The path in red is the route one will usually take to and fro White House, the bunk and the Cookhouse. Does this convince you now? (Who says bandsmen are pampered lucky people? See how far we have to go just to get some food in out mouth for every meal??? And if we need to change attire... $#%&@!)

Initially, I have posted the original images from Google Earth, totally unedited except for the labeling... And when my army mates heard of it... they gave me the are-you-sure-it-is-ok kind of look... which kinda made me think twice of wat I did. Ok, I'm sure I'm no Xiaxue or watever.. and my blog readership definitely isn't that awesome. But they do have a point that this is still an army camp afterall... and my revealing of what's inside, together with the coordinates, isn't that good a thing to do. Well, I dun want to take the risk too, though I do not know of any military law that prohibits one from exhibiting what he knows online, with regards to camp issues that do not have the word 'classified' or 'confidential' sprawled across it. In this case, the knowledge of bearings and directions... and also, I wun want to walk up to White House one fine day to see SIB, MP or RPs there waiting for me, handcuffs in hands.

Thus, after much contemplation, I decided to censor the coordinates.

And as we discuss this discovery in bunk.. and I argued dat it's seriously something the SAF, or any military organisation can't run away from. That is, satellite images of their camps from being shown. I mean, you can't stop technology from advancing. You cannot stop people from using binoculars, CCTV or wat have you, even if it invades YOUR privacy.. and you can't stop people from expression their views... cos dat is the 'freedom of speech'( so hot a topic when they came up with the 'Speaker's Corner', some pooty white elephant that it is now). And you can't stop people from bringing in devices which supposedly pose a threat to security, like cameras, phones and camera phones. Haha~

Which brings me to another thing. What the hell do SAF pose restrictions to prohibit camera phones in camps?? Almost every god-damn phone now is boasting of camera functions. Surely you cannot stop everyone from bringing one to camp, using 'security concerns' as a justification. You simply CANNOT stop technology from advancing! If anyone were to have ideas of taking photos of sensitive stuff in camp, I am very sure they will have ways to do that, with something even more advanced den a camera phone. Like a 500 times tele-photo zoom camera with 1000 mega pixels... k k.. too exaggerating. The point is, if anyone were to have ill-intentions of bringing the camp down or leaking sensitive documents, a camera phone will definitely not be the tool of choice. And they will have access to tools that are way more advanced den a lousy VGA or 1+ megapixels phone. Surely the authority should spend more time educating army personnel on the responsible use of camera phones and the moral and ethical issues when handling sensitive military information, and not simply restricting the use of certain geeky gadgets (which people will still find loopholes and smuggle them into camps anyway).

And there's the Catch-22 behind the Google Earth images. Government bodies all over the world simply have no rights over the images owned by Google Earth. And requests to obscure certain areas within their countries will be as good as announcing to the whole world (and to all the terrorists) where to aim their next missile.

As such, one can only wait with fingers crossed that Google Earth will not be the next geeky choice of tool for the terrorists out there.