I would have blogged earlier, but there were problems. I had this amazingly long blog in my head on Thursday, but I couldn't get online. And last night, I just couldn't be bothered. And tonight, well, I can't remember all the things I wanted to say.

I remember one of them, though. You see, Wednesday I went to an "all you can eat" Chinese evening with Karaoke. I really wasn't in the mood. Work's been really busy all week, because it's the first week of the holidays, and we were a man down (or woman, even), which made things worse. But you don't want to hear about that.

The food was pretty good, although not as good as the place in Leicester that I've been to a couple of times. But the Karaoke, it was odd. I suppose by its very nature it's odd, but hey. The sound system seemed like it was going to break down at any moment. Perhaps it'd been subjected to too many dodgy versions of Carpenters songs. It meant that even people who usually sound great sounded a bit rough. Sad, really.

But one person, who I know from church, was fantastic! I'd never really heard him sing before, but wow, he can sing. He plays lead guitar, which he's amazingly good at (it's his job), but I never knew he could sing like that. Better than a lot of "pop stars" when you hear them live, that's for sure.

Hmm, I'm digressing again. The thing I really wanted to say about the Karaoke was this. What's up with those videos? A lot of them seemed to be vaguely pornographic videos featuring lithe young Asian women in bikinis. They ran along beaches! They posed in the surf! But those videos weren't the weirdest ones. There was one (it was a Queen song) that had a man abseiling down a building. But the best one had a really peculiar mixture of stuff in it. It consisted of people having facials, massages, and a bloke making jewellery. And a sort of 80's looking model posing in stupidly extensive jewellery, possibly things that the bloke had made earlier. I don't know. And it wasn't even like the people having massages were beautiful young models. It was a lot weirder than I can make it sound, however long I ramble on about it. Veerrrrry strange.

Maybe everyone knew that Karaoke videos were weird. But it was my first time.

And no, I didn't sing. :-)