yeah, carol...it seems just yesterday when e committee gathered to appoint the new SLs for the respective sections last year...and i had to make a big fat lie on how we were not talking about that..haha...and frankly...was too caught in a dilemma like yours on letting either of you head the section...all the advice I can give is...make a choice...but don't regret it...it may not be the best...but...yeah~ (don't know what the heck i'm talking about...i'm sure advice's rendered useless) :s i, too, was reluctant to step down... but...you do have to give way to the new batch of leaders and players, don't you? sure it hurts at first...at the thought that, you may not be performing in the same band anymore, and that all you've learnt these 4 years, may just well go down the drain. i'm quite certain i've lost touch...it's just NOT THERE... i'm sure most would agree...that you'd reached the peak at sec 3? somehow for me....everything just went downhill from there...it's really sad...when i went back yesterday...i felt a lil' like an outcast.... :x mebbe the intensity of the practices we had playing American and Tales just wasn't there.... (not saying that they aren't working hard enough) i know you guys are... anw...just give it your best shot at the competitions...ya? anw...when i was back at XM...there was this nostalgic feeling... my preferance still lies in the old cranky bandroom and that 'yin shui si yuan' fountain...XM, with it's new layout and status...just wasn't the old cozy neighbourhood school 4 years ago... vividly remembered hiding sitting behind the marimba and vibraphone...chatting...Ms Tan's conducting...US pushing the dustbin to each other to dispose of when the section's up for duty...US putting away the instrus nicely to a corner...the chairs that always threatened to give way... the cupboard on which the pigeon-hole(s) sit....for us to put our CCA cards....the same corner where me and Fang hid away to weep when we saw Pearlin and the rest rehearsing for band grad...the door which would be locked to keep latecomers out of the band room...the timpani corner where Alvin/Pearlin and the lot did their homework during band practice...the blockout of the chimes from which i played the B flat/F for Ghost Train...(e whole band stopped and i still stoOpidly played on cuz i couldn't see Ms Tan) days when we went back late in the evening cuz we were rehearsing desperately for El.... there's just so much that i won't forget...i'd never be able to experience anything like that again...confirmed. anw...if you've managed to come reading this far...i thank you for hearing me crap on this super long-winded entry...and roll your eyes if you must...go ahead...good day... |
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