Karaoke anyone??

After Tessa and Alisa arrived on Wednesday we've had lots of fun adventures. The first being trying to meet up with each other. :) On Thursday we took a tricycle, basically a bike with a little cab fitting anywhere from 1-10 people, when really it should hold 2, to Salinas Park in Rosario, which I think is another town bigger than Ligtong. When we got to the park we noticed there were some people singing, and after a while we realized they were doing not karaoke, but videoke as they call it here, which is basically just karaoke. And karoake is HUGE here, the first morning I woke up someone was having a party and were singing out of tune love songs from the 80's all day. It was glorious. The videoke we saw was in a public park and anyone who has change can go up to the karaoke machine and choose a song to sing. For anyone who's played karaoke before you know that the tv screen you read off of will usually have some sort of video playing, like waterfalls or a young couple in love eating ice cream, etc. Well this video screen's star was Alan Iverson, playing basketball with whatever team he plays with. I don't know how old the game was or if it was live, but it was definitely not what I would expect.
Then this older man started singing, maybe like 50 or 60. And he was quite the character. He had all kinds of different voices, mickey mouse voices, bass voices, yips and hollers, and of course, he was a phenomenal dancer. Tessa took a video that I'll have to share with everybody later, but he was a great singer, but really just really entertaining. We've got him singing Johnny B. Good.
There were other fun things about the day like going to this place that's named the Fun Mall, just a regular mall with ice cream, cell phones, clothes. But we got there because the tricycle driver thought we might want to see it. So we get there walk around for about 10 minutes, then take the escalator up to the next floor, walk around for another 10 minutes, and all of a sudden we were going right back down the escalator. I always think it's funny what other people here think we might enjoy. But I also think it's really funny what people must think of the things we find interesting or want to take pictures of. Like the public transportation here, are what they call jeepneys and baby buses. Small VW size vans painted in the wildest colors with names like Revenge and Romantico. Like those are the things people must find so mundane here but we're like scrambling to find our cameras so we can catch them before they fly away.
All this being said, the best part of the day was when I went over to my Lola Bosing's house to say hello. We were telling her and Tessie (Lola's niece) about our day and the videoke in the park. She was like oh, you must have seen Kuya Ruben, your cousin. And we were like could it be?? The crazy man in the park could be related to me?? no.... So we asked Tessie, is he older? yes, does he usually wear all black? yes Does he sing in really high pitched voices?? oh yes. Still to this point I was skeptical that I could have such talent in my family, but then we showed her a picture and she was like, oh yeah, that's him, he'll probably be here for Lola Bosing's birthday on Sunday!!! The videoke experience was fantastic all by itself, but to find out that the best/craziest performer there is my cousin, the best!
Gotta go, we're celebrating Lola Bosing's 86th birthday today, and they're roasting a pig for the occasion!