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Growing Up In Geylang. Sunday, August 26, 2012. I was five then. I remember the year clearly because it was the same one that I started taking an interest in the family piano. My first attempt wasn't to play Chopin or Mozart, I went and peed right next to it. Of course, no one in the family understood. They thought I'd peed because my Big Uncle had shouted at me for touching his piano without permission. Er, excuse me? That piano was bought with my mom's money. You ingrate! She admonished. I was happ...

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Growing Up In Geylang. Sunday, August 26, 2012. I was five then. I remember the year clearly because it was the same one that I started taking an interest in the family piano. My first attempt wasn't to play Chopin or Mozart, I went and peed right next to it. Of course, no one in the family understood. They thought I'd peed because my Big Uncle had shouted at me for touching his piano without permission. Er, excuse me? That piano was bought with my mom's money. You ingrate! She admonished. I was happ...

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Growing Up In Geylang: Little Giant Me

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Growing Up In Geylang. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. There's a zinc roof that covered our 'cellar' in Geylang. Well, it's not exactly a cellar but a common landing where our three-storey high back spiral staircase ended. This staircase was our fire escape and led to a back alley downstairs. Its landing had a door to keep unwanted visitors out. They reminded me more of tiny prehistoric plants than the tall swaying kampong variety. From a distance, they looked positively toy-like. There's a 'World Cities' ex...

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Growing Up In Geylang: Eating Out in the 60s/70s

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Growing Up In Geylang. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Eating Out in the 60s/70s. In this blog, I have written about food my Cantonese mom had dished up while I was growing up in Geylang. There were times when she preferred not to cook and we would then tapow from kopitiam zhichars and street hawkers. I was often the errand-boy as I liked to cycle. It beats walking from lorong to lorong. I could also take shortcuts through the many backlanes linking them. Along Sims Avenue would come this chwee kueh seller wi...

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Growing Up In Geylang: Lao Fu Zi

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Growing Up In Geylang. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. This comic strip has become such a mainstay in our cultural consciousness that I sometimes wonder why not more fun activities are organised around it. We should have a 'Lao Fu Zi Skit Challenge Day' or see more of him in our Chingay parades. Mr Wong's humour was not poor by comparison either. They reflected universal themes of pathos, irony, courage, romance, and even reverse logic, why I guess his humor is still relevant today! All very '60s and '70s!

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Growing Up In Geylang: Knotting Off To Sleep

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Growing Up In Geylang. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Knotting Off To Sleep. I was trying to remember the other day when I first tied a knot. No, it wasn't with shoes. The memory came back to me when I was rubbing Tiger Balm under my nose to help me sleep. To tell you the truth, I have not done that in a million years. It was the smell of Tiger Balm that compelled me to try again. Come to think of it, my mom also used this knotty sleep solution (sounds kinky! Related story: Static Baby. A Singaporean Story ...

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Growing Up In Geylang: Aiming Straight

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Growing Up In Geylang. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. I don't know what possessed my dad to buy us a dart set. The one in the photo (left) was exactly the same set I used as a kid growing up in Geylang. I discovered them again recently in an old toy shop somewhere near Bugis Junction. I think some company in China revived and manufactured them. She was referring to her "poh shui" (Cantonese for patch-work pieces). Previous story: Knotting Off To Sleep. Next story: Clicker Cricket. Pls refer to Preface page.

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A Singaporean Story Box: February 2012

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A Singaporean Story Box. Saturday, 11 February 2012. Since young, I've always been fascinated by the news reports in early July every year that mark the start of the Bull Run season in Europe. No, I am not talking about the climate of stocks and shares there but rather the dynamic pictures of people being chased (and sometimes gored) by bulls along ancient streets. Are these people mad? All in all, the benefits of using a wheelable hardcase outweighs the negative and I am glad to have made that smart cho...

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Monday, May 5, 2014. When the peer results came out and we found out who passed or failed, we also soon got our posting orders. I was not surprised to discover that I was among those selected to remain in OCS as instructors. I would likely end up in an engineering lab or design studio. At the time, I did have aspirations to being a psychiatrist or architect. None of the local training awards (LTA) offered by the SAF supported these choices. Only my uniform remained fitting of times past. Great Suddenly a...

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Monday, May 5, 2014. One evening, that NS reality program on TV, Every Singaporean Son, showed the recruits preparing for Recruit Night. an end-of-course function. So, even though we were glad that OC's Evening was coming up, we didn't feel very liberated at all. We were still in that goddamn 'torture' camp of ITD in Sembawang, probably the second last batch to still train there before BMT training was later moved on to a redesignated Tekong Island. During Recruit Evening, I remember my platoon's PC acti...

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Doing-National-Service: About Hokkien Peng

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Monday, May 5, 2014. When I was told I would be joining a bunch of foodies to sample Hokkien food, my mind immediately harked back to my very first time. It was during my 6th or 7th Reservist in-camp training. I was with an Infantry Battalion then and leading a platoon of 'Hokkien peng' (i.e. dialect-speaking soldiers). We had pitched tents on a part of Pulau Tekong, the aim being to protect an important 'make-believe' installation there. Or simply an abandoned repeater station for commercial radio?

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Doing-National-Service: Fatigue Milestones

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Monday, May 5, 2014. If you have gone through National Service, you will recall the many fatigue milestones you and your body had somehow survived through. Such fatigue came in many guises. During BMT, it was extreme tiredness due to one punishing training lesson after another. For example, the bayonet training ones would almost always begin right after swimming. During our BMT swimming lessons, fatigue came from threading water for very long and also from doing the many insane laps. I think even an ...

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Doing-National-Service: One Leg Left

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Monday, May 5, 2014. One of the things I think thin people cannot enjoy is a good massage. All those meatless body parts and sharp bone corners. It's almost like marinating fish or prawn and get poked here and there. I mean I would rather marinate a slab of three-layer pork. It is so luscious and "QQ" between the fingers. The same for girlfriends, I suppose, especially those chubbier than Barbie. They are more fun to apply sunblock on. My first massage did not happen in Singapore; it took place in Taiwan...

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Doing-National-Service: OCS Stress

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Monday, May 5, 2014. People have asked me if OCS is tough, stressful. I can only tell them of my own experience. Each generation go through different aspects of the SAF (it's always evolving in both approach and practice; recruits also differ in background and generational gap) and mine was rather unusual in retrospect. I had a platoon commander and platoon sergeant who ran things rather differently. As a result we remained very self-motivated and never made him "malu". And the beauty of it all was t...

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Doing-National-Service: On Leadership

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Monday, May 5, 2014. Was what I imagined the light to be asking of me as I stood there listening to another senior cadet bark his head off about another stirling officer value. I am not good with barkers nor unreasonable people. But I could be Teflon and let it slip. Push me somemore and I might just bite back. I wondered then if there were more barkers then reasonable instructors at OCS. Of course, the Tactics Team instructors there would give me plenty to think about later. Could it be that simple?

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