sayonara, melvin-san!
melvin is leaving for japan on the 30th. he’s going to study at tokyo university! wow! melvin, you lucky dog, you! send us the karaoke pics!! ^_^ gambatte ne!!
there were only 8 of us: alfred-sensei, melvin, jenina, jimmy, grace k., gigi, maricel and myself. mojica-sensei couldn’t make it; he had to rush his dad to the hospital (the morning class was cancelled too. well, i stayed up really late the night before just to finish my homework…but it’s ok! i studied in advance for the kanji quiz too…but it’s ok!).
after a couple of “melvin” games (i got the lowest score in the “how well do you know melvin” game. oh well…), it’s concert time! at least, for melvin, alfred-sensei and myself. we had to ask the others if “they could just please, please choose a song to sing. it doesn’t have to be japanese; just anything you feel like singing”. i mean, what are you supposed to do in a karaoke bar, anyway? eat? play games and get drunk? exchange stories? jimmy was actually the first one to start singing; he wanted to sing something in chinese but couldn’t find one he liked so he sang “someday” instead. you know, “someday”…90 miles outside chicago…according to him, that’s his and violy-sensei’s song. aaww, so sweet!! ^_^
i was quite disappointed, though. the karaoke bar didn’t have my most favorite songs: m’dear gackt’s “last song” and “junigatsu no love song”, laruku’s “anata” and smap’s “sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana”. sucks, right? and i practiced my gackt songs real hard too!! even in the bathroom…anyway, they only had 2 gackt songs: “wasurenai kara” and “another world” and a lot of glay and laruku songs that i couldn’t sing.
anyway, here’s my song list:
driver’s high – l’arc~en~ciel
lion heart – smap
unwell – matchbox twenty
can’t fight the moonlight – leann rimes
nagai aida – kiroro
sayonara daisuki na hito – hana hana
wishing on the same star – amuro namie
yozora no mukou – smap
wasurenai kara – gackt
well, i didn’t actually sing “wasurenai kara”…i just wanted to see the video, hehe. (but i did sing the chorus!) i was telling them “ne, minna, while this song is playing, will you please keep quiet??” then melvin said, “is gackt male?” i was like, “how dare you! i am hetero, you know!! i can never like someone of the same sex!” oh well, i guess that’s just a testimonial of how beautiful gackt is. much more beautiful than myself, that’s for sure. ^_^ i also tried singing mr. children’s “hero” with sensei but we sucked. we couldn’t even sing half of the chorus. but at least, we did justice to the song by stopping. ^_^ we actually had better luck with “hero” than with “are you in” by incubus. sensei had a “hangover” from the incubus concert the previous night and he wanted to sing “are you in” until we realized “ok, we sound really stupid. will somebody please stop the song?”
after karaoke, melvin, sensei, maricel and i went to “milyang”, a korean barbecue restaurant. being in a narrow street, you’d think that not a lot of people go there. but when we got inside, the place was very busy, especially the smoking area, hehe. all the guests were koreans, except us. i’ve never eaten in such a resto, and i was glad that i went with them. the barbecue was great!! you grill the marinated pork and beef over coals (we actually had someone do that for us. she was really nice too ^_^), then wrap them in lettuce leaves together with all sorts of veggies, and dip them in a “i-forgot-what’s-it’s-called” sauce. it was sooo delicious! just thinking about it makes my mouth water…we also had lots of free veggies, some were too hot for me to eat so i just left them there. anyway, i didn’t have to pay for them. i ate so much (not much, according to the others, so i paid less, hehe) that i didn’t think i take the train home alone. i took a cab instead; yep, too full to move my ass!!
the magic mike
rin-san is coming to the country again next month (i think) and she promised to bring her “magic karaoke mike”. ^_^ i think i will send her a list of all the songs that i want her to download…i’ll make sure that she has all the gackt and laruku songs that i can sing until i croak like a frog!!
gackt…what can i say?
the cds were finally delivered on friday…and i didn’t want to sleep; i just wanted to listen to gackt all night long! “the sixth day” cd package came with a, i don’t know what’s it’s called, sort of cellphone accessory. nothing too extravagant, just a soft little white square with the words “gackt: the sixth day” in the middle in black letters. the cd also came with an ID number which enables the cd buyer (that’s me!) to reserve tickets for gackt’s upcoming live tour!! but of course, before i can use the ID number, i have to be in japan in may or june. he will swing by osaka in june, where he will have a two-day concert at osaka castle hall. so unless i can raise enough money to stay in osaka for about 3 days or so, the ID number will be good only for my scrap book. sad, sad, sad! such is my boring life! i wonder if they will discover me if i hid inside melvin’s trunk…
