The Moley Prophet

I hate Apple! And I hate the people who adore them to allow them going around trampling on others without flouting the Anti-Trust laws. How superior are Apple products? Not at all. The reason why I bought my iPod Nano was because I like the color and there isn’t any player around when I bought it. Get it right, I like that color it came in, not the interface, not iTunes. Why then do I have to put up with iTunes? It is a terrible sub-standard product that is bundled with the iPod forcing everyone who buys the iPod to use it. If that is not enough, they have to bundle Quicktime. An even more horrible product. Just because you didn’t buy the Pro version, you can’t watch the clip in full screen. I used to be able to uninstall this horrible product and substitute it with an open-source alternative. But now, Quicktime is required to run iTunes, if Quicktime is uninstalled, iTunes would not work! This is utterly ridiculous, and all those idiots like Real Media who is suing Microsoft for Windows Media Player, get a life and sue Apple instead!

I used to think that money is the most important reason why I live on this Earth. The reason why I continue to study in a school is for the sake of my future. Money is still important to me. However, I have found that money doesn’t lure me away from betraying myself, my integrity and my own happiness.

Sometime ago, I left a job which I started for a brief period, for a single reason, I wasn’t happy with it. Its concept did not make sense to me to continue working there. Of course, it may have been a different issue altogether if I were the boss. I do not like to be bossed around, I do not like for my work to interfere with my personal time. When I’m saying personal time, I mean working full time during hours when I want to work on other stuff. I’m never bothered about bringing work home but I do not want to be tied at work, especially one which I do not like.

Some people may never understand why I’m happy being where I am today, volunteering full time, and taking on ad-hoc relief teaching. It doesn’t matter to me because they have not understood the spirit of volunteerism. Being not able to grasp this concept is why some people never got out of the rat race. They are stuck in the world of earning that petty salary which they bring home at the end of the month. Money means too much to them that they would never let go of even the smallest amount and they would rather live on that stable income than go for something big. Sorry man, that is not the life I want.

Last week, after the incidents of the NS Men on duty, I wrote my opinions while they were still fresh in my mind. Somehow, the next morning, my blog was infected with a virus that caused me to restore my page to an earlier backup, losing that post. How coincidental.

Nevertheless, I read the papers in amusement as Mindef conducted their useless checks on procedures of physical training. Check? Are you kidding. Would the officers be so dumb to keep records of how they punished the soldiers? I have a friend from the same batch of the guy who died in BMTC and learned from him that running activities are still on even when it’s supposed to be a complete halt of physical training.

And as I have said in the lost post, checking on physical training is bullshit. The problem lies with CMPB. The way they conduct the medical screening is utterly ridiculous. The medics are so complacent with the checks that sometimes they do not bother checking properly. For example, for urine tests, they do not even check the strips. Electrocardiogram tests were nonsense as well. I was repeatedly told to redo my tests until I passed. What kind of crap is that? Any medically trained professional would not do such a thing. I was given a PES C1L1 when my doc specifically stated no combat + no IPPT. If not because CMPB had been dragging my enlistment since the day I returned to Singapore, I wouldn’t even accept this to enter the service as soon as possible.

I would therefore urge Mindef to study the situation from ground level up to prevent further misfortunes from happening. Deepest condolences to the families of our men who passed on in service.