SYF ended with a high note and with a boom!

Anyway, Saturday was really a hectic and tiring day for me and some of my buddies. Let's see the schedule that I went through...

0900 hrs - Unit Meeting at White Stag Scout Unit
1400 hrs - Macaw's dance competition (I felt so cheated to go there. The distance plus the drinks and the tiredness ...)
1900 hrs - Red Fox Campfire
2300 hrs - PLTC 08' Committee Meeting (I was just an observer and assisting Ms J. in her minutes and waiting for that Wombat!!)
0030 hrs - Cin's long over birthday party.

Soon, it will be back to schooling and my personal life again. I felt that there are lots of unsettled stuff yet to settle as well as unsolved.

Well, seeing all my mei mei being happy has been a satisfying sight early this morning. It was really a sight that I have yet to see for a long long time. Well, soon I hope to see all my jie jie being happy too.

Life is full of changes as well as improvement. A learners attitude - by Wolf. I have to agree that if not for those words, that he told me before I took up the position as a District Secretary... I wouldn't have survive so long. I would have given up and just move on. However, being an egoistic and proud person. I must finish what I had been tasked to do before letting it go.

Soon, I may have to let go of some responsibilities in my life. This is so to take on new and heavier responsibilities. I do have to agree to some points that Wombat and R.Bat pointed out yesterday. I can't be too selfish at times, if it's for the unit and for the moving and advancement of the unit, what has to be done... must be done. Yet, I have that unsettling feeling.

I'm glad that SandS Rover Crew had made some changes over time and is moving onto a new direction. Like what Wolf mentioned, it isn't about training excellent and outstanding leaders. It's more to guiding leaders to the right path as well as to allow them to learn and to do their best. To be a leader of leaders, it ain't easy nor is it very difficult. I aim to be one... to train and to guide. To pay it forward.

Loyalty in the unit? If one scout were to be loyal to the unit, whenever and wherever the scout goes, it will always bring his thoughts, his words and deed back to glorified the unit that taught him and brought him up to the man he is. Despite being in different units at certain point in my Scouting life (such as in SandS Rover Crew), my thoughts and words and deeds are always reflecting White Stag Scout Unit.

Why must a Scout master worry about the scout losing loyalty to the unit? Is it a sign of lack of confidence and trust in the scout you taught? Isn't seeing your scout growing to be a better person as well as to teach others the value that was taught to him, a sign of success? Shouldn't a leader be proud of that fact?

My stand in whatever there is in scouting, as long as the scout from my unit or that I had taught once, go out there and be a better person, a leader and a brother... my job is done. I understand the need to practice true blue scouting at certain point of time. That's where tradition and modernisation clashes. The trickery to allowing tradition to stay yet making it as modern as possible for the new generation of kids, is a problem for most leaders.

Why so? We can't keep staying at a certain spot and wade around it forever... progressive steps have to be taken so as to improve and to attract the newer generations of kids. We can't expect the kids to poof and say, "Scouting looks interesting as compared to the other uniform groups?"

When I was in Scouting, I was laughed at by fellow peers when my unit was the Guard-of-Honour contingent for the National Day Parade in the school. When other uniform groups marched with rifles and their No. 1 uniform... we marched with white gloves and our normal uniform. We were jeered at before and laughed when they asked what items we will be carrying along to march out. Nevertheless, we prove to them that we are as good or even better than the other uniform groups.

So if we are going to stay as how we are now in Scouting, kids will lost interest. With the government moving towards entrepreneurship and arts culture and sports... uniform groups are deem less important... after all, it's peace time. We do not have to train young soldiers and man or woman to fight for the nation until required by law in the National Service.

Whatever it is, Scouting in Singapore have to reach it's next milestone. To be a brand name as well as a household name. Each scout would be able to walk down the street with pride and honour and declare that he or she is a scout, without people jeering or bad-mouthing them, but praising and honouring them. That scenario in Thailand as police officers escorted the scouts and the way the people of the nation greeted and honour the scouts, was an unforgettable one.

I can't seem to shake of that feeling... I still do like her but I need to kill that feeling fast. I do not want to spoilt another's happiness. Maybe I just need to kill my emotions again to prevent such matters from happening again. I'll be able to do it!

To the SYF peeps, thank you for the fun time and hope that you guys and girls learn something from this experience! Seek and you shall find!