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On SAF and Mobile Phones with No Camera Features
Don't play play! Camera phones are very dangerous to national security! No camera phones allowed. This is one my biggest peeve whenever I have to book into any SAF camp, whether for my annual ICT, IPT,...
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NS Graduation: “I was impressed until my son told me he had to pay $2.50 for...
S$2.50 for the nation please Via Straits Times.com: ‘I was impressed until my son told me he had to pay $2.50 for my attendance, as did his peers for their families at $2.50 per head.’ MS NG BENG CHOO:...
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Meet the Female Recruits of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Presenting to the world… the female soldiers of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) going through their Basic Military Training (BMT) as fresh recruits: Welcome to the army Their training instructor...
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What has NS done for you?
NS is good for all and has done a lot for Singapore born males. Females and foreigners should enlist too. MINDEF: “What would you defend?” Singapore born males to one another: “What has NS done for...
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Jack Neo’s Ah Boys to Men《新兵正传》Gala Premiere
Ah Boys to Men gala premiere Thanks to the folks from GV Singapore, I watched Singapore’s top movie director, Jack Neo‘s latest movie, Ah Boys to Men《新兵正传》two weeks ago at the gala premiere at GV...
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On Alex Liang, a Singaporean who gave up his Singapore citizenship
BBC News ran a story on 2 Oct featuring twenty of their international readers explaining why they had renounced their citizenship from their respective birth nations. Buried in the list was an Alex...
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On National Service
I did not expect my rant last week on our National Service (NS) system to trigger such a strong reaction. By NS, I am referring to the entire package of two years compulsory full time service, annual...
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Blogger slammed for calling NS a “slavery system”?
Nice headline by The New Paper (TNP) today on my two NS blog posts (On National Service and On Alex Liang): Blogger slammed? “While some neitizens agreed with him, most criticised him”? I did an...
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Dr Lim Wee Kiak: Serving two years NS privilege belongs to Singaporeans
Who voted this guy into parliament? I love this quote from Dr Lim Wee Kiak, Member of Parliament for Nee Soon GRC, on the results of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) survey on National Service...
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On National Service – Part 2
Since my previous posts on National Service generated so much attention, I feel obliged to blog about the recent slew of news from the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF). To recap on the conversations, read...
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Who is Lieutenant Joshua Teo?
Picture taken from Electric New Paper He is the poster boy for this year’s National Day Parade (NDP). This dude delayed his ORD date (*GASP*!!!) by six months (*GASP GASP GASP*!!!!!!!) so that he can...
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Who is Dave Teo Ming?
Corporal Dave Teo Ming became the most wanted man in Singapore last Sunday after he went missing from Mandai Hill Camp on Sunday at about 11.59pm, with a SAR-21 rifle and some ammunition issued to him...
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Who is Marcus Ng?
Picture taken from Straits Times.com Marcus Ng Yi Loong, 21, is going to the detention barracks (DB) for insubordination. Many young men get sentenced to go DB all the time, but why is Marcus getting...
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SAF Chipmunk
Photoshopped this for fun. Nice or not? Took me about 15 minutes to do this. The edges are a bit rough because I have to clean out Simon and Theodore. Technorati Tags: saf, alvin and the chipmunks,...
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Who is Ong Boon Jun?
Ong Boon Jun is a pimp who operates in Singapore and dubbed as the Most Suay Person in Singapore for his involvement with full-time national serviceman, Dave Teo Ming who had gone AWOL from camp with...
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Reservist discrimination in JobsDB.com?
Saw this post on omy’s forum by a person called 我的天 who claimed that local job search portal, JobsDB added a “reservist” option in their selection fields under “Personal Details => National...
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SAF’s 3 days time-out on physical and endurance training
Frankly, I was very surprised by this official statement issued by our Minister for Defence, Mr. Teo Chee Hean on 12 June 2008, 1500 hours: “I would like to express my deep condolences to the families...
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Singapore’s Worst Website – NS.SG?
I wonder if it’s just me… the NS Portal is one of the worst and most badly designed website I have to access frequently. Do you have the same problems I have with this website? Is there any way we can...
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Alvinology is back from Japan
The two weeks break was refreshing! I reached Singapore at around 5pm yesterday. The first SMS to greet me when I return was this one below: Welcome home SMS from my best friend Fxxxk! MINDEF again! RT...
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SAF’s fourth biggest military spender (per capita) in the world in 2008
Chart via The Economist Via The Economist. Errr… how come ah? We are not at war or in a state of emergency. Moreover, there’s a quick pool of cheap labour via forced two-years conscription and ten...
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Chao Keng in the SAF
[youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/v/bwiqxPWJogQ&hl=en&fs=1″] Watch and learn. Technorati Tags: singapore, chao keng, saf, singapore army, singapore armed forces, singapore soldier,...
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My first reservist ICT
Changi Naval Base (picture taken from Erik’s flickr album) I finally got home last Saturday at around 5pm after a 6 days ICT. My reservist unit is Changi Defense Squadron and our job is to guard...
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My 2nd ICT (16 Jan to 3 Feb)
picture taken from USMC “A Ah O Ah Infantry…” Sian man. Tomorrow morning must report for In-Camp-Training (ICT) again. It’s THREE LONG WEEKS this time. Three weeks in robot mode to cope with the...
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Zo Peng (Being a Soldier)
Written, directed and produced by Jacen Tan of Hosaywood Studio. I know this short film is a bit old… but since I am going for reservist tomorrow, I thought it will be cool to leave everyone thinking...
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Retarded SAF soldiers and Fake Ghost
This video and a few others caused quite a stir in the local media not too long ago. Found it posted up again on YouTube after all of them were taken down then. The camp looks like where I served my...
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SAF soldier caught visiting prostitute in Taiwan… News?
Naughty SAF soldier caught visiting prostitute A reader sent me this Taiwan news story via The Liberty Time (自由时报). It’s about a SAF soldier getting caught in an illegal sexual transaction with a...
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