Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays everyone!

If like me and you spent the day in the lovely surreal world of three-day salt water marinated turkey, vintage lace dresses and pseudo military band jackets, holiday cakes and singstar ABBA I can be certain you had a jolly time! Especially if for you Christmas is actually tomorrow and you are in New York with 13°C weather and shopping lights and naked teen acting sensation! Yes Anna, reference to you. Can't wait to see those holiday pictures!

Also, singstar wise, why isn't there a Singstar Beatles? I would purchase it for sure. In 1984 Michael Jackson bought the rights to the beatles music, and it's rumoured that Sony now owns 50% because of other legal stuff blah blah, well, on Singstar Volume 3 Michael Jackson is finally featuring, so perhaps this could mean selling out/please please michael and sony I would love a Singstar! Beatles. Maybe not even a singstar beatles, but some sort of karaoke device in which I can sing beatles songs. If ABBA can do it, so can the Beatles.

She loves you ya ya ya!

MACARON

How To Be Happy

Recently I found myself googling the words 'How to Be Happy'. I'm not sure if I found what I was looking for or not. Most of the results I found involved things that were boring, for example 'focusing on my true objective' and 'becoming enlightened'.

I'm sure those things make the bullshit spouting Internet therapist selling them very happy when he receives his paycheck, but a long tedious process of giving up all earthly possessions (and giving them to Dr Ripoffartist/Insert charity here) yoga and a gluten free diet usually isn't what a person is looking for when they google 'How to be Happy'.

The sort of people who google this phrase are usually looking for a way out of some sort of zombified day to day nothingness feeling state they are living in or looking for a temporary fix out of some greater misery. This list is for them, the people who do not want yoga. If we were all truthful to ourselves, nobody wants yoga. Not even yoga teachers, who make a living off yoga. Not even great yoga masters. Nobody wants yoga.

Megan's List of How to be Happy without Yoga.

1. Watch this video http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html This made me remember the real, I'm not sure how to describe it - the fact that humans are just animals. I burst into tears from happiness. Also AUCKLAND REP REP. Not that I am from Auckland, but it was good that New Zealand was included. Trust me, It's a happy video.

2. Repeat the phrase 'Nobody wants yoga' loudly and quickly.

3. Watch that video of the korean baby singing Hey Jude. Sing along.

4. Gather a lot of people and have a gang dance fight like in West Side Story where they are fighting but actually they are dancing.

5. Krump in inappropriate places.

6. Hang out with some little children that laugh a lot and are happy. Or hang out with happy people.

7. Scoff at stupid songs with stupid lyrics. "Are we human, or are we dancer" wtf man. Why would I not be a human? Secondly, why would I be a dancer? I can't dance. The only people who answer 'dancer' for that question are hideous-clothes-wearing-girls-who-type-like'yoor miine ;]'-lame-stupid-etc people. They should die. Painfully.

8. Look at pictures of people you know that they have placed as their bebo/facebook/whatever book profile picture where they are trying to look sexy or attractive. Scoff loudly.

9. Become friends with someone who thinks for themselves. They are the best kind of people.

10. Watch a friend try and eat a tree.

Christchurch Idol, Karaoke Review

One of the things I love is karaoke, so a couple of nights? weeks? ago I went with my friends to Christchurch Idol, a karaoke place in town. HERE IS MY SERIOUS AND NON WITTY LIST REVIEW.

Good Points:
It's karaoke.
The rooms are good sized and private
They have a good bar
Despite the Chinese and Korean songs, there still is a pretty decent English selection.
Instead of showing a music video of the song, they show random pictures of unsuspecting Chinese bathers, crustaceans and the autumn.
It has some dance lighting.
The interiors are lovely.

Bad Points:
The mics aren't that great.
Most(?) of the songs are in chinese or korean.
Despite the largeish room, there is not alot of dance space.
The backing track sounds like a bad MIDI. A BAD midi.
The rating for your performance is highly dubious. A pathetic 67 for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? I am so sure I would have scored higher on a program like Singstar.
Plus on Singstar you can track your progress.

Overall, it's a decent place if you are going for laughs with friends, but for serious karaokers-like yours truly, I say the slightly primative Singstar is the one for you! It's relativley cheap but also awesome.

Awesome.