Monday, October 09, 2006

for the love of karaoke/videoke



videoke - pod5 in Banilad Towncenter

It's probably a thing in most of the Filipino households now a days. How everyone would love to grab the microphone and sing their heart out. Wherever you go, every corner, every street sprouts with a videoke machine. It's sometimes funny or even irritating to a point when you hear offkey singers hehehe.... Why are yuppies willing to spend some hundreds of pesoses just to hang out in videoke resto bars? Like in most gathering, be a fiesta or a birthday party, seem not to be complete without the videoke? I at home would sometime sing but without the microphone. Oh please i don't want to be a torture to my neighbors! :D



Videoke has been a part of our get together - me and my friends in the office. Whenever we have an 'event', Charo and Gug's apartment was always our ready venue for a night of fun and singing. But some good things never last. People come and go. Change is inevitable. I remember one time we don't have the magic-sing so we had to settle ourselves playing the videoke cds i brought along. It was fun because afraid of running out of songs to sing. We managed to sing all the songs in the cds available - did not single out any song not to sing! I miss those moments especially when people get drunk! har har har! :P

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My weekend was spent watching movies - of course not to miss out the koreanovelas i bought last Wednesday (Endless Love and Only You) plus the english movies Honey starred by Jessica Alba, Bounce (Ben A. & Gwyneth P.) and She's All That (Freddie P. & Rachelle Leigh C). I was yearning to watch the movie Honey because included in our christmas presentation last year was a song from the soundtrack.

17 pink thoughts:

gLoR!e said...

i am a frustrated vidoeke singer! wahahaha...
hai ambot jud anang uban diha grabe ang guts/kamal sa mukha mag kanta. north and south gud..
well, ang vidoeke was made for those frustrated singer! heheheh peace sa mahilig ug videoke! kay kmai sad...hehehe

Anonymous said...

hahaha sakto jud present jud nang vedioke permi. Pero teka lang ka kuha na sad kog 100 uy, professional singer sa vedioke hahaha ngautana ka unsay akong gi kanta, my heart will go on.. hahaha dili man panindutay ug tingog maayo ka lang mo timing ma professional singer man jud ka hehhehe...

Gwapa lagi ni ayo imog balay mam :)

melz said...

ylan, pd ko nimo tgaan sa pics kaning ng videoke ta? wla lagi ko ani copy :(

email lang palihog...

it's meh ainsley9

Anonymous said...

Hahaha korek ka jan Ylan,kitang mga pinoy di jud ni mawala nato ang pagka videokera or videokero.Lol!Ako fod ganahan kaayo ko mokanta while mag online ko diri sa net ay.Naa man website duna videokehan adto ko mokanta jud ko bahala naway sila akoang tingog.Hahahaha..

Ylan said...

glorie, lingaw raman sab magvideoke, dili lang gyud ko mukanta with microphone kay murag naay musangit akong tutunlan walay tingog muguwa haha!

ngiga madame ethel ah! celine dion man gyud kaha nga kanta! hehe... thanks, bayi gyud ko sige ra usab2x design... :)

ainsley, asa ani? lahi2x man ni nga events akong gipost? im sure gishare ni when uploaded by them, gayaya lang jud ka ug wala nicopy dayon! hehe! :P

haha genalyn, problema na na sa maminaw sa? basta ikaw nalingaw :)

Anonymous said...

Wow, Karaokee sigi jud. ^_^ Pangpalipas sa oras, lingaw lingaw. Sukad pag abot nako diri wala na jud ko maka sha-ok (kanta) tawon. Hahaha! Sa tanan Filipina diri ako lang wala karaokee tingali? :D Kumusta na diha? ~_^

Ylan said...

hehe palit na ug magic sing madame... handy ra kaau, dili na ka need ug mga cds hehe... nya ilisan lang nimo ang chip for new set of songs if mahurot na nimo ang tanan songs ug kanta! aron sab mabalik na imong career sa pagkanta hehehe.... oks lang ko diri salamat =)

Anonymous said...

Sus baya si gwapa, asta japon ka gwapa ani akong silingan oi haha! Kalingaw ba ninyo tan-awon ana inyohang pics dai Ylan oi... sus birit to the max jud guro mo sa, hehe!

MIngaw na jud ko ana kanta kanta oi kuyog with prends ^_^.. bahalag yabag tingog hala kanta, mangatagak gud tiki sa kesami, lol inig kanta nko haha!

Salamat diay sa paglabay didto sa akong payag, gilangaw na jud to didto ba wlay update update, hehe!

Cge wafa, me labay rko dri... ayo ayo permi, og e-kiss lang ko ni lolo lapu lapu, nyahaha!

Ylan said...

aw wafa jud syempre, apo gud ni lapulapu, ambungan baya tu atong Lolo! LOL!

birit jud kaau Gretch, dili na sya individual, tanan kanta mura ug choir hehee... bahala tagak tiki basta lingaw! :P ok ra na walay update2x basta magparamdam lang nga naa ra ka nagpahipi hehehe....
thanks for the visit =)

Anonymous said...

agi alng ko mam Ylan uy, la pa may upate dire, nalingaw ko sa imong parrot uy, ahhahahhahaha tawa jud ko kaayo uy.

Ylan said...

hehe wala pa man gud ko ma-update gud hehe! nagkakatawa sab ko ato pag receive nako sa text,nakabuhakhak jud ko mao ako dayon gipost sa bisdak :)

Anonymous said...

karaan na ani na pic Lan oi... sa previous apartment paman intawn ni namo. meaning dugay nata wla ka videok..

Ylan said...

mao bitaw o ingon ko i miss those moments... meaning wala na jud....

Anonymous said...

videok nya ta... magtigum sa ko para palit ug lain nga chip... murag e-discontinue na raba to kay naa napud bag-o

Ylan said...

karong nov gugs! hehehe!

kanang chip nga mailisan nato ang background sa atong nawng! :P

Anonymous said...

ms hilig pod diay kag sing-al. lol* apirr ta bi! last august i bought one (magic sing)ako gidala diri sa francia.. syalan nga wala na jud gamit hinoon pag abot diri kay laayan man ko ako ra isa mag sha-ok2x abi palang sa mga puti diri namatyan kog baka. lol*

Ylan said...

hahaha maam mukanta lang ko sa amo pero dili nako gamitan ug microphone kay maulaw gyud ko hehehe.. dili man nuun jud ko tigkanta gyud, join lang sa group singing LOL! :)