MiLoh BSGSSB Adventures

Preparations

Xuan's POV

Dear Diary,
I can still remember it like it was yesterday. The tensions before every performance are always the highest. And the conductor is usually the most stressed.

Diya was going really hard on us. Honestly i don't blame her,she's as jittery as us the day before the performance and wants everything to be perfect. MiLoh chose to come into the Band room even before Band started. I suppose he was here either to look at our way of life or to see Tetra.

"Is this my stand??? Nope. Is this my stand??? Nope. Aaahhh where have my stands gone,"i muttered to myself as i looked at all the labellings on the stands. I usually took like,5 minutes to find all our stands. MiLoh stood near the door with his arms crossed,looking at us with mild interest. "Ah,this label is super short so it's probably a tuba stand,"i said,heaving the metal thing to our area. He looked at me like as though the stand was super heavy. He then proceeded to look at Tetra trying get past the mess at her section area.

Just then,the door creaked open and everyone stood up to greet Clarice. MiLoh blushed yet again and pretended to look at our whiteboard,where our repertoire and other stuff was written. Diya then asked all of us to get our Band uniform skirts to be checked. Apparently the length of some people's skirts were too short and they had to be changed. I was a little shocked,yet not surprised when everyone blatantly removed their pinafores and prefect skirts in front of MiLoh. Luckily everyone was wearing shorts underneath. Nevertheless,MiLoh gave a squeak and hid behind the whiteboard.

Clarice took to helping us with our skirts. She handed out skirts long enough as Diya called out the names of those with short skirts. She also advised everyone to tuck their blouses into their skirts so that they did not look sloppy. MiLoh didn't move an inch behind that whiteboard. Paralysed with fear,i'd say. Diya yelled at some people for not bringing their skirts and almost threatened to pull them out of the performance. Luckily,Rathi pointed out how terrified MiLoh looked,and she calmed down a bit. Yang and i sneaked behind the board. "That's the life of a Band Geek,"we said at the same time before raising our eyebrows.

He was impressed at most of our songs although Diya found at least 3 bad things about each song. He was even more impressed at the clarinet ensemble,partly because Clarice was playing,and because Tetra was playing(isn't that obvious). The alumni had come to play as well and we were instructed to pack our section luggage,or what we were to bring to the place all in a luggage. For my section,we didn't have to bring much. Yokie and Jo were polishing their instruments and Yang was falling asleep. We sat in a circle and enjoyed the alumni's good music. MiLoh then went out for a while.

The funniest part of the day was when he peeked back in. We all noticed that he was so short,only his eyes could be seen from the tiny window! An average person was able to look through the window with their whole face showing,but MiLoh was probably tiptoeing and only his eyes could be seen. He looked so small and innocent that we couldn't help but giggle uncontrollably.

We ended the day off with a wonderful "Saturday Night",which i think MiLoh really really liked. It was catchy and had an awesome tune,who wouldn't like it? Diya also forgot all her troubles and was smiling as she conducted us.

"Dudes,that was really awesome. Are your Band practices always like that?"asked MiLoh as he,Clarice,Tetra,Rocky and the 6 of us walked to the MRT together. Jo rubbed her eyes. "Omigosh i don't know man. Honestly,that was a super tense Band practice."she said. There were rockets flying off in my stomach and i couldn't help but jump around in excitement. "Don't care about her,"said Yang monotonously before MiLoh could open his mouth and ask the obvious question(are you okay). "She's nervicited. Nervous,and excited for tomorrow."she explained. I don't know how they keep their cool at a time like this,but i couldn't keep any emotion in control at that time. All the 6 of us could think of was
"The Band is not proud because it performs well. It performs well because it is proud."(George Parks)

Signed
Xuan