Tony & Patrick 'Fooking Did It'!

The story of the father and son is getting interesting. No, not the Lees but the Tans.

Presidential Wannabe Tony Tan and his son Patrick are deeply disappointed with a 'rumour'. Now every mother's son (except white horses) who did and do National Service is even more disappointed. In fact, some are seething with anger. Here's someone who is pretty upset [Link]. Others , like me, are rather bewildered and amused.

The 'rumour' was a question asked of the father if preferential treatment was given to Patrick Tan when he did his NS and Reservist Training. Instead of getting a straight answer, we get this [Link] and this [Link].

Having served my NS in the late 60's and ROD'ed (since when was ORD use?), I'm amazed that Patrick was enlisted in 1988 and could be in the USA from 1988 to 2000. Deferred for more than a decade! Hell, for any son other than Tancho's, that would have been AWOL!

What agitate most is not the 'deferential' (preferential?) treatment that he received in MINDEF. What REALLY sucks is the fact that Patrick is so damn proud of his ability to avoid ('elak' / 'siam') the rite of passage (24 months, 30 months or 36 months depending on your rank and time of enlistment) that all able bodied male Singaporeans went through - serving national service in an army and field camp (not in aircon comfort)! Most would find the way he went about blowing his own horn of his achievement and his specialty in 'meliodosis' puke inducing!

In Singapore, we do not have CORRUPTION. We do not have NEPOTISM. We only have an ASPIRATION of 'building a democratic society based on justice and equality so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation'. While aspiring, we live in MOCKERY!

• MOCKERY of NATION BUILDING and NATIONAL SERVICE by paying greedy ministers $$$millions$$$!
• MOCKERY of DEMOCRACY by banning freedom of speech and peaceful demonstration of even one person [Link]
• MOCKERY of JUSTICE by saying "IN" is not "WITHIN" [Link] & [Link] and "Cooling Off Day" is "Hot" for certain individual [Link]
• MOCKERY of EQUALITY when opposition wards are served last in HDB and Lift Upgrading
• MOCKERY of SERVICE TO SINGAPOREANS when PROFITEERING is the mainstay of the ruling party ($$million$$$ ministers), the public transport operators and even the HDB.
• MOCKERY of HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY and PROGRESS for our nation when the over-crowdedness caused by the free inflow of foreigners by PAP has caused much unhappiness, more so for those who have lost jobs due to the crazy influx.

Disappointed with the Tony/Patrick story? We are more concerned with the cavalier "I'm smarter than thou"attitude of the ruling party and their cronies in not taking seriously our concern of the over-crowding and the ever-escalating high cost of living that the average Singaporeans are victims of.

In the words of NTU Valedictorian Trinetta Chong, [Link Hit 5:15 for the punchline] I think Tony and his son Patrick 'fooking did it"!

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