Originally posted by meander:
I refused to read the rest of the thread after i saw the
first post last week thinking that it was bs.
I made a mistake. I read the entire thread due to curiousity (wtf
is this so long?), and found out it [b]was total bs (most
of the childish whines).
Let's see now. what would be your chances of survival if you didn't
have training from NS?
Secondly what are you going to fight with? Your mom's cooking
knives? Or your invincible digimon? SAF isn't going to give out
guns and ammo to ingrates like you. Maybe get them off dead
soldiers? Being the coward (you admitted as much), you probably
won't get close enough to frontlines to even see as much as an
enemy.
Or you can fight with fellow soldiers who have trained with you in
the past. They may be the most cock-up bunch of idiots you know,
but at least you are sure they are half-trained at the very least.
And these cockanadens are supplied with weapons and ammon from the
SAF.
I'll take my chances with the latter.
I'll digress a little here on why kids today can't seem to grow up
...
There's some weird generation gap between the young adults (i'll
call them Gen-Y) and teenagers (i'll call them GB, for Gen-Brat) in
Singapore today. Me, I belong to in between these 2 generations,
and I've seen some rather disturbing things.
GB kids nowadays have handphones in primary school, maids to carry
their school bags and all that assorted rubbish. Hence, they grow
up thinking the world revolves around themselves. Perhaps
subconciously, they expect things to go their way forever. Their
whims and fancies are all granted by over-protective parents who
want to give their GB child the best; not knowing that this
over-indulgence would likely ruin them.
Today, a teacher rapping a student on the palm with a metal ruler
would instantly cause a PR nightmare. Panaroid parents would
immediately call up the school authorities to complain (My sis
teaches in a primary school today, so i know). And if the parents
kbkp enough, our dear TNP would chap ji kar and make it headline
news the next day.
In the past, if I ever told my mom that, she'd just say "Why never
beat harder?" *Note : Of course,
if I told her my teacher took a broomstick and hit my head till it
bled, she'd react differently.* And neither did I get the
newest handphones and pagers from my parents. My first handphone
was bought with my own money from my first paycheck. Everything new
that I wanted but didn't need, was paid for by my own savings. I
was taught the value of things.
These GBs live in a safe, overprotected world of their own and
simply refuse to listen. While their parents should shoulder some
blame, the majority of it should be given to the GBs themselves.
Because in the end, only they can wake themselves up. If they
refuse to, let them learn the hardest way possible from the
harshest teacher : Life.
It's inevitable that these kids will enter the forum and lower the
average maturity/intelligence level, so why argue with them? They
won't listen anyway, so let them learn the hard way on their own.
If they eventually enter NS with a negative mindset, they would
come out worse. This would affect their lives in a negative way in
the future. Let them screw up their lives on their own.
Back to the point somewhat ...
I was actually raring to go to NS after JC because I was so damn
bored with my life and temp job. After I entered NS, the only thing
I wanted to do was get out. Now looking back, those days weren't so
bad afterall. It's funny how life works out sometimes.[/b]
You think I want to go to the frontline meh?
