By all accounts, more than a fine time was had by all.  Photos of the event are still coming in, many uploaded to the QRC Fan Page on Facebook [Link] and some on person’s individual galleries [Link 1 & Link 2].  Some access restrictions may apply.

Many thanks are extended to top deejay Jus Jase who managed to rearrange his schedule to spend most of the day at the event with his wheels of steel, bringing back the throw-backs to help keep the Lime going strong.  And thanks too to Hayden “Tom” Noel for capturing the following session on video. Read the rest of this entry »

As we prepare for the biggest gathering of QRC alumni ever, a small reminder and some simple information:

Sunday December 27th
QRC grounds
Start time 11:00AM
Music by DJ Colin Chambers and Jus Jase
Contribution: $100 and your coolers.

All the football, cricket etc, has been arranged and trophies procured for the highly anticipated Local-based vs Foreign-Based contest. Kindly arrive on time to ensure a smooth programme of events.  The times and rules have been provided already to all participants.

PLEASE, PLEASE, please….we implore you…walk with your drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. The TT$100, payable on entry if not received in advance, is going to the school projects that we fund throughout the year.  The event is not an all inclusive. We try very, very hard to keep the expenses for the event to a minimum enabling the contributions that YOU make as attendees benefit the school on your behalf to the maximum. Due to the economic downturn, unfortunately, we have been unable to secure the type and amount of sponsorship we would have liked and we still kept the contibution at $100. You can of course contribute more if you so desire…as Dion would say…”doh be shy.“

There will be food on sale from a vendor at the event for a limited time for those of you choosing not to bring food with you. However, if you want to cook a pot or grill some meat, there will be an outlet to showcase your culinary skills against Adam and Gerard after 6:30PM

You will be given a participatory band to wear during the day. This guarantees your participation in the events carded and show of support financially for the college.

No parking will be allowed on the grounds on the day. The courtyard and field are being utilized for activities during the day such as the cricket match.

No glass bottles will be allowed onto the playing field and we are expected to utilize the various garbage receptacles placed on the compound to keep the College clean. We, the committee, opted not to pay for a cleaning service as this cuts into the benefits that your contibutions make to the school. We all did a good job last year in a collective clean up effort and we expect nothing less this time around.

Tickets are still available from any of the committee members.  Call us and we can come to you. For those of you who cannot attend and still want to contribute, you can also purchase a ticket in support it will be given to someone a little less fortunate to attend or your contribution will go directly toward the projects. The Foreign-Based crew can of course make their contributions at the door on the day.

You are encouraged to invite as many of your fellow alumni and supporters as possible, so spread the word.  All are invited to attend.  There are many gaps in years of attendance…we want to bridge that gap.  From 1940 to 2009, all are welcome.

We are still trying to get the QRC Polo shirts for sale on the day but definitely there will be the North Zone Champions Juhzees available in various sizes.

If you are bringing your kids, please be mindful to cater for them (Chubby,snacks etc.) and note that there will be lots of alcohol and some language that may not be fit for your children’s ears.

Everything is set for a most brilliant day of camaraderie, sport, picong and imbibement. QRChaps is looking forward to another hugely successful event.

Kind regards
Magnum Est QRC!

Willard McIntyre
Chairman
Quite Respectable Chaps

The QRC Small Lime 2009 has been carded for Sunday 27th December, 2009, and the countdown for the flagship event of the Quite Respectable Chaps team is on.

Teams have been submitted and approved for the cricket and football, with foreign-based teams issuing strong challenges that the challenge trophy will be on a plane back to the United States in January. Names are still coming in for beer-drinking (with a 3-second chug record to be beaten) and all-fours. There has also been talk of some basketball which may come off if there is Icy Hot, Bengue’s Balsam and roller bandage sufficient on hand.

Please call and book your Small Lime 2009 tickets from any of the following committee members… They also deliver.

• Willard — 681-7438
• Larry — 486-0591
• Adam — 491-1029
• Dion — 745-2485
• Ramesh — 766-1909
• Ashley — 495-1114
• ‘CP’ — 465-4000
• Hugh — 689-7986
• Gerard — 795-1616
• ‘Tino’ — 684-2196

OUTTA DE BLUE XI

Saturday 9th January, 2010

5:00PM to Midnight

with Kes the Band featuring Nadia Batson, Roy Cape, David Rudder, Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra, Dil-E-Nadan, and Worldwide Symphony.

Admission is still TT$600 All Inclusive.

Tickets are available via:

• QRC Office (622-2544)
• www.CaribbeanBoxOffice.net
• 624-4569
• 628-4361
• 628-0954
• 695-6461
• 795-0050
• 367-0050

For personal delivery East, West and South-Central, email qrcfete@gmail.com or call 740-8559 and 378-4837.

Facebook users, register your attendance at [LINK]

From the Trinidad Guardian Features Section, dated November 30th, 2009:

A big part of the traditional T&T Christmas festive expressions has always been parang groups and or groups of friends and relatives moving from house to house in a village, sharing music, drinks, food, fun and more. So much merriment is derived from that practice of small groups moving from one home to another and another—and then another. Try now to compare and comprehend that experience, to several villagers from different villages, travelling from their various individual locations across the country, and gathering at one central location. Now exercise your imagination further, to envision the widespread variations of food-preparations and music to be concentrated in one place!

That and much more is anticipated when the first-of-its-kind Christmas In The Village event takes place on December 5, at Queen’s Royal College, located at the western end of the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of-Spain. The villages of Paramin, Lopinot, Arima, Brasso-Seco, Sangre Grande and Siparia will all congregate at the venue, which will be transformed into an enormous village setting, befitting the concept of the occasion. What’s cooking in the Village? Organisers Village Friends say patrons can excite their taste-buds with pitch-oil pan ham, wild-meat with provision, pastelles, paime, roast beef in mushroom sauce, longtime bread, roasted suckling pig and braised ham. Stuffed chicken breast, festive rice, pigeon peas in coconut milk, sponge cake and black cake are also among the extensive outlay of mouth-watering dishes that will be available for Christmas celebrants in the Village.

If you are already salivating, add some tasty dashes of humorous anecdotes from respected comedian/storyteller/actor Paul Keens-Douglas to that menu. Keens-Douglas will be the Village host. Now mix all the preceding ingredients with the music of parang soca king Scrunter and parang soca innovator Crazy, the Lara Brothers, Los Alumnos de San Juan, Carib Santa Rosa Parang Group, Voces Jovenes, Los Parranderos de UWI, 2009 Panorama champions Silver Stars Steel Orchestra and the St James Tripolians, with DJs Roger Simpson and Crosby Sounds. Funds accrued from the public’s support at this chance-in-a-lifetime event will be utilised for the refurbishing of buildings on the compound of the century-old Queen’s Royal College.

Tickets are available at:

• QRC’s Box Office 622-1671
• Savvy Traders Ltd, 674-9065 or 372-6232
• Crosby’s North & South,
• Flowers 137 Tragarete Road
• Simon’s Music Supplies, St Vincent St, Port-of-Spain
• Kenny’s Sports Centre, and
• Sincerely Yours in Grand Bazaar.

According to Village Friends, general admission to the “village happening”, which starts at 5 pm and goes until midnight, costs TT$150.00.  VIP (Inclusive) guests paying TT$350.00 will be entitled to a dinner plate consisting of three meats and at least four sides, together with six drinks – three premium and three non-premium.

Facebook users can register there attendance at the event page for Christmas in the Village.

The Express’ Garth Wattley writes a fantastic article on ancient rivalries, tradition, and that which binds us together as Royalians. [Link]

Sometimes, what happens on the field is not as significant as what happens off it. That can be true even when a title is at stake. So it was last Wednesday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium at the North Zone final of Coca-Cola InterCol.

They may have had a sense of it, but I’m not at all sure that the jubilant Queen’s Royal College footballers-jumping in a tight huddle on the field after prevailing in kicks from the spot against St Mary’s College-realised just what they caused in both halves of the near-to-packed main stand.

In the blue-and-white CIC section, the pain and disappointment of losing to that team would have been keen and as annoying as being bitten behind the ear by a bloodthirsty mosquito.

In the royal blue section, though, the smiling just didn’t cease, the Scout band played on, and big men for whom school is now but a very distant experience, hugged and embraced each other.

It was quite a scene, this meeting of the tribes.

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The now infamous logo above – which was incidentally prepared well before the 2009 North Zone Intercol final – has been printed on a limited run of t-shirts.

The commemorative “juhzee” with full colour print is available in various sizes at a cost of TT$80.00 while stocks last.

Contact Old Boy Larry Olton at 686-7733 or larryolton (at) hotmail (dot) com for details.

Admin’s Note: Hmmm… Reminds me fondly of another t-shirt that we had many moons ago…