Bobbing Along

Couldn't pry doggie
away from the candle covered
in delicious chocolate.

Over the years, I realized that the man is a closet singer. He doesn't sing in the bath. He hums a little, but doesn't bother with singing when he jams with the friends. (Don't ask me how good or how bad. I prefer him to play the guitar than sing.) However, he is ridiculously enthusiastic about karaoke sessions, and has hopped out to about 4 in total since we first started dating.

He doesn't do Chinese songs, obviously. No boyband songs either. Not Westlife, the sorts. Well...Beatles, yeah, of course! He isn't inclined towards the fancier karaoke bars. He likes that dodgy karaoke joint at Ming Arcade which holds the widest collection of rock songs both in original video and cheesy fakes of beaches, pavilions and goosebump-inducing scenes of scarves blowing in the wind, and where K.T Tunstall is slotted into the category of 'male singer'.

We were invited to the friends' dad's surprise birthday party, and were warned that there would be singing, and they would totally understand if we bailed out. Muahahahha. We wouldn't lah! Listening to the oldies sing ain't that bad! We weren't in a dodgy smoke-filled joint! We were at their home, a comfortable venue with plenty of humans and yummy food catered from Chilli Padi. And many bottles of delicious single malts, with glasses which magically topped up each time we finished a dram. There was a gorgeous home-baked banana-chocolate cake that was rich and satisfying.

The friends rented a karaoke system replete with speakers, tv and all. So very professional nowadays. The oldies were still eating. The system had earlier been set up, but not tested and configured. So we trooped in to test it out with a couple of random songs. Heeeee. We screeched a little, then the oldies took over with tons of familiar songs we grew up listening to. Like, 'Streets of London'. :))) It was good fun! We didn't feel the need to run away after the courtesy-nodding-along for 20 minutes!

No prizes for guessing this one song the man happily belted out.