Asian Thailand Cheerleading Invitational at BKK!
Day 1
Calv, shiqi, siyong, weeps and i left for BKK on friday! Edward who couldn't leave with us 'cause he had a test and lessons bought macs breakfast for us in the morning! SO SWEEET. =D
Arrived at BKK!
We stayed at a very nice hotel, hopeland hotel! As soon as we reached the hotel, we had to change into training attire to get ready for the practice at the stadium straight after a quick lunch!The competition was held at the national stadium! All the raised flags represent the countries that participated in the competition :)
It was a little overwhelming when we entered the stadium, with squads like Japan and Taipei practising, lotsa cheerleaders everywhere, most of them who had their whole team with them while there were only the 5 of us. Worse still edward wasn't around and siyong had to sub him! But it felt better having fellow singaporeans, aces around. And of course our lovely liaisons!
There were three practice areas at the stadium, two jigsaw mat areas and the centre area which had gym mats that were to be used for competition. Each team could practise at each area for a fixed period of time.
We went back to MBK to burn our music after the afternoon practice!
Meet namwarn(the cute girl), harry (the one in specs) and non(the one holding the camera) in the top right hand picture of the above collage! They are the best liaisions, always so helpful and understanding towards us. Fun people too! :)
After that we went back for our evening practice!
Check out rangsit's cool stunt below!So after that, we went back to MBK for dinner! We had jap food at Fuji where we treated our liaisons :)
After dinner the exhausted bunch of us went back to our hotel to concuss! Day 2!
We woke up early for breakfast at the cafeteria!
Our liaisons met us early in the morning to take us to the stadium :)
In the Singaporeans' atheletes' room at the stadium! Shiqi and i experimented with blue glitter on our eyes. Failed.
All the cheerleaders were asked to sit at the stands! We were sitting in between Aces and Chinese Taipei! With Japan not far away. :D
Soon it was time for us to warm up to get ready for our competition!
Then it was our turn to compete! We were after taipei and japan, huge drop in standard, but we still tried our best!
Some photos before we went up!
Our first photo with Japan's mixed group!
Going up soon!!
No video of our competition routine, but it was a rather disappointing performance anyway. We could only strive to perform a better routine the next day.
Lunch time!
A bunch of friendly primary school girls we met in the toilet :P (They said we were pretty haha)
We returned to the stadium for the opening ceremony!
All the cheerleaders were gathered on the competition mats for the opening ceremony! There were plenty of big shots present from thailand + japan etc, but i can't remember what their names are. Through their speeches, we learnt that they're trying to push for cheerleading to be an olympic sport in 2016! It'd be great if that's fulfilled :) Jiayou to the cheerleading community!
We were on the scoreboard together with Chinese Taipei and Team Japan! What an honour :) Although our score was much much lower than the two teams, this marked an important milestone in KR Steppers journey, our first international appearance. Hopefully there'll be many more to come.
Second part of the day was less stressful with us being spectators!
Check out how well the little girls can dance and shake! Much better than most of us!
The next squad i'm gonna talk about is a very unique squad! Most of us find cheerleading tough, but it cannot be as tough for us as this squad. This squad's name is 'Deaf'. And very literally, all the cheerleaders in this squad are deaf. While we dance and stunt according to countings and music, this group of cheerleaders don't as they can't hear. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to coordinate the timings as a squad! I seriously can't imagine, but this squad managed to do it :)
They have a conductor to lead the squad as you can see in the bottom left hand corner of the collage. The cheerleaders have to look at the conductor and also count in their hearts as they can only imagine but not hear the music. Incredibly they put up a wonderful, coordinated performance. It was really very inspiring watching their performance, too bad i didn't take a video and can't find it on youtube, but it's on the wildcards blog so you can go take a look!
Time for the most exciting open team category!
Back in the atheletes' room!
Dinner at siam paragon!
Icecream treat from warn!
So after our very full dinner+icecream. We went back to the stadium to train! It was pretty late and we thought the stadium would be quite empty by then, but to our surprise there were still so many teams hard at work at the stadium! So many of them just kept training and training non stop, full runs after full runs, we felt so slack oh gosh. 'Cause we are. I think that's something we gotta learn from the thai and international teams. One thing i think we do is pamper ourselves too much, telling ourselves not to get tired before a competition etc etc.
Before we started training, we stole a couple of photos with may and joe! Two very nice people from rangsit!
While we were training, our dear liaisons exhausted like mad, stayed by our side to cheer us on and help us video etc! (While one concussed) Uber sweet :))
We were training beside a team from phuket, and they clapped and cheered us on when we were training. Really appreciated it :)
Some more funny photos from Harry's camera!!
Warn doing PA stand on shiqi and i!!
Hahaa all acting sexy except calvin who looks shocked or like he wants to eat shiqi's pony tail. :P
Random.
Here're 2 videos warn took for us!
Towards the end of our night practice, May came over to tell us about the judges comments on our performance.He told us a very shocking piece news that according to the IFC rules, only one flyer was allowed to flyunless we do double cupie. We were all OMG. We actually misunderstood the rule which we thought to mean that at any one time only one flyer is allowed to fly. But the rule actually meant throughout the entire routine! May told us to change to just one flyer instead, using the same stunts, but after some deliberation we decided not to. There was too little time and it's so sad if only one of us flies after training so hard. :( We explained to may and he was very understanding about it. We didn't mean to flout the rules on purpose so we hoped may and the judges would understand.
Back to the hotel we went.
DAY 3
Fixing our hair!
That day we decided to put on our glittery star! We woke weeps up from his nap to help us with the star and he very kindly did without complaining! THANKYOUUS. :D Whose star is nicer?
Little kiddies practising :]
Bumble bee girls!
Some competition photos yay! Thanks to non :) Our performance improved from the previous day, but still below our expectations.
Next up was chinese taipei! The mixed group stunts champs! Their routine is A-MAZ-ING. Loved it. Super zai. Their video's here . Hope you can view it! Every stunt from start til end was so kickass. Especially loved the handstand on hands pop to extension! And the double cupie tick tock. And all the b tosses, oh and the dismounts. Basically, everything!!
Next up was japan!! They were fantastic too of course!
We ran after the japanese for this photo! Glad it turned out nice :D
Namwarn our liaison and biggest supporter made the poster for us!! Damn sweet of her :))
We saw another bunch of cutie little cheerleaders and decided to take photos with them! They weren't very keen though -_- All of them had black faces and most of them weren't looking at the camera :( 
Shiqi and I in our cute pink shirts!
MBK for lunch again! See all the colourful thingies? They're our favourite lokchubs! Be sure so try them when you guys go bkk next time!
Playing around!
Lunch at cocoinchi.
Back at the stadium, we watched vanquish practise! They seriously look like they don't get tired repeating the stunts again. And mind you, these stunts include double up to 2-2-1, double christmas tree etc etc. We were quite excited to see the double "christmas tree" since we did the single one before ahha. Freshies if you didn't know, christmas tree was our final pyramid for cheerobics this year :] Just that theirs is so much more difficult, toss up to shoulder sit :O.
Photos with rangsit cheerleaders! The base, Chang is really nice, and the flyers are very zai! The flyer on the right can do a super pretty twist double cradle from scorpion. Fast, tight and neat. Loves it.
This little girl below is the main flyer of the Swan team! She's super tiny! Around the same height as me, and like half my size.
With troy(i think) the guy who was in charge of the international teams. 
With titanz, an all girls team from malaysia! Very friendly girls :)
A few more random photos while waiting at the stands :)
Soon it was time for the open category teams to perform. OMG damn highh!First up was aces that we screamed our lungs out for, and the next few teams were also damn zai teams which we love and support! Their performance was so exciting i was screaming and clapping throughout all their performances. Seriously. My throat was kinda sore and hands kinda stinging after that. But it was worth it! It's really such a great opportunity we got to watch these cheerleaders perform :)
The japanese team performed better than the day before and they were so super duper happy after their routine! Just look at the photos below! I could totally feel their happiness from where i was sitting! :)) It's the joy you get from accomplishing a great routine that you've been training so hard for. Steppers jiayou k must also be this happy after cheerobics :]
Award ceremony!! 
We got a trophy too! For being third place in the international mixed group stunts category! We were happy enough. :) It was an honour and a great experience.
Japan got 2nd!
One more photo! Loves it.
All three international mixed group representatives! Taiwan's awesome routine won them first place :)
Group shot with the trophy! Good job my fellow boing teammates :))
With our liaisons! Wouldn't have survived without them!
A photo with Team Japan! May said it is an honour to be able to compete with the the Japanese team, and they truly show what cheerleading is all about. I can't agree more. 
With chinese taipei! They really impressed me lots this competition!
I really look up to the taipei flyers! All of them can tumble and they're superb flyers. Not forgetting to mention all of them have super defined abs! Steppers flyers please jiayou! 
Photos with deaf bases, a shy little girl and an aces flyer! Yilyn i think! :)
Oat! The man behind the whole competition!
With rangsit cheerleaders!!! After so many failed trips to rangsit, we finally get to meet them. 
MOCHIIII!!!! We all took photos with her yay! All of us love her to bits. She's the cutest zai-est flyer!
With warnnn our biggest supporter :)
And harry who's really quite talented in basing! Haha. He managed to lift shiqi and i to his shoulders himself!
Us :)
We girls doing some partner stunts ourselves! Notice that no one is helping shiqi support my weight! Freshie girls please learn from her ;)
With team SUT! They gave us a souvenier! :D 
MAY! Another important man behind the competition!
A photo with both of them! 
Our friendly bases letting some people try flying!
With captain weeps! 
Group photo with ACES!! It was nice getting to know them a bit more for the first time! 'Cause we were in a foreign country, it felt like we were all from the same team! :)) Thank you aces for being the only ones cheering for us ! :D
With hongkong cheerleaders! 
We had a post competition dinner at Asia hotel! It was so much fun :))
Some short clips to remember the great night!
Nobody nobody but you!
Suan lum night market after the dinner!
Drank with Chang and a couple of his friends. 
Last photos for the night before we we headed back to our hotel! 
That marks the end of our exciting third day in BKK :))
Day 4 in BKK was r&r day!
Lunch at A&W!
Shopping at platinum!
Counting money to pay warn for the accomodation! We look damn rich :P
Look how happy yeng and weeps are!They had the most number of buys!
MV and Warn damn sweet again, bought all of us handphone chains that said K*R!After shopping at platinum, it was time for the dinner treat by yeng's parents! It was at this really nice traditional thai restaurant!
Model-wannabes haa. 
The food was super duper YUMMMYY!!
Thankyou yeng's mummy and daddy for the realllyy nice dinner!!
Naraya!
Nut, shiqi and i were happy with our buys! :D
Went back to the hotel to dress up for later part of the night!
We visited desco pub!
Poor nut got drunk!
The night didn't end after we left the club! Lotsa drama. You can read my blog if you want haha.
Time to go back home!
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