Hello everyone,
I guess i am coming here after so long without any post. So today I am going to tell my personal experience regarding the National Training in my country or well known as "Program Latihan Khidmat Negara". Usually only the chosen ones are able to go there. Divided into three different session 1 ,2 and 3. The trainees there are chosen from the 17 year old teens which are selected from schools around Malaysia.
I went to the camp for 3 months for the second session in the year 2011 at Kem Warisan Masjid Tanah Melaka. To be exact I was eager to be there as I am very interested in marching. Yet my parents did not really allow me as I have never been to any camp. They was eager to bring me to the government doctors to take a exception letter but I managed to convince my parents. Traveling to the place in the PLKN bus provided make me worried as we were passing through the the red mud road, your left and right was a lot of palm tree and you could see cow's and even monkeys.
After registering the gave me a small paper written "ALPHA" and i walked slowly to "BP3" the room I was first situated. It was a paved room about 20-25 beds and everyone have their own closet. Thats where I got to know some of them especially Lily, Tong and many more but this two people are closest to me. We were asked to line up on the first day. I felt very weird. Standing in the front wasn't easy. Thats when I got to know ALPHA was my group or known as company. There were three other group Bravo, Charlie and Delta. We were instructed regarding the rules of the camp. And all the phones have to be given to the instructor to be kept safely but thank God I didn't have one at that moment.
During the first month, all we all had was classes .. There were different modules physical, character building, community serving and nation. The first one was the character building. We felt almost being like in kindergarten classes. At the end of the class the teacher will be asking us to tell about what we felt and our own experience. Of course many of us were still shy and trying to adapt the new environment. So most of us were in our own world. But the coming days changed our appearance. Cikgu Miera and Cikgu Zai was a good motivator and sometimes cikgu Azrul will join together with us. I met a very special person there too where I will be telling in another post.
At some moment the ALPHA company were asked to change room to BP 1(a) and BP 1 (b). Myself, Lily, Tong, Carol, Cindian and Farah. We wasnt so close with Carol as she was sick and often situated in Medical Room whereas Cindian left us after a few week because of some illness. And we continued our daily routine. The second month we had some games like, ponco, tong bocor, kayak, swimming, marching practice and running practice. Everyday at 5pm is our exercising time. we re free to do anything. As for Hindu every Wednesday and Thursday we have Hinduism class with our Indian TKL and another Indian master from temple. We enjoyed the most is on Friday where we could Visit the temple which s located about 30 minutes from our place. We would leave by 6.00pm and only be back at 10pm.
Another interesting thing was toilet its only covered by thin sheet of plastic. Oh My God we are shy but we managed it out. Sundays are family visiting day. I often have my uncles aunties visiting on the particular day with home-made food and some snacks provided with a amount of money. Once we were punished for not cleaning our rooms were our bed are all untidy. Marching in the night at 11pm was almost insane. Foods there are always awesome don't worry they are professional cooks. We also had our camping at the nearby palm jungle. Building our own camp was challenging we got wet in the night because of rain. Special food. I ended without sleeping the whole night. The next activity was our marching where we were given out certificates and our company were officially dispersed. We had our cultural night. We were very emotional as cant get to see that often, some even cried but it was normal for me. To make me go tear is almost hard as I love to live with pressure.
That was the most interesting moment in PLKN that I would never forget. So guys if you got and offer please don't miss the chance. Be happy and have fun there. You would enjoy the moments there with gaining a lot of useful experience. Its build you up, your character and even love towards the family, citizen and national. If i were given chance I would want to be there once again.
Regards,
ADMIN
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