MusICian

very contrasting topics in the title, i know. no choice, no energy to update yesterday!

beautiful sunday’s over, not very well played, but ok. sounds good, but expression was not that good. and i guess we didn’t do too well, the percussion section! but ok lah, still quite nice and enjoyable. it must’ve been 3 or 4 years since i last performed as a percussionist! still fun, still unforgettable. but it was the first time i had sweaty palms on stage. haha. must’ve been too nervous.

NCWO ppl came! and got mr png and i a very nice card each! sweetie thinks the cards are really creative and look fantastic! and she says that NCWO ppl are really ‘you xin’ (got heart, ie. sincere). and i got a nice flower too

and victor says sweetie and i look more and more compatible everytime he sees us together

also had really nice photos with the mus’art clarinetists, even though i was holding drumsticks instead! this beautiful sunday we had a FULL section, boasting the Eb clarinet, Eb alto clarinet and also the Bb bass clarinet! only lacking the contra-alto and contrabass lah. haha.

16 clarinetists!! mr chua wasn’t here, and i’m only joining my ‘alma-mater’ for a photo. haha. don’t think my drumsticks can pass off as a clarinet lah huh.

SYF 2007 update! today i heard about 9 bands, starting from dunman high. i thought the judging today was strange, because dunman high played really well, and they got a silver! seems like a hua chong case. they played ’samurai’, and it was really impressive, but somehow didn’t get the gold. another major upset was bedok green, who did relatively well for ‘king across the water’, but still managed only a bronze. strange??! i think they deserved a silver!

PRSS went out there and did a good job today! good ‘green hills fantasy’, but i believe they can play even better than that, because i’ve heard them play better! but still, good job, deserved the silver, and i’m happy for you guys

SYF 2007 will be over real soon, and the major ‘exam’ for us conductors (as samuel tan puts it) will be over in less than 24 hours! the joy/pain might last even longer, of course, and god knows what will happen to our jobs, but we have gone all out and given nothing but our very best, and i’m just glad to close this chapter! this SYF means a lot to me as it’s the first time the secondary school band i’m co-teaching is going for the competition, and they played well! we’re happy

still some underlying tensions yet to be solved… i hope the dust will settle real soon, and i will hence know my fate.

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