Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Hi.
So this will be a serious post. Though all of mine are. Sorry if you don't agree, anyway if there is a post that'll get me hated for the rest of my life, it's probably this one.
So. Basically I think we are not doing enough as a batch. That's the main point.
I'm not sure if I'm right to think this, but I think if we had really taken into consideration EVERY WORD Mr Goh has said, I'm sure we won't be back to square one EVERY SINGLE WEEK. Every week we do the same piece over and over again. If we got something right last week, it just goes whoosh! and magically (abracadabra) disappears, when we play. I observe that of myself sometimes too, so it's not really a blame game. No matter what you feel about the teacher, as students, it is our job to at least strive for ourselves. Never mind the teacher, never mind the seniors, never mind the batchmates, before we think about any of them we NEED to CARE about is ourselves (sorry if it sounds wrong. as in it sounds selfish. the world is selfish. so there. besides, we should not be striving for meeting others' expectations, but for our own). Everything you do, you must strive to be the best, the best not in comparison to others, but the best you can be.
I suggest to avoid repeating the mistakes we could write on our scores (as long as it isn't the original) and it'd be easier for us to take notice of our previous mistakes. Furthermore, we can have a tiny notebook, maybe just one-side-printed paper cut into strips and folded and stapled into a minimini book then we can write down his comments for stuff like scales and such.
Then I personally find it rather hard to get everyone's responses towards a certain topic. I understand that you may be busy and so on, but come on, will going online for 5 minutes kill you??? Maybe it will. Will going to the class tray, just a short walk, to hand in a form, kill you? Only if you had a heart attack or something, I guess. That's beside the point. Just that I gave out the forms for batch name and not everyone has given me back though its wed and i requested it friday. So... ASAP, ok? We need to find ways to discuss, or make decisions regarding important stuff like THE FAREWELL OHTENNNNNNNNN. I don't know how, but I hope you 1. won't hesitate to voice out STRONG OBJECTIONS. 2. understand that sometimes we do have to make compromises, but all the same, everybody's input, be it negative or positive feedback, DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. :) 3. no matter the final decision, put in our BEST.
Then, erm... during indiv, we really slack quite a lot, so we should practise more? And my personal take on practising as a band is that we are certain we can play our individual parts to the best we can, then as a band, when we play, we blend and it'll be faster to play the best we can as a band, as compared as unpolished parts coming as a whole. So before we play pieces we could make sure we are ready and don't hesitate to say you need more time. Sorry I wasn't that cooperative sometimes, but that's because I didn't feel we were ready to play. But next time I will try my best to understand and play. Sorry!
Lastly, (btw this is nothing to do with the above)
I want to say thank you for all those who have conferred with me, talked to me, assured me, and so on. Thank you for being there at least to talk to and listen. And I want to say sorry to whoever I have hurt with my words or actions. Sorry. Sorry you have to bear with me with the rest of the 3 1/2 years. Sorry I hurt you.
Hope we'll one day be as bonded, happy and united like the other batches! :)
Batch XIII
breaking the MUSIC.
7:12 PM
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