My primary objective whilst visiting Kyoto was to really embrace the Japanese culture and become at one with it. What better way to accomplish this than to partake in one of the nations’ favorite pastime…Karaoke! It would have been rude not to.
I ditched my work colleagues and ventured out to a party. Don’t get me wrong, I do like my work colleagues, however they are not always reliable when it comes to having a good night out (when I want to).
During a rather dull networking party, I came across a couple of guys I’d met a few nights ago at another boring party. Resigned to the fact that we were not going to bother mingling anymore (because everyone had hairy ears), we starting throwing back the Moet. I suggested Karaoke, to which we all agreed.
One of the guys was joined by his nerdy colleague; a spitting image of Ben Stiller, very straight laced, law grad and highly enthusiastic, he was completely in ‘networking mode’ started asking me questions. I told him I was a cleaner in a bid to stop the questioning. A ‘networker’ is no longer interested when the person is of no importance. Needless to say, the questioning stopped.
Anyhoo, hours later we were all belting out classic tracks and ruining any good song you could imagine, however Ben Stiller was the source of my entertainment all night. He found the diva within and hogged the mic all night. Choosing songs like ‘Careless Whisper’ classics by Phil Collins and any other male vocalist, he was singing like he was in stage. It would have been impressive had he been able to sing, but he was quite bad. On occasions he would grip his fists, digging deep to hit those high notes. We were rolling all over barely able to breathe in fits of laughter.
Icing on the cake was when he made a note of the make and model of the machine as he wants to buy one for his lounge!
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