Monthly Archives: October 2005

mb: Metrosexual soldiers

Met­ro­sex­ual sol­diers Orig­i­nally uploaded by mr brown. Apply­ing make-up before work. Sin­ga­pore sol­diers must not only fight good, but also look good. Good skin­care is part of every serviceman’s respon­si­bil­ity. And hav­ing clean underwear too.

mb: Miyagi gets a beer

Miyagi gets a beer Orig­i­nally uploaded by mr brown. Cor­po­ral David Tan, Bravo Com­bat Team Pla­toon Seven run­ner says hi to his dar­ling, Renee (mintia.blogspot.com). Miyagi got a beer for this last night. I can totally see a mar­ket for this blog. Plat­form for reservist shout-outs to their loved ones. Pay­ment in beer. Inci­den­tally, this morn­ing the

TODAY: Food so good you’ll write home about it

… or at least write about it from the com­fort of home, as Sin­ga­pore­ans get gas­tro­nom­i­cal in their blogs DON’T know where to dine? Check blog­gers’ reviews. I recently came across a guide to Sin­ga­pore food in the Aus­tralian news­pa­per, The Age (www.theage.com.au) which asserted: “Sin­ga­pore­ans love eat­ing. Any­thing, at any time. “To get the best from

mb: Mr Miyagi takes a canteen break

Mr Miyagi takes a can­teen break Orig­i­nally uploaded by mr brown. Can­teen break. 2 bucks, Aussie, for a Mars bar, $1.50 for a beer. Even reser­bit in Aus­tralia also must have can­teen break, the sacred and holy rit­ual of the Sin­ga­pore sol­dier, Holy Knight of the Order of National Ser­vice. I won­der if they have Bee

mb: Miyagi back from an exercise

Miyagi back from an exer­cise Orig­i­nally uploaded by mr brown. After four days on exer­cise, Miyagi is back in civil­i­sa­tion. Mean­ing: got mobile sig­nal. He is still in the boonies though. This is his mes­sage: Queens­land sun so hot, like that also can get sun­burned. Per­son­ally, I think he looks like a failed Sith Lord,

mb: Miyagi from the boonies

Miyagi from the boonies Orig­i­nally uploaded by mr brown. Tele­graph from mr miyagi. Rain. Four. Days. Wash. Under­wear. Can­not. Dry. That does look like the face of a man who is wear­ing wet under­wear in the bush. Hope noth­ing gross starts to grow down there.

TODAY: Big hearts, not just big mouths

Blog­gers chan­nel their energy to char­ity – after trade­mark debate, of course THERE is a group of blog­gers in Sin­ga­pore who call them­selves The Cow­boy Bar. They are well-known for their fre­quent meet-ups. While blog­ger meet-ups in them­selves aren’t unusual, get­ting together for a cause is a less fre­quent affair, given the dis­parate nature of

mb: Mews and Boon

What many do not realise is that Miyagi is also very good at writ­ing love sto­ries. So I shall attempt to write a love story too. Zapped!: Love Amongst the Pho­to­copier Machines Her lips said she didn’t want to see me any­more. But her eyes told me some­thing else. I could tell from the way her

mb: Ulu until no handphone signal

There are no power points here and the mobile sig­nal is inter­mit­tent. So I have to turn off my phone to save power. There are no bunks here, and we’re all stay­ing in tents. Okgot­tago, mobile­bat­tery­is­pre­cious­bye­bye.” said Miyagi to me last night. Three weeks in an Aussie desert, a bat­tal­ion of Sin­ga­pore sol­diers with mobile phones

mb is in da house!

G’day mates! This is mrbrown! Yes! I am guest blog­ging on this blog (my first time guest blog­ging any­where). Since Mr Miyagi is serv­ing his coun­try Down Under and get­ting close and per­sonal with some randy kangeroos (lis­ten to our lat­est pod­cast to find out more), the bur­den of updat­ing this blog has fallen upon