Saturday, December 29, 2007

A Close Shave and some reflections...

Whew! Had a close shave with the Law last night. Took a risk, or rather, a stupid one I must say. All because of wanting to chase the 135 and 154 buses at Paya Lebar Mrt Station. Can't understand why the 2 buses always come together?! the only 2 buses I can take to my house..

Anw, I saw the 2 buses arrive at the mrt bus stop and started to give chase. knowing fully well I wouldn't be able to make it, I looked ahead to the next bus stop which wasn't very far away, just after the traffic light. So i thot why not? try to dash to the next bus stop since both buses were stuck at the traffic light. in order to get there, i needed to cross both sides of the road. Of course, one side would be 'Red man' light rite? HAHA. and can you imagine who was at the traffic light?

1 x traffic police on his motorbike.

YES. he was stuck at the traffic light together with the buses; the one which when i crossed was green man. HOWEVER, the other side of the road was RED!! and seeing that there wasn't a single car in sight on the road, i thot what the heck, and proceeded to dash across the road to the next bus stop.

Big Mistake.

Next thing I knew when I reached the bus stop, his motorbike was just right behind me, and he was glaring at me. Scared sia. haha. then he just told me - you don't dash across the road like that when it is RED man! thot he was going to fine me.. fortunately he decided to let me off and just rode away on his bike. haha feeling quite paiseh after that. luckily not too many ppl at that particular bus stop haha...

It was a good lesson learnt. After all it's really not worth it to risk your life, even if there is no traffic around.. guess i'd try to MINIMISE my jay-walking habits after today hahaha..

4 days off from work!!! yay!! not even the temptation of doing RD OT could tempt me into giving up 1 of my 4 days off! after all me and jiazheng, my fellow teammate at work, both agreed that such an opportunity probably comes around once in a yr, it being so hard to come by, shall cherish it and enjoy myself at home, slacking around or hanging out with frens if they're free i guess. shall see how the 4 days goes. i know today gotta attend church - St. Stephen's Feast Day; church tmr... maybe shall go for a swim one of these days. weather's been quite good lately. and haven't been exercising at all!! somemore my ankle is taking damn long to heal.. now it's still like.. 80% recovered only? haix. feeling a bit sad to see so many of the Green Team ppl leaving alr.. just as when i got to know all of them, now there's so many newbies around i dunno so many of them again. double haix. hope Bin doesn't forget to plan for the dim sum outing.. hahax.

had a long talk with Nick last nite online. really respect him, admire and appreciate what he has done for the youth group @ SS. and looking at our current choir group, especially after x'mas, i can't help but feel this great sense of pride in being part of the group, like what nick said, this group of talented people, many good solo-ists and good musicians, the right leaders, the cool equipments, the vision. It just felt so damn good after all the hard work put in to make this xmas smth special, and to receive all the praise and accolades from everyone around that we sang really well, we performed really well at house caroling, at midnite mass.. well some ppl said we sounded a little soft at midnite mass, my parents for example, but who wouldn't, after all that caroling?!

haha. and true enough, the hard work begins next year, planning and leading, training, organising workshops, maybe camps; of recruiting more ppl, keeping this current group of ppl intact as the main foundation to build on.. things which are meant to push the choir to greater heights. guess the most impt thing to do now is to work on instilling a sense of pride and ownership among the current group of ppl, such that they want to take responsibility and feel smth towards wanting to contribute to the choir success. and what better that to start from the section level upwards - the basses? haha.. i dunno but i never saw myself as a good leader. coz i'm nice by nature. haha! never liked being the bad person, having to scold others or being nasty to them. but i'm def gg to have to try to do smth starting with the basses, to have section fellowships and stuff like that. 2 areas to work on - improvements on music technicality & group direction, as pointed out by nick.

I've got lots to think abt. Headaches...

Posted by darylhjm87 at 11:59 AM