13th of February

The daily routine of an NS trainee is rather boring and irritating actually. Firstly, we started our day with good-old PT which meant morning exercise. The Muslim will go for their solat at 5.45am while the non-Muslims are to report for duty at the marching field by 6.15am. Most of the non do not bathe in during that time but i am the exceptional. I will wake up either earlier then the Muslims or at 5.45am to bathe before going for PT.

PT is a must for the weekdays. The weekends are our day of rest. For every morning during the weekdays, we do stretching, jogging and exercise except Thursdays where we will be doing aerobics. At 7.30am, breakfast will be given. For breakfast, we either have fried kuey tau/bihun/mee or nasi lemak or soto or kuey tau soup. Then, a miserable amount of time will be given to us to clean the dorm/toilet and to change clothing for the motivating classes. For every Monday, i will have to clean/wash the toilet

All trainees must report themselves by 'kompany' before 8.20am. The classes began at 9.00am. 4o minutes will be wasted with the trainees being bored to death by the teachers who either give us a lecture or more scoldings. At, 10.30am, we have a short break for our morning tea and the classes continued till 12.30am where we will be eating our lunch. After that, we have till 2.15pm to mind our own business. i usually take that time to bathe, phone my parents, wash clothes and to sleep. At 2.15pm, we will once more report our presence and at 2.30pm physical activities like marching, kayak, obstacle course, the arts of self defense, jungle tracking and etc will be held. Sometimes, if we are lucky, we get some talks.

This will go on till 4.30pm where we will be having our tea. Then, we have to change clothes to 'baju PT' for some 'riadah' from 5.30pm to 6.30 pm. One can either play badminton/football/volleyball/netball or jog or skip with a skipping rope or play with boardgames during 'riadah'. Some people, spend their time chatting. We will have our dinner at 6.30pm. After dinner till 8.45pm is our free period. Once again, i'll be bathing, calling my parents, cleaning the dorm and perhaps sleep if i have the time. At 9.00pm, we either have some stupid video classes or speeches or they just waste our time in the hall till 10.30pm where we will be eating our supper. After that, orders will be given to us about the time that the lights should be turned off. Its usually 11.30pm. They give us about 30 minutes to prepare ourselves for bed.

If we were to involve in any sort of performance, we will be excused from morning excercise, the classes and night activities sometimes 'riadah' too as during that time, they would be practising whatever that they are performing. The performers will sleep at about 12.30pm and wake up before 7.30am for breakfast.