ok all my results are back!
i did FINE :D
hahaha.
msg 1 point something! :D
hc here i come.
i havent decided about the scholarship.
im a pretty lazy person.
but still.
i dont know.
its really tormenting.
and another thing is on my mind now.
i realised that after passing down focusing just on studies and still eupho abit for hmp...
in about one and a half months i can actually catch up on four years and achieve alot.
thats only 1 and a half months without nycb or any other band.
from like blocks projected marks since i didnt take blocks of 3.something...
i can get to my 1point something.
its not 1.0 i know but theres a limit to how much its possible to do in one and a half months.
and im really well chuffed. :)
if i hadnt been at band for these four years.
would it had been much better?
i missed out on alot of basics in sec 1 and perhaps sec 2.
i only realised i had to work real hard at the end of sec 2.
and then syf came along in sec 3 so i only worked hard on the second half of sec 3.
and then i was caught up with py ccband and nycb and guest performing.
enjoying a time of my life.
then i came to sec 4.
many ups and downs, with of course the biggest change and turning pt being grandma's death.
being not trusted and doubted for passion.
falling into this whole cycle of doubt and forgotten drive.
before really waking up to reality i have this one last chance to prove that i can make it and make it a good one.
i wanted that minute msg alot.
i started gearing up giving up on everything that werent related to studies.
losing half of my social life.
going more attached to my family.
resisting temptations to shop.
giving not a care to others comments of my lost passion which i didnt believed was not there.
and of course the biggest regret being py.
i knew i couldnt hold on to the 2 big pressures.
pressure #1 - being the sl of nycb keeping the standard of playing, attending every band prac to SHOW my loyalty and passion, keeping up with the juniors playing, doing the best for all the various big and small concerts.
pressure #2 - being part of py keeping up with the standard i need to have, attending every band prac no matter rain or shine, for the performances and competition. it was mainly the doubt that i couldnt keep up with the other players. the worry.
i gave up the latter. my own dream. for a place which i no longer love then.
to pick up the passion and love happened as i neared the end of being part of nycb and being in US band camp was the time where i realised i couldnt doubt the fact that i have this bit of passion and love left locked up in me not willing to show it after all the drama and politics and all the doubt.
i wouldnt say i made a wrong choice i did ended my band life in nycb fine.
but i can never turn back to py. which well is surely a huge regret.
do i still want to go back to that life now?
in a different set up, in hc?
or should i just forget it all and chong for the next 2 years in hc towards A levels?
i really dont know.
to go back to those doubtful times.
i really dont want that anymore.
theres this tinge, this little tinge, of fear.
to those days where...i guess really sucked.
as if being locked down.
not joining band means im giving up eupho inevitably.
something i will least want to.
eupho is my life part of it.
the thing that really brought joy in my life.
i rmb-ed that celine asked me why i didnt shed a tear during passing down.
i dont know.
to a certain extent i was sad to leave a place i had been there for 4 years.
with really beautiful memories. thru all the gruelling prac and hard work.
getting great seniors.
really enjoying playing eupho.
to another extent i had lost all my feeling thru being locked there in my last 2 years.
after bottling up things for too long i had forgotten what it meant to feel sad.
im doubtful of how sad i am.
in a twist of matters, it is actually a new milestone of my life in nycb, released and letting go.
im a free person.
free from anymore glares of anyone for my doubted passion after 4 years of hard work.
free from anymore comments of my attendance which is supposedly the direct proportion to how much passion i have.
free from anymore promises or doubts.
unlocked from the dead lock of doubt.
i never felt free-er in my last year at nycb.
and i can finally study and study and study.
i dont know.
im finally free now from all these i dont know doubtfull days?suffering?
i dont feel like returning it.
yet i cant let go of my eupho playing.
actually, i might shed a tear.
when i finally lose charlie.
which is why i was adamant to do well for hmp perf.
its the last thing i can do with charlie.
and i had done it.
54/60 90%.
to a certain extent its a gauge of myself.
to another extent, its just a reflection of how much i wanted to end it all happily with charlie.
a instrument who never doubted me for all the time i had it.
us was the start of my belief.
in one day of full practise i could achieve that 90% with charlie.
cause its charlie.
mutual trust.
that had left for too long from me in nycb.
thats why, perhaps i will really shed that tear for charlie when i return him to nycb.
charlie, my darling euphonium,
who performed numerous times with me on all the stages of the various concert halls,
who performed with me in both japan and US,
who performed the best and brought out the best in me each performance,
who taught me to trust again,
who taught me to belief,
who set my dreams alight,
who gave me the chance to be myself again,
who never failed me in every solo.
who reminded me of the beautiful memories of nycb,
who trusted in me.
its hard to belive,
at the end of the day,
my greatest friend at nycb is charlie.
i wouldnt have gone through all the times without charlie.
that hmp performance was for charlie.
i hope i had left the best in charlie as well.
my darling euphonium who reminded me to trust again.
i dont know if i can find a instrument like that again.
i must not impulse this time.
and really think through about hcband.
and results.
dwelling away from my msg topic to charlie...
oh wells.
i will call how much i put into charlie, my passion.