December+24,+1941

December 24, 1941

Dear Diary, I was wrong, diary. Japs, no actually, Japanese are strong. Few days ago, my commander announced that Malay was invaded by Japanese forces. When he said that, everyone in the base laughed, thinking commander’s words were a joke. Wanting to stand out, I roared with laughter and I thought he would praise on my good response to his joke and waited for his pat on my back. Instead of a pat and sweet words, all I received was a slap in my face. He yelled, “I’m not pissing around, bloody bloke. Prepare for war! Be as strong, quick, and wise as possible. Japs are not what we used to know.” His bitterness on his face and brief saying got our heads screwed up. We regretted underestimating Japanese forces and thinking numerous Japanese soldiers in Singapore as deserters from the forces, when they could have been spies. Also, we might have seized the Japanese invasion in Malaysia if we just knew they were attacking North instead of South, but because our idiotic commander-in-chief thought Japanese forces would attack the southern part of Singapore first, we put all of our effort into defending south. But past is past. There’s nothing we can do about the past. All we can do right now is prepare ourselves as much as possible in such a short amount of time. Yet again, these days, all I can hear is how our commander blames Gen. Arthur Percival, the commander of the British troops in Malaya, for failing to block infiltrating Japanese forces. From his condemnation, I was astonished by the fact that Japanese tanks were able to pass through the jungle. According to poorly trained Japanese soldiers, who can barely speak English, their tanks were poorly equipped. It was like our tank, ten years ago. Oh... yeah.. they could have been spies and the Japanese, as a whole, are cunning. I remembered my girlfriend talking about how the Japanese invaded Manchuria in her letter to me. She told me that they blamed the explosions in the railroads on Chinese people, so that they could control Manchuria. She added that Japan even withdrew herself from League of Nations, disliking Western powers, and the U.S. condemned her. At that time, I thought Japan’s invasion of Manchuria was pointless topic to talk about since it is the takeover of Asian people by Asian people and they were just barbarians, who are incapable of anything. Yet, I was wrong, AGAIN. Japs were able to develop through using the resources from Manchuria. They gave massive amounts of resources to Japan, like the way Singapore gave resources to us. Ha...I’m so idiotic. No, I am not idiotic, the high positioned officers in Western nations are brainless. They should have taken a firm stand to halt Japanese control over Manchuria. What they did was just literally sitting in their seats and complaining. They should’ve cooperated and had a war with Japan too. All they have been doing is paying sole attention to Germany. Ha...I hate them. I not only hate Japanese, who screwed my entire life, but also the inefficient officers in British land.

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