Happy Birthday?

I didn't know KR Steppers had a birthday on 10 Oct until I read Siyong's MSN nick... well... happy birthday to us!




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FWOC 06/07

Our FWOC routine!

To those who missed watching us during FWOC, catch it here! All stunts went up and it was a blast! Our efforts paid off once again:)

Good Job Steppers!

CHECK EMAIL AND BLOCK ICS FOR TRAINING SCHEDULE. MUST COME.

Pseudo cheerleaders with KR Steppers ;)

Command Cheerleaders

I think everyone was damn bloody impressed by the laolangs, that despite all the FYPs and thesis deadlines they managed to do OUR routine, albeit half the difficulty level for everything. Even though guys in skirts look absolutely disgusting, you've got to hand it to them. 8 three-hour sessions to do our routine. That's really something, considering we took so much more time.

I'd like to think this as a tribute to all our hard work in putting up the Steppers' squad... cos imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! But last night was definitely THEIR night, and something to remember for years to come. I certainly hope after seeing that performance, more seniors would be keen to join KR Steppers. And more seniors would be willing to stay in KR until their final year.

The laolangs. Legends of the old KR. The final generation. Once they leave, only we, the people of new KR are left, and it is up to us to carry on the traditions and make new ones as we go along.

Haha... another KR moment. I have to say this:
Seek, Strive, Excel.

-YuNn

PS Someone should post photos. Or... maybe not...

MORE RR REPUTATION KILLING

me : i never thought i'd be your friend cuz you always so geeky looking and introverted..

RR : eh. i'm a hunk k.

*DUH*

Catch Lidan on Superband!

Hahaha.. I tried typing an email to the KR steppers yahoo groups only to find out that I've got the email add wrong. What happened was I was trying to send an email to everyone after seeing Lidan on Channel U (during my tutorial :P Yea I wasn't listening to the tutor at all.. It's the only time of the week when I watched tv.). Since the lab didn't have Internet, only Intranet, I had to use my NUS email on the exchange server. But I couldn't remember the email add. So i just guessed that it would be "krsteppers@yahoogroups.com". I came back to find out that it's "krcheerleaders0506@yahoogroups.com". Amazingly, the email did not bounce back. So I wonder where it went.. hmm.. Haha..

Anyway, here's the email:

Hey all! Im now in my Stats tutorial.. obviously not supposed to b typing this.. and the tutor seems to be staring at me.. anyway i was watching the NUScast happily when I saw Lidan on Channel U!! Cos in the morning they have LOTSA (or rather ONLY) adverts.. best time to catch it.. haha.. they featured a lot of Lidan.. so go check it out k!! :)

Anyway i saw that the performance is on 25th of March at Suntec fountain! Let's go support Lidan together!!!

Lidan Jia You!!!!!!

Love,
Xinli :)

step : studying? where?

RR : ctrl lib

step : so far! what happened to biz ad!

RR : arts still got more chiobu i find....hahah

*LAUGH LIKE SHIT* - you are incorrigible.

Steppers sponsored?

Look! Some lucky KR Steppers featured in this advertisment for a Korg chromatic tuner!







HAHAHAHAH... Ok.

No, actually I made the picture for my school assignment, hope you all don't mind me using your faces (Shimin, Aili, Junmin, Xinli, Lijin, Weiguang). If don't want, just say and I will remove it.

-YuNn

BELIEVE ME DUN BELIEVE THAT RR!!!

Step threatens to change the password to this blog if i delete the previous post... so i promised her i wun delete that post for the convenience of all of us.. so i shall defend myself here..hahahha....

discerning readers out there know how steps likes to exxagerate and magnify everything.. so u all should know which are the truths n which are the exxagerated stuffs..haha

RR : it's ok u can eat longer then i got more time to bio girls "Step thinks that she is eating very slowly and feeling guilty for making me wait..so to make her feel less guilty... i said that she can eat slowly and no need to rush ... and of course the bio girls part is bluff one lar..aiyoh"
step : what! see you hum sup person.. only look at pretty girls
RR : ya what got one in front of me..
(i stupidly turn around n see my friend)
step : that girl is my friend la!
RR : *diao* i meant you but ok nevermind "this part jokin also lar... i don't mean it =p "
step : LAUGH like CRAZY.
RR : eh i know that girl too (referring to my friend)
step : isit how you know her?
RR : cause i read her blog "correction.. i read her blog BEFORE"
step : huh! u dunno her then u read her blog?
RR : ya.. cause she pretty ma.. then her friends photos... some denyse girl on her blog.. very pretty also.. wah damn chio ah... "i said i anyhow link link from her frens denyse's blog.. whom i think is quite pretty"
step : lol.. point proven. seeeeee....
RR : i don't only talk to chio girls!
step : yes you do! what about that crush on ur msn, XXX"diao.... crush cannot crush pretty girl meh?".... still got who???? bet that's the reason you join cheer lor. to bio girls..
RR : if that's the reason ah step.. then i quit long ago le... "Hey hey girls... thats was a impromptu excuse to defend myself...cos i joined cheer not to bio girls... but becos i wanted to do something different!.. and hor EVEN IF i joined cheer to bio girls.. the fact that i am still in cheer proves that i think our cheer girls are all not bad at all... all hot stuffs! cheers! =) "

RONGREN ONLY TALKS TO CHIO GIRLS

rongren says he will not go for training if i blog this down... oh well... steppers u all know what to do ah... =)

RR : it's ok u can eat longer then i got more time to bio girls
step : what! see you hum sup person.. only look at pretty girls
RR : ya what got one in front of me..
(i stupidly turn around n see my friend)
step : that girl is my friend la!
RR : *diao* i meant you but ok nevermind
step : LAUGH like CRAZY.
RR : eh i know that girl too (referring to my friend)
step : isit how you know her?
RR : cause i read her blog
step : huh! u dunno her then u read her blog?
RR : ya.. cause she pretty ma.. then her friends photos... some denyse girl on her blog.. very pretty also.. wah damn chio ah...
step : lol.. point proven. seeeeee....
RR : i don't only talk to chio girls!
step : yes you do! what about that crush on ur msn, XXX.... still got who???? bet that's the reason you join cheer lor. to bio girls..
RR : if that's the reason ah step.. then i quit long ago le...


- girls you all know what to do ah! =)

Sticky Hair

wah, ya hor.. i just realised! with that much of hairspray, sure difficult to un-braid ur hair.. mhuahahahha! and imagine the stickiness, and the funny looks afterwards.. aiya, i should have realised, then can take photos =P

anyway, today's tryout! who's coming arh? suddenly nobody come, then how? shit, -touchwood-. okay, back studying for test later =(

-cH

Yay, can login. Happy.
thanks chong yunn, i like winky me, but then.. now that you have made me wink so cutely, can you make me an msn emoticon that has my face and my wink? so that everybody can send my lousy emoticon around and mock at my cherubic sweat-foundation-blusher mix... ok, maybe emoticon is not such a good idea.
alrite, now i'm juz fitting in with the "look at me, i'm a (guess what) CHEERLEADER!" stereotype.

But I am cheerleader wad. What were you expecting.
I remember sleeping in NYP during training.
Doing my assignment while the team did their first straddle teddy bear with Magnum's help.
Lidan's queer wardrobe... Chris's laundry troubles... JM's initial distaste for the uniform... us forcing Step to name us Steppers by sheer strength of numbers...Doing many peoples hair, possibly incurring much wrath when they finally undo the braids... oh yes, and being superwoman auntie... and scolding people for misplacing my makeup (okay, i concede that was overdone, but at least everythings intact, phew.)... etcetera. Step in her giraffe kid-nightie thing gradually progressing from her workstation laptop arrangement to her bed, and me in her room watching the progress until she completed the process (at which i found it apt to make my leave swiftly)
ok i hope that wasn't a mass of incoherent words.
and if i won't be coming back to the team,
thank you for the memories *sob*.

Missing trainings!

heh... seems that the blog's pretty stagnant, so being the lor sor auntie I am, I decided to post.

Just wanna say: I MISS TRAININGS!!

Dunno why, but I just miss it. It's pretty wierd, cos according to logic, I should be happy now that I'm having more free time to myself and not be tied down by the long hours (not forgetting tiring) of trainings. And it's the longest withdrawal symptoms that I've ever had. My withdrawal symptoms weren't that long even for the Dance nite last year that I put in so much effort for.. Why why why??

I'm soooooooooooooooooo gonna miss you all when I'm away next sem.. boo hoo~

Really need to concentrate now.. Having two tests next week. :( But it is not happening!!!!!!!!

Xinli~

hello!!!

wah.. after seeing this blog done up by chongyunn i realised it could be really great publicity for us la!!! haha.. anyway.. can i change my photo! i look like a ghost there... must ask rongren take cuz think the lighting matters alot.. =) k im crapping cuz i wan to put a post here but i dunno what to write.

just wanna say that i love you guys so much and i can't wait to train again! i actually have notes for you all.. and a huge card for the coaches.. but erm... they are still not done n sitting empty in my room cuz i havent had the time la... soon soon k... =)

alright.. i shall post something more meaningful next time.. harhar. *diao*
byebyeee..
*muacks!*

-step

I'm Proud! (Post extracted from Xinli's Blog)

Cheerleading is finally over! I wanna thank all Steppers for sharing with me this invaluable experience and precious memories! I'll never replace anything else for the times we shared. We have worked so hard and come this far. Only the 20 of us would truly understand the amount of effort and pains that we have gone through. We've finally did it and shown everyone what we are made of! Best of all, we have proven those who didn't believe in us wrong!! Great job Steppers!! You all made me so proud!! I love all of you!! Now we can all shout out in pride: I'M A CHEERLEADER!! I'm sure I'll miss all of you...

One, Two, down, STEPPERS!

To Step: You're a great leader. Like I've said before, I don't think anyone would have done this better than you. I have to applaude your never-say-die attitude. You've not only realized your own dreams, you made OUR dream become a reality. What's more, you've achieved more than what you've set out for -- a closely-bonded team. Thanks for posing yourself this challenge, and making all our dreams come true. You go girl! Bring it on!

(Step watched "Bring It On" at least 20 times to gain inspiration and strength to go on. I'm not exaggerating! She watched it so many times she knows all their cheers back to front.)

Memories.... :

1. How much effort it took for us to get mats. We didn't have money to buy mats, and master coudn't get us enough. The mats were just so expensive. And so we had to try borrowing mats. Since NUS didn't use mats and neither does TH, we couldn't get any from them. Ngee Ann was also out of the question cos they couldn't lend us the mats. So we tried borrowing from NTU halls. And are we in luck or what! The hall 2 (our sister hall) president, Samuel is an extremely nice guy! He actually helped us borrow mats from all the other halls and even helped us rent a lorry (that is $40, unlike our hall's lobang which is $100). For both times when we transported the mats here and back, he helped us settle everything, and was present to help carry the mats as well. We just felt like we've met an angel fallen from heaven.

2. How much effort we went through to make the $80 uniforms. First the lady didn't deliver the goods on time, and we pressed her for it. Then we found out that the clothes were not fitting and the skirts were too long. So we had to make alterations. But it was the new year season and they couldn't get it done on time. And so we went down and pressed them till they agreed to help us get it done before CNY. Till now, the pants still split...

The whole squad!!

3. Having to go to Ngee Ann Poly to train cos they had mats over there and our coaches are from there. We usually train till 11+++pm and try to catch the last bus back (but almost always end up taking a cab). The place at night is quite eerie cos it's built upon a cemetry.

4. The fun times we had throwing mats up one storey at Ngee Ann when training is over and we are keeping the mats. Siyong would usually be the one up there catching the mats while we tried our hands at tossing them up. Haha.. So childish but so fun :)

Our dear flyers!

5. The fun we had making the "Gold", "Blue", "White" boards. Step was just so bossy!! And she always finds the right time when I'm free to do stuff.. We had a great time laughing at her :)

6. The can-die trainings we had. Trainings were three times a week, 4 hours each and it stepped up to become everyday, average of 6-7 hours each one week before performance. During that time, when I eat, I think of cheer. When I sleep, I dream of cheer. When I'm busy, I'm thinking about cheer. Many of us had sleepless nights despite the tiring trainings cos we were worried about cheer. It was the only time when I felt the most tired on the real day of performance,cos I was so jaded by all the practices. We could see the guys reaching their limits one by one, as they needed more rest before continuing with the next stunt.

7. How our guys used to not being able to do even 5 arm presses with the girls. Now they can do 10, 15 and even 20 of them! It's so heartening to see them become stronger and stronger each day. I'm so proud of our guys!! They are now the strongest guys around!! Yeay! I'm sure next year they would be able to lift me up! (I'm termed the "boss" cos I'm one of the heaviest girl around in the team. We always joked that if the guys can lift me, they would be invincible! haha) Now who dares to say that our guys are sissys??

8. How I was made to become a base because there weren't enough males around. The thought of lifting another girl was daunting, and I would say not very pleasant. It was really like "WHAT?!! ME??!!" But anything for this team! I became much beefier after cheerleading cos there was so much strength training involved. Many of my injuries were also caused by the flyers not falling properly. There was once when Junmin was falling and her arm just hit my head. In that moment, I saw stars, exactly like what the cartoon characters experience.

9. How I once cushioned Wanlin's fall during her flyback. The only thought in my head was "I can't let her fall!!" And she came crushing down on my face, leaving both of us on the ground. My tears just fell uncontrollably out of shock.. I was so afraid that she would fall and something bad would happen!! That incident left the left side of my face swelling for a few days. Luckily I didn't have a twisted neck.

10. How mentally strong our flyers (Step, Junmin and Wanlin) are. They have fallen and hit the ground umpteen times, injuring their ribs (Junmin's rib moved out of place), tailbones and suffering more blueblacks than anyone else. But they fought on and never gave up, and this takes a lot of courage and trust in the bases.

11. How it feels to fly. The feeling is wonderful, especially when you get popped down. It's just like riding a mini roller coaster. But to go higher and higher, you'll need a whole lot of courage, and trust in your bases.

12. How our guys and girls who couldn't dance at first now become groovy hunks and sexy chicks!! They put in double the time and effort to master steps that they couldn't catch and perform actions that just look so funny on them, despite all the mocking. Kudos to Rongren, who msn-ed me at 2+am to find out which part of the song to start dancing to (cos he was practising in his room) and also to Junmin for learning so hard to shake sexily. She started off looking like she was wiping her butt, but now I've got to ask the guys to watch out!! ^-^

13. The injuries we all suffered, guys and girls alike. Most of the guys had horrible wrists problem cos of the awkward positions that they had to place their hands, and the girls had injuries from flying, falling, etc..

14. The tears we fell cos we couldn't get the stunts up and the anxiety we faced.

15. Dion and Crystal, our two most wonderful and nicest coaches around! (And also most gossipy!) They forgoed the money that they could earn ($80 an hour!) to give us extra trainings. We owe them much much more than the few thousands of dollars. They are from the best team, but never put on airs.. Instead, they helped us more than what we could thank them for. Thank you so so so much Dion and Crystal!!! We love both of you!! ^-^

16. The troubles of finding a place to train, cos hall production was using the hall ALL the time, and they had priority. So we always had to wait for them to finish before we could use the hall to train. In the meantime, we had to use the area between Sheares and KR (which left us with many complains about the noise), the lobby, and even the rag area. Many places could not be used because we needed a large area to do our stunts, whether vertically or horizontally. We felt like we were in the periphery, cos

1. People did not believe we could do it.
2. People found that we were not important, cos this was just a performance, and not a competition.
3. People did not understand the point in us doing this, or putting in so much effort to do this, cos it was not a competition or anything.

And so we had to depend on OURSELVES. I actually thank those people, cos you gave us this opportunity to go through thick and thin together, which made us bond.

17. Our beloved Grace, who got suspected dengue just 3 days before the performance. Her efforts were for all to see, and it was really really sad that she couldn't perform. But she'll always be part of us :)

18. The fun times we girls shared in my room braiding hair. I felt like my room became a hairdressers overnight! Adn it's the first time my room had so many chio bu-s at once.

19. How bimbotic we all became after we had our skirts on. We really think it's the skirts, cos when we are not wearing them, we are normal people. Hahaha.. Maybe we just had to look the part.

20. How even the Eusoff Hall people cheered for us during the performance. The crowd was roaring "KR warriors", and for a moment I thought the sound was coming from a bunch of displaced Kent Ridgens. Alas, it was not. Later when we were on our way to the bus stop, we met the EH guys who were cheering for us.

EH guy: Hey! Did you hear us cheering "KR warriors" for you all just now?

We all just smiled, but Tobelo had to say something funny.

Tobelo: Ya. Thank you very much. We are all very touched.
Me: Tobelo, you know that guy?
Tobelo: Dunno.

Diaoz. Haha.. She just so adorable.

21. How we finally touched everyone by putting up a splendid performance. ALL the stunts went up, and it was the best run we've ever had.

True BLUE bimbos!

Our hunky guys!

Acting bimbotic. haha

Poor Siyong made to look so se4! hahah

Jianping was so happy he needn't need to be the smelly one for once.

The nicest photo: Tobelo and I!

Everyone told us we did great. And I know we are. The performance was a great success, with EVERY stunt going up. I think everyone gave their 101% that night. Audiences may not have seen it, but some stunts were actually quite shaky, and we could not really go up. But we managed to cover it up and used all our strength and might to do it. I'm so proud of my team. At that particular moment on the mats, I felt like all our hearts were beating as one as we advanced towards a common goal. I've never felt this way about any other teams before. The feeling was just so great, it makes me wanna cry.

Anyway, I've got something to announce:

Master is so pleased with our performance he's getting us mats!! And it doesn't have to be the cheapo $45 ones.. we can get the $80 ones!!! All 120 of them!! Cos he sees our potential and wants us to train for it with good quality mats! We've done it guys!! In a short two months, we have proved to even master that we are really SOMETHING!! (btw, 120 x $80 = $9600)

Real Gold?

I just had to say something very bimbo when I received the balloon: "My face got eyelashes!!" hahaha

Something really annoying happened when we were rehearsing before TGIO. Someone (I shall not mention who) came to tell Step that we should stop practising now because we were distracting the aca, inspire and rockers doing their rehearsal. Like HELLO. You think we are so free to come down the day after our performance to perform another time for you? If not because YOU wanted us to come down to perform, we would have better things to do like catch up on our work or precious sleep time. You know how tired we all are after 7 hrs of practice a day for one week?? We were already nice enough not to say anything about you not giving us any slot for bunk in and being only able to set up half of our mats. The only thing we could do is to use the only available area left to practise, and the music that they are playing goes way louder than any of our voices. If you say that we are distracting them, let me tell you, they are distracting us more. We need to be able to hear each other's counting in order to coordinate, and if coordination is not done, the flyers may just fall and break their backs. If anything, they themselves choose to be distracted. We didn't come with any intention of distracting them. And what do you mean by we have already "done the rehearsal yesterday, because you perfomed already"? Crazy. If the musicians need to warm up playing a little before doing the performance, what do you think of cheerleaders who need to jump around and the like? If you are unhappy, we are ever ready to remove the mats and go back to our rooms to sleep. Better not let me see you again or I'll ask my 8 strong guys to give you a good "massage".

Some people just ought to know better.


This is what you get for dong too many round-offs:

Went to the tie2 da3 yesterday to see my arm. This is the first time I went to see a tie2 da3. It was quite scary. The doc doesn't give face at all!! It's so painful!! He was pretty smart, cos he knew that I was a cheerleader once I told him how I got my injury. He was saying: "You cheerleaders always shang1 hen2 lei2 lei3 (full of injuries)." Was saying that he has quite a substantial number of patients who are cheerleaders. Anyway he gave me my first crack of my neck in my life. (said it was a free service) I thought my neck was going to drop off when it went "craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!" (and he did it twice!) I never knew I had so many bones in my neck!!

I injured my arm just the day before the performance by doing too many round-offs (the wrong way?). Wanted to perfect it, but just somehow it didn't have that WOW factor in it. My whole right forearm was so painful! It was especially bad when I just woke up from bed. Feels like just a frozen dead piece of meat. I couldn't even do simple actions like waving, and sometimes when I hadn't move my arm in a long time, it would sting even when I try to lift it up.. What's more I've got to do my round-off, dance AND support the flyers? I was just so so afraid that I couldn't hold the flyers up there. I couldn't pull the team down..and I was so afraid to tell Step about it, cos she already had so many worries in mind. So I HAD to do it. Every dance step was a nightmare, but I managed to pull through it TWICE without anyone noticing anything wrong. I'm just so pleased with myself. ^-^

But somehow, I didn't feel as much pain when I'm doing the actual performances. Maybe it's the audiences, maybe it's the adrenalin rush, or maybe it's just simply mind over matter. The only thing in mind when I perform was that I had to get everything right, and show everyone what we are. Anyway, now I can't bend my arm more than 90 degrees, I take double the time to bathe and I can't brush my teeth (anyone wanna get me an electric toothbrush? I tried brushing with my left hand, but I nearly ended up brushing my face). Feel kinda handicapped..

If given a chance, would I do it again?

DEFINITELY.

Dedicated to the KR Steppers, by Stephanie Ng

Steph (B-Block, 2005 FWOCer) blogged about us:

Read it to believe it:

http://chunksofsteph.blogspot.com/2006/02/dedicated-to-kr-steppers.html>

Thank you, Steph!

KR Steppers

Dedicated to our dear coaches, Crystal and Dion:

"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.

- Guillaume Apollinaire