Just Mei: Memoirs of Sem 5| Lembu Cheerleading

A post that is dedicated to all my lembus cheerleaders ♥

Yeap! I joined cheerleading! =D

Can you spot me in the picture?

♥ The Trainings ♥

How did it all happen? Hmmm… Let’s go 6 months back to June 2010. It wasn’t easy at all to find people and trained them into a cheerleading team. Jason, as the captain of the team was in so much stress at that period of them.

We started off with less than 12 people in our team and our dance routines weren’t even half way through yet!

We kept finding people to join and kept waiting. Days changed to weeks and weeks changed to months. Then those who were interested starting to show up one by one and we finally had enough people to have our stunts training started.

Most of us had NONE experience in cheerleading at all. Thanks to Jason and a few others who had participated in cheerleading. Without them and their guidance, I think most of the flyers would end up in hospitals.

Stunts were quite challenging at times and we worked really hard to get them right.

I loved to see how they transformed from a normal medical and health science students to cheerleaders who were able to carry and lift up flyers. =)

*Good jobs to all the bases, I know that you guys can feel the weight and end up having bruises but you all still managed put a smile to cover everything up =P*

And sometimes, flyers too get hurt during trainings.

Poor Le Fei and Fiona, having bruises at their waist after countless times of shoulder stand trainings.

Jason being lifted up during a routine training.

And end up hurting himself. His already sprained ankle (from a volley ball tournament) was once again sprained.

It was in such a bad condition that he needed to visit a Chinese doctor and get his ankle some herbs.

And it wasn’t easy to choreograph dance routines that involves 24 of us. We even came up with diagrams to make routines easier for us to understand.

Ee Ling and Fiona working on the diagram as Polly looked on.

Wah Laa! The complicated rountine! =)

The Waka Waka dance routine was also another complicated one, involving formation of 2 circles then into another 2 circles then into another 2 circles.. then……etc..

Eeling and Fiona working on the Waka Waka circles.

Training was exhausting. I remember sweating so much that I could literally squeeze sweat droplets out of my T-shirt after a few session of dancing and jumping around with the fast beat rhythm of the songs.

As weeks of training went by, our cheerleaders are getting more in shaped and stunts that seemed impossible initially were able to be accomplished.

We gave all our heart, attention and effort in EACH training session! Well, maybe MOST of the sessions. =P

*(Left) Check out what was Jie Xin doing? *(Right) who was the red shirt guy over there? :P*

We had trainings at nights almost everyday. And most of us still need prepare for class tests, PSDs and final exams. It was quite stressful at times when you think of it, knowing the fact that your other classmates are busy preparing for the exams and you are still in Uni, spending hours there cheerleading.

But as stressful as you can be, cheerleading with all my lembus was something I looked forward to every single day. =)

♥ The Laughter ♥

We grew closer as time past and the laughter that we shared was something that I will remember and cherish.

Alvin and Jie Xun on Jason’s shoulder.

I don’t really remember what happened during this particular training session:

It was such a serious training at the beginning but ……

……ended up everyone couldn’t hold their laughter anymore. =)

Loved every training session as they were always accompanied by fun, laughter and a magnet that pulled every of us closer. =)

~~Sister~~ Lembus talk session

♥ Meeting with The Taylor ♥

Le Fei and Thoong Lynn having their measurements taken by the taylor.

Jason (left) was happy and satisfied with the design of the uniforms.

Don’t be shy la Fiona! =P

We liked our tiny skirts!

For me, the best part was counting the moneys paid. I know they are not mine but I just loved holding them! =D

♥ Lembus Handmade Production Sdn. Bhd. ♥

I never knew that cheerleading involves art classes as well! =P

♥♥ Pompoms ♥♥

Having our fingers busy in making our cute pinky pompoms.

The queen of pompoms, Fiona!

Everyone loved the pompoms and came up with their own unique ways of posing with them!

Aw… Don’t they look wonderful? =)

♥♥ The Shoes ♥♥

We got our shoes from Bata. (What to do? We had budget…)

I wonder what was on Jason’s mind that day.. Maybe he was thinking “Sigh.. I want to have Addidas instead…”?

I loved the combination of colours, pink and black, went super well with our uniforms! =)

However the design was just too simple for us. We had to do something with it.

We painted it and add glitter to every pair of shoes! Sweet!

For the guys.

For the girls.

Took us one whole night to get all of them dazzled!

Our babies.

♥ The Day ♥

October 11th 2010 , the finals of IMU cup which was also the cheerleading competition, the day we all had been waiting and training for. =)

I remember feeling numb all over my body and was just overwhelmed by the crowd.

After months of hard and exhausting trainings, we gave our best that night.

There goes our 2.5 minutes routine! Haha.. =)

I bet everyone of us enjoyed it!

I have to say that joining cheerleading was the best thing I ever did in Sem 5! I am very glad that I made that decision and I think everyone of us (BP108 buddies) enjoyed their experiences as cheerleaders as well!