That's very honorable of you to admit mistake as an officer but
don't you think it's abit too late and unfair to the driver who has
apparently became your scrapegoat? Have you ever lowered down your
self-esteem in camp to apologise to that driver and undo all your
wrong instantly? And maybe to the driver who din exposed you,
either becos you are an officer or becos he know you are just
another NSF who is trying to learn the way out. Even for me, i will
sympathy for my own kind in camp but definitely not for those
regulars esp officers who are taking in salary, who should do their
jobs diligently which i c otherwise. Well, guess a good life with
SAF club house and golf club membership is their ultimate aim for
signing on.
And for your own experiences which you think are beneficial to
yourself at the expense of others, do you think you will be less
than that if you are exposed to working in real practical world
earlier to learn all those proper stuff instead thinking you can
command your staffs like recruits to do work for you? Do you think
experiences in NS is relevant and applicable in the civilian world
where "fuck you" and punishment can work?
Just like you prob had problems and encounters with idiots like me
when i was all young and rash 
But you know, it's not the entire organisation that is
inapt.
Everone has a part to play in the army. Many of my friends who are
A level scholars / poly merit holders also ended up as 'men' but
few complained, cos they saw it as part of their NS. Of course
there was some resentment about not becoming officers /
specialists. But each and every vocation, rank has its diferent
lessons to teach.
What the SAF teaches (indirectly) is to learn to survive and to
adapt and not to whine about one's position. It's the strengthening
of the mind that the SAF taught me the most. So i guess, yes, if
you felt worthless and cheap and not doing anything meaningful
while in NS, then my sympathies. But the SAF doesnt deserve your
generalised criticisms as to its organiational
proficiency.
Come on lar, everyone know the fact how the entire organisation
works. Complaining in camp will only make your life even more
miserable amid all those officer pig esp regulars who frequent NCO
officer club house. It is only when we are out as civilian that we
can start criticing the systems for the sake of our future
generations as feedback. If such a system is to be fair to the
population as a duty and commitment for those who want stay in
singapore, then please include those foreign talent and PRs who's
earning big bucks in singapore as well. If GST hike is to be
implemented to lower income tax, then please include those rich men
esp MPs into the picture when their original reason for exemption
no longer stand strong. I would like to see these pple washing the
toilet side by side with the next generation at least to boost
morale. Lead by example and we will follows.
I refuse to believe that you never met anyone in your NS time who
made a positive impact on you, regardless of rank or
position.
Sorry to disappoint you, i had never encounter any positive or
look up on any regular, officer or authority in camp for my NS.
None deserve it unless they lead by example. But instead as an
example, they took revenge on the new recruits for all the hardship
they being thru in their Sispec/OCS courses. And as for those NSF
Mens or officer like you, we are all just being conscripted cheaply
for 2.5 years till we orded before we can finally get a life. What
can you expect? You want to garang for free is your problems. We
have better thing to do to improve oneselves i believe instead of
wasting time and losing out in the real unfair world where foreign
talent is replacing everyone amid the crisis coupled with national
problem that threaten the survival of the nation's identity. In the
end, we might become the minority protecting a whole lots of rich
foreign pple and some local suckers.
Well, all aboves are my personal opinions which you can disagree of
course, but it's agreed by me.
[This message has been edited by Kyo23 (edited 23 April 2002).]