The Pasir Ris girls had a sudden inkling to go a-singing and asked me if I wanted to join. I had been craving for a singing session for some time, so I counted myself in. They booked a reservation at K Box Karaoke in Bedok Point where we paid about 25 bucks per person. This amount was for four hours of karaoke plus dinner and drinks.
The room was quite big for five people and could probably accomodate twice that size. There were two TV screens and you could pick the songs using a console.
There was quite a wide selection of songs, including Tagalog ones like this:
Dinner was a set meal from Manhattan Fish Co, of which there are three options. We chose grilled chicken with rice and veggies, and fish and chips. I forgot what the third option was, oops. Pasta, I think. They were both really yummy! As for the drinks, you could choose hot drinks like coffee or honey lemon or cold drinks like milo dinosaur.
At the end of the night, my friends said that I was the most valuable singer in the group. Not because I had the best vocals, because that’s obviously Maya, but because (1) I always sang with feelings, (2) I knew most of the songs and even knew how to second voice and ad lib, and (3) whenever there was a duet that called for a male voice, I provided that. Haha. Doble karaoke!
Most of our song choices were 90s pop, the songs of our high school idols the Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, etc. I loved that the background video of most of the songs where the actual music videos of those songs instead of a totally unconnected emoting person by the beach, as is the case with Magic Sing. Seeing them again certainly made me feel these lines: “Sometimes I wish I could turn back time… impossible as it may seem.”
The winning song of the night, however, was this:
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