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