♪dhStrings

I confess to losing my cool with a certain section this week on monday, but if you guys could see it from my point of view, it's really tiring to want to pull this heavy load up without it moving an inch. You guys have no idea how i badly i want everybody to do their best for SYF. You have no way of salvaging that regret that's gonna dig at your confidence for days, months and years to come should you not do your best on 20th april. Ironic when everyone's clawing their way to an honours, we're sitting in a room feeling 'sian'. Please. Dont. By the time you recover from the shock, SYF's gonna be over in a minute.

All the remedies and tips have been dished out by different people over the span of 22 posts in this blog. If you really mean to play well, i say go read the archives and take note of those things. Do whatever it takes to make you remember them. It's annoying, REALLY, to start from the bottomline every week.

Each time at sectionals, i always celebrate the little bit of improvement made over the few hours cause i can see the work. But you guys always manage to lose it bit by bit (by ignoring your instrument over 4 days? that's all it takes.), so much so that the next time you return, it's zero again. It's an absolute waste of time, when you guys could be building on from what was taught previously, and then learning how to play the piece musically instead of focusing on the technicalities.

On hindsight, sometimes i feel like i shouldnt have lost my temper with the section i was taking, but i really felt helpless at that point of time. I wanted to do so much, but the basics were not even there. Please do yourselves a huge favour and start remembering everything, AND PLEASE PRACTISE. Countless people are behind you guys so dont you ever dare to give up. Not now, when it's 7 days to SYF.

I really love SE, and i hope for everyone to do their best, because when you guys play from the heart, it truly touches.

Keep the goal in mind and go down for it. Hard. All the best.

Taxy.