Last Friday night (sorry for the blog-lag) I joined neighbor Carlos and his university lab-mate Chris for geeky boys dinner/karaoke night. (By “geeky” I mean: Carlos and Chris do research in speech-recognition, I push pixels and XHTML, and all of us are Star Wars fans.)
Can’t remember the name of the restaurant. Maybe you know the Thai place just around the corner from Kamihatecho Kyoto Zoukei Geidaimae? The service was warm, and the green curry was hot and delicious.
Then to UGA just down the street, where they put us in a red rock-concert-themed room with a spinning ball of lights that seemed to start up whenever one of us hit a sweet note.
Carlos found all the Spanish songs in the book (“Bamboleo!”), Chris sang heart-warming renditions of the Beatles and always hit the highs, and I aborted several experiments (like “Church of the Poison Mind” and “Scatterheart”) midway. Well, I finished “Golden Years” and “Far Away So Close” and like to believe they didn’t sound so bad.
Thanks for the fun, guys!
Dinner: ¥1600 ¥2900 each. Karaoke: ¥1500 each for 3 hours. Beer: ¥200 per can. Potato chips: ¥150
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3 responses to “Boys’ Night Out”
Rick, I think you performed quite well 😉
Thanks to you for coming up with the karaoke plan. It was really fun.
BTW, wasn’t the dinner about Â¥2900?
Could you send me the pics by email?
Thanks.
Indeed – a good night it was, good fun! 🙂
And yes, I think the dinner was just under 3000 each…(I hope you didn’t short change them 😉
Hmm, you’re right. I wonder where I got that number from? Sometimes it still feels like play money to me, which is probably why it never seems to last very long.
When do we do it again? But maybe next time no dinner, only singing.
Chris, looking forward to browsing your site. Looks like fun.