Yay for unity

Army personnel will quarrel over anything. I was doing marshalling duty at a corner of the Padang during yesterday's National Day Parade rehearsal and there was this section of orange netting we'd put up to prevent people from going behind the grandstands, but which the artillery people wanted taken down so participants could cross. Our officers eventually relented, on the condition that the arty guys would take over responsibility for human traffic at that entrance; apparently they didn't, and it ended with our PC having words with the arty guys' officer (or she might have been a warrant) and our acting OC making a point to tell me and the other marshals not to put up the orange netting (a half-a-minute job) once the participants were done, because after all it's the arty people who took it down. Uh, okay.

In other news, sunburn sucks. Next time there's a rehearsal, I'm going to make sure I get assigned to a post on the other end of the Padang, where there actually is some shade. I swear, I drank all the contents of my green water bottle plus five small bottles of Newater between noon and 3pm and didn't need to go to the toilet once.