Recently saw lots of teens keep posting about national service. They got it or not. Oh well, everyone is like: Dafuq? I'm so unlucky!! Why the hell they choose me!!
Seriously I have the same thought with you when I first knew this. Like: Stupid government, stupid plkn, stupid stupid waste my time! But after I went, I changed my mind.
Let me tell you fun parts and the bad parts of it :)
First of all, you should know we need to wake up early in the morning everyday! Except of weekends. But unlike muslim, they need to wake up more earlier than the non muslim. So non muslim like us, sleep til 6am something, wake up, wash their faces and walk to the field.
Non of our friends like to wake up so early. Everytime when we wake up, we scold lots of bad words. "WTF, everyday not enough sleep nia! So early wake up for what" At the end, we need to get up and walk like a zombie to the field. You can't imagine the level of sleepy-ness. Is so damn freaking sleepy. We could fall asleep even when we standing. Trust me. That's what we did.
When we get to the field, oh well, a field without grass. And the floor is so hard. But while waiting the muslim to done their pray, we actually sleep on the floor and continue our dreams even only few minutes. But the best part is, we lay on the floor, and look to the sky together with all our friends. That feelings was the best. I remember how the sky used to be full of stars and sometime we could see shooting stars :) Best part. Then we fall asleep.
And only a few minutes on the hardest floor ever in the world, we are force to wake up. And sing all the national songs. Seriously, we standing there without singing and sleeping. You seriously cant believe how sleepy we are. Done those singing, Then start our exercise. This is the part can make us more energize. Running the whole field. Jump here jump there, do this do that. Morning exercise every morning!
Done with that, BAHAHAHAHA, best part of it. Choose which company start to walk back to canteen and have breakfast. We can't run, cant walk but to march like a boss back to canteen. Or maybe we need to sing our company song. A song that we need to create by ourself and sing it for the rest of the 3 months.
Then breakfast time! Hells ya, sometime foods are not delicious but we still need to eat it. No choice. And, we need to line up. Gosh, can't imagine. Youre so hungry and yet you need to wait.
Done eating, time to go back and get changed again. Next activity: YES, WE HAVING CLASS. A really bored class but we learned lots of things. Like moral stuffs, some unbelievable knowledge and whatsoever.
Well, to me. When we first get to the class, the first thing to do is: Wow, got lengzai mou?! On the first day, yes, I saw a lengzai *Hope he's not reading this!* He actually passed me a note and ask for my phone number. I actually didn't give a damn shit and ask him to go away because I thought he is asking for a fatty beside him. Oh Mai Gawt, I didn't know this until the last day I leave the camp. He told me it's his first time to ask for girl's number and I rejected like a boss. I felt so sorry! Because in the class for the whole 3 months, he's the one I actually keep looking. And I ruined my first impression on the first day.
Yea, we have this kind of class every morning. And a short break for tea time, then continue class until 12.30pm. Freaking tired and sleepy.
Then yes, lunch time. And after that, go back and sleep!! But need to get prepare and wear the full uniform if we have activity. We don't get much time to sleep even we go back to room. Sometime need to wash our clothes. Then sleep for awhile and get up to get prepared. If we're late, we're in fucking trouble!
For all the girls in my room, we actually kinda racist. I mean, I dont mean we hate malays or indians in our room. But indian stick with indian, chinese stick with chinese, and malay stick with malay. On the first day when I know those girls, you can't believe. We felt like we knew each other for few years. Because we're suffering together and go through everything together. We cry, laugh, eat in the rooms, chitchat, gossip, sleep, shower, all together. That's why.
And yep, 2.30pm need to meet up and start activity. There's lots of activities. If you're kind of outdoor person like me, I'm sure you will enjoy! Like going to the jungle, do those extreme activities and so much more! I'll let you go explore. It's fun! Seriously.
And sometime, we don't have to do those extreme. We'll just do some exercise and those sweating stuff. Then we will have short break, tea time! Yes!! Eat!
After that, 5.30pm. It's free time. You can jog, play basketball, football. Just don't sit there and chat. If not youre in trouble again. Til 6.30pm, yes, dinner time! Not delicious,wuekkkk! We usually don't take dinner and eat noodles in room. And yes, we get scold for eating too much of noodles. Lots of people faint the next day because not enough energy. Then, our camp banned noodles. No more noodles allowed!! Sad case~ And we only brought biscuits to eat next time.
Yes, this time. We run back like a kids, shower like a boss! The sweat body is soooo smelly. The best part of it, shower at night time. Usually when we shower in the afternoon, the time when you get out from toilet, you start sweating again. And you gonna scream FUCK THIS WEATHER! So night time, we shower, eat and then sleep again. Even for a few minutes we have. Sorry to say that, the next thing is, we have activities for you again. Is either those lousy speech, lousy movie to show or whatever. And if we fall asleep, you're in trouble again. Or sometime we have class. Religion class.
Then 10.30pm. Check check. Who's not there who's there. Report and go back sleep! This is the best part. Everyone run to their room, brush teeth and dead. My friends more worst, they change cloth for tomorrow morning and straight away fall asleep on their bed. Yep, 11.30pm, all the light must close and everyone must be on their bed. If they found out you're not there, you're in trouble again.
Sometime, something, scary might happen at night. But most of us slept like a dead body. Like some of our malay friends eating at night and get caught, our leader ask them to jump like a duck. But none of us actually heard that noise. Seriously, dead ! Sleep like a dead body.
Monday to Friday is almost the same. 1 day eat 6 times. Lots of activities every different days. I kinda excited and enjoyed. Seriously :D
Weekend, don't need to wake up so early. But at least 9 something? Get up and collect mobile phone day! Yes, then we can start sms and start calling the whole world lol (:
Yep, usually need to be careful because someone might steal your phone.But oh well, not happening in our room. Good room mate we had.
Sunday, family can come to visit us! Oh yea, hello parents. See some kids start crying when they see their parents. And yea, some need to work on that day. I mean guide parents to go there, stand at the front door to greet. Is fun. And night, religion class. Buddist go there, muslim go there, christian go there. And so on so on. It's fun part for me, because usually when we go temple, they provided us foods and yes!! Chinese foods!! Been eating malay foods for the past 5 days! Can you imagineeeeeee??
Duh, and when it's last month, more and more exciting games for us. Overnight in the jungle, shower and swim at the river, search for the foods in the jungle, build camp by ourself, sleep in there and donate blood to mosquitoes, climb so far, walk into the jungle at night, BBQ and make fire by our own, sit together and eat, woke up in the middle of night to work, I mean patrol. Check and see who's gone, ask them go back to sleep if saw them walking around. It's so memorable. Because we live in a very hard life. MAD!! Even those girly princess already get used to this life.
Next day, burn our camp! LOL, jk. Oh well, before we go to the jungle, we actually carry a very big bag and climb. Suffering. the boots is so heavy, the uniform is so thick, the sweat is so yieeew, the mosquitoes are so annoying. Everything seem to be so bad!
Yet is so enjoyed.
And best part, able to touch the gun and shoot! Hells yea babe! Woooots,cant believe I can play the gun. They call it m16? Seriously? Don't seem like it is. And lay on the ground, with the hot sun. Fuck! Steam
Friends all went back to kl and never come back to camp. So the room became quiet. And I told my dad to bring my electric keyboard so I can kill my time in room. Oh yea!! But few weeks later, they give a warning that they will took all our music instrument because it's noisy. I was like, WTF? I only touch it when no one is around. How the hell is noisy? Soooo, the warning is actually to those guys who play guitar in the middle of night. Brainless. lol, lucky I'm the only one who brought the keyboard and they didn't take my keyboard away. If not, I got nothing to do in the room anymore.
Friend from other room wanna borrow my keyboard to perform in the last night. I wanna reject but, everyone is begging me. If I say no, they gonna call me stingy for the rest of the day we left there =|
So the last night, I need to carry my keyboard to set up. And accidentally, I was randomly making noise, playing randomly notes while they adjusting the sound. Then I get scold. That fellow in charge told me to play something. Goshhhh, seriously I'm not good in playing it. My hands was shaking on the stage. I simply play a song which I familiar with and wow, everyone is clapping their hands under the stage when I finished the whole song. Luckyyyyy. *oppps, showing off d lol*
And the last day last night, basically most of my friends already ran away from camp because they can't stand it anymore. They gave a reason that they need to start study. But all of them actually fail on their spm. But I decided to stay longer even though I'm smart ass among them. *Shit, they gonna kill me if they see this!* LOL, and I stayed til the last night, I don't regret. Because yea, finally.
The 3 months of suffering finally done. And we got the certificate. And thanks god. I'm tough enough to stay till the last day! Nothing gonna push me down anymore! LOL
When we came out and get back to our own house, I can't get used to it. I kinda missed the life in there. So discipline. Good bye camp!