TO HEAR Colonel Ishak Ismail, 46, tell it, his decision to become a regular officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) was greeted with some incredulity.

He recalled on Thursday that someone asked him pointedly: 'This is your name - you sure you want to sign on?'

He has replied in the affirmative many times in the last 28 years.

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SIX people were scalded when a pressure cooker at a stall in the Ghim Moh Hawker Centre malfunctioned and sprayed boiling hot soya milk over them.