The Mike is on!

What does it take for a straight male to be convinced to go Karaoke-ing?


Well, apparently the offer of some good Korean BBQ and tonnes of Soju. Have booze, will sing!



So last weekend, I indulged in the past time of many an asian, and accepted an invite to a Karaoke event.. (yes, the past time I referred to was accepting invites, not Karaoke-ing.. what do you think this is.. the Racist Engineer?)



By the barbeque good ness was wrapped up, I was lubricated enough to try my hand at singing. now this is something I hadn't done in 7 years.. (I sing every day, just not in public.....although I feel my roommate would disagree).

So I stepped up to share my splendid baritone with all those near and dear to "November Rain". I was pretty concerned about how I sounded in my best rendition of GnR... but instead what i should have been worried about were the thoughts going through my head.

Y'see, my roommate Spades moved out last month into his swanky new pad. I wonder if I was bummed cuz he was leaving after 5 leases... or because with him went the awesome Hi Def Plasma and Wii....

Not sure really, but clearly I was pondering these thoughts as I was singing the lyrics...

'Cause nothin' lasts forever And we both know hearts can
change..

SCREECH!! I gotta halt this before it gets any wierder... Next Song PLEASE, yelled I, in my deepest voice trying to best compensate for the past few minutes..

I need to redeem my masculinity... so bring on the next song.... the tv screen changed.. and the song title came up... in korean of course.. a nd then the lyrics stared me in the face..

"Just a small town girl..."

sigh..
Some battles are just not winnable!

IF I did it....

Standing here, looking out my window...

more like sitting here, looking out the window of the LAX terminal, as I wait for my midnight flight. Now why would the Canuck Engineer take a red-eye...well, I'll tell you some reasons why I would NOT take a red eye.

I did NOT show up late to the airport for my original flight
and I also did NOT show up without my passport
and so I did NOT go back home to pick up my passport and rush back, only to see my flight take off.

and while i'm on this note of what all I did NOT do... I did NOT take off the rest of the day to visit the beautiful sights of downtown and indulge in some mediterranean cusine and other choice offerings.

and I'm NOT sitting in the lounge, hogging up the community terminal typing up this blog.

speaking of which.. Hi Blog.. How I missed you :)