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A Singaporean Story Box: December 2013
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A Singaporean Story Box. Thursday, 12 December 2013. Nudes I started to like nudes when I was a very young kid. I think that topless Iban woman who regularly delivered fresh fruits to my family in Kuching had something to do with it. There she goes, jaunting up our garden path in all her natural bounciness! She had huge breasts that hung low. probably the lovelies had not seen material support since, what, puberty? I was three years old so no police were called in to arrest me for indecent exposure. ...
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A Singaporean Story Box: February 2012
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A Singaporean Story Box. Saturday, 11 February 2012. Since young, I've always been fascinated by the news reports in early July every year that mark the start of the Bull Run season in Europe. No, I am not talking about the climate of stocks and shares there but rather the dynamic pictures of people being chased (and sometimes gored) by bulls along ancient streets. Are these people mad? All in all, the benefits of using a wheelable hardcase outweighs the negative and I am glad to have made that smart cho...
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Doing-National-Service: An Instructor's Life
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Monday, May 5, 2014. When the peer results came out and we found out who passed or failed, we also soon got our posting orders. I was not surprised to discover that I was among those selected to remain in OCS as instructors. I would likely end up in an engineering lab or design studio. At the time, I did have aspirations to being a psychiatrist or architect. None of the local training awards (LTA) offered by the SAF supported these choices. Only my uniform remained fitting of times past. Great Suddenly a...
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Doing-National-Service: Recruit Night
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Monday, May 5, 2014. One evening, that NS reality program on TV, Every Singaporean Son, showed the recruits preparing for Recruit Night. an end-of-course function. So, even though we were glad that OC's Evening was coming up, we didn't feel very liberated at all. We were still in that goddamn 'torture' camp of ITD in Sembawang, probably the second last batch to still train there before BMT training was later moved on to a redesignated Tekong Island. During Recruit Evening, I remember my platoon's PC acti...
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Doing-National-Service: About Hokkien Peng
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Monday, May 5, 2014. When I was told I would be joining a bunch of foodies to sample Hokkien food, my mind immediately harked back to my very first time. It was during my 6th or 7th Reservist in-camp training. I was with an Infantry Battalion then and leading a platoon of 'Hokkien peng' (i.e. dialect-speaking soldiers). We had pitched tents on a part of Pulau Tekong, the aim being to protect an important 'make-believe' installation there. Or simply an abandoned repeater station for commercial radio?
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Doing-National-Service: Fatigue Milestones
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Monday, May 5, 2014. If you have gone through National Service, you will recall the many fatigue milestones you and your body had somehow survived through. Such fatigue came in many guises. During BMT, it was extreme tiredness due to one punishing training lesson after another. For example, the bayonet training ones would almost always begin right after swimming. During our BMT swimming lessons, fatigue came from threading water for very long and also from doing the many insane laps. I think even an ...
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Doing-National-Service: One Leg Left
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Monday, May 5, 2014. One of the things I think thin people cannot enjoy is a good massage. All those meatless body parts and sharp bone corners. It's almost like marinating fish or prawn and get poked here and there. I mean I would rather marinate a slab of three-layer pork. It is so luscious and "QQ" between the fingers. The same for girlfriends, I suppose, especially those chubbier than Barbie. They are more fun to apply sunblock on. My first massage did not happen in Singapore; it took place in Taiwan...
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Doing-National-Service: OCS Stress
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Monday, May 5, 2014. People have asked me if OCS is tough, stressful. I can only tell them of my own experience. Each generation go through different aspects of the SAF (it's always evolving in both approach and practice; recruits also differ in background and generational gap) and mine was rather unusual in retrospect. I had a platoon commander and platoon sergeant who ran things rather differently. As a result we remained very self-motivated and never made him "malu". And the beauty of it all was t...
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Doing-National-Service: On Leadership
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Monday, May 5, 2014. Was what I imagined the light to be asking of me as I stood there listening to another senior cadet bark his head off about another stirling officer value. I am not good with barkers nor unreasonable people. But I could be Teflon and let it slip. Push me somemore and I might just bite back. I wondered then if there were more barkers then reasonable instructors at OCS. Of course, the Tactics Team instructors there would give me plenty to think about later. Could it be that simple?
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Doing-National-Service: Preface
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Stories from my NS days (active and reservist in a sort of chronological order). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Pls refer to Preface page. View my complete profile. Growing Up In Geylang. A Singaporean Story Box. A Singaporean Talk Box. A Singaporean Poem Box. A Singaporean Dream Box. A Singaporean Design Box. A Singaporean Sci-Fi Story Box. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
