Band Camp and then ...

Just finished Band Camp on saturday past. It was a short camp, basically a fun bonding camp for the band after the new sec 3 batch takes over the band. It was good, seeing how the sec 3 leaders and cohort develop their styles, and come into their leadership skills. One highlight, I should say, was showing the band this documentary on the Berlin Philharmonic. It is one of the world's greatest orchestra, and it is a musical group that we want to learn from and emulate. Indeed, from the reflections written by the boys after the viewing, I think they have learnt the success factors and lessons well. This augurs well for the future of our band.

It's also good to see the old boys and this year's sec 4s come back to have fun in the camp bbq and stay over. They were like strumming away on the guitars, playing away on the piano, and watching midnight movies in the music room, and surfing blogs and youtubes. Basically, it's like a nice night of pure lazing around and fun. It's a good form of stress release after 1 whole week of intensive hols lessons, i think, and a good get together for them again in the context of band friends, esp when all are so stressed in preparing for JC midyear and Sec 4 Prelims 2 after the hols. All had fun, i should say. It was a good band camp overnight - did not really sleep at all, just like in student days. But I must say that i m getting really old - I started nodding off to sleep in the midst of lunch the next day at Breeks.

Conged out immediately when I reached home, and slept for the whole of Sat, missing another friend's BBQ in the process. Angie and Seyean actually called at bout 9pm that night, asking when I was gona reach the BBQ. I think I mumbled something into the phone, and went off the slumberland again. Only woke up at bout noon on Sunday. So, that was seriously a feat - sleeping almost 1 entire day. It was a good sleep though, a real deep sleep, because I woke up finally feeling really refreshed and rested, not having felt like that for some days at length.

So there, now I am still having to decide on my Tokyo hotel ... whether to part with 2K and enjoy a luxury stay, or to part with 1.2K and have a run-of-the-mill stay.