Last Friday my housemates and I threw a farewell party as Momoko(one of our housemates) was leaving us soon. It was also a pot-luck dinner party, so we all cooked up a huge feast of different foods, the others made a delicious seafood green Thai curry, some fresh spring rolls, fried koroke and I made banana bread for dessert. A couple of the guys also decided to make some jelly shots for fun and they turned out really well and tasted yummy(but maybe also a bit strong as we could taste the vodka).
After feasting and drinking, we walked over to Akabane to hit up karaoke! It is only a 15minute walk there. Our housemate Stefan from the USA had been telling us he was so good at singing Enka that he was praised for it at his local bar, that we had to see it to believe him. Turns out we were all blown away at his awesome talent. After only living in Japan for two years he sounded better than Enka singer Gero, also at his local bar he also wins free songs all the time. There were quite a few good singers among the bunch, man can Mitsu(another housemate) sing loud especially Linkin Park. But we all got into it really. We had such a fun time singing that we didnt even notice how long we had been at it. We started at 11pm and it was already 4.30am! We wished we had more time.
It was twilight as we walked back home. We left the karaoke place with sore throats and fun memories.
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My first post – Karaoke
WEEK 1 (GOLDEN WEEK)
01/05/09
I got home from work at around 11pm, it took me a while to get home and I felt tired as I had been working since 10am that morning. As I was on the train home, my roommate had emailed me and told me that I had missed the Coke Cola and Mentos experiment. As I arrived home there were about six of my roommates in the common-room. They seemed excited as though the party was fully underway. We were throwing a leaving party for one of our roommates. They all showed me the pictures of the Cola bottle spewing cola into the air due to the catalyst of adding a Mento and asked if I wanted to come to Karaoke. I said yes and went to get changed out of my suit. As I was going to meet my family at Narita airport the next day, I though it would be better to stay up all night rather than risk oversleeping and we all walked to Akabane for Karaoke. On the way, I saw the Cola stained pavement of where the Mentos event must have taken place. We walked until Midnight passed…
02/05/09
After shopping around for a good place to sing Karaoke, we settled in and had snuck in some began drinking and singing. I was kinda nervous about singing considering everyone seemed to be really good, and to put it lightly, I suck. After a while, we were all comfortably drunk and I began singing. We drank, sang, drank and sang until we left. My memory is a little hazy, but I think remember singing Madonna La Isle Bonita, I must have been like, ten or something when that song came out and my eldest sister used to listen to it. Someone else must have picked it as I can’t imagine which recess of my brain that song would have emerged from had it been down to me.
As we left, we waked home in high spirits and when we approached the house we went in for Breakfast. We ate and arrived at the house together. I went and lay on my bed to rest just before I would leave for the airport. Darkness washed over me.
I awoke in a panic, I had to get to the airport as family’s flight was due to land in about 40mins, I rushed into the shower and then out again and to the train station, I managed to get there in time and meet my family. I was only 20mins late, they didn’t mind and had emailed my phone as I was approaching the airport, I told them that I would be there as soon as.
We spent the day together and I escorted them to their hotel. Later that day they met my girlfriend for the first time and we all drank and chatted. We wanted to go to the Ghibli in Mitaka. It is really cool and I must admit that I have been there before. Turns out, the tickets were sold out as we went to Lawson to get some.
03/05/09
The next day, we went to Harajuku and had a look around the market. We then went to a wood block printing museum called the Ota Museum of Art. It’s near Gap in Harajuku. It was better than I expected as some of the prints had interesting styles and Youkai in them. Youkai are kinda little Japanese monsters with various characteristics, my favourite being a giant foot that smashed through the ceiling of your apartment and shouts…. “WASH ME!!!” forcing the unsuspecting tenant to wash the giant foot until morning or face having their apartment demolished by a giant Monty Python type foot!!!
We looked around a bit more and then tried to find a restaurant that wasn’t ram-packed. There wasn’t any and we walked to Shibuya from Harajuku. After the restaurant, we walked back the same way and went to the Design Festa, it’s a museum in which artists can display their work for a small fee and possibly sell it. Me and my girlfriend did it last year. Might do it again sometime, but the some of the things I saw yesterday made me think I need to step up my game, for example, Mr. Beaker-man’s Under Ocean Adventure, was really cool!!! ( http://homepage3.nifty.com/under_water/index2.htm ) check it out.