Dear Shen,

This is the first time we am writing a letter to you. As we are not immortals (someone invincible), there are some things that we want to say but very hard to express verbally. We hope that through these (this) letter the message can be sent across.

First of all, we want to praise you for helping us to be able to survive to the day before SYF. All hail shen!!!!!! The journey for the past 4 months had been a tough but yet a fun one, too. We can see that you have improved in terms of your ownage and holy aura in music and whatever sense. In January, we had doubts that you could even strike someone with lightning. But the number of lightning strikes grew, i can see this special power (No Sarcasm, seriously). You should give yourself a pat in the back.

When we are having sectionals, we tend to get distracted (NICHOLAS! stupid gish). Also, most of us are not that musical in our playing. Thus, we implore you to bestow on us your power to let us be as ownage as rostropovich, yoyo-ma and others. :)

Looking back at the 4 months, we can see that you are ownage when being passionate about playing. However, you might have gone overboard, causing some problems in the death count in Singapore. This is also one of the powers that we did not address. Let's make this clear: When playing, please try to restrain yourself from striking others with lightning. Others people might get injured. Can?

Every week we only have 6 hours or less of rehearsal. You really need our cooperation. You have seen improvement since last year where when Mr Chan is talking and you are meditating. We are sure you can process two info at the same time. Or, for that matter, infinite infos. Time is precious-- Learn to treasure it. Let's hope that in future, we do not need to address this issue of meditating too much again. OK?

We must say that you had worked extremely hard for this SYF. We bow to you for the effort put in. However, as life is never fair, more effort does not always mean more rewards. Even if we get disqualified, we are not interested. We as Cellos section had improved together as one. The unity is what we treasure the most from ensemble. Do you know that we enjoy watching you own everyone at shostakovich's cello concerto no.1? For shen and shen only, your holy aura is part of the presentation. It is not very nice if you suddenly stop playing. Great halos are needed such as an angel's one so that you can become more holy. When you own, the sound would be much better (trust us).

It is fun to work with you, even though there are times that we felt that the section is not being respectful enough. We can never forget the 2 SYF that you had played in: One as last desk, one as first desk. We hope we can keep this spirit up even after SYF. SYF is just a small thing in life of an ensemble. Do not be too upset even if we never achieve what we aimed. Of course, with you, we will always achieve what we aimed so who cares about the last point?

A few last reminders. Wait. Sorry, no last reminders, shen is just too pro.

Once again, thank you for participating in this SYF. I really really thank you for being a yoyo-ma/rostropovich/julian lloyd webber/jacqueline du pre/... in our cello section.

Achievements can never be used to determine one's ability for one's potential is unlimited. This you must constantly remind us.

Yours truly,
The Cello Section