Yesterday afternoon I spent four hours doing KTV. To me, 1:30pm-5:30pm is not the most opportune time of the day to sing my heart out in a dark room. Usually I feel I need at least three beers before I can kick out the jams without getting all self-conscious about the craptacular sounds emanating from my vocal chords. I was just there for the pizza. Well the KTV didn't have pizza, but there's a decent pizza shop close by and I owed one of my students, Grace, a pizza for helping me purchase my cell phone a while back. It started out as just Grace (the one with short hair), Yolanda (longer hair), and myself, both of them sang a hell of a lot better than I did. They sang so well that they would turn off the vocal track of each song they performed so their voices would be the loudest sound coming through the speakers.
I did the opposite. I didn't want to hear myself so I turned up the track volume and turned the microphone down. That didn't stop me from performing heart-warming (gut wrenching) covers of classics like Paramore's "Misery Business", R. Kelly's "Hairbraider", and Taylor Swift's "Love Story". After a while, without the aid of alcohol, I gained some confidence, and maybe some XP because my singing ability seemed to level up. I spit hot fire over Huey Lewis & the News' "Doin' It All for My Baby", that song from Titanic, Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" and The Cardigans' "Lovefool". I even sang "Country Roads" which seems to be just as popular in China as it is in West Virginia.
One of my other students, Robin (the one with glasses), showed up a couple hours into our singing marathon. She brought her boyfriend (the dude) who she failed to introduce me to. Both of them could also sing better than I could. After taking a break from singing for a while, the girls decided to choose some songs for me. They assumed that I would know all they words to any English song they knew because that song would be so popular that there would be no way that I wouldn't know it. So I had to sing "Larger than Life" by the Backstreet Boys and that N*Sync song with the video where they're all riding in cars and running on a train to try to get away from some girl (I'm trying to pretend like I don't know which song that is). They also chose some Lady Gaga track which was the one song I didn't really know. I realized that I've heard all of Lady Gaga's singles before I just had no idea she sang them. I always figured her music would be a lot weirder than that.
The pictures turned out a little grainy. I'm not sure why, maybe just because it was dark. Maybe because the film was expired and has been for a few years now. Its the first time I've used the Diana's default lens for a while. I'm not used to it. I'll use the wide-angle next time. I've been assured that there will be a next time.
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