Band. Rocks.

Dear Hazyzk,

Today, I went to band practice. Today's band practice was one of the most important practice yet as we had to record the march past. The Singapore Youth Festival is in April, and every Performing Arts group in Singapore is training their very best to get the Gold with Honours award. For the Symphonic Band category, one of the requirements is to record a march past and a few basic marching commands. During the march past, we have to play a simple given piece. Of course all of that did not matter to me much but our marching uniform is no ordinary march uniform. In fact, it is not a marching uniform. It is a concert uniform. Long pants, pointed low-heeled shoes, long-sleeved shirt, blazers and tie. Luckily our march past is in the morning and the fact that our school is on the seaside meant that both the morning breeze and sea breeze is slapping on our faces. For me marching is quite a fun thing to do, if it involves some walking movement or music. If it was 'sedia' or 'senang diri' commands all day, then it would be a waste of time. After all that marching, we had our one hour break instead of the usual half and hour break. After that, there was a combined practice. Our practice was on the set piece for SYF. Our conductor had a hard time getting us to perfect our tonging. Our conductor is pretty fussy about small details but we understand that since the judges are ten times more fussier. Overall, I think the band did a pretty good job today. At least there is progress. Our conductor had to leave early and our Band Major did not want to release us early nor did he know what he want us to do. So he let us have our individual practice anywhere within the school premises. After the march, I though it will be best for me to get some more of that breeze so I decided to go to the highest non-obstructed area in the school. That was of course the seventh level of the classroom building facing the field. Unlike the other levels, the seventh level did not have that metal window thing to prevent rain from entering. My peaceful practice went so smoothly until some boys from the trumpet section who was supposed to be at the fifth level scared me to hell by creeping up from the back. I was facing the field the whole time so did not realize it if somebody crept up to me from the corridor. At debrief, the band majors punished those who came late as usual. Our teacher-in-charge came in for debrief late as she got a surprise for us. She said she thought perhaps we needed a break and bought us 75 apple pies from MacDonald's. YUMMY! I really enjoyed band today as I did not even get into trouble.

Anyway this is the end of this assignment, I am Haziq and I approved this message.