The Old Life
For me, once I began this karaoke thing, I could never quite shake it. Now, it seems, every group outing I organise simply must include a spot of singing. This was true of the most recent outing I put together: I had heard about a Thai restaurant/karaoke bar in Brum, and I was itching for a chance to check it out.
What started out as a post-hoc (?) hen night / stag night turned into a co-ed free-for-all. Riccardo invited some friends from work, I invited some friends from Uni, and we additionally invited some other friends. We ended up with 13, which was the perfect number for some good ole fashioned karaoke.
Upon arriving, we found that Pad Thai is attached to Shanghai, a chinese restaurant. In fact, they are co-owned, which explains the shared menu. In our PRIVATE karaoke room (which was really nice) we had to order the set menus; though the food was delicious, it wasn't cheap (about 18 pounds/$40 pp) and it was mostly chinese. Lots of selection though.
Our block reservation was from 8:20 - 11:20; afterward they asked us if we wanted to reserve a table in the bar downstairs: HOTDOG! So, a couple more hours of overpriced drinks and hilarious sing-songing and our night was wrapped up. The only (hilarious) complaint was that the songs were organised by how many words are in the titles. This made finding our favourites a little difficult because not only did we have to remember the titles off the top of our heads, but then to count out the number of words and proceed to search. How obscure!
Thanks to Dave, Kim, Helen, Jo, John, Michelle, Anna, Lee, Sofie, Matthew and Mi-young for coming out! We hope you all had as great a time as we did!
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