The Annual Evil is Here Again

Yes, it’s ICT time again. This year with a slightly older Vanessa who can ask intelligent questions. Questions like: “Papa, you go army again?” Or: “Why need to go army?” On day one, she was amused that my No. 4 uniform is green like her child care centre’s uniform. She commented, “Green, green, same!” Yah, but army is so unlike going to child care centre eh. But anyway, on day two, I think she wasn’t very pleased that I had to go army, again. I told her it will be for many more days. She asked, “Why?”

It’s a little sad to think how National Service is upsetting kids. Yeah, I know, work can also separate the kids from their father. But National Service is yet another thing. For a family with young children, it also upsets logistics at home.

It’s going to be many more years before she, and Ian, figures out the army thing. Then, Ian also has to do his National Service. I wonder how he would like it. Yah, he hasn’t even started child care, let alone school, so National Service is still a long way to go to think about now.