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Karaoke Bus Tour
Thursday, Jun 19, 2008 11:20PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Earlier this week, me, my dad, and my two aunties headed to Eastern Taiwan. The East coast is SO GORGEOUS. The mountains are SO amazing! I half expected Jet-Li to come flying on the top of the trees and mountain cliffs fighting Shaolin monks. It was amazing. The beaches are SO fabulous. Hot as hell, but it really reminded me that Taiwan is a beautiful tropical island and not just political Jerry Springer show.

But that's pretty much where the fun part of the tour ends. Why? It turns out that my family were the youngest people on the bus. Well... when you take

Old people in their 70s-90s + karaoke + people hard of hearing + a bus = Old Taiwanese people wailing on a karaoke bus tour for TWELVE HOURS at the HIGHEST VOLUME POSSIBLE!

Audio Emotions! American Idol needs one of these sound systems.

Hey Hey Heyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! Cha cha cha!

The roof of our disco bus
So, there I was in a hot ass country being eaten alive by the world's meanest mosquitoes sweating my ass off while listening to loud Taiwanese old ladies take turns singing songs from their youth while the essence of Tiger Balm waifs through the air. It was a wonderful three days. Especially when at 7am the music started blaring and kept on going til 7 at night and then it continued when I kept dreaming of old people drinking tea and singing off key into tvs playing songs about how men hit their gfs. It was wonderful. They loved singing so much that they told the tour guide to stop talking and put on next song.

On the third day, when I threw up from motion sickness, a swarm of little old grandmas quickly gathered around me and, before I knew it, I had tiger balm greased all over my face and a cup of warm water in my hand.

Go little old people!

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Etchy
posted on Friday, Jun 20, 2008 1:28PM [Report]

oh god, that sounds like torture... i hate it when people turn karaoke up so loud... it doesn't make up for bad singing!
msJubi
posted on Friday, Jun 20, 2008 9:06AM [Report]

Wow....what an experience ^_^ luv the water falls
stephen
posted on Friday, Jun 20, 2008 2:17AM [Report]

Ahh.. the karaoke bus tour... luckily, I was only exposed to it on the way from Taichung to Taipei. We had the whole tour bus rented out for my very large extended family and they were thankfully kind enough only to get drunk once and begin singing during our last leg of our trip.

BTW, my folks are east coast ppl.