a week too late. but i say better late then never!

here's to my dearest little brother for completing his first 3 months of basic military training for his national service!
way to go!
my conclusion is that they really make a man out of you.
Boys who walked in 3 months ago come out looking like real man.
For his batch of recruits, their POP was held at the marina bay floating platform for the first time and the turn out was huge..
Personally, i am not a morning person at all and the ceremony was held so god damn early i felt like i was sleep walking my way to the bay.
We were actually there before 7am!!
Putting the fact that i was sleep deprived aside, i was actually very glad to be there to witness a rite of passage that my brother had to go through and i felt so proud of him!
Another reason was that the show was spectacular.
Dont get me wrong, the show i was referring to was happening at the stands. The POP was actually quite boring and the sun was searing us so badly that i wanted it to be over asap!!
My parents, Daphane and I were lucky to get one of the front row seats because we got there relatively early and we thought we were gonna get a good view of my brother in all his glory.
But this is where the show begins, ppl at the back were flocking to the front and standing at the railings to catch a better glimpse of there army boys creating this human wall that .... the view of the ppl sitting in their sits in front.(including us)
Of course the ppl in front started complaining to the soldier ushers in front but sadly, could not control the crowd and things started getting really ugly.
This women who was clad in very classy black dress took a piece of card/paper and started throwing them at the ppl sitting in front.
Like literally taking aim and firing at random ppl. Can you imagine how appaled i was?
At that moment, i really thought that she was "THE ugly singapore" personified, alive and breathing in front of me.
People started shouting at the crowd that was blocking us and more ppl joined in the fun and added to the chior of curses making the whole situation very uncomfortable.
My conclusion on this whole fiasco is that that soldiers should just stick to defending the country as they really did not do a very good job at crowd control.
I say if they had done a better job at making sure that ppl sat in their sits, this whole situation would not even have taken place.

So once again, congratulations my dear brother!
Maybe they should come up with a jingle to remind ppl to be nice at the POP next year.
I say Justin Bieber would make a pretty good candidate for the singer.
Bieber blast!