National service for Singapore women

Any Singaporean guy that read this title would have understood what I meant. Every Singaporean male has to go through 2 years of national service in the Singapore armed forces as a soldier. Judging from his leadership skills and fitness they are placed in different units. Some of these guy would have enjoyed their NS life. But for many it is 2 years of their time wasted.

I have heard many prospective about NS, but today’s topic is not about weather national service was a waste of time or not. It is why Singaporean males FEEL that their time was wasted.

Firstly is a matter of comparison, when they finally finish their National service and look into going to university their female counterparts would have already finished their degree. They would already be in the workforce by then.

To add things worst there are many foreigners who would be fighting for their position to the university. If they are lucky they would have got a place in the local University, if their grades aren’t that top notch they would have to settle for a University overseas, like me. For some of my buddies in NS that 2 years totally took away the study intention they had.

To me education comes in a feat. It is not easy to pause it and resume it later like a DVD. Once the flow is gone it is hard to get back to studying. Because of that some of the guys who go to university after NS fell behind, because they have lost touch with their study method.

What is my solution?

If our girls also have to do national service it would even us out. I am not expecting them to join the army. There are other ways that they can offer their help. One way is in the nursing industry in Singapore or in the community service industry.

We read the news about Singaporean hospitals lacking nurses and nurses have to come from Philippines and Indonesia. Why don’t we put our women to the job? One year to train them and one year of service. They would be paid allowances of like $500 per month, approximately the pay of national service men.

Due to the low pay for the nurses the medical expanse would decrease. This national service nurses can work in our poly clinics. Instead of making out citizens pay the small amount for medical help. We can make it totally free!

This will reduce the medical expense for Singaporeans

This is just a suggestion. Hitting 2 birds with one stone

Airtel Super singer junior

Hi you might be wondering how i, being in australia was able to watch this show. i first heard about this show from a friend of mine who went back to singapore duirng the holidays.he has vijay tv at home so he watching it and he told me how the kids performed. I didn’t think much of it till i watched this boy Krishnamurthy Airtel sing “sangeetha jathi mullai”. I was memorised and impressed with his singing that i knew then that is a sign of the winner. i don know how the rest of the finalist sang due to unavailability of their videos in YouTube. My friend had recordings of the blooper episodes which i watched. Based on that videos i could tell Roshan has very good child voice which is very nice to hear. Aprana showed great maturity in the singing.

One of the more significant reason for me to watch the show was that i have been frequently visiting my favourite singer’s blog and to my surprise she was the anchor for the show! how i have more reason to watch the show. If Vijay TV were to make the show DVD available for purchase i will buy it.

But most of all I would like to thank Vijay TV for giving this opportunity to the kids to sing. This show would have inspired many other kids, that they too may one day become a super singer if they tried their best. This show gave them hope.

In the blooper show i could see some of the audition clips. I must say i was a little disappointed with the way the judges rejected the kids with the red or green light method. I am not saying everything was bad but the one when they pressed the red button and waited to see shocked reaction on the kid’s face didn’t think that was funny and should not be shown as a funny clip. We might laugh at her for her shocked reaction. But when she sees it on TV, it’s going to affect her psychologically she might lose interest in singing. Except for that segment I think the judges did a good job by telling the kids nicely that they didn’t make it to the next round.

May I make a suggestion?

In the next super singer junior show could the producers please change the audition room’s lighting and concept? I feel the dark room makes the kids nervous and seeing the light only at the judges was not helping.

PS i know this post has nothing to do with the concept of my blog but i could not help it. Krishnamurthy’s singing inspired me to write this.

Watch his singing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEZINUnays