band work done for now
finally. 5 days of band teaching. several unpleasantries. organisational problems. band competition. 1 silver medal. 3 happy instructors. 1 unhappy teacher in charge who pretended to be happy. 1 unhappy teacher in charge who showed her unhappiness as i showed mine. 1 screwed up event at bishan stadium. several guests of honour who were as lost as i was. 1 conductor who had no idea what he was supposed to do (me lah).
i don’t understand why everyone should come and reprimand my section leader at the same time. and then after they kept reprimanding him, they can’t stop consoling him. it’s competition day! everybody’s stressed up. don’t take it out on the poor kid! at least don’t scold him so much! there’s always a way out. shan’t comment too much on this. my job’s on the line.
some bits of scolding/reprimanding work. some don’t. especially not on competition day anyway. i’m glad my scolding did him much good.
well, competition was cool. the kids worked very hard, played their hearts out on stage, and they were fantastic. best performance they have put up so far. the balance was great! and i nearly cried when they presented their best up on stage. it was simply amazing. even though i’m only a tutor, i could feel the kind of joy in presenting the section i have trained so hard on stage to compete against other schools. and i’m really proud. my section’s the most outstanding one that session! my coaching did not go to waste indeed. the pride of tutoring them came all at once 
and i was a very happy man when i went for my date with huili. happy with fengshan’s result, happy with some bit of studying, happy to meet my sweet
unfortunately, i had to get up early to conduct nan chiau today…
i think i’m quite used to being panicky. i had no idea what i’m supposed to do and where the event was supposed to happen; i wasn’t briefed at all. so i went there, reaching nan chiau at 7:45am (sheesh) only to find that they were leaving school in catered buses to bishan stadium. ok fine, i’ll go along. avoided talking to the students all the way. conducted when i’m supposed to conduct (but didn’t know when to stop; the guests of honour were like standing behind me for quite some time, dunno for what). and they told us to prepare majulah singapura when they already decided to play it from the tape… think this morning was a test on my circumstantial reflexes. i did well 
ok, finally the band days are over for april. time to mug and ‘do well’ for exams! hahaha. i’m dead lah!!!!!
