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Ah.. I'm on leave now.. but doing some work.. and suddenly I felt like I should do some blogging :) Kinda just realised that I forgot to blog about this soo important event! : 070707.

The performance held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium was in commemoration of our SSA's 40th Anniversary. The baton girls had 2 items to perform: The Sound of Music with the junior choir and SNCO; and a medley of songs with the combined band (Kotekitai + Brass Band).

Sound of music item was the purple costume, main band item: the red-yellow dress.

The day we've practised so hard for had finally arrived. I was kinda worried. Cos I haven't had much practice myself, and I'm such a slow learner plus the SOM steps were so difficult. But in the end, I did well for SOM! I only had to pick up the baton from the floor once, and that was a partner throw (which I attributed the miss to external factors). All the other throws and tosses that I did on my own (plus the other partner throws) were successful! I was soo happy after that.. Didn't even have to remind myself to SMILE. It just came naturally! After every successful throw it was like.. *yay* *smile*

Immediately after this item we dashed back to the holding room to change into our red-yellow dresses for the next item. (There was only one other item in between our 2 items) Rushed out to the gate and waited for our turn. I was just telling some of them, ok now can relax liao, cos the steps we did for the band item were relatively simpler. But I guess this bit of complacency brought me down. During the first vertical throw, I dropped my baton. Somehow I saw it coming down and I reached out for it. I thought it was landing into my hands. But it ended up on the floor. I was like.. "??!!"

I quickly picked it up and proceeded with the rest of the steps. Then came the second throw. There was the butterfly twirl before the throw. Told myself, "must not drop it this time". But somehow I think I was too darned kan cheong for this that I dropped it again! During the butterfly twirl some more! Didn't even get to throw it and the baton just slipped outta my hands. Goodness knows what was with me at that moment. After that I was just so disappointed liao la. Before the show I told myself I'd try to throw higher this time. But in the end i didn't even get to throw!

Managed to get thru the 3rd throw smoothly.. but the dark shadow cast by the first 2 misses was just irremovable.. *sigh*

Every time I think about this I'll feel soo bad.. It's like, everyone performed so well, the band was inspiring, and I had to drop. Ah well.

Now I'm just waiting for the video to come out. Can't wait to watch sound of music! Think it should be wonderful :)

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And now back to reality.. I'm sitting in my room now as I'm typing this.. Trying to 'rush' out some business risks thingy. Kinda irritated initally. I'm like on leave la. Still must do work. Sian. But knowing that I'm not the only one (our dear family girls are all in the same boat) gives me some sorta comfort. Haha. I think i'm evil la. Misery loves company.

Ms Mgr just called me to ask me about the unsigned SRM. It's like AQR la! And that was the first point raised. Die liao la. And she asked me if i could recall anything about filing the signed copy. I said I think so. I have a vague memory about collecting the signed SRM la. But not clear enough to give any definite answer. At that moment I just felt so useless. It's just a small little thing and I couldn't remember. I think I desperately need to do something about my short-term memory.. How to be snr like that?! I'm like always so blur and unsure. And I attribute all of these to my innate bad memory. What an excuse.

But honestly I'm not the sort to be able to memorise things! I do better at subjects like Math where I can refer to formulas and apply. Suck at things like Geography where I have to memorise plate tectonic movements and whatever crap conditions for the growth of rice plantations. Luckily didn't take Bio.

Felt kinda bad that I wasn't able to provide any constructive comments for Ms Mgr. But well, I'll be over it soon. (You see, my memory is so bad that within the next half an hour I would have forgotten about this.)

And I guess I should get back to writing my business risks now. Was looking at the impressive plan written by Ms S. I was telling her: "wah lau. High benchmark la." I was just planning to smoke through this thing (I hope no one relevant is reading this now) and just churn something out but after looking at hers I suppose I can't do that any more. Ha. Gonna try more smoking now and hopefully it can pass off.. Ahhh...