You know what annoys me? When some girls make light of NS, as if
it was some kind of cakewalk. I don't think grumbling excessively
about NS is exactly justified but try two years of rigementation,
restricted freedom and doing dumb things in the full knowledge that
it will mostly come to naught, while seeing the world speed on
ahead without you as well as the fact that
When it comes to crunch time, you are expected to die for some
unapperciative civillians, some of who never even learnt to cook or
wash their own clothes but sit on their ivory towers making
statements about how NS is so "easy" and all about sleeping, I
suggest you go try.
But then again, what do people who have been civillians their whole
lives know about being soldiers? Do they know about the countless
hours we spent sleep-deprived in some mudhole in the middle of the
night in Tekong on a weekend while our friends are having some
celebration on the mainland?
Have they seen the people who are forced to leave troubling issues
back home because they have to serve only to return to them when
they book out? Have they seen the injuries able bodied persons in
their prime have recieved, some crippled, some even losing their
lives? Have they felt the agonizing loniness? The physical and
mental torture? The feeling of being blasted way out of your
comfort zone? The feeling of being the village idiot and trying to
snatch a few hours of borrowed heaven when we book out for the
weekend? Why? Because they have to keep Singapore safe and
credible, so as to allow the existence of the very soceity you are
now decrying them from, so unless you have being right there and
there with our soldiers, I suggest you think twice before saying so
crassly that NS is a waste of time and a cakewalk. Thank you.
