That Hassle Created

I am... PISSED OFF. I never agree with that programme anyway. A waste of money, a waste of time, creating troubles and hassles, and a cause of dissatisfactions. Pardon me if some of you do not agree with me, but I still am pissed off.

I'm talking about the stupid blardy National Service in Malaysia. Like uh, they still have the freaking guts to call it "National Service", the Singaporeans and Taiwanese are rolling on the ground laughing non-stop.

It's bad enough that I was unlucky enough to have to serve that stupid programme and waste my holidays learning nothing other than to see more racism and segregation based on races, and now the family's pissed off that the younger brother need to go through the same hassle again. Even worse, he's posted to west Malaysia. WTF?!?! Imagine... the interviews, the in-and-out from the camps, the transportation, the performance in interviews, the further studying plans...

In brief, it's still related with the studies no doubt. That's the whole point of us being pissed off anyways. It's as if, studies is not an issue to them. Oh wait, of course it's not, they don't need to study. They just need to shout commands under the sun and make sure those who wanted to study being tortured doing things they don't want to. And, they can do anything they want, it's the law, you're picked, you're obliged to go. Either that, or jail. What else can we do? Right... vote against the people who came up with the programme? Doesn't help. They're just plain pain in the arse.

Ugh.

Am going to quote what the younger brother blogged. Perhaps you could see that we are fed up with 'them' altogether now.

I’m not going. Period.
03.17.08

Sien larh, not going to National Service after all. I shall now recount why I made that decision.

I applied to go into the first batch of NS trainee (January - March) because being in the second batch will definitely affect my interviews and such. Last year when the letter arrived in September, I was pretty disheartened because got selected to go to Selangor. The camp is at Kuala Kubu Baru. Who gives a damn where that is. They rejected me because they said camp capacity is full. I appealed to the KL headquarters, stating clearly why I can’t go there. I applied to go to local camps. They rejected me with the lame reason AGAIN: Camp capacity is full.

We went to the Bau camp, Kem Puncak Permai and found out that their capacity was never full. There was vacancy for more. We were pissed, so we applied and appealed again. The third time round, they didn’t reply. So I assume they got tired of using the same reason, of which was never true and not concrete anyway (there was like space for 20 more trainees, and they said its full. GO to hell larh these people.)

We went to the Bau camp for 3 times. The third time round, we get to meet the deputy camp commander in person. He told us not to get our hopes high because as long as the KL HQ doesn’t approve, I cannot go there and have to go to Selangor instead. I was like, WTF. Step over my dead body before you send me there, I ain’t going.

I chose to postpone it. Not going. Nuh uh. Not after countless rejections, unnecessary despair, unnumbered tears by my mother, and wasted time and resources. Its not that I don’t wanna go; its their problem they don’t approve to let me go to Bau.

I sincerely loathe the Director. Yeah, we called him, and he was most unpleasant and unhelpful. He had all the power to approve, just a simple ‘YES’ and that’s it. And yet he chose to go the long painful, childish way of assuring me everything’s okay, every thing can be taken care of, including my interviews.

I felt like yelling there and then: FUCK YOU LARH! You tanggung all my air tickets hah? Of which of course, FYI, they don’t.

So enough with the unnecessary despair. I am not going. Enough is enough. NS is outta my mind. So long for now. National Service has left a bad memory in my mind.

And I came across this on Wiki. Quoting the fatalities here would just give the programme more shame if not disgrace. And another one from kennysia. Humorous alright, so in-the-face. Here's another one from Aliran, "Patriotism cannot be hammered into the youths via a three-month stint", so VERY true, in fact, what's being hammered is racism, or religionism for all that matters.

Yeaps, I don't see anything in them that is worth liking anymore. Nada nada. I just hope everything works out fine for the little brother....