Hey dears,

Once again, it's the 1st of April. Somehow for me, SYF '09 didn't seem all too long ago, despite the fact that 2 years have indeed gone by. Looking back at the posts in April 2009, it seemed like we didn't take the results too well at first.

But this time, let's be stronger. This time, let's go in with the right mindset. To play our best music, not to achieve any tangible awards, but to really just touch the adjudicators and audience with our pure love for the music we play. Did all of you watch the youtube video on Mr Yagisawa's message to SYF '11 participants? He would like all of us to deeply feel for the music just as how he poured so much effort into composing them, and just remember all the memories of our performance together.

At the end of the day, this is really what we should be aiming for right? The tangible awards, are not ends in themselves, but a form of recognition that would come our naturally if we just adopt a right attitude towards our playing.

At the end of the day, it is the joy of the process we want to remember, and not about how we got too caught up in the achievement of such a tangible award that we forgot to savour the moments in which we were bonded by this one same spirit - our love for music.

There's only 7 more days! Let's really make the best of it, hand in hand. We are one RGSSB, and we'll be there for each other, always (:

I love RGSSB to the core of my being!!! I'm sure you all do too <3