What do you do when you mention “Touch Wood”?

With under 6 months left till what every national serviceman looks forward to – their ORD date, I would have thought I have so far gone through it without much of upsetting the rules and in particular haven’t been knocked down. So of course to my amazement, last week I …

Its really hard to put into words when your fellow bunkmates have difficulty completing the simple task of cleaning their own cupboards and ONE chair each given approximately an hour each. What really can they achieve in life when such a simple task seems beyond them? I think they right …

Cpl Lee (formerly Pte Lee, now promoted … the one who volunteered for a strip search at range) seems determined to supersede the escapades of the now infamous Pte Khor (read Adventures of Private Khor, The Finale and The Recrudescence).
As we brought our field plants (field plants consist of chainsaw, …

After this week, I’ve truly learnt to appreciate the people that have constructed our country from scratch, be it our forefathers or the foreign and construction workers that continue to toil in the development of our country. As my sergeant put it aptly (in mandarin) – translated: If anyone looks …

Once again, we’ve taken on a new role for the next two weeks – sun tanning at the Padang. Well, seriously as my CO (commanding officer) puts it (as he spoke to us today), we are construction workers. Yeah, we are the ones to do all the manual labour as …

Yep, the subject probably summed up the atmoshphere at the Padang and the surrounding areas, the National Day Parade not only got the audience in delirium, but definitely the onlookers all around from Marina Square to the Esplanade. To say there was pandemonium at the Esplanade would be a massive …