Yessss I beat sgfusion at posting the results haha. They super chit mah fillingz -.- Ethel, Chloe, Hillary, Jerald and I were conferencing for almost an hour before they announced results live. Thanks Jiayun and Guoling for letting us know the results.

Sigh I don't know what to say... 3rd sounds pretty nice and encouraging. But Silver sounds... painful.

No mood to do anything now D: But must must do physics spa if not quah will chop my head off. Gahh.

SIBF 08

I know you are all expecting a post on Cadenza but NO :D I'm a procrastinator so that will come later.

Right now, I just want to say that:
01 I have alot of butterflies in my tummy
02 I cried today after SIBF! Ohmygosh does that mean I'm not numb anymore?
03 Everyone believed me when I told them we were in band uniform because today was International Band Day. HAHA nice one Ethel (:
04 One hour and nine minutes left -screams-
05 I love RGSSBatch 08!!
06 No matter what the results are I AM PROUD OF YOU RGSSB

And I want you guys to be proud of yourselves too. You deserve to. You guys have come a really long way, and in the past few weeks through all the intense prac, the striving so hard towards a common dream (Cadenza&SIBF)... we've improved so much. And we are actually able to make music, together. It doesn't matter if you've screwed up on a personal level, or if we could have done better at the performance/competition itself. Pride yourself in knowing that we have given our best shot, and that is more than enough.

To batch 10

To my dearest little direct juniors,

I regret not saying this earlier and not telling you guys, but
I LOVE YOU ALL ♥ VERY,VERY MUCH. And I appreciate every single one of you. It's been most amazing having you guys in band, having all of us working so hard towards a common goal and dream - Cadenza. And most of all, seeing you guys put in so much time and effort into band, seeing your passion for music grow by the day. Please stop crying okay! D: You have to stay strong... Will write you guys a nice long letter very soon. Hang in there, it's not the end of the world yeah? Work hard towards SIBF (:

With love,
your direct, delise yang.

Roses, roses cold

I admit it. I zi-high too much. So much so that I get bouts of surreality oh so often. Nothing sinks in. I didn't feel like Cadenza was here; I don't feel that this is happening.
It scares me.

This is bad, because when the emotions finally emerge they do so in waves. Really, giant, waves.

this is not the best of times

From Chloe (I love you!):

Cadenza XI is over
(There are a million and one ways to say the above sentence, hence a punctuation mark I shan't provide.)
I am incapable of expressing my emotions in words when I am brimming with them.

It wasn't our best rendition of all the songs but nevertheless, it was awesome overall - no major screwups and no major mishaps that occurred. I positively felt a little of the RGSSB magic onstage and for that, I am immensely thankful. I know I screwed up a bit here and there because I was already rather tired from the morning's band practice, but I enjoyed myself onstage, and although time flew by really really quickly, I treasured every moment that whooshed by. Mr Oura's numerous smiles were priceless too (: The cohesiveness of the band was almost tangible in the music, in encouraging, in the moving of instruments, in cooperation in every aspect. I'm so proud of horns 08 clarinets 08, of bandits 08 and of course, RGSSB 08. We shook SCH and walked off the stage with pride (:

So, this is it. Our last concert with the band (SIBF not counted). It still feels rather surreal that something we've worked so hard for over the past 7 months has come and is gone so quickly. I dreaded the whole preparation which was such an arduous feat but now, being plunged back into the harsh reality of tests, homework and PTs... I really prefer a whole week of band practices, and the whole pre-concert feeling again.

Sorry for koping! I can't find the words to post myself yet
Mann I just read two batchmates' blogs and I'm tearing again
Thank you's and the pathetic number of photos another time I'm really so exhausted

I wish yesterday never ended cos then today would never have come