I thought doing National Service is a privilege? Being A Chinese is privilege too, so we Chinese are Double Privileged, add three for we have a Chinese Prime Minister & Quadruple , if the President was a Chinese...
If Operation Coldstore had fallen through, and the Barisan Sosialis had won the elections, Singapore would be a very different place today. A little less developed perhaps, a less impressive GDP, but a kinder and happier place with a much narrower income gap and greater equality.
What if. It would be a good basis for a Singaporean novel, as utopian as the republic of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is dystopian.