Our Sec1s...Our future...Our Hope..

Greetings to all.

I shall put my message across to you guys as simple and straightforward as possible.

Sec 1s HAVE joined us, in case some of you haven't noticed. Whether you like it or not, they are a part of us now. So all the seniors out there, please do not deny or even shirk the responsibility of guiding your juniors.

DO not push this responsibility to the secondary ones' tutor. He is just helping us train the technicality of our sec 1s and nothing more than that. Ultimately, its how we teach our juniors that leaves a certain impact on them THROUGHOUT their band life.

So, from now on, if you have the time and opportunity to interract with your juniors, SEIZE it and use it wisely. Teach them well; guide them through the what seems to them like the unknown; and set a good example for them.

Eventually, they will look up to you.

AND do not despise them. Some common refrains of our members were "Wah Lau...XXX so lan, cant even play..." and "How to teach them...". Whoever you are, stop this lousy attitude. Stop this nonsense. Stop having this stuck-up mindset. Have you not forgotten that you were once as "lousy"? Have you forgotten that it was the patient guidance of your seniors that made you what you are today--a good player? Have you forgotten that when you just started, you longed for your seniors to give you time to learn your own instrument?

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT YOU WERE ONCE A SECONDARY ONE?

So stop having that mindset. Teach your juniors well. True that they maybe our hope and our future, but without our patience and guidiance, they WOULD not be able to master their instrument fully. Eventually, this would have an adverse effect on our band.

Time is of essence people. Next year would be our SYF. And i am sure no one would want to screw it up this time. And let's face the facts. After the sec 4s leave, we would need to include some of our sec 1s in our main band for SYF.

Mr Tan once said "The strength of a Band, is the strength of its weakest players." Currently, our weakest players are our sec 1s. I don't expect to suddenly see a spike in improvement in them. I just wish for OUR current members to give support to our sec 1s.

Stop gving them pressure. Stop treating them as though they are worthless. Start to give them your support. Start to interract with them. Start to show them that you care. Start to guide them with patience.

That is all I have to say.