Hong Kong and Karaoke

Ok so finally have found some time to divulge about Hong Kong. Well the week went by fast and it was great. Taylor was set to arrive one week ago on saturday morning instead of Friday as was originally planned. So Friday was spent without him (we went sightseeing and went to a Chinese market, where Trout was asked more times than he wanted for a fake watch or bag). Friday night we were going to hang out with Tets` friends (Tets is Lee`s friend in Hong Kong). They are local Chinese Hong Kongians and they were going to some local restaurant. This was going to be interesting because Lee cannot speak Cantonese so we were limited to sticking to the English areas. Trout did not want to come because he had found a new friend, Jamie, who is Mari`s boyfriend, and they seem to have similar traits--i.e. both like clothes, their body, and working out. So Trout and Jamie were going to the gym and me, Lee, and Tets were going to eat at the local restaurant and we would all meet up later at a club called Tribeca. The restaurant was very good, we got there and all the Chinese kids were very nice but only a few spoke English so we mostly just ate and chatted among ourselves. We ate hot pot or rather it was a boiling pot of some watery sauce that you would throw vegetables and meat into. Was very good we ate ostrich, lots of different vegetables, and other regular meats. After our fill we were going to head out to the club but the girls with the group wanted us to go to karaoke. I could not resist watching Asians sing karaoke but we decided to go to the club first then join them later. We met up with Trout, Mari, and Jamie at the club which was pretty cool, though quite expensive for guys. Met a lot more of Lee`s friends there, and some more people that I had met with Lee at Henley the year before. But the club was also a bit lame and there were a lot of locals there and what seemed to be a lot of underage boys and girls so we headed out to the karaoke bar. For some reason Asian people like to just go to a karaoke place where you get your own private room for your group and then you have a wrap around couch that faces a giant TV/karaoke machine. You just sit there eating, drinking, and signing. And yes it is as funny in person as you might expect. We met up with the group and everyone in our group was chicken to sing so both me and Trout decided on a duet. We started with Jessie`s Girl but that did not work out very good...actually the Chinese group was booing us and wanted the mikes back. Annoyed we setout to improve on our past performance with a riveting duet to `Tainted Love.` Well this one was better and at least we were not booed but the locals wanted to still have the mikes back. Oh well at least we tried. We hund out a bit more but eventually headed home because it was quite late and ferry takes another hour or so before we would actually be at our apartment.

I would post pictures of the karaoke but they are on my facebook account and this computer is in Japanese so I don`t have a clue on what I am clicking on...doing it just out of memory. So if you can go to my facebook profile and you can see the performance.