Karaoke 嗊 in 中夏, can you sing? A Reality Show

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Wow, let's talk now about the song contests organised at university...

I am glad that you have watched the video of my song in one of my entries, thus I scarcely need to point out that I haven't sung in public since, needless to say they haven't asked me either, oops... So, no comments about the reasons why they haven't invited me to perform again, you see, I read in my horoscope again that one of the features of leo is that we're good at almost everything we do. That 'almost' may include things like singing... sorry, I can't think of anything else, and this is not out of modesty. :-)



However, I've had the chance to meet some outstanding singers at uni: my students are great. Throughout the year, they hold different song contests and then you see that many of the shy students we have in class are actually professional when it comes to acting. I envy them, they have such nice voices and although I don't have a clue about the lyrics of their songs, you can easily see how much they enjoy doing it and how much joy they bring to their classmates. Chapeau!!!



Throughout these three years they have been able to put on such an outstanding show, they are highly organised and meticulously put lots of attention to every little detail; they always have hostesses indicating where everybody should sit. There will always be two guys in charge of the sound and the images they display on the screen. Two or three students will be running throughout the whole show making sure that the students announced on the microphone are there and at the right time. Other than that, they have 10 students adding the scores of the judges after every song.... I could continue telling you about all this and you'll be most amazed by the way these students organise everything. You know what I am thinking of right now? The 2008 Olympics, I am telling ya, everything will be perfect, stick around for these Chinese ARE READY AND WILL PUT ON THEIR BEST SHOW EVER.

Now, I am going to briefly describe the last karaoke competition which took place one month ago:



I just arrived from the annual karaoke competition organised by students, normally, they have a group of 15 students competing, obviously, all the songs in Chinese; I was there, but thought the contest was getting less popular among teachers, I found myself being the only foreign teacher there and spotted merely 4 Chinese English teachers. Or it is probably the fact that they run it on a Sunday evening and everybody is working on their lessons. I stayed there till they said there would be a second round, which was too much for me to take, so I thought I'd better head home and finish my lesson preparation instead.

Message for my fans :-)



Voila, do not worry if I haven't included myself doing karaoke, as you can imagine, I have some pictures and will eventually write a new entry on that. Do not worry, my fans!!! In the meantime, enjoy the photos.

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Photos

At first, the singers are introduced to the audience
Lots of students cheering on their favourites, this is awesome

Howard, one of my students from last year, a very nice student, hey, Howard, thanks for the teapot and good luck in North America!!!
This guy is now in America, he is a wonderful student, very attentive, extremely polite and quite popular among the girls.

The presenters 2005
My student, his English name? 'Noknow'; yeah, I told him to change his name, but hey, he thought it was quite popular so I do not Know what he did later.

The winner of the night, he's definitely an artist
Let me tell you, we're not on speaking terms, you know why? one day he tested me at 4:00 am to ask me something about IELTS and sorry, this is unforgivable!!!

Two nice girls with a lovely song
The girl on the right is Rose, she was one of my outstanding students too, very sweet, serious and popular. She is now in England doing her Master's degree.

The presenters 2006
The girl on the right is one of my students, Polyanna; she is most sweet and you know what? she was dating one of my students, I know :-)

Iverson, lovely voice and very funny guy
He is from Urumqi, a very remote town in China; I kept the whole year picking on him and telling him how small his town was, fortunately, though he is shy, he can take everything. At the end, he was making jokes himself, ah and he is an outstanding basketball player, not as good as me, though. He won't agree :-)

And yes, I was right there clapping a lot
The lady next to me is Mrs Wu, a very sweet lady who has helped us a lot.

The happy winner
Beautiful voice, beautiful song, beautiful girl; we all knew she was the winner!

The final moments of round 1
Here, when I found out that they had to sing acapella, that was too much for me to take and left the show.

The presenters 2007
And here again, one of my students, it seems that I choose my potential students according to their presenting skills :-) Not true, always a coincidence. Her name is Emma, a very active girl.

My students from last year
Lucia, Eva and Susana were happily enjoying the show; while I was watching the show, they sent me a cute paper inviting me for dinner the next day. I thought that was quite nice of them to do that; I hardly have a chance the students from last year, they all seem to be very busy and I quite understand.

I don't know her name, but she deserves lots of credit for her performance
Imagine, the lovely song from Carmen 'L'amour est un oiseau...' sung in Chinese by a very outstanding singer, ca c'est quelquechose, GENIAL

The winner from last year, performed as a guest.
I am telling you these students think of everything. God bless them!!

Comments

[Nicola Dabelow]

2008
Hi Frank, btw. Happy New Year. I lost you on Facebook, I'm not quite sure why? My Vampire Fights?? Tell me if you want to block my contact. Nice Page here. Greetings from Harbin, Nicola

[Frankardenas]

Why? if I always won? :-)
Of course not, the reason? was wasting too much time on that but will deactivate the account later. No worries, let's keep in contact.