Everyone was on the edge of their seats as the emcee ran down the list of results.

Orchestra no.11, RJC....





Gold.


Yes.... we were beaten, but we're not dead and still very much alive indeed.

We walked out with our heads high knowing that we have done our job.... We celebrated like true winners in Cafe Cartel, Crystal Jade and Swensons...

Other schools can take the 2 words off the results from us, but they can't take away our dignity, our pride and most importantly, our memories....

In my previous post, i mentioned something of not losing urself in this complicated world. Similarly, we must not forget why were we at the SCH. For GWH? Never. All the orchestras congregated there to celebrate music. Everyone who had put in effort in preparing for the event would walk away as true winners, regardless of the award. Yes, GWH would have added some euphoria, but such euphoria are short-lived. What can compare to the friendships, memories, spirit gained from this event? Nothing....

Only when one is able to see that the significance of results is paper-thin, then will he truly be happy.

thrid time blogging todae.... just added xue li to the links and changed my bg sound yet again... this time it is I Will Come To You by Hanson, a song tht i think i promised to put up some time ago. Lead singer was 12 yrs old when he sang this, lyrics are below...

I Will Come To You by Hanson

When you have no light to guide you
And no one to walk to walk beside you
I will come to you
Oh I will come to you
When the night is dark and stormy
You won’t have to reach out for me
I will come to you
Oh I will come to you
Sometimes when all your dreams may have seen better days
And you don’t know how or why, but you’ve lost your way
Have no fear when your tears are fallin’
I will hear your spirit callin’
And I swear I’ll be there come what may

(repeat chorus)

’cause even if we can’t be together
We’ll be friends now and forever
And I swear that I’ll be there come what may
When the night is dark and stormy
You won’t have to reach out for me
I will come to you
Oh I will come to you
We all need somebody we can turn to
Someone who’ll always understand
So if you feel that your soul is dyin’
And you need the strength to keep tryin’
I’ll reach out and take your hand

(repeat chorus)

Just watched ice age on channel 5, such a meaningful cartoon... Manfred and the baby are so cute.... the whole movie was just so moving... The filmmakers captured the true feeling of innocence.... When Manfred looked at the cave paintings and was reminded of the time when the humans hunted his herd, his eyes were big and sad. His situation contrasted ironically as he was helping the baby find his parents. While he was deep in thought, the baby or "little one" came up to him, stared at him with innocous eyes, and hugged his trunk as though trying to comfort him. It was just so touching....the beauty of innocence...

Sometimes, we are just too caught up with complications in the real world that we forget our fundamental selves. Just like Diego, the tiger who was too caught up with serving his function in the society tht he loses his true self. Humans too, like u and me, must not lose our basic selves in trying to define ourselves in society. It is just so hard nowadays to look into a person's eyes and see only innocence, cept for maybe the babies and young children.

It finally rained todae, drawing a closure to the recent heat wave. Had 8-5 prac yest. practising in the amphitheatre reminds me of RICO prac under design block and the numerous perc sectionals tht took place in the un-air-coned hall, behind the hall, in the canteen and under design block......SYF in 2 days, got to start believing even at the extent of being delusional, coz crazy ppl do crazy things.... and if we are lucky, we might go crazy:)...

Economics seem so unreal to me...(perhaps thts is why i take it) It's famous assumption of "ceteris paribus" seems to be an equivalent of an idealist saying "i dun care". lol, still, being an idealist, I can't help but facinate at this perfect concept. How I wish to assume ceteris paribus when making decisions in life.....

Went down to the library on Tues and picked up a National Geographic mag and started reading on an nice article on chasing tornadoes. It proposes an interesting analogy tht i find rather meaningful. For tornado chasers, the tornado is just like a grizzly bear. U wan to get as close as possible to examine it but u wouldn't wan to be with it on the same side of the river. So, the eqaution is simple, sometimes u get the bear and sometimes the bear gets u....

Thurs seems to be the day where i master the art of zombifying in sch, esp today, coz of the extra night prac on mon in addition to the one on wed and the fact that i slept less than 4 hrs this morn as i had to complete my PI. After sch todae, went down to Eason enterprise to get my drumsticks for SYF. woot, they're damn nice, as huge as lao zhou wans it, and stil feels light. But of course good things come at a price, $18 for a pair of sticks. o_0, but its totally worth it. SYF is coming... I shall deny the existence of homework throughout this long weekend... though tht would mean tht i would owe 2 econs essay, be behind by 2 physics tutorial, 2 chem tutorials and 1 maths tutorial. An impressive list eh, think Mr lim would forgive me for missing half his lesson and not doing his tutorial on tues if we come back with gold with honours. lol, but yeah....there are indeed much better reasons why we should come back with gold with honours... Most importantly, lets not make ourselves regret by doing hmwk instead of practising during the weekend:)