a discussion of darryl's stint in the guitar club at rj (because, he says, it was full of girls) led to the discovery that the legacy of eugene & noel has not come down to the current students at rj. this resulted in darryl and i giving an impromptu and very out-of-tune rendition of huo cai tian tang, their signature song at concerts. (if you weren't at school with me, e. and n. were a pair of medical students in my year, who were quite the songster darlings of the school, everyone's favourite xinyao performers (well they mostly played xinyao, although according to darryl all boys go through an electric phase.) unless you count christie and alfoo (who, as i recall, during one talentime contest, went by the parodic name fooey and the loh-fish.) they were rather unusual for having come up from cath high together and then were placed, coincidentally, into the same class in jc, and then both went on to medical school together and i believe, for most of the time, were at the same hospital during their rotations. really very uncanny, that. most of us don't have that sort of good fortune. (shiling: we haven't got anyone like that at rj now. there are just random emo kids who also play rugby in their free time.)

do e and n still play? they've both qualified as doctors for - it must be at least a year now, haven't they? i supose they don't walk around the wards singing and trying to cheer up the patients. wasn't there somewhere that eve casson goes to the local hospital and paints greek nudes all over the geriatric ward, and all the women were delightedly scandalised, while the old men kept going, hey i used to look like that!