Wow...it has been a very long time since my last entry. 1 week has passed after attending the Pre-ORD training camp. Undoubtedly, we have a lot of fun out there. The feeling of leaving out the shift system for the trainee life kind of lifestyle is simply ecstatic. Instead of us being conformed to the mundane, boring mount-dismount duty, we went into attending lectures, practical lessons, etc, all done as a group that is ORD-ing together. An inaugural one, but it proved a success. And I came up with some alias about the funny people during the camp...
Yi Cheng - the clumsy scholar
Ariffin - the duck-voiced complainer (LOL!)
Qing Yong - the immature kid
Wong - the innocent superior
Sun Cheng - the dictator
Fadzil - the usual whiner
Tiong - the drills-person unbecoming (LOL!!!)
Choo (you know who) - the ah-pek mathematician
Some woman from the recruitment centre - Chia's mother (typical aunty)
Some personnel from the reservist HQ - the threatening discipline mistress
and the others who also contributed to the myriad of laughters. Hahahaha...
Came across 2 things recently in the papers. First talked about being moody proved to improve our sense of judgement and decision-making, as claimed by Australian researchers. This implies that those people who come from a happy-go-lucky lifestyle are prone to make wrong judgements about other people, insensitive towards other people's feelings and plights and (surprisingly) gullible. Indeed, I have seen quite a number of people in NS who proved this accurate. People whom I have seen to be often reserved to himself, sad and moody seem to be more sensitive towards the people around him and do make more correct judgements compared to people who are more jovial.
It should be made a point to ponder at which going through hardship is essential to build an individual's personal well-being. By looking to the current society on how some teenagers lead their way of life, we can clearly see that they lack of that essence of appreciation towards the luxury that they have been granted. We see that the society has advanced. Standard of living has increased. Technology is ubiquitous. Some teenagers take these advancements for granted and think that life is as simple as it may seem to be. This leads to social problems among some teenagers such as disobedience to parents, underage casual sex and juvenile law infringements. How? Think about it the GP essay way...
The second article I read was the increase in the number of respondents that said that casual sex is okay. The survey was targeted specially for Singaporean teenagers above the age of 21. This shows that these teenagers have become more liberalised as compared to the ones from the previous generation. I'm afraid that these people overlooked the fact that such activities would increase the probability of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. From their mentality, adolescences may wish to be westernised, as they feel that they should not be lagging behind, being conservative. However, what I feel is that Asians would remain as Asians. It is good to follow the ways that Westerners do which lead to their success in the global world. Despite that, we should not follow the negative ways that may break the Asian tradition that our forefathers has passed to us. If we were to look at Japan, we can see that the strong upholding of the Japanese tradition does not hinder the country to prosper and succeed economically. Hence, we should take that as a learning point that we need not bee too liberal about certain issues in order to gain that ideal life.
These people are seemed to be confused about the definitions of liberalisation, liberty and libertinism. I guess they kind of mix everything together. Teenagers should go towards liberalisation and protect their liberty but not at the expense of being a libertine. Sounds simple, but it's hard to be practised. They may think that it is their own right and liberty to have sex freely. However, do they ever think that is it their right to violate the virginity of innocent girls? Is it their right to break the conservativeness of Asians that has been the status quo all along?
Think about it, fellow teenagers
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