​I am Jeremy Koh Zi Yang, author of this short piece you are about to read. To caveat I wrote this paper for my honour’s thesis, hence it maybe drugged with many bombastic words and looking back I did not know how I wrote them out. Enjoy the read as much as possible.

But if you are reading this, I thank you for joining me on my curious journey on exploring something peculiar in my and our lives. Living in Singapore we are position in this weird crossroad of modernity and tradition, do we really have the correct words and feelings to express the beliefs who hold dear to? Especially so in the Navy, where we often muddle in labour to forget the little things (the environment, the quirkiness, the people) that makes us who we are.