Den Sweet Den…
It was on a Wednesday morning when I suddenly decided to bring forward my appointment with xiuxian earlier to that very afternoon.
Upon arriving at Dover MRT, the memories started to flow back to me. Passing by T12 link bridge where we conducted abseiling during the RTT 24hrs Selection Test, then to the study area below SALC where we conducted many of our events and meetings there. Passing by Daiko Drum club and the beating of the drums were so familiar.
Upon reaching the staircase up to the poly centre, I have to keep reminding myself that the new den is on the right and not the left any more. I’m actually quite glad that someone is in den. Jun Ying and my favorite Fatima(Debbie), I smsed Xiuxian to informed her that I’ve arrived and then I chatted with Debbie, we talked about RSS, RTT, current strength and situation of Rover. Got to know more about the situation now.
Then we were joined by Xiuxian, Tian Han & Rain. We had fun chatting and crapping around in den. This is one of the thing I missed most when I left SP Rover. I’m very glad that not all is lost… The feeling is still there, just that the people are getting lesser and lesser… The current year 2s and 3s are the one that are still keeping the club going. I believe what they need now is strong support from all sides, especially from the troop members themselves.
Kind of thinking of it, who are going to be the next PLC? We have currently only 8 BTC candidates, O RTT candidates. Which could possibly mean that there will be no RTT and RSS this year round, as there are no new instructors available. We now have the RTT down, next up will be PLC. Any body keen to be a Leader? Too much stressed? Need to do proposal for events, need to stay back in SP for meetings, Saturday need to come back for trainings etc. All these are the common reasons the current PLC and Ex-Co faced whenever they are planning for events. We used to have all these problems too… Its not new. When I was a key appointment holder in Rover, I faced all these problems with my committee too… Communication between the committee is paramount.
This lack of communication, lack of manpower, lack of support, lack of motivation is bringing the current rovers almost to the bottom of the valley. But, seriously, I believe all is not lost(yet)… There is bound to be something that we could do. But things are still crawling, no obvious movements from anyone, even from top down. All talk and no major important action. Maybe things are getting underway, how about at least voiced out to all, Together Everybody Achieve More is the common phrase I heard in rover then. Where is it all now? Discuss with us!!! There are so many alumnis out there wanting to assist or to help the situation now.
I believe we the alumnis not only want to be present during events only, many of us would be willing to assist in program planning, advising, coordinating and stuffs. If you were not to voice out how would we know where to help? Isn’t it?
After I left den, my mind was filled with many questions, questions on how to assist the current rovers to endure the current situation and the many years to come. Will I be able to attend the 30th anniversary Dinner & Dance? I did eventually tot of something(which Rane shared the same idea with me the next day), more of operation, event planning and skill development. If some of the alumnis were to plan and conduct some skills based recreation events, will it be beneficial? But an idea was soon overcome by many questions, Will there be any people attend these leisure skill based events? Will I get the support from the current rover? Will I be the only one participating in the event? How many participants can I get? How many lives can I touch? All these are so unpredictable…
But eventually, I’m glad that there are still plans of an overseas expedition going on. I’ve voiced my interest in participating in the expedition and I seriously hope to execute the plan together with rover once again. Maybe this is the only way an old rover boy can show his Passion-In-Rovering which will be burning deeply inside his heart after the flame have died…
Bless us Lord B.P
Raven…
