sports day

woke up at 4am, stared at my room ceiling and said, well today's the day where 4 months of practice is gonna pay off. got up, went to bathroom, brush teeth....blablabla......then, as i was tying my hair, and suddenly ouch....my abdomen muscle hurts....guessed i practiced my bridge a bit too much yesterday...

went to school at 5am, raining, jam all the way to school. reach a 5.30am. 1 of the girls ran over and ask ''where's ur skirt?'' ''in my bag?'' ''give it to me now!!'' right, cool, sure, why'd u need it for anyway? then they told me, we need to cut n sew it, now. WHAT??? what 4? Cause teacher complain the skirt too ''tight'' , have to snip off one of the sides so it's not so tight n also to show that there's another pair of thights inside( it's the kind of skirt with a pair or thights inside ), not just the skirt.....swt....goverment school, malaysia...i mean, who(normal thinking people) would dance without another pair of shorts inside if u are wearing a skirt? (unless u have other motives ==)

so we ( me n another few girls ) had to rush, n surprise, i just realised, not many girls can sew. i thought everybody knew how to sew....properly, with the traditional needle n thread (n my mom complains i cant sew)....then, we changed into our "uniform''? (combination of last year's blue house shirt n the last minute sew-ed skirt) looks ok i guess. As i went back, another girl told me "tie your hair higher!!" huh? isn't this high enough? i just had a hair cut last week, how high do u want me to tie my hair? so i tied again, n was just about to do sth else when she came running to me with a blue-air pollution chemical.....hair spray. NO!!!!!!!! i hate this kind of thing, having chemicals put on my precious hair to damage n harden it, is a big no-no. but she ran after me with that chemical n shouted "spray few hours cant do any damge to your hair la!!!" but it can do damage to the ozone layer....(since when am i so environmentle friendly?) she caught me (slow runner) n sprayed that thing at my hair, i shut my eyes n feel that thing going through my hair...yuck... they even wnted to put makeup for us....the rest of them was ok with it, but i rubbed mine off immediatelly, how can i stand having powdery stuff going into my skin and dunno do what knid of damage to my precious, pimple-free, smooth, perfect skin texture???

i changed my shoe on the bus on the way to cheras football stadium, (brought 2 cause was raining n din want my shoe for cheer to b wet) got into our lines for pembarisan (marching). watched other houses get ready. Red was....all the people wear the kind of straw hat u c farmers wear in China but it's painted red. Green was even cooler, they made some kind of bamboo seat like the kind u c the king sit on in olden days in china? yup, tat's the kind. then somebody sits on it with 4 dressed up sakai's carrying that bamboo seat with the person on top. the bamboo thing was even covered in leaves...

Blue house was the first house to march out. i actually think we did ok, but after singing the lagu wilayah n lagu sekolah in the hot 9am sun, we marched to the front n keluar baris. Immediately, our commander cried, she was so upset, she thinks it's not neat enough...

my parents say they want to come, so i asked our cheerleader's ketua, she says our performance is probably at 10am, so i sms'ed them. they came at 10, punctual. our performance was at 11am....

green house cheer went first, all the other cheerleaders(other house) cheered for them. i didn't, cause i was basically too busy panic-ing n memorising my sequence. u do anything wrong ltr, u'll get cursed the whole year, that's the world of cheerleader. i dont blame them actually. yellow house was next, i was still too busy panic-ing.

"cool....relax....just do your best....u've been practicing for a long time, just do this like how u did during rehersal. " i told myself, then i stared at one of my fellow cheerleader n hugged her, i was shaking.

''.....pasukan sorak rumah biru!!!" i turned, kept my mind blank, forgot for an while about the pain in my musle n ran out with everybody else. near the middle, i actually started to relax, and enjoy this historicle moment. during the second fomation, where i was required to do bridge, from standing position in the middle was actually easy. but i was worried i couldn't do it last minute last night that i practiced my bridge for over 10 times. now i have problem with my muscle, it hurts to even laugh.

so when it was time for the second formation, i held my breath n just bend down, surprisingly, it didn't hurt, i even went a bit too down that my hand had to bend n push back up. everything else went smoothly.

we had high hopes cause every other cheerleader teams made mistakes. if we win cheer, blue will get the overall champion. red had 12 points more than blue, yello n green had 100+ points less than blue. so, our main competition now, is red.

when the time came for the results, all houses cheer are required to stand in the middle, under 1 o'clock sun, n wait for the pengetua to talk, the PIBG chairman to talk then they'll anounce the results. After that, the ketua scout will lead the 'sorakan' to end this event. which is 3 times of cheering ''hip hip hooray!!''

...........bla bla bla '' pemenang untuk pembarisan rumah ialah....rumah hijau!!!'' .........i could see red house commender crying, and our commender staring into space n at the trophy she thought she could finally hold....green house commender ran up, got the trophy and hugged and kiss and show it to all the members.

J said, i joined cheer since form 3, every year, we get last place, tis is my last year in this school...i really hope there's a change.....

B says, blue house is no loser, u guys r good, on year 19xx blue house won overall champion for 5 years in a row.....

''pemenang untuk pasukan sorak rumah ialah rumah............'' biru, biru, biru, biru......i could hear all of us praying....

''kuning!!!!!!!!'' yeah!!!!!!..............screams of delight was heared. we lost....again.....

red got the overall champion.

blue....got nothing........

the ketua scout in front raised his hands and said ''hip hip hooray!!'' i really felt like just putting everything down n just...go home....but my hands went up with everone else, but i din't say a word.

during the wilayah song again....tears rolled, i bit my lips, shut my eye n told myself. this isn't the way u should act, yellow won, u should b happy for them....the song ended. we went back, took a few shots. i spotted my mom n went home, leaving the happy teams behind. The rest of blue house was being a real sport by joining in red house to run the field after winning.

i always respected people with good sportsmenship, so, like someone once said...life goes on, no matter how dissapointed or depressed u r, u cant turn time. if the judges think yellow house was worth the trophy, then i sincerlly congratulate u.