Pioneering

Recently Venutres and Scouts had an amazing pioneering project headed by our lovely VSL Raymond sir

the project was intended to run for approx 12 hours, it started off with all scouts and ventures arriving in Manjusri Secondary School at 8 am on 17th March '07 with a few exceptionally late ventures..

we started off under the hot and unforgiving sun which burnt our skin, however we did manage to complete approx 60-75% of the structure by the end of the day.

all of us headed home exhausted and scarred with sun-burns on our pale,soft, unprotected skin...

it was really tiring for us watery-eyed, pale skinned, 50% computer geeks who had lost contact with our wilder side.....


our work resumed on 19th March '07, with frequent rain over the Sunday weekend the structure needs alot of reinforcing and lots of new ropes were needed....

as we worked lots of Manjusrians gaze in wonder as to what on Earth are we doing and wondered if we were crazy to do such an enormous feat...

in the end we proved them wrong that we Manjusri Red Fox Scouts is truly capable of accomplishing a Feat i believed never tried before, by 5pm on 19th the structure was up with a Manjusri Red Fox Scouts Flag flying high at the mast atop of the tower....

21st March '07 was the dreaded and much awaited VIP visit..

again we ventures arrived early to do a few last minute reinforcement to the structure which had withstood yet another storm....

the VIP visit went smoothly and i think they were impressed by the tower that we had managed to build......

the entire VIP fiesta ended at approx 5pm and our VSL Raymond Sir gave us a dinner treat....

the structure was left to stand for another 2 days where it weathered its last few rain storms....

on 23rd March '07 we were ordered to bring it down....

we all did it with heavy hearts, all wishing to be able to let it stand for eternity....

we knew we were writing history....Manjusri Red Fox Scouts history that is....

somewhere in our heart keep telling us that never again will we able to achieve such a magnificent feat again.....some part of us is still not willing to let the tower go....

however all things good or bad must come to an end.... with a pang of regret within our hearts we started to pick apart the tower.......every creak the ropes made was as if the tower was screaming in protest... screaming not to be taken apart......


at end of the day all that remains for the tower was pioneering poles, ropes and photos of it....

the memory of the tower will remain forever within each of us who participated in its birth and its ultimate destruction.....like our scouting light it will be forever with us till the day we snuff it....



For Red Fox we give everything, but we only take back Memories.....


cheers,
Eddie

RE: EXCO MATTERS

"Blamestorming" as I would call it is definitely not an effective way in solving such disputes. The so-called failure of what you guys faced is also what happened when ventures start out. Coordination is real bad then. It was worse. Imagine 2 ventures attended a rock-climbing session.

Don't blame it all on one person. That's because everyone has a part to play. The Venture Unit is not like the other UG in the past. There's little bureaucracy and more democracy here. Thus it needs everyone's involvement in planning, executing and evaluating. However, more discipline, commitment and co-operation is required from every single individual. Talk is bullshit, do it to prove. If you guys can't even do such a simple task, then you people are not fit to be called the EXCO. Remember, the EXCO / unit is not one man show. If you guys want to expect an exciting and fun experience in venturing then you guys have to contribute your share to make that happen. If you think venturing is boring , that only proves to show that the planning sucks and it finally points back at you, the EXCO as a whole. Hope you guys wake up your idea from now onwards. I know all of you are studying, but since you are part of the unit then you have to be involved as far as possible.

Disappointed

hi guys,

there were 2 recent event of importance that im very disappointed by the Ventures performance...


they are the Investiture and tomorrow's Founder's Day Ceremony....

at the investiture ceremony onli 1 senior venture and 2 ventures turned up for the ceremony.....this shuld not be the kind of example we would want to show the scouts or the new ventures.

i admit i did sent out the information late...but this was due to me receiving the information late....furthermore this shuld be handled by the events coordinator.


as for tml's Founders Day Ceremony it after sch frm 2-3 pm.....

again i sent out the info late so i also received some last minute withdrawal and not-able-to-make-it e-mail.........

but there are also replies that some of us forgot tml is Founder's Day....... this is absolutely disgraceful.....

u guys are supposed to be young adults.....making decisions on your own...making certain sacrifices to help out in the overall Venture Scout Group........


i admit the e-mail i sent is very very very very late.....but pls make some sacrifices to come down.......i purposely DID NOT CC that e-mail or any e-mail for that matter to Raymond Sir becos i treat u guys like adults that u guys shuld be and make certain little sacrifices to turn up...


but so far onli me the Chairman and my Vice-Chairman will be there tml.............u guys make my life difficult.........i try to help u guys out yet u screw up my life...........i seriously dun know wat u guys want me to do...........


so for the next meeting onwards ill not impose any limitations on any of u guys....u feel like comming u come..........else ill jus keep quiteand let the EXCO handle it.....and if its the EXCO that does nothing.....then u leave me with no choice but to let Raymond Sir handle it

in the future i'll try my level best to accquire information as early as possible(this shuld be Events Coordinator's job btw) and let u guys know ASAP...

Regards,
Ho Fu Lin Eddie

1st exco meeting 2007

EXCO Committee

Chairman: Eddie
Vice-Chairman: Kher Meng
Secretary: Michael
Treasurer: Rakcent
Quarter Master: Wei Long
Programme Coordinator: Hubert
Normal Exco Members: Navjoth
Shin Cheng
Assistant Secretary: Wee Kiat
Public Relation Manager: Iris

Names of people that are joining Venture in Year 2007
1) Eddie
2) Navjoth
3) Michael
4) Catherine
5) Iris
6) Lydia
7) Wei Long
8) Kher Meng
9) Wee Kiat
10) Xue Feng
11) Shin Cheng
12) Mervin
13) Rakcent

for furthur details of meetings, pls refer to ur email individually.
ventures mention above, can request for adminstrative for this venture blog to update meetings and more.

cheers for year 2007!

1st EXCO Meeting 2007

RE: EXCO meeting

Aim: To come up with new EXCO and plan for 2007.
Date: 6th Jan 2007
Venue: MJR Den
Time: 9am
Attire: Full venture uniform

Attendance compulsory to all ventures including new ventures.

AGM 2006

AGM (Annual General Meeting)

Venue: MJR Den
Date: 29 Dec 2006
Time: 9am start
Attire: Full uniform

Since this is the last official meeting of the year, attendance is compulsory for all ventures including new ventures. The general plan would be to summarise the closure of the year, the stepping down and welcoming of some ventures, disband the existing EXCO and to elect a new EXCO.

To fascilitate and allow voting to be done quickly. Have an idea who you want to be the next EXCO before the AGM.

Best regards
EXCO Chairman 2006