i’d probably type rubbish cos i’m dead beat, so please pardon me if i’m incoherent or if i accidentally offend anyone! of course i’d try my best to be very careful with what i type, but u’ll never know when u’re this tired. haha.
where shall i begin? NCWO investiture seems like the most appropriate place to start! it was pretty smooth sailing as far as the event and the organising committee is concerned. i must say it’s a job very well done, given that there wasn’t much time for them to prepare anything substantial. and a big round of applause for yanting for the very well done videos! well, efforts paid off, and it was a great investiture, i have to say! well done, organisers!
and it was pretty heart warming to see that after 7 months of training, the recruits have finally graduated into privates, and most of them will be understudies for an assisting position in the band council. in these few weeks leading to the investiture, i see many of them putting in effort to do their theory properly, to pass their practical tests and to give proper footdrill. it was pretty heart warming to see many capable members taking over leadership positions in the council, and i must say, i have lots of confidence in these new leaders! from mixed reception in january, to general welcome by the investiture, it was no easy feat, i assure you guys.
investiture was smooth sailing except for the performance segments! due to the lack of proper practice time, and the irregularity of the players, both performances by the recruits and the seniors weren’t up to what we had expected. too many last minute additions to the original players! but well, we know we can do a better job. and we must.
to all my NCWO members who might be reading this, wherever you are, wherever you may go, don’t let the passion for music die. remember how we rocked the hall at our concert this year; relive those moments over and over again, always asking for a higher standard of performance. we will smell our gold medal as long as we have the heart to do what it takes to earn it!
alright, now for my non-NCWO related life. haha. almost like i have no life. after the celebrations at hougang plaza (a few rounds of pool with the NCWO people), i zipped over to jurong for the technical rehearsals. considering that i slept at 2am the previous night and had to wake up at 6am, i was already bushed, and the travelling from central to northeast, northeast to west had killed most of my brain cells. that being said, i realised i was the only 1st clarinetist there as mr chua had gone for NDP rehearsal. so there i was, trying to play at twice the volume while maintaining good pitch and a full tone, at half my normal energy. ok, i gave it my all, threw in all my focus, and i guess it didn’t turn out that bad!
after that (at almost 9pm), it was time to zip over to desmond’s chalet at downtown east! we went over to celebrate his nephew’s birthday, and to play many many rounds of UNO. haha. sweetie and i bought an eeyore for the cute little kid, and it seems that he liked it! oh, anyway, there were mountains of food to eat, and we ate, joked, played, watched tv for quite some time before knocking out flat on the bed. i didn’t manage to sleep much, considering i was sandwiched between two people, one of whom launched a series of subconscious attacks at me, causing me to lose sleep and some privacy. thanks to him i’ve got a stiff shoulder and aching back now! thank god i have the cow massager 
in the morning, it was more breakfast at BK, and more UNO! and meiling was indeed very unlucky; she kept coming out last 2 games in a row, escape for one game, only to come out last another 2 games in a row! and while she cursed my cards it made her situation worse. haha. these UNO series reminds me of the time we played UNO in sweetie’s room at WMC. so fun! and if i didn’t remember wrongly, meiling was also the constant ‘loser’. oops.
after sending sweetie home from the chalet (she wasn’t feeling well, i thought i better send her since her parents aren’t fetching her), i concussed in a not so comfortable seat on my favourite bus home. after i was home, i realised i don’t have time to sleep, so i dumped my stuff in my room and checked my modules online before preparing for a short while and left my house for the performance. hectic! i was so zombified that i fell asleep on the bus to the performance location, oversleeping my stop by quite a few stops! when i finally reached there (i was late), i was almost totally zombified.
had to last through the entire performance nevertheless, and my lack of focus was quite apparent. but the performance went on quite ok, so i’m glad. in between our pieces, we had so much free time and that was rather irritating, actually. i was hoping that the performance would end much earlier (if we skip all the other items in between, the whole performance would be over by 8pm) so that i come home and replenish my sleep! in the end, everthing ended around 10pm. talk about efficiency.
ok, i’m really really bushed. thank god i finished the weekend ‘report’ here. haha. thank god i’ll be less busy next week!
