Packed the percussion store today...most of the time only sufi and asyraf were helping; the rest were just fooling around. What's the use of asking you guys to stay back and help then? It took three people four hours to clean up the percussion store, and now there're four to five boxes of trash accumulated over the past 10 years headed for cash converters or the rubbish dump.

Take a whole new look at the percussion store:

The entire drumline can walk in together, basses to the left, snares to the right, toms in the middle.

Pick up their drums, strap up, and walk out. All in under like, two minutes.

That's the amount of space in the percussion store now after a major revamp in a trashy attempt to clear up some space and tidy up ALOT. I can't imagine how much dust and dirt and rubbish we sweeped off the ground today. It was enough to fill an entire box. We even hung a banner outside the percussion store. Take a look this sunday! We've got enough space in the store to put in a sofa. =]

Too bad my idea of using raffia string as a hanger for the carriers didn't work out. It seemed like a great idea until the weight of the carriers sent the string drooping to the ground -.- bad move. Unfortunately most of the unused stuff are still chucked one side in the corners, not in a very tidy and orderly manner. I'll probably get to that next week.

Cleaning the store was both clearing trash and hunting for buried treasure, long lost under the recesses of the instruments and tools clogging up the room. I have no idea how much stuff we found in there that we never thought existed. Asyraf even came up with a cymbal stand with a splash cymbal in the middle. It's really cool.

Yep, it was an absolute horror cleaning up the store...but it looks great now. Sense of satisfaction! I think we all get that once in a while. I didn't enjoy sneezing throughout the sweeping and cleaning of the store, but hey, I enjoy the look of it now. I just got sick of seeing the store in a complete mess...for the past few months, even before SYF.

Next story.

Drumline on Sunday at BHF. It's not going to be the same with one of our drumline members off the squad. It was the result of a foolish mistake incurred...why man, why did you have to follow? It's really going to feel different on the actual day with someone else in the line. Yeah, of course he can fill in for him, but it's just......weird. No matter, the drumline HAS to go on on Sunday. Nothing has stopped us before, and we're not going to let this stop us now.

People make mistakes, and it seems you've made it at just the wrong time. Don't brood over it, really. Be strong, and your mates in the drumline will too. Drumliners who're reading this post now, on Sunday, it's going to be different, but he'd want us to do our very best and put in a good show regardless of whether he's there to guide us or not. Let's do it with the best of our ability, and the ferocity of the Titans Drumline. Lets do it for ASYRAF!