My last concert came to an official end on 28th March 2010@ Esplanade Concert Hall. It is really my last cos after 27 June 2010, the title of "band teacher" would go down history as this is a position i would never take up again.

It was heartening to know that my JCians enjoyed their performance on stage cos this is one of the objectives of the concert.

Of course i had heard comments abt this concert. I understand and accept the different feedback. In fact, it was all within expectations. And all these feedback threw me back into the initial dilemma again. They kept me thinking for days, after the concert,till i realised i'm going in circles. In the end,i gave up. The main reason for me giving up was, all the thinking was affecting in a -ve manner, to the extent that i dreaded going for wed prac......

For the entire month of March, it was solely devoted to band concert preparation. There were so many ups and downs but i was grateful for the pple who were there with me thru'out.

The most memorable moments were spent in band camp, with the jcians. Tho every night, there was a late night discussion and a crisis which ocurred that made me miss my NODAME!!! midnight show!!!! on sat (2nd day of band camp,was supposed to watch with uncle sim) but the crisis was more pressing. We had mcdonald's supper on 2nd night till 3am plus plus, and before that, i was engaged in a 5hr discussion with uncle sim on the concert rehearsal schedule. Come to think of it,i dun really recall what we had discussed. But i dun think for the entire 5 hrs,we were concentrating solely on the schedule. Oh well. nvr mind.

3rd day of band camp,haha,got personalized mcdonald's breakfast delivery from uncle sim. It was REALLY sweet of him and also for remembering how many packets of creamer n sugar i need for my tea :) so i shall forgive him for not answering my morning calls on that sun (the 1st time i ever encounter someone who ask me to give morning calls but dun wake up :P)

Over the 3 days of band camp, we shared a lot with each other. Or rather, it was more of him sharing with me his unhappiness rather than me saying anything. I think it is nice to be given the chance to understand each other better.

After that, i left for Shanghai and it was REALLY NICE of him to remember that i'm returning on sat cos he sent me an sms to ask me abt the trip n once again, there was quite some nonsense going on via sms.

We went to Starbucks with Chen Lin on 26th Mar and stayed till ard 12.30am. Cracked lots of joke n talked nonsense again. i realised we were always talking nonsense :P actually i did not know he was waiting for me to leave on 26th mar till he came to ask me "are you done?" cos i was happily counting $$. haha

the next SWEET thing that he did for this month was he gave me a bottle of chicken essence on concert day. It was TOTALLY unexpected but it was a sweet gesture.

on 31st mar,that naughty brian n joel wanted to go home n leave me n uncle sim at mcdonald to discuss the exco list.OMG!but luckily we all went and had a long discussion. the long discussion was mostly between joel n uncle,cos brian n i were too restless n so we ended up talking to each other.

as i looked back,i realised we spent a lot of time together this month,sharing each other's growth n experiences. It was nice and it certainly helps in our working relationship.

now that the concert is over, there are still things to do:
1) Band Dinner preparatio
2)Induction of Ex-Co n leaders
3)teaching n learning
4)arts enrichment framework
5)activities for h1cl Arts students
6)band trip

I realised there are really lots to complete before i leave :(