hmmmm...looking back at this year huh...or rather the last six months...have to say, its been a rather disappointing(academically, personally, musically etc) semester, yet one filled with joy, happiness, pride, but in some cases, sadness.
My grades are somewhere like 3.69, but i know that i can hit 3.8 easy peasy if i worked hard for my first APR. A 3.6 for history, bio, chem and physics for me?nah, i should be getting a 4.0 for these subjects...no offence to anyone who did badly for the first APR, but it was really so easy, that i might have gotten higher marks if i closed my eyes and do the papers and assignments...then personally, hmmmm...just want to close one chapter of my life and move on..but it hasnt been easy...maybe things will get better in RJC?...then musically...rejection by SNYO isnt hard to overcome, but when you find out that you are not better(at least not in the sense of the judges) than the SL of RGS, it really makes you think alot about your own standards...excuses like "oh im too old" or like "theres not enuff space" isnt really valid, given that if you are good enuff, they will rather take you in than to keep those who arent up to standards...
But hey, in this past month, or to be more specific, on 15th May 2008, at VCH, something happened to lighten up my semester by 100000000 mega watts...at that moment, wadeva grade, wadeva rejection didnt hurt me anymore in that few hours...on that day, RIMB'10, RIMB'09 showed RIMB'08, Mr Oura, our alumni, the audience what they can do...it was really a proud moment for me as a senior, as sec4 leaving the band in a matter of months...the concert was really great for us...keep it up guys...i hope that what happened in the atrium ystd was an one-off event...show us that you guys are ready for the big stuff...you guys should do it, you guys must do it, you guys can do it, and you guys will bring back another gold(with honours i hope) frm nxt year's SYF...
Ystd night, i woke up at arnd 2 am...i just sat in bed and thought abt my years in RI...the premier school...the premier institution...but most of my happy memories seem to come not frm me getting full marks or wadsoever for my academics, but they come frm RIMB...frm sec1, when i just go promoted, go lanning with tbones'05; all the way to sec2, promoted to lance corporal, faced with humiliation for NBC...i still rmb vividly that day, when we got a mere 80.4% to scrap a gold home and how our seniors, michael, jeremy lied to the whole school to keep our reputation intact, but lo behold, prometheum XI was fantastic, still could rmb justin singing the institution anthemn in VCH, we doing the Unite cheer without the rest of the school, saying goodbye to michael; then on to sec3, SYF...how we worked really really really hard just for that gold and for our reputation...i rmb fondly the moment the announcer said that RIMB got gold...it was really sweat and toil, but we made it when others say we will falter, to the malaysia trip, great fun, to con brio...esp hao qing's imba encore shouting...then farewell to matthew, promoted to Corporal, and having to take charge of the band with my batch; now, here we are...sec4s...we just finished prometheumXII, the alumni said it was good, mr oura didnt look too disappointed, and poof!thats our last prometheum for RIMB as a RIMB member...of course, we still have that japan trip and SIBF to look forward to, but thinking back at my days at RIMB, the days when i didnt really feel for the band to the day, that day, prometheum XI, when i finally felt that band is my second home, not the school, the band, i cant help but shed a few tears...RIMB, we said that you are one of the best, we are wrong, you are the best...wad makes us special is not that 17 gold SYF streak, its the brotherhood that the batches have shown, its the bonding btwn batches(there arent really any inter batch conflicts), its the heart that we put in our music...i have done my best for RIMB, my very best...but after SIBF, i really cant do anymore...at least not in a direct way lah....i really feel very sad that my time in this great band has to come to an end soon...how i hope that i can serve you for the rest of my school life, or even my life...RIMB, you made me realize wad RI is all abt...its not abt the mugging, its not abt the hours spent in school...for me, its the hours spent in the bandroom that really makes my RI life so memorable...thank you RIMB...the band cheer shall continue to be true for as long as the spirit of RIMB remains...
