School took a very long time to end today cause of literature consolidation. Its not as bad as it sounds. Literature consolidation doesn't mean remedials. It just kinda means like extra lessons that everyone has to go for. Literature lesson, I shall say, wasn't that bad. We studied an interesting poem by Wilfred Owen which outlined the terror, the pressure and the expectations of being a soldier back in WWI, Britain. It was pretty dark and morbid, characteristic of this particular poet. Made me kinda think about life in school. The terror of failing, the pressure from the teachers and parents, not to mention the expectations of the family too. I could think of and draw out many parallels between life as a soldier in WWI and life as a student in Singapore. This left me pretty discouraged when looking at my life.
Training after consolidation was good though. Quite a contrast to the rest of the day. I felt really good and had a lot of fun training with the team. Sometimes I think to myself, playing in the softball team is so much simpler than leading and singing in a choir. All I have to do is to hit well, field well and catch well. Simple. Choir is so much more complicated. There's the singing component, worrying about the part I'm singing. Am I singing it right? Am I singing loud enough? Then there's the leading part, worrying about the morale of the choir, worrying about the politics going on in the choir. Its complicated.
I wonder how you cope with it all. Politics are so tiring. I remember the time when you shared with me your problems about politics in the choir too. Deep inside I felt quite thankful that I didn't have your problems to deal with. Well I guess what comes around goes around. Its my turn now to face those problems. Oh well, you survived, and I will too.
Hoping you're coping fine with your studies and choir,
twistedshaft.
06/04/09
the results for the blocks should be out now, i know you'll do just fine.
