so far...

I'm back from National Service for these 5 days. I've been sleeping in, something I haven't had the chance to do since joining NS. In NS, sleeping in on a Saturday morning would mean sleeping till 8am. Yes, that's considered LATE.

Loads of people have been asking how camp is so far. Well, all I can say is that it was certainly a wonderful experience for me; Getting to know people of all races, all religions and all walks of life.

I started out my first day in camp worried, because although I had made a couple of friends, I didn’t have the confidence that I’ll be making more friends. So there was the nagging fear in me that I would live the next 3 months with say, only 2 friends.

Well, thank You God for helping me mix around more :) I started out shy, (and I’ll bet that most of you would agree that you thought I was shy too when you first met me :P) but now I find it so easy to just strike up a conversation with the person next to me, regardless of the fact that he or she may be a complete stranger to me.

:D

What do we do in NS?

1. We had 2 modules of Character Building classes. Which lasted for 4 weeks, and it’s held in the mornings. And we have to follow rules like, no eating in class, and sit down before the music ends.

(the music lasts for 10 minutes and acts like a school bell for us)

2. Then we had Kelas Integrasi for a week, where I happen to land in the most awesome class ever. Even though the classes are from 9am-4.30pm for a week, I think I can safely say that I spent most of my time having fun laughing with the retarded people there :D

3. We have physical activities.eg: taekwondo, sukan kreativiti, marching,etc…

4. We have riadah where we play sports games or dance.

5. Then we have the special, once-in-a-while activities like jungle-tracking, kayaking, rafting, FLYING FOX!.

6. We are given meals 6 times a day, and in between we snack on maggi cup, biscuits, muffins, tuna, buns, NIPS

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7. We have practices for Kebudayaan Night which is our last night in NS. I’m in Indian dance!teehee

8. We have morning exercise at 6.30am every morning.

9. Oh, and we have roll call every.single.night. They make us sing 4 songs almost every night- The Khidmat Negara song, Jalur Gemilang, Keranamu Malaysia and the chicken dance.

And our very sporting commander lets us jump around and dance and do whatever.

It’s like partying to patriotic songs. haha

10. and, our commander has movie time for us. We’ve watched Avatar and Sherlock Holmes.

Like on the last night before CNY break, he was like ‘whoever wants to sleep can go back to the dorm, and whoever wants to watch movie can stay back’. So the hall turned into like a cinema, everyone bringing food, sitting around and hanging out.

Yeah, our commander is that cool :)

Fast forward to now, I just wanna thank all the lovely people who made my one and a half months in NS a fantastic time. I’ll be looking forward to the last 1 month in NS :)

and to you people who i haven't seen in a long time: DULC solidyouth people and my wonderful high school friends (you know who you are), i miss you guys so so so so much. Take care while I'm gone, I'll catch up with you when I get back :)