11 days until Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix! 18 days until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
I swear I'm going to wake up at 7am that day just to go down to Tampines Mall to pick up my copy of HP: DH and lock myself in my home without my internet on or ANYTHING until I finish reading it. Why? Because of what happened back when Book 5 first came out.
I waited like a week to get the book because it was so hard to find it in the states...then I was randomly talking to my friends at school and somebody was like "OMG I can't believe ______ died!" (just in case those of you who haven't read OOtP don't know who snuffs it in book 5) and I was like "dammit now I know...what's the point of reading?" So basically as I flipped through that whole book, every page I turned was like "Where's he/she gonna die? Here? here?"
SOOOOOO...for book 6, I got it on the first day and stayed home reading until I finished it. THEN only did I go online to check my email, talk to people, etc etc. So the same shall go with book 7. Thank goodness it's a Saturday!
4 more days until SSA's 070707 40th Anniversary concert...it's my last concert with them as a full-time member...I'll have to pass on my role as Music IC and part-time conductor to someone else after this concert.
I don't really have any regrets about joining SNCO. Granted I still miss being in a real orchestra, but not many places in the world would give someone such as myself an opportunity to be in charge of planning music programs and CONDUCTING, even though I have so little experience in both. It's helped me grow as a person, possibly even more than NS has made me grow. Of course, it was very trying at times...with people consistently not behaving and not listening, and the upper management (I feel) needs to reorganize a bit, and people need to change their attitude towards coming to rehearsal on time or at all, but since it's such a young group (1 year old compared to all the other groups' 10-20 years), I have faith that it'll just get better as time goes on.
Moving back to the states, I'm sure this is one thing I'll definitely miss on Saturday nights. What am i going to do with all this free time? Hahaha...but seriously, thank you SNCO for everything you've taught and given me. Hopefully, one day, I will return to make music with all of you on a full-time basis once again.
I wish you all the best of luck and eternal growth and happiness.