People think I'm insane because I am laughing all the time
Last night's karaoke turned up an interesting addition to the set list - Black Sabbath's "Paranoid". My voice was either in fine fiddle (unlikely) or everyone in the bar was pissed (most likely) as I got a rousing round of applause and t'other teacher said he thought that was the best song I'd done yet. I also sang "Under the Bridge" but I can never get the key right. I'm either too high (Alan Partridge-style voice there) or a little too low. Time to remove that one I think.
I was also serenaded by a guy with whom I was holding a conversation in Japanese. If you knew how good my Japanese isn't you'd know this was quite painful. He found a song which said something about "Laura" and proceeded to send the bar into fits of laughter by warbling my name.
The current karaoke set list is now (as far as I can recall, after all I'm never sober when the singing happens):
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Abba - Dancing Queen
Abba - Take a Chance on Me
A-Ha - Take on Me
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (not often played)
Bjork - Hyperballad
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Euryhtmics - Angel
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
And as for the laughing thing, it has been commented upon that I'm always giggling. I think this is linked to the effects of Sapporo.
Off to Tokyo tomorrow for the day. I'll be meeting up with a couple of students from London - Noriko and Yusuke, for shopping and lunch. I'm hopefully going to remember to buy myself some David Bowie and get some new clothes.
I not written a missive for a while, so I'll have to get round to that sometime. I had saved an amusing story for you, but now I can't remember quite what it was. Hopefully I had the wits to write the thing down somewhere. The lack of reports has a lot to do with the mundane repetitions of everyday life. I may well be somewhere 'exotic' but I still have to get up and go to work every day, which can only bring a certain amount of amusement. Hey ho, I'll think of something for you, even if it is my planned feminist analysis of Japanese culture.
I was also serenaded by a guy with whom I was holding a conversation in Japanese. If you knew how good my Japanese isn't you'd know this was quite painful. He found a song which said something about "Laura" and proceeded to send the bar into fits of laughter by warbling my name.
The current karaoke set list is now (as far as I can recall, after all I'm never sober when the singing happens):
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Abba - Dancing Queen
Abba - Take a Chance on Me
A-Ha - Take on Me
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (not often played)
Bjork - Hyperballad
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Euryhtmics - Angel
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
And as for the laughing thing, it has been commented upon that I'm always giggling. I think this is linked to the effects of Sapporo.
Off to Tokyo tomorrow for the day. I'll be meeting up with a couple of students from London - Noriko and Yusuke, for shopping and lunch. I'm hopefully going to remember to buy myself some David Bowie and get some new clothes.
I not written a missive for a while, so I'll have to get round to that sometime. I had saved an amusing story for you, but now I can't remember quite what it was. Hopefully I had the wits to write the thing down somewhere. The lack of reports has a lot to do with the mundane repetitions of everyday life. I may well be somewhere 'exotic' but I still have to get up and go to work every day, which can only bring a certain amount of amusement. Hey ho, I'll think of something for you, even if it is my planned feminist analysis of Japanese culture.