In my last post, I wrote, "I must be the luckiest guy on Earth to break my cello 3 days before SYF."

Today morning, I thought otherwise. Zhao Kai is luckier than me to lose his concert attire on the day of SYF.

But he got spare shirt from Adriel, spare pants from Adi, and spare socks and shoes from Matthew. Case closed. So lucky, seriously. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting to be screwed by Mr. Sze.

Therefore, I am still the luckiest guy in the world to break my cello 3 days before SYF.

Ok.. Lets talk about SYF...

We've got bronze

Just kidding... Obviously we've got the HONOURS!!!! Poor band. Their judging was super strict. Out of the ~150 schools, only like 2-3 schools got honours. For string ensembles, out of the 12 schools, 5 got honours.

Here are the results:
1. Dunman Secondary -- Bronze
2. ACS(I) -- Gold with Honours (damn!!!)
3. Raffles Institution -- GOLD WITH HONOURS!!
4. Raffle Girls school -- Gold (poor thing* read below)
5. CHIJ St. Nicks -- Gold with Honours (damn)
6. Nanyang Girls High -- Gold with Honours
7. Methodist Girls School -- Gold
8. St. Margaret's -- Bronze
9. Tanjong Katong Girls School -- Silver
10. Nan Chiau High -- Gold(woah)
11. Dunman High -- Gold with Honours
12. Chinese High -- Gold

It is arranged in order of appearance, but I might be wrong. I don't really know the schedule for the later part. I would also like to add a note here: NEVER PLAY MOZART FOR SYF, ESPECIALLY THE BLOODY EINE KLEINE!

*I really sympathise with RGS. They are a good ensem, they didn't get the honours both time. Today, they are the only school to leave the hall right after they finish playing, and when they got back, they received a scolding from their teacher in charge, Sylvia Khoo, who said that their attitude sucks and they should have gotten a silver instead. They had to go for lessons when they went back to school too. Haiz...

The gold with honours award for strings is cheapened. ACS and Dunman shouldn't have gotten it. Dunman's playing is surprisingly boring, and ACS pieces are nice because it already has a nice melody in it. They played carmen fantasy. According to my seniors, their techniques sucks, and they rush. St Nicks played well, but crap... I was hoping my sister's school didn't get the honours so that i can suan her. Damn!! Last of all, Nanyang got honours, and they really deserved it. I think they were the best ensemble around today, cos we screwed up some parts. Most importantly, their conductor is the same as ours. Haha, Mr. Sze is the ownage. All his 3 schools got honours, the 3rd one being Victoria JC. Hat trick!!

Okay, now I should talk about negative stuff. They stage crew this year was like crap!! Yunfei left the conductor's baton on the stand, the next 2 schools can laugh at RI for their stupidity and Mr. Sze couldn't use it to rehearse with Nanyang. Secondly, the scores were all placed in the wrong place, even though they had numbers on them. Thirdly, the cello stoppers were placed in the smartest way ever --- Upside down. I mean, who doesn't have the common sense to put a stopper the right side up? Don't they know that the hole is for the cello spike and not for facing the ground? Lastly, Jon Yu, the guy who was supposed to be Mr. Sze's personal assistant was so ineffective that Mr. Sze has to do things himself.

We kinda screwed up our playing on stage. My hands were freezing and sweating at the same time. Our playing was certainly not our best, and were quite scared too while waiting for our results. But the point is we got it (guitar ensem got it too) and everyone's happy.

Hurray!