Tag: National Service

  • Testing time

    So I’m taking the IPPT today, whereby if I pass, I will not be required to go to Remedial Training Phase II. The past few trainings have featured new gadgets the instructors call heart rake mongnitors. And they are for you to mongnitor your own cardio training, whereby you should be training at 80% of…

  • Resolutions and remedies

    It’s a pity mobile phones and recording devices aren’t allowed in military installations any more. Or else, what a rich tapestry of you know, stuff, a blogger could take out of the things that go on in military installations that are really, you know, interesting. I’d wish one and all a Happy New Year, but…

  • Our Army

    Photograph of Selarang Barracks during the ‘Selarang Barracks Incident’- from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Things are moving pretty quickly with the Singapore Armed Forces. They’ve caught up with YouTube (whom Google has caught up with) by banning camera phones in military installations. No more pictures or videos from training. That also means no more unofficial…

  • The best man

    It’s apt that me and the best man at my wedding are on opposite pages in today’s paper. ‘It’s weird seeing that’, said my fiancée while she was flipping through the National Day Special. We called the best man, and the best man said, ‘eh, I really look like chow reservist right?’, and I said…

  • Podcast: reservist talk

    brown and Miyagi talk about reservist training, medicine toys and how if you collect enough booger, you can roll it into a ball, and maybe set fire to it. This mrbrown show is sponsored by yearbook.com.sg, Singapore’s very own “School Reunions” site. Podcast: the mrbrown show 9 June 2006: reservist talk Subscribe:[feed][iTunes] Technorati Tags: army,…