David Chiu

Today there was an office party at my job celebrating the fact that we moved into a MUCH larger office space. At 4pm the festivities started with beer, wine, sushi, bar food and….. karaoke! Of course, I signed up. I thought it would be a good chance to shock people in the office. Most people who see me in the office probably think I’m just this pseudo - jock - asian - with - an - attitude - programmer guy who is known to talk on his cell phone a lot. The majority of the company doesn’t even know I’m an actor, or have any kind of aspirations thereof. So when it was my turn I introduced myself…

“Wazup. My name is David Chiu and I’m a HTML programmer. Just to let you know before I sing, I’ve had no professional training. [laughter] I am going to sing the song ‘She Bangs’ [crowd goes wild]. Just kidding. [crowd boos]. Ok. I’ll sing a little bit of the song. [I re-enact the William Hung performance] How’s that. [crowd laughs] Instead I’m going to sing a little a capella. This song is called ‘Please Don’t Go’ by Boyz II Men…”

Then I proceeded with my best effort to sing as if I was on American Idol. I think I did pretty good. I wonder what Simon would have said. Probably something like…

“That was a pretty good effort but I don’t think you should quit your day job just yet.”

Damn.