miyagi.sg | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}

If just some of the ill-mannered kids grow up to become self­less heroes, like 2LT Kok Khew Fai, who is just 20, and has done some­thing you think you only read about in books or see it in the movies.

If you haven’t already heard, the instructor-officer was accom­pa­ny­ing his recruits at a live grenade throw­ing exer­cise when one of his recruits drops his grenade on the back­swing instead of lob­bing it for­ward, land­ing it about 4m behind where they’re standing.

There is about 5 sec­onds before the grenade det­o­nates, and I’d like to think that both 2LT Kok and the recruit took this time to mut­ter a hel­lalotta exple­tives, as the young offi­cer dived on top of the recruit to shield him from the detonation.

Dived on top of the recruit to shield him.

That’s self­less, even though the design of the grenade bay makes it quite hard to get hurt, appar­ently, unless you were to bang your head repeat­edly against the blast-proof wall.

Moth­ers, quickly, instill this kind of behav­iour in your kids — go make them clean up after them­selves at the hawker cen­tre.