I am now a graphic design student taking foundation in arts and design. super hectic as there are assignments EVERY SINGLE DAY. T____T. I reckon that I am pretty pitiful because I am still sick and I still need to go to college. =X. but I am much better now, though still coughing a lot. sigh.
for those who are still blur and still thinking that I am actually still posting scheduled posts : no I am not. I am permanently back from National Service =D. and no they won’t send you home for being sick. they’d take you to the hospital and get you treated. but the thing was, I was pretty unlucky, the hospital failed to cure me.
so what happened was like this, I was sick the second day being in the camp. high high fever. then I drank that miraculous body cooling drink my grandma gave me and went to the hospital (takes 20mins to get out of the jungle and another 10 to reach the hospital!) and my fever cooled down and I was just having slight fever at the hospital. so the doctor didn’t even give me antibiotic. and then, it got worst. drinking those cough medicine and all made me completely drowsy, unable to even get out of bed. they had food sent to me on the eating times (6 times a day FUHH) but that only lasted for 1 day. because the doctor didn’t give me an MC. which is dumb because I was feeling so sick.
then, the next day, I was required to get out of bed and try my best to march. but they were nice they let me sit down. was like that for 5 days. went to their mini clinic everyday. I am not sure why I couldn’t get well. maybe it is because of the cold water I used to bathe (which got my whole body filled with rashes later on. their water is YELLOWISH T_T.) or it is because I simply couldn’t get enough rest. we usually go to sleep at around 11.30 and wake up at 530. 6 hours of sleep. not very sufficient for a sick girl.
the teachers tried their best to help I could see but no matter what my parents or doctor wrote, I couldn’t come back. so my parents got really worried about my situation (being sick and worst every day for more than 6 days is crazily abnormal) so they got my college enrollment done and fetched me right away. but when I am back I am still sick badly for another week anyway. imagine if I am still in the camp, I’d be worst.
nevertheless, the camp is really fun. I began to enjoy it at the 4th day I think, when we started to have group activities and classes. there were about 400 people divided into 4 companies, where each company will have to present their flag, motto, song and all in just 2-3 days! so we rushed late nights to get everything done. even though it was very tiring, but it was really really fun!
and the craziest thing I will have to tell you about is, in that one week time, I got to know about 150 new friends! crazy isn’t it?! on average I get to know 20 people a day! people there are really friendly, they will talk to you automatically. very nice. and the teachers (especially my class teacher they are soooooooooo nice I love them so much T_T) are incredulously funny people. during training they might be very fierce. but when you are doing work, they’d help you and they have endlessly funny stories to tell you about. (in my whole camp there’s only 1 teacher that I don’t really like. I felt like she’s a bit racist actually based on how she talk to me. and her face is on dulan mode 24/7. but only one.)
about the strictness. I can say these camps are really strict. you MUST wear the clothes they provide as long as you get out of the dorm. they don’t care if you have to wear the same shirt for 4 days. you just have to. and guys and girls MUST have a 2meter gap if you’re not doing any activities. which I think is pretty weird. but it’s safe in a way? some horny people love flirting around, well. =/. and, NEVER BE LATE. they might as well just screw your whole dorm for one late person. and even if you are excused to sit down, you can’t sit in your own comfortable way T_T. that seemingly racist teacher told me to sit straight sigh. =(. I actually felt rather forced when she said that– because I was feeling so so so terrible and I really had to lie down and I had to sit up straight. and I pretty much burst out and they took me to the clinic and the not sure if he is a doctor or a nurse said that I am suffering from stress. sigh. how could I have stress when I was actually having fun.
I love my dorm mates. they are all sporting and nice people. and almost every night we would have our own mini party with varieties of junk food. yummy junk food. and you might as well think that mineral water tastes weird, sometimes like coconut right? but when you’re there and you’re looking at the yellowish drinking water sometimes with small tiny residues, mineral water is THE THANG that you’d crave for. but this point couldn’t be fixed as my camp is located right in the middle of no where. it’s very hard to get pure clean water there. =(. the bathing water will make you have terrible chills at first but at the 5th day, you’d just turn on the shower and quickly jump in like as if bathing is heaven; you wouldn’t even notice that the water is cold. occasionally (about once in 2-3 days?) the water supply will be cut and you’d have to bathe using the kolam water, the kolam is pretty green. and uhm, is filled with dead bugs on the surface. most people could take it, but my skin couldn’t. it was itching every day and I had terrible rash on my body which isn’t even cured by now. =(.
but if you (or your sibling) got picked for NS, and is healthy, I would really recommend you to go. their activities are amazing. I like their character building classes especially. I felt that it really did taught me some stuff. NS is rather beneficial. I am just one odd case because I am weak and my skin is really sensitive. plus I am allergic to many kind of food. =(. like, seafood, caffeine, peanuts. which they have squids occasionally, tea everyday, and peanuts are very famous in malay food. so sometimes out of those many food I can only have one dish to go with my rice, usually vegetable. vegetable and rich ONLY is a torture to me. I don’t like eating most cooked vegetable. just salads.
it might sound contradicting but I really do miss NS. not the cold water and the food I couldn’t eat, but the people and activities (except marching. HATED THAT. I am a puteri lilin if you don’t know). I haven’t actually marched before since I was sick for the whole week, but I came back looking like a malay girl still. =/. MY STUDENT ID PICTURE IS A TOTAL MALAY GIRL T_T. but it’s alright, I shall slowly gain my skin colour back T_T.
by the way, I was back for 2 whole week. =D. sick for the first week and very busy on the second. thus being this late on informing all of you on my come-back. =X. and is this my longest word post? crap. I bet only 5% read everything. =(. boring-nya. shall write another one on what to bring to NS next time for those who are going to NS in the future. even just a week (8 days to be specific!), I learned a lot okay! heh. =P.

at least the whitening shiseido is pretty helpful, I am not as tan now. hahaah. that student ID card, sigh. if you keep bugging me on my blog maybe I’d show. kekeke. but you still can notice my slight tan (at the side of my face) right? look a bit fairer because I played with the aperture and shutter speed coughs =P.