Pete: Karaoke in this part of the world is rife. You can’t avoid it. You could try, but you would not be successful. They go mad for it. In every club or bar there’s always a machine and enough people lining up to embarrass them selves to warrant having one. This said, it’s actually really endearing, it totally sums up the general South East Asian public, there’s no bullshit and no façade. This is who I am, take it or leave it. I only wish that there were more people, my self included, like this in England. Having said that, quite why they felt the need to pump it out at an annoyingly oppressive volume for the entire seven hour bus journey to Siem Reap, I don’t know. No one was even singing. I even tried
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