after soo many weeks of er absence, it feels great to be blogging again...wad a great period of time this has been for me...first up...SYF and the preparations for it...second up...well..the title race between manu and chelsea and third up...is probably a tie between the NBA play-offs and the tests =(...well first up is the biannual SYF central judging for bands...though i really dunt want to put the blame on our lack of success at winning the gold with honours award with anyone, i still feel deeply that had we begun practising with purpose much much earlier, we would well be one of the few bands who have gotten the top award...however, as said by Matthew, our achievement, which is a gold award, is already testimony of our efforts that we had put in from arnd December...its like...during december...we are totally sh**...but thks to mr oura's patience and guidance, as well as our hunger and desire to stop the rot, we had managed to come out of our "shell" and do what i think we are best at, proving other people wrong...for that...kudos to the sec4s, and some sec3s, for your inspiration to the rest of us!!!and of course kudos to mr oura who did not give up on us all this while, even though our performance was less than satisfactory by his standards, which i think were lowered by a considerable amt...well...this year,despite wad headmaster had said, was not exactly a great year for the aesthetics grps in RI...firstly...RIMB failed to get the coveted GWH award...next, Chinese Orchestra managed to improve...but to only a gold this year...anyway, nice work CO!...both ensembles, guitar and string, managed to maintain their high standards with guitar improving to a gold with honours...lastly, and perhaps the most shocking of all, the Raffles Voices, after winning a prestigious gold award at a prestigious competition at the Czech Republic last year, failed to hit the heights that were expected of them and fell to a gold award only....however, the competition is over...and the next thing for us is our overseas trip...hope tt we will not make the same mistake as last time again...next up is the sporting arena...with juz 5 games left too play...united and chelsea are still fighting closely with only a tiny 3 points, which can be struck off quite easily, separating the two teams...the more interesting part is that while people may have gotten tired of a Chelsea vs United showdown the whole season, and hoping for a more interesting end to the season..they are likely to be disappointed...both teams will face off indirectly, and directly, in the Premier League as well as in the FA Cup Final...the CL final??possible...if Chelsea and United both hold out for draws in their second legs...so if chelsea and united face off on all 3 fronts...some people are going to cry(once, twice or even thrice) while others will be celebrating with their pockets full of money they had won frm betting(once, twice, thrice and even a fourth time(yes...some ppl had put their money on United winning the treble or Chelsea winning the Quadruple))...Next on to NBA...the Rockets will face off tmr against the Jazz hoping to recover frm their thrashing in the last match...all the best...well...shall end here...this has been really a wonderful period...and anyway...happy bdae ZYF...i dunt wanna tell you tt cuz later u might accuse me of ruining your bdae...heres Hertilon, signing off...

David said 5:43 PM<3

so yah...today rgssb got a gold(with no honours) and suddenly, some of us are starting to put the blame of the failure to achieve a gwh by rgssb by the so-called screw-up by the bass trombonist during the opening of the song Singapore Sunrise...do u really think that we shld put all the blame on that single piece of screw-up???do you really think that it is fair that the person who has committed the screw-up be blamed for the inability of the band to achieve GWH???...NO...i dunt think so...ppl might say that music is abt wad the audience hears...but i personally believe that the true beauty of music is that we spend hundreds of hours to try and perfect your song...but cruelly, sometimes, God makes fun of us...just when we are able to play that part to perfection during practices, we "screwed" it up during the actual performance...so...do you really think that it is fair to blame someone who has worked soooooooooooooooooo hard but just fails to deliver the goods??after all, if it is really due to this that the band is unable to achieve GWH, then i have no more to argue against it...BUT facts have shown that this one piece of screw-up will not cause a perfect band to fall into the gold category...if it is just this one piece of screw-up, then the band will still achieve GWH, cause one minor piece of screw-up will not cost the band dear...HOWEVER, if the band only got gold and have this screw-up, this shows that there are other minute screw-ups within the performance itself, just that normal ppl hear the foremost screw-up more clearly than the others, hence they think that the screw-up is the cause of the failure of the band to achieve GWH...HOWEVER,to the judges and those more musically-inclined ppl, they will not fail to notice the other minute screw-ups and tend, will not put so much blame on that particular screw-up alone...WHAT im trying to say here is that band is a team effort, not an individual effort...when ppl screw-up, how many will be brave enuff to step forth to say that you have also screwed-up???but when the piece is nice, how many will step backwards and say that it is a team effort instead of an individual effort???think abt it guys...and also...the beauty of music, as i re-emphaised here again, is the hrs that you have put in to perfect it, not the 5 minutes on stage that you have spent to flaunt your so-called talent...HENCE, WE SHALL NOT BLAME THE BAND'S PERFORMANCES ON OBVIOUS SCREW-UPS...WE SHALL EITHER NOT SPEAK ABT IT AND IMPROVE NEXT TIME, OR JUZ FORCE EVERYONE ELSE TO ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE ALSO SCREWED-UP, JUST THAT ITS NOT THAT OBVIOUS...

David said 9:19 PM<3

10 more days!!!bfore the ultimate showdown...wad will we get????watch this space...haha....anyway...ten days of preparation is definitely better than 4 days or 5 days of preparation, which is what rgs and nanyang are getting respectively...but 10 days also means that we have to be better than those in front of us to stand a chance of presentation or even gwh for that matter...as we are one of the last few bands to play, the judges would alrd have heard of many bands and would no doubt be using the best of them as the standard bar...and also, due to our reputation, the judges will no doubt be expecting nothing but great music from us...hence, 10 days may not look that great at all..but no doubt...10 days is better than none...haha...todae is good friday..the friday on which jesus christ, perhaps the greatest human ever, died for our sins on the cross...despite his death, there was no doubt abt it that we humans have not heeded his sacrifice for us mankind...as shown in the papers daily, there are still ppl committing the basic but probably the most serious sin of ending someone's life without appropriate reasons...worse still...while this is a day of mourning for humans, especially Christians, there are a minority out there who are instead celebrating this sad day...HOW DARE YOU!!!...DUNT YOU THINK ITS NOBLE FOR A MAN, OR IMMORTAL FOR SOME, TO DIE FOR OUR SINS???WILL YOU DO THAT??...i think those ppl shld be ashamed of themselves...its acceptable if we dunt join in the mourning...but to celebrate it??its a disgrace...anyway...todae passed by without much incident...except for that deleted post...which is erm not fit for the public's eyes..for those who have stumbled upon it by accident...pls forgive me for my ignorant ranting....

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