Well, I love days when you find out something so unexpected that it startles you.

I have been going to Thailand for 22 years, and I never knew that Karaoke bars were pick up places. You could knock me over with a feather.

I have no interest in karaoke, that most Asian of pastimes. I've only participated when the possible outcomes seemed to outweigh the negatives. That is the say, the cute factor of the boy doing the insisting outweighed the inevitable pain of the aural onslaught.

But now I am intrigued. I shall investigate further in this year's Thai adventure, which regrettably is not until much later in the year.