Memories

Was just talking to Chester and was reminded of the old days of RIMB. Our batch was the paragon of batch unity and spirit. Without fail almost every day almost the entire batch would converge on 4R and go for lunch, be it at S11, J8 or in school. After band, we'd just hang around in the band room until we were chased out by the teachers. Tuesdays and Thursdays saw many of us hanging around in the band room as well.

I am reminded of all the songs that we played in our last year... Silvercrest, Le Carnival Des Animaux, March and Procession of Bacchus, Jalan Jalan, Overture for Symphonic Band, Carmen Fantasy, Whistle While You Work, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Bandwagon, Highlights from Ragtime, Army of the Nile and Spanish Fever, as a band. As a batch, we ended off with Utopia, Titanic Medley, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jurassic Park and the promise that we would forever remain together.

We held onto this too, even after Investiture and Lilies by the River. We still went for batch lunches together, visited the band many times during the term, mugged for CTs together and during the hols, went for quite a few batch outings. Batch chalet/refugee camp at Jeremy's house, numerous movies such as Death Note, Night at the Museum and so on. All the while we were saying we could never be parted. What happened after that?

On the 3rd of January 2007, something somewhere blew up, and took that with it.

It pains me still to listen to our Investiture recordings, especially Titanic Medley. Where did that go?