Sing Me A Lullaby

Nevertheless, it is believed to be effective on grown-ups too.

As usual, every Fiday night, my friends and I have a very difficult time to sleep due to one illness. An illness that makes us become hyper-active and hence makes us want to jump, sing, laugh and stay awake all night long. Our mommas say it’s bad for our health! We need the medicine to cure this illness. We need lullabies! The syndrome suspected to have been cured for quite a while came back again. Ten of my friends were badly affected, including me. So we needed the medicine to cure this sickness and can only be found at any ‘clean’ kareoke center. In there, we could sing each other lullabies and try to make each other fall asleep. This time we chose The Red Box Kareoke Center, The Curve as it’s one of our ‘panel clinics’.

The ‘treatment’ started at 8pm. Remember what the doctors always say? Medicines must be taken after meal. So we grabbed almost everything on the trays. The sushis, the Malay fried rice, the salad, the cakes, the fruits and the bamboo clam sambal. Ooooh mannnn, the bamboo clam sambal was simply DELICIOUS! 

We took almost half an hour to finally stop stuffing foods into our tummies. I felt my tummy want to explode (damn those doctors!). After taking a long deep breath, I kick-started the night with an English song called Those Were The Days, originally sung by Mary Hopkins. The rest joined me soon after that and the song request list grew longer and longer and longer. From hip-hop songs to oldies, from rock music to dangdut! We sang almost anything listed in the song ‘menu’! And I tell you, that night Nora gelek-ed like she had never gelek-ed before.

After 5 hours in the kareoke room, I started to feel the effect of the ‘medicine’ - sleepiness! My eyes were already drooping. The TV screen starting to look blurry. Nora’s gelek didn’t entice me to gelek with her anymore. Her gelek was somehow losing its ‘power’. Its either she getting exhausted of too much geleking or maybe because of the blurry effect on my eyes. At one corner, one of the ‘promising superstars’ had dosed off, snuggling tightly under his jacket.

Finally at 1.30am, we called it a night and took off.