2 years of my life... like hell it is!!!

Any able-bodied Singaporean man would definitely have to go through National Service... unless they declare (with the help of doctors, if necessary) that they are:
1) Gay
2) Jehovah's Witness
3) Physically disabled
4) Mentally impaired

Seeing that I am none of the above, I, like many others, surrendered to my fate and went about my National Service... a full 2 years and 4 months of my life...

Throughout the course of our Basic Military Training (BMT), we were always required to sing songs during our route march with one particular song stuck with me since then... and one line in the song goes... "2 years of my life"... depicting the length of our National Service...

It is a bloody lie... it is not 2 years of my life... NO!!!! Rather, it is 12 years... yup, 2 full years of National Service and 10 years of reservist!

Since I have just completed my first reservist call-up, I still have bloody 9 more to go...

Sigh...