Entry #17 My favorite memory

Hmm there's a lot of nice memories to think about. But I guess most of the nicest ones are from my band days.

First there's the wins of the competitions. The practices are hell and then the competitions come and you just pray for the best and give your everything during the performance. Then the wait for the results. Most of the times we would already be so freaking exhausted but we still have to stand proud and keep our heads up.

And so we pray, and when our name was announced as the winner, the best colorguards, the best percussion, best sound, the cheers of the supporters are deafening and you want to scream too, but no, hold it in, you're still in line. Tears might already fall but still you wait. Everything is announced and the drum major gives the command to keluar baris and only then do you scream all your hearts out. Whoever was standing around you gets hugged and you forget all the tiredness and even if you disliked someone from the team you love them at that moment because you've won.

So yeah, that's one of my favorite memories. I was lucky to never experience defeat too. I feel so bad for my juniors who did experience that, so I did my best to cheer them up at that time.

Ah speaking of band, I was also lucky enough to get solos. Well, technically none of them were really solos but it was a moment for me to shine a bit and I liked to think they were solos muehehehe.

One of them was during Form 2 but I hated that one because of some people. I'm not gonna talk about that. There's also one during Form 4 but that was a whole pitt solo and I loved it.

The one I remember was during a concert and we had this song we never played before and somehow I got the glockenspiel mini solo part together with the tubas. The first time I practiced this with Sir I got the beat right (thank goodness for Finale) but then he asked me "Bb?" and I was like "... um yeah" but actually I just realized that it was flat because I didn't notice the key signature so I played natural the first time lol.

It wasn't too difficult and I didn't get scolded a lot over it and when it was time to perform I think the crowd even clapped after the mini solo. So yeah, I liked that feeling hihi.

And of course all the countless memories with my friends in band. There's too many to think of and if I do think about it too long it would be a trip down memory lane. So I'll stop here.