Karaoke @ Topone KTV + GSS 2008

Went karaoke with my friends at Topone KTV yesterday. It was my first visit there, just like the rest of my company, but we had fun. At least we found another good place to K in the future. Well, immediately after giving tuition yesterday, i had a quick shower and rushed down to Bugis to join the rest of my friends who already booked in earlier on at Topone. I had no trouble locating it and immediately joined in the fun as i proceeded up via the lift to 3rd storey and entered room 302. The room was rather small, compared to the usual rooms i got during my visits to Kbox. Nonetheless, the ambience was there and the songs were pretty updated. The thing about the song chosing system in Topone is, it has a console at the corner of the room for us to chose our songs. As the screen was rather large, i was rather tempted to use it like a touch screen console but was constantly reminded by the rest that there was a "keyboard" for me to press. The system was rather user-friendly, though there would be certain degree of unfamiliarity at the start.

Another thing about Topone was the endless free flow of drinks we can enjoy. However, it was only limited to the 6 types of cordial drink which tasted rather diluted. Well, at least we got ourselves fairly hydrated to the extent of frequent toilet usage. It was made known that we can change the ambience and stuff of the room by pressing the console keyboard, for e.g. disco, soft, stage, etc. Nonetheless, no matter which ambience button i pressed, all seemed the same to me, i.e. no observable changes. What bothered me the most was the smoke button where once pressed, there should be smoke coming out from all corners of the room to give those high class seventh-month getai feel. No matter how many times i pressed, there was no smoke. It was later figured out the smoke function wasnt functioning as stated in all other rooms when Jas made a sneaky attempt to enter other rooms after the session to try the button.

One thing i love about Topone was that I can change the key of the songs. I was rather bothered by the fact that most male singers' songs were of too high key for me while most female singers' songs too low. Hence, it allowed me to sing at a comfortable key by having the power to dictate the key of my fave songs sang yesterday. On our way out of the place, i felt that the lift smelt of bbq food only to realize a steamboat stall at level 1 which was the likely source of contribution to that. Overall, the karaoke experience at topone was rather nice, given the long hours we have, the freeflow of drinks and the price of 20bucks nett.

After K, we went across the road to Parco Bugis for dinner followed by shopping. As it was Saturday night, in compliment to Great Singapore Sales 2008, the crowd present was remarkable. We did a fair share of shopping at Parco Bugis where everyone except me got something. Well, i have to defend myself for that, quoting the reason that i am a very difficult shopper. I would walk around the mall 3 rounds surveying every stalls' quality and price before settling down to what i should buy (though most of the time i did not buy anything in the end). Furthermore, when i see clothes or apparals that attracted me, the first thing i would look out for is the price. If it was above my budget (most of the time they were), i would give up and continue looking other place. Hence that explains all why you all should not go shopping with me. I was specially taken to attention to the fact that some mid-to-high range branded stalls offer lousy quality apparels and clothes at extremely high price - totally not worth the purchase. Nonetheless, they still receive high degree of patronage hence i shall not further comment on the stupidity of these consumers.

Oh well, i took off on fri and will be on off tml (monday). I managed to book a driving lesson tml morning 8.15am last minute-ly, after my auto driving lesson today. Did i even mention how easy to drive auto cars are? There will (likely) be new medics coming in tml which i do not have the privilege to meet them first-handed. Oh well, things are getting mundane. Its time to spice up my life !!!