My Mess~Bakau 12

This is my mess

our toilet, where we brush our teeths, wash our laundries, bath and shit...

my bed and locker

I slept at the left side, the forth bed from behind. Pei Jun slept at my right and Qiao Yan at my left. When we first arrive, chinese only hang out with chinese, malays hang out with malays and indians hang out with indians. We were the one who made the most noise when the sun was still high up in the sky while the malays will made their revenges at night. The indians were like didn't exist because there was only one indian girl in our whole mess, which is Reetha. Then Sri became one of us a few weeks later which made two of them. We never get along and we quarelled for the plugs almost every Thursday night, Saturday and Sunday, because everyone wanted to charge their handphones and there were only 4 plugs.

If you've read the paper, you'll notice an article about my camp. There was a malay girl who gave birth in the camp's medic. That's not bad enough, because the worst was she was in the same mess as me! Well, none of us knew she was pregnant of course. We thought she was just big size. She always get mc from the medic and skipped most of the training. All sorts of sicknesses she has during activities and she will be very healthy and active during meals and when she's in the mess. All of us thought she was pretending, lazy to do the activities and none of us like her except for her two best friends which were as arrogant as she was. She acted like she was the dai ga je of the camp. She will just pushed you aside or punched you if you're blocking her way. Then she will cut the line following her wish when all of us were queueing for our food. One day, she went missing, and of course we don't even care about it. Then her friends said that she went home. As usual, we girls were quite busy body and so we asked about the reason of her returning. We were shocked when we knew that she was pregnant for 9 months and she just gave birth to a baby boy in the medic on that morning itself. Suddenly, we felt sorry and guilty for what we had done and thoughts about her before. We wanted to tell her we were sorry but none of us took the first move. We ought to keep it as a secret but the news really spread very quickly in the small camp. Everybody started gossiping about it for the next few days and our parents called us and told that there was an article about it. The headline of the news was "Pelatih PLKN Melahirkan Anak Di Dalam Kem" if I've not mistaken.

Members of mess 12 seemed to get along very well since she left camp. We cleaned the mess together, washed the toilet together, clean the canteen together and we played crazy stuffs together. After we came back from the Cheng Beng holidays, me and Ellen brought extension wires. Our problem was solve finally. We don't have to fight for the plugs anymore...

The month of May finally arrived and we all get our semester holidays starting from 8/5/08 till 12/5/08. Everyone should be excited for getting the chance to go home, but actually, we were not that happy after all. Most of us were going back and not coming back anymore because we were going to further our studies. 3/5/08-My mess mates gave those who were leaving a big surprise. Me, Hu Sin, Pei Jun, Shen Lee, Lih Jia and Ruby were really surprised for the farewell party. There were a huge wok of fried mee hon, cake, keropok lekor and all sorts of snacks and sodas. We told our truth feelings about our mess and the rest....and at last, we all shed tears.... Then, the big feast begun! We put cakes on each other faces and we fed a big mouth full of mee hon to each other. We chased all over the mess and the mess went very very messy. Therefore, we cleaned the mess together.

At night, the chinese girls had a H2O war in the toilet. Black vs White and Lian Chin was the only one who wore red t-shirt. We splashed and threw water into each other faces and suddenly....A teacher opened the door, " Sedang buat apa ni?" " Main air, cikgu" "Jangan terlalu bising tau, yg muslim nak sembahyang" "ok, cikgu". Oh boy, how relieved we were. We thought the teacher would asked us to get dressed up and see her right away...but, nothing happened. Hence, the war continued! All of a sudden, another teacher appeared at the door, and once again nothing happened. So, we continued to splash water. At last, another teacher came in....The teachers really potong stim...She asked us why we don't jump into the pool. We looked at each other and said "boleh ar?" "Boleh..." and so we jumped into the pool immediately and we took pictures in the pool.

Attention to all Mess 12 residents. I thanked God for putting me in this mess and having you guys as my mess mates. Although we quarrelled for some stupid reasons but we shared many wonderful moments together too. It's not easy for us who came from different backgrounds, cultures and religions to live under the same roof peacefully for one and a half month. I will never forget all the memories I had in Bakau 12. Mess 12 is the best!!!!


farewell party

eating with hands

girls under the pails

our swimming pool

H2O war!!!