Hi all!

I am going to post about some of the (more general) things that the 'tutors' have taught me, and maybe all of us can apply the lessons I've learnt from them.

1) We have to be responsible to ourselves and the band.
> If everyone plays marcato and just one person plays a slight bit longer and doesn't end with everybody, the judges will count is as "not together". There's a difference between if a person plays 0.875 and 0.9 of the crotchet, and we must all play together in tuning, intonation, note length to really impress the judges. After all, weren't you impressed when you heard the japanese band playing with such unity? So we have to be responsible to the band and not be so selfish.

2) When a sacrifice must be made, a sacrifice must be made.
> When our 'tutor' asks Zi Hao not to play at some crucial parts where the saxophone section would be very exposed(such as F of the set piece or J of the choice piece), he said that it's 3 days towards SYF and we should sacrifice if need be - because if one player were to screw up, it will make the whole thing quite screwed up. At this point of time, we cannot take risks already, so we have to think our sacrifice made as for the better good of the band. I hope that this makes sense, especially to those who feel sad if they are being cut for some parts already.

3) If you want to slack, if you want to do your homework and mugging, please do it after four days time where you would have months to do it.
> The above sentence were the (almost) exact words that our 'tutor' said. In a 2.4 run, at the very last 100m you give your all and sprint(or at least I do) because I know that no matter how tired I am now, I can just relax all I want after that last sprint. I know that if I do not sprint, I may regret it if I miss the grade by a few seconds... What we can do now we must do - so that we all won't regret it if we miss the mark by a few points just because we choose not to make our final sprint.

I hope that the above 3 important lessons that I've learnt really inspire all of you, because it inspired me. I know that everyone is tired already(because I know I am), coming back for all the extra practices, but this is the last sprint for everybody. So let's sprint with all our might, and then after SYF maybe we can have a massive outing (can go watch movies, play bowling, play LAN etc.) to celebrate our hard work!

Let's sprint together now.

Yours RIMBingly,
Joseph
RIMB sprinter.