Memories

First of all, I proudly declare that bty chinese orchestra has managed to achieve silver for their 2007 syf. Bravo and congratulations! It's been a tough time and long journey for them.

I managed to get an opportunity to watch their SYF thanks to Mr Sin. When i met them in the morning, i can feel that most of them feeling are quite weak, nervous, scared and worried about their syf competition. Dragging their feet as they walk. Obviously, there's a minority group of people that had this bo-chap attitude. But at least they didn't spoil anything.

When it was time for them to board the bus and load the big instruments into the lorry, one can sense that they are trying hard to take it easy. It took some time for them to settle down and board the bus, and some girls were like "yeah" posing for photos. Oh well, it's competition you know ? haha. For the lorry, they were afraid that the instruments may drop off onto the expressway so they were like looking anxiously for at least one guy to stay in the lorry. So happen that I was at that scene when they were thinking anxiously about what to do ? I just volunteer myself to do it and then Mr Sin say with 3 girls. I was like, 'don't need la'. But i was seriously wrong. The double bass will move about when the lorry went over humps so i just told the girls to hold it down.

During the ride, I suddenly felt that these 3 girls were very brave and fantastic as they were stuck in a dark place with a stranger whom they never met and the stranger is a guy some more. So i tried hard to talk abit to add humour and calm them down if needed. And halfway through the ride, i laughed at myself, because i just happened to realise that i got the best chance to destroy Chinese orchestra and it could be the only chance i have to destroy them. Hahaa

Of course i didn't. (dotz....) Upon reaching the destination i HAD to help them unload the instruments down and did i say that the lorry wasn't a lorry at all ?? Yes, it's that horrible i was so afraid of falling to the side because it was just COVERED by just a wooden plank! Come on, there wasn't the metal bars in it. Phew~.

Next stop, was the tuning room when i personally had a glorious chance to see how they tune their instruments and it was educational and they started to practise individually, and i felt pretty good. There was some silver elements in it. haha. Almost everyone was trying their best for THE BEST.

And then, after tuning, they have to proceed to 2nd floor to WAIT. While waiting i went to chat with some fellows. Oh well, some were feeling nothing, some said they feel nothing because they got too worried. Oh well.

When they left for 3rd floor, Mrs How offered me to buy me a drink with Mr Rai, so we 3 went down to grab a bite and have a drink and have a small chat over a small meal and by then we left the table to proceed to the hall, we couldn't! :( But thankfully there was a TV and a SPEAKER! I was really delighted that the speaker wasn't that bad or budget kinds so i could hear and feel most of the parts well.

After everything, i felt it's most probably a silver, but Gold was reachable and in sight too. Just that they only had one chance to show it.

After everything, most of them were RELIEVED that it's over and their conductor was like super confident. WOoah! Great!

Fast forward, announcement of results. Well, Mr Sin was soooo nervous that he nearly didn't want to attend it. Gosh. Silver!!


AHH, i am so jealous, i had never achieved that for syf. haha. hey, but i sort of joined them for celebrations! haha and got a feel of it. Yeah.!

Gosh! It's great that they are able to achive this. This is going to be part of their life forever and it will never change! :)


last Saturday, i went for a band concert and they showed this clip about children in 3rd world countries suffering. While playing a piece. It started off showing that, when we were young, we wanted to grow quickly, and when we are older, we want to be young children again where innocent lives are present.

Children, little children can they be are forced to live into slavery, live in hunger, free labour and being a prostitute? And in some countries, it just takes 6months for a girl to be infected with AIDS.

I couldn't help but was moved to tears. quietly and thought even if they managed to live on for 10 years or longer, they will have this scare of traumatizing incident/era/period of time, left in their precious memories, or worst ARE THE ABLE TO COME OUT OF THIS HARDSHIP AND STUCK FOREVER? OR LEAVE THE WORLD EVEN BEFORE THEY HAVE SEEN AND LEARNT MORE ABOUT IT? Having a childhood bad memory, is bad and horrible. When we were young, we were innocent. There's where fond childhood memories exists. But sadly,not everyone out in the world, are able to have life like this. The older we get, the longer we want our childhood days and we would to have them back. How about those children ? I think they will probably feel the same thing, but it's just that there's a bad scar in it. It's horrifying.

Therefore,i have a request for my readers out there. Do have some thought for the unfortunate ones. Start by placing them in your heart. We may be relatively young, but we can still play a part to help the them.

Memories are precious enjoy all of them!!! We too can have a choice whether to have good memories or bad. :)