Introduction

Project Orion III - Rovering with Turtles is the 5th Scouts of the World Award (SWA) Voluntary Service Project of the SWA Singapore Base.

The 3rd instalment of this project will be led by 9 Singapore Rovers. They will return to Setiu
, a main district in Terengganu, Malaysia where previous instalments of Project Orion were featured.

The primary aim of this project would be the conservation of sea turtles. In addition, the team of 9 will also be involved in Mangrove Replanting, Repair Work for the Village and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature - Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) who has an Information Centre at Seitu, as well as educating the youths about Conversation efforts and the English Language from the 16th to 30th June 2011. The team will also take charge of the construction and installations of signboards at hatchery and mangrove reforestation sites.

Sunday 26 June 2011

Day 11 - 26 June

The brown paint has finally arrived today!
Thus, we continued painting the Pink House right after lunch while grooving to the music from Abang Jackson’s iphone.



The highlight of today’s programme was the BBQ night. In the evening while we were still painting, the villagers came down to the Pink House to start preparing for the main event, and bringing along coconuts for us to drink. At the same time, Hamida, Jason and Jian Hui came back from Caltex with the following items – childhood tibits!




While waiting for the BBQ to start, we played with the toy found in the tibits and reminisced about our childhood under the coconut tree outside the Pink House.
The sun has finally set and it was time to party!
All the kids were hyped up, and were especially excited over getting the lightsticks.
On the other hand, the adults were busy preparing the food and drinks. The coconut drink with vanilla ice-cream was simply heavenly. It was soothing on the throat and complemented well with the barbequed food. For main course, we had mee siam goreng (fried vermicelli), barbequed ayam (chicken) in satay marinated sauce and different kinds of ikan (fish).



Ailif was kind of like the centre of attention as most of us were desperately trying to cajole him into returning to his normal self. All of us heaved a sigh of relief when he started his sgnism (pranks and antics) once again.



We had fun taking a lot of pictures with the villagers and WWF staffs in different poses; Hamida’s pose and Tira’s pose to name a few.


Hamida's Pose!

Tira's Pose!
Abang Bi's Pose! (Rocker) :D
It was definitely an eventful night, especially for our Team Leader, who broke his pants while playing with the kids and conveniently used Asyraf to cover up the lobang (hole) in his pants!



The BBQ was a true display of the kampung spirit where everyone just gather together to eat and catch up with one another or simply to relax and enjoy each other’s company for the night. It was definitely a fun-filled night with plenty of laughter from the kids and the team. And I am sure all of us from the team will forever have this memory deeply etched in our hearts for a long long time to come.
Cheers!