Tag: National Service

Mr Miyagi takes a canteen break Originally uploaded by mr brown. Canteen break. 2 bucks, Aussie, for a Mars bar, $1.50 for a beer. Even reserbit in Australia also must have canteen break, the sacred and holy ritual of the Singapore soldier, Holy Knight of the Order of National Service. I wonder if they have…

Miyagi back from an exercise Originally uploaded by mr brown. After four days on exercise, buy cialis Miyagi is back in civilisation. Meaning: got mobile signal. He is still in the boonies though. This is his message: Queensland sun so hot, find like that also can get sunburned. Personally, hospital I think he looks like…

Miyagi from the boonies Originally uploaded by mr brown. Telegraph from mr miyagi. Rain. Four. Days. Wash. Underwear. Cannot. Dry. That does look like the face of a man who is wearing wet underwear in the bush. Hope nothing gross starts to grow down there.

“There are no power points here and the mobile signal is intermittent. So I have to turn off my phone to save power. There are no bunks here, and we’re all staying in tents. Okgottago, mobilebatteryispreciousbyebye.” said Miyagi to me last night. Three weeks in an Aussie desert, a battalion of Singapore soldiers with mobile…

Middle of nowhere is a stone’s throw away from where me and the boys are right now, as we’re being ferried across 120km of dusty roads to the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland. We’ll be unloading our gear in a bit, sit and be briefed on a dozen things we have to do today,…