Echo vision: The man who sees with sound

* 14 April 2009 by Daniel Kish

I am 6 years old and it's my first day at school. The bell rings for recess and all my classmates run gleefully away. But unlike them I cannot see. At least, not with my eyes. Instead, I click my tongue, listening for echoes from the wall to my left. I walk with my hands slightly outstretched to keep me from running into chairs that may have been left askew. I hear kids laughing and shouting through the open door, and by clicking I also hear the presence of the sides of the doorway in front of me. I go through it to the playground for the first time.

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It all comes down to TWO DAYS..
Let the battle, commence.

Bit by bit we are improving and personally I my percentage of readiness for SYF on Thursday is rising, it is stopping at the present percentage of 93% until I really get my mood in it and clear up my errors and mistakes. However, as we are improving, we are also beginning to realise areas that we really need to clarify with Ms Yee. There are some pointers that we don't agree on even among the Music Commitee. Which isn't really very pleasant in anyway.

We are only 2 days away, and yet there are things that have not been confirmed, misunderstandings and issues that should have been brought up to the attention of all the leaders and cleared by Ms Yee. This is rather dissapointing, the way I see it.

Until now, we still have Sectional Leaders who are unsure of the gestures and instead of clearing up the errors and doubts, they chose escapism. They choose to deny the existence and skip the "rituals", all of them. Thinking that this would actually help. The purpose of doing the gestures is to get us warmed up with more ease, and eliminating our sole advantage is just as shooting ourselves in the leg. This seriously has gotta to be put to a stop. It ain't gonna protray us well infront of the juniors too.

I had remind myself not to sound agressive and instead was greeted with stares in practically all directions. As if I had just insulted their intelligence. If that is what they wish, then that might be as well what they get. As if the stress building up and date nearing isn't suffocating enough, they add on to the burden by selectively ignore details.