I must say that I am very encouraged by the attitudes of the two sec 1 clarinet players who turned up for sectionals on Tuesday morning. Not only did they learn fast, they were also not about to give up getting a difficult passage right. Frankly speaking, they have the potential to become really good clarinettists as I realise that they it is only their first year playing the clarinet and I did have quite high expectations of them, which they met most of the time. It is upon further reflection that I realise that I did not lower my standards just to accommodate the both of them. I hope they keep up the good work. If only the rest of the section were like them, the section would sound great. It's a real pity that the two of them have to be in a section where most of the rest of the section have the same attitude as the section leader. I hope they do reach their full potential and not be held back because of the others.

Having a night where there is suddenly no one to talk to online sure feels weird. Probably I'll get used to it after some time but I wish I never will need to have such and experience again.

The weather has been quite nice recently. I say this without any regard to all the inconvenience I would face if I was working. I cannot imagine having to trod in the heavy rain with strong winds blowing to a building half a kilometre away for lunch nor squeeze into a sardine-packed bus with dripping umbrellas. But it is really nice to have such cool nights where the fan and air conditioner take up the role of white elephants collecting dust in the house.

I don't know if what I had been doing all along had been the right thing to do or not but I just feel as though I had been imposing on a group of very nice people quite a bit even though they do not mind at all. It is nice to have that much care and concern showered upon me, but I don't know what I can do in return to show my gratitude. This is something I must learn to do.

I have to stop here to start work on something that I had been delaying for nearly a month. I hope that that piece of work will be a useful bargaining chip at work tomorrow.