29 November 2008 @ 10:29 pm

I jumped at the issue title. PSC GUITARISTS. like totally CLICK. and click. and click click click click.

like OMG SHIN AHHHHHH.

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and then for some unknown reason, this picture of uruha cracked me up.

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I think uru caught some constipation thing from kai. and they did something with his eyebrows. again.

tora looks scary in the issue, so I daren't click. but then there was a strange boy next to him. I'd identified everyone else very easily.after eliminating everyone, I figured. IT'S HIROTO. WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIM.

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WHAT DID THEY DO TO THE BOY. I literally went O_O at it. I mean, what did they do to the boy. the cute ah boy hiroto I know.

hh

THIS is the hiroto I know. the puny little guitarist of alice nine. (that the bassist of hellven totally reminds me of.)

but the issue is pretty all the same. it has all the lovelies of psc. meev, aoi, uru, mai, shin, akiya, hiroto, tora. yay!

and to end off this post, here's another picture. but totally jrock to kankeinai.

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that ugly black boy on the right? THAT'S TEGOSHI YUYA. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks.

 
 
mood: tired
music: news - sayaendo
 
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29 November 2008 @ 12:57 am
my brain may be spoilt  
but THAT is tsubasa's voice.

uhm, watching that headache of a fancam video, aka a pile of juniors with tsubie in thailand. it hit this familiar sounding song. it turns out to be ya-ya-yah's maybe your love (YES horrors ya-ya-yah but heck for now). went to dig for it and it churned a youtube video with kat-tun. they sang it together on shounen club in 2002.

dig some more an mp3 link surfaced. it's a live recording, but quite clean and rather clear. those high voices belong to ya-ya-yah (more specifically yabu and hikaru), but there's an adult male voice with them. and I'm quite sure that's tsubie. the mp3 is labelled christmas eve 2002.

I MUST BE AN IDIOT. I have the clip. YAY! and that totally explains why the song was familiar to begin with. gosh.

yes yes my brain is pretty much spoilt after two idiotic exams. today's examiner is going to kill me for writing such puny words. today's is ultra puny. I don't know why. but it was and today's exam felt something like 2209, except that 2209 was freaking open book. that's how the exams should go. seriously. hurrmph.

bio was worse. we'll not talk about it. I only hope to pass, and get it off the list. I'm camping in arts next semester. I insist. insist insist insist.

and I'm snitching the biggest files from veoh in my entire life. hugeass, I tell you. and it's all thanks to rae. so now my lappie is totally going to esssssplodeeyy.

tell me your dreams and I'll tell you mine.
 
 
mood: tired
 
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27 November 2008 @ 11:57 pm
abuse.  
after 3 episodes of gakibara, I'm wondering why doesn't rae like takizawa. (okay not that I don't know why, but then in accordance to her usual pattern...) he's utterly abused. in fact at the rate it's going, I sincerely believe gakibara is the takki version of m no arashi.

maybe that's why they're good friends. oops.

but it's really very funny. zhongyue should watch these. she only watched the first one, I believe. because I think that's all sannah actually uploaded on youtube. (it's the same one she was trying to force charlott and I to watch and both of us were wailing quite badly.) she should try THE REST. AHAHA died laughing.

but I thought nino the mummy was so cute too. poor thing. that is one dreadful costume to wear all over the place. I mean, while he told the little boy that he's invisible, no way in the world was nino invisible. and then power ranger arashi struck back and gosh these children are a joke.

but I thought the segment on getting kindergarten kids together is a bit too much. seriously.

and I just wanted to post about takki abuse.

next time I'll watch more shukudai and post about sho abuse.

逆さまの愛情と虐待の群れ

oops out of context. haha SLEEP.
 
 
mood: tired
music: dir en grey - gyakujoutannou keloid milk
 
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26 November 2008 @ 11:21 pm
oh-chan!  
since the arashi fandom is essssploding, I'll esssplode too! for the fun of it.



yay that was a rather cheap graphic. and I realise that it was hard to find a proper nice silly oh-chan picture to use in this graphic. tsk. poor oh-chan. it's easier to find a spastic picture of tsubasa in my lappie. it's okay though, I still have quite a number of oh-chans to choose from. this one is from one of the calendar pages of that 365 paged calendar.

SPEAKING OF CALENDARS. there was a post announcing that pre-order for je calendars have started. I took a peek at the post and was like wah lao. the post has the different yesasia links to the pre-order pages, and for some strange reason the publisher is included.

takitsuba's calendar is printed by kadokawa. WAH LIKE THANKS. but anyway the yen totally needs to drop before anybody on this island is shipping anything from japan man. nore was saying the other day it hit 90en to 1 usd. that's madness.

and then I was looking through the clubDAM karaoke catalogue again. there's secret agent man! apparently. so going to check it out the next time and freaking sing it. then there was this song that I found the other time in the takitsuba list that I totally thought it was an error.

it isn't. michi EXISTS. it's the 4th track of the ho summer single. LIKE WHAT ON EARTH! I've never even heard of it! *outraged* I should have known though, that ho summer couldn't have come by itself with 2 solo tracks. there had to be another takitsuba track hiding somewhere among the versions.

but I never understood. why does the regular edition always have a track more than the limited edition. isn't it supposed to be the other way round?! no idea. in fact I meant to angst some more about takitsuba but then I think it is better for me to just go to bed. it's late and I have a paper tomorrow albeit a stupid biology paper.

hurrrmphhhh. why am I taking a biology paper. this is amazing. but then I suppose if I had taken a chem paper (which I originally meant to do so) then the sky would probably fall down or something. and after that I'd have to take a 6th module because I flunked it and need to replace it. I meant to take drugs and society okay. level 2000 science gem offered by chemistry department. apparently it's suicide of a higher class so I decided against it. and went for this that actually wanting and weichun took before but we didn't ask them so they never told us their horror stories. too late.

to bed to bed to bed. I shall continue trying my very very painful translation of ware, yami tote like after friday or something. it's really painful. stupid kyo can't you write simple songs my goodness. but it's a really nice song, and it's nice to have songs that aren't uh, one love-ish. but then but then. 

TO BED.
 
 
mood: tired
 
entrust
 
24 November 2008 @ 12:34 am
明日。  
実は明日じゃない。あとで。あと16時ごろ。第一試験受ける。

日本語試験。でも今何も感じていない。

早く終われと思うけど。

寝たほうがいいと思う。

何でポストした?全然わかんない。

ポイントは?ない。

ないないないない。

カラオケしたい~~~

寝ろ。
 
 
mood: tired
music: imai tsubasa - queen of r
 
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20 November 2008 @ 11:38 pm
congratulate me.  
I must have drunk more than 2 litres of water today. my goodness. the perils of being sick. but at least I didn't feel like dying. that day at nore's I totally felt like dying. she told me to go home (so nino) but I wanted to finish the freaking portfolio so I just took a nap after taking some panadol and carried on doing. today I'm feeling much better but I swear my voice range has been cut by an octave or something.

is still a little pissed with the fact that we didn't get to sing a lot at karaoke. okay partly because the songs we sang today were a tad odd. we threw in an extra kotoba yori, we even did an andalucia, rae actually did a horrendously hilarious version of parasite. we wailed agony out and angsted chizuru. and we tried cockroach. oh gosh ruki please do something about your engrish thanks.

but I can't believe I went for a karaoke session without singing yume monogatari and x~dame. okay fine before I was a fangirl I lived without those two songs. but but but. wail. we squished in ho summer! in the beginning though. yays. rae and I can totally become takitsuba. OH and nore keyed in NO MORE. we were both chanting the verse because we couldn't remember and rae was like EH this is backstreet boys, not koichi. it's awfully true.

plus the stupid machine decided to die just before the whole slew of takitsuba songs. and I mean SLEW. basically I was looking to see if they've got koi uta hiding inside the machine, so I began keying in numbers beyond samurai. and OMG they've put in the best album tracks! so exciting! so next time I can sing himegoto (!!), aishiteruze t&t (for the fun of it), kamira tamara (80's stuff rocks), real DX (*flails*) and my eyes popped out at this one:

do me crazy

YES next time I can sing that at karaoke! I was like AHHHH AHHHH that song AHHHH and went squealing like some nutcase gone case fangirl while mingboon and nore were totally O_O. mingboon was like UH that sounds very wrong. I was I DON'T CARE I LIKE THAT SONG A LOT. I don't know what tsubie was thinking 5 years ago when he sang that song in a white suit and golden cape dragging behind him, but then tsubie stole my brain with this:



seriously. just 3"44 of your life. WATCH IT. (and then mingboon you tell me if you spot underarm hair.)

*takes brain back* do up one another blog entry! must just get rid of 3223 asap man. this is taking too long.
 
 
mood: tired

music: imai tsubasa - do me crazy

19 November 2008 @ 11:25 pm
before doing portfolio, must warm up. yesterday I thought I was just having the flu aches. this morning I decided it wasn't so simple. after sitting down at mabel's for so many hours, measuring paper and pasting photos and labels and slotting blah blah blah my legs, back and butt decided that I was being unkind to them. man.

ran into chen guo in the canteen just now, and he told us that he and the bunch stayed in school till 5am doing portfolio. the best part? they're not done yet. amazing kids. don't need to study huh.

I still have half the blog entries to go. jing looked at us and asked about our blog and I was like hur hur hur. and that nore insisted on setting up the portfolio for her. aiyoh no need lah. the portfolio is fairly idiot proof. even my dad figured it out. he insisted on seeing it before I left the house this morning.

previously I was wondering about that ugly picture of ruiza. turns out that it's a cut out from one of the magazines that publishes je stuff. ruiza was a freaking johnny boy. omg omg omg. that's scary. ruiza is 29. kinki kids could have had 3 people. and I would have died laughing. so instead of splitting into 'ki' and 'nki kids', they'll have to split into 'ki', 'nkiki' and 'ids'!!

gosh I'm worse than tsuyoshi. I still want that commercial where koichi is supposedly on the emergency bed rushing in at a&e and tsuyoshi tells him to hang in there (as he crunches his powerful choco wafer) and that he can't leave tsuyoshi like that, otherwise kinki kids will become kinki KID. so LAME. my goodness.

ruiza ruiza. horrendous. how could my precious corset boy be backflipping in je. the precious corset boy in hot shorts and high boots, who plays the guitar as if he studied bach be wearing 5 layers of spastic costumes and donning the some of the worst hairstyles on earth.

from this:

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to this:

rr

even though I must admit that sometimes ruiza is as ridiculous as a je boy.

that's quite enough of rambling. need to do up another blog entry and then go to bed. so tired. floating hiraganaaaaa~~
 
 
mood: d tired
music: dir en grey - ware, yamitote... (accoustic)
 
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16 November 2008 @ 11:42 pm
I couldn't help but laugh at it. the lyrics are impossibly dumb. and the thought of koichi doing that turtle pose and getting kicked in the head is just hilarious. but of course nothing beats the GYO!!!! gravity defying hair and OMAE NANKA NIGITEYARU.

and for clarifying that sentence, I watched the kato natsuki domoto kyodai. OH MY the girl is a joke in herself. she's exactly what shigeru was -- that saru onna. she didn't have to act man. but she's awfully funny and cute. as usual they give face to kinki kids by saying they were the idols she wanted to meet most when she came to tokyo. and she thought tokyo tower was still under construction when she was small! hahaha my gosh. she's only 23 though -- I expected her to be a little older than that.

they ended off with a 'sweet song'. takami chose songs with 'sweet' in their titles as the theme of his segment, so kato natsuki had to choose one of them to sing. she likes sweet emotion by aikawa nanase, but I suppose she couldn't pull it off (her voice isn't horrid, but not good enough) so she chose something simpler.

she sang love, so, sweeeeeeeet. (wo oh oh ohhhh yeah yeah)

I think the domoto brothers band  played it nicer than the original. I feel like watching the arashi episode now. oh crappiness. and I'm making a spastic fail icon of tsubie now. I should make a fail icon for sho too. let's see if the vs arashi episode's quality is enough to hold up an icon. =)) and maybe, just maybe, koichi needs such an icon too. because sometimes he's just full of fail himself.

watched the arashi domoto kyodai. the first squeal out of me: IT'S GACKT!!!! FOR REAL!!!!

because by the takitsuba episode, which was almost a year later, gackt had been replaced by a lifesized cardboard piece. how sad! I was hoping that such an old episode would have gackt. but not old enough, I suppose. arashi went on in 2001 to promote jidai. at first I was like oh cool jidai! nice song! then it was oh HORRORS oh-chan isn't on the show! how to sing that part!

kinki kids to save the day. *phew* they sang oh-chan's part.

and because I really suck, I watched making of endless shock. it was more like 'let's follow koichi about!' kind of video but well not that I mind. and then somehow or another ryo was superbly shy and half embarassed to be there. I still don't understand why they let ryo do endless shock. tsubasa, toma, yara I totally understand. why is ryo in? やっぱわからへん。

also, for some odd reason, whenever koichi goes a-rolling down those beautifully red carpeted stairs, I go 'koichiiiiiiiii' with the rest of the cast as he makes his way to the bottom. during rehearsals he runs down though. which was very funny, because he looked super awkward running down the stairs in that samurai outfit. but it always replays easily in my mind you know, tsubie goes up first, then koichi catches up, then tsubie allows his sword to be clanged out of his hand, akiyama runs up to offer his own (which is supposedly a real sword), tsubie takes it,

then stabs koichi. (and then there's that condom bursting kill bill bloody effect.)

tsubasa has that ultimate look of horror, koichi clutches that stabbed area, akiyama is shocked beyond words.

then down koichi goes rolling, about two storeys' worth.

ahhhhhhhh. I feel like watching that musical again. just to feel that 'koichi nooooooooo' thing again. but no time now. after exams I'll watch it through properly. then maybe try watching the very disastrous kyotokyo (oh-chan! higashi-sama!). and I must get down to watching the very hilarious sugaos. yes sugao with an 's'. and there's the pattaya thing I got from the very amazing sannah. and omg so many ai love juniors, music jumps, shounen clubs, domoto kyodai, boys be, himitsu, shukudai whatever my goodness so much stuff. and I have gakibara lined up in the MF queue! plus the other disc of endless shock! DOOM!

*change topic* yay spastic tsubie icon done! I'm so proud of the pink-ness! my brain must be falling out. tomorrow I have a power schedule to run. reach that studio by 1030, get the stuff, run to school by 1115 latest, print the power report and throw it in before noon. while I'm at it, I still have to return the camera.

of course, instead of killing myself, I think I shall just send the damn thing to nore to print and bind for me. NO WAY is that stapler going through 70 pages. I'm not letting a staple hold the paper together either. then I'll come to school and hand it in. yay.

HAHA I love this song. listening to the endless shock OST now, and the song 'in the cemetery' always cracks me up. I remember when I happily opened act 2 to watch akiyama mourn the loss of their precious and precocious koichi-kun, and then after he runs offstage, they show a graveyard, which later is revealed to be distubingly half made from human bodies piled on the floor. poor calefares.

and then POP goes koichi from the grave. and starts singing IN THE CEMETERY. for some reason I just burst out laughing and couldn't stop for the next five minutes or so. because later it descended into a string of unrelated shakespearean plays and I was totally HURH?!?! but it was hilarious all the same.

AND I AM HUNGRY. whatever go to bed my gosh.
 
 
mood: f blank
music: endless shock ost - mask
 
 
15 November 2008 @ 08:51 pm
but I must say that ai kakumei is a nice song. the thing about takizawa is that he tends to get nice solo songs. balance rocked so much man. and then I got hooked on circle the past few days. yes I know he sings circle with pi but hello it's more takki than anything else.

but I totally agree -- the ms performance of ai kakumei reeks of tsubasa influence. the dancers looked reused all the way from seishun amigo or okay, kamen; it starts off superbly andalucia-ish, and that turn and bend to the left and point to junior, then turn to the right and point to another junior was so queen of r performance. the venus hand actions. like huh? AND THAT CONDUCTOR BATON. yay for ikanaide! and a couple other funny little movements that seemed so tsubie.

and the I love you shake? hahaha. it really should have been I love you, (therefore let's) shake! funny anyway. but it's still a nice song. *files it along with futari no yoru*

finally sent 3223 photos to print. I have a funny fuddy feeling about a few of them turning out awry but ARGH already. occasionally I think my attitude sucks to the core when I don't have time but it's precisely because I don't have time so I turn whatever-ish.

repeated countless error has 20% more. argh.

I wasn't supposed to post here. I was supposed to continue the 3223 blog. BROG BROG. argh. must finish 3223 asap, then I can stop worrying about it. and then must start cramming biology and culture theories. fantastic. oh oh and laj vocab my gosh. I still think my causative form sucks quite badly. ack. although actually I'm mentally a little stunted now from lack of sleep. but at least we got our 3223 supplies today. like yay.

I'm blabbering. do work. 
 
 
mood: f sleepy
music: arashi - sawarenai
 
 
14 November 2008 @ 12:47 pm
as much as I was gunning for an accoustic glass skin (yes yes I know it's not far from accoustic to begin with), this disc is blowing my brain to pieces. to pieces. I wonder if diru used the electric piano on purpose though. it's obviously electronic. they obviously didn't mean to hide that fact. so fine, piano piano piano. so I thought next guitar. but noooooo.

they used a pipe organ.

amazing. inconvenient ideal was quite a piece of ruckus, honestly, but they managed to push through the song with the pipe organ. very nice. I think they bothered re-recording specially for this disc. I'm quite sure they didn't bother for marrow of a bone's accoustic disc.

and now red soil is beginning to sound like one of those modern operas. seriously. it is. minus the uh, operatic vibrato, of course. but it's that driving piano beat and discordant chord with repeated motifs and that that es dur no piano sen effect. aka the 'seemingly random chords but sounds okay' effect. quite different from the original, as I remember it.

I'm beginning to fear dir en grey's next release. because everytime they release something really good that rounds up their old fans once more, they'll kill them once more with the next horrendous disastrous release. and it's true that uroboros has gone back somewhat to their old days. a more highly thought through and more meticulously arranged version, but diru nonetheless. ouroboros after all. it goes one round. round and round it goes, really. it's like the dog that chased its own tail, but this dragon caught it.

I learn new things from diru all the time. seriously. this song rocks my goodness. both accoustic and not. 

do work dear, do work.
 
 
music: dir en grey - ware, yamitote... (accoustic)
 
 
13 November 2008 @ 01:39 am
this is such a good laugh. I couldn't stop laughing.

hadaka no shounen 1st anniversary special.

oh. my. goodness.

I still wonder what they saw in 13 year old kazama. he  was worse than ever. it's brimming with 13 year old nino, 13 year old matsujun, 14 year old ryo who sings higher in pitch than me, 13 year old koki omg so cute, and OH MY 11 year old hasejun.

HE WAS THAT YELLING BOY IN MUSIC JUMP. I swear it's him. must go watch the MJ again. GAH.

uh yes aiba, yamapi, very little sho is also part of the mix. also, 16 year old ueda and maru. and suddenly 14 year old kame and junno at the side. and I think goseki too. and apparently jimmy sang off key and jin was freaking angry with him. man.

ACK at 13 hasejun was taller than ryo already. ryo has growth stunt man.

OH TAIPI SPOTTED! oops. AHH AHH my favourite tsubasa pre debut ms! I'm sorry about this amount of fangirling. it wasn't supposed to be a commentary. but it's still so sad that yabu and hikaru have grown so oddly large, and oddly odd. some were ugly when they were small but at least they turned out okay. oh and there's definitely piles of toma.

but there isn't takitsubasho. WHY. there's only takitsubapi. OH there's circle. without pi! why! but one disaster is better than two right. and somebody should release red sun. just like how tsubie should record 1 day 1 night. how very annoying, these junior songs.

do me crazy. OMG tsubie tsubie tsubie tsubie. I love this ms performance. absolutely. and moar real DX! at least they released real DX. I'm wondering what would have happened if I were a fan before the best album came out. I'd probably be this really irritated child hoping and waiting for takitsuba to release their junior songs. and while I was pretty happy with the list that made it to the best album, after uncovering more old stuff, I want them to record some moar things! 

and actually I should totally sleep. this post was for me to rant and ramble. so sorry.

and if anybody wanted to know, oral was horrid. as usual.
 
 
mood: f tired
 
 
12 November 2008 @ 12:07 am
charlott already posted a bit about this, so I'll rip a little from her.

It's funny when my Japanese mass media project group get together. Because Zhongyue and Zhiyun consume such a huge amount of Japanese mass media, when they get together, without fail, they'll always drift out of topic and talk about the latest drama or the latest idol gossip. And then Jiaxin and I, who consume much lesser Japanese mass media, will just stare at them.

We were talking about this today. And then Zhiyun said, "I know something that will pull Charlott to our side. Just talk about Toma. There's so much Grease promotions lately."

Immediately, I said, "I WANNA WATCH GREASE!" =(

"See, now she's on our side."


I RAWK. not really. nore specialises in brain spoiling. that rawks moar. but charlott's reaction to the tomato isn't as funny as michelle -- michelle turns from tomboy gangster girl to meek sweet smiling fangirl upon the sacred tomato's name. the power of toma.

however I think later it got really very funny. charlott had left for tutorial, and so jiaxin was left to face the doom of zhongyue and myself. but we were done discussing, so we just chilled up there for a while. and here's what happened. it's j for jiaxin, z for zhongyue and m for me.

j: so, since there's so much talk about him, I want to see who takki is.
z: no problem! *turns to me with the laptop filled with takitsuba pictures*
m: okay let's see what I have...
z: pick a nice picture okayyyyy don't be bias.
m: *opens my nicest picture of takki. it really is.* there you go.
j: uh okay.
z: *starts squealing by herself*
j: okay so now I want to see tsubasa.
m: no problem.
z: pick one of the shorter hair ones. he looks nicer that way.
m: *trouble finding the nicest one. they're all nice!*
z: *picks one* this one will do
m: okay. this one. here you go. tsubasa.
j: OH he's so cute! such a boyish appeal! the other takki one looked so uncle!
z: *totally collapsed*

I totally died laughing too. I looked at zhongyue and said, "eh eh now I didn't say that arhh..." seriously. that was hilarious. you could hear zhongyue's heart shatter. although I think it already cracked a bit when she attempted so hard to show charlott and I some gakibara episode and then charlott was wailing about WHERE'S TOMA YOU PROMISED. and I was totally -_- about having to endure takizawa in some rubbishy looking skit and yes WHERE'S TOMA. takki was promptly ignored and unvalued. oops.

just needed to post about this, because it was priceless. and as much as it just takes one TOMA to wake charlott up, it pretty much just takes a RYO to wake jiaxin up. it's uh, 彼此彼此okay. but the ryo effect is not a strong as the toma effect. but still.

and the RYOsei no kizuna cracked me up too. nore said the subber must be such a hugeass fan of ryo, she labelled the file as RYOsei no kizuna. EH star not bright enough har? and then we were saying that sakurai storm is also taking up ryusei no kizuna to sub, and we were thinking it ought to be just sho files, since it's sakurai storm. then I said, "HURH if it's sho in the drama, it'll be SHOsei no kizuna."

nore gave me quite a horrified look.

HAHA enough of fandom in real life. or real life fangirling. either way. DO ESSAY OH MY GOSH.

(oh oh and glass skin is totally growing on me. totally. ISLY kyo.)

 
 
mood: f blah
music: dir en grey - glass skin
 
 
10 November 2008 @ 10:32 pm
for a moment I thought of typing my entry in japanese but then I'm too lazy. nore and I are trying our best to conduct our msn in japanese for the next 2 days. but it really all depends on what we talk about, I suppose.

suddenly hungry.

in real life news, I realised my exam timetable is quite gross. not because I have 3 papers back to back or something like that, but it's another one of those first week all my heavy papers, and then I wait one week for the most uncertain paper I have. and that kind of waiting sucks. I know it. it's not the first time and that sucks too. wail. nore and I are so camping at places to study. plant ourselves somewhere.

have a craving for that jellyfish and cucumber plus crabstick salad thingy from tampopo deli. that was nice. absolutely not filling and in fact hunger inducing, but it was so nice. if it cost like 2 bucks I'll eat that more often man. but obviously it doesn't. like wail.

sometimes I wish it were very late, and then I could just close the laptop and go to bed. but then that would mean I'm a day closer to impending doom, so that's bad too. argh I hate this time of the semester. of course it's partly my fault that I'm rushing things now but whatever it's too late to talk about it like this anymore.

and then and then there are a number of things I could talk about but then I'm lazy to type and nobody cares.

so now to fandom news. not quite right. fangirl news. poked about at the usual website and looked through the world wing premium osaka pamphlet. OH MY. I really liked the white curly brushy looking design that was part of the set, and ultimately part of his chair even. very nice. and of course, tsubie looking good too. and I think some of the spain pictures (or all? I don't know.) inside the pamphlet were taken by tsubie? they're awfully nice too. I liked that black and white corridor picture. so perspective-ish.

and then I got to the part where the title page says interview. so I opened the next few text-filled scans and HELLO THIS IS NOT INTERVIEW. it'a a speech man. I will get down to reading that one day. along with (presumably) garbagey interviews of gazette in the magazines I have at home.

but back to takitsuba. was watching them (finally) on minna no okage deshita. that's the one where they lose and ishibashi makes them sing venus without music nor dancers no nothing. poor children. but they still sounded nice. I have no idea why they upped the key the second time by so much, but still hilarious. my gosh. ishibashi didn't expect that either. and oh gosh the kani miso actually looked like granite mix. so gross.

then because I'm suck a slacker I also watched them on sc where they perform x~dame for the first time without those cheapo looking aluminium suits. yeah the suits were classic, but it was nice watching them dance in some other clothing. plus tsubie looked nice. and then kawai did a monomane of matsujun singing wish and OMG so funny. it's actually more exaggerated than jun but STILL it wasn't far off my goodness. takitsuba nearly fell off their chairs. and that segment was so king of MJ. takitsuba were judges for a bunch of juniors doing garbage stunts, and as usual, somebody passes the segment just because takizawa is bias. I knew more birthstones than hikaru and hikaru seriously failed (and ACK why has he grown up so so so much) but he passed in the end. it was like almost 10 years ago when yamapi failed in his stunt on music jump and takki passed him anyway.

and because I suck at this I watched takitsuba on oshareism as well. sometimes though, I wonder how many times they must talk about them auditioning for je on the same day, how many times they must talk about that famous period of silence when they hated each other, how many times they requested to debut together. gosh. but anyway the episode was funny because it was shinya vs takki and it was just hilarious. although I think if it were teppei the takki bashing would have been even worse.

AND TAKIZAWA HATES MUSHROOMS. like WHY OH WHY. and he hates shiitake!!! like HOW COULD IT BE. argh he's just like sho. *throws things at them both* then tsubie added that takizawa eats matsutake. I thought it was so familiar. I looked it up and went o_O. then -_-. it's that really ugly phallic mushroom that was brought out on one of the shukudai episodes and it is freaking expensive. apparently because of some roundworm that has caused much diminishing of the japanese crop, the japanese ones can cost as much as $2000 per kg. nuts, I tell you, nuts. imports from china and korea will cost you $90 per kg. paltry next to 2k, but oei they're just fungi man.

I swear takizawa eats matsutake just because it's expensive and rude to not eat.

and because I really really suck, I watched tsubie and higashi on 24 hour tv when it was hosted by arashi. I was trying for a tsubasho screencap but failed miserably. plus the video quality isn't the best. but the medley was rather nice. but sho somehow got to sing solo and it was disaster. I'm so glad there was yonehana and yara singing with him for a while. but then after that it was sho singing disaster. my gosh. partly because it was noisy I suppose, but OEI that was really flatttt. then oh-chan and aiba sang kinki kids! cool! 

しかし

the medley went on to end off with kamen butoukai, and they split the sections. verse 1a was jun and nino, verse 1b was oh-chan and aiba, then pre-chorus line 1 was tsubie, line 2 higashi, line 3 oh my sho disaster. so much for recreating shounentai. for all my love of sho is worth, it can't change the fact he's made of fail. but I really like oh-chan's OH YEAH! in the middle of the chorus.

the wwp pamphlet scans are making want to do another tsubie layout but I shouldn't. I need something to propel me back to jrock headers. otherwise it'll be tsubie - koichi - sho - tsubie - jun - tsubie - koichi - tsubie - ueda - sho - tsubie - GAH DOOM.

BAMMM real life. jiaxin just sent an email regarding my part. there's a sentence that's too long and not very easily comprehended. so paiseh. old habits die hard. 

very itchy, very itchy. I shall clean up that long sentence, and then continue shoko and aiko. =)
 
 
mood: f bored
music: shounentai - kamen butoukai
 
 
09 November 2008 @ 09:49 pm
trying to do work. it's not working entirely. too many things due tomorrow, it's annoying me half to death.

on top of a few other worrisome things.

if I could, I want to take a day off. but that doesn't happen.

poo was talking about what she is to herself. and that sometimes you need someone to tell you how much you've changed (with examples and all) before you truly realise what's been happening to yourself and then you sit there for the next 5 hours thinking about it all and its implications for your life and the people around you. or maybe that's me. but everytime I look back at my own blog entries I see the changes, I see the differences, I see that previous me, the present me, but yet some things haven't changed. it's all very odd, yet very natural. it's supposed to happen. people don't really stay the same anyway. things happen. shit happens. people look at things differently, do things differently, want different things in life, find out what they want, who they are, what they've really been thinking. there's a lot of awareness to be felt and awakenings to be done.

before that happens, we live in a bubble.

so now I return to my bubble for a while. the neo genesis scans came out. reita should have such makeup more often. emphasise the slitty eyes. trim his eyebrows higher, sharper. spike his hair higher. this hair colour is nice. although I think nao should put his makeup back on. he used to so pretty.

back to reita. that boy has designed some funky bracelet for some jewellery company of sorts and ACK it's expensive. okay it's not expensive compared to gackt's stuff (OMG that one might just bomb not only your bank account, but possibly your house too). and of course it cannot beat that cross necklace that yasu has. like squahhh. but still it's oh gosh.

whatever. get back to work.

bubble burst.
 
 
mood: f tired
music: daigo stardust - heavy heavy
 
 
08 November 2008 @ 12:31 am
I finally listened to nudy show. I snitched it quite long ago but didn't listen to it. it's a nice pleasant album. I'm a little surprised at myself for liking her type of music but oh well whatever. tsuchiya anna rocks for being herself. a little like koda kumi -- this fairly thick-skinned, bold and direct female image.

and I finally listened to uroboros. I have 4 more new songs to go through though. not done listening. my journey home wasn't long enough to finish listening to it. I'm very proud of kyo -- he more or less sang most of the stuff. I mean it's true that I wasn't expecting him to sing every single track. that is totally impossible. but I thought dir en grey was trying a little too much of the time signature changing stunt and the drum pattern changing stunt. but the guitar riffs are getting really good. really good.

and kyo must have eaten something weird. his voice gets higher and higher in pitch. I swear the boy can sing higher than I can now. my goodness. it's incredible. I got a shock on the way home man. like o_O was that kyo huh. although it's a studio thing more or less -- he can't really hit the exact note at lives. it isn't way off the mark, but sometimes it doesn't hit. a shame, but nobody asked them to write melodies like that.

diru was trying some really weird indian music stunt in this one but not everything turned out indian. and it's the non-indiany tracks that sound nice. the screaming is more than half forgivable, because the balancing in the studios help to tone it down a little. that's the thing about performing songs like that. if you want your rocker dude angsty scream, you either make sure it fits into the chord, or you make sure you wail further from the microphone.

and I totally need to sleep. totally. normal days are coming, coming.

when dir en grey said they meant to make you feel the pain of the world, they freaking meant it. either that or I'm just feeling emo and tired now. perhaps a little bit of both. that's why I can't listen to too much diru these days -- very depressing. however it's good to come back to earth for a while. before je spoils and utterly tears my brain to pieces, render it useless and puts it in a blender.
 
 
music: dir en grey - ware, yamitote...
 
 
06 November 2008 @ 02:55 pm
有時候生活上不夠憂愁時,不會覺得太煩惱。事情發生的時候突然發覺到自己不知所措。

現在我不對嗎?

現在是我不該嗎?

我要一點空白。誰會給我那空白。

一格一格排得很緊,有時會想,現在不是時候,別在逼迫了。

但如果這不是時候,那幾時是時候?

我應該堅持要我的空白嗎?

我的空白是真正重要還是只是逃避?

有時候我真得很討厭問問題。

頭腦一片草。
 
 
music: tackey & tsubasa - hito natsu no...
 
 
04 November 2008 @ 11:24 pm
*hops about a bit for a while*

I finally got that real dx performance I wanted. it's the performance right after the t&t mania segment on shounen club. [info]newshfan kindly subbed the mania segment, but didn't include the performance after it to reduce the file size so more people could snitch the file. and I am such a sucker for real dx performances. totally. gah.

and I ninja-ed my way through a pile of downloads and now my waiting list has officially extended quite a bit again. with many thanks to [info]lovespiral . I suppose takitsuba is a downward love spiral -- just dwelve deeper and deeper the hole never seems to reach the bottom. it doesn't seem as formidable as the old list, but that's only because the old list was mf files which came in 5 gazillion parts. but then it's more formidable to complete because my internet doesn't always hold up long enough for mu to complete. and while I can download a pile of mf files at one shot, and accelerate 4 of them simultaneously, I can only take one mu file each time. and that's assuming the other family members aren't downloading anything else at the same time because mu tracks the ip address. argh. and no my internet isn't powerful.

but after ninja-ing my eyes almost fell out. had to filter a lot of uh, fangirling comments and wait for many many many screencaps to load. and my  plooey. I felt like I ran through a spree page. like glance scroll glance scroll aha that one looks quite nice click. not nice close, nice bookmark. continue same process.

and I still haven't finished the johnny power files. my lappie is going to esssssplodee. should I burn stuff off? or should I invest in a hdd and stuff everything inside? rae's towering tower of discs that caused shelf disintegration sounds terrible.

OMG MY LAPPIE IS RUNNING OUT OF SPACE. dou suru no?!?! 

the world is too small. jiaxin's friend got her friend in to be interviewed as a light viewer, and it turns out jiaxin's friend and her friend are both in my 3223 class. I had this really weird feeling to begin with but I didn't ask. until after the interview. I sound so stalkerish. and this is really very funny. the world is small. the island is small. the school is small. the department gets a little too small sometimes. and I ran into my nameless neighbour in the TOILET this time. I keep seeing her, and I don't know her name. sigh.

and takitsuba on utaban is priceless. utterly. disastrously. and I found HQ takitsuba in a TUB. I wonder what zhongyue thought of that though. I'm assuming she watched it. she said she didn't watch much koi uta promotion. but takitsuba in a tubbbb squahh.

rub a dub dub. takitsuba in a tub. I love that episode.

EDIT: RAE IF YOU SEE THIS TELL ME IF YOU ARE FREE ON THURSDAY NIGHT. WE WANTS TO EAT WITH SHO AND CLARA. SHO SAID SHE'LL GO IF YOU ARE GOING BECAUSE SHE HAS NO MONEY BUT YOU OWE HER MONEY. yay loanshark duties covered!

 
 
mood: f tired
music: tackey & tsubasa - real dx
 
 
02 November 2008 @ 10:26 pm
I'm posting because I don't feel like doing anything else. it's one of those days I wish the deadlines were all just freaking dead already. can't believe they're looming just like this. just like this. ulu was talking about exams. somehow exams don't worry me half as much as stupid projects do. amazing things, deadlines are.

and no it doesn't help that I've gotten myself a whole chunk of matchy to listen to, and I'm waiting for scp with higashi to load on tudou. but speaking of higashi, he was in some host club related drama in 1994, and according to dramawiki, there's yamaguchi and sakamoto lurking inside there too. my goodness.

more randomly, I want to watch 33 pun tantei. but no subssss. wails.

my stomach hasn't been behaving today. since morning. no idea what's wrong with it. sigh. I should sleep early tonight. it should do my brain a lot more good.

gosh higashi on scp is quite terrible. higashi talks non stop and poor taichi can barely get a word in. and no it doesn't help that taichi is the kouhai so he has to shut up and let higashi talk non stop. plus it seems that taichi and yamaguchi lived with higashi for a while! but taichi got thrown out because he didn't do household chores when it was his turn thrice. so funny my goodness and then taichi had to write a huge apology letter to higashi so he could be let back into the house. my gosh.

you know when taichi asked aiba on the first scp episode whom he should invite as the first guest, aiba said higashiyama. now I know the real reason why taichi's face seemed so...obliging. as in he had that 'yeah that's good logic there aiba but then I'm not really prepared to take on a senpai, and certainly not THIS senpai yet' sort of face.

GAH taichi got koichi to comment. KO-CHAN IS SUCH A FANBOY. and he's so much fail when he turns into one.

after finishing scp must do 3223. bleagh. at least I've done ta homework. *beams* vocab quiz reserved for bus. I thinketh the list not that long. I thinketh. better go check. and I'm right. won't die on the bus.

3223. the burden lies so heavy.
 
 
mood: f tired
music: shounentai - maitta ne, konya
 
 
01 November 2008 @ 12:26 am
I love doing this. and I think nobody knows why. and I think I don't really know myself.

but it's so fun. I just snitched a whole pile of matchy and other 80s related music. super fun. so now I've got more whiny matchy-san rockin', and I have PGF! the song totally reminds me of a whole pile of juniors dancing during ai love junior episodes, but the song isn't all too bad when the juniors aren't belting it out. it didn't come too badly during hatachi con, so I finally concluded that I didn't mind the song. a pity I still can't find kanashimi princess e. perhaps it's hiding in one of the albums available. we'll see about that soon. *beams*

OH OH and I have the original sajio hideki's kizu darake no lola. I am so so glad gackt took it and rearranged it and recorded it. my gosh. the old arrangement is so...not dramatic! it's supposed to be this super drama song that sings of why lola left him blah blah blah, but sajio makes it well, sai jio loh. oops. mother's bad joke.

and hoshikizu no spangle growssss on you. no wonder melissa wanted it. and it's quite disturbing to listen to higashiyama sing utada hikaru's automatic. he has a pleasant voice, but no he doesn't have that r&b voice. sorry higashi, go back to trio de shakin', okay? that was pretty disastrous too.

but I want to know what does PGF stand for. oh I found it. positive girl friend?! whut on errth.

horrors shounentai went on kouhaku and sang kamen butoukai with THREE costume changes. who on earth does that at kouhaku?! hello, welcome to nhk, not johnny's concert thanks.

I ought to sleep otherwise I'm going to wake up at some strange hour tomorrow. which is bad.

but I must say -- matchy's voice cracks me up. ANYTIME. *laughs uncontrollably*
 
 
music: kondo masahiko - midnight station