::A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages::: Dreadful

::A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages::

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Dreadful

Oh gosh. Just got that damn, dreadful letter. That letter that every singaporean guy receives eventually, and with it comes the date of imprisonment. Goodbye freedom, all day couch-potato-ing (i doubt there's even tv), internet (!!!), phone calls, dressing up to go out, gatsby hair wax, home-cooked food, tennis, my baby, and most importantly the one piece of furniture i will miss most - my bed.
You know why? Because i spend so much time on my bed. I use the computer while lying on my bed, i sleep for so many hours, listen to ipod/watch tv, and sometimes even eat on it. So without a doubt i will miss it man. The comfort, the soft mattress. :0(
Why does it have to be so soon! Its just merely a month's notice! Technically its
5 weeks' time if you count. Sigh ...
Anyway its all propaganda if you ask me. They have so, so many nice terms on the pamphlet they send through mail. Eg. "sons of singapore", "my son, the NS man". Wth right. So cheesy and corny, like something out of a romantic comedy. Why bother to sugar-coat your words, when its COMPULSORY in the first place? Sickos. They must be trying to psycho the parents into thinking that their sons dont really belong to them and are actually the sons of singapore, and therefore its only natural that they serve the almighty mother nation.
And its propaganda because, its made compulsory for a reason that has not yet been validated. I mean have we been attacked since independence? Are we in the middle east or preparing for war? And you imagine all the population of men in singapore all trained. Preparing for what? For conquering the whole world? For the capture of mas selamat bin kastari?
Also, in most parts of the world this NS thing isnt even compulsory. And if you want to make it compulsory, at least be fair and make selection from both sexes. That means randomly picking a selected few males and females. Like what they do in the philipines.
This is the reason why you hear women complaining about men being the dominant species aka the one on top. The one making the decisions, the one taking care of things. Because its always been that way. The husband hunted while the wife stayed at home and prepared dinner. If you want to be treated equally do something about it. Demolish the idea that serving in the army is only men's business, that its the guy's responsibility to get the bill, fix the house. We are already in the 21st century, not some neanderthal society bounded by traditional conceptions of how men and women should behave.
I realise i have a lot to rant about. Must be the pre-NS stress.

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Posted @1:20 AM

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