Still could remember flying over to Thailand alone on monday morning [the rest of the team flew on Sunday morning] and trying like thousand of times to call a Thai mobile phone number from a payphone without success because must put a 080 in front of the number instead. And then how I reached RSU and met Harry and Nut, my 2 thai friends from TCC last September.
Then hearing how tough the training was on Sunday and Monday morning and how excited i was to start training. I could summarize the whole training as a "back to basics" training, and although we didn't practise much of the cheerobics routine [yes "WHAT NOW STILL HAVENT LEARN YET???!?], we did a lot of basics practice which I strongly believe will help us learn much faster the routine when Oat and May come again in early Feb.
Though some might disagree, or even complain that why we are doing so many things unrelated to the routine, but i have to bring up the situation when i was in year 1. I remembered practising for the routine which they gave us in December and when they came back again, our success rate wasn't even close to 20% but we insisted that we could do it. So they gave us a few hours to practise, and when they came back, still we couldn't do the stunts. I remembered how Oat was very angry and said that we didn't believe in him. Remembering this and not forgetting the lesson learnt, this time as a captain i will make sure that we will follow exactly what he left for us to practise until he comes in a month's time.
So much to practise, but so little time. Daily PT, basic pyramids, partner stunts, not to mention we have to cater time to practise for IHG closing performance too. Ah what the heck haha. Took a look at the title of this post and realized it's supposed to be about RSU hahaha. guess i digressed tooo much.
Anyway, RSU was way fun man. Everyone's so friendly and willing to help, and although most of them are students like us who have daily classes, they still come down to help whenever they are free. I think everyone benefitted from them a lot a lot in one way or another, be it accomplishing scorpions, partner stunts, or just improving your basics. But overall, I think everyone is more motivated to achieve, rather than just be yet another member of KR Steppers only. Secretly, I think everyone has their own goals in the team, and hopefully this will motivate them to do all the daily self PT and stretching in order to become stronger and achieve the difficult walls.
Personally, I've improved my thai aha and I've grown to believe that it's going to be impossible to achieve anything if we don't train everyday. Perhaps one of these days i will talk to master or lewis and try to convince them that if we want to have a breakthrough one fine day, we have to cut down on other activities and focus just on this. Hall invests a lot in us, but no matter how hard we try, at the very minimum we have studies and cheer to balance. coupled with the insane points system to stay and hence the pressure to take up so many other activities, it's very difficult to build up a strong cheer team. i can imagine all the backlashes and consequences of having this thought / proposal, but who cares, it's a fact, which i have no choice but to recognize after doing 2 years of cheerleading. OK ANW, i have to thank once again the RSU people for the following things which they did for us:
(1) Always being there for us during trainings
(2) Going out of their way to satisfy our needs like fetching shiqi and ivan individually from the airport
(3) Being friendly and ever encouraging [im the discouraging one most of the time aha]
(4) Following us wherever we wanna go and making sure we're back safely everytime
(5) Organizing the BBQ
(6) Finding the contacts to print our team shirt and making uniforms
(7) Waking up at like 4:00am with me ivan and shiqi just to send us off [saang, big, bombam, pui, koy]
...and many many more!!! I can't list out the names of the RSU people because I can't remember a few names so will be paisei one, but special mention to chaang and saang who were always almost always with us everyday from the time we wake up till we end training.
For me, it's more than just learning stunts, i understood more about cheerleading and how to grow a team and how to improve the team better, and this one month will put us to the test, whether we will continue to be stagnant or we will all improve together as a team. of course i hope for the latter, but if really time doesnt permit or whatever reason, i believe we will still be able to give a good show during cheerobics.
And thanks to my cool Angel, Joy who gave me lots of nice stuffs including a limited edition shirt AHA! And my mortal was Beeeerrrrr, who's like the coolest top flyer ever. Lastly, SORRY TO HEIDI I FORGOT TO BUY YOUR POCKYS EVEN THOUGH U REMINDED ME! dunno what's wrong with my brain aha.
SUSU!
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