never seen the blue uniform before ? it's Baju Celoreng :P
people that went for NS will say : in PLKN , you will cry 2 times. the first time is in your first week there , missing your family. And the second time will be the day you leave your camp, missing your friends.
the moment i received the letter i was like , mehhhhh the letter of death is here , but nahhh i will never cry. i want to end this shit as soon as possible. I skype with my classmates and my girls the day before i went for NS and it was the 1st of January. And on the 31st of Dec i went countdown and also slept over at Darrion's place with the bunch. They teased me by saying, I will enjoy myself there and will know lots of new friends. But in my mind i was thinking, i want no new friends! i don't want to leave! i'm enjoying the days after the stressful SPM month - class gathering , outing with tuition mates, class trip to penang , PROM , amanda's farewell, christmas countdown at Gan's place , my little farewell , 2012 countdown and overnight at Darrion's place .......... and suddenly i received the letter of death GAHHHHHH 晴天霹靂 TTM.
on the 2nd of January, i woke up around 6am and arrived Putrajaya Presint 3 around 8.30am.
looked around to see whether they are people that are in the same camp with me that i know. but sadly, no one. I saw candice but she's in another camp. So gahhhh registered and went up the bus. I did not cried, cos i was like , cheh 3 months only ma, time flies.
my parents followed the bus all the way from Putrajaya to my Camp, Kem PLKN Titian Bintangor, Rembau , Negeri Sembilan. It took about 2 hours to reach there and before reaching my camp , you can see a field full with cows and also rubber estates. As a typical city kid, i was amazed by the beauty of the nature. After unloading all the luggage from the bus, we lined up and were welcomed by a teacher. I can't really remember what he said but mostly crap lol he asked us to register at various counters to hand in different forms from the letter.
at the last counter, a teacher gave me this paper writing AW10. I was like wth does AW means ? I stared at the teacher for a few seconds and maybe my expression was too obvious that she knows i don't understand what does AW means gahhh lol then she said "Asrama Wanita" and i went OHHHHHHH~. They made announcement asking us to have lunch before taking our luggage and go back to our dorm. So i took a tray, some food and sat down. The first friend i know there was Celine Foo, Yeah she's having the same surname as me. I felt so happy to have a friend because i hate knowing new friends. I'm shy infront of strangers. So after having lunch we went back to our dorm - AW10. Upon reaching our dorm, we were welcomed by a bunch of chinese girls ( Zi sin, Pui Man, Wan Ting, Siew Wen, Xin Wey). I felt so touched and warm. They took me a tour around the dorm. Showing me where to wash clothes, bath and stuffs. And after that we went logistic to take our BAJU ISU ( baju,seluar&kasut kelas and pt ) That night, i couldn't sleep. Everyone felt asleep except me. And in the afternoon the next day, all the chinese girls in AW10 gathered in the middle of our dorm and talked about EVERYTHING. from school to hair. we are like best friends that have know each other for 10 years. But the saddest and cruel-est thing happened later in the night. We were seperated. We were seperated to different dorms. This is because on the third day, pelatih from Johor arrived. They want every dorm to be equally distributed with pelatih from different places. I was transferred to AW13 , from company alpha to charlie. Pui Man actually cried, because we are seperating, not in the same dorm anymore.
eve and myself.
Eve was the first person i know in AW13.my frist impression of her was, damn she's pretty and she looks like some character from some korean or japanese novel. You know, people said the first person you know in a new environment, that person will be your best friend. and yes, she's my best friend in the camp. What really made us close was when we found out that we are born on the same day ! 22nd of april. The moment when i told her she was like, "NAHH you saw my ic right ?" , and i was thinking the same too, cos it's quite hard, nearly impossible to have a friend to have the same birthday. We have so much in common! Our character, things that we hate and like, type of guys we like .... we talked about EVERYTHING we can think of. I think i got really close to her around the end of Feb. Because i'm a 慢熟 person. I don't really like to share my feelings with people that i'm not close or familiar with, i don't like to expose the real me to strangers. i will have the feeling of insecure. but after knowing her for a couple of months, i share my feelings with her. And she's like some best friend i have known for a long time. i really rely on her alot. And yeah, i miss you hell lot. You know, the last day in the camp, when you hug me and said goodbye, all the memories flashed back. and i cried. I really didn't expect i will cry (i didn't even cry on my secondary school graduation day), when i see your bus went off and got smaller and smaller and eventually disappeared from my sight, i felt that, part of my heart was missing. ( I WILL LEAVE THE REST IN THE LETTER I WILL BE SENDING TO YOU K :P)
Character building class (CB1) was the first class we attended, which was conducted in BD1. Charlie girls from dorm AW13 combined with Alpha guys AL1. This is the class that i miss and like the most. Because of this class, i got closer with my dorm-mates. And we were in this class for one month+ . Sadness overloaded when we knew we will be seperated to different classes. After Character Building class was Class Budaya Kerja , Kelas Kenegaraan , Kelas Antidadah, Kelas Integrasi ... And i knew lot's of new friends from different company. In KBK i got to know shahrul and lots of wirawati from different company, but i can't remember their names because i sprained my ankle and was in medic for almost a week. I felt so touched when they remember my name because i only entered the class twice :') . And in Kelas KN , I got to know Ah Too, Ina, KFC ( i only know his nickname lol ), Keshan, who also wants to be a doctor in the future, and also Amie. Ah Too is like another me. She talks like me, acts like me and behaves like me. Cos we are they type of girl that are erm, not very girly. And Amie, the shortie! (153cm lol) He's so cute with his tiger teeth and long eye lashes :3 He's those typical 38 gong or in english , busy body, but in a cute way. And He is always with Toyol ( another cute guy and have the same height as Amie) and Jad (a super duper freaking tall guy). Try to imagine KLCC with 2 little mushrooms lol.
And the last class we had was Kelas Integrasi. The second class i like the most! Cos i've learnt alot from this class for instance the culture of other races and religions. And this is the class that we need to talk and present, everyday and everytime. Know lots of new friends from this class too! Shafiqa, Nuryana, Husain, Apik, Wong, Faz .... And my group members are super funny, especially Apik and Husain. They are like Tom and Jerry, best friends but always fighting lol.
introducing you the Charlie Girls!
i'm glad to have this bunch of girls as my friend. People from other company actually feel envy or jealous about how strong we are connected. They are no secrets between all of us. We bath together, wash clothes together, eat instant noodles at 12 midnight together , sing in the toilet until the teacher from the next dorm came out and see what happened .... Thankyou for all the memories! :'3 and i didn't expect i can be so close with malays. i'm from chinese primary and secondary school and even if i have classmates which are indian or malay, they can speak chinese. So this is the first time i speak malay with malay lol. And they are super friendly! Wawa , Una, Eyda, Husna, Bella, Fatihah, Farzana .... Gahhhh i miss them so much. And because of the sistem merit demerit , i became much more disciplined! we make sure our dorm is clean and our bed ditegangkan before leaving. To be frank, i really hate it. Because everyday you need to wake up so damn freaking early and you are so damn tired and you still need to care about little things like these. But, this is PLNK life. PLKN life isn't complete without these.
this is how we sleep the week before leaving the camp. We combine 4-5 beds and squeeze 10 people! tried before? :P we the chinese wirawati Charlie got so close that we actually start crying a month before leaving the camp. And i will never forget the time we had in the temple and during Kelas Buddha. And i'm sorry if you guys felt neglected or what :\ And i will keep the promises i made kay! 10 years later if i really become an orthopaetician, come to my clinic or hospital FOC ! but i don't hope to see you guys la cos going to a clinic or hospital is not a good thing HAHA.
this was taken on my parents first visit. You don't know how happy and excited i felt that day. After not seeing them for 2 weeks, i cried when i saw them waving at me. I realised how great my life is at home. Clean water clean bathroom clean plates clean cups washing machine hair dryer, television, computer (as you can see from the picture above, my camp is in a FOREST) .... and also my family and friends. sooner and later i got used to it. I can survive without handphone and television. And all of us got used to the hot whether already. no more "berkipas-kipas" (we actually brought mini electronic fan to the camp) HAHA. and life in NS is really .... worry-free. Everything is well-organized. The time you wake up and sleep, the time you eat and go to class, what to do and what to wear and where to go ....
Kayak on valentine's day! how romantic! :P
( i don't own the picture of flying fox,wirajaya and the shooting one cos we went on a weekday so no handphone FML lol)
so , these are the climax of PLKN, menembak, berkayak & berkanoe , flying fox, repelling and wirajaya. The time when i held the M16, it's like .... wow oh my god this is a GUN! i can actually kill a person with this lol. And the feeling of shooting is really .... indescribable. And berkayak! we did that on valentine's day! romantic kan? had so much fun with eve. spot us in the picture! HAHA. and it's actually quite hard to control the canoe lol but that was the fun part . We did wirajaya the day before our majlis penutup. see the picture above? yeah fireworks inside the forest :P really really really super duper romantic and , memorable. in that afternoon, i joined the membina khemah team. Had so much fun while we were building the khemah although it was quite tiring and something unpleasant happened. AND WE GOT CHAMPIAN! not forgetting our team for mencari kotak hitam got champion too!
and yeah, the last memory of PLKN - Majlis penutup. i didn't join berkawad, senam seni and KTK, Or , i didn't join anything. Because my hands and legs really cannot coordinate lol fml like a robot. The moment when we threw our Beri , lots of them cried. EXcluded me lol. but i did felt sad. Cos it was like, okay , the moment i have been waiting is finally here. after throwing this freaking Beri i can go home and continue my life. but this is what i think BEFORE i come to the camp. but things changed. I felt so reluctant to leave. Time flies, 3 months is like 3 days.
And the day arrived. The day we leave the camp. It was just so ......... sad. The picture above says it all. Everyone just finished crying, except for me lol STILL crying. The sadness was so damn overwhelming i cannot use a word to describe how i felt. Part of me i can't wait to leave this place and go home i want my life BACK but part of me i wanna stay in the camp, i miss my friends there and teacher and everything. Dilemma. It's so hard to say goodbye.
And now i'm here typing this blog post, reminiscing the 'OLD DAYS' i had in PLKN.
" Satu Hasrat, Satu Semangat, Satu Takad. "
