~Biro tata negara~

Shoots,even the title is boring..what to do in fact it is camp boring under the disguise of another name..And imagine they call it "pakej percutian 5hari 4malam".It was held at Kem Ulu Sepri,Rembau,Negeri Sembilan..So people,especially *cough J..*cough...C..Be bored,be really bored..

28/02...
The first day of arrival was utter nonsense,we had to pay for our own lunch..Arrived at about 1.20pm,luch at 1.40pm,cost RM5.75.Registered,got room.spent the whole time enjoying playing with PS,fighting with Mayc through the wireless,card games in the room.Had tea at 4.30pm,idled til 6.30pm,bathed.Found out we'll have 6 meals a day.Worst day of all 5 days,lost my earring,forgot my specs,left in KL,dropped my shower gel's cap into the toilet bowl and got natural sauna from Mother Nature.Had salty vege,'kampung' fish and kurma beef for dinner.Stomach discomfort due to sudden excessive food intake.Idled lots..

Note to self::don't sleep in the public bus if one knows one snores,like the 2nd driver in the bus,his snores was enough to wake the entire passengers from dreamland-____-""


1/03..
Woke up at 6.30am.Occasionally at 5.15am due to Malay's alarm clock.tired like shit,learned to march.Suck at it at first got the hang of it later.Had bee hoon and egg for breakfast.The whole day was easy.We had talks on 'tanah air','rakyat','kerajaan' and 'kedaulatan'..Had a cronic strain on the neck after that due to too much "fishing" done.What to do,I'm situated at the utmost corner of the hall and las row,t spelled HEAVEN for exahusted people like me.Why not??Besides,I'm prett pisssd at these people who kept on calling us "pendatang asing"..we are not,our ancestors were,WE are MALYSIANS..get that right man...

Above's itinerary was done when I was listening to the talks,now,its all on memory..

Not much actually,we had group discussions on various issues including politics,our mentality towards the government etc.Had a Cik Rinie as our group fascilitator.Only female fasci,pretty nice.She showed us the morale and message she try to pass on to us through simplified ways like asking us to do presentations like how to attract students to join our club(=how the politicians campaigned for votes),how to promote 'cencaluk' or 'pisang goreng' to Westerners(=taking up the courage to take risk in a foreign country and ready to fail)..she also showed us games etc..Actually to me,I found her ways of instilling patriotism and awarness about the country is more effective compared to the radical talks the day before.At least here,each and everyone of us are given a chance to voice out our opinion and everyone was very open with it.I,with my anger that the 'penceremah' was too extreme the day before etc,but of course I put it in a mild way.they in return teac me how to think crictically,analitically and be thankful for what we have..

I went in expecting myself to be bored and it really turned out that way with the talks,and at that moment I felt only pure hell and boredness.At that instant,felt like flying back to KL should I was bestowed with wings.the utter dread was really killing and not only that,the moment I sat in the hall,I suprised myself by falling asleep within seconds.Just put my hand on the forehead and I'm already AT dreamland instead of one the way there.And everytime I woke up,within seconds, its like people hit me hard and purposely make me faint...I just couldn't wake up at all..Seriously speaking,when asked by Cik Rinie how much I really absorbed from the talk,I gave a very generous amount of 20%,yet she seemed suprised..I wanted to say 3% but that seemed too much.Well,I managed to "draw" some notes in my note book anyhow,so ..unreadable yet comprehensible.

For outdoor activities we had 2km jog,I managed to do it at exactly 13minutes,could've done better if I had an empty stomach but had cramps due to excessive food for 2days.Had physical test and fireman lift,managed to piggy back Hanim.Had abselling,hurt my knee at first with an embarassing thump at the wall but was soon alright.The moment of laying back and letting my life depend on the mere ropes were scary but nevertheless I managed to pull through and the satisfaction when I touch ground was filled with proudness and a pang pf relief.Some were great at the course even some of the first timerslike me,one cried,one tried to run away and almost fell over the cliff(guy some more),some were like spiderman walking or crawling down.WE also went to have a cooling dip at the waterfall bt saw none as it was too deep insde the jungle.Physical test gave me leg pains and aching arms.

Another long winded blog I would say,after the itenerary,this is what I've thought I've learned.aside from knowledge on how our Parliment works and our historcal event,I've learnt more about us,Malaysian's state of mind before we actually joined in this course.We all know we take things from granted from Malaysia,sure,we'll feel the pinch when the government suddenly raised the petrol price AGAIN or when the supposingly going to oversea students suddenly have to deal with twinning programmes...But I've learnt to accept that the government has their own ways of doing their stuff and as Democratic country,we all SHOULD trust the government seeing that we chose them OURSELVES no?The thing is,if we complain and backstab the government,aren't we doing that to ourselves?It is time we throw off the complain-instead-of-accepting-changes mindset and try our best in everything..And to me,that's the biggest chalenge I've learned,to change one must change oneself,it is not applicable to oneself but also towards nation buliding..

Some might say I've been brainwashed and become pro-government..But think again,why do we have to go against it?It is our country after all,we are sponsored by them to study oversea,so why not returned back what was given?Sure we mght find better job opportunities overseas,better lving standards,but I'm sure there'll never be a place like home...