I totally forgot to post about the most fundamental thing about PLKN. What do we do in there?
Well basically during weekdays, we have to wake up as early as 5 because the first roll call starts at 5.30am. The roll call commences with national anthem and PLKN song and bacaan ikrar and bacaan doa. Then we have morning exercises. It's just normal light stretching and sometimes jogging. Nothing much. From 6.30am to 7.30am we're free to take breakfast or take bath or sleep if you want but 7.30am would be the second roll call. Class starts at 8 till 11.30am and there is a short break in between from 9.30am to 10. Example of classes would be about character building, lessons regarding cultures and patriotism.
11.30am would be our lunch time and rest time till 1.30pm. After that, we will have physical activities such as marching or first aid lessons or taekwando lessons or obstacle course and so on. It ends at 3.30pm which would be our tea time till 4.30pm which would be the fourth roll call. After the roll call, we're free to have our riadah time, which to me is a free time to rest or watch tv or talk to friends like crazy! :D Muslims are supposed to gather at 6 for praying while the rests have free time till 7 for dinner. Dinner ends at 8pm and it's time for roll call again.
During the nights, it really depends on the teachers on duty as to what we should do. Sometimes we watched movies or look at the photos that teachers took or we have some interesting pantun sessions. On Thursdays and Fridays nights, we would have kerohanian sessions where we're divided according to our religions and have our religious classes. Around 9.30pm or 10, we'll have our last roll call and then we're free to sleep!
That's basically the routine during weekdays. During weekends, there will be less roll calls and we're free from morning to night unless there are special activities like blood donation or additional talks on certain topics. Donating blood is actually quite fun because i got free food :D
One of the most important things to prepare when you go for PLKN, bring shirts with COLLAR. Don't bring round neck! And you don't really have to bring too many stuffs when you go for PLKN because in the end you'll have extra shirts and pants and shoes to bring back home so it's better you leave extra spaces in your luggage when you enter PLKN camp. Just two cents from me. :D
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Friday, June 18, 2010
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Why is it that you must bring shirts with collar; and why round neck is not encouraged? TQ.
Yeap, would like to know more about the Collar shirt issue.
Also, why are there so many roll-calls? I mean, you baca ikrar and sing the anthem four times a day?
Sorry for the extremely late reply. I didn't realise that there were comments.
In NS, when you want to go out from your dorm, you are required to wear collared shirt. No round neck is allowed outside the dorm. So to save space in your luggage, you might as well bring collared shirts only so that you would not waste space in your luggage for round necks.
Roll calls are done before every activity to ensure the number of trainees are sufficient during assembly and to ensure that no one ponteng for any event at all. You do not sing the anthem and baca ikrar 4 times a day haha that would be ridiculously funny! (:
Hope this information would help those who read this in future.
is there any particular colors of shirt that are allowed,or every colors are allowed as long it is collared.
Colors don't matter. :)
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