Saturday, January 9, 2010

Khidmat Negara (National Service)

This morning we sent Jas to her camp at Tapah for her national service.

Leaving at 6.30am, we arrived at the camp area about 9.00am, after a brief stop at Bidor for breakfast.

The NS camp is located in the middle of an oil palm estate, about 15km away from Tapah town.

After checking her in, we chit-chatted with some of the trainers there and from the conversation, the NS is not that terrible and horrible (stories of which we gathered from the MSM). Their routines seem to be quite relax and not much of hard strenuous physical activities. 6 meals are provided per day with ample of rest time in between meals and the next activity.

Trainees of different faiths will be ferried to the places of worship during the weekends.

They are also allowed some days off for CNY (meaning that we will have our 'traffic feel' this year driving north to bring her home).

We get to see her every Sunday (in the camp compound) and I have already a list of 'to bring' for our next visit.

Looks like we will be travelling north frequently during this period.

On the bright side, I get to eat more of Ipoh kueh teow and ngah chow kai!

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