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National Service 2014

Hello dayre. It has been a long time. I guess I wasn't in the mood for blogging after all. But I really wanted to jot down my experience as a national service trainee so here I am.
When I first known I was chosen, I was horrified. Like how can a life moron like me going to survive inside the camp?! But I put up all my courage, packed all things needed and waited for the placement letter to come. I was originally placed at Kem Paya Indah, Selangor, and had decided to go, but....
But my grandpa was really sick so my mum requested me to transfer back to local camp. So Kem Putra Sentosa, Sematan, I was transferred to. The first week was really hard as I had only one friend going to the same camp with me, and he is a boy, so I had no choice but tried to make new friends asap. Luckily I was able to befriend one really nice girl and hence my life there began. From there I widened my social circle and even get to befriend some really nice girls and soon our friendship grow.
It was really funny but I finally make friends with some highians(girls) whom I went to school with for five years but never talk! So it was kinda fate I think.
However, things weren't going well for long. I soon found that it was hard to be in a gang with the other races due to some reasons. I was really annoyed and honestly, they were the mere unhappy things in camp. Aside from that, everything was okay and enjoyable. I started to miss the moment we girls messed around inside dorm, talking,..
Gossiping, playing around, eating together, washing clothes, bath and even SHIT at the same time XD I guess this is really once in a lifetime and I had always imagined living with friends so I guess NS kinda fulfill my imagination haha. It was fun, great even, living together with your friends. Waking up and seeing them every morning. Awwww how sweet!
You will soon forget all about your phone, your friends outside, your family... Haha no lah. Sure you gonna miss them, but rarely for me.
Most difficult moments would be mixing with the other races and standing under the hot sun marching for hours. Everybody soon turned charcoal. The mere effects of sunscreen lotion would be preventing sunburn pain and no more. But we still applied layers of it everyday hoping that it would reduce the speed of darkening haha. The most unforgettable training would be marching. We really put in a lot of effort, resulting in dark skins and aches here and there everyday! So I guess we deserved the 2nd
Place in the marching competition.
Next would be the challenges. One that I feared the most is the height challenge aka FLYING FOX. We had to cross a rope bridge before getting to that flying spot and I really really fight hard to get there. I was all shaky while walking on that pipe( it was about 2 storey tall). My heart was racing fast. I almost gave up but since there wasn't a way to go down back to the ground, I was forced to walk on. The moment I did the flying fox, I screamed with all my❤️
So these are my girls from bau and kuching.
All in all, this was really an experience I wouldn't be able to forget in my lifetime. It was sort of like a vacation before I stepped back into reality and face all problems in life. I really appreciate buddha for what I had experienced and I am sure it would help in the future.
So this is it. For those who are chosen and haven't join, I would day give it a try! It wasnt that bad afterall. Sure we did complain, grumble,... But deep inside our heart, we actually loved it before we knew it.

#dayre
#30/6/2014

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