can we bring yesterday back around?
and so it is, HO came and went just like that. actually it's 5min and 36 seconds to be exact. and no, we didn't manage to touch gold again (we weren't even close). but it doesn't matter, i guess. winning is always a bonus. just like coach az said before: after some time, the gold medels may tarnish and the trophies will gather dust. but what u'll remember is not the win but the times that you've spent together and the friendships that u've forged.
i guess i had more fun this year. and i figured out it was becoz this is my 2nd year in cheer. so the seniors basically are very chummy with each other liao. we get to skip the get-to-know-you sessions and go straight into the crap talk and dirty jokes. wahaha! training started out with learning and revising the basics for the whole of semester 1. and then it was a head-on dive to the intensive, almost-daily training sessions right after the exam break.
it was harder stunts, faster timing and lesser people this time round. all the wrong factors to make the trainings very very shag and very very long. but it was good fun all around with the talk cock sessions, HTHT sessions and supper at ah lians.
and then there was the freaking injury. i guess i can blame it on sheer bad luck.. since it happened last year and this year too. HOW chui is tat. i'm not accident or injury prone k, accident just happen to me in cheerleading only. but it's not really the injury that worry me most even though it hurt really really badly every time i aggrevate it. rather, it was the thought that i may aggrevate it with every attempt to pop from shoulder stand that made me lose confidence in myself. sigh.. i've learnt that the level of confidence is really the determining factor that make or break your success. and sadly, i never reached the same level as before to perform a syncronise dismount with the rest of the mid-tiers.
then it was january 14th! the seniors were really relatively more calm and smiley as compared to the juniors. the juniors just look as if they are gonna burst out coz they're so nervous and excited and scared at the same time. and it's true, i was able to absorb much more of the atmosphere when i'm on the mats - see the judges, spot frens in the massive crowd and be concious that i'm actually doing the routine. this is so unlike last year when everything was really one gimongous blur.
i guess what goes up must come down. we're not in the top 3 for a variety of reasons, all which had been analysed over and over again over the past few days. there is always something to talk bout, someone to attribute the error or the lack of effort to. but i guess it is always not right to point fingers at anything or anyone, as much as the heart wants to so that it feels more conforting this way. cheerleading is so much a team sport than anything else, so we win together, lose together.
whether or not i'll return again will be decided at a much later date, with the decision greatly based on whether i'll get a room or not. but no matter what, i had a time of my life cheerleading for hall 8 and i couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my time in hall.
even though i noe there will be many more times when the team will meet and catch up, it's not the same gathering at the mats and peh-ing stunts together. maybe, just maybe this might be a good time (be it for the training days or the competitionday itself) to wish that we can bring yesterday back around?
that's all for the time being. i'll add in photos when i have them =)
