One of those days in Band B....

Today was a highly dramatic day in Band B. First, it started out with Encik opening the office which anyone of that rank wouldn't be too happy about. Hence, he had his first Monday morning inspection in Band B, I guess to vent his frustrations but it was laced with politically correct reasons in typical army fashion. Of course now there are people who don't iron their uniform or even brush their shoes compared to my era (2001-2003).

Then some Duty Officer who didn't have much to do went to check if the bunks were locked and found 3 bunks unlocked. One of the bunks had a spoilt lock which they never reported, don't ask why. Probably the bunk I/C was too busy modifying his Honda Jazz. So we all had a long lecture for that.

Then came the grand finale of all. We found out the 'confidential' reason behind the no.1 inspection this morning. We had to support Band A in their anniversary parade because some big shot felt the band was too small, by the way this never happened in my era too cos we had more than enough people. Maybe the Bands need foreign talent too, like the rest of Singapore to make do for the lack of manpower. So 13 'lucky' guys were given then 'option' of going down for the parade to support Band A.

All of this happened at the morning muster parade. Then of course in typical bandsmen style everyone was bitching away over breakfast which was followed by full band for Turf Club. Same old Thunderer and Obladi its a matter of time before they ask for the band to play new stuff. The full band was followed by a talk by our beloved Staff who decided they'll be area cleaning and bunk inspection so as to knock the 'sing cheows' (new birds or juniors) out of their honeymoon. Anyway that's all the day was about.

Tomorrow is D-Day for all the bunks as there is bunk inspection, the last time we had that at TAB, Staff Radin (now Master) was more interested in seeing my collage of FHM gals on the wall that he never bothered inspecting the bunk. Bunk 11 was famous for that...free flow of FHM, PS and the only smoker friendly bunk. Of course at night we had visitors from the other dimension who visited us too....