Thank you for a job well done today for the preview. I was tell your Sec 4 seniors sometime ago that if you sang really well for the concert, I would be moved to tears. I never expected you'll to be able to move me so soon. Sorry hor... a bit malu just now... but you know that those were genuine tears of joy from me. Don't tell my D&T students ok? Need to maintain that no nonsense image. Let me finish what I wanted to say to you all.

Mr Beng and I have been around when the choir was first formed and we both knew how the choir struggled in the earlier years all the way to SYF last year. And I could see that Mr Beng too was holding back tears of joy because he too was so proud of what you have achieved within 6 months. Every time I listen to how well you are singing and how much confidence all of you demonstrated, I start to get very emotional about it.

For years to come, the regret of not paving the way for a good SYF showing in 2009 will linger within me. I have always felt personally responsible for the disappointing results (for reasons which I will not state here). I have also always felt that I let your Sec 4 seniors down. I have also felt grateful for everyone who stayed with us and believing in me after the SYF last year. And so every time I hear you sing well, my sense of regret and guilt grows even more. Of course, I am also very proud of you all. Mr Lim is a very demanding instructor and I am glad that he is. Even more so, I am glad that most of you were able to take it in good light and responded to his demands.

I hope that with this, everyone will not become complacent and think that we have arrived at the destination. There's still a lot more room for improvement and I hope that all will be able to bite the bullet and carry on with your pace of learning. I want to see a performance on 16th July that will not only move me to tears, (i think that your seniors who are my invited guests to the concert will tear together with me too) but also move all other audiences.

Great Job!

Mr Chong