Endoh’s Dungeon

Following an “exchange of words” between 3 bloggers… Defector, Uglyfatchick & Sicarii. I will refrain from quoting any lines written by them because I want this post to be individually mine, nothing but the brutal facts of life in Singapore.

A mere post about how soldiers should wear their uniform can be read in several ways. However, the purpose of National Service can only be one! To protect and safeguard Singapore against external threat. Sounds very impressive, isn’t it? Good, you have just agreed with me that certain words are only meant to sound good and nothing more than that. Let me just run you down with a few things (facts we conveniently ignored or turn a blind eye to intentionally) from my point of view. Having served in both green and blue, and now back to green… my points will be generalised between the two.

Just like how you would check your attire when you go to work, you should check your military uniform too. Putting on a uniform represents an agency or department that you belong to, just like how your personal dress style represents you and your taste in fashion. If one can do so for their working attire, why not for a set of military uniform?

As working adults will know, being tidy and neat gives a good impression of professionalism on top of other things. Taking care of the slightest trivial detail tells your clients how meticulous you are in your work. If you show yourself in a sloppy uniform, what signals do you send out? Just like working in the private sector, be it you like it or not, you keep yourself nice and trimmed so as to pass on a good image. Likewise for our military uniforms, it’s also telling people about our personal (lousy) habits. People who don’t bother to iron their clothes, people who don’t bother to check their shoes or people who don’t check their colors etc. All these little bits of information tells us something about this person.

For girls (or even men) who can’t see the big deal about dressing neat and tidy, I don’t know what to say. Bear in mind, being a rugged and brave soldier need not necessary means you have to look rundown like what we see in Black Hawk Down or SWAT. Are we at war now? Is there a jungle in Orchard? Does a soldier goes shopping straight after 4 days of intense outfield exercise? It’s only reasonable to know that no decent soldier will do that. If that’s the case, why shouldn’t this soldier be neat?

Singapore started NS for the sole purpose of defending our land upon independence. Since our fathers’ days, many men have gone through shit (and I seriously mean SHIT!) to eventually finish their NS as Operationally Ready.

Many Singapore girls still cannot understand the amount of hardship in NS until today. Complaining about NS, is just like how girls would complain about the least trivial thing like as if the world is going to end. While some girls are quick to call a man “sissy” when men complain about NS, they could be happily resting their feet in a pedicure bar. Why? Well, women just don’t get it. It’s as simple as that.

Alot of times, we don’t understand what other people are going through, UNTIL they are put through the same torture. Now my dear ladies, picture this. For training purpose, you had to dig your hands into wet soil covering your poo from the previous night, and you are not allowed to wash your hands at lunchtime. For training purpose, you have to leopard-crawl through puddles of urine and mud. For training purpose, you get a dustbin emptied over your bedsheet and told to sleep on it. How do these sound to the ladies?

Need we say more? The last time I wrote about SPGs I had insults mailed to me, of which some were even “dedicated” to my family. I am still undaunted.

It’s of little surprise that some Singapore women would used NS related matters to justify their love for foreign men. I have seen it far too many times. If the materialism in a woman drives her to date a foreign man, then keep it as that and not try to find some other reasons to “cover your backside”. Singapore men have seen it all in NS, how individuals would get into trouble and sacrifice another “beloved colleague” to shoulder the blame. This makes it all the easier for Singapore men to spot these excuses from ladies. Usually, it comes from top-down - and this is perfectly the reason why many young NSFs are complaining. At age 18, what would they know? Do they dare to fight back at the risk of weekend confinement or even worse, detention barracks?

Well, this is what your foreign men do not go through in Singapore, while happily boozing and making merry in your bed. We fuck a whole lot too… but we fuck our M16S1. Get the idea now?

Like I mentioned above, some things are only meant to sound good. For the men whom have gone through NS, we know the truth all the more. It’s undeniable that serving NS protects Singapore in a certain way, but again, many Singapore girls failed to see the other side of the coin. Just like any story, there’s always two sides of the coin.

If called upon to defend this land for Singaporeans, yes I would put my life down. If at any point, I am called upon to defend this land for people who does not belong here - sorry that’s one of the main reasons why I eventually resigned from public service. I don’t believe in defending this land for the benefit of people, other than for Singaporeans. Many expats sing praises of Singapore’s safety and stability, but right down the tube who is doing the job? We - the Singaporeans. However, who’s reaping the most benefits out of this safety and stability? Sadly, it’s not Singaporeans.

If your foreign man is THAT great, why is he not defending this land that you embrace? Why do Singapore men have to defend this land while you snuggle up to your foreign bf under the moonlight? Ever spare a thought for that? Our eyes are trained to look through rifle scopes while some women eyes are trained to peek through wallets for cards. Doesn’t that makes your “manly foreign man” even more “sissy”? Like I mentioned in earlier posts, a war is meant to be fought with guns and bullets, not pens and plastic cards. We are not filming a kungfu show here.

I don’t know if this is too offensive, but one sentence my buddies and I used to share with each other… “Serving NS nowadays is just like defending this land for foreign men to fuck our local women for free.” If you are a girl reduced to this, too bad for you.

When one starts to see the truth behind the term NS, we will no longer take pride in what we do anymore. I shall not even go into the topic whether have Singapore men been exploited. Having been screamed at for the entire week in camp by our superiors, the last thing we want is get home to face a screaming woman pestering to go for shopping trips. Yes we can, bring you for shopping trips in Iraq that is. Would you like to have 5.56 for lunch? Or 9mm for dinner? Or perhaps 120mm for supper thereafter?

For women who are still complaining about Singapore men complaining about NS issues… serve your term, we will talk later. And please, Singapore men are not gutless when approaching girls… some of us can’t be bothered to waste our time on you that’s all.