Opportunities

There are so many opportunities to learn when you are in school. It takes just that little bit more effort.

Like the other day, I was helping my friend out to prepare for the exhibition we are going to have in conjunction with our 40th anniversary on 15 March 2008. The concert was a major success and one of the few times I felt so touched and moved by a piece I played. The piece is none other than the great 50 min work by Johan de Meij, Planet Earth, conducted by our resident conductor, Mr Leonard Tan. So touching was the piece that our resident conductor allegedly wept during one of the finer moments!

As I was saying, I learnt many things while helping my friend set up for the exhibition. One if these is bending acrylic and doing it brought back memories of my Design and Technology days in Hai Sing. So did drilling wood and spray painting surfaces. But the thing about doing all of these is that it requires that little bit more effort. Like my team and I, we stayed up till 5am on concert day to finish what had to be done.

But all said and done, what mattered at the end was that we stuck to the end and we made it happen. So take advantage of every chance you have, because you never know!