B is for Band.

sajcband eupho section 0607 !

old to young ! HAHAHA.

I miss schooling and yups I miss band. I miss rushing down for individuals and sectionals after school with fungyin, late night practices before SYF, rushing to be on time for band on Saturdays, worrying about band, saturdays random outings with Sisterhood, talking about absolute rubbish but sometimes emotional stuff with the euphonium section, ganging up with joey/huihong to stand up for women’s rights against Daniel, watching marie/vanessa  bully jeremy/louis during sectionals, gossiping with lynette, and bitching about Jarryl’s eyecandies either with him or behind his back (lmao!), rushing out banners and programme booklets with dots, staying back in the bandroom till we got chased out to prepare for tunein/ccaopenhouse/concert and in the end realised I haven’t hang up the posters and thank God for junjie/john to be tall enough to hang them up for me. Every single thing about Perth Trip – pictionaries and jumping over the stupid lamppost, crying over issues that i cant cope, the dreadful section ensemble performance, bitching about daniel and then eventually becoming friends with him, struggling to prove our worth, the tears and joy from getting gold with honours, camwhoring with sisterhood and the section, birthday celebrations (aww..), sticking my head in the euphocupboard to find my mouthpieces, getting pissed with the section when scores are not there, going to toilet (-.-), trying to talk and not let John hear though he is just next to us, listening to kenny’s lame talks, committee meetings, bbq treats from Mr. Glosz, barberquing with yimei and somehow gotten everyone diarrhoea, saturday lunches, huihong’s out of the sudden hyperness, lynette’s really out the sudden talking about weird things, joey’s silent but strong support and how all of us tried hard to get her to stay, cleaning up the bandroom and brasses fighting to see who has to wash the saliva dishes, going gaga over our wonderfully played songs, becoming depressed when its not. Basically slacking in the bandroom cos none of us are used to going home early anyway so why not stay.

My crap about not having any worthwhile memories in SAJC. I graduated with effing truckloads of them and why didnt I see it before ?

To me, every band practice with the band is simply another chance to prove your capability. If you fail, try again. In the meanwhile, the effort that you put in really counts. That was basically what that pushes me to choose studies over band (sorry lah, i cant really multitask -.-) and what caused me to stand on the edge of things. I got temperamental and moody from band issues and yet the satisfaction and euphoria everytime we went on stage. The latter usually wins till i conveniently forgot about the feeling it gave me. And it was this band that opened up my eyes to the diversity in music and the miracles by just shifting your lips will do. It was this band that showed me that effort and hardwork really counts, eventually i guess (yes, i was skeptical about this before).

But why, do i choose to stray instead of keeping close?

Maybe its not a choice, maybe I don’t have a choice. But still, the question lies in why do i not put in my utmost effort to keep up with the things in band and just silently read the band blog and smile at the success the band seemed to be having? Maybe I was afraid, and inferior but I don’t really know why.

Wow, I really did accumulated quite a bit of memories. If I ever walked down the memory lane i think half of the road will be plastered with SAJCBAND. hahaha.

Anyway, i realised my issues with band personally, whether in AMB / SAJCBAND always begin once I assume a leadership post of some sorts. But why?

Urg, shall go indulge in Chace Crawford, enough pondering for one day yo !

 

speedobobo !