Season 2019: THE UNCOMMON
As the year is about to end, I feel extremely nostalgic looking back at what and who I’ve encounter this year. I was given the opportunity to experience what competitive dancing is like with the tittle of being in the “State Team’. Before the year ends, I would like to dedicate a few words to my 24 to 13 to 26 OGs that made up UNCOMMON.
We’ve been dancing together for long enough and you all had filled my past few months with plenty joyful moments as well as not so joyful ones. After what we’ve heard, learned, seen, I had this sudden urge to write about us.
We first met each other during our audition trainings and I’m not going to lie, I was extremely intimidated by all of you. I can vividly remember, as soon as the music plays, You guys radiate determination and strong desires of wanting to be the chosen ones for our team. We never really gotten the chance to talk and know each other better prior to selections and knowing that our first competition together was a month away, didn’t give me good vibes at all, in fact I was worried and thought it would be a disaster. 23 dancers, 5 weeks, 2:45 minutes routine, I think if you were me, you would feel the same. It wasn’t until the day itself I felt at ease, I told myself “you know what, you got this!” and we got this! Came home 5th, but come on what can you expect when you still got scolded for messing up the night before.
It all started falling when people started leaving. I’m not going to lie, I was THISSS close in having zero confidence in our team. I remembered having dinner with Yi Ting and Marcus, I was asking them whether is it my fault for not being confident with my own team when literally everyone was leaving. I really have thank the both of them for keeping me grounded or else I would’ve left as well.
We can all agree that it was during TJD preparation where our bond strengthen, our minds started to think alike and we started to have the same goal, which was to be better each time the music plays. Sometimes we did, sometimes failed. It’s Okay! We can always try again.
it may be because of our bond, we started to receive more encouragements and more constructive criticisms, we approached TJD not for “experience” anymore, but more to actually wanting to achieve something. I might have set my hopes and expectations too high that night, that I disappointed myself, but you guys were there to remind me that thought we didn’t win, we still achieved our goal of performing better that the last one and our results proved so.
That nigh hit me hard, I remember literally throwing myself onto Yi Ting and cried, because yes we didn’t win but also because I’ve realised how much of a family the 13 (14 if you include Teacher Danial) had become. I truly respect and love guys a lot! You guys played such an important role in my journey as a dancer as well engraving yourselves so deeply into my heart. I know we are going through a new phase right now, but I hope we can welcome our friends with open arms and love them as well.
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