Too be frank, I am quite sadden by the fact that our army is
getting more and more soft as each day gets by. It is wide known
fact that people with a proper discipline military training, tends
to have a better disciplined and matured thinking compare to the
those w/o any miltary training.
Malaysia has witnessed that usefulness in enforcing discipline into
the male Sg citizens for the past decades. That is the reason why
our neighbour decide to copy our model and implement it across the
Johor Straits. Despite the fact that our Boleh friends are having
some "minor" teething issue, due to some "unforeseeable" issues,
they are very determined to let the Boleh National Service to stay.
The Boleh gov officals are determined to use national service as a
tool to enforce discipline in their youth and build up their
characters.
Korea and Taiwan are two countries in Far East that have been
implementing national service for the past 40 years at least. It is
a known fact that all males in these 2 countries must be enrolled
into the military services. The ROK and ROC training is much much
more more SIONG than what we have in Burnei or Thailand campsites.
The realities that the ROK and ROC are faciing hostilies, had
sharpened the alertness of the soldiers, the disciplines are
enforeced w/o question. When the soldiers left the military
services, weather they will go into big company like Samsung and
LG, or venture his own business or IT setup, their discipline and
"never say die" mindset have helped them to achieve the best of the
best in the age of globalization. Today, the Korean and Taiwanese
are much more successful than we are. They have many more
successful Fortune 500 companies and SMEs than Singapore.
It is a sad fact that Singaporean seems to be getting more and more
soft. The education system in schools are more focusing in getting
the grades than real education. The schools are more interested in
displaying the "merits" in the banners hanging outside the schools.
Nowadays, school kids discipline is real headache for many school.
If our NS is also so soft, w/o a proper focus on discipline, then
we will be the one who suffer later. Already, we have heard reports
that Singaporeans are too "well taken care of", unable to take
hardship, thinking of making big w/o much effort (easy way out).
This is the gross product of our "Thinking Soldier" concept; always
thinking and thinking, no action! Then, how to get
results??
