sorry for the missing entries. no inspiration to write for the previous days, guess i'm being too stressed out already.
well, the purpose of today's entry is to write about the exchange program we had with yio chu kang secondary school and dunman high school.
what i previously heard about yio chu kang secondary school and dunman high school was that, the former a typical average secondary school band and the latter a gold band. so i had expected to learn much about this exchange, how the other school bands' standard were compared to us.
so on the exchange day itself, we met the 2 bands. yio chu kang arrived first, then dunman high arrived after a short while. by then our bands had already took our positions on stage, miss tan going through the piece. and my eyes were constantly peering at the two bands, out of curiosity of their actions.
we played our two syf pieces for them -
Sunrise and
Incantation and Dance. I thought that our performance that day was pretty good. and no, i did not say that out of encouragement/sympathy. we were pretty good. better than usual i guess. the majority of the band members gave their very best. we watched miss tan, we tried to follow her throughout the music, and it turned out pretty good. i was contented with our performance. but as i'm one of the players on stage, i didn't know what the people below thought. maybe they thought alike as me, maybe not.
then the two school bands played their pieces, they had the same conductor, so their style of playing were pretty much the same. i could hear, they were confident. they gave their entire trust to their conductor. their music came through. for that briefest moment i thought they were both better than us.
then i panicked. i worried. we could do better, couldn't we?
i always believed we could do better.each time every band session ends this thought would come into my mind. and it's this mentality in my mind that pushes me on and allowing me to work harder as a band member and
for my band members. and i hope in return, everyone in the band would do the same.
we shall push on, grit out teeths, persevere,strive for the best,nothing less. i know that slacking is sweet to everyone, but i think the Gold w/Honours is much much more sweeter. =) isn't it?
left himself a note;
1:26 PM
