Ultimate Singstar Fun!

 Last night was a fantastic fun-filled evening where people came around to do several of my favourite things.

1. Give me super-cool pressies (Joy! Rapture! Thanks heaps!)
2. Drink Chocolate Martinis (Yummy)
3. Sing the SingStar

The Singstar had the usual high calibre of karaoke despite the fact that some people cheated by actually being able to sing. I didn't do too badly though because Singstar doesn't measure how well you sing, just if you hit notes at the right time, get the right pitch and hold them. As we discovered, you can pretty much sing any words. There were some fantastic "monkeyfied" songs. The challenge was to fit the word "monkey" into appropriate places in the lyrics.

Some of my favourites included:

"Girls don't like boys,
Girls like cats and monkeys"

"Pretty monkey, walking down the street.
Pretty monkey, the kind I like to meet."

Another reason why last night was "Ultimate Singstar Fun" was the surprise addition of the Eye-Toy. I was luckily given an Eye-Toy as a present (Thanks - you rock!) and they are SO GOOD! The Eye-Toy games are pretty fun. You can do the Kung-fu (although the Pandas with baseball bats are hard to fight off), dancing, crazy mirror game, ghost fighting and window washing. All involve you standing in front of the TV and camera and madly flailing your arms and legs around (at least that is how I played them). If you get the High Score, you have to pose for a photo. Lots of fun but I do now have slightly sore arms.

The Eye-Toy is particularly cool when used with SingStar. You get to see yourself dancing around and singing for the music video, and it creates groovy effects around you and with your image. You also to have segments of your performances recorded for Playback.

Now I must pay the price of much fun and merriment - planning for the week and marking.