What are maids for?

All these recent hullabaloo about the NSF making his maid carry his field pack has given the SAF plenty of bad press. Rightly so, I guess. It's something done only by small children who are firstly, weak, and secondly, carrying a hellish amount of books.

What the hell this guy was thinking, I don't know. He seems like the typical spoiled, rich brat. Maybe he has a shoulder injury, some people say. Bullshit, no amount of shoulder injury would prevent you from carrying your field pack. Like I said, he's just an shameless overgrown primary school kid.

Now, that issue has been beaten to death. And taken to new extremes. Today's The New Paper ran a front page article on how maids cleans NSF's uniform and boots. Err, isn't that what maids are for? Carrying a bag, and doing house work are completely different matters, I think. It's about being practical.

Why else would we hire maids, but to do the things that we don't really want to do, such as clean the house, and wash our clothes?

If the boy wants to clean his own clothes, then good for him. But if he doesn't, it's okay. He's forced to do his own shit in camp anyway. I don't see why he can't just chillax when he's at home.

TNP got it wrong by lumping different issues into one big snow ball. Maids cleaning an NSF's uniforms and boots is no issue, because that's they're job. An NSF making his maid carry his field pack IS an issue because it echoes a generation which lacks common sense, common decency and most of all, shame.