31 July 2008 @ 06:49 pm

I love dr. uso.  

to pieces. absolutely. I downloaded a small pile and I just love the boy. and I think the entire studio was absolutely amused by the boy and his antics. and that dr. uso wave. gosh. and finally at the end of uso japan, he can take off that wig and glasses and say YES I AM IMAI TSUBASA. hahahaha prior to the last episode he had to constantly deny that fact and insist upon insistence that he is dr. USO and not tsubasa. oh please tsubie we know it's you. and at the end I could hear a familiar tune coming up and after a few lines, I could sing along man.

wanna be free? wanna be cool? 曲線のモションで

I love hito natsu no...to pieces too.

I didn't mean to start my entry with dr. uso, really. but 2003 tsubasa = yume monogatari tsubasa and that should be talked about. oops. but anyway. yesterday I paid my final visit to the high commission and so that's that. next is going to the lovely building at lavender. it shouldn't take long. it's just...troublesome. but get through the trouble once and for all and we're freaking done. gosh.

and because I felt insane, I walked down the entire stretch of river valley road, from the high comm all the way to liang court. that took me like 30-40 minutes, I think. didn't really check. at least 30 minutes. but it wasn't all that bad. just that halfway through I decided that going without liquid wasn't good for health and so I stopped by a 7-11 and got myself a lovely bottle of pocari sweat. I love that drink man. whoever invented that drink is genius.

so armed with a bottle of pocari sweat and takitsuba's angsty diamond on repeat, I walked all the way to liang court, then froze there for like nearly 2 hours waiting for nore. I finished reading one of my books man. but that was more or less expected because philip dick's books are just easy to read. when they want to be. the man in the high castle was puzzling. but that was the only exception so far. the rest have proven easy. look at minority report man. that one is ultimate.

OH and the scans for arena special came out. my gosh my goodness. they piled so much makeup on uruha and turned the child criminally beautiful. I insist on getting a copy. insisttt.

then today I went to meet vicks and carr back at the chicken rice stall just for kicks. we always meet there and then end up wandering in parkway. which was exactly what happened today. but after we wandered for a while, we ended up stoning and laughing and crapping and reminiscing in mos. so my lunch turned into this 4 hour long thing. as usual. but it was fun. somehow something tells me that 3 of us are different people out there, but when we come back together, and go through the memories, we're thrown back in time.

and just to add -- I've finished watching endless shock. it was endless stunned moments and endless laughter. seriously. couldn't stop laughing. and it's such a terribly long show. act 1 is like 1h10min and act 2 is like 1h27min. so technically the entire performance plus interval is like 3 hours man. my gosh.

and I ought to sleep. going to school tomorrow morningggggg.

 

 

 

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29 July 2008 @ 04:56 pm

I'm selling tsubasa. again.  

I was supposed to start a rental service of some sort but I suppose people would rather want a copy of their own, right? hahaha this is so ridiculous. but anyway here's more boredom manifested, because I've wanted to make this series a long long time ago. the pictures are a little big because I was 1. too lazy to change from the previous size configurations, 2. I like working with big spaces. but then again I did this really fast without fuss and without special effects. just for laughs.

here goes nothing.

 

 

 

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28 July 2008 @ 10:35 pm

endless shock.  

I didn't expect that to happen in act 1. and I just KNEW that daily rolling down the stairs thing was going to happen at that moment. I'm always watching things that are roads to doom you know. I watch these shows where I know somebody's going to die, nobody's going to get out alive, people are going to be in bondage forever. that sort. jinx calls them train wrecks.

that part was quite a, shock. literally. this really has to be the weirdest musical I've ever watched in my entire life, and while it is not disappointing, it is rather puzzling. the scenes go in and out, some with much connection, some with little. some with completely none. the english lyrics make sense most of the time, but some are really odd and out of place. plus I don't see why they even needed english lyrics -- it's a japanese audience after all. and if you wish to say that it's because it's set in new york, then you might as well make the entire thing in english.

but you know the point where the blood splattered and you watch koichi head towards the stairs of doom, I was like oh noooo noooo koichi oh nooo and then he went a-rolling and then I seriously felt like throwing tsubasa down rolling after him as well. but nore said then both koichi and tsubasa would be dead. darn it. but it's one of those 何やってんの?!!?! moments and you take people and 捨ててthem.

I can't wait for act 2 to complete so I can watch preferably something that can cover that scene. I've watched a couple of videos from act 2, and they look like flashback parts. so we'll just wait and watch. and those fight scenes plus rising platforms were totally dream boys. totally. and the music? totally pirates of the carribean. like OEI kitagawa.

and just for laughs. for my laughs, rather.


for a slice of real life, I went to the singapore garden festival with vicks this morning. yeah you read that right. MORNING. I successfully kicked myself out of bed at 0845 and also equally successfully kicked myself out of the house by 0915. my goodness. don't ask me how I did that. it took a lot more determination and willpower than you imagine, trust me. and we were both actually on time. ha. but then at least in the morning it wasn't too crowded. when we were getting out it was beginning to get a little more crowded. plooey. I went shutter happy with vicks' camera so I have no pictures on me now. according to her, I was so shutter happy I snapped almost 400 pictures in about 3 hours. but that's mostly because I didn't delete a single bad shot from the camera in order to conserve battery. I am assuming the final count should go down by at least half after I delete all the weird, fuzzy, shaky, lousy shots from the pile.

then we went to the library. I haven't been there in ages. and I walked out with the usual authors -- endo, huxley and dick. I'm almost done with every endo shuusaku and philip dick book there is in the libraries man. I meant to carry atwood home but I was a tad too lazy. and when I don't need it, I find 2 freaking copies of oryx and crake. and why oh why weren't they there previous huh? and vicks actually managed to get away with 3 murakami haruki books. can you believe that? but they need to bring in moar murakami ryu things. there is more than coin locker babies that has been translated. I'm too lazy to go read the chinese version. way too lazy.

after that I got moar slippers for myself, and was tempted to get this pair of pumps but they looked kinda ugly on me so I threw it back on the shelf despite it being amazingly comfortable. vicks was getting a bag for school, and I realised that online shopping has also warped my concept of prices of things like bags and clothes. which totally reminds me that I need to transfer the topup and contact the poor child who's been holding onto my bag for the past 3 weeks. poor dear. plus school is going to start, and I intend to use that bag for school.

swinging back to takitsuba for the day, I just found out today (don't ask me how) that the premium live dvd jacket C has multiangle extras for DIAMOND. *jumps about the house screaming because she loves diamond to death but she doesn't get to watch this extra* I have this thing for multiangles. I don't really know why myself. I have a small pile of dir en grey multiangles too. and the best tour's performance of diamond is nicer than the dame tour's performance. and it's been taken off youtube. =(((

I feel like making another tsubasa sale post.

 

 

 

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28 July 2008 @ 01:04 am

I'm selling tsubasa.  

bored child I was for a couple of hours. since I was telling nore yesterday that my new layout, as well as my initial idea's picture both turned out advertisement-ish, I decided to continue. I was thinking for a while, what on earth are these adverts going to sell? but honestly at the end of it, it's more or less like I'm selling tsubasa.

so in conjunction with
1. his appearance on music station next friday
2. his extended flamenco appearance
3. making sure that cloth for his stunt holds up
4. he survives WWP 2008

and everything we love tsubasa for,

"is it alright if I hold you passionately?" is originally a question asked by takizawa in the song balance.



"love is the final answer to my raison detre" is taken from takitsuba's best dance song, diamond.




"I was given wings that people cannot see" is originally sung in ki.se.ki by takizawa.



"in the middle of endless dreams" is a smiling tsubasa, taken from his own solo song, mihatenu yume.



"even for just one day, can I be your princess?" is asked by tsubasa in his solo song, toriko.



"nee, ichinichi dake o-himesama ni shite kudasai na?" tsubasa asks again.



"torn wings attached" is taken totally out of context from tsubasa's solo, edge.

it's time to sleep. waking up early tomorrow to meet vicks. yay for real life! oh and bidding commences tomorrow. it's time to fight to death with fellow department people. now it's time to slam your friends silly with the not very amazing amount of points I have. and if all fails, we're all chanelling into the research modules. oh horrors of horrors.

 

 

27 July 2008 @ 12:08 am

new layout is up!  

so here's the obligatory post to tell the world that my new layout is up.

it has tsubasa really BIG up there, and it's from 2003 september's potato, kindly scanned by amarylliszai. lyrics are plucked off toriko which is written by domoto tsuyoshi, and sung by tsubie at the hatachi con and the dame tour.

no it isn't the most princessy picture I could find but hey.

and this is the fastest time I've customised the layout. fastest ever. I selected the pile of colours I wanted to change and went on this speedy change. after that I switched some of the fonts and made the entry font size LARGER. my gosh it was verdana 6 and I wanted to cry.

whatever. it's so late. I ought to sleep.

toriko tsubasa. I totally understand the uke tsubie concept. =)

(and this layout's so much wider. the old one had such narrow columns I nearly died from scrolling down. especially since I have a few friends who can type as much as me. heh.)

 

 

 

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25 July 2008 @ 06:11 pm

positive correlation.  

I was twiddling with my original picture for a new layout, and after I'd done rotating it and changing the colour, I got a little freaked out. there's a positive correlation between the 2003 tsubasa (in particular) and 2004 ueda (also in particular). besides that blonde brown hair, there's something about their faces. nore said it was the lips. but it's er, freaky. yes I love them both to pieces but this can get disturbing. it's like how joker reminds me of beetlejuice. oops. bad parallel, I guess.

er so I changed to the other picture in the same set, in case you were wondering. where he looks a tad more like tsubie than ueda. I love blonde tsubie. but I love black haired ueda. rin's post says the little princess is having his own solo album. so now what, moar katakana lyrics? har? I don't mind more lost-ish tracks. prease to hire miyazaki ayumi. =)

and then and then. endless shock has been subbed. or rather, the subbing project has completed. OH MY. I've wanted to watch that for years you know. and then after that domoto kyoudai where koichi explains that he falls down the damn stairs every night, I really wanted to watch. forward a year later, when I became a full fledged tsubie fangirl and I really really really wanted to watch. although I wonder why ryo was given the same role as tsubie after tsubie stopped acting in it. I understand why they chose toma as well, but ryo? nande?

oh and ryo as nino's younger brother is all wrong, I tell you. all wrong. mingboon's eyes nearly popped out when we were talking about it. but I suppose nore can leave this drama to her brother to download and watch because toda erika's inside.

then nore was saying that ohno + toma = maou, because toMAOHno makes it so. it's just like uebo and kame is DAME, really. but calling them maou is better than the emerging OHMA terminology. I was explaining to xiaowei yesterday why kameda is dame, and she was like YAH BECAUSE KAME IS TOTALLY A GIRL. I think junjie must have bombed a thousand pictures on her when they were doing the TA project thing together. however I am insistent that kame is androgynous. like how takki would be if his face weren't so square, actually. but ueda's a girllll. gahhh.

and I'm beginning to understand uke! tsubie.

but that's totally off topic. but what was the topic anyway? there wasn't any. maybe one wants to know something beyond the jimusho. but I'm not in the mood to bitch about cors and nus and cnm anymore. in fact I'm rather tired of it all. it's my 5th semester at school -- do they mind making it a little less painful. there are better and bigger things to worry about besides simply settling modules. tsk.

and a pity ueda's voice can't seem to open. he's got all the angst you need for LOST but...dame da yo naa~ but the song is still good. now is to overcome the army of katakana. by using romaji. muahaha. my sister asked for the thai lyrics to venus last night, because she wanted to send it to her friend for translation practice. I forgot to warn her -- the lyrics are so cheesy the takitsuba forum is ready to shoot the lyricist in the leg. that, and for using a female pronoun. that was ultimate. I couldn't stop laughing at that.

bah still need to type up the letter, finish up that layout and then perhaps endless shock act 1 may be done. maybe only, because I don't know whether the connection is going to hold up. but it's going strong. stay that way!

EDIT: act 1 complete! but I must stop watching before I die from laughing at akiyama. and koichi with F1. oh my goodness. and I need to be mentally prepared. I have a very very bad feeling about tsubasa. okay yes I know he's the baddie in shock but *sobs* I need some mental preparation because as far as I can see, tsubasa's a total ass in this show. and he can sure annoy. tsubie!

 

 

 

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24 July 2008 @ 11:26 pm

real life.  

before this lj turns into ultimate fangirl ranting, I think something from the real world, the proper life I am living now should have a mark in this blog. so here goes a real life entry, after 2 entries of takitsuba. literally. one each.

it was jinxiepoo birthday celebration last night, finally. with nore and rin included. and I had to deal with a very disobedient bowl of alien noodles. terrible you know. the bowl just couldn't stop turning inside the plastic bag. in the end the wrapping was half crushed. maybe half chibi ryo was attempting to get through the wrapping. or the aliens were fighting with a laughing lee hom. I don't really wish to know why after a while. the food pictures are all on nore's blog, and I won't talk about the *ahem* 3 eternities I took to finish my ramen. but I had a lot of ramen. somehow my stomach has turned into a rather big black hole after coming back. somehow. either that or I miss japanese food loads. both, perhaps.

and I finally ate inside azabu sabo. my gosh. honestly I didn't expect a higashiyama. AHAHA in fact it was literally a higashiyama noriyuki, because it was this mountainous bowl of ice with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on top of it. heh. bad joke, I know. but it beat jinx's bowl of er, hot balls. and then later I had to make my mountain avalanche simply because it was fast turning into a phallic symbol. but it wasn't exactly my fault that nore and jinx were scooping off one side, and I was aiming to eat up all the chocolate covered ice first.

but anyway jinx got super random presents. that must be like the most unconventional 21st birthday present I've given man. and I couldn't resist printing that ryo card lah. if we hadn't postponed this to wednesday, poopoo wouldn't have gotten it. because I wouldn't have had time to go get it printed.

OH AND SEPTEMBER ARENA IS FULLY RESERVED. like WHY. I'm going to monitor the magazine shipping schedule freaking closely and make sure I set foot in kinokuniya the day the freaking magazines arrive on the island and buy myself a copy. gosh this feels like the suits issue all over again. and it's all because of uruha. dearest pretty uruha.

then today I met nore (again) for lunch with mingboon and xiaowei. yay for tampopo ramen!! I totally miss hokkaido ramen. and nore's bowl looked suspiciously spicy. but apparently more oily than spicy. it's a slightly odd arrangment, really, because I only knew mingboon from nore's party and xiaowei from ta. slightly strange. but whatever. it was a very er, non-johnny oriented meal today. it's been a long time. then xiaowei and I totally entertained ourselves (plus xiaowei is entertainment in herself) in meidi ya, and then continued to entertain ourselves with more food at central's basement. we walked in and out of a few shops but decided that stuff was cool but expensive. sigh. and I still want silver pointy shoes.

*feels sad for deming's hanadan shoes*

after that I went to meet sister to watch BATMAN. I wasn't exactly the keenest on watching the movie, I mean, it wasn't like when pirates came out and I went crazy going YES IT'S OUT I'M SO GOING TO WATCH JACK SPARROW sort of thing, but hey it's heath ledger so we're going to watch it. and while I agree with crys that it should be rated higher than PG (then I would have gotten rid of that weird little boy who randomly parroted people on screen), joker was GOOD. after a while I got used to the makeup and then I really began to like the little hesitant calm quiet way joker spoke.

and I still haven't watched maou episode 2. maybe I should just watch it without my sister. but actually I'd rather forget about maou's existence for a month or so, just faithfully download the episodes, then I can watch a pile at one shot, instead of hopping about the house for an entire week. which was totally what happened with hana kimi and yamtarou.

tomorrow I will have to type out some things, and then I need to stare at modules again. I am so irritated that the department sucks. but after a while I'm quite resigned to this. you know xiaowei was asking what I wanted to do after graduation (it still takes me quite a bit for the fact that she's 2 years older to sink in), and I said I hadn't a clue, and honestly I'm taking what I am because everything else sucks. or at least, this one screws my brain the least. the best part about university, I think, is the fact that I believe I'm finally getting an education. I'm not getting more literate anymore. I'm learning something I want to, I'm doing something that interests me. not something that definitely leads to somewhere I mightn't want. I suppose that's the idealistic streak in me, and that streak runs a little deep in me. I wouldn't say I have zero plans for the future, but I think there are many things that I can't control, and there are many things that don't fall within my plan.

but all things work out for good. I believe that. I'll do what I can, and the rest, is up to Somebody I know up above.

I'm going to work on the new layout and then I need to sleep. my eyes are beginning to fall out again. sheesh.

 

 

 

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23 July 2008 @ 11:01 am

takizawa post.  

first I want to talk about shounen club premium. it's a good show man. okay I've only watched 2 episodes. but I was watching takki's first appearance on scp (2006) last night and it was as serious and hilarious as the tsubasa one. takki and taichi were talking about how long they hadn't talked to one another, and I was thinking about it, and I was like YAH their last proper contact was probably USO!? japan's filming. and that show was such a good laugh. but scp is so much more serious. they dug out old vtrs again, and despite the total lack of timing and cooperation between takki and tsubie, it was still hilarious. (and I have no idea why tonisen were laughing like 3 idiots behind while takitsuba were totally messing up.)

but I insisted on watching this episode (even though it doesn't have tsubasa on it) because I figured that I didn't want to watch another flying tackey episode. it's nice to watch something serious once in a while. in fact, now I think part of the reason why tackey's reactions are wild and he pouts like a small kid is because he never really got to be a kid, I guess. I think takki was forced to grow up really fast. firstly with the divorce of his parents, next with joining the jimusho and having so many variety shows and dramas, and later having to herd the juniors, later head the juniors, grapple with things like unhappy kansai juniors (oh they got murakami to film his vtr in such a horrible state my goodness), not talking to tsubie for 3 years, ouch. he talked about planning the juniors concert when he was 17. is that referring to sugao 2?

but er, I think he should have left the singing of love you only to taichi. *the ancient taichi fangirl re-emerges* even though taichi is such an uncle now. but somehow this talk seemed shorter than tsubie's. should go check. oh but this scp explains why they're close to aiba. although actually I think they're just close to arashi in general, since one has old ties with sho, and then uso japan brought them all together, especially between takki and arashi.

perhaps you could say I have some newfound respect for takki. (but no, I still prefer tsubasa. definitely.) I think I'm like digging out all the condemned folks and trying to redeem them man. I've decided that arashi can make it after all and now I have decided to stop throwing takki down the rubbish chute. and actually koki isn't that annoying anymore. junno is though. and I actually recognise massu now! *throws confetti*

but (sorry rae) nagase is still beyond redemption.

oh and since we're on takki, let's just give the post to him okay? because I was watching his appearance on shounen club in er, 2004. well he was singing futari no yoru, and I totally wanted to hear balance after hearing so much about it but not hearing it. it started with akame whispering like two silly idiots, and I don't know why they couldn't just announce on stage. plus they were wearing this ridiculous costume. as usual, right?

I'd totally forgotten that futari no yoru was written by tackey. totally forgotten. I love that song. and my eyes popped out when the splash screen came out to happily tell me in my face that the song was written by takki. takki please to write more such songs. no more 80's disco tunes ala words of love thanks. and then they were talking something about how takki was close to kat-tun and they asked for ueda to comment, and he started with a

仕事面で言わせてもらうと、タッキッキ♥は・・・

the takkikki caught me off guard too man. but uebo is cute like this. and by 2004 he was still blonde, but at least grown out of that ugly hairdo. plus that lovely lovely dangling earring that totally resembles tsubasa's in 2003. tsk ueda the tsubie fanboy! was reading some stuff about how ueda joined the jimusho partly because of tsubie and how he was so excited to meet tsubie. ueda, ueda.

back to takizawa. oops. then after that he sang balance. and OMG BALANCE. I took a quick look at the composer and squealed. (and totally expected another dodgy song. why oh why.)

miyazaki ayumi.

it's a guy, by the way. besides haba hitoshi, I just love miyazaki ayumi. yes yes one wrote for sailor moon and the other for digimon but hey they write good songs! haba hitoshi's the man behind takitsuba's hit singles, including yume monogatari, ho summer, venus and samurai. still got some more but we won't name them all. miyazaki ayumi is behind get down, taste me, queen of r!! and now balance!

PLUS! miyazaki is ALSO the one behind tsuchiya anna's rose and knock down (which I love so much) and jin's PINKY (yet another dodgy song), kat-tun's famous no matter matter and ultimately, ueda's LOST.

*fangirl puddle*

(gets up from the goo) and then there was kameda action at the side. don't think I didn't see that. okay partly because I was ignoring maru's rapping. and then kame and ueda were happily dancing in the right hand corner. now and then they suddenly cut to takki lost in his own world of weird dancing at the back of the stage but I was more interested in kameda.

but balance is such a good song. release it!!! argh. throw it into a c/w or wherever I don't care. and throw in some of tsubie's best stuff while you're at it. like 1 day 1 night. *fangirl puddle again* er okay it's from dream boy 2004 but hey I appreciate a studio recording. =))

(gets up from the goo again) kore ijou. I'm sorry it's really takizawa post. er for a little real life action, we 4 girls are finally meeting up to celebrate jinxiepoo's birthday, and we're going to eat good ramen. plus I am going to reserve my uruha magazine. I hope it's reservable. I don't have a yaozong in japan to help me buy potatoes and the like. ahaha nore is going to stare a hole in my head.

koe wo motto ai wo motto
baran baran ni kuzureteiku you ni

 

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21 July 2008 @ 05:56 pm

toriko.  

I spent quite a bit squinting at that youtube video to copy the mandarin translation of toriko.
then I found both the japanese and the mandarin translation on this blog.
after that, I found discrepancies.
I don't think my japanese is that bad right. I think lah.
then it seems the japanese lyrics have a couple of typos.
no big problem.
I finally ripped the dame tour concert version.

it has another verse.

(and no, tsubasa isn't the clearest singer around, and it totally doesn't help that he attempts a rocker dude voice with this song and no it doesn't help that he has that habit of ending certain words with an extra 'i' sound. he's not the only one, but sometimes it does annoy.)

so now I'm going to do this transcript exercise.
wish me luck.
loads of it.

(yes I know I'm being a stubborn prick by insisting on attaining the lyrics and translation for toriko when it's going to frustrate me more than it should already.）

and it's written from a female perspective.
calls herself a toriko.
not as psycho as dekiai logic's but still.
tsuyoshi, tsuyoshi.

I remember the first time I learnt toriko.
it's a dir en grey song.
not a very nice one but whatever.

(well luna sea fanclub members are called slaves, and dir en grey fc members seem to be called knots but some prefer to call themselves torikos. I assume pierrot fc members are harlequins -- like totally snort -- and I wonder what the x japan fc members are called. gackt's are dears, miyavi's are miyashi I think, laruku's are ciels I think too, and I suddenly can't remember what gazette's are called. oh I suddenly remember! they're heresies. yes I know the english is terribly random, but that's the er, beauty of jrock. random sophisticated sounding english words plucked from an odd dictionary of unrelated words.)

I am trying a few stunts with this transcription.
it. should. work.
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*after listening to tsubasa at that horrid bitrate*
it sorta works. sorta.
the next problem is whether it makes sense.
some lines definitely do.
some are questionable.

*continues to crack the toriko code*

and I still haven't eaten my tongari corn.
yep I BOUGHT TONGARI CORN.
and I have the cm for this flavour.
*love and tough begins singing*

(snaps out of fangirl mode)

*continues to crack the toriko code*

 

 

 

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20 July 2008 @ 11:54 pm

because I think...  

my buddy deserves a birthday post.

yes she's awfully busy, she doesn't have that much time to read my lj essays but I'm wishing her happy birthday here anyway. because she's my buddy. she's many miles off but a buddy is a buddy.

I guess every year my wish for her remains the same. I wish that wish would change though.

but buddy, to you in switzerland, I always wish you happiness. because it seldom comes to you, and when it does, it doesn't seem to stay long. dakara saa...

tanjoubi omedetou.

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p.s. and just to squeeeeeze this in, I think I've selected my next layout picture!
p.p.s. erm people how much in advance am I able to reserve a magazine at kinokuniya? and must I reserve at the same branch I'm collecting from? *insistent on getting 40 pages of uruha, despite the impending nosebleed* it's released on 29th july!!!

 

 

 

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19 July 2008 @ 03:45 pm

random statements again III.  

1. watched first episode of maou. fantastic. evil heartless riida and brash yakuza-ish toma. (plus my sister's outburst of "WHAT??!! nino has only TWO LINES?!") there's something slightly byakuyakou-ish about the show. but I like. hiak. oh and SERIZAWA. I simply burst out laughing at the computer. of all the surnames to choose.

2. I want to buy next month's arena special. uruha cover, 40 page special. OH MY GOSH.

3. today is aileen's birthday. and jiabi's too. YAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEOPLE! and there really isn't a need to feel old. for every age you advance, everyone older than you advances too.

4. silly hyde and kaz formed a new group together and called themselves VAMPS. as to why they would want to call themselves such a slutty name is beyond me. I suspect they were trying for vampires, but decided on vamps. hmm. but anyway love addict is a nice song. I suspect it's entirely in english, but with that immense guitar jamming, hyde half screaming, plus his not very good english, we need to check that part.

5. I suddenly have takki's taste me inside my head now. if you asked me which is tackey's best c/w, it'll be a fight between taste me and sadame. I used to think sadame would win hands down. but now I think taste me is a good contester. never mind the dodgy lyrics.

6. I need to iron my clothes. or at least iron something for the next three days, otherwise I will have nothing to wear. plus the cupboard needs tidying up. it's er, avalanching, to say the least. sometimes I wonder if my shelf can still hang on.

7. I finally finished unpacking everything. so that's my suitcase, my handcarry and my travel pouch finally emptied. but I still have to sort out all the presents and such. gosh. and I'd better start writing that personal evaluation letter soon. after monday, I suppose. still too many things to do inside my head.

8. I promised myself to have a gazette member up next on the layout (yes I know aoi's there now, but still) and thinking of ruki, but then a tsubasa concept popped up and it's more concrete than the ruki one. dou suru?

9. I was organising my pile of downloaded stuff properly into their correct folders, and I realised something. I have every single major photoshoot of takitsuba for the month of august. wait, did they appear on potato? because that one I don't have. but it was still very funny (to me) renaming folders to 2008.08 so many times. and unfortunately kai's photoshoot looked like ERM, otherwise I'd have all the gazette member's solo shoots for the month too.

10. lovespiral said tsubie's slowly creeping into her first place and ousting takki. I support that. *pushes tsubie forward and carries tackey offstage* oh but I was rewatching the zubari episode where takki flew off the chair, and it still cracks me up. with tsubasa around, takki can fly. okay that was lame. but it's tackey's fault that tsubasa had to take the glider in gakibara. one day, one FINE day, they should be on a show where they make a boat to go down white water rapids. see who they choose. hurrmph.

11. going to send cassandra off later. we didn't know she was leaving so soon man. I'd forgotten when the australian school starts. I know when their fall term starts, but forgot when spring starts.

12. it's freaking pouring. and I mean pouring. I wonder how my dad's doing, hitting the little white ball over the green on the other side of the island. *senses an evil smile ala ohno's coming up*

I need to do some work then go sleep. feeling thirsty. I feel like drinking coke. a lot of it. plus a new tsubasa layout concept is popping up in my head after looking at the translation of toriko. and I love that song.

cokeeee...

 

 

 

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17 July 2008 @ 11:01 pm

tadaima.  

there's too much to say, and I'm rather lazy.

I will hit back maybe tomorrow or over the weekend with something a little more substantial.

but for now, I'm back to the land of flushing toilets with doors and toilet paper, land of wireless internet, land of japanese food availability, land of higher security. land of tsubasa availability.

still feeling some sort of tiredness and laziness. but going out tomorrow, so that might do me a little good. just a little, because I realised I have a gigantic pile of clothes to iron. my mum has washed all my dirty clothes already. they're just hanging out there waiting to dry. darn.

but next post should be longer, and soon I'll do up a new layout. I'll find time to widen the table width. it is rather annoyingly narrow. more annoyingly so than I initially thought. I guess after living with this width for 2 layouts I'm irritated already. plus I've started on the pile of takitsuba icons, and more johnny icons should follow. the jrock pile is more or less done.

and I still have post trip things to do. and there's school.

bleagh.

oh but for those wondering, IT WAS A GOOD TRIP. =))

 

 

 

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04 July 2008 @ 01:08 am

12 days away.  

I'm off from the 5th to the 16th, so don't try calling or messaging or anything. nothing will happen. I am flying at 0740h on the 5th, and will only touch back down on the island at approximately 2300h on the 16th. so seriously, no contact will happen.

this was the er, most er, sad? longing? picture of tsubasa I managed to find. haha and I was so tempted to make a pile of icons after this little simple banner. unfortunately sugao is in poor quality otherwise I am so going to make an icon of takki the bowling pin and tsubie the sailorboy. oh PLUS I totally love this era of tsubasa's. I miss the blonde hair somewhat. =(( I'm digressing.

but anyhow it's just 12 days, I will not be posting tomorrow. I need to PACK. I was thinking of starting tonight but honestly I am so tired. my feet are going to break off soon. make that foot, really. because my left foot just fails more than my right foot due to that silly sprain like 10 years ago. so tomorrow I'm going to iron stuff and pile them into the bag. I am quite sure there is sufficient space. there's still handcarry after all. we shouldn't die from this.

yawn. I'm so lazy to type anymore. but basically I went shopping with aileen amy and charm and nearly died from standing outside the fitting room. no I have negative idea why I didn't really turn out the stereotypical way girls should have with regards to shopping, but I think it's unfair to say that boys have problems with shopping. I have shopper guy friends okay. I have superbly vain guy friends too. plus camwhore guy friends.

I could go on giragira shitete more on this but I shan't. should sleep soon. but we all had dinner together sans norman and it was still a chill time in that sense. and we got quite some things done, I should say. yes it was supposed to be this stoner chilling session that should have really been 4 hours of laughter and talking at tcc or something, but I suppose that doesn't really happen till after we come back from the trip. there's so much to do before going.

I'm yawning like a madwoman. should go sleep. but there's that lovely shunkashuutou pv coming my way. yes they finally released it. my gosh. someone was asking why they didn't release gradation -- I suppose it's because it WAS released. just that it was on vhs. but honestly gradation is this bright white studio and it totally hurts to watch it. everybody wants it just because it's hard to get your hands on it and people want to complete their collection. shunkashuutou is totally worth it though. these punks. plus! there are no watermarks on the pv. I think the biggest reason why I was tempted to buy takitsuba clips was the idea of watching everything high quality with no tv station watermarks. like yes yes I know I'm watching tackey & tsubasa and I freaking know what song this is.

in fact I sincerely believe you can send me for takitsuba intro DON! I think I'm ready. =)) okay try not to hit me with too many takki songs okay? although I think my mp3 player knows I don't really know the takki solo songs as well as the tsubie solos DAKARA it has been playing takki solos back to back almost non-stop today. my goodness. but the other day it couldn't stop playing taste me. like o_O. oh and yes taste me's composer is the one behind queen of r, but queen of r's lyrics was written by this person. but they're both dodgy anyway.

push the audio rips into the mp3 player and it's time for bed.

I'm leaving on saturday. it's actually quite scary.

 

 

 

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03 July 2008 @ 02:06 am

it makes me smile.  

the 23 to 24 version of pride the end. it totally makes my day. I got my hands on an audio rip (so I don't have to do this myself), and this just rocks. my goodness. I am such a sucker for big band jazz. such a sucker. a pity I don't have time to stuff this into my mp3 player. I'm wondering whether there's an audio rip of the dame tour, because I WANT TORIKO. I found out (horribly late) that it's a tsuyoshi! song. how lovely. and then suddenly I realised yeah, I can imagine tsuyoshi sing it. I have the hatachi con audio rip, but it's er, slightly whiny tsubasa so I'd prefer a dame tour rip. yes yes it's a little offkey in the disc but whatever.

but nore told me damn upsetting news just now. dr park has left! WAIL. yes he's bloody boring but he's so nice. and he's been so nice, really. there was no apparent announcement, and we can't think of a reason. upsetting. more upsetting is that gene is officially leaving next month. that totally upsets me.

I was angry this morning however, upon realising the stupid module timetable isn't up yet. and it isn't going to be until the 5th. IDIOTS. I'm flying on the 5th you IDIOTS. I was telling charm not to worry about anything nus does, sends out or bidding whatever. nus admin is ultra last minute anyway. no need to worry. just wait. and wait. AND WAIT.

pride the end, pride the end. the only sad part is that the brass is fake. the keyboards that daisuke uses must be freaking expensive. well yes the jimusho has money aplenty, but seriously. those are like the best keyboards I've ever heard. it totally sounds like the real thing. but you can watch daisuke press the keys as the brass shoots out. including the trumpet wowow sounds and the super brassy timbre. it's amazing.

OH plus that lilt at the end of the line which the original pride the end doesn't have. tsubasa please to rearrange songs like this more often. or maybe I should add on to that takitsuba poll that was going on earlier about what sort of song their next single should be. big band!! after all, takitsuba tracks have so much brass -- you might as well have a real big band broadway style song. right? right!

I should sleep. so late, long day tomorrow. and I'm still smiling to myself over this song. by the way, I took the audio rips off a fellow singaporean. although it still annoys me that all the singaporean fans I've come across on the web are ALL takki fans. tsubasa stuff is there because of tackey & tsubasa's existence. *cries a little for tsubie*

sleep sleep sleep.

 

 

 

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02 July 2008 @ 01:19 am

carrefour is my new best friend.  

okay not really. but anyhow I bought a small pile of things from there for the trip and it's quite a good place to buy stuff. they carry quite a bit of nice clothes and they aren't exactly horrible material (not the best but never mind that now) and it's cheap. considerably. and it's so nice and empty today! yay! I love shopping in empty places. not completely empty that is. I hate walking into small stores with nobody inside and you can freaking feel the shop assistants staring at you and following you like a shadow. but anyway I think carrefour doesn't have real shop assistants -- they're just making sure that stuff doesn't come avalanching down and puts the stuff back on the racks. there's no fitting room queue, no clothes limit, nothing. nice and empty. and they have a section of stuffed toys! so cute! they made me smile like an idiot to myself at that section. however I don't go to carrefour often enough. I got half lost inside there. I couldn't even find the cashier at first. I realised that I needed to buy more stuff than I could carry and decided to get myself a basket. only to find that I had no idea exactly where in carrefour I was and had zero idea which direction the cashier was in. they had some signs, thankfully.

then actually I meant to auntie-fy myself further by buying some t-shirts in bulk, considering that I have very few tees left after throwing out some, giving some away and growing out of many and not replenishing the stock. but seriously the previous batch of giordano tees were better. should have bought more then. although I tend to buy from giordano's tee rack only when it's crowded -- I hate the weird stares when I select things from the men's section. like yes I'm too tall for the girls' section. and your problem is?

I did walk into cotton-on. and I wonder how they survive. their things aren't expensive, by this nation's cost of living. but good heavens the quality is terrible. suddenly the clothes aren't all that cheap anymore. but anyway in the end I got myself a couple of tees from elsewhere. nice tees are so hard to find in this little island. they're either full of gibberish words, full of weird pictures, weird motifs, full of glittery things ala takki, or they're just plain ugly lah. I also don't know how to explain this. but I was rather amused by the way i.p zone did their sizing. besides the usual sml system, they had a height system too. how amusing. so if you're any taller? since the largest size was labelled 170. and it's really just nice for me. so if I were any taller, say like my dear sister, she wouldn't fit. unless she's puny. which she isn't. I don't know how they gauged the sizes.

then I decided to open this sc performance of takki's. I think the composer of taste me is the same as queen of r. just as dodgy catchy. will check later. I like that song. but anyhow, I stumbled on a 2005 performance of kat-tun on ms. I don't know why the title of the video made me laugh but it did. I thought it was just a label by the user -- but it turned out to be an actual song. and I actually have a live mp3 rip of that song, but never knew what it was in japanese, since all the rips are labelled in romaji.

it's seiten no hekireki. that's 青天の霹靂. er YES, that's 晴天霹雳 in mandarin. I don't know why but it cracked me up. I never knew japanese had the same phrase. I don't really know if they mean the same though. my usual japanese english dictionary server tells me it's a bolt out of the blue. but that's er, sort of literal, no?

whatever. it's horribly late. watched too many things. shall not talk about them now. SLEEP! walked about so much today. poor feet. please survive thursday.