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4. new shoes (sports/flats)
5. new phone?

WE GOT GOLD! :D

#cgssb is a gold band again! :)
i will never forget syf'05. x)

syf week was really tough for me. there were loads of tests and stuff. stressed and everything. day by day, the results for all mrs chua's bands slowly came out. all gold. gold with honours for anglican. all too soon, thursday came. we practiced one last time and the com taught us the band song. many cried. syf never felt so near.

syf'05- 150405 was finally here. slept late the day before but who cares. couldn't concentrate for ss or physics. amaths test during recess was just like, blank out. couldn't focus at all. heck that test cos i failed miserably -_- haha. 11 finally came and everyone went to the band rm and started giving out their notes, sweets, flowers, chocolates; everyone started taking photos, changing into full band u, styling our hair, setting up instruments and eating lunch. everything was rather messy, but that's us anyway (: had no appetite to eat but forced myself to do so. (regretted later on cos i felt hungry in the tuning room -_-)

had to stuff all our belongings into the store cos mrs chua was coming to go through everything once again and ya. she looked tired.. but i guess all of us were, in a way. haha good thing melissa remembered to pull down the projector screen.. or else mrs chua would've seen our song for her. we went through everything again and mrs chua told us all the last minute stuff and then she had to go and we were like 'ahhhhh...' she was like -_- and said 'huh you all want to sing song again arh.' haha. well, tradition sticks. xiling began to play the piano and we sang our song for her and it was like, the lights were off except the one at the board and everyone started sniffling and crying. mrs chua started crying too and mr chua sang along with us (: haha. when we finished singing she was like 'aey can you all sing faster or not huh. now sing like as if my funeral liddat ah. okok piano play faster, drumset join in, got tambourine also join in, everyone clap ahh. sing fast fast ah.' so xiling suddenly went super fast and the song became lively and all, and everyone began smiling and laughing. when we finished mrs chua talked to us again and told us to do our best, and we had to go.

the buses were goddamn late. -_- brasses bus came first, woodwinds bus was super late. funny thing, woodwinds bus reached first, brasses bus was super late. :\ crazy. reported on time and we sat down in the foyer and waited for time to pass. in a flash we were upstairs in rows of two or more waiting for our turn to go in. the next thing was the tuning room- ten minutes only. we went through some parts of singapore rhapsody and fiefoerniek and that was it. my reed began to go flat again and my B key was not helping.. almost freaked out. went to the 'backstage' and waited for the previous school to finish playing. we met mrs lee :D and she gave us all her best wishes :) blew hot air into our instruments- SCH is really a very cold hall :\ and before i knew what was happening, i realised i was the last last last last last one to enter the hall, which was different from the previous times we pracitced. i probably had this scared look on my face cos ms low kinda patted me on the back. shoot.

so we were all standing on stage and waiting. cos of me. i didn't sit. like ya. CRAP please. shoot. i was supposed to sit and since i was the last person to enter the stage, what's there to check about behind me? so i turned around, then looked at the judges, and turned around again, looking at cherlynn for any clues, looked at the judges again, and i just got lost. like, am i supposed to sit? i probably took too long to decide cos mrs chua just walked in and waved an okay to me. SHOOT. like dangit, i think i took off some marks to the general presentation. ARGH. ): i'm sorry.

but anyway. we did our best on stage. we played for the judges what we have done for the past six months. we played our set piece, our choice piece, our very best. we showed them we are a gold band and we (like mrs chua said) kicked some ass. :D haha. but for me, there was just something missing, a element lost somehow. i couldn't play as well as i could in school, and i didn't. everything fell away when i was upstage, i just lost myself. for L, M, N, i knew i could play it really well. but i didn't. i lost control of my air support and everything broke into a million pieces. i had lost not the gold, i had lost to myself. i didn't do my very best.

stepping down the stage i felt the surge of tears coming. out of the door and i broke down. i can't describe how i felt, i was just at a loss. all the hard work so far and i didn't do my best. why didn't i? anger, frustration, sorrow, pain. i just want to say thank you to all my darling section mates who were there for me, and sorry for affecting all of you cos apparently after i started crying everyone did too haha. i didn't go into the hall with my section, i went sometime later so i was the only clarinetist with the perc and flute section. -_- i still rmb suiying trying to cheer me up haha. thanks girl (: mrs lee is playing with her handphone hahaha. xD

watched the other bands play.. and so different bands have their own cultures. -lifts one eyebrow. anyway. the judges took really long to come up with the results haha. but yup. everyone was anxious and we began the rubbing of knuckles thingy. haha. then we started holding hands when they began announcing the PM session. and it was our turn.

'band 144........crescent girls' school.......(3 second interval)........gold.'

who knows what the hell we were doing- screaming, yelling, crying, laughing, hugging, jumping or whatever. our total of 5 rows just jumped up and screamed and screamed and screamed. i think i cried like 10 litres of salty tears that day. everyone was so happy, so thankful we didn't get silver. for that moment, we went crazy with happiness. we went estatic with triumph. the moment of glory.

nothing mattered after that. we left the hall, went on the bus, reached school and packed up, and half the band went to ps swensens (that was a total letdown so forget it). i cried all the way- in the hall, outside the hall, on the bus, in school.. we got our gold. we are a gold band, again. this time, with all the 62 of us. together, we are a gold band. we got our gold.

everytime i think about syf, i'll start crying. all the things we've done and everything that we've gone through together. we are one band, one sound. we are cgssb. and we are a gold band. cgssb is a gold band. (:

i'll never forget the memories we've shared.
i love cgssb.



Remember me this way [cgssb version]
Our day has come
We've practiced for long
We won't let anyone down

You understand it all
Doing all the best you can
And we can reach our goal

I know it's possible
To stay as one as we hold on together
Through all these days

//We'll make this dream come true
With Mr and Mrs Chua
And you will soon realize
That effort will pay off
If you lose your way
Think back on yesterday
Remember what we've done
Remember we are one

You don't to need worry
We've come so far as one
United we will stand

And I know that we can do much better than we thought we could
Because we are...
One band, one sound

//We'll make this dream come true
With Mr and Mrs Chua
And you will soon realize
That effort will pay off
If you lose your way
Think back on yesterday
Remember what we've done
Remember we are one

And we'll remember this special moment on the stage
tell yourself don't be afraid and concentrate

And we can all do it
As long as you believe
You just believe

//We'll make this dream come true
With Mr and Mrs Chua
And you will soon realize
That effort will pay off
If you lose your way
Think back on yesterday
Remember what we've done
Remember we are one

life is like a sine graph =)
11:13 PM