Tag: Australia
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mb: Ulu until no handphone signal
“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…
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Our land is girt by sea
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,…
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Of beauty rich and rare
I am not looking forward to going for my reservist training. My battle-hardened (water fights in the bathroom) unit will be sent to North Queensland and put in the bush for the most part of 20 days. I’m not too sure how I’ll hold up. There’ll be intermittent mobile phone access, but fuck me dead,…
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Squatting Matilda
Mr Miyagi receives his medal for ‘Best Army Blogger’ Army briefings are seldom exciting, and yesterday’s one was no different. My unit mates all asked me, “Are you gonna blog this?” or, “Are you gonna blog about this?”, to which I replied, “No lah! So boring, blog what fuck?” Of course I was kidding. “So…