EEEK! Today is the end of my Recess Week! GASP!
Time flies. Oh my.
Anyway the talk of the town recently is none other than the escape of our most wanted man, Mas Selemat (delibrately spelled wrong. I don't wanna be one of the websites that appear in the search engine) bin Kastari. He's really capable in numerous ways. Let's see...
1) He escaped from one of Singapore's Detention Centres, a country which has their tight security as their pride all these years. GASP!
2) He caused massive jams at the Causeway and the Second Link because of the intensive inspection going on for every single vehicle exiting the country. Poor lorry drivers are the worst hit. They have to wait on average 3 hours longer than usual! GASP no 2!
3) He mobilised the biggest manhunt ever in Singapore. GASP no 3!
4) He, by far, has the most number of his own photos pasted all over the island. GASP no 4!
... and so on. I'm too lazy to think of more.
Actually, because of this manhunt, I realised how helpless and pampered we Singaporeans are. 90% of the interviewed said that they have 'faith in our security forces' and it's only a matter of time they would catch him back to the detention centre, but I beg to differ. Where did they find the confidence from? On what ground did they make that statement from? Did they ever really witness how efficient our Armed Forces are able to catch an escaped terrorist?
Let's see, the most recent guy that escaped from the police grasp was that Huang Na's murderer Took Leng How or however his name was spelled. The next day he was caught. Why? I'm not discrediting our security forces entirely for that swift capture because they were indeed fast to inform Malaysia and station at all exits, but it was mainly because he surrendered himself while in Malaysia.
And all the while he's in Malaysia, our dear police were at Causeway searching car boots.
So where did all the confidence come from? I feel that our government has done an excellent job reassuring the public of their capability in capturing these criminals. Why only announce the escape after 4 to 5 hours to the public? They say because they felt he is not posing any immediate danger.
BUT HELLO. HE'S A WANTED TERRORIST. HE WANTED TO CRASH A PLANE INTO CHANGI AIRPORT ONCE. I don't believe he wouldn't find means to arm himself within that few hours.
I feel that Singaporeans 'have trust in our armed forces' simple because they are just shifting their helplessness to something they can fall back upon, or the only thing they know of to fall back upon. I don't deny I felt pretty helpless because I have a really lousy facial memories of people and if he's right in front of me now with no disguise whatsoever I would only assume he's just another malay.
We are so pampered!
Singaporeans are of course a batch of highly educated people. Smart enough for mothers to delibrately give birth to their child at 0000 hours on 29th Feb because it's a leap year and they know that the first leap year baby gets a MDIS Scholarship and his/her university fees are fully paid by MDIS in the future. WOAH. SO SMART RIGHT. Not to forget 1st Jan and day one of lunar new year.
But what happened to our intelligence when it comes to urgent national stuffs that endangers our safety? We can't even protect ourselves.
And this is why I got kinda pissed off when on Total Defense Day this particular group of kids in a primary school would rather go hungry than eat a 'dirty sweet potato. how to eat?!", complain because air-conditioners and fans are off and it's 'too hot to study', and cannot see the whiteboard because 'lights are not on' during the MORNING. I just want to go up to them and slap them on the face numerous times HAHA.
SO IDIOTIC RIGHT. Spoiled brats. They still have sweet potato okay. It was porridge + soy sauce last time.
I think we will be the first to die if there's another World War D:
Shuf
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