As some of you have already realized, I landed myself in hospital with an open compound fracture of my tibia and fibula.
The story goes like this, I was chased by wild dogs – who weren’t supposed to be there in the first place – at night, in my army camp. I ran down a slope [...]

Doing duties on a Saturday feels like Chinese New Year.
You wake up early in the morning. You eat lots of junk food. You watch TV all day long, while striking up conversations with people you barely know.
- Private Gary, 040709

Had the privilege to watch this acclaimed movie today during my “time off” from the army.
Personally, I’ve mixed views about the film.
The historical inaccuracies and a lack of realism marred the potential of the film greatly. It certainly was weird hearing German and Jewish characters speak in perfect English; though I could understand the compromise, [...]

A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered – it all demands a fierce revenge, a balancing of the accounts.

That peculiar feeling strikes me again.
Lying on my bed in camp. I can’t sleep. I’m breaking out in sweat from the weather.
The best opportunities always don’t come to me. Do I sit it out and wait for the golden goose, or do I just make do with something lesser?
This is not how I envisioned my [...]

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
Just so aptly describes my weekends.

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I almost signed off with this when replying to an email from a potential client.
Regards,
PTE Gary Su
Signal Clerk
Such is my fate in life. You can call it “from riches to rags”.
—
The Beatles – Yesterday

My job was terrible – no joy, no satisfaction, 10-14 hours a day of nothing. A prison.

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? If you wrong us, do we not revenge?