During my first day on duty, I arrived 15 minutes early, only to be greeted by the sight of 2 full cages in the storage room. I soon found out that the movers had failed to come to collect the goods for 2 days and the NTUC manager demanded that I ask the movers to collect them since their stock was arriving that evening. After obtaining an extra trolley for our collections, Ivan and I carried the super heavy donation box out together. I felt kinda cheated as the box last year had wheels. While at the booth, we kept trying to call the BBSGB hotline, but no one answered and when they did, they merely gave us empty promises. The following day was no better as the collections kept flowing in and without more cages, we had to use their trolleys.
One memorable incident was when a young boy walked towards us with a dollar in his hand. However, instead of donating it, he ran back to his mother, pointed towards "Jian Yan" (Jeremiah) and shouted scared in Chinese. It was an interesting an hilarious experience as he was really scared of one of us. Perhaps it was just our uniforms which made us look like a policeman which was somewhat scary to him.
On another occasion, when it was around 9pm, my senior wanted to buy sushi since it was half price after 9. He dragged me and my platoon mate with him since we had all agreed to buy together. However, we did not realise that by doing so, we had left our sec1 junior by himself at the booth. I feel that we should not have done so as it was irresponsible and selfish. As seniors, we should put our juniors before ourselves.
Through this SGB, I have learnt to be more responsible and selfless. I now realise how important it is to put my juniors before myself. I have also leant that that to lead by example is much more effective than to just issue instructions. I have realise that my juniors will carry out the task better if I take the first step. On the whole, I enjoyed the SGB experience and I look forward to next year's experience.. ;)
Daniel Ling
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