Blogging about National Service is OK

On November 20, 2005 · 46 Comments · In Army / National Service


As seen in the Sun­day Times: Reservist photo! Oct 2005: Relax­ing on the ramp. (Guess which one’s Sgt Fore­skin?)

How can one not talk about National Ser­vice, espe­cially when it’s a very large slice of one’s life? Can­not right? I mean, can­not don’t talk right?

Even if […]

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Cat herders

On November 18, 2005 · 1 Comment · In Living

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Trailer: the mrbrown show 8: Causeway to Kuching

On November 18, 2005 · 7 Comments · In Podcast


Find­ing com­mon ground: Rasa Sayang Eh?

In the pod­cast sched­uled for 21 Nov, mrbrown and myself chat with Kenny Sia about his home­town and how traf­fic lights changed everyone’s lives there.

Trailer 4: Kuch­ing got Zouk or not?(.mov file, 17 sec, 600Kb)

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iZap, uZap, everybardyZap!

On November 17, 2005 · 11 Comments · In Toys


“With uZap, it’s so easy to get in shape. Just zap-zap!” Fiona Xie not included. Blarf people.

It’s dan­ger­ous enough going to Funan. It’s a dis­as­ter for the wal­let if you go to Funan with

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Taking down Army-related posts and pictures

On November 16, 2005 · 40 Comments · In Army / National Service

I am tak­ing down all army-related blog posts and pic­tures here as well as on Days Were The Those and Flickr, and will be ask­ing for per­mis­sion to blog and post pic­tures of my recent Exer­cise Wal­laby trip to Shoal­wa­ter Bay, Cen­tral Queens­land, with my unit, the 433rd Sin­ga­pore Armoured Regiment.

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TODAY: Pretty girls get slimed all the time

On November 16, 2005 · 16 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Are star-designate Dawn Yang’s looks the real deal?
 
Peo­ple say fame attracts detrac­tors in hordes. So, it was only a mat­ter of time before blogs started talk­ing about blog­ger Dawn Yang (www.xanga.com/clapbangkiss), fea­tured in last Wednesday’s The New Paper.


Described as a “pan-Asian hybrid in […]

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Frequently Answered Questions

On November 16, 2005 · 5 Comments · In The Ingterneck


I get these ques­tion­naires pretty often, so I’m writ­ing an FAQ page for that so I don’t have to answer these ques­tions so often. They get me stumped some­times, espe­cially the one that asks, “Do you own a blog?”

Such press­ing ques­tions, so as you […]

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Communicado IV: I promise you!

On November 15, 2005 · 7 Comments · In Army / National Service, Places

Per­haps I’ve been a lit­tle neg­a­tive about Ex Wal­laby 05, and for awhile, per­haps for­got­ten about the most uplift­ing radio comms state­ment trans­mit­ted. It was made by my com­pany com­man­der just after the tank mishap, and when the word ‘exhaus­tion’ failed to describe what all the com­man­ders and troopers […]

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Exporting Singlish

On November 15, 2005 · 5 Comments · In Army / National Service, Places

Unlike most of Aus­tralia, the peo­ple of Rock­hamp­ton and its envi­rons under­stand Singlish a lit­tle bet­ter, see­ing as we have had a per­ma­nent armed forces base there and have trained there for almost a third of every year since 1990. The sign­boards we stick up every­where help too:

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How long is your lunch hour? (Say it quickly and it becomes rude)

On November 14, 2005 · 17 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Thank you, who­ever you are, for spend­ing an hour after lunch on Mon­day read­ing this blog:

Sta­tis­tics from Statcounter.com:

Date
Time
Web­Page
14th Novem­ber 2005
14:14:42
miyagi.sg/?cat=15
miyagi.sg/?page_id=171
14th Novem­ber 2005
14:14:53
miyagi.sg/?cat=8
miyagi.sg/?page_id=171
14th Novem­ber 2005
14:15:17
miyagi.sg/?cat=2
miyagi.sg/?page_id=171

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