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
