And it's over.
5 months (and one day!) of practice, and I'm going to attempt to chronicle everything:

1. DIRT, SWEAT AND GRIME
I swear the best part about sweating like a pig on fire is that everyone's equally bad :D Like we're all dripping sweat with ugly sweat stains and sweaty foreheads and dirt/grass stuck to our sweaty knees/legs/hands/bu- (okay, I'll spare you the details) and we walk around half-lidded mouth gaping going baa--beerrr teeee.

2. KOI CAFE
KOI AFTER PRAC IS AWESOME SHIZZ. Actually anything cold is awesome shizz but Koi is Kool and gives us pretty Waddle straws and a hell lot of pearls and a hole in your pocket and immense satisfaction when you're dead and in Toa Payoh.

3. TOA PAYOH
Toa Payoh pracs = start at 6, get on the track at 8.15, get off the track at 8.30 :D A lot of joggers (who are so on they run on the outside lane of the track) and security people who either 1) chase us away, concerned for the welfare of the joggers, or 2) direct us to little jutting out bits of the track, concerned for the welfare of the joggers.
Blocking = pillars and poles, lines and spaces, hahaha very confusing, very effective :D
Walking = very far, but it feels so short.
Going home = armed with Koi, with like half the team, who somehow all live in the east :D

4. MRT FINES
Never, ever bring a cup of drink into the station because even if it's empty you'll get fined -.- Very anal security people with no concern whatsoever for people's feelings, so long as they don't get in the way of his job. Spent a very eventful MRT ride home plotting ways on getting back at him:
Shanxi: "One day I'm going to go back there in my own clothes and beat him up"
(20 minutes later)
Shanxi: "Did I tell you that one day I'm going to go back there in my own clothes and beat him up?"
And she has very... interesting ways on how to get back at people who shove you on the mrt/bus hahaha (Y)

5. COSTUME SCARES
I think one of the most O_O part of cheer this year was our original costume, and it was, well -
Sarah calls it a "spandex cavewoman suit" or something to that effect hahaha. Basically it was this one-shouldered crop top with what was supposed to look like a continuous black line wrapping it but ended up look like a thin bag strap criss-crossing front and back and made us look flat and odd and mildly bumblebee-ish. :D

But the Sec4s redesigned it and it ended up looking explorer-y and kind of cute when you wear it on and :D :D :D

6. PERFORMANCE > COMPETITION
I think the most important thing I learnt this year is that Cheerleading isn't all about competition.
Last year when we were a whole lot more prepared, we were all aiming for champions because we were very close to getting it and we knew it. And it was.. good that we had a goal in mind, we worked like shit for that goal, and we did achieve it.
But this year = less prepared, and somehow it felt.. nicer? Like we were going up there to perform, not for placing but more as a performance. Like less pressure, more of "okay we'll just give it our all and see what happens" and all that.

And the environment this year was really quite different from last's. I think this year there really was close to no competition between the houses, everyone was cheering each other on, and it was nice hearing "GO CHEERLEADERS" among all the individual house cheers.

I think I like this more (:

7. SUPPORT
I really really cannot thank all of you enough, I LOVE YOU ALL LIKE CRAZYYY.
Thank you 304 for your.. random cheers of "WADDLE MUST WIN", Guides for your a lot a lot of good luck and Jocie for your hug even though I was disgusting and sweaty and "GO CHINDIAN" and smses and the house's periodic cheering (especially during Tokyo Drift!) and all of our energy levels normally go downhill from Tokyo Drift onwards but everyone was cheering so much that it was like WHOA, what tired?
And all the comments after performance, I love you all (L)

8. THE AWESOME SHIZZ WEATHER
I love the sun hahaha, it came out at all the perfect times, just in time for our performance and even though that normally means we'll get tired a whole lot quicker, it made our hats looks super prettayeeee :D
And it started raining right at the end of Sports Fest = after all the races and competitions and prize giving, and we camwhored long enough for us to leave the Stadium just after it stopped raining :D

9. WHO'S GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO BE WORLD WIDE WADDLE
Cheerleading: 1st Runners Up
Overall Champion: 1st Runners Up

And I'm sorry if this ruins all house spirit I should be having, but I don't really care about those results because

I LOVE YOU ALL: RACHEL LIU, NADIA, DIANE, SARAH, LI YONG, CRYSTAL, MINCHIH, NICOLE, RACHEL CHAN, MIRU ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥