In enslaving its own citizens for 2 years against their will during NS , Sg break the age old virtue of temperance.
This must have grave consequences , for the age old virtues are not to be broken lightly
NS is killing Sg
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Temperance (Sophrosyne in Greek is defined as “moderation in action, thought, or feeling; restraint.” [1]) has been studied by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It is considered a virtue, a core value that can be seen consistently across time and cultures (see Historical and Religious Perspectives). It is considered one of the four cardinal virtues, for it is believed that no virtue could be sustained in the face of inability to control oneself, if the virtue was opposed to some desire. It is also one of the six main categories of the VIA Character Strengths (see Major Theoretical Approaches). Temperance is generally defined by control over excess, so that it has many such classes, such as abstinence, chastity, modesty, humility, prudence, self-regulation, and forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger
Monday, February 28, 2011
sg sinful ways will carry grave consequences
In enslaving its own citizens for 2 years against their will during NS , Sg break the age old virtue of temperance.
This must have grave consequences , for the age old virtues are not to be broken lightly
NS is killing Sg
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Temperance (Sophrosyne in Greek is defined as “moderation in action, thought, or feeling; restraint.” [1]) has been studied by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It is considered a virtue, a core value that can be seen consistently across time and cultures (see Historical and Religious Perspectives). It is considered one of the four cardinal virtues, for it is believed that no virtue could be sustained in the face of inability to control oneself, if the virtue was opposed to some desire. It is also one of the six main categories of the VIA Character Strengths (see Major Theoretical Approaches). Temperance is generally defined by control over excess, so that it has many such classes, such as abstinence, chastity, modesty, humility, prudence, self-regulation, and forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger
This must have grave consequences , for the age old virtues are not to be broken lightly
NS is killing Sg
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Temperance (Sophrosyne in Greek is defined as “moderation in action, thought, or feeling; restraint.” [1]) has been studied by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It is considered a virtue, a core value that can be seen consistently across time and cultures (see Historical and Religious Perspectives). It is considered one of the four cardinal virtues, for it is believed that no virtue could be sustained in the face of inability to control oneself, if the virtue was opposed to some desire. It is also one of the six main categories of the VIA Character Strengths (see Major Theoretical Approaches). Temperance is generally defined by control over excess, so that it has many such classes, such as abstinence, chastity, modesty, humility, prudence, self-regulation, and forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger
even japanese disgusted with sg NS system
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Indefensible costs of military one-upmanship
March 1st, 2011 | Author: Online Press | Edit
I was recently surprised to learn that Singapore has 72,500 troops on active duty and plans to double the number of ¡°combat-ready aircraft¡± to more than 200. It also plans to have 10 more submarines to add to the four it has today. Or so the Wall Street
Journal reported (¡°Asia¡¯s New Arms Race,¡± Feb. 12-13).
In fact, Singapore has ¡°one of Asia¡¯s most modern armed forces,¡± according to a U.S. military site proudly announcing the country¡¯s purchase of 12 more F-15 fighter jets for $1 billion (October 2007).
The island nation is smaller than New York City (90 percent in land and 60 percent in population). Yet its annual military expenditure of $9 billion is 3.4 times as large as that of Vietnam (population 18 times as big) and 70 percent larger than that of Indonesia (population 50 times bigger).
All this was a surprise to me, because the proud and prosperous Lion City strikes me as eminently indefensible in any serious military confrontation. I do not have to bring up the Japanese Army overrunning the British Empire¡¯s ¡°impregnable fortress in the Far East¡± in six days, back in early 1942, with a troop size less than half that of the defenders. Imagine New York City as an independent nation having to defend itself from surrounding enemies.
I do not mean to advance any argument on geopolitics or regional military strategy. It¡¯s simply that when the WSJ article came out, I had just read Andrew Bacevich¡¯s essay, ¡°The Tyranny of Defense Inc.¡± (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2011). I was also thinking about Yukio Mishima¡¯s novel ¡°Silk and Insight¡± that I translated a dozen years ago.
Bacevich, a retired army colonel who teaches international relations at Boston University, for some years now has been highly critical of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the military field, writing books such as ¡°The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism?¡± (2008) and ¡°America¡¯s Path to Permanent War?¡±(2010), to name only the latest two.
In the Atlantic article, he revisits President Dwight Eisenhower and his warnings on the military running amok ¡°in the councils of government.¡± It is of course his famous farewell speech, in which he said, ¡°we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.¡±
But Bacevich also discusses Eisenhower¡¯s speech eight years earlier, the one he gave soon after he became president. The speech, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, shows the military commander¡¯s thinking did not change over the years. It is particularly notable for the concrete examples illustrating the high costs of military
hardware.
¡°The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities,¡± Eisenhower said. ¡°It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.¡±
Direct cost comparisons between six decades ago and today may be difficult to make, but let me try.
Each B-2 ¡°Stealth Bomber¡± costs $1.01 billion. The ¡°flyaway cost¡± ¡ª the whole cost minus research and development ¡ª of each F-35, the product of ¡°the most expensive arms program¡± of the U.S. ever and for now the source of congressional hubbub, is somewhere between $89 million to $200 million.
The CIA¡¯s World Factbook puts the 2010 U.S. per capita income at $47,400. This means a total of 21,300 people ¡ª men, women, children ¡ª must work one whole year to produce a single B-2, and that 1,900 to 4,200 people must work just as long to produce a single F-35. Japan, whose per capita income is way below that of Singapore, plans to buy 100 F-35s.
The biggest issue in education in New York City now is Mayor Bloomberg¡¯s threat to ¡°eliminate¡± 6,000 teaching jobs because of a budget shortfall. These teachers are new hires, so suppose their average salary is $30,000. The elimination of a single F-35 at the higher cost estimate should make the firing of those 6,000 teachers unnecessary.
St. Vincent¡¯s, the most valuable hospital in my neighborhood, shut down last year because of a monthly deficit of $7 million to $10 million, according to the New York Times. To maintain a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan just one year costs ¡°a cool one million dollars,¡± Bacevich puts it. The U.S. now has 100,000 troops, at the monthly cost
of $8.4 billion.
The main purpose of the U.S. invasion and destruction of Afghanistan is now obscure, but if it is to force its own idea of government on it, it goes against Eisenhower¡¯s observation: ¡°Any nation¡¯s attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.¡±
As for Yukio Mishima¡¯s 1964 novel ¡°Silk and Insight,¡± it was based on Japan¡¯s ¡°first human rights strike¡± at a textile manufacturer 10 years earlier, in 1954. Mishima does not seem to have explained it, but the puzzling title he gave to the novel harked back to the phrase ¡°silk and warships¡± that dated from the Russo-Japanese War.
For decades before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, silk was Japan¡¯s principal export product, so it was silk that enabled the country to buy and build warships, hence the phrase. But the Yamato, the greatest battleship Japan ever built, and its twin, the Musashi, were both sunk ignominiously before engaging in any worthy battle. Of the two, the Yamato was sunk in the country¡¯s biggest and, yes, ¡°stupidest,¡± suicide sortie.
What was the cost of building the Yamato? As I have remembered it since my junior high school days, the same amount would have enabled Japan to electrify its entire railway system at the time, in 1940.
Has any of the expensive weapons systems, many of which Japan has been buying from the U.S. since it was coerced into rearmament despite the ¡°no-war clause¡± of ¡°the MacArthur Constitution,¡± served any real purpose in defending the country? I don¡¯t know.
Indefensible costs of military one-upmanship
March 1st, 2011 | Author: Online Press | Edit
I was recently surprised to learn that Singapore has 72,500 troops on active duty and plans to double the number of ¡°combat-ready aircraft¡± to more than 200. It also plans to have 10 more submarines to add to the four it has today. Or so the Wall Street
Journal reported (¡°Asia¡¯s New Arms Race,¡± Feb. 12-13).
In fact, Singapore has ¡°one of Asia¡¯s most modern armed forces,¡± according to a U.S. military site proudly announcing the country¡¯s purchase of 12 more F-15 fighter jets for $1 billion (October 2007).
The island nation is smaller than New York City (90 percent in land and 60 percent in population). Yet its annual military expenditure of $9 billion is 3.4 times as large as that of Vietnam (population 18 times as big) and 70 percent larger than that of Indonesia (population 50 times bigger).
All this was a surprise to me, because the proud and prosperous Lion City strikes me as eminently indefensible in any serious military confrontation. I do not have to bring up the Japanese Army overrunning the British Empire¡¯s ¡°impregnable fortress in the Far East¡± in six days, back in early 1942, with a troop size less than half that of the defenders. Imagine New York City as an independent nation having to defend itself from surrounding enemies.
I do not mean to advance any argument on geopolitics or regional military strategy. It¡¯s simply that when the WSJ article came out, I had just read Andrew Bacevich¡¯s essay, ¡°The Tyranny of Defense Inc.¡± (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2011). I was also thinking about Yukio Mishima¡¯s novel ¡°Silk and Insight¡± that I translated a dozen years ago.
Bacevich, a retired army colonel who teaches international relations at Boston University, for some years now has been highly critical of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the military field, writing books such as ¡°The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism?¡± (2008) and ¡°America¡¯s Path to Permanent War?¡±(2010), to name only the latest two.
In the Atlantic article, he revisits President Dwight Eisenhower and his warnings on the military running amok ¡°in the councils of government.¡± It is of course his famous farewell speech, in which he said, ¡°we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.¡±
But Bacevich also discusses Eisenhower¡¯s speech eight years earlier, the one he gave soon after he became president. The speech, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, shows the military commander¡¯s thinking did not change over the years. It is particularly notable for the concrete examples illustrating the high costs of military
hardware.
¡°The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities,¡± Eisenhower said. ¡°It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.¡±
Direct cost comparisons between six decades ago and today may be difficult to make, but let me try.
Each B-2 ¡°Stealth Bomber¡± costs $1.01 billion. The ¡°flyaway cost¡± ¡ª the whole cost minus research and development ¡ª of each F-35, the product of ¡°the most expensive arms program¡± of the U.S. ever and for now the source of congressional hubbub, is somewhere between $89 million to $200 million.
The CIA¡¯s World Factbook puts the 2010 U.S. per capita income at $47,400. This means a total of 21,300 people ¡ª men, women, children ¡ª must work one whole year to produce a single B-2, and that 1,900 to 4,200 people must work just as long to produce a single F-35. Japan, whose per capita income is way below that of Singapore, plans to buy 100 F-35s.
The biggest issue in education in New York City now is Mayor Bloomberg¡¯s threat to ¡°eliminate¡± 6,000 teaching jobs because of a budget shortfall. These teachers are new hires, so suppose their average salary is $30,000. The elimination of a single F-35 at the higher cost estimate should make the firing of those 6,000 teachers unnecessary.
St. Vincent¡¯s, the most valuable hospital in my neighborhood, shut down last year because of a monthly deficit of $7 million to $10 million, according to the New York Times. To maintain a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan just one year costs ¡°a cool one million dollars,¡± Bacevich puts it. The U.S. now has 100,000 troops, at the monthly cost
of $8.4 billion.
The main purpose of the U.S. invasion and destruction of Afghanistan is now obscure, but if it is to force its own idea of government on it, it goes against Eisenhower¡¯s observation: ¡°Any nation¡¯s attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.¡±
As for Yukio Mishima¡¯s 1964 novel ¡°Silk and Insight,¡± it was based on Japan¡¯s ¡°first human rights strike¡± at a textile manufacturer 10 years earlier, in 1954. Mishima does not seem to have explained it, but the puzzling title he gave to the novel harked back to the phrase ¡°silk and warships¡± that dated from the Russo-Japanese War.
For decades before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, silk was Japan¡¯s principal export product, so it was silk that enabled the country to buy and build warships, hence the phrase. But the Yamato, the greatest battleship Japan ever built, and its twin, the Musashi, were both sunk ignominiously before engaging in any worthy battle. Of the two, the Yamato was sunk in the country¡¯s biggest and, yes, ¡°stupidest,¡± suicide sortie.
What was the cost of building the Yamato? As I have remembered it since my junior high school days, the same amount would have enabled Japan to electrify its entire railway system at the time, in 1940.
Has any of the expensive weapons systems, many of which Japan has been buying from the U.S. since it was coerced into rearmament despite the ¡°no-war clause¡± of ¡°the MacArthur Constitution,¡± served any real purpose in defending the country? I don¡¯t know.
Singapore guy wonder why he kenna con into NS
Lucky,
I can't get into the bus to work today. Usually, the bus driver of service 903 would come and drive away, pointing to another bus which is right behind. Now, that second would be empty. But get this, 2 LONG trans island buses are fully packed to the brim. Out of frustration not to be late for work, I entered the bus from the rear and tried clicking my ezlink card.
This is the state we have dropped to in this country.
You call this Swiss standard. I can't even get to work on time as the buses are fully packed. The facilities were built for a population of 3.3 million, it was not built for 5.4 million. The system is not sustainable. What is the government doing? Why are so many Singaporeans still busy sleeping on their new craze iphone and why is the state of public discourse in this country almost oblivion?
We're in for trouble and we're pretending that this government will deliver.
What PAP is doing is to test the system and see what is the breaking point of Singaporeans with regard to this foreigners-overcrowding-this-country issue?
After waiting for 25 minutes for a feeder to get to the tain station, I observed something which is going to be a common sight after this 2011 election. An NS man was standing while all the seats beside him were filled up with: a fillipina man and a fillipina girl, a tired malaysian chinese man and lady, 2 chinese ladies from china and an indian man from India.
Singaporeans are paying for their MRT ticket but foreigners are getting the seats. Welcome to a new day in Singapore.
You can't even buy a flat and have to wait out for at least 3 years. You can't get on a bus to work. You are suffocated by overcrowding. Your jobs are taken away from you by cheap, faster foreigners. During this time, you are called to serve your reservist.
I ask once again as a young Singaporean once asked and I have not forgotten what this government has done for the last 5 years: I no longer know what I'm defending."
NS and reservists, as many SIngaporean youths have commented are nothing but an avenue for cheaper, faster soldiers
I can't get into the bus to work today. Usually, the bus driver of service 903 would come and drive away, pointing to another bus which is right behind. Now, that second would be empty. But get this, 2 LONG trans island buses are fully packed to the brim. Out of frustration not to be late for work, I entered the bus from the rear and tried clicking my ezlink card.
This is the state we have dropped to in this country.
You call this Swiss standard. I can't even get to work on time as the buses are fully packed. The facilities were built for a population of 3.3 million, it was not built for 5.4 million. The system is not sustainable. What is the government doing? Why are so many Singaporeans still busy sleeping on their new craze iphone and why is the state of public discourse in this country almost oblivion?
We're in for trouble and we're pretending that this government will deliver.
What PAP is doing is to test the system and see what is the breaking point of Singaporeans with regard to this foreigners-overcrowding-this-country issue?
After waiting for 25 minutes for a feeder to get to the tain station, I observed something which is going to be a common sight after this 2011 election. An NS man was standing while all the seats beside him were filled up with: a fillipina man and a fillipina girl, a tired malaysian chinese man and lady, 2 chinese ladies from china and an indian man from India.
Singaporeans are paying for their MRT ticket but foreigners are getting the seats. Welcome to a new day in Singapore.
You can't even buy a flat and have to wait out for at least 3 years. You can't get on a bus to work. You are suffocated by overcrowding. Your jobs are taken away from you by cheap, faster foreigners. During this time, you are called to serve your reservist.
I ask once again as a young Singaporean once asked and I have not forgotten what this government has done for the last 5 years: I no longer know what I'm defending."
NS and reservists, as many SIngaporean youths have commented are nothing but an avenue for cheaper, faster soldiers
Sunday, February 27, 2011
more con do NS for nothing
rk for it ie it has outhouse staff (people like me) and inhouse staff directly employed by the bank. The sick part is that almost all those being recruited are foreigners. Oh the irony of it...but then what can you expect when the current CEO is a foreigner.
For those who doubt the stories here bout the influx of foreign IT workers...especially those from India, its easy...just go to Shenton Way during lunch time and observe those people taking their lunch or on their smoking break outside the buildings... That alone will be enough to open your eyes.
How do these foreign IT people keep getting the jobs? Its easy. They are recruited by the Agencies...work for a few years (to get experience etc etc) and when their time is up, they might either return home or move on to western countries or hop over to another mnc here offering better pay or position. Their place in the old company will then be taken over by another of their countryman (friends, classmates etc) possibly introduced to the agency by these people themselves and the cycle goes on and on.
Like the other writers, not saying that all of them are bad but this is the sad truth. For example - when you have 1 or 2 pinoys in your section or company, its not that bad. They are from our region and can chat or talk cock etc. However, once the barrier has been penetrated and more and more of them join you...it changes. Should 1 of these pinoys get into a supervisory or managerial position then beware fellow sinkies...as a few others sinkies have observed..they put in more of their countrymen and you're left in the lurch.
A true story - my ex colleague left to join an american bank here doing IT. Worked shifts, was the Shift Supervisor. A few Sinkies and some pinoys n indians. He was recently let go. Told me that initially the pinoys were friendly with the sinkies there but once their group was larger, every decision he made as a Supervisor was challenged by the pinoy group who would go to his manager to question the decisions made by him. But these same group will accept any decisions without dissent when its made by a fellow pinoy supervisor.
As for the Indians IT. Same goes. I find its the north indian chaps and ladies who are pretty arrogant probably because most of them are of the brahmin caste and look down on us as their inferiors. Another pal told me that they are the ones we have to keep an eye on as they are the group most likely to take up citizenship and stay here and breed more of their 'we are superior to you coz we're brahmins' types.
As for the PRCS - I think I don't have to spell out. Everyone knows
Options
For those who doubt the stories here bout the influx of foreign IT workers...especially those from India, its easy...just go to Shenton Way during lunch time and observe those people taking their lunch or on their smoking break outside the buildings... That alone will be enough to open your eyes.
How do these foreign IT people keep getting the jobs? Its easy. They are recruited by the Agencies...work for a few years (to get experience etc etc) and when their time is up, they might either return home or move on to western countries or hop over to another mnc here offering better pay or position. Their place in the old company will then be taken over by another of their countryman (friends, classmates etc) possibly introduced to the agency by these people themselves and the cycle goes on and on.
Like the other writers, not saying that all of them are bad but this is the sad truth. For example - when you have 1 or 2 pinoys in your section or company, its not that bad. They are from our region and can chat or talk cock etc. However, once the barrier has been penetrated and more and more of them join you...it changes. Should 1 of these pinoys get into a supervisory or managerial position then beware fellow sinkies...as a few others sinkies have observed..they put in more of their countrymen and you're left in the lurch.
A true story - my ex colleague left to join an american bank here doing IT. Worked shifts, was the Shift Supervisor. A few Sinkies and some pinoys n indians. He was recently let go. Told me that initially the pinoys were friendly with the sinkies there but once their group was larger, every decision he made as a Supervisor was challenged by the pinoy group who would go to his manager to question the decisions made by him. But these same group will accept any decisions without dissent when its made by a fellow pinoy supervisor.
As for the Indians IT. Same goes. I find its the north indian chaps and ladies who are pretty arrogant probably because most of them are of the brahmin caste and look down on us as their inferiors. Another pal told me that they are the ones we have to keep an eye on as they are the group most likely to take up citizenship and stay here and breed more of their 'we are superior to you coz we're brahmins' types.
As for the PRCS - I think I don't have to spell out. Everyone knows
Options
Thursday, February 24, 2011
another singaporean guy con into doing NS for nothing
My friend told me ! VOTE PAP in 2006 ! Foriegners only take those jobs that Singaporean don't want ! You must believe it ! And he did not listen to my advise.
As an engineer in the company, he is well-pay. $3500 per month. His family have no issue on money. He has a great Singaporean wife. He has a car even it's not that good. But still got transport. He also have a diploma ! And planning to take his Degree course ! He tells me, he going upgrade.
Today 2011, he is a security guard. His company employed foriegners in 2007 and retrench him on 2008 when the recession. Now he is almost 40, Only 37 years old, he went to NTUC learning hub to get his security guard licence. His wife refuses to get pregnent to have children. He ended-up divorce, no money. He sells his car. He takes his degree course, half-way he got retrench. No money to go ON. While our NTU and NUS is paying foriegners to study DEGREE. WOW ! That great. Salary ? $50 dollars for 12 hour shift.
He now working at east coast condo, OPENING GATE for foriegners. OUR Foriegn talent.
I hope in 2017, you will still have your wife and car. My DEAR SINGAPOREAN.
WELCOME TO THE REAL LIFE.
LIKE I SAY. I TAKE MY CHANCES. Will you ? So what oppoisite party fight one another ? It's better than I have to fight will BILLIONS OF FORIEGNERS OVERSEA COMING TO MY HOME SINGAPORE.
A govt that support foriegners and increase so much since 2006. Now 1.8 million are foriegners.
( Engineers, lawyers, Accountant, Manager, etc etc ).
Singapore is my home. Where will you go when you retrench and OLD ?
As an engineer in the company, he is well-pay. $3500 per month. His family have no issue on money. He has a great Singaporean wife. He has a car even it's not that good. But still got transport. He also have a diploma ! And planning to take his Degree course ! He tells me, he going upgrade.
Today 2011, he is a security guard. His company employed foriegners in 2007 and retrench him on 2008 when the recession. Now he is almost 40, Only 37 years old, he went to NTUC learning hub to get his security guard licence. His wife refuses to get pregnent to have children. He ended-up divorce, no money. He sells his car. He takes his degree course, half-way he got retrench. No money to go ON. While our NTU and NUS is paying foriegners to study DEGREE. WOW ! That great. Salary ? $50 dollars for 12 hour shift.
He now working at east coast condo, OPENING GATE for foriegners. OUR Foriegn talent.
I hope in 2017, you will still have your wife and car. My DEAR SINGAPOREAN.
WELCOME TO THE REAL LIFE.
LIKE I SAY. I TAKE MY CHANCES. Will you ? So what oppoisite party fight one another ? It's better than I have to fight will BILLIONS OF FORIEGNERS OVERSEA COMING TO MY HOME SINGAPORE.
A govt that support foriegners and increase so much since 2006. Now 1.8 million are foriegners.
( Engineers, lawyers, Accountant, Manager, etc etc ).
Singapore is my home. Where will you go when you retrench and OLD ?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
NS is a crime against humanity
the point is that each citizens should be given the chance to give his best shot in life. That means giving him a good education and freedom in his youth to give full expression to his ultimate potential. That is the most that any citizen can ask of its goverment and the responsibilty of a good govt.
On this count alone , both the PAP and the opposition has failed with GRADE F as they continue to impose NS slavery on its citizens for 2 years or 1 years at a time when the youth potential is at its maximum.
Cutting the flower down at its full bloom is a crime against humanity if nothing else.
On this count alone , both the PAP and the opposition has failed with GRADE F as they continue to impose NS slavery on its citizens for 2 years or 1 years at a time when the youth potential is at its maximum.
Cutting the flower down at its full bloom is a crime against humanity if nothing else.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
growing anger over FT parasites who never do NS
Don't need to ask those below 40 to serve. I only hope they asked those foreign students to serve NS before they get our scholarships. Its goddamn unfair that our local university students have to manage their NS commitments during their school years while some foreign students are possibly wasting their life on DOTA and getting into pathetic fights in our school campus.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=18956532750&topic=11877
Its a fking rip off considered that they can get their PR by just studying in Singapore for 3-4 years. Force them to take citizenship after NS, make sure no bond breaker can escape.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=18956532750&topic=11877
Its a fking rip off considered that they can get their PR by just studying in Singapore for 3-4 years. Force them to take citizenship after NS, make sure no bond breaker can escape.
Friday, February 18, 2011
singapore is a sick nation with NS desease
My seaman friend been sailing for ages until they stop his exit permit to ask him to come back to serve NS. He already close to 40 and worst still, he could not find a job in Singapore, they want to pay him less than $600, overtime at $4 an hour plus only 3months contract.
Serve NS for the country but jobless and no money for family. This is the kind of gov policies we have.
Serve NS for the country but jobless and no money for family. This is the kind of gov policies we have.
anger over NS growing
2-2.5 years of our youth with under paying by government, worse then those FW is taking now......... and after that 10 years (shorten, it use to be 13 years) of annual called back for staying in good class outfield with snakes, rotten and others?...is it a big chore? No of course, it is an unfair chore. We should be proud you say? No of course.... what is there to be proud of?
What is Singapore now???!!! Not a country but only a city.... why should local here serve while other just fly in to enjoy and had their a55 covered??? Benefits? Since when there is any ... if you are talking about the income tax rebate...you can have mine and you take over me lor..... GST credit??? I give you mine and make sure they dun increase the GST....anymore "benefits" they gave for NS men?
It is a huge sacrifice indeed.......you went to NS?
What is Singapore now???!!! Not a country but only a city.... why should local here serve while other just fly in to enjoy and had their a55 covered??? Benefits? Since when there is any ... if you are talking about the income tax rebate...you can have mine and you take over me lor..... GST credit??? I give you mine and make sure they dun increase the GST....anymore "benefits" they gave for NS men?
It is a huge sacrifice indeed.......you went to NS?
singapore conscription drain its own talent pool
After all, sons of wealthy families often studied abroad to try to avoid the call-up, which applied to those aged 18-26, and generations of fathers, uncles and elder brothers have regaled family dinner tables with tales of waste, mismanagement, homesickness and futility.
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Declaring the end of an era, Italy has scrapped conscription to make way for a more professional army, leaving only a legacy of nostalgia, pride and cruel British jokes.
For Italians the army consigned to history yesterday was a source of unity, courage and honour, not laughter. The volunteer force that will take its place, giving women a military role for the first time, makes total sense. But its arrival was tinged with regret.
A young, fractious country born only in 1861, Italy relied on conscription to forge a sense of nationhood by jumbling together southerners and northerners. For generations of Italians who did not even speak the same language, it succeeded.
British schoolboys snigger at Benito Mussolini's incompetent forays into north Africa, and the switch to the Allies as the tide of the second world war changed, but Italians remember their army for other things.
A ragtag, outnumbered force which united the country against the odds was its progenitor. In Alpine valleys it eventually hammered the Austrians and Germans in the first world war, losing 600,000 men in the process. It has been deployed in southern Italy and Sicily to counter terrorism and the mafia.
In peacekeeping and relief operations in Lebanon, Namibia, East Timor and Kurdistan it has earned respect. It has shouldered much of Nato's burden in the Balkans. Not a slick killing machine, but one worthy of pride, reckon most Italians.
Yet the senate voted overwhelmingly to abolish conscription, a procedure started two centuries ago by Napoleon Bonaparte. Over the next seven years the 270,000-strong force will shrink to 190,000 volunteers.
Opposed only by the far-left Refounded Communists, the law is intended to boost the army's aptitude for peace-keeping. As well as short-term savings, an end to conscription means higher salaries, improved training and better equipment.
"While military personnel will be sensibly reduced, the number of troops that we will actually be able to deploy on international missions will increase," said defence minister Sergio Mattarella.
Defence spending is expected to rise 50% in the next few years. Conscription, otherwise known as naja, can be reactivated in times of war or international crisis.
Following similar moves in France and Germany, Italy is to abolish its draft from January 2003; eight of European Union's 17 members now done likewise. Commentators agreed the move was sound but could not help mourning what will be lost.
The force, after all, will change almost beyond recognition. A first generation of female officer cadets have recently signed up after an eight-year campaign by the Association of Aspiring Women Soldiers (Anados). By 2002 women will be able to volunteer for every sector of the armed forces.
Less positively, an elite alpine unit protested that the army's unifying influence would crumble due to the disproportionate number of volunteers expected from the jobless south, lured by the prospect of £635 a month. For a shop assistant on £2-an-hour, that's not bad.
Charities also expressed concern at losing the annual help of around 100,000 conscientious objectors who were allowed to serve their 10-month stint doing voluntary work; grumpy some might have been, but they were like manna from heaven.
The Refounded Communists reiterated the argument, echoed in Germany, that conscripts ensured the army remained linked to the people, thus acting as a bulwark against militarisation and coups.
Yet for males born after 1985, the cut-off date for the new law, such fears are for fuddy duddies. Where those born before may still have to serve their military service as the draft is phased out, they will be the first generation grateful to escape a 10-month sentence of boredom.
After all, sons of wealthy families often studied abroad to try to avoid the call-up, which applied to those aged 18-26, and generations of fathers, uncles and elder brothers have regaled family dinner tables with tales of waste, mismanagement, homesickness and futility.
Few were surprised last month when auditors discovered that the army had stored enough clothing and kit to last for the next 3,000 years. An inspection revealed warehouses bursting with tons of forgotten shoes, boots, underwear, hairbrushes and uniforms, including some for children or extremely small adults. Clearly a spring-clean has been long overdue.
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Declaring the end of an era, Italy has scrapped conscription to make way for a more professional army, leaving only a legacy of nostalgia, pride and cruel British jokes.
For Italians the army consigned to history yesterday was a source of unity, courage and honour, not laughter. The volunteer force that will take its place, giving women a military role for the first time, makes total sense. But its arrival was tinged with regret.
A young, fractious country born only in 1861, Italy relied on conscription to forge a sense of nationhood by jumbling together southerners and northerners. For generations of Italians who did not even speak the same language, it succeeded.
British schoolboys snigger at Benito Mussolini's incompetent forays into north Africa, and the switch to the Allies as the tide of the second world war changed, but Italians remember their army for other things.
A ragtag, outnumbered force which united the country against the odds was its progenitor. In Alpine valleys it eventually hammered the Austrians and Germans in the first world war, losing 600,000 men in the process. It has been deployed in southern Italy and Sicily to counter terrorism and the mafia.
In peacekeeping and relief operations in Lebanon, Namibia, East Timor and Kurdistan it has earned respect. It has shouldered much of Nato's burden in the Balkans. Not a slick killing machine, but one worthy of pride, reckon most Italians.
Yet the senate voted overwhelmingly to abolish conscription, a procedure started two centuries ago by Napoleon Bonaparte. Over the next seven years the 270,000-strong force will shrink to 190,000 volunteers.
Opposed only by the far-left Refounded Communists, the law is intended to boost the army's aptitude for peace-keeping. As well as short-term savings, an end to conscription means higher salaries, improved training and better equipment.
"While military personnel will be sensibly reduced, the number of troops that we will actually be able to deploy on international missions will increase," said defence minister Sergio Mattarella.
Defence spending is expected to rise 50% in the next few years. Conscription, otherwise known as naja, can be reactivated in times of war or international crisis.
Following similar moves in France and Germany, Italy is to abolish its draft from January 2003; eight of European Union's 17 members now done likewise. Commentators agreed the move was sound but could not help mourning what will be lost.
The force, after all, will change almost beyond recognition. A first generation of female officer cadets have recently signed up after an eight-year campaign by the Association of Aspiring Women Soldiers (Anados). By 2002 women will be able to volunteer for every sector of the armed forces.
Less positively, an elite alpine unit protested that the army's unifying influence would crumble due to the disproportionate number of volunteers expected from the jobless south, lured by the prospect of £635 a month. For a shop assistant on £2-an-hour, that's not bad.
Charities also expressed concern at losing the annual help of around 100,000 conscientious objectors who were allowed to serve their 10-month stint doing voluntary work; grumpy some might have been, but they were like manna from heaven.
The Refounded Communists reiterated the argument, echoed in Germany, that conscripts ensured the army remained linked to the people, thus acting as a bulwark against militarisation and coups.
Yet for males born after 1985, the cut-off date for the new law, such fears are for fuddy duddies. Where those born before may still have to serve their military service as the draft is phased out, they will be the first generation grateful to escape a 10-month sentence of boredom.
After all, sons of wealthy families often studied abroad to try to avoid the call-up, which applied to those aged 18-26, and generations of fathers, uncles and elder brothers have regaled family dinner tables with tales of waste, mismanagement, homesickness and futility.
Few were surprised last month when auditors discovered that the army had stored enough clothing and kit to last for the next 3,000 years. An inspection revealed warehouses bursting with tons of forgotten shoes, boots, underwear, hairbrushes and uniforms, including some for children or extremely small adults. Clearly a spring-clean has been long overdue.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
we serve ns BUT FT got better deals = we kenna con
Republic poly Hostels Are Reserved For Foreign Students
I have been told that Republic Poly has reserved its student hostel accommodation for foreign students. The rooms are rented out to foreign students at preferential and subsidised rates. Singaporeans are not eligible to rent student hostel accommodation.
Some SG students who are staying far away from RP have resorted to rent nearby Woodlands HDB flats at market rates which is much higher than the hostel rates. Why shd SG students be discriminated and not be eligible for RP student accommodation? Some of the students have done their 2-yr National Service and they are frustrated. All they want is to be allowed to rent RP student hostel accommodation. Is that too much to ask as these have been offerred to foreign studens?
Why is the pap discriminating against Singapore RP students and favour foreign students?
It's only in Singapore that the govt discriminate against its own citizen and favour foreigners.
Time for Singaporeans to speak out against PAP's discrimination against its own citizens
I have been told that Republic Poly has reserved its student hostel accommodation for foreign students. The rooms are rented out to foreign students at preferential and subsidised rates. Singaporeans are not eligible to rent student hostel accommodation.
Some SG students who are staying far away from RP have resorted to rent nearby Woodlands HDB flats at market rates which is much higher than the hostel rates. Why shd SG students be discriminated and not be eligible for RP student accommodation? Some of the students have done their 2-yr National Service and they are frustrated. All they want is to be allowed to rent RP student hostel accommodation. Is that too much to ask as these have been offerred to foreign studens?
Why is the pap discriminating against Singapore RP students and favour foreign students?
It's only in Singapore that the govt discriminate against its own citizen and favour foreigners.
Time for Singaporeans to speak out against PAP's discrimination against its own citizens
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
what is wrong with NS for Singapore ?
The essense of the issue is
1) by having NS , we are doing what malaysia has been doing to its population IE chasing the most hardworking and risk taking and inteligent out of the country.
2) by having NS , we become morally bankrupt for it is just slavery whether it is one year or two year.
In running a country we must think of the the furthest consequences of a policy and NS has done irreparable damages to our population base of genuine singaporean talents as witness today the rubbish we bring into the country. This is not some high falutin prediction on hindsight but have been constantly hammered and highlighted on internet forum for more than 10 years.
1) by having NS , we are doing what malaysia has been doing to its population IE chasing the most hardworking and risk taking and inteligent out of the country.
2) by having NS , we become morally bankrupt for it is just slavery whether it is one year or two year.
In running a country we must think of the the furthest consequences of a policy and NS has done irreparable damages to our population base of genuine singaporean talents as witness today the rubbish we bring into the country. This is not some high falutin prediction on hindsight but have been constantly hammered and highlighted on internet forum for more than 10 years.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
local males demoted to new lows
local males demoted to new lows
we do NS for free no pay while
FT vegetation get billion dollars air con office.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's latest national project, Gardens by the Bay, overcame funding difficulties to reach its first milestone on Tuesday with the capping of one of its two giant conservatories, the Flower Dome.
The project faced rising construction costs when work started in 2007, leading overall cost to increase by more than 10 percent to over S$1 billion.
But with more public and private funding and the use of cost-efficient technology, the project was able to take off, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan.
"We managed to do some value engineering, bring the cost down slightly and then ask for more funds. And I think the Finance Ministry was very understanding and managed to give us the funds. And we're also of course going for corporate sponsorships," he said.
For example, the Kingfisher Lake - one of two main lakes in Gardens by the Bay - was sponsored a million dollars by Japanese company Kikkoman last year.
Securing the final glass panel of the Flower Dome conservatory on Tuesday, Mr Mah described the "Capping-Up" ceremony as a milestone in a "long journey".
He said that the Flower Dome, along with the second conservatory the Cloud Forest, are not just "architectural icons" but an "amalgamation of architectural, environmental engineering and horticultural excellence."
The Flower Dome will feature Mediterranean-type plants, while the Cloud Forest, which is under construction, will mirror tropical high elevation regions like those in South America and Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.
The two conservatories were designed with environmental sustainability in mind, applying cutting-edge technologies that provide energy-efficient solutions in cooling.
The facade of the 1.2-hectare Flower Dome is made up of 3,300 special glass panels, which let in the sunlight while keeping the heat out. This allows the conservatory to mimic the cool-dry climate of the Mediterranean.
To ensure energy efficiency, only areas occupied by plants and visitors will be cooled.
The conservatory is divided into smaller gardens featuring plants such as poppy flowers from California and Cat's Paw plants from Australia. One of the gardens - the Flower Field - will have changing displays including tulips and lavender.
The conservatory will also have an event space which can be rented out for weddings and other functions. There will also be two restaurants within the conservatory - one serving Mediterranean cuisine and the other, Chinese.
The Flower Dome is part of Bay South - the first of three gardens in Gardens by the Bay.
Construction for Bay South is expected to be completed by November, and opened to the public in June next year.
Explaining the time difference, Mr Mah said the plants need time to grow.
NParks says previews of Bay South will be arranged for organised groups from February next year.
It adds that the preview period will help the Gardens ease into its operations and allow the public to provide feedback.
The public will also get a sneak peek of the Flower Dome in November this year, during the World Orchid Conference.
- CNA/ir
we do NS for free no pay while
FT vegetation get billion dollars air con office.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's latest national project, Gardens by the Bay, overcame funding difficulties to reach its first milestone on Tuesday with the capping of one of its two giant conservatories, the Flower Dome.
The project faced rising construction costs when work started in 2007, leading overall cost to increase by more than 10 percent to over S$1 billion.
But with more public and private funding and the use of cost-efficient technology, the project was able to take off, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan.
"We managed to do some value engineering, bring the cost down slightly and then ask for more funds. And I think the Finance Ministry was very understanding and managed to give us the funds. And we're also of course going for corporate sponsorships," he said.
For example, the Kingfisher Lake - one of two main lakes in Gardens by the Bay - was sponsored a million dollars by Japanese company Kikkoman last year.
Securing the final glass panel of the Flower Dome conservatory on Tuesday, Mr Mah described the "Capping-Up" ceremony as a milestone in a "long journey".
He said that the Flower Dome, along with the second conservatory the Cloud Forest, are not just "architectural icons" but an "amalgamation of architectural, environmental engineering and horticultural excellence."
The Flower Dome will feature Mediterranean-type plants, while the Cloud Forest, which is under construction, will mirror tropical high elevation regions like those in South America and Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.
The two conservatories were designed with environmental sustainability in mind, applying cutting-edge technologies that provide energy-efficient solutions in cooling.
The facade of the 1.2-hectare Flower Dome is made up of 3,300 special glass panels, which let in the sunlight while keeping the heat out. This allows the conservatory to mimic the cool-dry climate of the Mediterranean.
To ensure energy efficiency, only areas occupied by plants and visitors will be cooled.
The conservatory is divided into smaller gardens featuring plants such as poppy flowers from California and Cat's Paw plants from Australia. One of the gardens - the Flower Field - will have changing displays including tulips and lavender.
The conservatory will also have an event space which can be rented out for weddings and other functions. There will also be two restaurants within the conservatory - one serving Mediterranean cuisine and the other, Chinese.
The Flower Dome is part of Bay South - the first of three gardens in Gardens by the Bay.
Construction for Bay South is expected to be completed by November, and opened to the public in June next year.
Explaining the time difference, Mr Mah said the plants need time to grow.
NParks says previews of Bay South will be arranged for organised groups from February next year.
It adds that the preview period will help the Gardens ease into its operations and allow the public to provide feedback.
The public will also get a sneak peek of the Flower Dome in November this year, during the World Orchid Conference.
- CNA/ir
Monday, February 14, 2011
if hdb treat FT and citizens equally then likewise for SAF.
if hdb treat FT and citizens equally
then likewise for SAF. So should not NS be abolish too ?
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HDB abolishes sibling scheme
By Satish Cheney | Posted: 14 February 2011 1900 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1110682/1/.html
SINGAPORE: Unmarried Singaporean and Permanent Resident (PR) siblings whose parents live overseas can no longer buy a new or resale HDB flat, from Monday.
The government said they can either rent a room or a small flat from the open market.
It said with the liberalisation of the subletting market for HDB flats over the years, the Citizen-Singapore PR sibling scheme, introduced since 1990, is now no longer necessary.
Previously, the government allowed unmarried Singaporean siblings to buy a new or resale HDB flat, while PR siblings could buy a resale flat on a case-by-case basis with certain conditions attached.
Senior Minister of State for National Development & Education Grace Fu said: "As HDB has been very stringent in assessing applications for this scheme, the number of such cases is small.
"There are about 300 cases each year, or less than one per cent of total flat transactions".
-CNA/wk
then likewise for SAF. So should not NS be abolish too ?
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HDB abolishes sibling scheme
By Satish Cheney | Posted: 14 February 2011 1900 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1110682/1/.html
SINGAPORE: Unmarried Singaporean and Permanent Resident (PR) siblings whose parents live overseas can no longer buy a new or resale HDB flat, from Monday.
The government said they can either rent a room or a small flat from the open market.
It said with the liberalisation of the subletting market for HDB flats over the years, the Citizen-Singapore PR sibling scheme, introduced since 1990, is now no longer necessary.
Previously, the government allowed unmarried Singaporean siblings to buy a new or resale HDB flat, while PR siblings could buy a resale flat on a case-by-case basis with certain conditions attached.
Senior Minister of State for National Development & Education Grace Fu said: "As HDB has been very stringent in assessing applications for this scheme, the number of such cases is small.
"There are about 300 cases each year, or less than one per cent of total flat transactions".
-CNA/wk
NS dirty secret = produce many crazies in our population
Schizophrenia and Stress
A Diverse Illness
Given similar treatments, some patients with schizophrenia recover completely; some are able to work and have families. However, more than half experience some degree of disability throughout their lives, while an additional 25% require lifelong care. It is not clear what accounts for these differences. One answer may be stress. Researchers suspect that stress worsens the course of illness by increasing the body's production of a substance called cortisol, which can damage an area of the brain called the hippocampus.
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that stress and schizophrenia are closely linked.(16) One groundbreaking study found that 46% of patients who experienced their first bout of schizophrenia underwent some stressful life event in the preceding three months.(17)(18)
The Effects of Stress on the Body and on the Brain
Medical scientists have demonstrated that stress can cause physical damage to the brain. Although schizophrenia is not the only illness that is connected to stress, the so-called "stress cascade" appears to play an important role in schizophrenia.
The stress cascade begins with the release of certain hormones in the brain. This release, in turn, triggers physiological effects that make your heart work more, shunt blood away from the digestive system and set up the "fight or flight" reaction, a state of high arousal, increased vigilance and excessive levels of cortisol.(19)
Combat veterans with PTSD suffer a loss of hippocampal volume. In fact, there is a direct link between how these veterans perform on standard memory tests and the size of their hippocampus.
Stress and cortisol have been shown to damage -- and even destroy -- nerve cells in the hippocampus, which plays an important role in memory. These elements of the stress cascade -- excessive cortisol production, damage to the hippocampus and impairment in certain types of memory related to the hippocampus, all occur commonly in patients with schizophrenia.(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)
Research has shown that patients with schizophrenia have smaller hippocampal volumes than people without the disease.(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)
This is backed up by studies that have found that individuals with schizophrenia suffer from problems in areas of brain functions that are associated with the hippocampus, such as memory and the ability to coordinate and carry out tasks.(37)
Stress, Cortisol, Memory and the Hippocampus
A number of studies in the last several years have confirmed a strong connection between stress, high cortisol levels, damage to the hippocampus and memory. This connection shows up across a wide range of human medical conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Cushing's disease, overexposure to steroid drugs, aging and depression.
For example, combat veterans with PTSD suffer a loss of hippocampal volume. In fact, there is a direct link between how these veterans perform on standard memory tests and the size of their hippocampus. Adult survivors of childhood abuse also have both smaller hippocampi and impaired memory. Problems regulating cortisol production ("cortisol dysregulation") and small hippocampal size are also common in depression.(38)
Chronic stress by itself seems to cause wear and tear on the brain. Cortisol levels increase with age and studies have shown shrinkage of the hippocampus and memory impairment even in healthy older people.
Cushing's disease is an illness that causes the body to make too much cortisol. Patients with Cushing's have memory problems that can actually be reversed when the disease is successfully treated.
Finally, both healthy research subjects who take medications that resemble cortisol, such as prednisone, and patients who take these medications for medical reasons, demonstrate these same reversible memory problems.
New Possibilities for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Cognitive deficits such as problems with memory are a major component of schizophrenia.(39)(40) If these problems are related to the stress cascade, as they seem to be, then the exciting possibility exists that reducing stress may be an effective way of treating the disease.(41)
Not only may stress management techniques prevent the onset or lessen the severity of schizophrenia, delay relapse in those already ill and reduce overall anxiety, (42)(43)(44)(45) but studies indicate that cells within a damaged hippocampus can regenerate when stress or cortisol is reduced.
There are also several drugs with good safety records that seem to prevent stress-induced damage to the hippocampus. These include tianeptine, 46 an anti-depressant, and phenytoin (sold under the brand name Dilantin®) which is used to treat seizures (epilepsy).
Conclusion
Stress has long been suspected as a player in the onset and course of schizophrenia. And, although the precise details of the relationship between the two remains poorly understood, there is extensive and consistent research linking stress, cortisol regulation, the area of the brain called the hippocampus, as well as memory and other brain functions in schizophrenia.
Because schizophrenia is a group of varied disorders, not one disease, and because there is unquestionably a genetic component to the disease, stress may well be a more important factor in some cases of schizophrenia than in others.
Nevertheless, a better understanding of how stress may affect the onset and course of schizophrenia is likely to lead to the development of newer and better treatments, including more effective drugs, for the devastating and, up to now, relatively untreatable cognitive problems that are one of the chief effects of this terr
A Diverse Illness
Given similar treatments, some patients with schizophrenia recover completely; some are able to work and have families. However, more than half experience some degree of disability throughout their lives, while an additional 25% require lifelong care. It is not clear what accounts for these differences. One answer may be stress. Researchers suspect that stress worsens the course of illness by increasing the body's production of a substance called cortisol, which can damage an area of the brain called the hippocampus.
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that stress and schizophrenia are closely linked.(16) One groundbreaking study found that 46% of patients who experienced their first bout of schizophrenia underwent some stressful life event in the preceding three months.(17)(18)
The Effects of Stress on the Body and on the Brain
Medical scientists have demonstrated that stress can cause physical damage to the brain. Although schizophrenia is not the only illness that is connected to stress, the so-called "stress cascade" appears to play an important role in schizophrenia.
The stress cascade begins with the release of certain hormones in the brain. This release, in turn, triggers physiological effects that make your heart work more, shunt blood away from the digestive system and set up the "fight or flight" reaction, a state of high arousal, increased vigilance and excessive levels of cortisol.(19)
Combat veterans with PTSD suffer a loss of hippocampal volume. In fact, there is a direct link between how these veterans perform on standard memory tests and the size of their hippocampus.
Stress and cortisol have been shown to damage -- and even destroy -- nerve cells in the hippocampus, which plays an important role in memory. These elements of the stress cascade -- excessive cortisol production, damage to the hippocampus and impairment in certain types of memory related to the hippocampus, all occur commonly in patients with schizophrenia.(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)
Research has shown that patients with schizophrenia have smaller hippocampal volumes than people without the disease.(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)
This is backed up by studies that have found that individuals with schizophrenia suffer from problems in areas of brain functions that are associated with the hippocampus, such as memory and the ability to coordinate and carry out tasks.(37)
Stress, Cortisol, Memory and the Hippocampus
A number of studies in the last several years have confirmed a strong connection between stress, high cortisol levels, damage to the hippocampus and memory. This connection shows up across a wide range of human medical conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Cushing's disease, overexposure to steroid drugs, aging and depression.
For example, combat veterans with PTSD suffer a loss of hippocampal volume. In fact, there is a direct link between how these veterans perform on standard memory tests and the size of their hippocampus. Adult survivors of childhood abuse also have both smaller hippocampi and impaired memory. Problems regulating cortisol production ("cortisol dysregulation") and small hippocampal size are also common in depression.(38)
Chronic stress by itself seems to cause wear and tear on the brain. Cortisol levels increase with age and studies have shown shrinkage of the hippocampus and memory impairment even in healthy older people.
Cushing's disease is an illness that causes the body to make too much cortisol. Patients with Cushing's have memory problems that can actually be reversed when the disease is successfully treated.
Finally, both healthy research subjects who take medications that resemble cortisol, such as prednisone, and patients who take these medications for medical reasons, demonstrate these same reversible memory problems.
New Possibilities for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Cognitive deficits such as problems with memory are a major component of schizophrenia.(39)(40) If these problems are related to the stress cascade, as they seem to be, then the exciting possibility exists that reducing stress may be an effective way of treating the disease.(41)
Not only may stress management techniques prevent the onset or lessen the severity of schizophrenia, delay relapse in those already ill and reduce overall anxiety, (42)(43)(44)(45) but studies indicate that cells within a damaged hippocampus can regenerate when stress or cortisol is reduced.
There are also several drugs with good safety records that seem to prevent stress-induced damage to the hippocampus. These include tianeptine, 46 an anti-depressant, and phenytoin (sold under the brand name Dilantin®) which is used to treat seizures (epilepsy).
Conclusion
Stress has long been suspected as a player in the onset and course of schizophrenia. And, although the precise details of the relationship between the two remains poorly understood, there is extensive and consistent research linking stress, cortisol regulation, the area of the brain called the hippocampus, as well as memory and other brain functions in schizophrenia.
Because schizophrenia is a group of varied disorders, not one disease, and because there is unquestionably a genetic component to the disease, stress may well be a more important factor in some cases of schizophrenia than in others.
Nevertheless, a better understanding of how stress may affect the onset and course of schizophrenia is likely to lead to the development of newer and better treatments, including more effective drugs, for the devastating and, up to now, relatively untreatable cognitive problems that are one of the chief effects of this terr
Sg govt forget that NS IS FUNDAMENTALLY UNSOUND
SAF procedures for vehicles are "fundamentally sound": Defence Minister
SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said procedures at the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for vehicle mounting and starting are fundamentally sound.
He said that the fatal incident in July 2009 at Seletar Camp could have been prevented if the driver had followed them.
Mr Teo was replying to a question in Parliament on the case of two tragic deaths of servicemen as a result of reversing SAF vehicles.
The second incident happened on January 28 this year, killing a Lance Corporal.
The SAF, Mr Teo said, has reminded its vehicle commanders and drivers to adhere strictly to procedures before mounting and starting any vehicle.
Speaking about the first incident, Mr Teo said: "A Committee of Inquiry convened to investigate the incident found that the driver of the vehicle had been negligent in his duties as a driver, and had failed to follow the correct vehicle mounting and starting procedures.
"At the time of incident, only the driver of the vehicle and the motor transport officer, who was the vehicle commander, were at the vehicle...the driver of the vehicle was subsequently charged in Court for causing death by doing a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide. He pleaded guilty and was fined $5,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for four years"
And when the second incident happened last month, the SAF immediately ordered a safety time-out that same day, for unit commanders to go through with all vehicle commanders and drivers vehicular safety drills and procedures.
The time-out allowed each unit to re-focus on the tasks, safety drills and procedures pertaining to the use of military vehicles.
Mr Teo said: "MINDEF takes the safety and well-being of our servicemen very seriously. Although the prescribed safety procedures are fundamentally sound, we must continue to do better to make sure that they are followed. This includes regular reminders to those responsible for operating vehicles.
"However, safety procedures cannot cover every specific situation that may arise. Therefore, it is also important that every serviceman looks out for the safety of his men, his buddies and himself."
-CNA/ac
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SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said procedures at the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for vehicle mounting and starting are fundamentally sound.
He said that the fatal incident in July 2009 at Seletar Camp could have been prevented if the driver had followed them.
Mr Teo was replying to a question in Parliament on the case of two tragic deaths of servicemen as a result of reversing SAF vehicles.
The second incident happened on January 28 this year, killing a Lance Corporal.
The SAF, Mr Teo said, has reminded its vehicle commanders and drivers to adhere strictly to procedures before mounting and starting any vehicle.
Speaking about the first incident, Mr Teo said: "A Committee of Inquiry convened to investigate the incident found that the driver of the vehicle had been negligent in his duties as a driver, and had failed to follow the correct vehicle mounting and starting procedures.
"At the time of incident, only the driver of the vehicle and the motor transport officer, who was the vehicle commander, were at the vehicle...the driver of the vehicle was subsequently charged in Court for causing death by doing a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide. He pleaded guilty and was fined $5,000 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for four years"
And when the second incident happened last month, the SAF immediately ordered a safety time-out that same day, for unit commanders to go through with all vehicle commanders and drivers vehicular safety drills and procedures.
The time-out allowed each unit to re-focus on the tasks, safety drills and procedures pertaining to the use of military vehicles.
Mr Teo said: "MINDEF takes the safety and well-being of our servicemen very seriously. Although the prescribed safety procedures are fundamentally sound, we must continue to do better to make sure that they are followed. This includes regular reminders to those responsible for operating vehicles.
"However, safety procedures cannot cover every specific situation that may arise. Therefore, it is also important that every serviceman looks out for the safety of his men, his buddies and himself."
-CNA/ac
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Hello everyone, I have lots of things to say/ask.
I hope someone had post something smiliar before. I don't wanna get charge. I'm really scare.
I don't know what to say but hope I can make myself clearer to you guys.
I'm now PES C9 L9 storeman trainee, I use to be a very happy person who can makes around well and do jokes a lot and welcome challenges . I had lots of interest in Fashion Design, I can cope very well when working outside and my bosses likes me a lot. I used to be in Cross Country and can run well but after I went to CMPB for checkup and that's when I know I had Beta Thalassemia, a kind of blood disorder. I was given PES C9 L2. Every friend of mine thinks well of me and thinks that I will be very garang in NS life.
The first day I got enlisted to Tekong and got into a C9 company. I was different from what I imagined was. Instead I was very stress and depressed. So different that I am so vex / stress till I cried and felt suicidal everyday single day. I can't adapt to the enviroment, I don't even know what's stressing me so much. After around the 3 bookout all my friends and girlfriend find that I had changed. They told me you wasn't acting like you use to be a happy and cheerful person. A person that everyone's likes to being with and followed.
I love drawings and imagine a cloth that it will look awesome when it attached to someone. I took out all of my drawing material and found out that I can't think or imagine anymore. I flare up and throw all my drawings and port folio away and that's when I felt useless and worthless. Till 1 day my gf wanted me to become her Fashion Adviser and change her style. I didn't do anything on that day and was just saying everything is OK. She then told me she notice I had changed and she told me " You are useless now, I don't know what you are thinking anymore. "
I went through a 7 weeks BMT and that's when I start to be paranoid. I became anti social, Everyday I come to camp, all I do is just sit at 1 corner and smoke and smoke and wait for 5.30pm to bookout. I will go to poly clinic to take MC and it's like almost every week. After some times the Doctor doesn't wants to give me MC anymore, Thats when I start to do stuff like trying to break my leg. I've done it and I don't have enough strength to break it. I posted on facebook and etc ....... that I will pay 500 bucks if someone help to break my leg. Lots of reply but none wanted to help me. I approached my friend and they didnt want to help too.
I know I'm useless and everyone said it's just 2 years just endure with it. No one understand me. I didnt mention that I was at first a Driver Trainne. It's until when I went for the driving course and it requires to stay in. I just can't stay in and that makes me even more worse till one of my friend that I went to driving course with drag me to see the MO. My friend who I know him for about 2 weeks told me that I must be suffering from depression.So I went in and I don't know what to tell the MO and ended just saying i'm stress and I got refer to the SAF MMI. And that's how I got OOC.
I was scare to tell psychiatrist what I wanted to say. I don't trust them instead I just told them I'm stress and my family issue. The psychiatrist told me I was suffering from depression and got down PES to C9 L9. They gave me Lexapro and a kind of sleeping pill to eat. I don't know whether should I trust them? Should I tell them everything? My psychiatrist seems to be very scary person or I'm just paranoid?
It's around 4 - 5 months ago, I would go back home and starting screaming and throwing things. If someone is at home I would go down to the nearby park and start screaming. It's until when my gf and I started to quarrel and I heard someone telling me that I must cut her. I couldn't control myself that I kick her in the stomach and she vomit a small pool of blood. My Mom and Sis saw it and they stopped me.
I always felt sucidal until last month I heard that someone tells me that it's stupid. Now I don't know why I always feel or wants someone to die with me. This 2 months I got into fight outside for 2 times. I don't like the way they look at me. They must be up to something. I got warded for 2 days because I said I wanted to kill someone.
I'm tired, I will stop here.
Can I have some comments what should I do? And The psychiatrist always ask me what can they help me. I really don't know whether should I told them all this? I have so much to say but I can't say it out and I guess they can't help me.
TS's note : I have wanted to advise him, but don't know how to. sianz...
Options good point.
The more we learn about stress, the more we understand how great a role it plays in a wide range of diseases and conditions. Not surprisingly, this is especially true of psychiatric problems such as psychosis, affective illness (a category that includes manic-depression and major depression)(1)(2)(3)(4) and alcoholism.(5)(6)
Stress seems to be particularly harmful for those suffering from the psychiatric disorder schizophrenia. For a patient with schizophrenia, the death of a parent or other loved one, a change in therapist, moving from one apartment to another; these events can trigger acute anxiety, depression and psychotic episodes, which may lead to hospitalization. Even seemingly mildly stressful events such as a job interview or a date can have a devastating effect.
For a patient with schizophrenia, the death of a parent or other loved one, a change in therapist, moving from one apartment to another; these events can trigger acute anxiety, depression and psychotic episodes.
This increased susceptibility to stress fits the current thinking that schizophrenia is fundamentally related to a combination of difficulty in filtering out what is happening in the outside world and misattribution of internal thoughts and feelings, along with an inability or lessened ability to interpret social cues, all of which make it difficult for individuals with schizophrenia to cope. This is backed up by research showing that patients with schizophrenia are more affected by stress physically as well as emotionally; for instance they show different changes in heart rate under stress and a greater overall risk of cardiovascular disease.(7)
http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/stress/art1957.html
http://sgforums.com/forums/1390/topics/422799
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Hello everyone, I have lots of things to say/ask.
I hope someone had post something smiliar before. I don't wanna get charge. I'm really scare.
I don't know what to say but hope I can make myself clearer to you guys.
I'm now PES C9 L9 storeman trainee, I use to be a very happy person who can makes around well and do jokes a lot and welcome challenges . I had lots of interest in Fashion Design, I can cope very well when working outside and my bosses likes me a lot. I used to be in Cross Country and can run well but after I went to CMPB for checkup and that's when I know I had Beta Thalassemia, a kind of blood disorder. I was given PES C9 L2. Every friend of mine thinks well of me and thinks that I will be very garang in NS life.
The first day I got enlisted to Tekong and got into a C9 company. I was different from what I imagined was. Instead I was very stress and depressed. So different that I am so vex / stress till I cried and felt suicidal everyday single day. I can't adapt to the enviroment, I don't even know what's stressing me so much. After around the 3 bookout all my friends and girlfriend find that I had changed. They told me you wasn't acting like you use to be a happy and cheerful person. A person that everyone's likes to being with and followed.
I love drawings and imagine a cloth that it will look awesome when it attached to someone. I took out all of my drawing material and found out that I can't think or imagine anymore. I flare up and throw all my drawings and port folio away and that's when I felt useless and worthless. Till 1 day my gf wanted me to become her Fashion Adviser and change her style. I didn't do anything on that day and was just saying everything is OK. She then told me she notice I had changed and she told me " You are useless now, I don't know what you are thinking anymore. "
I went through a 7 weeks BMT and that's when I start to be paranoid. I became anti social, Everyday I come to camp, all I do is just sit at 1 corner and smoke and smoke and wait for 5.30pm to bookout. I will go to poly clinic to take MC and it's like almost every week. After some times the Doctor doesn't wants to give me MC anymore, Thats when I start to do stuff like trying to break my leg. I've done it and I don't have enough strength to break it. I posted on facebook and etc ....... that I will pay 500 bucks if someone help to break my leg. Lots of reply but none wanted to help me. I approached my friend and they didnt want to help too.
I know I'm useless and everyone said it's just 2 years just endure with it. No one understand me. I didnt mention that I was at first a Driver Trainne. It's until when I went for the driving course and it requires to stay in. I just can't stay in and that makes me even more worse till one of my friend that I went to driving course with drag me to see the MO. My friend who I know him for about 2 weeks told me that I must be suffering from depression.So I went in and I don't know what to tell the MO and ended just saying i'm stress and I got refer to the SAF MMI. And that's how I got OOC.
I was scare to tell psychiatrist what I wanted to say. I don't trust them instead I just told them I'm stress and my family issue. The psychiatrist told me I was suffering from depression and got down PES to C9 L9. They gave me Lexapro and a kind of sleeping pill to eat. I don't know whether should I trust them? Should I tell them everything? My psychiatrist seems to be very scary person or I'm just paranoid?
It's around 4 - 5 months ago, I would go back home and starting screaming and throwing things. If someone is at home I would go down to the nearby park and start screaming. It's until when my gf and I started to quarrel and I heard someone telling me that I must cut her. I couldn't control myself that I kick her in the stomach and she vomit a small pool of blood. My Mom and Sis saw it and they stopped me.
I always felt sucidal until last month I heard that someone tells me that it's stupid. Now I don't know why I always feel or wants someone to die with me. This 2 months I got into fight outside for 2 times. I don't like the way they look at me. They must be up to something. I got warded for 2 days because I said I wanted to kill someone.
I'm tired, I will stop here.
Can I have some comments what should I do? And The psychiatrist always ask me what can they help me. I really don't know whether should I told them all this? I have so much to say but I can't say it out and I guess they can't help me.
TS's note : I have wanted to advise him, but don't know how to. sianz...
Options good point.
The more we learn about stress, the more we understand how great a role it plays in a wide range of diseases and conditions. Not surprisingly, this is especially true of psychiatric problems such as psychosis, affective illness (a category that includes manic-depression and major depression)(1)(2)(3)(4) and alcoholism.(5)(6)
Stress seems to be particularly harmful for those suffering from the psychiatric disorder schizophrenia. For a patient with schizophrenia, the death of a parent or other loved one, a change in therapist, moving from one apartment to another; these events can trigger acute anxiety, depression and psychotic episodes, which may lead to hospitalization. Even seemingly mildly stressful events such as a job interview or a date can have a devastating effect.
For a patient with schizophrenia, the death of a parent or other loved one, a change in therapist, moving from one apartment to another; these events can trigger acute anxiety, depression and psychotic episodes.
This increased susceptibility to stress fits the current thinking that schizophrenia is fundamentally related to a combination of difficulty in filtering out what is happening in the outside world and misattribution of internal thoughts and feelings, along with an inability or lessened ability to interpret social cues, all of which make it difficult for individuals with schizophrenia to cope. This is backed up by research showing that patients with schizophrenia are more affected by stress physically as well as emotionally; for instance they show different changes in heart rate under stress and a greater overall risk of cardiovascular disease.(7)
http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/stress/art1957.html
Saturday, February 12, 2011
NS is killing Sg
n politics I think it is more productive to challenge wrong policies than challenge the wrong personnel.
That is why we must fight to abolish NS for it is the root of all the evils here in sg. From overflooding of FT ( as many sg take up other countries citizenship to also many dont give birth here ) to sinky males not able to find job ( absense of 40 days in one year ! ) to corrupt coporate culture in GLC and Temasek and our education sector and civil service in general when SAF ex regulars are parachuted there.
NS is killing Sg.
That is why we must fight to abolish NS for it is the root of all the evils here in sg. From overflooding of FT ( as many sg take up other countries citizenship to also many dont give birth here ) to sinky males not able to find job ( absense of 40 days in one year ! ) to corrupt coporate culture in GLC and Temasek and our education sector and civil service in general when SAF ex regulars are parachuted there.
NS is killing Sg.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
the world has changed but SAF still killing Sg
AS THE world changes, so too must Singapore.
But even as the country keeps reinventing itself to keep up with global developments, Singaporeans must hold fast to certain constants - their core values, Asian heritage and 'the national spirit' to overcome crises together, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
In his Chinese New Year message, where he traditionally also focuses on the importance of family togetherness, Mr Lee took stock of some hot-button issues that concern Singaporeans.
Some 'feel a sense of dislocation and unfamiliarity' amid the rapid changes.
While there are physical improvements such as the new Marina Bay skyline and upgraded housing estates, society is also changing on a more intangible level.
Younger Singaporeans have different attitudes and aspirations, he observed. Also, the population has been augmented with a good number of new immigrants, he said, referring to the influx of foreigners in recent years.
But even as the country keeps reinventing itself to keep up with global developments, Singaporeans must hold fast to certain constants - their core values, Asian heritage and 'the national spirit' to overcome crises together, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
In his Chinese New Year message, where he traditionally also focuses on the importance of family togetherness, Mr Lee took stock of some hot-button issues that concern Singaporeans.
Some 'feel a sense of dislocation and unfamiliarity' amid the rapid changes.
While there are physical improvements such as the new Marina Bay skyline and upgraded housing estates, society is also changing on a more intangible level.
Younger Singaporeans have different attitudes and aspirations, he observed. Also, the population has been augmented with a good number of new immigrants, he said, referring to the influx of foreigners in recent years.
while singaporeans guys do NS , FT guys study in NUS
Hit BMT reality online series to be shown on TV
By Jermyn Chow
Young national servicemen assembling and stripping their SAR21 assault rifles during basic military training, in one of the scenes from Every Singaporean Son. The programme, which made its debut on video-sharing website YouTube, will be shown on StarHub's National Geographic Channel next month. -- PHOTO: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
MILLIONS of television viewers in Singapore and Asia will soon be able to witness the grit and pain of 14 young Singaporean men as they go through basic military training (BMT).
Following a successful run on video-sharing portal YouTube, the reality series Every Singaporean Son will soon hit television screens.
By Jermyn Chow
Young national servicemen assembling and stripping their SAR21 assault rifles during basic military training, in one of the scenes from Every Singaporean Son. The programme, which made its debut on video-sharing website YouTube, will be shown on StarHub's National Geographic Channel next month. -- PHOTO: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
MILLIONS of television viewers in Singapore and Asia will soon be able to witness the grit and pain of 14 young Singaporean men as they go through basic military training (BMT).
Following a successful run on video-sharing portal YouTube, the reality series Every Singaporean Son will soon hit television screens.
even the japanese has done less harm than the SAF to Sg
SAF institute named after Goh Keng Swee
Founding father's beliefs laid foundation for forces' transformation
By Jermyn Chow
At the ceremony yesterday were (from left) Commandant of the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College Colonel Ng Kin Yi, DPM Teo, Chief of Defence Force Neo Kian Hong, commandant of Safti BG Lim Teck and Mr Goh Kian Chee, son of the late Dr Goh. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
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AS THE architect of Singapore's defence policies in the mid-1960s, the late Dr Goh Keng Swee built up the fledgling Singapore Armed Forces that would go on to become today's Third-Generation fighting force.
The efforts of one of Singapore's founding fathers were commemorated yesterday when the SAF's highest institution for training senior officers, the Singapore Command and Staff College, was renamed the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College.
It is the first of two institutes to take on the name of the prominent Old Guard minister, who was also known for his seminal contributions to education.
A new complex, to be built at the Education Ministry's North Buona Vista Road headquarters to train teachers, will be renamed the Goh Keng Swee Centre for Education.
Dr Goh died last May at the age of 91.
The renaming of the SAF institute was first announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally last August.
Founding father's beliefs laid foundation for forces' transformation
By Jermyn Chow
At the ceremony yesterday were (from left) Commandant of the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College Colonel Ng Kin Yi, DPM Teo, Chief of Defence Force Neo Kian Hong, commandant of Safti BG Lim Teck and Mr Goh Kian Chee, son of the late Dr Goh. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
View more photos
AS THE architect of Singapore's defence policies in the mid-1960s, the late Dr Goh Keng Swee built up the fledgling Singapore Armed Forces that would go on to become today's Third-Generation fighting force.
The efforts of one of Singapore's founding fathers were commemorated yesterday when the SAF's highest institution for training senior officers, the Singapore Command and Staff College, was renamed the Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College.
It is the first of two institutes to take on the name of the prominent Old Guard minister, who was also known for his seminal contributions to education.
A new complex, to be built at the Education Ministry's North Buona Vista Road headquarters to train teachers, will be renamed the Goh Keng Swee Centre for Education.
Dr Goh died last May at the age of 91.
The renaming of the SAF institute was first announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally last August.
why are you risking your sons ?
for your archive. you can help to continue the list.
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-would-you-send-your-sons-to-ns.html
2001(from theonlinecitizen)
April 06: MR Loke Ming (1WO navy) (2.4km)
Oct 29: MR Kwok Wei Ming (CPL Commandos) (Training?)
2002(from theonlinecitizen)
Feb 25: MR Tan Kim Keng (Officer cadet OCS) (Navigation training)
May 15: MR Mohd Shalan bin Abdul Rahim (LCP Reservist) (IPPT)
OCT 10: MR Ivan Oh Yong Hua (REC BMTC) (Training?)
2003(from theonlinecitizen, wikipedia)
Jan 3: Miss Goh Hui Ling (CPL Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "lodged in betweeb bunks")
Jan 3: Miss Heng Sock Ling (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Seah Ai Leng (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Chua Bee Lin (2SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, assumed death: "body never found")
July 21: MR Hu En Huai (2SG Commandos) (Combat Survival Training: Forced water treatment by trainers)
Sept 03: MR Rajagopal Thirukumaran (2SG Commandos) (Ranger Selection Test, 5km Run, assumed irregular heartbeat)
Sept 23: MR Andrew Chew Heng Huat (REC BMTC) (IPPT, assumed irregular heartbeat)
2005(from theonlinecitizen)
June 22: MR Tek Kok Lian (2WO, ?) (Routine run, heart attack)
June 29: MR Ivan Ong Peng Ghee (3SG BMTC) (Routine run)
July 14: MR Shiva s/o Mohan (1SG Commandos) (Rappelling Instructor Course, fell 20m from heli)
2006
Feb 1: MR Mohd Sufian Jamil (REC BMTC) (Organs failure after injection of anti-malaria)
June 21: MR Lionel Lin Shi Guan (LTA Commandos) (Training at pool)
Sept 18: MR Ambrose Yeo Chang Wen (PTE HQ supply and transport) (death:???)
Nov 17: MR Tan Boon Toon (2WO Senior Tech at ???) (death:???)
2007(from sgforum)
May 11: MR Fan Yao Jin (PTE storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 11: MR Isz Sazli Bin Sapari (3SG storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 28: MR Calvin Chow Han Min (LCP storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
Aug 26: MR Ho Si Qiu (OCS, died at AHM)
Sep 16: MR Cheok Beng Teck (MINDEF CIO)
Nov 15: MR Ricky Liu Jun Hong (CPL RSAF) (2.4km, though we're not close but he was my ex-poly classmate)
June 15: MR Quek Meng Chua (Senior DXO, Treadmill) (death:???)
2008(from theonlinecitizen, channelnewsasia)
Feb 02: MR Tan Yit Guan (MAJ, Logistics) (Routine run, death: sudden collapse)
June 10: MR Andrew Cheah Wei Siong (REC, BMTC Mild-Obese) (2km route march, death: sudden collapse)
June 12: MR Lam Jia Hao (Officer Cadet/pilot trainee, Airforce) (death: sudden collapse)
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-would-you-send-your-sons-to-ns.html
2001(from theonlinecitizen)
April 06: MR Loke Ming (1WO navy) (2.4km)
Oct 29: MR Kwok Wei Ming (CPL Commandos) (Training?)
2002(from theonlinecitizen)
Feb 25: MR Tan Kim Keng (Officer cadet OCS) (Navigation training)
May 15: MR Mohd Shalan bin Abdul Rahim (LCP Reservist) (IPPT)
OCT 10: MR Ivan Oh Yong Hua (REC BMTC) (Training?)
2003(from theonlinecitizen, wikipedia)
Jan 3: Miss Goh Hui Ling (CPL Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "lodged in betweeb bunks")
Jan 3: Miss Heng Sock Ling (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Seah Ai Leng (1SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, death: "mutilated bodies washed up in Bintan")
Jan 3: Miss Chua Bee Lin (2SG Navy) (RSS Courageous collision, assumed death: "body never found")
July 21: MR Hu En Huai (2SG Commandos) (Combat Survival Training: Forced water treatment by trainers)
Sept 03: MR Rajagopal Thirukumaran (2SG Commandos) (Ranger Selection Test, 5km Run, assumed irregular heartbeat)
Sept 23: MR Andrew Chew Heng Huat (REC BMTC) (IPPT, assumed irregular heartbeat)
2005(from theonlinecitizen)
June 22: MR Tek Kok Lian (2WO, ?) (Routine run, heart attack)
June 29: MR Ivan Ong Peng Ghee (3SG BMTC) (Routine run)
July 14: MR Shiva s/o Mohan (1SG Commandos) (Rappelling Instructor Course, fell 20m from heli)
2006
Feb 1: MR Mohd Sufian Jamil (REC BMTC) (Organs failure after injection of anti-malaria)
June 21: MR Lionel Lin Shi Guan (LTA Commandos) (Training at pool)
Sept 18: MR Ambrose Yeo Chang Wen (PTE HQ supply and transport) (death:???)
Nov 17: MR Tan Boon Toon (2WO Senior Tech at ???) (death:???)
2007(from sgforum)
May 11: MR Fan Yao Jin (PTE storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 11: MR Isz Sazli Bin Sapari (3SG storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
May 28: MR Calvin Chow Han Min (LCP storeman) (Taiwan Plane Crash into Store)
Aug 26: MR Ho Si Qiu (OCS, died at AHM)
Sep 16: MR Cheok Beng Teck (MINDEF CIO)
Nov 15: MR Ricky Liu Jun Hong (CPL RSAF) (2.4km, though we're not close but he was my ex-poly classmate)
June 15: MR Quek Meng Chua (Senior DXO, Treadmill) (death:???)
2008(from theonlinecitizen, channelnewsasia)
Feb 02: MR Tan Yit Guan (MAJ, Logistics) (Routine run, death: sudden collapse)
June 10: MR Andrew Cheah Wei Siong (REC, BMTC Mild-Obese) (2km route march, death: sudden collapse)
June 12: MR Lam Jia Hao (Officer Cadet/pilot trainee, Airforce) (death: sudden collapse)
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