March of Hypocritism

Read:

• http://sg.news.yahoo.com/saf-halts-singing-of-‘misogynist--lyrics-from-marching-song--aware-064151720.html

We should replace all the army songs with something more suitable to the atmosphere with the song below. It shall be mandatory that all NSF and NSMen are to memorize this song by heart in honour and glory of our nation's decisive and wise decisions.

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

All day round. 

Sing this splendid marching song,

Oh comrades at arms.

Trololol trololol...

This is the only song we can sing,

For the splendid glory of the country. 

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

All month round. 

Raping and fucking is disallowed,

Only beating ass and murdering is allowed.

Trololol trololol...

For the hypocrites we are and those we please,

Gloriously singing this righteous song,

So it is... 

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

All year round. 

Sing this splendid marching song,

For we fear we may displease the powers that be.

Trololol trololol...

For the glorious hypocrisy we sing this song,

Without which we shall all perish,

Ohohoh... 

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

The march of the hypocrites goes trololol trololol,

Endlessly....

Which army songs do not contain vulgarities ? These stuff are not meant to be taken seriously and are simply used to boost morale for the troops that are suffering from fatigue during long marches carrying heavy loads on their bodies. The human mind simply brighten up when they are in contact with such phrases due to conditioning and these songs have been there for a long time as an army heritage connecting the past to the present and future. The sudden guilt feeling and removal of 'misogynist' lyrics is simply a bad knee jerk reaction and a displeasure to old heritage... oh and not to forget ... the ever rampant hypocrisies we face in the army besides the normal workplace.

IPPT Gets Worse

Read the following news:

•  http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/saf-soldiers-ippt-likely-change-next-year-20131023

And here's my outlook...

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In summary, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) wants to update the IPPT system to 'stay relevant' by removing the SBJ station and amending the running segment of the test. The SBJ station maybe replaced by Push-ups and the usual 2.4 km run would have it's distance increased by 0.8 km to 3.2 km.

From a sports science point of view, the push-ups and pull-ups / chin-ups exercises stresses the upper body and both exercises are compound exercises (exercises that involves multiple muscle groups simultaneously) with emphasis on stressing the upper body muscle groups. By doing 2 upper body compound exercises (push-ups and pull-ups / chin-ups), the person would be tired out more quickly and the physical performance would deteriorate.

The running portion of the IPPT test (currently is 2.4 km) is one of the 'Most-Failed' segment of the IPPT test. Trying to increase the distance to 3.2 km would be a particularly bad decision and there maybe an increase in failure rates.

Overall, the changes to the current IPPT system is not at all pleasant nor logical as the implementers of IPPT have not yet found a sound way to reduce the amount of failure rates in IPPT and yet wants to further modify the IPPT system for the worse.

What have to be understood is that the civilian conscripts have their own life and are different from full-time servicemen who have the time and energy available to train for long hours to prepare themselves physically for these IPPT tests. The civilian male population have to work in a competitive local environment where their jobs are being challenged by the ever quickly expanding local population and after a hard day's / week's work, they have to prepare for IPPT and National Service.

That is way too much things for the civilian male population in Singapore to do. How would the civilian population be able to pass their IPPT ?

Also, imagine you are the boss of a company, would you want an employee to come to you to take a few hours off for their IPT/RT/IPPT sessions or to leave for a week or a month to attend for NS matters ? My boss once asked me the relevance of all these IPPT system when I was about to leave work to tend to IPPT matters and I was unable to reply him.There is a saying that time itself is money and wasted time is money lost. Which company would want their employees leave work earlier to tend to NS matters which would cost the company precious work hours and indirectly lose possible profits ?

What is the true significance of IPPT when it has not much sense to it ?

Please read my earlier posts regarding my dissection of the IPPT system to understand much of the woes of this IPPT system.