NS Life!!!

NS...stands for National Service and for those who dont know what it is.....basically it means that the government literally forces you to join the army, navy, police force or the civil defence force and theres nothing u can do about it....i mean isnt it sad? just imagine urself doing absolutely great in life...u just finished college and u got ur diploma and just when u wanna take a break before pursuing ur degree...BLAM! this stupid NS comes into the picture..thats not cool man! U see the only reason why all men above 18 are forced to go NS is because like i mentioned earlier singapore is smaller than a dot....it has a population of 5 million and is only 274 sq miles...its the smallest country in southeast asia...well anyway what im trying to say is because of this pathetic stats we need all the firepower we can get...thats why its compulsory for all of the unlucky guys here to serve their country...Boring! just imagine we are currently at 5 million rite? what if NS was not compulsory? we would be lucky to get even 500!

Well anyway...in a nutshell, Ns has its ups and downs and in fact it turned out to be one of the greatest things that ever happened in my life!! Its just one of those things u know u really dont wanna do cuz u either hate it so much or u feel its a complete waaste of time..but still someone forces u to do it...but so very surprisingly u realise that u learnt so much and had fun so much that if u didnt do it and chose to continuee ur life as for normal....u wouldnt feel as happy! trust me on this i learnt that we learn life's lessons this way this is what makes us better people and whats so funny is....we never ever!!thought that this would work out but it somehow did!

If the government gave me a choice of whether i should go to NS or continue life as i know it...i would definitely choose not to go and i would probably not have met my awesome friends in the picture above....I am really grateful to these guys...they really help mould my character into someone i dreamt of being...a very open, optimistic and happy person. Although they dont know it from the bottom of my heart i consider them angels sent to me from the almighty god above..

U know whats really funny? On the first day of my enlistment(thats what they call the first day of NS) when i actually met these guys i honestly felt so dissapointed that i was chosen to be with them as a squad.....my first impression was they arent my type at all to me they looked like people who just dont care about life or they just dont care about anything! but boy was i wrong. I learnt that judging people by their appearance is a huge mistake to say whether they are good or bad people....its what lies deep within them that makes each person who he or she is really is....I also realised after talking to them more and more how truly fortunate i really am. To live with great parents brother and grandmother and to have an undisrupted education....and also im a little guilty to admit that i livve in a SLIGHTY big house...

People often get the wrong idea about uneducated people...they say that, "oh he's not doing well in life cuz he didnt study hard enough and look where he ended now" and they tell their kids, "honey look at that guy cleaning the toilets..thats what happens to u when u dont study hard" But i dont blame people for saying this.... all i can say is this is not always the case...there's always another side to the story...To be continued....

But i just thank god for the great life he's given me so far.....we are truly blessed arent we?