"Soldiers" Reflection
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

I do not really know why NS is formed in Malaysia. Technically, it is compulsory for certain Malaysians to go after to the NS after they are randomly picked. However, there are several reasons why the NS in Malaysia is often treated as a joke. For example: If an 18 year-old teen got picked to go to the January NS which will last for a few months, causing his or her college studies to be delayed to the June intake. Of course, this person will feel unfair because only he or she has to go to the NS and needs to delay his or her studies while some others just continue smoothly with their studies. Furthermore, the NS is fairly easy to skip without reasons as compared to Singapore's NS. Therefore, many teenagers do not follow the rule.

In addition, the racism in Malaysia is pretty serious to the extent that many unfair benefits and advantages to the Malays are being carried out such as: the Malays have a higher chance to obtain scholarships to study overseas compared to other races as the criteria to obtain a scholarship for Malays is more lenient. For example: a Chinese student may have gotten 9As but got nothing, while a Malay just have to get 6As to be awarded an overseas scholarship. It is just so unjust to be so biased towards the Malays and so discriminative against other races. Without a sense of belonging, teenagers will not have the urge to attend NS.

I do not feel the same way as the speaker towards my country. This country is full of corruption, racism which includes even the leaders of the country. This is not how a country should be, and this is definitely not how a country should be governed if we want success.

However, my loyalty towards Hwa Chong is totally different from my loyalty to Malaysia. Malaysia is unfair to non-Malays. I decided to come to Singapore because I thought that Malaysia is not treating the people fairly and I was unhappy about it. I believe that Singapore sees the importance of having equal rights regardless of race, language or religion, and so I came to Singapore. I am loyal to Hwa Chong. Maybe I cannot die for Hwa Chong, but at least I respect the leaders of Hwa Chong and will strive for excellence Hwa Chong.

No offense meant in this post :)

~Khor Wei Sean, 7:53 AM
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