So says my pla­toon mate Dil­bert Chua, 433rd Bat­tal­ion Sin­ga­pore Armoured Reg­i­ment Bravo Tac­ti­cal Team Seven Sec­tion One Sec­ond Light Anti-Tank Weapon Gun­ner and journalist.

He makes that sweep­ing state­ment while we clean our new SAR21 rifle after a day at the fir­ing range, and after receiv­ing a phone call from his girl­friend, who has obvi­ously exas­per­ated him somewhat.

We’re sit­ting at the foot of our beds while we metic­u­lously rub car­bon off the gas reg­u­la­tor and the other small parts of the unfa­mil­iar weapon with pieces of flan­nel held with tweez­ers. Takes a lot longer than the old M16, we complain.

Sin­ga­pore men are sub­mis­sive, can fol­low orders and are eas­ily trained.
Dilbert’s girl­friend appar­ently hasn’t been sen­si­tive to the fact that he is in camp for all of six days sac­ri­fic­ing his pre­cious time for the secu­rity of the nation. She has asked him to help her assem­ble her new IKEA cup­board on Sat­ur­day, the day we get out-processed, with­out as much as an iota of con­sid­er­a­tion for his tired­ness and need for some ten­der lov­ing understanding.

A piece of flan­nel 2 inches by 1 inch is too thick when folded by the eye of the five piece pull-through rod to be pulled through the bar­rel of the rifle. We strug­gle with the clean­ing. There’s still car­bon all over the lit­tle nooks and cran­nies of the rifle.

Sin­ga­pore men are the new Thai women.
Dil­bert says Sin­ga­pore women use and abuse Sin­ga­pore men. Sin­ga­pore women are obvi­ously obliv­i­ous to the uni­ver­sal hard­ship that Sin­ga­pore men have to endure: 13 years of part-time National Ser­vice, 2.5 years of full-time National Ser­vice, going to uni­ver­sity and grad­u­at­ing 2.5 years later than Sin­ga­pore women, get­ting jobs later and still expected to be the bread win­ner and provider for par­ents and chil­dren, and still be expected to wow women and sweep them off their feet. It’s a hard life. It’s a Thai woman’s life.

And the parts of the rifle are just as hard to put back together as they are to clean.

 
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