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Away to PLKN (Day 20): Back to Form 2TA4′s Foosball Outing

Written by Nicholas Chan on April 16, 2010 – 1:02 am -

So how’s life people? Guess I am doing good here at the PLKN (National Service) camp. Do your place, your country has national service or army program? I know Singapore has it and the duration is 2 years, and it’s tough.

My Malaysia is something short, 3 months and they say it’s not tough. Though, I get to hold on to the real M-16 and fire a shot from it, yes, it’s only one shot, but it’s super fun! Bang Bang Bang.

Got World Cup shirt. Woo.

Here’s what I found in my Flickr, it’s something old, like 4 years back when I was Form 2. During Form 2 that time, I studied in the class 2TA4, it’s year 2006, the second year for me being in secondary school. I made a lot of friends and organized an outing for my classmate. It’s going to Gurney Plaza, the usual place! Haha.

Looking back at the photos, I look so young, so child. But it’s fun being young! =) Miss the day back, a little but, but somehow I don’t have much memories before Form 3, maybe because I haven’t grown up yet. Hehe.

Me is inside! Next to me is Yik Chia.

For RM2, can play the Foosball for 10 rounds as there’s 10 balls. They were not a Red Box kaki, so we didn’t go there.

Vincent.

Qi Jia.

2006 was like so many years ago! OMG, don’t feel like growing older but cannot. Move on yeah.

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Away to PLKN (Day 16): Lomo #3

Written by Nicholas Chan on April 12, 2010 – 12:05 am -

At the very first time, when I knew about being chosen for PLKN, I was very scared. I was not sad, but scared, worried that how would I survive in the camp.

Jing Min during SPM 2009.

My mind go on and off for this PLKN. At first, I thought of going, Google a lot about it, then I didn’t get in the first batch, after a while, I didn’t feel like going already because the exciting feel went away, and then, I got news about being in the 2nd batch which is this batch that I am in currently, I become excited again. Friends who had went to, came back and told me about their experience and I felt not that bad afterall.

Arron and friend and his Sonata during SPM 2009.

Being bald is not what I worry (actually got dislike a bit, hehe), but being disconnected from the world and outside was what I worried. No Internet, no mobile phone, no radio. This sucks a bit. Although we are allow to use the mobile phone on weekend, but for sure the Google Nexus One is not with me. If I bring it, I scared it being stolen, and no camera mobile phone too! It must be camera-less phone. Sucks.

Somewhere inside school, the field, on a rainy day.

Then the next thing I worried was about gangsters inside, but I think nothing will happen if I do nothing to them. =)

Somewhere outside school.

15 days gone. Less than 85 more days to go! Yay.

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Away to PLKN (Day 11): My Workstation, Last Time to Current

Written by Nicholas Chan on April 7, 2010 – 10:00 am -

Talking back about PLKN, why was I chosen? I got no idea. There’s 400-500k youth of my age and only 180k people got chosen, and I am one of the lucky one. Really very lucky. So, you guys are so not lucky.

Here’s some cool stuff, I found out my workstation looked like this back in 2006 when I was Form 2. I only have a 15″ LCD and it’s so damn cool, there’s a very noisy fan laptop too.

Garfield very cute.

2006, I was not so blogger back then, but already an Internet addict.

2007, the screen become bigger. I was Form 3. It’s a 22″ Dell LCD. From then on, I started using Dell’s already.

2008, started using dual-screen setup.a 22 inch and a 17 inch. Love it very much.

2009, changed again. Changed from 22 inch to 24 inch. Still loving dual-screen, once dual-screen, I never get back, it looked cool and I can do so much thing from it.

Not bad right?

=========S.O.X. All-Stars Drum & Dance=========

So you think you can beat them? So you think you can march? So you think you can band? Check out the S.O.X. All-Stars Drum & Dance competition right now. The coming S.O.X. Camp will be conducted by professional choreographers in Kuching, JB and Penang which will prepare you all better for the competition.  Last year was a success and this year they said it will be bigger, better and bombastic-er!

So if you like dance, if you like cheer, if you like band, go check out S.O.X. All-Stars Drum & Dance now. You can join the Facebook and Friendster page or go to the website to check out more.

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Away to PLKN (Day 7): Lomo #2

Written by Nicholas Chan on April 3, 2010 – 9:00 am -

I don’t know how do I schedule my post, it just goes randomly and it’s very short, something not like I write usually. I want to keep my blog alive while I am away to PLKN, what’s PLKN? It’s Program Latihan Khidmat Negara, also known as, the National Service.

Toilet?

So, basically, I am in the army, a camp, with woods around, bathing cold water, marching and physical training everyday. ^^

Sale anyone?

Not easy to take lomo indoor because of the lighting and the shutter speed, you need to turn it to bulb mode and hold it on a steady hand to capture light into your film.

More sale.

More lomo coming up. Yoyo, everybody, I am not a hip hop kaki. I am being lame a bit right now.

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Away to PLKN (Day 4): Lomo #1

Written by Nicholas Chan on March 31, 2010 – 11:02 pm -

Yay, I don’t know should I yay or not. I am now at the National Service Camp in Balik Pulau, somewhere at the back of Penang Island, approximately 40km away from my home. Hope I am having fun at there and don’t forget my blog here!

I have taken 3 roll of films last year and I am only sharing the lomography now because I am in NS! Hehe, the above was taken on a Holga 120 with a Kodak 120mm film. Weird right? Because I forgot to roll over the frame. It overlapped.

NS has got technology-related entertainment!

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