The last few weeks have been pretty uneventful activity-wise due. The seemingly never ending bout of thunder storms and heavy rain that is plaguing Guangdong recently has regularly put paid to any plans for exciting weekends we may have had.
We were all set to go bungee jumping at Baiyun mountain (in Guangzhou) a few weekends ago but the torrential rain (that we thought would have to ens eventually) ended that plan, so naturally we ended up going for an Indonesian inspired lunch instead!?!? We did at least get a tuc-tuc ride and a fight with the driver out of that little adventure.
However last weekend our activity of choice was KTV, something that isn't weather dependent! KTV is what the chinese call karaoke and it is very popular in China, just about every street seems to have somewhere offering this favourite chinese past time. KTV in china involves hiring out a private room for as many people as you like and singing until your hearts content (or until they kick you out at 2am, like us). Our KTV experience cost us the grand total of 500RMB (between 5 of us) and came with 48 bottles of beer assorted snacks, our own private room located at the end of a maze of faux wooden cladded, dimly lit corridors and all the singing we could fit into our evening. The song choice was varied, but since we were limited to the English songs our options didn't seem to include anything within the last decade - good job I know my Abba and Shania Twain lyrics really...
KTV was definitely an experience, one that I'm glad I've done but I don't quite understand the nationwide love of it - maybe it's because I can't sing...
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