Personal Experience- Drrrrrrrum

Our opening pose

Our ending pose

‘Pom… Pom… Pom…Pom…’ is the thunderous sound that we can often hear at the time from 5pm to 7pm, almost for everyday when the annual Chinese New Year Night is looming around the corner. Some people may find this sound is irritating or even see it as a kind of sound pollution. But for me, it is a very rhythmic sound that invigorates me after attending the class for whole day.

I am a 24 seasons drum team member who is passionate about playing drum. Initially, I went to play drum was merely for the sake of fun. After the practice, I was physically exhausted, my limbs like almost being torn apart. So, I have decided to not going ever since.

Few months later, after the audition for CNY night performers, someone has dropped the bomb shell to me, informing me that I was chosen to be in the drum team. I was miserable that I got chosen and thought of quitting it as I know that this is not an easy performance. It is a very time and energy consuming practice.  I went to the first practice.  After that, I felt that it was quite fun playing drum. I had watched the amazing drum performances before in my secondary school, played by my school drum team girls (as my secondary school is a girl school with zero boy students), I enjoy watching it and I wish I could be one of them too.  In the end, I have decided to give myself an opportunity to try this new thing in my life. I believe in myself that I am able to play the drum well although it seemed like a mission impossible for me. After all I still got the chance to perform on the stage without being alone. 

Until now, I have no regret of joining drum team as I really find that there is loads of fun in playing drum. I thought i could not play well because I feel like my body and limbs are really not able to coordinate very well and some of the steps are really hard to be memorized. The saying ‘practice makes perfect’ is very apt. I did practice very hard even in my room. Finally I was able to play the whole sequence with the minimal mistakes during the performance. It was extremely tiring and I have spent a lot of precious time on practicing it, yet my final result for that semester is better than the previous semester. :) I think that those sacrifice is worthy because I do enjoyed every moment when all the drum team members gathered around, together we cracked jokes, crapped a lot and laughed like a lunatic after the exhausting practises. The whole practice is full of bruises, injuries, wounds, depresses, laughter, joys and happiness which make it very unforgettable.

me and my drum

my drum