Hi all, I am finally back from my 2+ weeks of in-camp training in the Army. Just in case you think that serving the army does not help me in anyway in my internet marketing ventures, then my answer may surprise some of you.

First of all, the army is a military organisation and in such an organisation, maintaining one’s discipline while in camp is important such as waking up early for work, diligently carrying out duties that one has been assigned with etc. In my internet marketing businesses, the same holds true. I need to commit myself with utmost discipline to the objectives, goals and milestones that I have set for my Internet marketing businesses. If I am commited to spending 2 hours each day to drive traffic to my web sites, then I got to put aside whatever I need to, to ensure that I am spending 2 hours of productive time to engage myself in traffic generation strategies. This seems to validate what my Internet millionaire mentor Stephen Pierce was telling me about.

Secondly, while I was inside my army camp, I have very limited or no access to the Internet at all because the camp prohibits military personnel to bring in any devices that has any AV functions such as camera or video recorders and even mobile phones that have these functions, or memory storage devices such as memory cards. All these restrictions nudged me again that I need to further automate my Internet businesses on more aspects so that I can minimise disruptions to my online businesses while I am away from the computer and Internet.

Serving my National Service for the country has created many inconveniences for me as well as the hundreds of thousands of NSmen in Singapore. Nevertheless, this is something that we have to do in order to safeguard the peace and stability of Singapore. While many people, both locally and internationally, are laughing at how much a small country like Singapore can do to defend themselves, obviously they are missing out on things that they are not too clear about. In short, defending Singapore is not only about military defence. In fact, there are much more to it, such as economic defence.

The purpose of maintaining a Singapore’s army is not to go out to fight a war with any country, but more to act as a deterrent for any country who tries to play punk with Singapore. While Singapore may not win a war when it comes, we are sure that anyone who tries to attack us will experience a good setback in their military and economic resources when the war is over. Also, not forgetting the fact that when Singapore disappears from the face of this earth, so does the tens of billions of dollars that the Singapore government has invested in other economic powers of the world.

Fighting a war needs lots of money, and not many countries can afford that. I hope our 300,000 soldiers in Singapore will never need to go to war…