Nostalgia is very weird. It will stay away for a very long time and then come crashing down on you.

I was visiting my old club to play some Squash and also to look up my old coach. Standing in the squash court, a place where I have known since I was 8, was wonderful. Hitting some strokes that I have not done since the InterCollege Games last April was amazing. It seemed like once you learnt something, it was really easy to get back into the groove. And then it flashed to me, all the people that I have known in squash, events that I have been to, the museum visit, the nail incident, the $1 dollar burgers, the barley incident, the video games saga, the 10km runs, the games we played, the arguments I had, the joy in improving. Whoa. It was mind boggling.

And then, talking to BernardBear, he had a new mobile phone. It was playing this song, and I thought it was vaguely familiar. And then when the chorus came, I could not stop laughing. It was one of the songs for the Burnout PS Game that I had been playing for much of last year. It was one of my favourite songs to drive to, while rushing down the Alpine snow tracks. And the I could not stop thinking of all the fun times in 401 last year.

And then, driving in the car back home, various songs played reminded me of different things. Even when my dad was watching the Pink Panther movie, and they played the French national anthem, I remembered how SoBear told me that all the AFL songs were copied from somewhere and that it was also the Brisbane Lions theme song. And I was thinking of the time when I memorized all 16 songs. And then the song I was humming in the shower was one of the first few songs that I sang in karaoke when RoxBear was around. And then there was this JackJohnson song on the radio that reminded me of NiqBear. And there was the fish in the sea song that popped into my head which RaeBear sang in the park. And there was the Shining Friends Song that SherBear and XXBear sang at Valedicts as well as the many duets that SharBear and JinBear would sing at K. Also reminding me of FredBear's performance of Better Man by Robbie Williams.......

What a wonderful 3 years I had in Melbourne. Wish I could go back, if it was just to watch the CTG play, or eat A1, or fish and chips, or an AFL game, or a late night poker/bridge party, gossip, watch SATC in 301, eat really good Japanese food.............

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