Are You ‘SMS’ Infected?
WARNING!! 150 signs show that you are seriously infected with "SMS - Scout Madness Syndrome" WHEN;
1, You are a member of Kuching City Rover / Scout / Scouter Council.
2, The clerk in the state Headquarter / scout shop / BP Center recognises your voice.
3, The person at the payment counter asks for "Your Card" and you instantly whip out your PPM membership card.
4, 95% of your friends are either Scouts, Girl Guides or former members.
5, You plan almost everything you do because you just want to "Be Prepared"!!
6, You Look at clouds whenever you go out and able to name the type of clouds.
7, You are good at differentiating left and right, thanks to your marching drill.
8, You are crazy about badges / patches and you consider counting your personal collection as your daily chores.
9, You are sensitive to flags and says the flags need to be lowered during rain.
10, You will spring and rise instantly when you hear the national / state anthem playing.
11, Your most memorable time in life is not graduation but receiving the King Scout Award.
12, You love animals.
13, You whistle at all times.
14, You are confused with Scout Law no. 6 whether its "A Scout is a friend to animals" or " A Scout is an animal to friends".
15, You can tie a knot very well and can’t stand rope lying loosely on the ground and will pick it up and whip it nicely.
16, You know what is the difference between a Reef Knot and a Sheet Bend.
17, You carry a Survival kit whenever you go outing. You keep a condom in your survival kit for carrying water rather than safe sex.
18, Your favourite bed time story is taken from "Scouting For Boys".
19, You claimed Lord Baden Powell is your DAD!
21, You have a plague fixed to your car reading "Pesuruhjaya XXXXX".
22, You check out every store selling outdoor gears and scout items and you have all their contacts.
23, When stores selling outdoor gears and Scout items start sending privilages / gold membership cards to you and treated you as their VIP when you visit them.
24, When the term "Shopping" implies buying Scout’s rations and supplies.
25, When driving to Scout Headquarter they reserve a place for you / you have a permanent car park in Scout Headquarter.
26, When you drive to BP Centre, you are no longer required to put parking coupons.
27, You will stand "AT EASE", with left hand holding your three fingers ofyour right hand whenever you STAND.
28, You enjoy "Push Ups".
29, You feel bad after telling a lie for breaking the first Scout Law.
30, You keep Singing and Whistling "I’ve got the BP spirit, right in my head, right in my head…"
31, You like to Steal other people’s Shoes at night, late in the night when everybody is sleeping and there’s no Night Watch!!
32, You clap and applauses "Differently" from other people.
33, You can do many things with Bamboo, A rope and A parang.
34, You like to Sing, Act and Dance.
35, You walk into a Job Interview and say "HELLO AUNTIE! HELLO UNCLE! This week is our Job Week, Do you have any job for us to do?"
36, Your first choice in choosing University course is "Civil Engineers" because you like to build Towers, Bridges and Gates.
37, You will talk to your friends for 3 minutes on how to "Light a fire" giving every details.
38, You are able to give a lecture on how to "Setup a camp" for an 8 hours course.
39, You feel that your life is not complete, if you never been to Jamboree.
40, You see a bunch of students not queueing up, you confronted them for not practising "Patrol System".
41, You have at least One Scout logo on your car.
42, You can tell your colleagues 101 usages of a Scarf (Neckerchief).
43, You always bring a compass in an outing or jungle trekking.
44, You bring a log book with you or at least a "555" cute little booklet just in case you want to write down your observations.
45, Your favourite chat topic is anything to do with Scouts and keep talking about Scouting life and experience ALL THE TIME, i.e. during supper, CNY gathering, lunch hour, in your blog, meeting some old friends, dating, [name you favourie occasions here].
46, You know what is Scout Law No. 11.
47, You carry with you at all times; a Swiss Army Knife or a Leatherman Tool; a small compass; a whistle; two bandaids; a small bit of twine, a poncho; and some gum - and you know how to use them all in ways other than their intended purposes!
48, ALL of your automobiles or tucks have "Scouting names" on them: Your Proton Waja a "Helang"; your Perodua Kembara a "Kelana", the "TT-19" on your car plate refers to your Troop number and they all have Tiger Paw tires.
49, Your favourite color is a combination of Dark Blue and Grey.
50, You arrange your family by using Patrol System.
51, You were arrested by KLIA security because you wouldn’t give up your "Wenger Official World Scout" knife.
52, Smelling a fire makes you long for a camp-out or remind you of camps.
53, After the heavy rain knocks out your power you are happy as a clam cooking for the neighbours with your Camping Gaz stove and a couple of billy cans.
54, The people who just referred others to you, shrug and say "He’s a King Scout" and no further explaination is needed.
55, The Scouts ask you if you were in BP Guild.
56, When in the run of conversations, things get too loud and you raise your hand in the Boy Scout (3 fingers) or Cub Scout (2 fingers) sign…and people shut up!
57, You base your decision on a new vehicle on whether it can carry logs for campfire.
58, Your wife or husband has to give you a "Project" to get you to work around the house.
59, Your "walking stick" is a Scout Stave.
60, In giving directions, you give it using compass direction with bearings and coordinates.
61, Someone asks you the name of a book that you’ve read recently and you blurt out "Impeesa - The Wolf That Never Sleeps" without thinking.
62, You have read these books;
63, When in doing housework, you’re humming or singing Scout Songs….and your children are humming or singing along with you!
64, You put your restless baby to sleep by humming Scout Songs and it WORKS!
65, You know key facilities in town by the closeness to Scouting Meeting Places.
66, Get excited whenever you read the word "Scouting", "Scout", "Campfire", "Girl Guides" and "Camp" in your local newspaper.
67, You save disposobale chopsticks after a meal of Kolo Mee because you want to build a Model of tower, bridges and gates.
68, You barbecue ANYTHING.
69, You throw away your microwave oven and only consume food cooked from fire woods.
70, You make campfire foods at home and serve them to your family to try out new recipes.
71, All your favourite recipes involve Dutch Ovens.
72, You consider foil packs a gourmet meal.
73, You love your uniforms and always iron them over and over again even when you are not wearing them.
74, You have a pair of black leather shoes and Polish it often until it is as bright as a mirror.
75, You wear your scout uniform to bed.
76, Every now and then you will take out your camp fire rope which is full of patches / badges, admire them and put them back in the closet and repeat the process on daily basis.
77, All your pants and socks are dark blue and all your shoes are black.
78, You’ve got a whole cabinet full of scarves gathered from campfires and jamborees you’ve attended.
79, ALL of your T-shirts have Scouting themes or Scouting logos on them.
80, Touching your uniform shirts still give you a tingle.
81, You kept all your Scout uniforms - Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Senior Scout and Rover Scout; including belts, forage caps, socks and scarves; enough to assemble several full sets of Scout uniform.
82, You have a Modern Tent, Sleeping Bag and at least a Rucksack at home.
83, You have the Portrait of Lord Baden Powell as your Mobile Phone wallpaper.
84, When you set this blog / WOSM web site as your default web site in your internet browser.
85, You set your favourite Scouts photos as desktop background in your PC.
86, In your own room, you arrange your matches in campfire style, light them while humming "Campfire’s burning".
87, The most frequent seach words used in your internet browsers registered "Scouts", "Jamboree", "Scouters" and "Rovers".
88, You keep newspaper clipping which have the words mentioned above.
89, You have sent this postcard to all the Scouters you know.
90, You ask for backpacking / jungle trekking / mountain climbing / kayaking trips when you book an overseas tour.
91, You enjoy Walking long distance, really long distance.
92, You dislikes HOTELS and prefer to sleep in a CAMP instead.
93, You are more than willing tp pay BIG MONEY to suffer in the jungle rather to sleep at home in your COSY BED.
94, You would not call it a camping trip when you are not bitten by mosquitoes and leeches and having backwood cooking for your meals.
95, You submit your passport sized photo wearing full Scout uniform when you are interviewing / applying for a job. Better still, you wear your Scout uniform to your job interviews.
96, When filling out an application for a job, in the space asking for ‘References", you place "Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia - Pengakap Raja - 19XX", where XX is the year in which you become a King Scout….and you get hired!!
97, Co-workers ask if you’ve got: - an aspirin, a needle and thread, a safety pin, benadryl…and you always do!
98, A guy in the class is terrified by a very large bug that crawls through his desk and the girl sitting next to him says "[Your name here] will take care of it - She’s a Rover Scout" and you do it …. without killing it or cringing.
99, Your colleagues / friends have long ago stopped asking "where are you going on vacation this year?", because they know the answer is always "I’m going on an Annual Trip with the Scouts."
100, You put up the Scout Sign at a company employee meeting and everyone stops talking. 
101, When any mention of the words "BOY" and "SCOUT" together makes you grin or smile widely.
102, You lose count of the total badges you have in collection.
103, A trip to Gilwell Park is a "PILGRIMAGE".
104, when you refer to datings as outings and your date is either a Guide or a Scout.
105, You and your wife attended an international jamboree for your honeymoon.
106, You celebrate your wedding anniversary / wife’s birthday by going on a camp-out with the Scouts.
107, You plan to serve foil meals at your next dinner party.
108, You go for morning walk with a coffee cup and flashlight hanging from your belt.
109, You have a pair of beads for your Woodbadge or more or about to get one.
110, You raise your hand in the Scout Sign at a heated business meeting.
111, You trade your 25 ft centre console fishing boat in on that great little 15 ft sampan.
112, You can start a fire by rubbing two sticks together.
113, Latrines at camp start becoming comfortable.
114, You have your wife a Sleeping Bag rated for -15 deg F for Valentine day.
115, You name your kids; "Robert", "Stevenson", "Smythe", "Baden" and "Powell".
116, Your favourite tune is "Scout Hymm".
117, You can recite the 10 Scout Laws backwards and in 3 languages, in order, in 10 seconds flat.
118, You bought 10,000 shares of Coleman stock on an inside tip where they were about to release a microwave accessory for their camp stove line.
119, You can’t eat eggs anymore unless they are cooked over open fire.
120, You plan on writing a best selling Dutch Overn Cook book.
121, You has a Master degree in chemistry from a local University to help you to develop a better fire starter.
122, The height of your social season is your Scout Group Annual Campfire.
123, You have already seen this list and are still laughing.
124, People stop you at the market and ask how to join Scouting.
125, You always say: "Its never too late or old to join Scouting".
126, When attending college, you roast mini marshmallows on a paper clip over a candle to make mini mores in your dorm room while singing "This is a Scouting Light of Mine".
127, Somebody points to anyone of the boys in your troop and asks "Is that your kid?", you automatically say "Yes!"… When you use the saying "My boys" yet you only have 1 son…or even better - when you use the saying "My boys" and you don’t have "any" children.
128, You think BP (Boss of Plain) Campaign hats are cool.
129, You never throw out ANYTHING without first thinking "Could the troop use this in some way?"
130, Your son knows all the Scout songs (although he probably wouldn’t admit it to any of his friends…)
131, Your husband / wife / boy friend / girl friend registers as an adult member so he / she can see you now and th en.
132, You can’t remember a relative’s birthday, but you do remember Baden Powell’s.
133, You’ve been copying and pasting this thread into your HTML editor program or posting / linking on your website.
134, The greeting in your answering machine provides details regarding troop upcoming events.
135, All your CDs in your cars are all Scout Songs.
136, When you see an open burning or a lit candle, you start humming "Campfire’s burning" to yourself.
137, You wear 2 beads around your neck while attending your company’s dinner. 
138, You have a mess can, a box of solid fuel, a sleeping bag and a packet of instant noodle packed in your car boot.
139, Marching down the road, you start humming drum beats resemble a March Pass.
140, You declared your own holidays as per Scouting events.
141, You have a replica woodbadge hanging on the rear mirror of your car.
142, Your car windscreen is full of Scout stickers.
143, You have a bumper sticker saying "Never mind the Scouts, Mind the Leaders".
144, You nailed a plate / installed a sign board in front of your house saying "A Scout Lives here".
145, Your kids are expected to do "Morning Inspections" on daily basis.
146, You assemble your family members / kids with the use of Scout’s whisle.
147, Your favourite pass time is to design logos / badges for the next district events.
148, Your family members are terrified when they claimed that you give footdrill commands in your dreams.
149, You read this blog on a regular basis.
150, You finished reading this post, nodding and smiling in agreement.
So are you "SMS-Infected"? Post a comment if you are…
