Hi juniors. :)

if you had actually read this jiewei's post sometime ago, i'm one old girl from her batch too. graduated in 2003, joined guides in 2000 (yes you must be thinking OMG I WAS ONLY IN PRI x then!) and was screaming my way through guiding for 4 whole years.

actually i don't know why huilin invited us to this blog, it took me awhile to accept the invitation cos i've been so detached from guiding for 3-4 years, i can't really remember how the guiding days were like. then i saw the pictures on this blog at the side, all the e-shelters, the stupid pioneering, time spent in the classroom passing clauses, travelling to bishan to the HQ to buy badges and walking the very muddy path (i hope it's no longer muddy), going to campfires on Saturday nights, singing campfire songs, screaming at my girls during the drill sessions (haaa..i was the drill mistress lor if not why scream 4 years) and calling my guides the BOUNCING GUIDES cos their drills were really bad they looked like they were bouncing from far.

really miss the days when we had to pack up for camp. bathed in 5 minutes, sharing one water hose in one pathetic toilet with 10 over guides. the fun of wearing full-u black boots, the very mafan scarf, always not easy to have a perfect knot, the polishing of the trefoil and whistle.

and yes, i miss blowing the whistle and shout "FALL IN!!!! WALK SOMEMORE!" ask huilin and her seniors, they'll probably remember me as the one who kept screaming at them during drill sessions.

i hope yall haf fun in guiding. i'm going to say something really cliche and sound like an old hag:

treasure your guiding days while you can, the days cannot be relived once you graduate from BPGHS. you will never get to wear your blue uniform officially again, you won't find the need to polish those badges, and there won't be new Thinking Day badge for you the next year after you graduate. so cherish all the times you have with your fellow guides now.

have fun while you are still wearing the blue skirt :)


regards,
seok ying
bpghs guides - the fierce one who graduated in 2004.