Tag: National Service

We had fun making this one, thanks to the stellar cast in our office, who had no trouble getting into their various (NS) characters. Blokes here will have no trouble recognising the very familiar mutants: Armskoteman: Mutant Power – Ability to sign-out any weapon Sai Kang Warrior: Mutant Power – Ability to kenah arrow to…

OK, so I’m saying that only because I nearly made a monkey of myself. Last night, my mother called me and asked, ‘hey, what is this Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League?’, to which I replied with my usual confident bluster, “No such thing!”, which got Mum all worked up: “Har? No such thing? But they…

You’ll never have met a more tired bunch of actors as me and mr brown did at the PA Headquarters’ rehearsal rooms (who says they’re not hip?) at Kallang. Beatrice Chia wanted to go home, and Sheik Haikel’s hair was all over the place (hur hur), and was on the brink of passing out. So,…

Didja know that HIV screening is mandatory for NSmen who have trained overseas? I do now. My battalion got sms-notified to report for ‘duty’ two weeks from now, so they can screen us three months after returning from the Queensland bush. iTunes is playing an illegal copy of World by Irma Thomas of which I…

During my ICT in Queensland, we wore uniforms which were treated with permethrin, a vial of which was given to us by the Army before the trip for to soak our uniforms ourselves. I soaked the combat fatigues (No. 4s), but not our grey vests, shorts and socks. Permethrin is a nerve agent which is…