I'm encouraged by the significant improvement in AHband's tone, especially for the clarinet section or rather, those who were present on Saturday. The partial section was playing with so much more clarity that I thought that the school had finally seen the need for a clarinet tutor after all these years. To my surprise, that was not the case but I'm glad that those few present have made much progress though it is still far from what I want them to achieve. I'm still very disappointed and annoyed at the section's attendance for both band practices nd sectionals. The attitude is not right and it will only drag the rest of the section down.

I'm also pleased to hear from my tutee that her subject teacher has noticed an improvement in her results. It is good to hear that but I don't think that an improvement just one test calls for a celebration. The improvement and progress have to be constant and long-lasting or it wouldn't make any difference. I hope she will take this as an encouragement and be even more motivated to work harder.

In the world where we live in now, very often we crave to see instant results and when we don't see the desired results immeditely, we start to get discouraged and stop putting in as much effort, thinking that we are not doing the right thing. It is even worse that if we get good initial results, we get complacent and begin to slacken and find excuses not to work as hard and end up with lousy final results.

I must really thank God for all of these good results thus far, even though I'm still a long way from my target. I'm glad I'm working in the right direction and I hope that I will continue to make progress and be motivated to achieve the goal I've set out to get.

I have also learnt quite a lot in the past few days. I hope to remember all that I have learnt and apply it to many other areas.

That's all for now. I'll continue another day.