Office Bearers of Adventure Quest Committee 2005-2006
Officers-in-charge : LTA Poh Seng Kiat
OCT Oi Tze Liang
2LT Yeo Chin Cher
Advisors : VAL Ronald Loh
Team Captain : SSG Lau Song Leng (OIC)
Vice-Captain : SSG Ang Chuan Hwen, Jeremy (2IC)
Quartermaster : SSG Tan Juan Jie
Biking Instructor : SGT Wu Xiao Yu
Kayaking Instructor: SSG Wong Kwan Kin Alwyn
Welfare IC : SGT Chan Keng Guan
SGT Siow Zhi Ping
Budget Proposal IC: SGT Tan Kah Kee
Awaiting the Officer Bearers of '07.
Several of the people here will be replaced, others would be promoted.
Boys'Brigade14th 2:13 AM
Above: AQ Team 2004. The other year we got 4th. Mr. Yeo right there.
TRIBUTE TO MR. YEO
Mr. Yeo is alive and well.
This post is to thank him from the Team Captain's point of view and the help he has given us over the years for Adventure Quest.
It would not just be about AQ, but also my own...well experiences with him.
Mr. Yeo was a former Boy from our company, this everyone should know. He graduated in 1996 as a Sergeant (Mr. Chen Hong Ming told me this. If it isn't accurate, I'll hunt him down in school) and came back as a Senior. He reached the rank of Warrant Officer and after his Army, came back and was responsible for training up the 18th intake of 14th's recruits in 2003. That means us, the Secondary Fours this year.
The Sec 4s have great respect for him, because he was the one who saw us through our months of recruit training, and was there during our recruit hike, Expedition.
He is an excellent drill instructor and very outdoor.
Under him (and Cliff), the recruits' drill was better than the company. Something I think no other batch of Boys can ever claim to have done.
The company's drill was lousy, yes, but then again, we were good.
For AQ, he and the officers tried to form a team and he has been helping us organise Mock Races since last year. And he has also helped in his own way from his trove of experiences.
He has been to 10 Recruit Hikes and many many Passing Out Parades.
He is one of the Officers who have a great impact on the coy and on the Boys. I think most of the Sec 4s would have felt most of that impact.
He was strict back then. Very strict.
There were many stories in which he was the bad guy.
This is one of the stories I heard about him when I was Sec One during my COmpany Annual Camp. The Secondary Fours should remember.
Our seniors were having a camp in one year. This story was recounted by Cliff. So maybe it happened a very long time ago.
The Boys were having lessons in one of the class room. During the lesson, one senior stupidly wrote on a desk:"BB was here". Naturally, Mr. Yeo spotted it and made the seniors come back, carry ALL the tables in that classroom and shift them all to the Old Parade Square, yes up the slope. He made them clean it without and cloth or anything at all. They only had saliva and their hands.
Were they in Full-U? Can't remember.
But they failed the first time and they carried the desks back to the class rooms and then back to the parade aquare again. They repeated this until Mr. Yeo was satisfied with the desk that was vandalised.
There are more than this instances whereby Mr. Yeo has displayed flashes or the pleasant or unpleasant sides of him. It's a pity that some of us haven't gotten to know him or work with him long enough.
Let's pray that he might change his mind and come back to 14th one day.
The departure of an Officer like Mr. Yeo would have some effect on us, but would not dampen our direction forth.
Leave your tags in this website and maybe tell the Internet COmmunity what he has done for you and us?
Onward, 14th!
Song Leng
Boys'Brigade14th 5:53 AM
Memoirs of a Geennah*
*Geennah: Means child in Hokkien
Many of you think that this is the best team and this is the best chance to win Adventure Quest for the rest of 14th's history. Man, I used to believe that AQ '05 team was the best and irreplaceable and there would never be another team to win the AQ, and that there wouldn't be any more chances.
But I built up a full AQ team from scratch and now the team of '06 is now "the best".
One lesson: No one remains the best for long.
Continually improve and seek enhancement.
This team is good.
The team that won us 4th in 2004 was good too.
The team that was disqualified last year was good too.
I'm confident that next year's team will be shiok too.
Next year's IC would be better.
As time passes, we seek to better the past and break records that people before us set.
And we will.
People like Ming Jun and Jing Han are new blood.
Kah Kee, Joel and Cherng Ru are moving on.
And people like me and Xiao Yu are retreating into the shadows.
There won't be someone who can cycle 100 m faster than a bus to teach you guys how to bunny hop or weave around traffic.
There might not be people like Alwyn and Harold who can run non-stop.Like there wouldn't be people who need the safety vehicle any more.
I can't run another AQ as a planner, leader, member and captain anymore.
We need talented people to balance the outpour of skilled men who spearheaded AQ before.
Don't lose heart because we didn't accomplish what we aimed to.
We accomplished something else.
And got more than just sadness out of this 4 months plus.
We learned that that we can do more than just race and run and kayak, we learned that working as a team can lift us or sink us.
And we learned that success only comes with hard work and nothing is impossible if you just believe.
This time we've got a Gold Honour Roll.
Next year, I want 1st.
Song Leng
Boys'Brigade14th 7:47 AM
Gentlemen.
The race has been over for several days.
Whatever leftover energy, sadness and guilt or any nonsensical and undesired feelings and emotions SHOULD have drained off.
We didn't win.
I don't shirk away from this fact.
I've been working to oppose this curse for more than a year. I haven't succeeded, but I sure do hope that I've brought 14th towards a new direction. Dominance in the Adventure Quest. We're somewhat near.
Next year, there will be a new batch of leaders. People who have been through the agony of reaping nothing from months of hard work. These people feel the drive to push the entire team to greater heights.
I hope I did.
I started planning for BBAQ way back in June. My drive was the pain of having been disqualified and not even moving an inch out of the start point. We were told we were at Top 10 and the next thing we knew, we were told to move to the endpoint. No reason. And all the way into the Bishan Junction 8 endpoint, Boys in blue polo tees continually asked us, are you the first team?
Does having being disqualified and being mocked all the way and made to go under the finishing line feel good?
That's what made me push aside everything and push for AQ.
I did do some disrespectful things over the span of planning and executing AQ out of my hastiness and annoyance at the slow speed things were done-the officers were slow in responding to my plans to execute AQ.
And for personal glory. And to make 14th known.
With that, I also planned to lead the team to victory. And I know my buddies wanted to be in the team to be on the stage receiving the shiny gold-plated trophy, small but weighty to us.
I didn't succeed.
Whether I suck or not, it certainly didn't help.
I am sorry for my inability and helplessness over the situation at Temasek Poly.
In the relay category, one is often helpless and can only rely on faith and trust for the people of his team in another leg to carry through and pass on the baton of victory to him.
Now, I don't think anyone can be more devastated than me, because I was the one to plan and raise up this elite team and put us through the mock race and 15km run(s).
But our hard work isn't in the drain.
It just builds up towards next year.
The leaders of Adventure Quest '07 will carry on my pursuit towards the day and the moment when 14th Singapore Company may claim 1st in all aspects of the entire race.
Believe me, it is possible. We won't be the first to succeed, but neither would we let others repeat their momentary success.
My advice is, get smart. We took a hit. It hit us pretty hard, but we're still standing and even though we've got some teeth bashed outta our mouths, we'll grow new ones and bite those soon-to-be suckers back hard where it hurts and make sure they can't grow new teeth.
Is it too technical?
It means that yes, we've lost.the battle but not the war. We're damaged in spirit. But we'll recover and even if we lose people in the process, replacements will fill in and once we have the strength back at full, we'll fight again.
Let this be the case for next year and the years beyond.
Song Leng
Boys'Brigade14th 7:15 AM
