the past is the past...u look at it now..we're not talking abt
the past..we're talking abt the present...
I don't get it, why should the past be dismissed as if it
belonged to a different universe? It's only 40 years since
Independence, some 60+ years since the Japs invaded.
But let's stick to the "present", as you suggest. Have you any
idea, when in the service, how disciplined the Malays can be, by
finding time to do the 5 daily prayers when they're just as
"shack"-tired as the rest of the troops?
How tough they can be when they fast during Ramadan (no water, not
just no food) & continue their normal duties?
How diligent they are in real-life emergencies, when their NSFs go
deep down into the collapsed shafts at Nicholl Highway, or plunge
into the tsunami-ravaged surroundings at Krabi & Khao Pak, or
attack fires with their water hoses while being burdened with heavy
fireman equipment?
The SAF may not conscript many Malays as part of its mono-intake
batches, but that doesn't mean their PES A/B-fit (mostly drafted by
the SCDF & the SPS) & their PES C-fit (service vocations in
the SAF) are ethnically slackers. They're as hardworking as
everyone else - just somehow don't show up on your radar, that's
all.