Sunday, October 25, 2009

Questioning Brotherhood

I got into trouble recently.

Not the serious kind... Just simply being confined in camp for something that wasn't really your fault.

You're new to the company, fresh from Tekong and have only spent close to a month with your new platoonmates.
Just so happens, another one of the new platoonmates decide to play punk and brought in a camera enabled phone, a contraband item. You know about it cuz he had went around taking photos of everyone.

Finally the day of judgement came... Suay suay the Military Police decides to raid us. One thing leads to another and here I am, booking out on a saturday evening instead of friday night like everyone else. The entire platoon was confined as it was a problem with platoon integrity; no one sounded off despite knowing the obvious.

But often we have to wonder, around me are people who consider each other as brothers. You're a new guy and if you were to whisteblow, that's an instant labelling of yourself as the bao toh kia(whistleblower).

"What would you do?" I ask.

If your friend does something bad and you know that you SHOULD report it.

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