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You know how they say 'Dance like nobody's watching'? Why don't they ever say 'Sing like everyone around you is deaf'? I guess you can watch someone dance like as if they have two left feet and still brush it off as funny. Whereas if someone sings horribly, your ears just cannot handle it.. thereby leading to 'cat barking' comparisons a la Simon on AI..

I have these bursts of happy (read: loud) singing around home and in the car. Especially in the car. Singing at home is usually saved for when I'm cleaning the kitchen, doing the laundry, or having a shower. Just the other day, I plugged in my headphones into the iPod, tucked that into one of B's really really ugly hip-pouches from the 90's, threw some water on the ironing board to battle the static, and let my lungs loose. If you knew me from school, you might think that I must not sound all that bad - I was, after all, a part of the school choir. But singing amidst a chorus of ten girls, in the second row, and twice removed from the mic is a different matter altogether. With no background accompaniments, with the headphones plugged in (implying I cannot hear myself) I must've sounded exactly like a cat barking: why else was B standing at the door, with his eyes as round as saucers!

I have a redeeming factor though: I am not tone deaf. There are some songs, and some parts of some songs that fall right within my pitch range. These I can muster for as long as my lungs will hold up. For the ones that are out-of-range, I stop when my voice breaks and resume singing once the song is back to a portion I can sing. God bless me for my consideration.