Even a Crazy Rich Asian cannot dodge NS/CMPB!

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Frankly, as long as Singapore insists on their draconian policies, I think we are going to see more and more of this in the future.

Vindictiveness does not need to be a one-way street. It is equal opportunity for all . By the same measure, do not be surprise by the large number of people who try to outwit this system. We reap what we sow.

Not to mention the govt's fondness of making an example out of those who don't comply. Hence Mindef's very public and self-important proclamation of declaring Kevin Kwan a deserter. His new-found celebrity status only serves to offer more weight to gahment's self-righteouness. And wasn't it GCT himself who labelled those who migrated as "quitters". Only to have his own daughter migrate to the UK latter on.

Despite the lack of gun violence in SG, I found it to be less safe than USA. If I were to offend, even unintentionally, the powers that be, I can quickly find myself in hot water. Hello Amos Yee.

Singapore is not the only country facing this challenge of dwindling interest in the military resulting in lower enlistment rate. USA uses carrot (instead of stick) to combat the problem. It offers citizenship in exchange for military service. Can you imagine the uproar if SG were to adopt the same? The xenophobes and the tribalists would be out in full force.

Unless there is an overhaul in the SG culture and the mentality of its people. And unless they learn to overcome their own ethnocentricism, nationalism, narrow-mindedness and their love of the punitives, they will always be limited in their choices and solutions. We have already moved into a more enlightened time, the 21st century, there is not need to continue the old and depressing way of doing things lah.

This DID NOT age well.

apologies for reviving a dead thread.Just randomly reading threads.