good end to a bad week
today marks a fulfilling end to a not so fulfilling week.
sweetie fell sick on sunday night, monday was just very tiring (and i don’t know why, post Da Capo blues?), tuesday was a bad day meeting my bro’s principal and also a bad day at work, wednesday was a bad day with a not so good interview (in which i was totally stunned and demoralised) and quite an ok time at work (though i wish i had more energy; must’ve been affected a lot), thursday was just strenuous work the whole day and then had to unwind at NUSWS playing the trumpet, yesterday was a super demoralising day; saw the disastrous state of my band.
and so i thought for a moment the heavens was giving my resilience a test.
if i gave up there and then i’d be such a useless bugger. so i decided to just complain it off to sweetie who was such a dear agreeing to meet me even though she wasn’t fully recovered. so we had dinner, had a long chat and had a long walk to city hall mrt, and then i sent her home. felt so much better after that; despite the back of my head pounding like crazy (must’ve been too tired).
today is just a very good end to a bad week!
reluctantly got out of bed at 6plus, rushed down to NCHS for their open house event. settled them in their performance area, ran through some parts of their program with them, then we played some stuff to entertain the crowd in the canteen (even though most of them were NCHS students at the other CCA booths). as expected, In The Winter of 1730 was the favourite. well, they played it best, i have to say, even though i’m not a fan of the composer. performance today was good; we decided to chuck in some faster pieces at the last minute to cater to the crowd. off went peacock dance, chrysanthemum stage and bossa nova breeze; in went old comrades and pirates. and i guess the combi worked well. at the very least the members enjoyed performing (i hope!)!
some of the alumni were back, and also some sec 4s, who graciously played with the band. thank you so much!
so the whole event went well, without major hitches, and i guess everybody’s happy with the whole thing. lunched with a few of the band ppl, then had my cornet lesson at 5 plus. learnt some good stuff, but lesson today was shorter. new things to practice! and some good new knowledge i can apply in my teaching. had dinner with my parents downstairs at the seafood place. didn’t take crab! but we ordered sheng mian and hor fun and we couldn’t really finish. too much food! haha. it’s a good feeling having a meal with my parents 
so yeah, great end to a bad week. i hope my days ahead will be more fulfilling!
i’ll learn from my mistakes 
