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Winston Zhang
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
21:55:00
Heard from a couple of places that it's the one-year anniversary of AMKSS Band's historic Gold with Honours achievement.
Have to say it never really occured to me. Nevertheless it still ranks as the greatest achievement I've had in my short life so far.
Those days were crazy... Hectic, tiring, disappointing, euphoric, almost every emotion a human being can experience.
The run-up to the day was the craziest. If I'm not wrong April 12 2007 was a Thursday. The three days in the week preceding that fateful day all contained tests. Now, while I never really did very well for tests and exams in upper sec, I usually cared when I did well or not. However that wasn't the case that week. The tests consisted of one English, one Chem and one A Math test, if I'm not wrong. The A Math one was on one of the few topics I actually could do... English was English, no biggie... But I'm pretty sure I totally fudged the Chem test. There was a practice on the day of the Chem test... I remember it was an all-round bad day because I was pissed over the Chem test and THEN had a bad practice. Sounded like crap, I did.
Nevertheless I didn't really care on the whole. SYF was SYF after all.
The day is just a blur in my mind now; I still remember some details but on the whole the whole day went by just like that. Got there, checked in, waited for our turn, played, got off, MaccyD breakfast. Then went in to hear some other bands, and I was so exhausted that I fell asleep halfway through. Then result-time, tense as hell, announcement, sheer exaltation, then the 'fallout' of the euphoria. I remember BT bought us all chocolate bars earlier, and that I didn't start on mine until we were on the bus back to school. Remember offering some to Clara and the other section members.
That's all I remember. Some details, like the choccy one, I don't know why I remember them. Great day, it was.
Winning the top honour was of course the main reason for my happiness on the day, but there were also other underlying factors to my joy, the hugest of which was Vindication (yes, with a capital V). I've talked about this before, the vindication of my methods, of my ideas and of my ideals.