Tag: Australia

  • Meet the Karen Cheng

    I’ve been following Karen Cheng’s blog on and off since blogs were invented way back in 1976. If you’re not already a fan, she’s a hot Perth mother of two lovely kids who blogs about her family, shopping et cetera on a very pretty self-designed website at www.karencheng.com.au. On occasion, she takes self-portraits in a…

  • No one thinks big of you

    This anti-speeding campaign ad is targeted at young male drivers in NSW, Australia. It depicts young men driving fast to impress women and friends, who aren’t impressed and who wag their little finger to indicate that the driver has a small… y’know? As with a lot of things Australian, it’s slightly offensive and controversial, but…

  • Communicado IV: I promise you!

    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 really felt: Two-Niner to all stations…

  • Exporting Singlish

    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: Signs probably seen in Johnny’s workshop Surf…

  • Bastogne

    “Doesn’t this feel like an episode of ‘Band of Brothers?’ 3SG Gerard Tan asked anyone who’d listen, prompting another thread of conversation. “Which one?” “‘Bastogne‘, my favourite one, where they’re being bombarded by artillery endlessly in the forest, and there aren’t any officers around, and there are no resupplies of food and water”. Gerard was…