Category: Living
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Curb, what curb?
Greetings, new readers who are here via my favouritest newspaper in the whole wide world, The Sydney Morning Herald, which said this morning: Singapore has barred servicemen from posting unauthorised accounts and pictures of military life on the internet in a further tightening of restrictions on the growing blogging community here. The new rules, made…
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Blogging about National Service is OK
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 you paid $5,000.00 for skipping National Service altogether,…
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Cat herders
Cat herders
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Taking down Army-related posts and pictures
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. I have also been…
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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…