Comments on: Beijing KTV: 5 Steps to Cross-cultural bonding at Cashbox Partyworld

By: An UpTake’s Take on working in China for a global startup

An UpTake’s Take on working in China for a global startup — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:39:28 +0000

[…] Kai Pan is that Chinese like to hang out with friends in a small KTV room (Elliott has very valuable advice on KTV team building), but westerners like to hang out and meet random people in a big room (such as a bar). But if the […]

By: Downtown Tommy Brown

Downtown Tommy Brown — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:31:18 +0000

I’ve never been to China, but as I read this post, I had an eerie sense of deja vu. Suddenly, it came to me: I had a nearly identical experience some ten years ago in Little Korea in NYC! It was the same idea, albeit less glamorous than KTV — a spread of food, free-flowing “liquid courage” to lubricate the voice, and a private chamber for self-humiliation, aka singing. I had enough of the giggle juice that my singing actually sounded good . . . to me. My friends weren’t so enthusiastic about my performance, and they dashed my hopes of musical stardom with merciless jeers. I had repressed those painful memories . . until now.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:37:13 +0000

[…] and KTV! I will have to come out to Beijing for that combination. I will have to break out my Wang Qing Shui (忘情水) rendition for that […]

By: Min Guo

Min Guo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:22 +0000

I wish I brought a video camera…

By: David Feng

David Feng — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:27:16 +0000

I started back in 2004 with just one or two songs in Mandarin, and now I can do English, some Cantonese, and about one or two in Taiwanese / Minnan.

Scary when you have me in your KTV crowd.

By: elliottng

elliottng — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:49:23 +0000

Pretty good memory Kai except for one line. Its 一个没有眼睛，一个没有耳朵。 When you have kids, a dog, a mortgage, real responsibilities, and plan San Francisco family vacations, you too will have the pleasure of singing this and many other songs to your kids!

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:43:58 +0000

Elliott, I would’ve gone with the tigers song.

Liang zhi lao hu, liang zhi lao hu…
PAO DE KUAI! PAO DE KUAI!
Yi ge mei you (something), yi ge mei you (something)
ZHEN QI GUAI! ZHEN QI GUAI!

Children’s song…like Meg’s “mice love rice” if its…

Lao gong lao gong wo ai ni…
Jiu xiang lao shu ai da mi…

Well, I haven’t checked the official lyrics but you can pretty much modify some of the verses for whatever silly effect you want.

By: Meg Stivison

Meg Stivison — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:25:44 +0000

Excellent plan! My KTV song is “Mice love Rice”… there’s a bit where I have to lalala though.