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Friday, March 21, 2008

Parade Meeting - 16th March 2008

As usual, today the Boys falled in at 1.30pm, and went into the classrooms. The Basel church members came to have a discussion with the BB and GB regarding the recruitment issue. It seems that the new students are not willing to attend the Sunday parade meetings and our Captain had issued this problem. Finally, the meeting was held. The BB and GB captains and senior NCO's with Young Leaders were told to attend the meeting.

Ms Yap Pak Shun, and Mr Moo Fah Lin, who are ex-principals of SM Sung Siew also attended the meeting. Both of them are awesome leaders. They managed to tell us the actual school policy, especially the co-curricular marking scheme which we were not clear with. We were able to sort things out properly.

They found that the students are often told the wrong information. Take for example, Sergeant Kevin Wong kept giving informations and was not able the tell the information source. This makes the matter even confusing. Sergeant Kevin made another mistake by mentioning the word "gangster". He actually meant "naughty boys" in the BB meetings at school, and used the wrong word.

Mr Moo reminded him to be careful when it comes to the usage of terms as the wrongful usage may eventually hurt other people's feeling. In the whole meeting, Mr Moo said that the BB and GB Body lack communication with the school's teacher advisers and therefore miscommunication often occur. He encouraged the members to show a good example to the new students so that they will be more interested to join the meeting on Sunday. Sir Alex was efficient enough to plan the recruitment programmes on the spot~!

Next, the boys were asked to practice their drills. Corporal Siah Boon Kiat was the commander. He is going to lead a number of 12 boys in the PESTA Drill Competition. We didn't really do well in our practice, and Sir Andrew asked us to do push-ups. He introduced a new system in which whenever a commander punishes the members, he himself has to be punished too. Therefore, he did push-ups with the boys. I believe this is a very good method to train the boys to be have the spirit to drill well as the commander himself is showing a good example.



After that, the Boys and Girls gathered in the badminton court in Wisma Basel. We had our very first praise and worship session of the year, and this is also the first time we are having it using live band. Our new chaplain, Rev James Wong who had just been transferred from Tawau gave the members an exciting talk on faith. He mentioned that faith is required in each and every one of us in order to succeed in whatever we do. God will only love and care for those who are faithful, and that's why we should to have faith in everything we do!




Talking about chaplain reminds us of Pastor Ngui, who has been transferred to Tawau. We miss her very much and hope that we can see her again. We wish her all the best~~

After the session, the BB captain made an announcement saying that the due date for those who still wants to join the PESTA is next week. Entries after next week are not going to be accepted. For the GB, the captain announced that next week is Easter Sunday and the girls do not need to come for meeting in their uniforms, they come in their GB T-shirts.

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