Haven't posted in a while, whoops. Been too busy with too many things! Currently multi-tasking with blogging, Twitter, MSN and Bio (which isn't too healthy, but I'm focusing mostly on Bio).

FOA has just ended on 16 July. That was the mark of the official stepping down date of the Sec 4s. Well I guess the reality hasn't really set in yet, especially since I'm still sending out announcements to the ensemble and I'm still receiving emails and texts with questions from juniors. What I'm feeling inside is mixed; I'm happy to be passing down the duties to the Sec 3s, but I'm also sad that my term is over, so quickly. I never knew that one year could pass by so fast. But of course, the past one year in NYSE has been by far the best learning experience I've ever had. I'm so used to all the rushing, all the worrying, all the recording down of details, that now when it's time to step down, I think I'll need time to adjust to the freedom that I will suddenly have.

Over the past year, NYSE has changed me to become a more responsible, alert and on-task person. Now I find myself feeling uneasy when there's work undone, and I will finish all I intend to do before going to sleep. I really want to thank Mr Sze and the teachers, Mrs Ho and Mr Lee for their continuous guidance and coaching for me. I wouldn't have been able to learn as much without them all. In the future when I look back in my childhood, I know that NYSE will take up a large part of my memories, because it has moulded me so much into what I am today.

There are so many things which I'll miss in NYSE: lying in M404 and just talking with my closest batchmates, marvelling at the large space of M404 and being proud that our room is so much more cleaner and empty than the others, opening M4ST2 to get the key to the bass cabinets, staying in M4ST2 talking, having sectionals in M4ST2, running into M4ST2 to get the bass stools, opening my own bass cabinet, taking and putting my bass into the bass cabinet, playing the school's bass with the oh-so-heavy extension on the scroll, clapping and counting for sectionals. What I'll really miss most is all the times when we all had fun during sectionals, during the full ensemble rehearsals, together with Mr Sze, laughing at his jokes, enjoying the making of our own music. I'll always remember all these precious memories. Music has always been a major part of my life, and NYSE just magnified that part of my life. I'm so glad I joined NYSE, totally no regrets :) Once a part of NYSE, always a part of NYSE.

With the stepping down from NYSE, I realised that there are a lot of "lasts": last time wearing the NYSE gown for a performance, last time performing with NYSE, last time playing under the baton of Mr Sze, last time leading the section, last time having a rehearsal with Mr Sze... the list is endless, and I really don't want it to be the end, now that it has actually come. Thinking about it now just makes me so sad ): Things won't be the same without NYSE...

Thank you, NYSE, for everything you've brought me in the past four years.


"Thank you for your hard work. We will all miss you."

Haven't posted in a while, whoops. Been too busy with too many things! Currently multi-tasking with blogging, Twitter, MSN and Bio (which isn't too healthy, but I'm focusing mostly on Bio).

FOA has just ended on 16 July. That was the mark of the official stepping down date of the Sec 4s. Well I guess the reality hasn't really set in yet, especially since I'm still sending out announcements to the ensemble and I'm still receiving emails and texts with questions from juniors. What I'm feeling inside is mixed; I'm happy to be passing down the duties to the Sec 3s, but I'm also sad that my term is over, so quickly. I never knew that one year could pass by so fast. But of course, the past one year in NYSE has been by far the best learning experience I've ever had. I'm so used to all the rushing, all the worrying, all the recording down of details, that now when it's time to step down, I think I'll need time to adjust to the freedom that I will suddenly have.

Over the past year, NYSE has changed me to become a more responsible, alert and on-task person. Now I find myself feeling uneasy when there's work undone, and I will finish all I intend to do before going to sleep. I really want to thank Mr Sze and the teachers, Mrs Ho and Mr Lee for their continuous guidance and coaching for me. I wouldn't have been able to learn as much without them all. In the future when I look back in my childhood, I know that NYSE will take up a large part of my memories, because it has moulded me so much into what I am today.

There are so many things which I'll miss in NYSE: lying in M404 and just talking with my closest batchmates, marvelling at the large space of M404 and being proud that our room is so much more cleaner and empty than the others, opening M4ST2 to get the key to the bass cabinets, staying in M4ST2 talking, having sectionals in M4ST2, running into M4ST2 to get the bass stools, opening my own bass cabinet, taking and putting my bass into the bass cabinet, playing the school's bass with the oh-so-heavy extension on the scroll, clapping and counting for sectionals. What I'll really miss most is all the times when we all had fun during sectionals, during the full ensemble rehearsals, together with Mr Sze, laughing at his jokes, enjoying the making of our own music. I'll always remember all these precious memories. Music has always been a major part of my life, and NYSE just magnified that part of my life. I'm so glad I joined NYSE, totally no regrets :) Once a part of NYSE, always a part of NYSE.

With the stepping down from NYSE, I realised that there are a lot of "lasts": last time wearing the NYSE gown for a performance, last time performing with NYSE, last time playing under the baton of Mr Sze, last time leading the section, last time having a rehearsal with Mr Sze... the list is endless, and I really don't want it to be the end, now that it has actually come. Thinking about it now just makes me so sad ): Things won't be the same without NYSE...

Thank you, NYSE, for everything you've brought me in the past four years.


"Thank you for your hard work. We will all miss you."