I didn’t go home when the rest of the battalion took off for the weekend.
Though I was officially not confined, I had a day-long bike orientation to driving on the WRONG (i.e. Right) side of the road on Saturday. Either I could book out at 7 pm and reach home around 9. Sleep early, wake [...]
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A pure combat vocation is neither immunity nor a shield to office politics (and its derivatives, part thereof).
Don’t get me wrong: we have none of the blade-wielding back-stabbers that are as common place as dust mites in our company line (such stuff are found in offices where people clamour for glory, promotion, and a lucrative [...]
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Before my secondary school’s wildly successful course on studying methods, I was stuck to inefficient and mundane rote memory work, which really took up plenty of my time after school. Staying back in the quiet environment of the school library then happened to appeal to me, and hence I was able to accomplish the mammoth [...]
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The middle of 2005 crept upon me before I realised it. Two more months, and I would be packed off to Taiwan for my unit’s ATEC; This final bastion marks the ultimate peak of my national service stint, and precedes an inexorable slide into skill decadance and physical irrelevance all the way till my reservist [...]
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Having a blog stitched to my personal bio can really be a pain in the proverbial backside: I can’t comment about people I know online, simply because the resulting backlash would be a total pain in the (I guess you know).
But now, I am making an exception. Much aside to keeping my opinions in the [...]
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I usually have quiet and restful train trips for my rides back to camp on Sundays. The journey to the western part of Singapore is usually accompanied with many similar sullen faces who happened to have to work the next day in the nearby industrial area. I would take the opportunity to spend that 45 [...]
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While swimming is my perpetual obsession, I never really found a way to tear myself from my computer to even do it as an indulgence: the lure of the Internet is even greater than my physical need to expend energy.
But this being one of the rare days where I found myself able to get up [...]
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I find it an interesting experience to be in contact with so many people from all walks of life: There is one poor guy back in my BMT company who is already married (26 if my recall is not flawed at 19 and a half years old) and having to spend 5 and a half [...]
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