you know what's the new conversation topic among guys in school these days besides mugging and a levels?
it's the enlistment date for national service.
yes, the next phase of a singaporean man's life is to live 2 years as a soldier, the first 3 months being locked away on some island notorious for ghost stories.
i mean, an american who wants to be a ranger has to go through the troublesome process of application, enlistment and examination before he gets selected to join the army.
here in singapore, you don't even need to say in show-and-tell that you want to be a solider.
they invite you!
an invitation with a jail sentence for turning down.
man those american kids must be damn jealous of u for being able to carry a real rifle and pistol and ammo and grenades and lots of other stuff you could only buy in counterstrike.
ok so a few weeks ago the first batch of invitation letters were sent out. the recipients were recruits whose medical examination result was a PES C or below, failed NAPFA this year or were enlisted into the non-military branches.
i had a friend who was enlisted into the army in april.
i had a good laugh.
basically there are 2 months u get enlisted - jan or april. jan is the desired date because somehow most of your friends go in during that month. and you will be the first batch to pass out in 2011, after which you have a whole lot of time to party and pimp girls and gear yourself up for university life.
if you're the april recruit, chances are you won't be with most of your friends. and while you're waiting to be enlisted you have the whole 4 months to yourself, but what's the point when everyone's else in camp? and you prob won't make it to 2011 uni admission in time. so that's another year wasted for you. basically, a loser.
so april is not a good month.
so i laughed at this friend of mine.
a few weeks later, today, a few more friends received their invitations. one was in fucking early 7th jan, the other 11th april.
i laughed at the april guy again. but he said he had some soccer friends going with him so not too bad for him.
later i received an sms from a friend.
"fuck i april!"
tt wasn't a good sign, because he was with me when i laughed at the first april fool.
so i went to the website, and keyed in my ic no. and birth date.
"good evening _________, your enlistment date is 13th april 2009."
i never laughed at all.
and it's amazing how ur enlistment date can attract so much attention on msn. suddenly u have so many conversation windows in ur taskbar, all guys btw.
cherry garcia..
9:41 PM
