling in the river, listen to Peter's fascinating stories, or wear your lifejackets and swim from shore to shore. http://www.bhadrarivercamp.com/Home

MY Plan --

I personally plan to spend 2nights here and as you know i am not the one to be in such place without you guys.. Any body willing to join are most welcome.

The Group Plan --

We can have Rover-Ranger moot at this place so you guys decide and we should have it this monthend or early nextmonth.. I suggest Ammu and Vivek take the lead and plan for it

Looking forward to hear from you guys..

Cheers
Madhu

Two sides of a coin

We live in a nation,

·    Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance,  police,
·    Where you get car loan @ 5% and education loan @ 12%,
·    Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but sim card is free,
·    Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,
·    Where the footwear, we wear,   are sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on the footpath,
·    Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,
·    Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavours and dish wash liquids with real lemon.
·    Where people are standing at tea stalls reading an article about child labour from a newspaper and say,"yaar bachhonse kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye" and then they shout "Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao....."

Incredible India

• If Pizza is delivered by car or Tempo traveler then ambulance will reach faster, try to keep the traffic clear and the problem will be sorted.
• A car can be seized if loan is not paid but a student can’t be seized.
• Rice is 40/- kg but sim is free because sim has to be recharged for hundreds of rupees even after taking it for free
• A millionaire can buy a cricket team only to make money but on donating his hard earned money will be a fact
• Refer Reliance, Food World, More, Big Bazzar to see Vegetables in AC Showroom and Visit Jayanagar, Gandhinagar, Gandhi Bazzar to see footwear in foot path.
• Every one cannot follow the path to be famous because if every one does than the person who is not doing that becomes famous.
• U can always buy a lemon, cut it , squeeze it and add a teaspoon of sugar to it with required amount of water.:) the entire process hardly takes two mins and the expenditure will be 3 rs onl,y don’t have artificial flavors and encourage them(company) to do it again.
• A person at a tea stall can only employee a child to ensure the survival of that poor chap, he can’t make him his own son and send to a school saying that chhotu thoo school jaa. (stop population growth and poverty, chotu wont be at t stalls)

INCREDIBLE GUYS IN INDIA

chronicles of cycling

99% of all the school going people would have cycled to school, for whom have not . I'm sorry .


So to tell ;

every body cycled till the hill top ; "plan extended" So cyclers tired










had food

played mara kooti . could spot some professional kooti's there .

did rock climbimg

                          &  rappling

and back home

Planning report of Cycle hike
Final Report of Cycle hike
We had a meeting on 9-05-2010 in the group.We planned for Cycle hike to Thurhalli on 16 may 2010.
we planned the activites,things to bring?,how to go?
Mr.Kiran was the chairman of coh
Participants
1.Basavraj
2.Hitesh
3.Bharath
4.Jayanth
5.Arvind
6.Ravi Teja
7.Manish
8.Rajath
9.Niroop
10.Ravi Kiran
11.Akhil
12.Manjunath
13.Umesh

Topic discussed in the meeting
1.Activities
a.Rappling
b.Rock Climbing
c.Wide game
In charge of the Activities: M.L. Manjunath, Vivek, Sharath

2.Transportation-
Reporting in the group by 10.00 A.M, Starting the Cycle hike at 10.30 A.M.
Route: Krishna rao park>>K.R road>>Bhanshankari (From Bhanshankari travel towards Kanakpura Road 6 kms)take a right at Gublala gate from there travel 1 km we will get a Gublala govt primary school, parking the cycles in the school and from there foot hike to Thurhalli.
Leaving Thurhalli at 4.30 P.M and reaching group by 6.00 P.M
Total 12 Kms(10 km cycle hike and 2 km Foot hike)One way

3.Things to bring-
Water,Energy Bosters, P Cap, First aid kit, Packed lunch, Puncher kit.

Who won ?

We played bowling "Championship " . Some people got a wild card entry . People were speculative of  the        " Persons " win .

Again it was no sport , but compitetion was good . The strikes dashed hopes of all . Its really good to watch a Ball duped , of others  . . Good ones WON .

Nxt championship is mostly Badminton . Gear up to beat the "Person" again .

Cheif Scout UK

He is a part in every ones wildest imagination .

 Now every knows what to tell , if asked " What do you do in scouting ?"

Ever wondered

When I joined scouting in BHSS; scouting to us was little different . we learnt Camping , Pioneering , Mapping and many more . It was about personlity building ; and we built it .

New things have come in now , we can do Bowling , Sea diving , Parasailing  . . . .

If you have been in the Scouting movement in India for long enough ; you know it is hard to incorporate all those New things in movement .

But ; new is fun ; new is entertaining  .

So we are incorporating the Scouting in the New . And so there is a Mafeking Bowling championship going on .

Last time , we played bowling at the Mafeking bowling championship , all the Ado about the bowling came true .

All the time i was playing i noticed  how the bowling balls can go soo straigh , no matter who bowls . This makes it a more of entertainment than sports

Many played , but
Five probables are choosen ; according to scores they are 

1. The first time lucky
2. The midpitch alley breaker
3. The old-timer lost touch
4. The matash leg and 
5. The leftee

Waiting for the finals . Let the lucky person win .

Happy bowling

trek to kumaraparvatha

started from bangalore in mangalore express ; general compartment

 reached kukke gate at 6

started trek at 8

treked for 6.8 kms  to giri gadde or bhattara mane

took rest . had food and played a wide game

did the camp fire .

slept at bhattara mane 
started to trek to pushpagiri

reached pushpagiri after a 7 km trek . felt esctatic . mafeking all the way !!!!

and by the way boys are with Mr MAFEKING

Planning report of kumaraparvatha trek

  

we had final plannin meetin in our group at 5.40 on 17.03.10

we planned the activites,things to bring?,how to go?

Mr madhusudhan  was the chairman of coh        

we have planned for different type of trek.we have total 12 participants and they were divided into 3 groups.

group 1

1.ravi kiran

2.vivek

3.abhi

4.sathya

group 2

1.kishore

2.rajat

3.ashi

4.sandeep

group 3

1.ravi theja

2.sharath

3.gautham

4.Mr ananth

topic discussed in the meetin 

1.theme-

clean kumarapravatha

2.transportation-

 each group should arrange their own transportation.they are given the freedom to come by bus,train etc etc but they have to report to Mr madhu  infront of the gapathi temple with in one hour of train arrival 

3.things to bring-

each rover has to get their own water bottle,4 bandaids,4 lemons,1 pair of uniform,light beddin,torch,glucose

each group should have to one compass,staff

4.trek route and details

we are startin the trek from the ganapathi temple around 8.30 am.by evenin 4 we are plannin to reach bhat's house.we will be having camp fire in the night.next day morning we have to reach the sunrise point before the sun rise.the sun rise point is about 5kms from bhat's place.by 11 am we are reaching back to bhat's place,after lunch we are going to trek back to subramanya swamy temple.we end our trek after the dinner in the temple around 8pm. 

5.regarging camp fire-

each group has to give a 3 minite activity.

each individual has to give mim of one activity

activity mush be based on scouting for boys or rovering to sucees

6.registration-

  group is charging 240rs per head which includes registration,food charges

 this is a rover moot

      co ordinator

   -- sharath banadakoppa narahari 

Adventures of a video making competation

A video had to be submitted for the compitation . Three months ahead . I tought of assisting a group of guides to make that video . We tought of putting up a good movie with the best of the sounds a motion picture and theme to reflect the birth of guiding and its sucess in India . Collected some ancient artifacts and photoes to reflect the movement's history . The intial idea was to make a guide speak through the history with all those photoes and a background score , she talking through the crystal palace rally and through the guiding she had been through . Isnt that idea "great " . Not soo much coz that didnt happen , there was a pretty good appreciation fpr what happened , and pretty good observation as in comments for the video . Today the video has won some compitation but it still is incomplete for me . I'm waiting for another compitation , and have learned a good lesson . Planning is good but Execution is the best thing that you can do . donot wait for tomorrow coz tommorow only comes when its too late .

take a look at the video :

wagggs centenary video

Photo challenge - only 500 days left. It's time to get the creativity flowing!

On Sunday, March 14th, it is exactly 500 days left to the next mind-boggling World Scout Jamboree. In order to celebrate, we hereby create a small photo challenge:

Take a picture of yourself, alone or together with some of your fellow scouts.... The picture should contain something that indicates there's only 500 days left to the Jamboree. Feel free to take your photo in any location, but we would think it is extra nice if you could take at an interesting place in your own hometown.

When you are done, upload the picture to the Jamboree's fan page wall on Facebook, together with a note indicating where the picture was taken.

We would also be happy if you can send the picture by e-mail to post@jamboree2011.posterous.com as well.
By doing so, it will be published on the countdown picture blog http://jamboree2011.posterous.com/ within 12 hours.

Have a great weekend, and see you in Sweden 2011!

My TREK to the HEAVENS

The experience of romancing clouds, the beauty of the scenic curvy , the leech den, the thick forests, the lovely fluttering grasses under the blowing winds, the silent ranges of virgin mountains and many more... can be touched in the Kumara Parvatha trek. Kumara Parvatha is range of mountains starts in Kukke Subramanya, a small religious/spiritual town in Karnataka where the lord of Snakes -- Lord Subramanya abodes (Karthikeya, Murugan etc.with many names). This mountain originates from the mighty Western Ghats and extends to costal Karnataka and Kerala. People speak the local language Kannada and dialect Tulu. Kumara Parvatha is the 2nd highest peak in Karnataka with an altitude of around 5000 feet above sea level. This is one of the treks filled with stress & adventure ever had.

A superb guide had led us to the himalayas . back from the peaks of manali . i was longing to go to another trek . Just to discover this splendid peak to the kumaraparvatha . three teenage boys ,ME my BROTHER  and his crazy friend from UPPINANGADI finished the trek of the life time the in monsoon of 2004 . Cant be going this time . Best of luck for this time trekkers. Make it memorable and ,  waiting for a better trek blog .   .   .   

Activity

A complaint , a story , a gossip had been prevailed over the groups activity for a past few days .

What we really need is
A creative activity that could be a  learning process where a pupil and children are located in the same individual

some thing like the ones in this web site  
http://www.inquiry.net/


more ideas are appreciated .

MAFEKING GROUP

Many came many went one thing stands above all - MAFEKING SCOUT GROUP

a DECADE OF SCOUTING 

Scouting and Guiding community

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music … and what it is to work with love ??? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear it “

                                                                                                  -Kahlil Gibran,The Prophet

              Now that is the relationship of a scout/guide with the community.A scout is one who has the thought “How can I help?” rather than “What is in for me??”

              We have a unifying promise and law which is kept up by every scout and guide.It goes a long way in the personality development of an individual.Scouting nurtures and moulds a person to be independent , responsible, society minded and finally a human being.It makes a person live rather than just exist.I think this very thought would not make any of them selfish and the very joy of giving begins.This would wipe out the tears and miseries on innocent faces. A scout / guide is a gift to the community.

              A scout is so energetic and enthusiastic and eager to learn new things, to do new innovative things, this adds to the success of the task in hand. When he is working in a firm this would really help. Laziness is man’s biggest enemy, but defying laziness not deferring any task, planning and execution of the right activities at the right time… contributes a great deal towards nation building. If only we all had the scouting values, we would not be rated as one of the few most corrupt countries of the world!!!

              Apart from improving himself,a scout puts his heart and soul in making the best for the others ,shows concern for all the communities through brotherhood and friendship .He does a good turn daily. There are numerous activities such as campaigns.haesth camps, rallies etc in which he takes part and conveys the best messages to the society.It could be about going green , keeping the city and surroundings clean,AIDS awareness,polio drops administration , prevention of certain endemic diseases like dengue, chickengunia etc or even anti tobacco rallies, everywhere you would find scouts and guides.That spirit of live and let live prevails over every scout .

              “Leave this world a better place than you found it “ –Lord Baden Powel…. these few words are greatly acknowledged by all scouts. Wherever they go they would make a difference from the band wagon .It could be a little thing as using the dust bins or saying sorry/thanks to an extent of sacrificing his most prized possession .A scout would willingly help anybody.He is very reasonable and an aspirant for peace ,so there would be minimal number of disputes.

              Scouting brings out the unique talents of each individual. It opens the doors of opportunity in all fields.IOt thus exposes a community’s talents and help them rise greater heights .

              Lastly , my deepest desire would be that all of us should imbibe scouting values then the world would definitely  be a better place to live in .As scouts/ guides we promise to commit ourselves to play an active role in creating a better world irrespective of our origin,religion , culture or gender .We promise to leave it better for our successors.

- AKHILA