Whymsical Wanderings of the Bored Mind

U know, I just had an exercise. I hardly sweated though.I dont think I had any fun too. U know why? Cos its an army exercise. It was called 'Exercise Fiery Dragon'. I wonder why do they have to give such fanciful names. In my unit, all the exercises have something to do with dragons. Maybe its because it sounds masculine and strong. Or maybe its just because they are unreal. Just like the stupid exercises. We have dragon boats, dragon claws and dragon breaths. Wonder if the last one smells good though. Probably it was named to show how stinky we all are after the exercise.
Normally, they would call exercises and operations, names that are associated with the stuff that they are actually doing. So 'Exercise Dragon Boat' may mean that the participants will be enjoying a cruise down the Kallang river or just sleeping in their beds and dreaming about dragon boat racing. It was no wonder that the operation to take down Osama Bin Laden was named 'Operation Take Your Time'. But Mr Saddam was the sadder of the lot. He was caught in the US led sting named 'Operation I Want Your Oil'. Hmmmm..... Link to Al Qaeda.. Check... Stubborn guy who has offended Uncle Sam.. Check.... Loads of oil to increase my pay this year.... Check...Hiding mass weapons of destruction...hmmm... Not yet but lets just accuse him of it first. We can blame the shoddy espionage network. Anyway, nobody knows who's working in it. Haha.. Blameless.
Well, the singapore government has quite a few operations of their own too. Like 'Operation Give Me Your Money Cos Everyone Around U is Dying' or ' Operation Cry and Pay'. Such operations involve a 2hr tv show (often dragging to overtime as it means more money) and a busload of celebrities cum circus performers cum acrobats cum beggars. Im sorry. Rich beggars. They risk their limbs and dignity to perform acts of stupidity so as to get people to donate. Why dont they just sing a song each and ask the public to phone in to vote so as to keep them in. Perhaps they may rake in more money. However, I seriously doubt so. Maybe they could ask people to vote to sent one of them packing instead. I trust they would be rolling in cash this way. How much money does the government actually think we have? Maybe she thinks that each one of us own part of America or something. Or that we simply have deep pockets. Pockets that go all the way down to the oil reserves in Brunei. I certainly hope so too. Quit asking us for money. Just grab whatever u want. Anyway, U have our CPF.

posted by nick_xian @ 10:01 PM 1 comments