[JohnnyB]

Well, to update, it looks like I'm not only getting a serious incentive to improve my singing ability now, but a chance to show the recent progress I have made from utterly incompetent to almost utterly incompetent.

My boss caught wind of the fact that I was learning to sing in Chinese and booked me to sing at the company party for Chinese New Years this Saturday. And you better believe it's a big company. We're expecting to have over a thousand people there listening to me crooning out 中国人. And I can't really back out because I'm kind of the face of our new center, and the medley has already all been orchestrated for my participation.

Nonetheless, I'm gonna take this like a man, and use it as a chance to get over all of the enormous fears of singing in front of people that I've had since I changed from an innocent and wonderful child into a neurotic, self-conscious teenager and beyond. If I pass through those flames I'll be a bigger man on the other side.

Wish me luck CP, I'm gonna need it!!