Towards greater heights.

Why do people leave their love ones behind, travel all the way to a different country, suffer the wrath of nature's weather, climbing mountains and surviving on a meagre amount of sleep. What can drive a person to such insanity? Now let me be honest, i do not proclaim to be the all saintly and lie that financial reasons were not at least part of my motivation for joining the SAF. But ...being a singaporean and listening to army stories from my dad, uncle when i was young and going to the national education program. (yes i am brainwashed as some of you might say) I do feel a need to protect our land our way of living from any assholes to decides to play punk with our country and question our sovereignty. I get so pissed off when other states try something funny and try to threaten our way of living..

Yesterday, my brigade commander gave us a prep talk prior to moving out for the exercise. One thing he said yesterday really verbalised what i was feeling inside. He said," if you are a man that can look at your parents, wife/gf, brothers, sister being tortured or worse and yet can do nothing about it, you are not much of a man at all." Being in this professional i do take certain pride in the sense that i am contributing in my own little way towards the deterence of such an event ever happening. Granted given the social political situation our region is in right now.. it is unlikely that such an event will occur in the next 10 - 15 years...

But this situation we are in, is also due largely to the preparations we have been doing militarily and the constant steps we are taking to further the capabilities of our armed forces. Our aim is to be so much better and so effective that anybody that tries to take this so called small dot on the map.. will have to think twice, thrice and eventually abandon the idea. This is exactly the reason why i am here right now. On the micro level, it is understandable why so many people say this is a waste of time... why the hell am i here. But i am very very clear.. i am here for a reason.. i am here to be a warrior.. a warrior for singapore.. a warrior that will fight for this loved ones, his wife and his singapore.

Yes, even though my thoughts are with a certain someone back in the sunny island. I also know that being here is to build the foundation for stable society in which a future can realised with her. So i will do all i can to learn to absorb the skills needed to do the job if ever the button is pushed and i am called to bear arms for the ultimate duty.



A soldier of my homeland.