Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties with my will-power, I am forced to delay the production on the long awaited series of unfortunate events. Rather unfortunate, it is.
Anyway, things back at camp have largely settled down into a steady routine: I go on a very tiring physical training in the morning, then slump on my [...]
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On a lighter note, I would like to congratulate all the commanders from 4th Battalion Singapore Infantry Regiment for having completed their National Service. ORD! Time for you to return to your civilian lives, and make that painful transition back to civilian life. Time to worry about your next paycheck, your future, not to mention [...]
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Humans don’t really care about the finer details about all the things they use. As long as it works as advertised, they would be content with just the basic knowledge required to operate those technological goddesses.
With that in mind, here is an introduction to the insect killer, Permethrin, and how it affects to military personnels.
We [...]
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Day One: Arrival (14 August 2005)
I couldn’t sleep the night preceding the flight, whether that is due to my excitement at air travel, or the jitters filling my stomach with acid on a warm night. Studying physics hasn’t been a sufficient relief: I don’t really get comforted at the idea of a piece of aluminium [...]
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Metaphorically, I have butterflies in my stomach.
In reality, I am tossing and turning in my bed.
Less than 9 hours from now, I will find myself on board a plane bound for the land of Jacky Wu, Nono and Kang Kang. No, not to see them, of course, but I would be in their country/province (antagonists [...]
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I tried calling the forum host a few times yesterday, but nobody answered, strangely.
So there hangs precariously on the precipice all the previous comments made in that forum host. I won’t be surprised if it has gone over the cliff already.
Meanwhile, my bad cough is improving somewhat: my throat no longer launches into an obstructed [...]
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My stomach is not exactly a very cooperative partner whenever an examination is immenient. It apparently chooses to seize up into a tightly-knotted bunch, which of course does not make breakfast any easier to go down. I didn’t take any on the day of my battalion’s ATEC stage one. That this is “paper one” of [...]
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The difference between something left alone in its wrapper and the same object sitting naked is something uncomprehendable.
Dust and water vapour introduces weird congs into a previously smooth and efficient running machine. I ran my printer for the first time in a year toay. Not having used it for such a long time, I had [...]
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