Stretching My Voice Chords; Something I Haven't Done In A Long Time

I can't really remember when was the last time I sang out, you know, publicly..with friends. I mean, I enjoy music so very much, but not to the extend of singing the tunes wherever I go. I still remember when I used to sing in public functions back when I was in Standard 2, 3 I think. Anyway, there were two occassions where suddenly I have been sucked into karaoke. One was my colleague's birthday. About 6 of us went out celebrating and the organizer thought that it would be great going out for a karaoke. So we went to this spot at Dataran Pahlawan. At first it was awkward you know, as you feel like you have to impress many people with your freakishly sumbang voice. I have no idea of what to sing, so I chose 'Better Man' by Robbie Williams as my first debut. Man have I made the wrong choice! That song was hard, especially if you haven't really been involved in this karaoke for a very long time! Later on, all of us got comfy stuffing ourselves with food and all, relaxing on a nice couch. Suddenly it doesn't matter anymore. I chose any song I felt like singing, I sang along with the others who chose songs that I happened to like. You don't really care how you sounded like, coz in the end it's about enjoying the moment with your best buds. All and all, it went well, so yeayy for me (at least)

Then there's this away day organized by my department in PD. I arrived at about 7, settled down and getting ready for dinner. At dinner, I happened to be on the same table as my process manager (you know, the one I talked about in my earlier post), and all of a sudden he was like, 'Jom malam ni karok (as in karaoke), aku dah book bilik (I've booked a room), (invite the others). I was like 'ajak yang lain2mimpi apa plak boss aku nih? (what the hell is he dreaming about, suddenly inviting to a karaoke?) So the dinner ended and 15 of us went to the VIP room booked, and again we sang our asses off! We sang and sang and sang, and one by one left the room until there are the three of us! PM, my operating enginner colleague, and me! We sang Aerosmith's I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing like crazy. Steven Tyler, we don't know how you did it singing this effing difficult song, but man, you're god! I even took the opportunity to sing one of my all time favourite song 'Iris' by Goo Goo Dolls. They dig the song too and together we sang! There are more songs, but that was definitely the highlight of the night. We left the room almost at 1am. We have to stop there, coz tomorrow we'll have a breakout and discussion session. But man it was a fun night.

I don't know, there's just something about karaoke that's just stress relieving and liberating. It's not to be enjoyed frequently (or otherwise you have to use note pads or sign languages to talk to people), but when you went out for it, it felt good.