Wednesday off, Tuesday night out

Wednesday this week was the Japanese National Holiday Labor Thanksgiving Day. So, Kanami and I had the next day off of work. It was time to go back to karaoke!

I wanted to get either Indian or Thai food for dinner, so Kanami suggested Maharaja in South Shinjuku. We each had a large beer and a sampler platter with beef curry, vegetable samosa, another dish I am desperately looking up, tandoori chicken, saffron rice, and nan.
It. Was. So. Much. Amazing. Food.
The delicious meal was followed by the other parts of our platters: mango pudding and milk tea. We were so full that we really took our time with dessert. Full and distracted by chattering to eachother. We are very quickly becoming close friends, having a lot of things in common. I learned some of the differences between me and my predecessors, for example, I am really diving into my Japanese lessons (I'm so eager to learn as quickly as I can!) and I am the first to really befriend Kanami. The other girls before me had gotten along with her well, but Kanami and I love to go out together and have to force ourselves to work instead of chat.
After another two-and-a-half hour dinner, we headed to karaoke. We reserved a room for two hours and rushed to the third floor. After sliding into the booth in our room, I quickly started flipping through the books, looking for the English language section, and just as I was considering ordering drinks before choosing our first songs, Kanami asked what I wanted to drink. She decided what she wanted as I launched into the first song of the night. Two hours of songs were just right. We got to sing much more than in the single hour last time, and we were done just as was about to lose my voice! Some of what we sang: Can't Take My Eyes off of You; Can't Get Enough of Your Love, by Barry White; Can't Get Enough, by Bad Company; Mandy, by Barry Manilow; Only in Dreams, by Weezer; Uptown Girl, by Billy Joel; I Will Survive, by Gloria Gainer; Staying Alive, by The BeeGees (This song, if you pay attention to the words is just as surprisingly depressing as the movie!); Lucky, by Britany Spears; Get Back and Act Naturally, by the Beatles; Complicated, by Avril Lavigne; You Oughta Know, by Alanis Morrisette; She, by Elvis Costello; and some Japanese songs, including Cutie Honey again. We looked for Sakura, a Japanese song I learned in second grade, but it doesn't look like they have it.
We had a good, if tiring night. Everytime I think of food now, I wish I was still eating delicious curry.

Current Music : Tonight was Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies followed by the Beatles, 1.
Current Mood: I should be sleepy, but I'm not