From the White Horse’s mouth

On March 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Army / National Service

I was enlisted in Decem­ber 1988, just as the Army was chang­ing their com­bat hel­mets from heavy steel to high tech Dupont Kevlar, and apart from my dog tags that said I was aller­gic to peni­cillin and triple anti­gen vac­cines, my med­ical docket had this mys­te­ri­ous ink stamp that sim­ply said, “W.H.”

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My National Day Parade

On August 6, 2010 · 10 Comments · In Army / National Service

I remem­ber National Day Parade 1990 the most because it’s the NDP I was involved in.

It was held at the Padang, and it fea­tured the most impres­sive mobile col­umn dis­play since inde­pen­dence, involv­ing all the mil­i­tary hard­ware and sol­diers (like us) of the day.

At the begin­ning of that year, my bat­tal­ion mates and I […]

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Water displacement formula, 40th attempt

On September 23, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Army / National Service

Back when I was in full time NS, the clean­ing of weapons was a mun­dane, time-consuming, daily chore. Between the 7 troop­ers in a com­bat sec­tion, we’d have around seven small arms (M16S1), cou­ple of grenade launch­ers (M203), cou­ple of light auto­mat­ics (Ultimax100), two GPMGs, and a heavy machine gun (Brown­ing .5 HMG).

Car­bon residue would […]

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When once the flag flew me

On August 9, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Army / National Service

Once, dur­ing NS, me and two other guys were made the battalion’s flag rais­ing party for one of many early morn­ing parades.

This task entailed pick­ing up the flags from the Reg­i­men­tal Sergeant Major’s office, check­ing the cords to make sure noth­ing was frayed, […]

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Completely useless Christmas gifts: the camouflage-patterned wallet

On December 12, 2007 · 3 Comments · In Army / National Service, Toys

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Third-best seller is not the same as third bestseller

On October 18, 2007 · 6 Comments · In Army / National Service, Living

If not for Alan Greenspan and some fella named ”

Look­ing at the list, and know­ing how lit­tle I know about money and the econ­omy, I think I’m going to write some­thing about […]

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On sale

On September 21, 2007 · 36 Comments · In Army / National Service, Living

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In My Time

On September 3, 2007 · 32 Comments · In Army / National Service, Living

I’ve never been to an Army Open House because I don’t have kids to bring them to, and my fam­ily would scream if I asked them “hey you wanna go to the Army Open House and see Army gear and stuff?” and they’d scream, “We wash your Army gear every time you come back from […]

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Missile tests?

On August 13, 2007 · 12 Comments · In Army / National Service

Reader ‘Benny’ left a com­ment on the pre­vi­ous post, say­ing,

“Hi, have you heard any­thing about a mis­sile defense test today? This morn­ing (~9:45) I heard a roar and watched four jet clouds (con­trails) fly over NTU headed south­east. Three were in par­al­lel and a smaller one was in between two of them. […]

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Pick it up lah!

On March 2, 2007 · 8 Comments · In Army / National Service


What reservists don’t look like

It rained all of yes­ter­day, piss­ing down on all of us while we were at the com­bat shoot range near Pasir Laba Camp (or Pasir Labia Camp, as we called it, which is built around Bukit Vagina, as we gig­gled some more like sec­ondary school […]

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