Saturday, February 24, 2007
heyhey people! im back to blog here =) so basically today we had the Music Appreciation Workshop, planned and fully run by Mr Dzul and his friends. I think it was really successful and we should thank all of them. So now J2's good luck for your common tests, hope u'll get yr desired grades and then come back and be prepared for the full blast of practice for SYF. J1's do treasure yr practice without the j2's because you can grab the chance to ask Mr Dzul all about playin the angklung etc etc. Hope you all can benefit and play better when we join you all again!
Speaking about SYF, some of you may not have had the experience of taking part in SYF before. Simply want to share some little stuff. SYF is a very important competition for all the performing arts group. If anyone of you think that you are insignificant and your prescence does not make a difference, you are absolutely wrong. Everyone matters, we are accountable for each other, we are not lone rangers, we are team players. We improve as a whole ensemble, we cannot improve alone. Set aside some time and think, are you takin part in SYF for the nice cert that you want to have? if that is the case, please change that mindset. As what Mr Dzul said today,its the passion. the passion for playing. it may sound ridiculous, but if you play for the sake of playing, u're just letting everyone down. As ive said again & again,and the teachers have mentioned it for countless times, its the team. We work as a team.
Our goal this year is gold with honors. whether isit possible its all up to us. Its always good to aim high. because you'll work for it. Trust me this SYF experience be it your first or your last will sure make a difference. Just to share, ive been through two SYf's. the last one hit me real hard. real real hard. Both times were with a different group of people. Both times left me with different feelings and reflections. The second one, with the strong desire to maintain the previous standard, we set all out. However, we failed to achieve our goal. We aimed high but failed to reach it. Partly i feel was due to the lack of desire, the burning desire in the team to achieve the common goal. i'll leave out the details, but the learnin point ive got is everyone, each and everyone has to have the same strong burning desire to achieve the target set. If not targets are just useless if only some people want it. If the goal to achieve Gold wif honors is jus the exco's the teacher's and Mr Dzul's, its insufficient.
somehow everyone has to have the same burning desire.sounds like im crapping but its jus what i feel.two yrs in college u only get one chance at SYF. its yr last chance at SYF.no more after this.Treasure it, give it your all, nothing to lose when you give it your all, better than not and then later on regret. I hope that this post makes sense.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke.
Dont tink that the goal is impossible, have a positive and optimistic attitude, venture into the impossible to look for the limit of possible.
i may be fierce during practices but if you guys have any stuff which you tink will help everyone, feel free to tell me, or if u realli dislike me so much talk to the excos. alright see you guys at the next practice =)
-xuesi-