anything hyde can do, gackt can do better (or not)
remember the time when i liked going to youtube and search for funny videos? seems like in the few months that i've not been there, some fans have been really creative and imaginative in their fanvideos. this fanvideo isone of the BEST i've watched. not only bcause it's funny, but more importantly because the song is FUNNY! if you look at it closely, some part of the video doesn't synchonise with the song, but because the song is too freakin funny, i always laugh whenever i re-watched it.
take a look, it's great XD! all credits for KinKonKan from youtube!
9:45 pm
perfectionist at work
i was watching that video just now after my venture in youtube to find gackt funny videos. it was an old video, one that i watched many years ago, and was shot even longer before that. if i may, i would title it 'Perfectionist At Work, Perfectionist In The Dark'. Yoshiki wasn't bluffing when he said that he can edit ONE line of ONE song for 10 times or more, and in the end the total editing for the whole song can be more than 100 times. just look at him being so particular about the level of sound of the guitar part and stuff..
but anyway, what made me blog about this video is: the people. if you notice, there were 4 people there: the sound engineer, yoshiki, toshi and hide.
while watching, i was thinking and reflecting... here they are, the three of them, together and happy, smoking and joking around, laughing and playing pranks, nonchalant and relaxed, without knowing that in the not-too-distant future something would happen that would shatter the happiness completely, leaving each person in their own world alone, apart, unreachable by the other... three friends, started from a diverging path that was chosen by one, followed soon by the demise of the other, were going to get separated from one another for a very, very long time...
it's heart-wrenching...
if you watch the video and reflect upon the events that followed after that, there's no way that you don't feel sad for them. yoshiki sitting there in the recording room, knowing full well that toshi and hide were there, sitting behind him, and he could just, with a simple turn of the chair, wheel himself around to talk to them, ask them questions, ask for advice, ask for an opinion, feeling the companionship that the THREE of them were in there together...
and within 3 years, or shorter, one person would be gone from view, philosophically divided, barrier erected, keeping them apart for 10 long years. and within 4 years, or shorter, another person would follow, disappearing from view, this time forever. no amount of tears, reflection, regrets, hope or dreams could make him come back to their side again. gone, for-ever.
i was reflecting that there's no way that yoshiki had ever, in his wildest dream, predicted that he would go through events like he would be going through. the leave of a dear childhood friend and total separation from him for 10 years, the breaking up of a band that is his life and blood, the leave of another dear friend and total separation from him forever, the emotional turmoil that landed him in psychiatrist, the long time of mourning that shielded him from public spotlight for years after... the wounded heart that is not healing as soon as he hoped to, and even now it's still bleeding....
and some people thought that we, x japan fans, are exaggerating when we confessed that we cried upon the announcement of the mending of a friendship broken for a decade, the long awaited reunion of two dear friends, brought about by the memory of another who is in heaven...
yochan, toshi-kun, may the power of your renewed friendship help to heal the broken hearts that you have been enduring for so long... and the fans will always be here for the both of you, always...
Labels: yoshiki
1:51 am
Youtube is the best
One more item should be listed under my 'DO NOT ACCESS BEFORE END OF ASSESSMENT!!' list. Yesterday i practically stayed up all night watching various videos at youtube... Nothing anime, rather my old fascination of JRock. And thanks to the dear joyce, last night the word 'fanservice' was included in one of my many searches geez... But last night the biggest entertainment was Gackt. I found a series of clip whereby he was visiting a number of places with Tsuyoshi and he was, as usual, freaking funny.
8:26 am
teeheehee
like i said before.. when i'm being pressed on to do something that i need to do but don't wish to do, i tend to do loads of other useless things, like in the case of just now, reading my juniors' choir blog at http://saintschorale.blogspot.com. here's a very entertaining piece of essay being put up by mr yeo, the teacher in charge after i left ^^
In any chorus, there are four voice parts: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Sometimes these are divided into first and second within each part, prompting endless jokes about first and second basses. There are also various other parts such as baritone, countertenor, contralto, mezzo soprano, etc., but these are mostly used by people who are either soloists, or belong to some excessively hotshot classical a cappella group (this applies especially to countertenors), or are trying to make excuses for not really fitting into any of the regular voice parts, so we will ignore them for now.
Each voice part sings in a different range, and each one has a very different personality. You may ask, "Why should singing different notes make people act differently?", and indeed this is a mysterious question and has not been adequately studied, especially since scientists who study musicians tend to be musicians themselves and have all the peculiar complexes that go with being tenors, french horn players, timpanists, or whatever. However, this is beside the point; the fact remains that the four voice parts can be easily distinguished, and I will now explain how.
THE SOPRANOS are the ones who sing the highest, and because of this they think they rule the world. They have longer hair, fancier jewellery, and swishier skirts than anyone else, and they consider themselves insulted if they are not allowed to go at least to a high F in every movement of any given piece. When they reach the high notes, they hold them for at least half again as long as the composer and/or conductor requires, and then complain that their throats are killing them and that the composer and conductor are sadists. Sopranos have varied attitudes toward the other sections of the chorus, though they consider all of them inferior. Altos are to sopranos rather like second violins to first violins - nice to harmonise with, but not really necessary. All sopranos have a secret feeling that the altos could drop out and the piece would sound essentially the same, and they don't understand why anybody would sing in that range in the first place - it's so boring. Tenors, on the other hand, can be very nice to have around; besides their flirtation possibilities (it is a well-known fact that sopranos never flirt with basses), sopranos like to sing duets with tenors because all the tenors are doing is working very hard to sing in a low-to-medium soprano range, while the sopranos are up there in the stratosphere showing off. To sopranos, basses are the scum of the earth - they sing too damn loud, are useless to tune because they're down in that low, low range - and there has to be something wrong with anyone who sings in the F clef, anyway.
THE ALTOS are the salt of the earth - in their opinion, at least. Altos are unassuming people, who would wear jeans to concerts if they were allowed to. Altos are in a unique position in the chorus in that they are unable to complain about having to sing either very high or very low, and they know that all the other sections think their parts are pitifully easy. But the altos know otherwise. They know that while the sopranos are screeching away on a high A, they are being forced to sing elaborate passages full of sharps and flats and tricks of rhythm, and nobody is noticing because the sopranos are singing too loud (and the basses usually are too). Altos get a deep, secret pleasure out of conspiring together to tune the sopranos flat. Altos have an innate distrust of tenors, because the tenors sing in almost the same range and think they sound better. They like the basses, and enjoy singing duets with them - the basses just sound like a rumble anyway, and it's the only time the altos can really be heard. Altos' other complaint is that there are always too many of them and so they never get to sing really loud.
THE TENORS are spoiled. That's all there is to it. For one thing, there are never enough of them, and choir directors would rather sell their souls than let a halfway decent tenor quit, while they're always ready to unload a few altos at half price. And then, for some reason, the few tenors are always really good - it's one of those annoying facts of life. So it's no wonder that tenors always get swollen heads - after all, who else can make sopranos swoon? The one thing that can make tenors insecure is the accusation (usually by the basses) that anyone singing that high couldn't possibly be a real man... In their usual perverse fashion, the tenors never acknowledge this, but just complain louder about the composer being a sadist and making them sing so damn high. Tenors have a love-hate relationship with the conductor, too, because the conductor is always telling them to sing louder because there are so few of them. No conductor in recorded history has ever asked for less tenor in a forte passage. Tenors feel threatened in some way by all the other sections - the sopranos because they can hit those incredibly high notes; the altos because they have no trouble singing the notes the tenors kill themselves for; and the basses because, although they can't sing anything above an E, they sing it loud enough to drown the tenors out. Of course, the tenors would rather die than admit any of this. It is a little-known fact that tenors move their eyebrows more than anyone else while singing.
THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are stolid, dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note(or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with - most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend so far as tenors, whom they consider effete poseurs. Basses hate tuning the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos - except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternate universe which the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end in tune.
i was laughing and giggling when i read that. and i second mr yeo's comment: For those new to the choral singing, you have no idea how frighteningly true the above is. XD! oh, there is a sentence, put inside bracket, that i disagree though, totally *winks* ^_^
going there always brings back memories of when i was in the choir. i'm glad my juniors are there to continue the tradition of blogging that started during my days, all started for the sole purpose of hosting up midis of 2005 SYF songs so that members can easily access the blog and download them and practice ^_^ ah, what a history... how i miss my choir days, choir mates, juniors, conductor... i wish i'm in choir again right now, i really really do... *sigh*
9:50 pm
bored...
yesterday went online on MSN for the first time since many many months *or years, if i may be more specific* and i talked to quite a lot of people. i think it was because of that and unable to handle so many conversations at once that i promised merry something weird. i promised her i'll tell her about my crush in school.
o.O sometimes your mind work in wonders that you can't explain...
for one, i don't have any crush right now, which means that when i typed those words to her i was referring to my last one. for another, whatever makes our conversation wondered to that side???
anyway i didn't tell her anything much just now, sorry mer. i'll tell you if you ask me questions, coz basically i don't know what to say about him o.O other than he's far~ far away now, and though i told yessichan that i'm over him, i'm not sure, right now, that i'm really really over him or not... am i? or was i just trying to focus my mind too much on A's that i told myself that?
but i know one thing, even now i do still miss him.
and until now, i still don't dare to talk too closely to him...
maybe i'm still not over him anyway.
mr P, if you're reading, please talk to me in MSN ^_^ i'll be ever so happy...
*sigh*
when i'm forced to do SOMETHING which i don't wish to do, but has to be done anyway, i'll end up dragging it on and on, doing something meaningless in the meantime. when that activity requires me to sit in front of the computer, i'll end up blogging *too much* regularly, looking up people on my MSN list whom i can talk to, or just simply go to yahoo and start reading all the available news there. like now, i'm supposed to compile the information my group mates had given me for monday's presentation, and i'm still haven't finished reading through it...
sheesh...
9:29 pm
seba.xtasy, my new idol! XD
well it's 2.20am in the morning, and by right i'm not supposed to be here but rather at my desk doing helene's stuff for tomorrow, but i just went online on MSN for the first time after such a looong looong time (years, i guess?) and i got so many friends talking to me. people like hendry whom i've not talked with for years perhaps, and i even found some stranger inside my 'friend' list. now how did he got filtered under 'friends' group when i don't know him at all *i realised that after i talked to him and we realised that we're strangers to each other* i do not know.
but right now, i'm mightily excited. not only because i just talked to seba.xtasy and he decided to join the new yoshiki birthday project and he's the first participant from south america, but also because he sent me his solo guitar part of slent jealousy, and it was bloody cool, i tell you!! i don't know whether it's because i've listened to the studio version for too many times and i got excited listening to another version, but when i listened to his solo i just got so so so so excited and high XDD he's cool!!!! seba.xtasy, give me more solos!!!!!! *well he did, blue blood and one from luna sea, love song, but i want more!!!* XDD
it's so freakin cool. anyone wanna listen to it, email me or talk to me in msn, i'll send it to you BY HIS CONSENT.
anyway, today i felt like i accomplished something. together with mira, merry, hidayah and joyce, we made the list of the things that we need to do by week 14 and 15. when i reached home the first thing that i did was to paste those 2 lists on the wall where i can see it clearly. that time of the year had come again and i'm determined not to stray too much from 'the path' this time round. no mapling, check. no manga, (at least no hanakimi) check. no fanfic, check.
no screamingkiai? hmmm, that's a bit hard since i want the ybp 2007 to go smoothly, not checked. i'll try not to get too involved with anything strenuous there til assessment, which i think i can easily accomplish seeing the number of people filtering back into the forum.
o well. at least today i know what i need to do. i'll call that an accomplishment. tomorrow is another day to gain another one. ganbatte til assessment! what's 3 more weeks, it's freakin short!
oh, please watch this youtube. did i announce that yoshiki was appointed the music director of Rose of Versailles the movie? it seemed that Unnamed Song is gonna be a theme song of the movie.
2:19 am
manga comment: hana zaraki no kimi tachi e
WARNING: some SPOILER~
this is the manga that was recommended by joyce because she likes the taiwanese drama version featuring Ella of S.H.E. for quite sometime i've distanced myself away from shoujo manga, concentrating on catching up with shounen like bleach, naruto or hunterxhunter until i really liked shounen and didn't have motivation to go back to shoujo. well, obachan did persuade me to read koukou debut, and i liked it, though til now i still haven't picked it up again from vol 3 or 4. and after koukou debut, this manga becomes the next shoujo that i'm gonna venture in.
i began reading hana kimi on 13mar07, and my first reaction was:
oh my goodness... this is Suzuka all over again. the resemblance is uncanny!!! someone (hanakimi: mizuki, suzuka: yamato) went to a school in order to catch a glimpse of their idol (hanakimi: sano, suzuka: suzuka) who happens to be a great high jump athlete, and in the process of school found out that that s/he is actually a great runner her/himself. the resemblance is uncanny!!!!!!! goodness.. and i'm sure hana kimi came first than suzuka~ but suzuka's art is that of a higher level than hana kimi's too-shoujo art. suzuka's art can actually be passed for a shounen, coz the sports action scenes are great =)
but that's where the similarity ends. unlike suzuka which continues on emphasising on yamato-kun's progress in running, hana kimi completely *or almost* stopped focusing on mizuki's ability to run fast. and the love romance in suzuka is rather like takahashi-sensei (inuyasha, ranma) style which is laggy, draggy and one side (at least) is very much stubborn and act like as if they don't care and don't want to admit their own feelings, whileas in hana kimi, both parties admit their own feelings in their hearts (though they don't really show it outright).
i only read the 1st chapter on 13march coz i was in a hurry and i was still sceptical about shoujo (especially that had been adopted into taiwanese drama series, i mean look at how bad the impression of hanayori dango in my mind now, all thanks to the taiwanese drama series). then i continued on reading it yesterday, 25march, and let me tell you that yesterday alone i devoured 9 volumes, NINE freakin volumes!!! i just can't stop reading!!!! goodness... and wait til you hear wich character that i like....
i met joyce just now and i asked her to guess 3 times which character does she think i like the most in hana kimi. 1st guess: nakatsu (wrong!), 2nd guess: sano (wrong!) 3rd guess: kayashima (wrong again!) and i blamed her profusely for 'corrupting my innocent mind' after i told her i like hokutokun.....
*for those who don't know, umeda hokuto is the gorgeous evil gay with spectacles and has, perhaps, too-fashion-forward style (imagine, he wears jean paul gaultier...), rather cold and mean demeanour, lecherous (honestly, that word is an understatement for him, i think) and usually wears white lab jacket. and he's a fully qualified doctor working at Ohsaka Private Academy for boys (some writes that, some writes ohsaka gakuen, some says ohsaka boys high school, some simply says ohsaka high school)*
*oh, and i wasn't making a typo error, he IS gay*
it's true!!!! within 1 day i was already like big fan of hokutokun, and it seemed like i'm reading hana kimi for more story about hokutokun rather than mizukiXizumi story >.< *please release more story about hokutokun, hisaya-sensei* and you know what, instead of feeling sorry, or at least shocked that i like the doctor, that girl said this to me, "hana, you have to read Loveless! please, you have to read Loveless! trust me, you'll like it a lot!" O.O'''''' and when i told her that "my mind is corrupted enough!! and it's all because of you!!!!" she said, "my mind is even more corrupted than you, hana kimi is like nothing like that' O.O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *faints* anyone who've read hana kimi, please don't think too badly of me *tears* but honestly hokutokun is the one and only one who can make me laugh the most in hana kimi *tears* anyway.. on the overall.. hana kimi is great! it's at my class 1 list now. the art work, which i said was below of suzuka, is actually really good, and hisaya-sensei was able to make me really really really like hokutokun rather than in suzuka which i don't have anyone that i like in particular, so i'm retracting that comment ^^ anyway again, i haven't finished reading it. hana kimi is truly threatening the progress of my work now.. so today i'm gonna read O-N-E volume, this 11th volume, and then i'm gonna put it aside until after assessment. honestly, i've read enough about hokutokun *and seen more images of him doing fanservice or otherwise* to last me til end of april. so i'm reserving my ratings til then. oh, and my new layout won't be ready in a while. perhaps after assessment THEN i have the time to make it. and i'm mortally afraid that it won't feature yoshiki, nor toshi, nor gackt, nor sugizo... *hokutokun in mind* aaarrghhhhhh someone save meeeeeeeeeee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ edit: writing this 5 hours later. i haven't continued reading hanakimi, but instead my fingers moved to search for umeda fanfictions out there *arrghhhhh curses fingers* i began reading yaoi some years back, but the ones i read just now were really..sweet ^_^ no lemons, and some of them are great. here are 2 that i like the most, all thanks to Fleeting Fancies page where i got the links to them
http://measuringlife.livejournal.com/182170.html?style=mine
http://measuringlife.livejournal.com/183317.html?style=mine
and the most brilliant (in the writing way, not too much the storyline) fanfic i've read after that Diru's email fanfic i've written some years ago is this (btw, click on the little 'continue' at the end of each part to read the continuation of the story):
http://anonygift.livejournal.com/864.html
brilliant. absolutely brilliant. love it perfectly!
now.. no more fanfic, no more 'umeda hokuto' googling nor yahoo-ing.. hopefully.... goodness gracious me..do i have the strength..?
jyaa~Labels: manga anime
7:23 pm
manga commen: ranma 1/2
w-ell... i started reading this really slowly, until about book 15 or so i was still like 'blah...the storyline isn't very exciting and it's more stupid than yakitate', moreover ranma and akane's romance as going ever so slowly, even much slower than inuyasha and kagome, so that put me off even more, and there are some really irritating and annoying figures whose function in the manga seems to be only to make me angry and pissed, like happosai and the principal.
but the volumes after that, around 20 or so, they get better. better fighting and enemies (some gorgeous enemies appear, like herb, or pantyhose even ^^), less stupid problems with the likes of jerks like the principal or hentais like happosai. akane and ranma's getting closer, there are even some real sweet scenes. the strength of takahashi's manga, i guess, is that she put on very little romance, but that is precisely why when she put them in, they feel really sweet =) i live for those moments when akane and ranma aren't fighting ^^ i think the valentine's chapter is really sweet ^_^ ranma 1/2 have definitely moved up to higher place in class 2 on my list.
anyway, i've i've devoured like 10 volumes or more in these few days.. i would be sad to see it end v.v in my busy schedule, i want to read something that's light and simple and yet with good story, something that aren't too shoujo *i can't bring myself to read more of hana kimi yet* or too shounen *starting to read titles like air gear or even continuing with rurouni kenshin feels really heavy* or too complicated *tsubasa chronicle, like other clamp's works, requires the mind to work in order to enjoy it to the fullest, imo* or too arty-bleah *honestly, why did i get the hating girl manga????*
i want something light and funny and has a little bit of shounen and shoujo and not too difficult to be understood and has good art-works and i can break down my reading into chapters wihtout much difficulties. hmmm...it's hard to decide what to read after ranma's over... any suggestions?Labels: manga anime
12:30 am
one of my life dreams had come true........
if anyone could see me right now, or if anyone should come barging into my room, i'll be so embarrassed..here i am, sitting in front of the computer, sobbing with tears running down my cheek and puffing up my eyes, all because of a single blog entrance, a single blog entrance that made me cried, literally cried, eventhough i'm not one who could cry freely....
and still crying through now, goodness me....
http://www.naturallyart.net/new_project_english.html
any x japan fan, any yoshiki, toshi or hide fan, try reading that without crying, I DARE YOU!
i'm positively crying with happiness now... 5 years ago, exactly around this time, march 2002, i was introduced to x japan through a cd labelled x japan ballads collection. from then onwards, knowing their legend and sad story around their disbandment and the year after, i made a wish, and that wish was that one day i would hear about yoshiki and toshi talking together again, patching up and making up and..to hear the song without you.
the latter part of the wish was achieved several years ago, but the earlier wish remained a wish, a wish upon which not even a tiny ray of hope could be seen shining. due to that, that wish was upgraded from a 'wish' to a 'dream', something that i won't be pushing to happen, but i still keep the hope of it becoming reality alive in my heart, and in my heart only, for i don't even discuss it with my friends.
and now, behold, my life dream has come true. and what a beautiful thing friendship is, don't you think? yoshiki and toshi, finally, FINALLY talking together again, that was blogged a few days ago. that already made me very very happy, just reading about it in yoshiki's blog.
and now, come this.... i positively want to hug PanthereNoire who've posted the buletin in myspace (and i want to hug tom too, for myspace) and brought me to this tears-inducing news and blog and music....
reading through that news with toshi's beautiful voice as the background music, it's impossible for me not to cry while reading it!
can you believe it?? til yesterday the confirmation of reunification of x japan had just been slightly better than a rumour, aided by the content of yoshiki's blog it was upgraded to 'unconfirmed schedule'. but now, NOW...... now it's confirmed that, at the very least, toshi+yoshiki unification is absolute... now i know how yoshiki was feeling when he wrote that blog..... i know!!!! and i understand why he could make such a confused blog entry too....
to hell with yoshiki+gackt+sugizo... VioletUK is not even the top priority in my waiting list anymore. now the toppest of the top of my waiting list is this project they're working together.
so far i only know yoshiki made Without You for hide, and that's the only song of his that had been known to be dedicated to hide-chan. and so far all of the fans know that no version of Without You had ever been vocalised, even yoshiki confirmed that he wouldn't release the vocallised version if it's not toshi who sang it.
BUT, from what toshi had said, it seemed that there's a song which yoshiki had made for hide-chan, which when he played he cried upon, which he wrote just days after hide-chan's death, all of which pointed to Without You BUT with a 'temporarily recorded male voice' in it, which does NOT point to Without You.
possibility #1: it was Without You, and when yoshiki meant that he would not release the vocalised version withOUT toshi's voice meant just that, he would not RELEASE it. but he didn't say anything about not making the temporary vocalised version either.
possibility #2: it was some other song but not Without You, and yoshiki made 2 songs or more after hide-chan's demise, and these 2 songs were just a few of them.
possibility #3: hell, there's NO possibility #3!!! i'm just messing up... i gotta go to school to do my assignment and work but i've lost all spirit to do anything today... i just wish to remain on toshi's myspace forever and listen to his beautiful voice wafting through my speaker....
*shakes head fiercely*
cannot!! i must turn this unexpected event, DREAM, into something positive!!!
oh my goodness... and i woke up this morning feeling sleepy and thought of just going to school straight without turning on the computer at all... thank goodness i was bored and checked out SK and myspace and read PanthereNoire's buletin *sends PanthereNoire a HUUUUGE hug!!!!!!*
thank you God for bringing those two together again... i'm truly happy....Labels: yoshiki
11:38 am
manga comment: flame of recca
read Flame of Recca til volume 3. hmmm, how should i put it? i'm not overly keen over the story or the art, but it does have a decent plot and so far the story wasn't too bad. however reaching volume 3, i can't help but notice the resemblance to Shaman King! a possible pair of brothers (SK: twins, FoR: brothers??), one of whom was older than the other (SK: by hundred/thousand years, FoR: 500 years?), one of whom was horribly wicked (SK: hao, FoR: kurei) and the other the good guy (SK: yoh, FoR: recca), the wicked brother is keen to meet the un-wicked brother and the parents of the brothers aren't keen to let them meet.... it's so similar, isn't it??
the difference is that Hao is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more likeable than kurei, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more cuter, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more cool, and sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more..cruel? anyway i love hao and at the same time yoh, and also ren, but in FoR.hmm...i definitely don't like kurei, and i'm not overly fond of recca and so far only like that ensui wielder =P
so, current rating for FoR is: class 3, aka normal or so-so manga.Labels: manga anime
1:16 am
saying goodbye to maplers
'we're so busy now but after week 9 we'll be slightly better off with lesser work' i said 5 weeks ago. 'don't worry, after term break we can take a breath til assessment' i said before term break. 'this semester's assessment won't be so rush like last semester' i thought during term 1.
and now i realised how foolish and stupid i've been.
ladies and gentlemen, friends and guests, readers and visitors, allow me to introduce you a very gullible person who believes the word of a lecturer about 'i stress you now but later on you can take it easy' and really thought that term 2 will be less stress than term 1: ME.
honestly, i think i'm gonna be as dead in term 2 as i did in term 1. the bad news is: this term ends with an assessment instead of a term break, and this semester the external invigilator from other universities are coming down to check our work, which means that we'll be stressed doubly hard by lecturers to produce work that is twice better in quality, and not to mention quantity. the good news is: i've not really lost my momentum during term break and my mentality is ready in full gear to slave myself for 5 weeks til the end of the term to meet the crazy criteria that's been placed upon us and make myself a polyphasic sleeper til the end of assessment.
it's hard to start though. so i re-adopted my mantra during O's and A's, a mantra that was taught by my history and social studies teacher, Ms Anushia, which goes like: a little baby step taken one at a time will get you somewhere.
so, tonight i'be taken the first baby step towards producing a better result than last time and securing better result than last semester: i've said goodbye to my mapler friends. i only met with Kakajin from my buddy list and gunblage92 from my guild tonight, so i only got the chance to say goodbye to them. i was hoping to catch my leader Zeraato too, but he's not online, what a pity. nevertheless i left a message at the guild notice saying goodbye to the rest of the guildmates too (i'm so glad i'm a jr master).
what i'm scared of being away for such a long time is that i'll lose contact with these friends again. my Ekkusu character is an extremely old character, matching the age of Bootes by a difference of a few days, and throughout my whole 57 levels, i've gone on hiatus for numerous times due to unexpected circumstances, usually involving exams. like, during O's and A's respectively, i stopped mapling like half a year, and last year itself i stopped mapling for a few months nearing assessment. everytime i went on hiatus and came back, i always lose friends. how many friends have gone and moved on and never appear in my buddy list again, i don't remember... the last i remember was MeiMeiIsMe, playiife and ShadowJing, the first was asking me to be his gf while the next 2 were my ludi PQ mates and all 3 were really nice people.
and there were still people from my kerning PQ days, like GeniusX, or people who've given me precious stuff like SeagullMage (gave me circlets and seraphis, imagine) or people who've talked to me about real life stuff beyond mapling world like wiseokas, all of whom i refused to delete off my buddy list for some reasons unknown to myself...
and these new friends i've acquired are all nice people too. and the guild ExiledAngels is one of the best since the day when i was in BlitzXsinFamily guild. from BlitzxSinFamily, i've been through sooo many guilds, some lasting just a few minutes, some a few days or weeks, and some kicked me out for no apparent reasons. all no good guilds with no interaction amongst the members at all and were in guild just simply for the sake of being in a guild, sheesh. banzai ExiledAngels!! i love this guild! i hope i'll still be in it after 5weeks.
after saying goodbye to Kakajin, gunblage92 and PinkMary (happened to be my party at coolie map yesterday), i off my maple, closed the window, opened the place where i downloaded the .rar forms, clicked on the .exe file and uninstall the whole thing.
no more icons on my desktop to tempt me to maple. i'll miss all my friends and buddies and guildmates, but i have no choice. hope to see them all back in 5 weeks time.
meanwhile, let's get down to business. helene, nick and tang's work, here i come!
oh btw last weekend i was served the best dinner i've eaten this year at palm garden. sorry i hev no time to upload pics or share stories but i do have time to list the food i've eaten. appetizer: some huuuge prawns cooked with dunno what but was yummy; main course: chicken breast with bacon and leeks; portabello with tomato sauce, basil and thyme; sweet corn with butter, black pepper and cheese; desserts: subway's chocolate chip cookies, double chocolate chip cookies, raisin cookies; drinks: Bailey's Irish Cream with mint chocolate (alcohol 40%!) and Arbor Mist Cranberry Twist (4% only).
did that make you drool or what?
xD after dinner we played pictionary and i've had a great time laughing xD really a weekend of full destressing. thanks to that now i'm ready in full gear to catch up with works and to go to fashion week next week, haha. ganbatte hana!
12:41 am
about anime with nice songs
i truly believe that one of the major criteria of making a nice anime is that you gotta have nice theme song or background music and able to place them approprieately at the right time and right atmosphere. take a good look at ouran, while i cannot say that the art of the anime is the best, i really do love their music arrangement and pieces! those orchestrated pieces are really classy and i LOVE it!
sometimes the theme song/background music of an anime plays a really important role in determining whether i would watch the anime or not. eyeshield 21 is at the top list of my favourite manga ever! but the anime sucks!! i'm sorry, whoever is a fan of the anime, but it's really not on par with the manga level. apart from voice casts who aren;t too suitable with the characters, the music is weird and out of place, and they didn't put them at the right time and right atmosphere. honestly, i only managed to watch the first or 2nd episodes of eyeshield 21, and i couldn't stand watching my favourite manga being mutilated so horribly that i stopped watching >.<
and yet, there are other anime which songs are so so so awesome and great that i want to watch the anime just so that i can see what scenes the song is used at. like X Clamp (or X TV or X/1999, whichever you may call it). the music is the BEST ever anime song i've ever come across, yet. it's truly great, those orchestrated pieces. my favourites are Sadame, Last Battle, Hyper Battle and Countdown. i've watched the anime several years back with hany, but at that time i was busy looking out for Forever Love, which actually appears in the movie, not anime series, that i didn't pay too much attention to the music in the anime series itself. but after getting those songs like last year, i'm eager to rewatc the whole series again just so that i can hear those awesome music being played!
another series is: .hack/SIGN. edmond gave me 3 songs out of the original soundtrack of those and i really do like them a lot. eventhough in AE majority of the people who've written review for .hack/SIGN said that 'the anime sucks!' or something along those lines, i still want to try and watch them, coz the music is just so so so nice!!!!
anyone got anymore nice anime songs to recommend me, please do so ^^
now i'm in the middle of getting Peacemaker Kurogane. i first watched it in arts central, and i was attracted to it because there was a bishounen with long purple hair who walked around carrying a round fat bad-tempered pink pig in his arms, and he was so handsome and the pig was so cute xD that was how i got introduced to Okita Shoji of the Shinsengumi. i didn't continue watching the series coz i always LATE in going out of the room to watch it. i always only able to catch the ending song, which was cute and very catchy and i like it a lot, called "Hey Jimmy". in the end i watch Scrapped Princess which was after Peacemaker Kurogane.
from there, i read Ouran Koukou Host Club, and when the host club were cosplaying the shinsengumi, haruhi was so cute and cool that i paid attention to the person she's supposed to be cosplaying at, and the girls all agree that she was cosplaying okita shoji. and then, i read Rurouni Kenshin (read more about the bakufu and Meiji restoration era) and something funny happenned inside. there was a scene where nobuhiro-san (mangaka) drew okita shoji as a reference to an event happened in the past (heck the main character that they were supposed to be talking about wasn;t even him!) and the next volume or so there was a 'favourite character poll' and okita shoji was like among the top favourite character! when he only showed up for ONE panel only and did absolutely nothing!! xD from there i realise how very popular this character is, and i want to know more about the shinsengumi and story around the Meiji restoration era.
since Rurouni Kenshin focuses its story in the year following the Meiji restoration and kenshin was supposed to be the enemy of the shinsengumi, and what i wanted to know more about is actually the shinsengumi themselves, i'm forced to go back to peacemaker kurogane to learn more about them =) i don't mind though =) time to add another bishounen to my favourite anime/manga character list ^^
anyway, going back to the real life, yesterday joyce and sniffy were forcing me to change my hairstyle from my normal side-parting with my fringe clipped/tied up to clear it off my face into some hairstyle that's so popular amongst japanese tenagers (boys or girls) now, those fringe down, swept sideways and down. actually my hair was cut in that hairstyle. joyce said i look like bishounen (which i've decided to take it as a compliment) BUT i dislike having strands of hair tickling my eyes and nose >.<>.<Labels: manga anime
9:54 pm
super happy~~
i'm feeling suuuuuuuuuper happy now!! those people who've known me since 2002 would remember the international project that i did at that time, Yoshiki Birthday Project 2002, together with people that i know from Extasy Records International BBS and Endless Dream website.
guess what....?
WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN!!
I'm feeling super happy now because my idea is surprisingly being accepted pretty well in ScreamingKIAI *dances around* of course with soo many members of the forum not around yet (so far there were only me, yoshiki art, melrudin and amethyst who've responded to yoshiki art's calling for 'something to do for yoshiki's 42nd birthday') the confirmation of what to do would take some time, and there's actually a possibility that we'll adopt some other ideas too. but no matter whose idea gets adopted, the point is: THERE WILL BE YBP 2007!! and i'm very happy about it!! yaaaay~~~ *dances around*
okay, first thing to do would be to delay my return to jakarta, coz there's no way i can get involved with the plannng and stuff if i'm at jakarta >.< 2nd or 3rd week of may sounds good? yeah? after all i heard that we'll be getting 4months holiday this time, which means i can still spend as much time in jakarta as per normal even after i go back home late =)
*still dancing around*
anyone interested to be a part in YBP 2007?? i'll surely miss very much the people who were involved chiefly in the planning and executing YBP 2002. yumiko-san *sobs* i've lost contact with her for several years, i really wonder how's she doing in live.... Yuri, her emails had all been deactivated i guess, even though she's in sg, i can't contact her..... xiaufung *hugs* i remember she spent an all-nighter (almost) during her exams to help me do some physical work on YBP 2002...ganbatte on your thesis fung!!! miss you so much!! *hugs*
but i'm also quite happy that some people from YBP 2o02 would still be with us for YBp 2007, like Rocepta and Chiara ^_^ hope to see both of them soon in the forum. i know i've been missing for a few months and i know some people had been even busier than me (Chiara's working and Ro's been in the US for studies since last year) so it'll take a while to get everyone to comment. some people might not be able to participate, which is quite upsetting because i know how important it is for them to keep their real life organised, at the same time i really do want them to be able to take part in the project, like Rin *hugs rin* if you can juggle your concerts and practices and school work better, please do come back to SK and be with us for the project, will you?
talk about it more later *i'm late to go to school for project >.<*
*goes off while still dancing around*
oh! by the way, new layout still in the progress *winks* it'll have 3 people *plan to be* and they're all gorgeous hunks! xD
*goes off again while dancing around*Labels: ybp 2007
12:22 pm
bad, bad week. it has ended, thank goodness.
it has ended!!!! the stressest week of this semester yet (and it happens to be 6 weeks from THE WILL-BE most stress week in the semester) is over!!! i can finally take longer sleeps than my current short naps, starting from 15 minutes (last night) to 2-3 hours a night (almost every other night this week). the only consolation i can give myself is that i am slowly learning to work like yoshiki =P
so, at the end of this horrible week, many things had happened, many works had been done and checked, many more works had been assigned, many tears had fallen upon many faces of my friends, and many leisure activities had been planned in my head once i hit the weekend.
first thing first is: layout change! expect a new layout soon, with the theme of my current obsession: THE band, sugizo+gackt+yoshiki. then, anime-hunting. i wanna get more series! and, return back to myspace. i kinda miss my myspace pals. and, going to IT fair. who knows i can get even cheaper external hard disk? this one is gonna be full soon. as of now, i've been forced to move some series to DVD and clean them off to make way for other series (like naruto with its crazy 145 episodes, i don't wanna get the fillers).
*goes off to search for sugizo pictures*Labels: school
10:01 pm
"a poem of annoyance"
maybe someone forgets the days when she was a student and forgot HOW it feels like to be allowed to 'do anything that you want' by teacher and by the time you showed the teacher that 'stuff that you like' that you've done, all her comments were negative and she said 'you shouldn't be doing that'.
maybe someone forgets the days when she was a student and forgot HOW it feels like to be asked to do stuff from a humongous list and by the time you showed her some of the stuff (because you don't have time to finish everything) all she said was 'please do this, this and this' and mark you as 'between pass or fail' because you happen to have the stuff ON THE LIST but at the moment the teacher wants to see SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S NOT ON THE LIST.
maybe someone forgets the days when she was a student and forgot HOW it FEELS to be told by teacher "the only way you can fail is if you don't do any work at all" and by the time you showed her the work that you'VE DONE, she considered is as NOT DONE because it was DONE DIFFERENTLY from what SHE WANTS *and please refer to 1st paragraph too*
maybe someone forgets the days when she was a student and forgot HOW it feels to have teacher who always contradict herself every other day and each time the list of stuff that she wants, what are her expecatation, what are things that we should do are always different and she was left guessing at what exactly in the hell of the world she's supposed to be doing!???
but someone would probably NOT forget the day when she was a student and was so pissed and angry and annoyed and sick of a teacher you just feel like shoving all your best works under her nose and tells her "THIS IS MY WORK AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN FAIL ME FOR DOING THE WORK YOU ASKED ME TO DO EVENTHOUGH YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT I'VE DONE!"
and so, someone would probably KNOWS exactly how i'm feeling right now. it's all back to you, dear lecturer.
Labels: angry
9:39 pm
i'm stupid
weeks i've been here and not once have i checked screamingkiai, the community that we've painstakingly built and grow and now has become fully independent on its own, and i never went there, and i'm stupid!!! i'm so stupid and ashamed that i don't dare to post anything on the board now. "where has that f***ing moderator had gone to?!?!?!?" is what Hiruma would say to me, perhaps.
to everyone in screamingkiai, i am guilty of abandoning you for like half a year?? and i'm so ashamed of myself. trust me. and i beg for your forgiveness, all...
so. what have i discovered in SK that i am convinced that i'm stupid?
LOADS of information (i told you how independent SK is now) including OFFICIAL information that Sugizo IS OFFICIALLY IN the band.
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2006/12/28/03.html
and here i am still asking myself if he's gonna be in or out. tell me, am i an idiot or what?
and there are more. apparently yochan had appeared in several TV appearances during my absence, including another show touring his house in LA (goodness, i know the place so well now i can sneak in and hide without yochan knowing it!) and a fortune telling show where some people said it wasn;t very good *touch wood for yochan's sake*
and there are even more. read this:
Here's news from Toshi's website, posted on the 10th of February, 2007.皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか？ 半年ほど前でしょうか、XJAPANのマネージメント事務所のかつての社長と、私が一番苦しいときも支え続けてくださった音楽業界の恩人が「話を聞いてほしい」と私のコンサート会場に足しげく訪ねていらっしゃいました。これまで多くの方が「XJAPAN」の復活話を持ちかけてきましたが、私にはその気はまったくなく、今が豊かで幸せだし、利権がらみのトラブルで散々な目にあってもきたし、ともかくすべてお断りしておりましたが、しつこいくらい何度も何度も、私に怒鳴られ、時には蹴り飛ばされても、それでも足を運んでくださるので、恩人をないがしろにもできず、お話を聞くこととなりました。「ほかのメンバーもやりたがってる、Toshiはどうだろうか？」と熱く真剣に何度も何度も頼み込まれたので、さすがにそこまで言うならと思い、その後Yoshikiにも確認したところ、やりたいというので、共通の友人でもあるアーティストにも応援と期待をいただいてこれまで話を進めています.
i took that from http://community.livejournal.com/yoshiki_extasy/. dunno what it says? a member of SK, PanthereNoire, translated it here: http://freeforums.bizhat.com/index.php?mforum=screamingKIAI&showtopic=287&st=390 since she had specifically asked not to use her translation anywhere else, i can only direct you straight to her. this, i think, was the 'talk with toshi' that yochan talked about in his blog. and i believe that this is also the reason of his, "why? why now?" questions that he asked himself in his blog.
and, yet there are STILL more stuff!!! this isn't something that i found myself jumping with joy about, but well, my sister WOULD, i guess, do that in my place. get this: it's just a rumour still BUT talk had been going around that the 'one more person' that's gonna be joining the band might be..... *drums rolls*
miyavi.
yepz, miyabi or miyavi or whatever you wanna call him. that guy with so many tattoos on his body he looked like a walking sutra. that guy with so many piercings that he's a walking earring-shop. THAT GUY!!
as i've said before, i'm not too ecstatic about him joining THE band. not that i'm against his photogenism, not that i'm against his striking appearance, not that i'm against anything of him. but i do have something to question about his music. so far i've yet to hear anything of his that i actually like or appreciate. a pity, isn't it? hmm.... maybe some fans might want to recommend me some miyavi songs. i mean, i love the other 3 members to the end of this earth.... but miyavi?? hmmm.....
anyway, i'm in seriously dire need to scream to someone about it! sighhh i miss yessichan!!! usually i can scream to her and be hyper in front of her about anything related to yoshiki or x, and this is no small news, but yessichan is in bekasi neee!!!! i need to scream to someone about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:11 pm
earthquake!
i didn't feel the first earthquake, but obachan did inform me about it by smsing me. i did feel the 2nd one, coz i was at the library at the second floor. at first i thought it was just me wearing headband all day long (headbands do make me headache if i wear them for too long, like a few hours) but mira and merry who were with me also felt it. it lasted quite a few seconds, in which i thought i got dizier like i was on a HUUGE airplane and it was experiencing turbulence =p
recently i'm becoming more diligent in opening my mailboxes and checking the emails and even diligently labeling the junkmails as spam mails. (usually the more busy and stress i am in the real world, the more time i spend on the web) now those newsletter from style.com doesn't go straight to the trash, but i opened them one by one and if there's a new collection by designer/house that i know, i check them out.
so far, i've seen only alexander mcqueen, miu miu, anna sui and balenciaga, and i must say that my fave yet for fall2007 is balenciaga. there are many blazers and it's been awhile since i'm very fond of blazers. the cutting and fabric are a bit too complicated to me, though. yet, another striking point from balenciaga's show was that they used led zeppelin' song!
which brings my memory back to a few days ago when i was staying back quite late (like midnight) in school to do homework and i met a couple seniors in yr2. one of them gave me a question which i've never pondered about, but when she asked me, i know the answer straight away.
"what music you wanna use for your fashion show?"
and in my mind, i say, "hey, i never thought about it before. but i know, i'm gonna use anything by Yoshiki."
which is the truth! Yoshiki was planning to combine his concert with fashion show and other things, because Violet UK is not just about music, it also involves fashion, visual and other things. how cool would it be if ever Yochan use MY collection to grace his concert??!?!??!?!? tis no longer the concept of using someone's music for MY show, tis about proposing my collection to be used by Yochan in HIS show!!!!!
the more i think about it, the more i'm convinced, that this path that i've chosen had brought me a thread-width nearer to Yoshiki for sure! ^_^
anyway. believe it or not, now i pass everyday with this thought in my mind: is sugizo really gonna be joining yoshiki and gackt?!??!! and the more i think about it, the more i become excited. can you believe it??? sugizo yoshiki gackt!!!!!! it's truly the start of a dream band!!!!!!!!!! let that one person be leehom please =DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
you thought i'm crazy. but seriously, i'm not joking. i know it's a bit far-fetched for a non-japanese to join the team. but, gackt is friend with leehom, leehom speaks english and yochan speaks english, leehom came from the US and yochan is staying in the US, so the only person who would probably be left out is sugizo, ne?
i'm dreaming, but let me keep this hope alive... at least until yochan blog again and talk about that ONE person that's joining the band........!!!!!!
7:08 pm
stupid blogger, stupid me
remember yesterday or a few days ago when blogger forced me to move account to google account instead of my old blogger account and i was so pissed about it? i was asked to make a new account straight away, and because i was so pissed, i made my password to be different from my usual password, something involving blogspot and a word in indonesian (seirama dengan arti kata GUOBLOKKK), and today i tried accessing my blog account and forgot about this new password, and i wasted like 15 minutes trying all different combination of email address (i can't rememember my google account used which email address) and password. and finally it hits me. sigh.. sometimes when you think you're so smart, you're not so smart...
anyway. nothing to blog about. except that i'm being chased by my mid-term workcheck, which is not halfway done for some modules. and still i'm having fun at zombie coolies in maplesea. *sigh* talk about getting your priority straight... somehow i'm beginning to be like zaraki and yachiru (bleach non-watchers, sorry for the terms) i remember when they were choosing people to be sent to the real world and 11th squad was asked to nominate a person to be sent. roughly it went like this:
subordinate: taichou (captain) they want to send some people to the real world. who should we send?
zaraki: yachiru?
subordinate: snacking.
zaraki: ikkaku?
subordinate: sleeping.
zaraki: yumichika?
subordinate: organizing documents.
zaraki: then send yumichika.
subordinate: ehh??? but he's in the middle of doing work...
zaraki: idiot! playing is more important! you can work anytime!
xD how nice if ever yachiru and zaraki are here in the real world and are the leader of some company or organization. i'll surely want to work for them! =D
on another completely unrelated note: 139 days to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
11:12 pm
BLOGGER FORCED ME TO CHANGE BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*fumes*
there's a reason why i didn't change and update my blog to the new whatever google account that they offered, because my friend made a new account using that google account blogger whatever and the blog template is different! as in, i learned how to manage my layout the hard way, through experiments with different layout codes and learning what code will give me what result. that was like 1 year worth of research. but when i tried implementing my 'knowledge' on her blog, like i always did on mine, it doesn't work!!
and now they forcibly made me change into that whatever google account blogger thing by refusing to let me log in if i didn't agree to their 'terms of condition' whatever. it's coercion!!!!!!!
*still fumes*
fine. if things still work well after this 'upgrade' (or downgrade, i'd say) thing, and if i still can manage my layout as easily as i did last time, i'll stay. if not, bye bye blogger. hello again, myspace!
*goes on fuming*
5:31 pm
loong~loong~entry, Yoshiki's blog analysis
i've been thinking about this, pondering about yoshiki's last blog entry, a lot. and the more i ponder about it, the more i'm convinced of a theory which makes me excited like mad!! try this new theory: the band that yoshiki and gackt are gonna make together involves sugizo too! O.O goodness it's almost sounded too good to be true!!!! O.O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway, i've quoted yochan's blog entry here, coloured differently, so that people who are too lazy to click on the link to read yochan's blog can read it here. i've emboldened words in yochan's entry that i think are important keywords, and i've written my comment (or analysis) underneath it, started with "----" each time. here goes:
Saturday, February 24, 2007
X JAPAN
God!!!
I finally got the day off yesterday.
After the new year, I've been working and working... .... I got sick, but kept recording and recording... .... . So I finally finished one of the projects I have been working on... .... . Not VUK, not yet... .... .
Anyway, it was a perfect day off... .... I went to my studio, and interviewed several candidates for my entertainment organization, and went to dinner with several friends... .... then went to see the "Dir en grey" show at the Wiltern Theater in LA.
Overall the show was great... .... full of energy, and... .... every time I see them perform, it makes me want to rock... .... I'm doing a lot of different genres of music... .... from classical to... .... whatever... .... but I think I really love rock. I've been playing the drums since I was 10 years old... .... well, actually playing the piano since age 4 as well.
Anyway... .... after the show, the entire band came to my house, and celebrated Shinya's (the drummer's) birthday party. Back then... .... . well, when I was producing Dir en grey, we used to hang out pretty much every day... .... It was so nice to hang out with them again.
Last night we ended up drinking together until the morning,
I hope they're all OK for the show tonight.
---- Yochan blogged on saturday, which means the 'yesterday' means friday, and which means Diru came to his house on Friday night. WHEN IS SHINYA'S BIRTHDAY??????? Friday night????????
On stage they were very charismatic, but off stage they are some of the sweetest people I know... .... HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE THEM!!!
---- yes yochan!! how can poeple not love them!!!!!!! xDDDDD i like Diru, though i must admit that their new songs aren't at all to my taste (too freakin hard), i still do like them. especially shinya ^.^)v v(^.^
Well, I haven't been producing bands or artists for a while... .... because at one point I was producing almost 10 artists at the same time, and it completely burned me out... .... But I may be starting again... .... well before I do, I have to finish so many other things... ....
OK... .... I'm still working on Violet UK... .... I think... .... but for the first time in many years, I'm confident that some of these songs will be able to blow your minds away... ....
When I used to do X Japan's songs... .... every time I finished recording... .... . I hated them... .... I always felt that something was missing... .... but finally with VUK... .... You'll see!!!!!!!
And... .... some people have questions about "THE BAND".
Yes, Sugizo from Luna Sea came here to LA several times last year, and last month Gackt came to town, and we both went to dinner... .... . pretty much just the two of us... ....
---- people are asking about the band and yochan mention those words... so does that mean that Sugizo is gonna be in the band too??!!?!?!??!?!?! goodness gracious me, my dream band is slowly being realised.........!!!!!!!!!!! have i ever dreamt that this will come true? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i did make several lists of 'Dream Band' members, but never in my wildest imagination have ii dared to hope that someday it will come true!!! *feels like fainting* gackt, and now sugizo......*feels faint* i won't be able to keep my drools in check if i ever got to see them play......
Actually that was really funny... .... Gackt came to my house and ate dinner... .... that was good... .... Then I said to him "why don't we go out to dinner?". and he said "we just ate... .... ???" then I said "I wanna eat different food... .... ." well ... .... we ate Japanese food at my house, and then ended up going out to a Japanese restaurant in LA... .... .
(We are very weird... Ha, ha, ha, ha)... .... but that was fun!
---- whenever gackt+yoshiki outing story came out, it always crack me up. they're both weird! but still so funny xDDDDDD
Yes, I'm so lucky to have them as friends, and also to be able to work with them professionally.
---- !!!!!!!!!!!! again, another sentence noting working with sugizo AND gackt.... sugizo is really gonna be in the band!!!!!!! isn't it?!~?!??!?!?!?
Sugizo and Gackt are such talented people, also having such an amazing vibe. Actually, they are all going to come here next month with one more person that I can't reveal yet.
---- an yet ONE more additional person!!!!! oh man, i'm so gonna be checking his blog every so often next month... i wanna know who the person is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but no matter who the other person is, it won't make too much of a difference, ne? i mean, yoshiki+gackt+sugizo in themselves are already a band consisting of: 3 guitarists, 3 composers, 2 drummers, 2 pianist, 2 vocalists, and 1 violinist. what more do they want? =DDDDD
OK, and X Japan... ....
I'm like... .... Why now? ... .... Why, why, why... ....
---- why now..what?!?!?!?! what happened yochan???????? what had happened until you're asking this question 'why now?'....????
To be honest... .... it took years to conquer the pain and sadness... .... maybe not yet, I still cannot listen to... .... or watch X Japan's videos... .... without tears... .... .
" MY OWN GODDAMN BAND" ... .... I can't listen to it without crying... .... HOW CAN I BE IN IT AGAIN? ... .... IT HURTS SO MUCH... .... TO EVEN TALK ABOUT ... .... X JAPAN... ....
---- he's making a band, and that's why he's feeling this anxiety? or something about x japan that he's gonna be taking part again? the second X after all? unlikely ne~ i'd stand by my earlier reasoning.
Yes, I can play the drums. I think I can play them even harder than before... .... of course my injured neck and wrists hurt... .... but SO WHAT!!! ... .... I don't give a fuck about that kind of pain... ....
But mentally... .... I don't know if I can take it... .... I'm not saying if I'll do it or not... .... I talked to Toshi (vocalist)... .... He called me almost towards the end of last year... .... for the first time since we went our separate ways... .... .
---- i've blogged about it... when i read this part, i was like totally grateful, i was like so happy and glad for him.... though he didn't indicate how he feels about it.... but i do feel glad that they're finally talking again, after almost 10 years (9 years and a few months, i believe)....
'i don't know if i can take it, i'm not saying if i'll do it or not' -tte, nande?????? he's been proposed to do something that's painful, that he didn't know if he'll accept the offer, and he had talked to toshi.... os this something related to The Band, or something reated to Without You? or something that he's planning to do with Toshi?
Toshi and I..... we grew up together... .... ..... I don't know ….. I don't know…. I don't …… know …….
---- what you don't know Yochan??? what?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!? *frustrated*
Yes, there are lyrics of the song "WITHOUT YOU" ... .... That, I wrote, right after Hide's death... .... also, I had to do so many takes of piano recording, because of the tears falling down and flooding the piano keys, and my fingers kept slipping again and again.
---- i don't see why you could be lying about it when i can hear your crying in the song itself.... whenever i heard that voice, yochan sobbing, my heart breaks ;_____;
If there's somebody to sing this song... .... I think it should be Toshi... .... but ... .... I don't know... .... I don't know... .... I don't fucking know... .... It's too painful to... ....
---- ... is he CONSIDERING someone else to sing the song??? no, please don't let it be gackt or some other people. let the song remain voiceless if Toshi is not the one singing the song. I DON'T WANNA HEAR SOMEONE ELSE'S VOICE SINGING WITHOUT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i strongly believe that Without You is a piece of song that has more value that 'just another song in an album that's dedicated to someone'. Without You holds a humongous load of sentimental value that SHOULD NOT be destroyed by some marketing strategy to popularise it. even withOUT any advertisement, this is ONE song which will rise above all other songs' popularity simply by touching the hearts of those who've listened to it and those who knows the very painful meaning behind its existence. this song will be most widely known and searched for (in fact i believe it had been, ever since yochan mentioned its existence, even long long before the release of Eternal Melody 2) because people KNOW what is it about without needing some information printed in a booklet or website banner to inform them. they WILL KNOW of Without You because it's the power of the people who care and love hide-chan, as well as the power of people who care an love yochan!!!! Without You is strongly a piece of memento for hide, and i'd hate you if you make someone else sing this song beside Toshi, Yochan!!!!!!
I'm sorry, I don't want to make you feel depressed or anything like that... .... but so many people have been asking me about this, so I had to say something... .... just let me….. have…… a little more time... ....
I love you all.
YOSHIKI
---- awww i know... we're always here waiting for you until you're ready to get over the past and get on with life, yochan *hugs yoshiki* i take back what i said... i won't hate you even if you do anything.... i'm sorry to be one of those people who keep badgering you about these things, painful past is not easily forgotten....
yesterday i talked to rhesa, through sms, and she was like saying that she wants to scold yoshiki and gackt for being so negative. she says something like, "they're like running away from the past. gackt is being negative enough, but yoshiki is even more depressed. everybody is pitying him, it's not good for him too! must give him encouragement. if he fell down, it's cool if he can get back up again. if he live in sadness forever, how to find happiness? but it's also quite hard, because of his sadness that's why he can make touching songs. he gave up happiness for music.."
yep, that's pretty much sums up what she said. i don't disagree with her for most points, but it's just that, it's not that easy to just come up to yochan and say, "oei, snap out of it and don't cry anymore!" ne???!?!?!?!
alright let's get down to ther topic. let's talk about this Dream Band i've mentioned a few times. several years ago, i came up with my own list of 'Dream Band' and i wrote them in a book, which currently is being misplaced somewhere, thus i cannot make a reference. but the point is: there are so many great musicians and artists out there until constraining and filtering them to make ONE dream band is not possible. thus i came up with a few lists, some of them are 'forever dream band' which cotains some deceased people who are no longer in this world but whose talent i miss to see.
dream band 1 - the highest priority, the people that i truly respect and love, and if this band is really made, the song will be something like a piece of art, i believe.
drummer - kami
spare drummer - yoshiki
pianist - yoshiki
spare pianist - mana, gackt, leehom
synthesizer - mana
spare synthesizer - yoshiki
guitarist - hide
guitarist - sugizo
extra/spare guitarist - leehom, gackt, mana, yoshiki
bassist - taiji
violinist - leehom
spare violinist - sugizo
vocalist - gackt, toshi
background vocalists - leehom, hide, sugizo
as you can see, we have 2 deceased people: kami and hide, thus this dream band would forever be left as a dream band. i really respect all the people here, though some of them came from the same broken-up band (like mana, gackt and kami; yoshiki, hide and taiji), some of them have really extreme song composing style (mana) and others are more mainstream (leehom, gackt) and yet others are like composing such playful songs (hide) or making songs that belong to no genre in the world (yoshiki). i'd be making an understatement if i say the song they'd be making as a piece of art only, it'll be a piece of chaos and FUN!!!! xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
dream band 2 - the 'LOOK TIL YOU DROOL' band, people whom i consider to be the most striking in appearance and their presence caught the eye in an instant, people with high level of charisma and huuuge aura, not to mention the people whom i consider some of the cutest around =D
drummer - shinya (Diru)
pianist - yoshiki
synthesizer - mana
violinist - leehom
guitarist - mayu
guitarist - hisashi
bassist - toshiya
vocalist - gackt
dream band 3 - the QUALITY band, people whom i consider to be the most appropriate to play that certain instrument. no seconds or spares, coz these people are really the top notch (in my list, as in i love their style of playing the MOST, but not necessarily the most expert musicians around)
drummer - yoshiki
pianist - yoshiki
synthesizer - mana
violinist - leehom
guitarist - pata
guitarist - sugizo
bassist - taiji
vocalist - gackt
dream band 4 - the other list. just some people whom i think will make an unusual group, of talented people of course. will you look at that..... i wrote their ex-band beside their names and guess what, ALLMOST ALL of the band names are in French!!!!!! extra-ordinary.... only now have i realised how popular it is for jrock bands to use french words
drummer - shinya (Luna Sea)
pianist - mana (moi dix mois)
guitarist - kaoru (dir en grey)
guitarist - aya (psycho le cemu)
bassist - tetsu (larc en ciel)
vocalist - klaha (malice mizer)
oh, Ouran High Host Club Volume 9 in English had been released by Chuang Yi. i've bought it but haven't read it. a few days ago i went to popular brash basah and checked up their comics section. chuang yis is releasing mroe series, but of course viz is somewhere several step ahead. as well as several notches up in terms of pricing. don't worry, chuang yi, if you keep publishing more series, you won't lose out to Viz, especially since your pricing is affordable while Viz's is not xP
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