Holidays - A time that allows those who deserves to be pampered, a rest; and a time that allows those who’re challenged by time and personal efforts, a time to wake up and start working.

I've been trying my best to work out my hectic schedule of my June Holidays, 2008. What's laid in front of me is a stretch of strenuous road. Tedious, it may seems, but nevertheless I'd have to find fun amidst all these extra burdens in our lives, and somehow try to survive the following months to come. These extra work might have started long time ago but I've only been feeling it's stress on me recently. If not for God's strength, I'd not have survived 2 migraines and the amount of workload piled on my shoulders for the past week. You might think that what I'm facing isn't that bad as compared to others to a certain extent. Yes, I agree. However, given my mental stamina and capabilities, it's a marvellous feat! Never in my life I dared to say that I can survive these stress! One week have passed, but I dare not mention about whether I would be able to do well for the following time to come.
Below was my time-table for the 1st week of the June holidays.

Monday: O-level Chinese, Paper 1 and 2, and followed by Add-math tuition.
Tuesday - Thursday: O-level Music Composition Camp
Friday: Start of my holidays' lessons. (Time for me to catch up with whatever I've missed the past 3 days during the camp.)
Friday - Saturday: Church music ministry retreat, immediately after school. (Time for reflections and rest.)

I must say that the passed week can be considered as a reward from God, or rather, a week that was filled with God's Blessings! No doubt O-level was torturing, but I survived! Yes, I'd a really great partner called Rachel during the O-level Music Composition Camp! (Despite her really bad first impression on me on the first day. She said, "Gosh! He's from Crescent?!") Though many of my friends have been complaining about their partners, but I'm thankful that the camp still ended quite smoothly. I'd admit that the last concert was quite screwed up, but many bear with it with the mindset thinking that "The audience don't know how it's meant to be. They'll still treat them as music!" Rewarding? It definitely was. I've never dared to write weird 20th century chords in my compositions! Never have I dared played it during piano lessons or music exchanges organised by my music school! Now that the workshop have given me an insight of how 21st century music's supposed to sound like, I'd say that it've been an eyeopener for me! Yes, improvising was what I've been doing since I joined the Music Ministry 3 years ago without anyone teaching me how to. But writing down was really a challenge! And I did just that.

Oh! This is really dumb. The St. Hilda and Fairfield teachers didn't know that most of the Crescent Music students are sec 4, Higher Music students till the last day after the performance! So the Crescent group indirectly sabotaged ourselves by allowing the 2 St.Hildan's sec 4 Higher Music students (who came down specially to sightread our pieces) to screw our heavenly pieces. Bet more than 7 Crescent Girls' School music students (including me) actually complained about it!

Pictures of the Music Composition Workshop's Uploaded!!@
http://photobucket.com/crankychords

Returned home really late that Thursday night. Good old grief. What took the bus so long?! Found myself dead-tired on the bed, talking to one of my music classmates and without the will to sleep, the minute I stepped into the house (after washing up that is). Sleeping's still a must, and I did just that! Only an hour later than expected.

Chemistry practical lesson was really cool! I've found my playful-self once again after losing it for more than a year now. Mixing chemicals and than heating them have been my lab-hobbies! Apparently not following the given instructions and sometimes getting minor sparks flying out of my test tube can be quite fun (Try it on your own risk out of your teacher's sight!) if you view it from a child's point of view! I seriously doubt one would consider the worst-case scenario at such an age. Add-math was torturing! Lonely? Indeed. Reason to isolate myself? I need to catch up with my work! Tough? Very. Disastrous? CERTAINLY!

However, amidst all these work, I've found a time for myself at the Music ministry's retreat. I wasn't enthusiastic about it at all, but the sharing I had with John during bedtime was certainly worth it. Contents shared are absolute personal.

Sunday's coming soon but it'll leave as quickly as well. Soon it'll be monday, followed by those intensive O-level extra lessons. I'd not hope that i will do well, but I'd hope that I will score the way I should for O-levels, and to have quiet time every now and then to allow me a time to respite and reflect before moving on at full-gear. Friends can perform miracles.

Had our last lunch together before the music ministry dispersed to their different groups at Junction 8. I bet many of us saw a sign outside the MRT station's exit saying something cute!
Here's a picture of it!

A picture speaks a thousand words.
However, this one shown here only reflects 5-definite words.

Points to note: Junction 8 is still opened and running! Don't be scammed!