A Different Start (5): Come On, Sing!

My father, other than being an ITB lecturer, works as a businessman. A company he currently runs is Commtech. He told me that the company holds a lot of trainings. I came to one of them, its opening. I was asked by my father to be a cameraman (mmm, is there a word like "camerawoman"?).

The company held a gathering on 5th until 6th of January, but as my sisters and mom have to go back to their school and hospital already, we only joined the gathering in the night of the 5th.

The company rented a villa in Lembang, Bandung. It is near Kampung Gajah, the other company members (and families) did go there in the morning. The villa was nice... especially because the view was very beautiful and the sky was really clear that I could see a full moon brightened the night.

We had a dinner. The food was really good; most of them grilled. In the middle of it, we had a karaoke competition. My family had to try first... my father then asked my sister Farah and my mom (and me, actually, but I was just too shy :)) to pick a song and sing. But then my mom's microphone wasn't able to be turned on, so Farah sang alone. It was great, the others were impressed. The karaoke program gave her the score 85.

The others then got their chance to sing. My father then asked Farah to sing again, but in the middle, Farah got confused as she remembered the song so little. It was then when people started to convinced my father, "Come on, Mr. Ian, sing!". At first he didn't want to sing, saying "I can't!" to my mother. But not long after it... a voice came out from the speaker. He sang! We laughed a lot, and we had fun. Surprisingly, his score is 84. He laughed so much, as he, with his voice's quality, was only beaten by one by his child. "Wah, the program must be broken!"

At last, Farah won the third place. The others then went to sleep. We slept after trying to play billiard (my father taught us, but I just couldn't do it, hehe).

On the 6th in the morning, we went back to our home. It was still dawn, about 5 or 5.30, but my family had to prepare to go to school/work. I myself had to go too, there was a Biology olympiad preparation in my school.

end of part five