Singapore National Cheerleading Competition 2010

After a heavy nasi lemak breakfast at Changi Village yesterday morning, we were on our way down to Fort Canning for the couple picnic event organized by Marriage Central. But we happened to be early so the wifey wanted to go to the Expo to check out the Cheerios Baby Fair because there were cheap diapers (so early?!).

Anyway,the Expo was bustling with people because there were alot of fairs going on, so we slowly checked out each fair one by one. Then stumbled into Hall 2 where the Singapore National Cheerleading Championships were going on. So we decided to sit in and watch it for awhile because admission was free to the public.

Who would've thought we'd stay for the entire event! We wanted to watch the open category perform probably because the standard was pretty good and NTU had two teams participating too! Cheerleading has come such a long way since I watched the movie 'Bring It On' during my freshman year when we also had those silly inter-hall chearleading competitions. Haha.

There were a few really good teams, like the Ulu Pandan (wtf?) Wildcards, Magnum Force and the NTU teams. The NUS team deserves a mention only because they were so bad that even particpants from the Senior High (younger) category were better than them.

Still it was a pretty fun event and we ended up skipping the Fort Canning event that we had wanted to go. At the end of the final team's performance, we were all ready to slip off but lo' and behold, the organizers brought in a Japanese Exhibition team to perform and my God, they were amazing! Totally brought the whole house down. It was an all-girl team and they had more flips and cartwheels than any competing team. And more spectacular yet, they had more people standing on shoulders than anyone could imagine! The girls were so strong (yet small)! Simply fantastic. I guess suffice to say the 1,000 strong crowd saved their noisiest cheering for them japs. Their standard is way beyond an SG team this year.

I guess the event was really fun and it made me feel oh-so young once more. But it could've done ith more publicity. I'm quite sure alot more people would've turned up if they knew about it. You could see from the members of public streaming in out of curiousity to watch the event.

Oh and we didn't stay for the results but I think the Ulu Pandan Wildcards won it. We just couldn't stomach sitting through a Vivian Balakrishnan speech :P Anyone knows the results?

Fun!