Its been 2 weeks since I graduated from SISPEC and got posted to Combat Engineers.
The regimentation there is horrible and the days are awfully boring.
Lectures, practical, lectures, practical.

In between, I have had time to wonder why the SAF is so backwards in many areas.
For one, some of the lecture slides have terrible spelling, grammatical and vocabulary errors. I am not requiring them to be perfect, but at least they should be understandable. And it doesn't help if the lecturer has no idea that his slides are wrong either.
For another, some of the instructors here at ETI give me a poor impression. I do not think a duty instructor who listens to the strength report while leaning on a rover and standing literally on one leg deserves any more respect than a new enlistee who behaves in the same manner.
It is absolutely pathetic. I don't see the officers behaving in such a manner. Perhaps that's the reason why they are officers and these people are just sergeants.

Sometimes you also have to think about the people who sign on in the SAF. There are many who sign on under forced circumstances, such as a poor education certification, making it difficult to pursue further education, or being urgently in need of money to get by. More than often, the former is usually the reason why people sign on in the army.
I am not promoting any discrimination here but personally I feel that a person with a higher education level appears to behave in a more appropriate manner than his counterpart of a lower education level. I have seen this through my platoon commanders back in SISPEC, where the platoon commanders with a lower education level can act unreasonably sometimes.
I see this once again in ETI where some instructors hold themselves poorly.

The WOSPEC is the backbone of the SAF. So how can the SAF stay strong internally if the backbone is so messed up?
Perhaps, for the sake of argument, we can say that the SAF is a huge organisation and it is difficult to maintain standards within such a huge organisation. But this screwed up syndrome is visible everywhere I go within this organisation, so something definitely must be very wrong.
in my opinion, they should engage some external auditors to audit the management and instructional level in the SAF.
If not, the SAF will only be 3G in terms of technology and equipment, but the protocol and system will forever stay in the 1G days.

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I watched Wall-E on Saturday. It was a great movie, very original and very creative. Absolutely deserving of its 97% rating on RottenTomatoes The movie portrayed a lot of messages open for the audience to interpret. Do catch Wall-E if you can spare the time!

Kanna guard duty on Monday, unfortunately. Its my first guard duty in the SAF, lol.
I guess I have been too lucky in avoiding the grasps of regimental duties for the past 6 months. Not anymore I guess. Ahh. I do hope its not so bad.

That's all for today then. Gotta report back to camp soon. Might blog again next week!