personally i dont get what is so character building about NS,its mostly 95 percent waste of time and maybe 5 percent exciting or useful.....in fact when i look at foreign militaries it looks way more exciting than my experience in NS.......if i want to experience the excitement of heavy firepower,i just go to america,buy a whole bunch of machine guns,sub machine guns,semi auto rifles and one mini gun and buy 100,000 rounds of ammo off the internet and turn my house into ammunition bunker and play with heavy firepower all day better than the stupid 30 round magazine they give u in NS cause bullets are expensive and the billion dollar SAF cant afford to buy u ammo,if i want to keep fit i go get a road bike and bike 50 miles a day and run 10 km super marathons and swim 6km like iron man trialathon,keep fit in NS is a fucking waste of time,half of sinkies cant even pass ippt after they ORD,if i want do outdoor camping and character building all that shit?the ang mohs do it all the fucking time,to sinkies it may be big deal cause they sit their fatass in hdb flats all their lives but ang mohs they buy professional camping tents and goose down sleeping bags and go camp in the fucking wilderness and mountains and in the winter time and go hiking and rock climbing,they learn to catch wild rabbits and wild animals,skin their fur from their bodies,start a fire,cook them and eat them with rice and curry.if i want to experience the bad food of NS,well theres really no place u can experience that so that could be considered a experience of a lifetime.