Category: Living
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Chelo
“Chloe”, called the teacher reading out the class roll. There was no answer. She called several more times, before adding the missing student’s family name. “Chloe Tan?” Still no response. And it didn’t make sense because the number on the roll didn’t tally with the number of students in the class. Chloe had to be…
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Mindef Reserve
with LTC (NS) Ong Kien Soo, CO, 433 SAR “Should I set alarm clock for tomorrow?” asked Dave to no-one in particular before answering, “forgot, we got human alarm clock in the bunk”. The human alarm clock was Jonah “Marsh” Lim, who earned his nickname because during every in-camp training, he’s the first to wake…
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Last parade
This morning, I will attend the last In-Camp Training with the 433rd Battalion, Singapore Armoured Regiment. The unit will be transferred to Mindef Operational Reserve after this year. In English, this means its training cycle (1998-2008) is over. There are so many emotions involved but which can hardly come to mind right now because it…
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Buyer beware
If you kept pet insects and for some reason, had to go to this supermarket to get pet supplies, you’d have to be really careful what you put in your trolley, else you might just end up going home and committing insecticide. OK, maybe not that funny, but the signboard indicating what the shelves on…
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Your clothes, give them to me now
photo by kandyjaxx Taking an enforced break from working on a script because Mac needs to go to the toilet at least twice a day, I went downstairs past midnight, and walked through the basement carpark where a faulty flourescent light was flickering. For a brief minute, I was spooked, because you know how in…