SMK Gajah Berang (GBS) Queen Guides 2019;
Queek Fang Ying, Goh Jia Min, Lau Yun Yi, Peggie Teo Pei Yee, Tai Yee Jin
It was a long journey, a journey that carved
deep into our life.
We started our guiding life in the year
2015. The reasons why we joined Girl
Guide were to build up our confidence to
speak in public and also to sharpen our
leadership skills. We met as a group of
girls during guiding. We found each of us
as kind, friendly and humorous. We just
clicked with each other as though we had
been friends since childhood. We became
good friends after joining
several activities. There were ten of us. All of us were girl guides and that was why we named our group
“pandukia".
We joined girl guides activities including camps, Thinking Day Celebrations and competitions together.
We even took the challenges to become Queen's Guides together. The most memorable activity that we
had was the camp that we joined in the year 2018 namely George Town Heritage City Girl Guide
International Camp in Penang. The participants of this camp came from 14 countries besides the 17
branches of Girl Guide Association Malaysia. We spent 6 days 5 nights, joining several activities such as
fishing, cycling, sailing and many more. Moreover, we also went to the Penang famous Street Art and the
Escape Theme Park. We took many photos and created sweet memories of the camp.
Actually, the reason why we took part in those activities was just to meet each other and it brought us
closer to each other. We laughed together, slept together, faced challenges together, created valuable
memories and most importantly we learned and grew up together. Meeting each other made us happy.
The following year we took part in Bengkel Selalu Sedia (BSS) in March which is the last test we
attended before receiving the Queen's Guide Award. All of us made it and we passed our BSS
successfully with sweat, tears and blood. The moment we received the award, feelings of pleasure, anger,
sorrow and joy flooded my mind.
Actually, there were some who did not support us in becoming a Queen’s Guide as they felt that
becoming a Queen’s Guide was a waste of time besides it would affect our studies. As what Madam Sio
Pek Suan and Madam Ong Ing Chien told us, "Never giving up is what separates champions from
ordinary people", and this is the first lesson we learnt during our Queen's Guide journey.
Madam Sio Pek Suan and Madam Ong Ing Chien were the ones who helped us without any complaints
throughout the journey and even throughout our secondary school life. Madam Sarena, Madam Siti
Amina, Madam Low Bee Seng, Madam Low Mei Hua and many more were our guiders too. They
selflessly extend their knowledge, experiences and shared them with us, taught us and helped us
whenever they could. Our parents also gave us their full support throughout our guiding journey.
Sincerely, I wish all of them could be happy forever and take good care of themselves.
Guiding helps us to gain knowledge, time management, skills and experience in leadership,
communication, problem-solving, group development and management, presentation and public
speaking. We are glad to be Girl Guide is because Guiding is a bridge that connects us; my friends and
others. We took part in a lot of competitions throughout our guiding life. There were wins and loses in
those competitions. Yet, the biggest and valuable prize that we won was friendship. We won each other
during this "life competition". Thank God for giving me the chance to meet them. Girls, May God Bless
you All.
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