Despite having woken up this morning at around 530 I'm not going to pass up an opportunity to go to a real Japanese Karaoke club even if it's already nearly midnight before we get started.
There really isn't a lot of difference between Karaoke clubs in Canada and Japan except that there are more English language songs in Canada. It's really more about actually doing Karaoke in its place of origin.
We end up going for the all you can drink pop and water (instead of beer) as some of our group are not the biggest drinkers (myself included). They've got my green melon sola so everything is just right. Except of course for my voice.
Maybe getting beyond 40 has taken a toll on my once energetic vocals or maybe I'm just worn down by all the running around but whatever's to blame I'm not making it through most of these songs cleanly. Oh well, I'm still having fun.
Fortunately the other members of our group are stepping up. David Namisato, a Toronto based artist who has also done a fair bit of teaching in Japan actually knows some of the AKB48 songs. Meanwhile the girls from Love Love Hill can do Japanese anime theme songs as well as other recent Japanese pop songs. It makes for a very multicultural evening of music.
I bail at around 230 AM but a bunch of them are still at it when I leave. I heard that they stayed until around 4 AM.
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