Let's face it : Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew did not cry because he altruistically believed in the unity of merger with that idealistic society of "Malaysia" , which coincidentally and unfortunately exists today, and even more so for them without us.

The fact is, Malaysia cannot hold the peace forever. Till now she has not attacked us, for the simple reason that it is still under a democracy, and thus would not risk an all out war with us. They know fully well the immeasurable loses they would commit to battle if they did. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may have succeeded Mahathir, and democracy still holds in their country, but will it still hold dominant over the radical Muslim factions ? I think not. sooner or later, stupidity will only triumph over reason, and soon we will have friends of Jamah Islamia or even Al-Qaeda ruling the country above us.

National Service is justified. I can't stop bitching about it, especially when you're doing an office job and then it becomes totally meaningless to you, but I have never said it was useless or unjustified. We are an ever-improving and upgrading armed forces. Though it's still questionable that our main tank, and only tank if the rumour about the centurion tanks is all jibberish, is the AMX-13, a light tank whose prototype was first developed in 1948, or that we've acquired the 1970s F-15s recently, we're still an extremely potent fighting force. Just by noting what the SAF has been doing since the Tsunami-relief operations, we may send small forces around the globe, like sending an LST to Iraq for a couple of months, and most recently of all sending our chinook squadron to New Orleans, we're practically the strongest in this region of the world.

Our two nations have always had this "arms race", starting ever since we gained independence in the 60's. Their MIG-29s are laughable. Russian fighters lost their air superiority ever since the 2nd World War ended. Scorpion Tanks ? They weren't even tanks in the first place, just infantry fighting vehicles with a 90mm-bore turret replacement. a 40mm auto-grenade launching gun would blow it to smithereens. We bought the Sjoormen-class submarines from the Swedish, then the Malaysians had to acquire subs of their own. Of course, what a laughable move. They've always wanted to have things that are already in our inventory. Then now we have the La Fayette-class Frigates from the French. 3 Submarines, will they ? the sixth Formidable-class Frigate will be operational by next year.

( I should thank my father for telling me this. It's just such a sad joke.. our government gave our country one, or two, years before making the front passengers in any vehicle to wear seat belts. This was, of course, to get us to make a habit of doing it before making it compulsory. Malaysia, noting this, planned to make it compulsory immediately. How asinine. Is their traffic still any better than ours ? )

I could just use a simple example of the brilliance of our Singaporean leaders. The development of the SAR-21. not only is it 2/3s the length of the M-16, it's also more manoueverable, and even deadlier with a scope and a laser-guider. so they may say a round fired from the M-16 is more accurate, but that's only because of it's considerably longer barrel. We don't need such a long barrel. If any Singaporean bothers to check, across the courseway is already Johor Bahru. And thanks to Joshua for pointing this out, we're going to fight in the cities, not only in the jungles. It's going to be all cramped up in the cities, and the SAR-21's the more effective rifle when urban warfare is concerned.

Yes, my fellow Singaporeans. MM Lee had tears rolling down his eyes when we did not successfully merge with Malaysia because if we had, we would have taken control of KL from within, and that would have taken only a matter of years. Our history textbooks may tell us that we won only a seat out of more than a hundred in Malaysian elections in the 50s, but yes heads were turning and people were starting to listen. Naturally, UMNO was alarmed, they HAD to be alarmed. But too bad for them. They're the ones still in the shit holes.



When did Dudley suddenly become so patriotic ? Maybe that's National Service for you. Or maybe that's just the boredom that you can kick up when you're an admin support assistant. In the words of Team America : World Police :




Singapore, Fuck Yeah :)

1st of September, Teacher's Day. Not that I'm enjoying a holiday for it, I'm doing what it's called a "job", though it technically isn't one, but something closer to thralldom, something known as National Service.

Wished Mr Teo a happy teacher's day, which I think he will have and has had, because he's not teaching economics ( pretty much a waste.. ) and doing full-time PW, WHICH is another bloody waste of time and talent. One more solid evidence to prove our carefully mismanaged tax dollars.

Know what ? One of my wishes now is to teach in NY in the future, and hopefully Mr Teo's still gonna be around. That'll be totally awesome.



Okay I know I havent blogged in a long time, just wanted to for today's occasion to wish every Teacher out there a Happy Teacher's Day. Gonna stop, Joe's made me feel extremely guilty for being a bloody huge bummer. What are friends for eh ? Thanks man.





No, I fucking mean it :)