hmm lets c.....im going to NS(National Service.....enlisted in the police force) in 19 days time....for my non-Singaporean netizens tat means every Singaporean male over the age of 16 to 21 must serve a mandatory period of 2 years(24 months) in various positions in the 5 defence sectors (army, navy, police, air force, civil defence or in other words the firefighting brigade) within the age limit of 21 years of age.....the reasoning for this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Singapore Singapore is a small country and only we can defend it being an island nation and we lack manpower.....so we do it.....there is a lot of controversy regarding this topic and some of them are: -NS men are cheep labor for the government (NS men are given and allowance from as little as $400 and not get paid $1500 unlike civil servants ) since employees of the government use NS men to do their bidding.... -NS men are psychologically conditioned to feel, act, see and think in a certai...