Jealousy and Karaoke (yes, a Japanese-American karaoke place)

[QwertyJPC]

I have recently joined a club at SJSU called Japan Club. They have study sessions (supposedly) every Monday through Thursday with times varying..
I went to one session and met this girl who calls herself Chibi Garm in the forums at http://www.design127.com/JapanClub/. She is a freshman who is making me jealous because she says she taught herself Japanese during highschool after only two years of Japanese and is now in the Japanese 101A class which is third year (college) Japanese!!

There was a karaoke party last Friday the 15th of September and she along with some guy named John made some videos of it:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plb6Gol9XII
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJZjX06dpI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIliRaQl1co

It's bad lighting though, so you don't get to see who embarrassed themselves singing karaoke. The plus side of this is that this karaoke place is in America so you can see (barely) how fucked we have become...
At first, we struggled with some computer that had songs on it...but then later, the manager turned off the computer and got an electronic karaoke box that had some Nihongo and English plus Chinese songs on it...we looked through these big phone book-like books and either looked for the title or artist. Then we dialed 5 numbers on a controller and sent it to the k-box. Just imagine how surprised I was to find Ryoko Hirosue and 8 of her songs (i think) just by knowing hiragana! I was only able to sing one song though...

there were also a few attempts to sing in chinese with furigana on top...You probably won't hear me sing since I was so terrible..

In case you want to check the place out while you're in California, here's a google map.. the place is in Cupertino between SF and LA, closer to SF.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Gamba,+Cupertino,+CA&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

[kurohinge1]

. . . karaoke . . . singing karaoke . . . karaoke . . . The plus side . . . karaoke . . .

QwertyJPC, the "G" in "FG" was yours by birth.

But that post has truly earned you the "F" in FG.

Let me be the one to present it to you:

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It's not too late for treatment.

[oyajikun]

Does he also get an 'A' for being in America?

[Big Booger]

Oh God, my ears... they're killing me..

[Charles]

Sometime, I should introduce you to karate-oke. It's just like karaoke, but if people don't like your singing, they beat you to a pulp.

[FG Lurker]

Sometime, I should introduce you to karate-oke. It's just like karaoke, but if people don't like your singing, they beat you to a pulp.

Can I come listen to you sing, Chuck?

[kamome]

I went to one session and met this girl who calls herself Chibi Garm in the forums at http://www.design127.com/JapanClub/. She is a freshman who is making me jealous because she says she taught herself Japanese during highschool after only two years of Japanese and is now in the Japanese 101A class which is third year (college) Japanese!!

Dude, what are you jealous about? She's an anime freak - translates cartoons in her spare time. Is that actually someone you want to admire?

Just ignore what she's doing and focus on your own studies. If you want to succeed in the language badly enough, then put in the study time and forget about what other people around you are doing. You'll surprise yourself by how much you have advanced and then other people will be jealous of you.

[Mulboyne]

AllAfrica: Karaoke Takes Over Kampala Pubs And Bars

...Mukasa, who started Karaoke at Sabrina's Pub in 1996, says Japanese Karaoke is about doing it wrong. To qualify for a karaoke do, one has to be able to sing off-key. They should have the capacity to fail to read the sliding words on the screen. "It would be fun singing Natasha Bedingfield's I Love You or Michael Jackson's Thriller in Luganda"...However, Mukasa decries the changing trends of Karaoke in Uganda. "Originally, karaoke time was time for fun. It was an opportunity for budding artistes to enjoy some fame on stage, free of charge. By then anybody could get up there and give his vocals a try. Today some pubs and bars are just offering a close resemblance of karaoke. They stage any live show and call it that. I have also seen revellers mime and sometimes sing perfectly like the original singer," he says...more...

[QwertyJPC]

[Adhesive]

Yikes, I live 3 miles from that place. Perhaps the wife and I will drop by and relive the early 90's.

[dimwit]

[QwertyJPC]

Yikes, I live 3 miles from that place. Perhaps the wife and I will drop by and relive the early 90's.

I think there were some 90s songs...you have to look in the back of the books for the english songs...

oh yeah, here's that video I promised...you can't really see our faces in this one, so it's safe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7Twby4QGk

[QwertyJPC]

anybody want to translate what the girl is singing in that video? Or at least translate the word moge? please?