The Nation Salute

[arthur]

Wat??

Your Last Post in this forum? Or feeling sad for someone?

Anyway, look at NS positively as that's where many boys really turned into men...

If you know any Koreans or even Taiwanese who'd also been conscripted into the combat vocations (their country faces a very real threat of war anytime), you'd feel ashamed at how 'soft' the training here is, in comparison...

Heh Heh. I think it will take more than just mere sadness to get me off this investing community we all share together.

Indeed, I am feeling sad for the past months news of young men dying in the course of serving their nation.

Truth to be told, the King Koil mattresses, the SAR21 X1.5 magnifier, the superb tasting cookhouse food really soften the younger gen alot.

But a life is a life, regardless of which generation, it pains me to know another young life is gone. He could have a happy family ahead of him, give his parents grandchildren to look forward to, have his own grandchildren in decades to come. But no more..

I think I would be still proud if I know my country still take cares of me, but no. So many of this young men after ORD, would be competing on an unequal footing, competing in half mil HDB, jobs with no security, etc.

Perhaps some ppl in forum might take my constant grouses as evidence that I am an underachiever. I am definitely not. From my lower class family background to what I have now relative to my age, I considered myself fairly successful with Heaven blessings.

Yet it is the lower class background I was born into that let me to think of those who could not escape the viscious cycle of poverty.

Sorry Kopi-Kat, hope I didn't bored you to death.