This is my second Japanese Karaoke Session.
BEWARE: Another damn lengthy entry.
***FlashBack***
The first session was dreadful. It was the session with the NUS Comics and Animation Society during my first year. It was with a group of 6-8 people, and none of them was people I really knew. Hope it would be a session which I could really make good friends with similar hobbies. I was really quiet meeting new people, and I was hoping people would extend arms and talk to me. But everyone just sang their songs and I totally could not really stand the awkwardness. Luckily, I had another appointment and so I could leave early. And after that session, I never went back to the club. There was another reason: After 2-3 gathering sessions with the club, the president of the club failed to recognise all the new members. The number of the members at that time was as good as the number of people enough to make up for a EXCO Committee, so I don't see the point why the president failed to recognise any new members like us. The number of new members at my time was only around 5 people...
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Back to the topic! Yeah, this time, the venue was not the one I went during my first time. It was at even nearer place at Somerest, a "rundown" building (the old shopping mall architectural designed building, similar to Roxy Square in Katong) behind OG. I never knew that place actually exists within Orchard. My bad! This time I guarantee to myself it would be way more fun that my first time since I meeting with my Japanese classmates peeps for the very first time outside the school..... I think.
The turnups are He Fan, Cliff, Arnold, He Ling, Shao Qi, Yin Ling, and the last minute sneaked in Woon Hian (Woonie). Yes, again, I broke my promise and organise this time since I really want to make it happen. The first thing before the session, I was supposed to meet He Fan to lookout for any suitable cakes for He Ling. But he could not wake up on time. So Cliff and I went to look around instead. It was rather quick when we saw some potential ones and we became aimless souls again until He Fan came. Good thing, the others were late (within my expectations), so we could also bring him to see our selected candidates. We planned to get it later since I did not ask the Cash Studios if they have service to hide our cakes. I just purely assume not as the Bedok branch do not even have a fridge.
He Ling finally came after 30 mins and we went down to Centrepoint Foodcourt to have lunch. After that, Shao Qi came, and then Yin Ling. When we finally reached there, Arnold was already waiting. Haha, the funny thing was I was not really organising whole-heartedly, so I kinda forget to get phone number from Arnold and hoping Cliff has it. But he did not! Luckily, Arnold has Cliff's number. Weird huh.
Arnold, who the first one to reach, was asking the reception if there is an reservation made under my name. But the problem is no. Because I always had trouble when the person over the phone always gave the irritating "what?!" when I said my name, so I just made up one name that came to my mind when making reservation: Richard. Then when we got into our room, everyone started making fun of me already. Yeah, sort of the entertainment I'm giving... unexpectedly.
Finally the fun... I mean the real fun begins! There were some highlights of the more fun parts during the session.
1. Video Taking - Arnold started taking video of me when I started singing dramatically, and everyone else later when we sang one more time, one more chance.
2. Can you feel the Love Tonight - This song was picked by He Fan. But the MV was totally not contextually nor visually right as it was full of footages of Japanese girls in bikini and the shots always revolved around their chest and lower part of the body. Everyone laughed till exhausted...
3. Woonie - He sneaked in after around 30mins. He selected some songs that totally made everyone high. Rather the songs are just pure raps all the way. "Danjo" and "ROCK OVER JAPAN". The songs themselves are not really high, but we just love to make it high and fun out of it. We just shouted all the words that were emphasized throughout the song. Like "Danjo" and "ROCK"!!! (which suggests the title of the entry).
Halfway through the session, I got a phone call and went outside. When I was about to walk back into the room, I saw one familiar figure inside the next room, it was Shermaine, another fellow Japanese classmate! And I saw Ying Hsuan inside that room too! Haha, then I called her to go see who's inside our room. Well, details not important after that.
We were being chased out after 4.15pm. Thanks to the sneaky act Woonie did, we were only charged for 7 people! I thought we could sing till 7pm, but the branch was far too popular and we have to give up the room for some other group... The plan was ruined since I could not get the cake for He Ling, but I somehow managed to get the group to Starbucks so that I could at least get one small cake for her. I also did not really get to find out what she likes. I went with the so-called safest chocolate... muffin. In the end, she thought it was awkward to be the only one eating and plus the muffin was far too sweet for her. I became the awkward one... But she did let everyone to share around.
We went to Kinokuniya to look for some books and since it was Japanese bookstore. Haha. Just nice all of us and some of the otakus like me will definitely go to the manga section again. Shao Qi and Woonie went off after that and the rest were deciding where to get dinner. We went back 313 and in the end landed in Food Republic. Good! Another cheaper meal for me! He Fan got himself mixed rice again (He got mixed rice for lunch too). But it was $9! Probably the sotong he ordered. Moreover, he bought another drink (think was just lime juice) and it costed as insanely as $2.50! He was emoing for such exorbitant prices. Haha.
Shortly after our meals, we still sat around to chat and I was leaving for toilet and I saw Darren Peh! He needed to accompany his Japanese friend so he could not make it for today's session. What a pity.
To end of the day, He Ling, He Fan and I wanted to watch Rise of the Guardians so we went to Cineleisure to check it out, so we parted ways with Cliff, Yin Ling and Arnold. However, there was no timing on Sunday... So we also went home after that.
The day continued in the Facebook event page where people started to recall the fun moments. Haha.
Then finally someone realised one thing... WE DIDNT TAKE ANY PHOTOS!!! ><
The End
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