hmmm...ppl have been asking me this question over and over again,"arent you tired of band? why not join another CCA?"..in fact, i have asked myself this question numerous times..8 years in band is seriously a pretty long time for anyone to have stayed in a single cca..yet, i have always managed to come up with the answer to that question to convince myself that i have made the correct choice to continue band as my main cca in RJC..we start with my batchmates..its really hard not to like one another after so much we have been thru and all the bonds we have formed over the years..sure, there were the low points such as NBC when we were comfortable to be with our batchmates, with their encouragement..but we have also enjoyed each other's presence in times of achievement..i wld have felt dull if my batch wasnt having that mass convo when we got 82% for SIBF, i wld have felt dull if my batch wasnt that to celebrate the success of both prometheums and i CERTAINLY would have felt dull if we didnt go to japan together as a batch..so, premise one, my batch is amazing, kickass, godlike, beyond godlike, 'nuff said...the second premise will have to be the conductor, mr oura..sure, he might not like me as much as say jerald, eric or samuel, but it is certainly an honour to work under him, to play for him, to perform WITH him...to me, band wldnt be band if mr oura isnt our conductor...in terms of musical skills, hes definitely up there with the top of the cream of the crop in Singapore, if not Asia...but wads made him really the reason for why i loved band in secondary school was because he was more than a conductor, more than just a mentor..he single-handedly made band fun for me, at the very least..i looked forward to band more than ever under him and im sure that RJCSB and RIMB will be very much different without mr oura..hence, conclusion is that band is definitely the place to be in..true, i may not know how floorball would have been like..it might be more fun than band...i will never know...but the fact remains that band will ALWAYS be fun..stanely said that house=fun...i say that band=fun:)
okay..lets go on to orientation...ystd was really amazing...the opening was FANTASTIC..especially the part where they had so many school uniforms being displayed dancing some dance(think its our batch dance?)...yes, there might be more RI and RGS uniforms than the rest out there,but the fact that they actually bothered to do such a thing of combining all the uniforms together really displays the sincerity of welcoming the non-rafflesians to the raffles family..great job guys..i really think that my OG is pretty fantastic..the guys are pretty much bonded together, even though i dunt really know marc, weisiang and shawn bfore this...the girls are also quite open and together..even though we didnt manage to win any of the competitions these two days, im sure that it has been a pretty fun time for all of us..since station games are too typical to blog about, i shall talk about the EA we had today! it was pretty original for the orientation comms to have thought of this amazing race format..esp the checking out time and locations, as they basically force us to think of our route bforehand, lest we find ourselves in an area far frm the checkout point when the checkout time limit is just round the corner...vincent was really amazing today, helping us alot and really doing a good job navigating us around...GREAT JOB VINCENT...i think that we wouldnt have been able to do most of the events as quickly as we had if vincent wasnt here..i just hope that one of us can take the initiative tmr during war games and dunt rely on vincent all the time...its really hard on him to have to be responsible for the results of the group if we just expect him to lead..but still, it was good job today..managed to checked out first at esplanade..and having a short tea/waffle break at gelare...hope tomorrow will be better and i get to know my OG better...
