Wellington — It was breakfast time on Easter Monday, and Tanya had organized a group of 11 of us to come out to a hotel restaurant armed with vouchers to eat a buffet breakfast. It looked like we had all eaten our fill of eggs, bacon, fruits, cereals, yoghurts, and whatever other breakfast foods lined the tables of Copthorne Hotel’s “one80” restaurant. Somehow, talk had moved to movies and Frozen, and I took...
New york — We were there on the side for a moment – taking a break, catching our breath, and taking it all in. He started singing, “Boo-Wab-Boo-Wap” and all of a sudden, before I knew it, I joined in and we were...
Shenzhen — It has been a long time since I have been to a Karaoke place or Nori Bang. It has also been the first time I have been to one stone sober. The place was massive. We were put in room 1976, which I thin...
Norfolk — I don’t know if the name on her tag is her last or first. She’s a little shorter than me, with blue horn-rimmed glasses and dangling earrings and rust-colored hair shorn against her head. The securit...
A Night Of KTV
It hurt to remember; it was worse to forget. The singular moment of solace was that surrounded by voices, held by nothing but harmony.
Do you want to build a snowman?
Boo-Wab-Boo-Wap
She looks to the side as she beckons me forward, softening the authority of the gesture with impersonal deference.