http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/324559 en-US 60 <p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">this rather usual topic comes up every now and then...</span></strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">here u go:</span></strong></p> <p><a href="/forums/1390/topics/318964" rel= "nofollow"><strong>http://armedforces.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/318964</strong></a></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">List of Search</span>:<br /></strong><a href= "/topics/search?q=why+NS%3F&amp;amp;commit=Go&amp;amp;type=topics" rel= "nofollow"><strong>http://armedforces.sgforums.com/topics/search?q=why+NS%3F&amp;commit=Go&amp;type=topics</strong></a></p> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:44:54 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1390:324559:8251005 eac http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/324559 <p>You're one sad guy.</p> <p>You don't know NS till you're in it.</p> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:44:25 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1390:324559:8251003 16/f/lonely http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/324559 <p>hrm...just to be curious, are you currently waiting to go into NS?</p> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:39:58 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1390:324559:8250990 Stevenson101 http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/324559 <p>singapore guys are a sad lot..at the height of their teenage years, they are being called up to take up arms and "serve" their motherland which of cuz does not belong to their mother.</p> <p>after 2 years, these guys struggle back to school.some can no longer study and decided to enter the workin force.granted that NS can be disrupted for studies,it is still a hassle to go through all that.</p> <p>also,since guys have been exploited for the 2 years, it will only be proper that should they want to go back to studies, the govt should have some kinds of grants for them but our wealthy and generous govt will hear none of grants n such.</p> <p>many guys also feel that the gals frm their batch also has gone on much further then them..y is it tat after giving to the nation, we tends to suffer?and its not just the 2 years thats all..guys also have to go back to this reservst that dun serve much purpose for the next 10 years and 3 years after that as a stand by. a total of 15years.hw many 15years does a person have to waste?</p> <p>NS is truly redundant and should be revised by appropriate authorities. which of course is not possible as we lack truly able men up there.</p> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:41 +0800 www.sgforums.com:1390:324559:8250985 domonkassyu http://www.sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/324559