Ekkusu no Studio phase 4.1.
Happy 44th birthday, dearest Yoshiki ♥!!
The last time i updated my skin was on Yochan's 43rd birthday, and a year had passed. I'm glad that his surgery went fine and i hope he's recovering well. Don't neglect your therapy, Yochan, and hope to see you next year in China ^^
God bless your abundantly!!
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A fan of JRock music and bands. Most favourite band of all time: the legendary band, X Japan.
Loves its leader, drummer, pianist and main composer, Hayashi Yoshiki , usually called Yoshiki.
Loves one of X's guitarists, Matsumoto hideto, or usually called hide, and
one of the best vocalist I've ever heard, Deyama Toshimitsu, or usually called Toshi.
A list of favourite bands and artists/singers:
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet
(members: Kamijo (vo),
HIZAKI (gt) ,
Teru (gt) ,
Yuki (dr), ,
Jasmine-You (ba) ,
Tohoshinki or Dong Bang Shin Ki or TVXQ
(members: Xiah Junsu (mid-high), Micky Yoochun (mid-low), Youngwoong-Hero Jaejoong (lead), Choikang-Max Changmin (tenor), U-Know Yunho (bass))
SKIN
(members: Yoshiki (dr, pi) , Gackt (vo, pi), Sugizo (gt, vi), Miyavi (gt))
Lareine
(members: Kamijo (vo) , Mayu (gt), Emiru (ba), Machi (dr))
Kamijo (vo)
(bands: Lareine, Versailles
HIZAKI
(bands: HIZAKI grace project, Versailles )
Mana
(bands: Moi dix Mois, Malice Mizer)
Raphael
(members: Kazuki (gt), Yukito (ba), Yuki (vo), Hiro (dr))
DuelJewel
Dir en Grey
L~Arc en Ciel
Janne da Arc
Psycho le Cemu
GLAY
Luna Sea
Rentrer en Soi
Siam Shade
Was part of management committee of Endless Dream website and
ScreamingKIAI International forum, dedicated to Yoshiki and his music.
Alumni of the following schools:
Jakarta, Indonesia:
TK Genesis
SD Tarakanita III
Penang, Malaysia:
Chung Ling Private High School
Singapore:
Kent Ridge Secondary School
St Margaret's Secondary School
Pioneer Junior College
St Andrew's Junior College
Sunday 30 August 2009
shanghai doesn't have a university that will allow me to study business in english and study chinese at the same time. Labels: after school, cassiopeia bigeast intl
i asked my dad, would he rather have me learning business or chinese, and he said business. so that's it, i'm going to look for a business school (and hopefully that school would accept me, who's without degree in business, and still allow me to learn chinese too)
perhaps i should look for a business school in Japan too. -->udh ngawur dari tujuan asal mo blajar chinese xD
wish me luck.
side note: feeling proud for TVXQ's achievement as mentioned in this article. it's always mentioned again and again about how they debuted as star in korea but had to start from scratch 0 in japan. but has anyone checked the situation now? do the korean fans know just how big they've gotten in japan and the rest of asia? the last part sure would make many cassies angry, having their faith being doubted like that. prove them wrong, cassies, prove them wrong.
2:29 pm
Saturday 29 August 2009
it sounds so serene... tranquil... hauntingly beautiful... Labels: jaechunsu, tohoshinki
i also love yoochun's voice.
but for once, i don't mind that i don't hear his voice.
i'll even forgive that they don't even prepare a mic in front of him.
coz this is THE most beautiful live performance of Insa i've heard.
except for an extremely minute sharp at the beginning of yunho's part and the fact that the fans were screaming a tad too loud, this is my favourite Insa live performance! eventhough he didn't sing, chun stole my attention anyway, coz he looked so awesome just sitting there playing the piano with his hair in his eyes. it's not often that anyone can be prettier than jaejoong, but here chun positively is. he should've kept that mirotic hair and start performing with hair covering his eyes, showing his right profile xD
when they were singing and jaechunsu were the focus of the camera, for awhile my mind went: why, they could ask jaejoong or junsu to play the piano too, and then yoochun can sing!
then, another part of my mind spoke out: out of all 3 who play piano, the chances of chun being picked out is the greatest. coz jaejoong and junsu are the strongest singers in the group, they can't afford not to sing.
now i feel bad for chun...
3:30 pm
koko's flying off to beijing in a few hours time. Labels: musing
's funny how it feels like he's going back to sg or something.
at the back of my mind, i know he'll be off so much further away from the little red dot and i won't see him til chinese new year the earliest.
but i know i'll miss him when he's gone.
or not. technology has shorten the distance of countries so much. with cellphones constantly at your backpocket, it feels like you're just a dialpad away from others.
maybe our generation has adapted to globalisation so much we practically don't mind that people are going to other country thousands of miles away.
or maybe it's just me who don't really know how to let go but don't know how to hold on either.
know that i'll miss him when he's gone but don't know what i can do about it in the meanwhile.
2:52 pm
so i've started my japanese tuition again. Labels: language story
for a little bit of history, 3 years ago i studied in Tebet, under a teacher called Nancy sensei. i like her teaching, she break lessons down into its most raw grammar form. in indonesian, it sounds awfully weird, but it became easier for me to remember the grammar, besides emphasising how different japanese is from indonesian. under a crash course of 2 months plus (5 times a week, 3 hours a day), i finished my lesson til lesson 31 Minna no Nihongo II. that is juust after jidoushi/tadoushi (transitive/intransitive), during which she tried to teach me but i just couldn't understand enough.
then, i stopped for 2 years. during which i was in lasalle. only after i finished my diploma in level 2 that i decided to continue studying. that was last year. due to the fact that i stopped for 2 whole years and i have nobody to practice my japanese with, i forgot almost everything. so, under my new teacher, Niske sensei, we speed re-learnt most of the things i've learnt with Nancy sensei. within a month plus (still 5 times a week, 3 hours a day), we finally finished REVISING. by the time i had to go back sg to start my BA, we finished lesson 33 Minna no Nihongo II, ALSO after spending a confusing time talking about jidoushi/tadoushi (which was in lesson 29/30 btw).
that's like only 2 lessons progress in 2 years! i felt so 'pek chek' with myself... more than a month worth of REVISION???? geez hana, talk about wasting money...
BUT, during the 2 years in lasalle, i got to know dira, who speaks fluent japanese, and even though she was at different class we managed to get into talking terms =D (i assure you it's a pretty rare case for me to be able to acquire friends, whom i can easily chat with, from other class...). and obachan started taking japanese, and so i have at least 2 people to whom i can practice my japanese with =D furthermore, during the first 2 months of BA, i emailed my sensei regularly in japanese. after awhile things got really busy at school, and i ran out of things to tell her, and i guiltily stopped emailing her v_v
now i'm restarting... and soon i'll be going off to the land of the ancestor... and i really wonder if i will be able to retain whatever i've learnt and not replace them with chinese instead......
12:53 pm
Tuesday 25 August 2009
i had this conversation with bel before about who, in dbsk, we would probably date. we just put the consideration of an Alternate Universe whereby it would probably be possible and probable to be dating the members of one of Asia's most-wanted group and humour ourselves, of course. Labels: toho-musing, tohoshinki
the interesting thing about the conversation was that we both realised that we ranked our most favourite member along the bottom 2 o.O
i couldn't really remember whom she said she would date first, but i remembered that junsu wasn't among the top 2 xD while me, i put chun at number 4 xD
so, before finished watching the rest of the couple talks, i think i should talk about this talk bel and i had when we were riding the bus from TafF office to home, many, many weeks before AADBSK3 came out and posed the question "what kind of girlfriend you think suit the other" into their couple talk.
we don't know the boys personally, of course, so our perspection and assumption are bound to be grossly wrong since we just judge the boys by their on-stage persona and character, but anyway:
i ranked jae as my number 5. somehow, jae seemed like the one who would be dating Miss Universe, or Miss Japan, or Miss Korea in that matter, Miss University or something along those lines, you know. the perfect girl. pretty and eloquent, stunningly elegant, the all-rounder. he just had that look, the kind who would be dating the elites, socialites, the higher-ups, whatever you call it. and it's kinda intimidating xD
chun's coming next at number 4. at that time i was "kemakan" with bel's obsession profound interest in horoscope and believed that chun, being another gemini, being another tiger gemini, shares similar personality with me, which is the unwillingness to be caged down and restrained, the need to be let free and allowed to roam about. if both parties are like that, i thought it wouldn't work since the beginning, ne?
omg my favourite pair is at my bottom 2... somehow reminds me of lysia's words: marry your lover, not your soulmate, coz your soulmate won't be parted from you no matter what anyway, lol
number 3 is....min? i guess? i'm quite interested in finding out what it would be like to talk to him and his clever mind and that ruthlessly sharp personality of his. i'm not too interested, but i'm not too not interested either. i think he's right in the middle, 3.
in my eyes, su is the normal guy. the guy who most resembles normal boy from next door kind of image. putting side his bipolar on-stage personas, i think he's a really simple and honest guy-next-door, with lively character and lame jokes and simple acceptance of whatever being thrown at him, and i think that's what making him attractive.
yunho's at number 1 not only because of his looks, but mostly because of his gentleman and kindly character. somehow i see him more like a mixture of an older brother and prince charming, you know, the kind who can make you feel at ease, caring and you know he won't do you no harm, will put you at number 1 before all else and be there for you whenever you need him. anyone read Kanata Kara? Dunia Mimpi? From Far Away? remember Izaku and Noriko? i see Yunho like Izaku xD that's why he's at number 1. though, when i think about it, how could i be dating someone's who's like an older brother to me? o.O...
bel, if you're reading this, blog about it will ya? xD
anyway i agree with yoochun, i like that question in their couple talk segment. it's unique, refreshing and interesting, listening to the members talking about what kind of girl would the other member be dating that would be ideal for him. it shows the kind of image the member has of the other member. something like the Toho-psychology corner in Bigeastation programme ^^
2:57 pm
okay before this i watched jaesu first, but jaesu's waaay more tame than soulfighter, so i'm gonna talk about soulfighter first Labels: aadbsk3, soulfighter
firstly, i've always held my belief that out of all members, changmin's the most awkward one. his comments are a bit..weird in a weird way, and they're usually funny in a strange sense, one that you have to digest first before appreciating, you know.
but i also hold the belief that he's very clever and witty. not to mention strong-headed. he's a dragon baby, after all. and that makes for an interesting character =)
soulfighter is interesting because jae kinda have this possessive side of him (to the members!) and sometimes he likes to show it to people. generally everyone gives in to his whim, but min usually does not xD which is the most apparent in this aadbsk3 dvd. he pushed and resisted jae, who, i guess, is going to use this to annoy him from now onwards xDDD like how i always do it precisely and specifically to obachan and nobody else LOL
soulfighter couple talk has several highlights (which is kinda wow, considering that i can't remember any highlights for jaesu...) and one of them is jae trying to pull min into a hug and that magnae stubbornly resisted his hyung til the end. i LOL-ed at jae's pissed off expression!
other highlights include changmin blatantly saying that out of all members, jae looks the most feminine (i wonder if anyone had dared to mention that FACT to him xD) and that when he smiles to the fans he looks like a girl xD lol, min...
more highlights, what about jaejoong sighing that he's not suitable to be paired with yunho at all. manz, yunjae's fans gonna have massive heart-breaks xD
still on highlights, min's mom asked for min not to be bullied -> LOL!!
"mom, i'm being abused."
"mom, i'm being abused by changmin"
and, when things started getting pretty heated up, jae declared that the ideal future girlfriend of min has to be pretty. doesn't have to have anything else but most importantly has to be pretty. and min's belief of the ideal future girlfriend of jae seemed to be a bit....hazy? xD i couldn't really catch it coz the clip's audio and video synchronisation is off =/
i'd say out of 3 couple talks i've watched, soulfighter's the most frank and easy-going one with each other. even soulmate still has a little bit air of awkwardness and formality around them somehow though it's been smothered down by excessive sweetness. i'd say, way to go soulfighter xD
12:10 am
Monday 24 August 2009
this is my prescription for a dosage of laughter: Labels: changmin, junsu, tohoshinki
The Making of Balloons MV
watch as jaejoong shows his that he's a camwhore at heart xD
and
keep sheep-su in your dopod for an extra mantra xD
and because of searching for that link, i'm having a hard time prying myself off youtube now... so, here's a clip of a unique onichan-otouto relationship in tohoshinki, in which the youngest member gained enough experience to stand up against his bullying hyungs and start bullying them, instead, in other clips xD
changmin is really.....handsome O______O like, really handsome.... how old was he in this clip again? 19??? 0______0
9:49 pm
instead of calling it couple talk
perhaps it'll be more appropriate to call it:
"let's compete on who can praise the other better" talk. the one who didn't follow the rules, lose.
0___0
i haven't been watching anyone else's, but soulmate's talk is exactly the epitome of that.
"yoochun's really good in composing music"
"jaejoong-hyungie is a genius in composing music"
"yoochun's just being modest"
"i'm just lucky that i got good response in the air"
"well... maybe there is such luck. he wrote 10 songs, and 1 is good. i write 2 songs..." (cue for a joke follow-up from chun)
"you write one song and that is good" (blatantly ignoring jaejoong and treated what he said as a fact)
"...let's not do this..."
jaejoong 0-1 yoochun
"i want to learn the genius way yoochun makes music. how do you do it?"
"what i want to learn from jaejoong-hyung is not just one thing"
jaejoong 0-2 yoochun
lol jae, you yourself voted chun as the cheesiest member (quote jaejoong: "50% of him is all cheese"), so how can you win him in terms of praising battle? lol.
8:55 pm
... was watching AADBSK3jaechun talk part 3 (youtube it, someone has it with english sub), and the time now is 0.34 (34 seconds only) and i've stopped the video twice, both just to giggle uncontrollably at jaejoong.
O____O
talk about being girly, jae.... *squishes jae into a bottle and brings home to keep*
9:35 am
Sunday 23 August 2009
i was actually hoping that the court hearing on Friday would, somehow, bring a good result and bring both parties closer to an agreement.
i just realised how foolish and naive i must've been. it was, after all, the very first hearing. the time when both parties have to be headstrong and firm. if the case can be solved so easily, they woulnd't come this far into legal procedures in the first place, ne. after all, the boys are definitely paying for their lawyers themselves. why would they hire lawyers in the first place if it's not really necessary...
i was just fuming after reading an article translation, in which SM was like whining complaining that they're the only one who received damage:
"In the case of the three members of TVXQ, they don't have any dissatisfied feelings towards this lawsuit as it got them out of concerts and advertisements that they did not want to participate in," and "But in the case of SME, they had to pay compensation for said canceled events and future scheduled events with 8 billion Won to pay domestically and 15 billion Won to pay if overseas activities are calculated. Not only will SME suffer monetary loss, the image of SME has also been hit because of this trial."
Source: [star news+DNBN]
Translation credits: jeeelim5@tohosomnia.net
Shared by: tohosomnia.net
when jaechunsu first revealed that they're bringing SME into court, they AND SME had said that all concerts, events and stuff will take place as per scheduled.
so far, the boys have faithfully kept THEIR side of promise, still appearing in the Jingu Fireworks celebration, still appearing in A-Nation, jaechun are still proceeding with their duet work for m-flo and then for Color~ Melody and Harmony. that's a FACT.
so far, only SME had kept THEIR side of promise SHORT. why, by cancelling out SM Town Concert, of course. fans protested, but they didn't care. after all fans have already PAID for their effing tickets and SM had already received the money. so why not cancel the concert instead of carrying it out and have chances of Cassiopeia rallied against them then and there? i'm not saying that they would, but considering the immense number of Cassies, i suppose SME woulnd't take any chances.
so, really, the greatest solution is to cancel out everything; it's a win-win situation: fans lost their money and lost their chance of seeing their idols from the whole entire SME agency, SME received money for a concert they're not going to hold, SME escaped for a potential hazard of being rallied-against in their own concert event. everything's great for SME. and, oh, while we're at it, let's put the BLAME ON THE BOYS FOR ITS CANCELLATION, why don't we?
amazing, SME, really. you do make me wonder sometimes.
when i read that article translation, i was like ".....what the F? HUHHH???? you're the one who bloody cancelled stuff for them and now you're BLAMING THEM????"
honestly? i never thought that SME would stoop so low, but they just did.
and, if you're talking about "damage of image", shouldn't you be worrying about that when you were dealing with H.O.T. and Shinhwa and S.E.S.? you're late for about 10 years to feel the shame, SME. face the reality! you think that your name is still good in the face of all the fans of those groups that you've abused?
jaechunsu's saying that even if they leave SME, they would like to continue working as TVXQ.
i say, even if TVXQ or Dong Bang Shin Ki does not hold on, i hope Tohoshinki will. try to secure rights for their Japanese name if you dare, SME.
10:13 am
Friday 21 August 2009
yep. today's the first hearing for the jaechunsu's lawsuit against SME. Labels: jaechunsu, lawsuit, soulmate, toho-musing
to tell you the truth, i'm only vaguely sure what they're suing SME for, only that they asked for the termination of their 13-year exclusive contract (or perhaps they want the contract to be restructured so that they don't have to work like a slave 24/7, 12 months a year?), they want to know the profit distribution of their works, and i'm not sure if they also want to know the terms of contract that they've signed with Avex?
working for 4 years without actually knowing what kind of contract they've signed when actually they spent more time in Japan than in Korea, that kinda suck, ne? =/
well anyway. i'll keep my fingers crossed for the boys. and their lawyers.
wait... didn't jaechun just came back to Japan like yesterday? they participated in the event called "Sakaemachi Konosuke’s 2009 Deluxe ODAIBA ~26th Night~ BOY POP FACTORY 09" (Source: [ameblo.jp/xiahyu-ri], Translation credits: mandasoh@tohosomnia.net, Shared by: tohosomnia.net) singing m-flo cover song and some other songs, including Color~ Melody and Harmony (yay for the first live performance!!!)
o.O
you mean they aren't there in Korea for their court hearing? O__O or have they gone to Korea again?
random musing:
if travelling at faster speed makes time stall, then Tohoshinki must be growing older at much a slower rate than the rest of us, considering that they take airplanes as often as we take MRT 0_0
9:06 am
Thursday 20 August 2009
first thing first, congratulations to bel and ning who have their grants approved!!! yay for capitals for Incubator!!! ^___^ bel called me just now to tell the good news. very happy for them. i know it won't be easy to start new labels and everything, especially considering the economy of the world currently. but still, having this grant approved would mean a huge amount of weight off their shoulder, which is the weight of having to shoulder all the capitals alone. Labels: after school, cassiopeia bigeast intl, jaechunsu, jaejoong, lawsuit, soulmate, tattoo, tohoshinki, yoochun
i wish you all the best, girls!!! ^_____^ now i'm gonna hound ning down for the k-ok deal xD
i wish i could follow them to japan but *sigh* maybe another year =p
bel also told me a really shocking thing... i really don't know how she made it, but she's always a little bit faster than me in terms of kpop news, and that includes tvxq too. okay i admit that yesterday i didn't have the chance to check my f-list, so i'm one day behind all the news update. but i was really shocked when i heard that they were have to pay an IMPOSSIBLY HUGE SUM OF MONEY if they lose the case...
321 MILLION US DOLLAR is not a sum anyone can conjure up so easily, even with the boys' reputation and success, ESPECIALLY considering that they weren't being paid fairly IN THE FIRST PLACE!
i have some doubts about the credibility of the news, but if it happens to be true, my feeling towards this news is similar to everyone who commented: F*** YOU TO THE DEEPEST SHIT OF HELL, SME!!
i'm suddenly feel apprehensive about tomorrow's hearing...
bel also said that in the forum some were talking about homin determining to find other members if the three lose the case or something. now, this part is easy to dismiss. i mean, the 5 of them are always one. homin would know better that 5-1=0, so i won't believe this part of "they say"s.
after all the "always keep the faith" Cassies have been adopting for the past few weeks, i think we'll become some sort of a joke if we believe that.
tomorrow's the hearing date!! DNBN has been gathering up some donations to post an advertisement on the newspaper to show support for the boys' case. the ad was shown at the frontpage today at Hankyoreh newspaper. it's kinda HUGE, filling about a third of the whole frontpage O_O
i think it's pretty catchy. they started with some sort of a YES/NO survey titled "What's Your Working Environment Like?" with questions like:
"You must work for at least 13 years,
If you do not work for 13 years, you must pay hundreds of billions of Won in compensation,
If you cannot work for a time due to personal reasons, the term of your contract is lengthened"
there were 6 questions in total, and at the bottom of the page, there was the "result":
1~2 YES: You are in no danger. Earn a lot of money~/
3~5 YES: You may want to consider changing jobs/
6 YES: You are TVXQ.
Source: [DNBN]
Translation credits: jeeelim5@tohosomnia.net
Shared by: tohosomnia.net, ho_snaaap@dbsg-lj
i thought it was brilliant xD especially the last "6 Y: you are TVXQ". as you'd know, putting an ad in a newspaper is effing expensive, and the bigger the ad, the more expensive it becomes. i thought this ad proved to SME the power of the Cassiopeia, and that SME is stupid if they're just brushing it aside and not taking the fans into consideration when they take on TVXQ lawsuit issue. all idols know that without the fans, they can't exist. i'm just not sure if the agency understands that as much as idols do.
btw soulmate's back in Japan. chun's new tattoo is confirmed to really read "always keep the faith". we've seen the "always" and new pics yesterday showed clear shots of "the faith". now to ambush jaejoong down and strip him off his shirt...
a really short preview of Color~ Melody and Harmony is out. it was merely 28seconds, but it's so lovely! i'm definitely buying this single! maybe even before i get my hands on Bolero/Kiss The Baby Sky/Wasurenaide and SBU *____*
3:21 pm
Tuesday 18 August 2009
AADBSKIII has been released. i mean, people started to receive their copies and, of course, leaks started streaming onto the net. behold the power of youtube users~ SM boycott is taking place as we speak, as proven by the fact that SM summer album that contains the song 12:34 by DBSK doesn't even make it to the top 10 chart at music daum, but people who has preordered these DVDs waaay before the boycott was announced couldn't cancelled their orders. Labels: jaejoong, soulmate, tohoshinki, yoochunafter all tis a very tempting item NOT to be bought for cassies
currently i'm watching SoulMate couple talk. without sub -____- *doenkkk* honestly i have no freakin idea what they're talking about... someone need to start subbing this DVD =P
oh well, i'm still happy even if i don't understand. chun's face here is............ chun, you should've cut your hair for the dvd shooting... -_- he's less awkward here, i think, if compared to AADBSKII. i want to fish out yoosu talk too, kinda miss junsu's eukyangkyang laughter ^^
but well, if anything, this talk just kinda prepped me for the upcoming Color~ Melody and Harmony promos ^^ can't wait for september to come! ^____^
by the way, there's this new song called "Picture of You", in which some of the lyrics include "please be mine" and the background reminded me of their Saipan~ Please Be Mine photobook. i don't know what's the song, tho, if it's gonna be released as a single or something or what.
it's a lovely ballad, not dance song, and even though i still think that soulmate should be forever banned from touching cigarettes ever again, i'm pretty pleased with chun's voice here. he gave another of his trademark wail (like in Bolero and Love in the Ice korean version). let's see him nailing this song down LIVE =) go, chun! i have faith in you!
junsu's outfit distracts me away from his voice xD but otherwise, i have nothing to complain about. chun's hair is thank goodness cut and even if his hair is not 'groundbreaking' like his Mirotic cut, i'm still grateful that it's now neat and cute =D in some pictures in the comm, he even looked like jae's twin xDDD not to mention, someone also posted clearer pics of chun's "always keep the faith" tattoo. it's really across his left chest. and, even though it's still not confirmed, i also saw something across jae's chest that's positioned at the exact same place as chun's tattoo.
is it? or is it not? hmmmm......
we SoulMate fans are getting so pampered these days. Color~ Harmony and Melody promo is going to be so much fun!
5:57 pm
some time ago, between a few days and a few weeks, someone talked about TVXQ and the fandom in an objective POV, and the person wrote things out in a way that all fangirls understood but never cared enough to put down clearly, black on white. after all, only fangirls know the feeling of other fangirls, why should they bother with the rest of the world? Labels: fanwork
anyway one of the the things that the person touched upon was the subject of fanfiction. the interesting thing was that the person also acknowledged that there are fanfic writers out there whose writing skills match professionals.
and i agree wholeheartedly on that point.
seriously, there are really good writers out there. perhaps i'm lucky that one of them are serving the fandom and specialises in my otp.
i love her metaphors, phrases that describes different things that eventually tells a story of 50-word behind the disguise of 5-word phrase. i love how i have to keep going back to re-read the line again just to make sure that i didn't lose any of those secrets and untold stories hidden in her words. i love how her stories are never blatantly mushy but always saturated with implied sweetness.
if ever her writings are put in books and gets published, i'll definitely get my hand on it! linda, you should consider going pro! =)
3:25 pm
Monday 17 August 2009
have been mixing up languages these days... Labels: dbsk-in-your-system, language story
like when my chinese teacher's asking me something and i'm not really sure how to answer i have this tendency to want to add "tabun" -___-
or like after the first lesson, during which we were learning dates and time, "jing tian ji hao?" and stuff, and when i went back to my dad's shop, my mom asked me, "kinadit kui ho?" and i just completely lost it, and my mom was wondering why i was laughing at her question...
will be back with more mixing-up-languages next time.
you know TVXQ has entered your system when:
5. you were eating swee kiau la mien and when you look at the bowl of lettuce in front of you, you're reminded of that special Zoom In episode in which jaejoong made a dish (meat and herb wrapped in lettuce) and fed it to the newscaster o.O
6:02 pm
Thursday 13 August 2009
...red as in Cassiopeia, of course. Labels: cassiopeia bigeast intl, dbsk-in-your-system, jaechunsu, lawsuit, tohoshinki
so far, all my joking comments about a possible SM boycott have all been put under strike marks (like this) because i'm not sure if cassiopeias will organise one. though the fact that i DID post them up meant that i was kinda hoping that there would be one.
and, behold, here it is:
CALLING FOR BOYCOTT OF SM ENTERTAINMENT
the link will lead you to the original Korean post at DNBN (i don't know what is it, but it's a very strong tvxq fansite, and i mean VERY strong. not even sure if it's Cassiopeia's official site, but they're quoted almost everywhere)
someone has posted the english version too, here.
*whew* when they said that CDs, DVDs, albums singles and whatever else things produced by SME, i was like o.O huh??? wouldn't that be hurting TVXQ instead of helping them?
well apparently SME has ignited the wrath of cassiopeias, but the fans' anger stop right there. they have absolutely nothing against Avex. which means, BUY THEIR JAPANESE RELEASES, YOU FANS OUT THERE!!! *chuckles*
this will make SME see red, if their sales slumps but Avex's soars. and besides, it's all well with me, since the CDs i've been aiming to buy are all their japanese releases: Bolero/Kiss The Baby Sky/Wasurenaide triple A single, Stand By U single, and the upcoming SoulMate duet: Colour~ Melody and Harmony single =)any other things, i'll buy the indonesian version. they're waaaay cheaper than the japanese or even korean version =P
well i'll be interested to know the sales figures for AADBSK III o_o... international fans tend to like the korean release coz they include english translation. furthermore the preorder has been opened since weeks ago. but with this boycott, nobody can be sure =/
you know TVXQ has entered your system when:
4. you kept saying, "i wonder how the lawsuit is progressing" numerous times while in the presence of someone who knows TVXQ, and all the while you know that the hearing HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. you're just anxious and you hold the hope that everytime you said it, one more evidence is produced in jaechunsu's lawyer office that would help them win the case.
12:55 am
Wednesday 12 August 2009
... i admit that even though i love JRock, it's always hardest for me to catch the sound of the bass, and because of that, i always can't appreciate bassists much... Labels: jasmine-you, r.i.p., versailles
... i admit that even though i love Versailles Philharmonic Quintet, the last member whom i can see myself flailing at is jasmine you. i'm basically in super awe with the other 4, but for him i just can't, for reasons that i've explained earlier...
... and i admit that it had never, and never would have, crossed my mind that the first time i'll be dedicating an entry for him is when he's dead...
... i can't believe this....
... Jasmine-You, rest in peace... even though i don't know you so well, i know i've been listening at you through all Versailles songs, and even though i can't identify your parts well, i know that i'd love your playing because everything gels up together to make wonderful songs, including your parts!!!
you will be missed ;____;
11:54 pm
someone posted a message from a H.O.T. fan to Cassiopeia, and it was so, so sweet! Labels: cassiopeia bigeast intl, tohoshinki
as far as i know, H.O.T. was the dbsg of our senior's generation (obachan's peer, perhaps), and they also had dispute with SM. the sweet thing about the message was that, she didn't blame DBSG for becoming "the next H.O.T." after they disbanded but instead was warning as well as encouraging Cassiopeia not to back down to future rocky road, so called, because SM is just...such a company. she expressed hope that DBSG would not end up the same as H.O.T. and that's so sweet!
and considering that it was written 3 freakin years ago, it's pretty scary how it became relevant to us 3 years down the road 0____0 it's really like she was already predicting the future of DBSG even then 0____0
read it here. credit to jennikim319@dbsg(lj)
*____* her words are touching. us fangirls have to stick together no matter what!
1:02 am
Tuesday 11 August 2009
i think there's a reason why "heat" is spelled nearly the same as "hate": with just a little bit of rearrangement, they both can be each other *bleah* Labels: article news, cassiopeia bigeast intl, jaechunsu, lawsuit, tohoshinki
anyway, for a surprise visitor nxh who've left behind a question in my chatbox, hellow ^^ i didn't take snapshot of the songlist in topone ktv, and since their songs are all inside the computer, it's not as easy as flipping a page of the songbook to take picture like in cash studio. and, since i don't really sing a large variety of japanese and korean songs, i'm only able to answer your question within a very imited range v_v
their japanese database is up to 1,300++ pages, each page contains about 8 songs, if i remember correctly. but they're not really organised, which makes looking for song a bit hard. you can look for songs according to the alphabetical order or number of words in the title.
there are 3 YUI songs like Goodbye Day, Feel My Soul and one more i forgot. for DBSK, there are Balloons (2 versions, one with romanized lyric), O.Jung.Bang.Hap (also 2 versions), Unforgettable, Insa, Choosey Lover, Rising Sun, Step by Step, and i think they have Hug too, i couldn't remember. They also have Junsu and Zhang Liyin's duet of Timeless.
my friend looked for SuJu, but they weren't in the "singer" category, which means she would have to browse through the entire Korean song database to look for their songs, which she couldn't do because she doesn't read Korean. i didn't browse the Korean song database either coz i still can't read Hangul well. but they have Wonder Girls' Nobody, and SuJu's U and one song which they sang with DBSK, what, Show Me Your Love or something? ^^;;;
and as i said, no KAT-TUN, NEWS, Arashi, HSJ or any other japanese boyband in the singer category, which means you have to look for individual song through the 1,300++pages of songs -_-;;; Yamapi's Daite Senorita and Arashi's Beautiful Day were in the "top songs" list though, so it's easy to pick those songs from there. there are quite a number of V6 songs too, mostly their older songs, but most of them come with original MV.
hope that helps =/ i don't really like the categorising system of Top One, but the big plus they have is the orginal MVs =) and that they're pretty cheap ^^
ps: K-BOX has updated their TVXQ song list with Bolero!!! O___O real MV Bolero!!!! i want to sing!!!!! xD
at home, besides KBS and Arirang, i also can watch NHK World. in the TV Guidebook, i used highlighter to highlight programmes that interest me. besides numerous colours in Discovery and NGC list, i also signed some programmes in NHK, one of them called "Pop music club show" or something, which airs on sunday. now, i was already watching out for NHK on sunday because they air Music Japan at night. but i really didn't expect for the "pop music club show" to turn out to be Shounen Club! O__O! i can watch Shounen Club at home!!! and allllll these while i didn't freakin KNOW!!! xDDD ah the irony... let's just hope that NEWS will make into the guest list soon, with their 24hr terebi activities coming.
i missed watching Music Japan 2 weeks ago, and i think that was when Tohoshinki actually made an appearance *sigh* gotta be more vigilant now =P
btw, somebody posted a really interesting thing in the community. a cartoon picture depicting the TVXQ lawsuit situation from JoongAng newspaper:
Credits: DNBN + ces@soompi + ho_snaaap@dbsg(lj)
now, my social studies teacher and history teachers have taught me how to analyse cartoon sketches like this (ms anushia, i miss your lectures!!) so let's make a real quick and short "analysis" of the sketch. i didn't know the meaning of those words in the tank (gi heuo sa????) but the 3 members were pictured standing plainly with normal clothing while the tank was aiming its gun at them shows the vulnerability of jaechunsu and the power of the other party.
it seemed like the cartoonist is trying to show what a precarious situation jaechunsu are at, and what a dangerous position they're standing at. it's unlikely they would win, unless they're superheores with superpowers to withstand the tank, but as we've seen, they're not in superheroes costume, instead they're plainly clad in normal clothes. at the same time, they're not cowering in fear. instead they've taken the casual, nonchalant pose, depicting their refusal to backdown in front of the super power, which is the tank, showing that they're standing up firm against whatever might come at them.
now, Cassiopeia is recorded in the Guinness Book of Record as the fanclub with the most number of members. obviously you wouldn't expect them not to do anything when their idols are being "threatened" like that, right?
i find the Cassiopeia's modified version so adorable and heartwarming:
major things to note:
1) the addition of 2 more members to join jaechunsu =) for Cassiopeia, 5-1=0. the addition of the other 2 members into the sketch, even though homin are NOT filing any lawsuit, shows that Cassiopeia firmly believes in DBSG as in the FIVE of them. it also shows that they believe that even though only jaechunsu filed lawsuit, the other 2 members still stand firm with them, fully supportive of each other as can be seen by the hand of homin (duno who they're drawing) across the shoulder of jaechunsu (also duno who is who in the drawing). and that is the reason why the Cassiopeia's version is so heartwarming.
2) the numerous and gigantic faceless, red figures (depicting Cassiopeia with their official red colour) holding hands together and standing between the tank and DBSG, showing that Cassiopeia are going to protect their idols from harm. some of their hands were on the tank, shows their wish for the tank NOT to advance further and to stop them right then and there. and the red figures also have their arms around each other shoulders, showing the unity of Cassiopeias, telling us that all Cassiopeia wish for the same thing and that they're going to stand strong together and not backdown in front of the imposing pressure of the tanks.
and the way the red figures were drawn as big as the tank shows that they believe themselves to be as big an influence/power as the tanks. the change in the officer's facial expression also sends signal that the tanks should consider Cassiopeia as potential threat if the tanks are going to advance further upon DBSG.
way to go Cassiopeians! ^^ that cartoon sketch made me want to hug Cassiopeias around the world. the court hearing has been scheduled on the 21st. let's keep our fingers crossed til then!
SoulMate are going to appear in Music Japan at the end of september ^^ i can't wait to listen to Colour~ Melody and Harmony live =DDD
btw, Happy Puppy karaoke doesn't have japanese songs that i can sing. their japanese song database sucks big time! i was having waaay more fun at Inul Vizta, really... i wonder if NAV has improved on their japanese database and make them sung-able or not...
4:34 pm
Friday 7 August 2009
kuro-hana is threatening to unsubscribe all my lj f-list subscription and watches just because of the current "emergency" in the dbsg fandom... Labels: jaechunsu, lawsuit, tattoo, tohoshinki
i've not been spending too much time in front of the net these days, and i must say that it's a good development. i mean, it's good if compared to my habit of sitting in front of the comp 10 hours a day, these days i'm spending more time moving, like up and down the stairs xD
BUT! BUT BUT BUT!!! as i've said earlier, it's taken more time for me to check my flist too!
last time i used to scan through every posts and only CTRL+T on interesting posts. mostly dbsg, i admit, but when tegomasu posts appeared (they're having their very first tour and concert, as tegomasu, not NEWS), i also check on the fans report, and when interesting magazines interview appear, i also check them out (if the highlights happen to be catchy enough).
but now.... i'm like scanning through the profile pictures instead of the posts themselves. if the poster comes from dbsg community, i'll stop and read the entry. if not, my mind scanned through all news, tegomasu, arashi and jdrama comms posts so fast i don't even know what they're all about.
i know there are a lot of things going on right now. LOADS of things are happening, actually. yamapi's new buzzer beat drama, ryochan's new orthros no inu drama, my fave duo from HSJ (chinen-yamada) are going to appear in VS Arashi (now THIS i have to watch!), tegomasu's concert is still going on, plus so many new releases from jdrama and stormy, and miscellaneous entries from lj-friends....
...but now almost all i care about is DBSG and the development in jaechunsu's lawsuit and if fans are conducting any movements (to support the boys or to boycot SM >_<>
i don't care about 24-hr terebi yet, it's still another couple of weeks before its premiere, right?
i don't care about tegomasu concert yet, i've read several fanreports and they're good and engaging enough for me to get a feel of tegomasu's first solo con, and i know they're good. i don't need to read more, yet.
i don't care about buzzer beat or orthros no inu, seriously i don't. though i'm still waiting if Nakushita Kioku is going to be released anytime soon (horikita maki, matsuyama kenichi and tegonyan, if anyone forgets)
same case for jdrama, i don't care about the new releases of new dramas, i'm not even planning to watch them!
i don't care about arashi's new releases yet, other than the yamada-chinen VS Arashi. coz arashi has waaaaay too many variety shows and stuff going on (aiba's having new drama, plus their weekly arashi no shukudaikun, vs arashi, mago2 no arashi, blahblahblah...) for me to keep track of their movements.
i don't care about new karaoke releases, or solo stuff, or collabs either.
i don't care i don't care i don't care i don't care!!!
but unsubscribing to all these comms would mean that i'd have to resubscribe once the matter in dbsg front is resolved and things go back to normal pace. and some comms have very strict membership criteria i don't think i'd risk giving up my membership for a momentary relieve from flooded flist page...
sigh...
oh, the boys are back in japan now, as much as airport papparazzi-pics show.
and
yoochun
has got a new tattoo.
fans says that in his cyworld, he wrote "always keep the faith". and they believe that those words are embedded on his left chest now, just across his heart. well paparrazzi pics did show the "alw" in black ink across his chest (chun loooves plunging-neckline t-shirt, he does.)
and
they're saying that jae has the same tattoo across his chest.
*shrugs* the last one is still speculation though. personally i didn't see any tattoo, just some dark shadows beneath his concert t-shirt which, coincidentally, is at the same position as chun's new tattoo.
...well, the news/gossip/speculation received excellent response from soulmate fans, of course. but for myself, unless both jae and chun strip and show the tattoo to us, i won't jump to conclusion. besides, this kind of speculation was the reason why jaechun is called SoulMate, and it's been proven that "soul""mate" doesn't exist; what exists is, instead, "soul""myc".
oh well, perhaps fans were just ecstatic that they both, and only both of them, inked "TVXQ" down on their body. and now that they're part of the trio that's launching lawsuit, for them to add "always keep the faith" just seem...i duno, cool? sweet? touching?
i have nothing against tattoo, actually. it's just...the position. considering that it's SO hard to catch glimpses of jae's TVXQSOUL tattoo, and chun's TVXQMYC tattoo (it's effing rare!), i must guess that the agency try to prevent them from being shown too much. and since both tattoos located at their back (jae's shoulder blades and the small of chun's back), it's still alright. but if it's something across their chests....i'm afraid the costume coordinator's gonna have a fit of a hard time trying to organise their outfits from now onwards.
but well, on to the more important matter at hand.
still DBSG-related, of course.
it seems like the action of my fave trio has sparked off, what's been called, "crisis in the kpop music industry".
since jaechunsu's lawsuit is about their unlawful contract, and all they're asking is just for the terms to be made more lenient, limelight has been placed on CONTRACTS between agencies and their stars/trainees.
apparently SME doesn't only have DBSG as their "slaves" but also SNSD (Girls Generation), SHINee and Super Junior, with some of their members' contract lasting as long as DBSG (13-years). other star groups, who aren't in SME, have contracts for 5-7 years only, which is the legal amount of time. fans of Big Bang, SS501 and Wondergirls should breathe a sigh of relief coz their idols are the lucky ones.
in fact, if you take a look at this post (please click), it seems like only SM Entertainment is guilty of this crime. well, i suppose there ARE medium/small size agency who's as bad as them, but come on, please, SM is HUGEE!! consider the stars that are under their wings: DBSG, SNSD (Girls Generation), SuJu, SHINee, they're so popular! but look at other agencies who house stars who are as famous as DBSG! okay let's loook at YG. they're Big Bang and 2NE1's agent, and their contract are just 5 years! and Big Bang and 2NE1 is just as famous as DBSG and SNSD and SuJu.
...i mean, hellooo SME *waves* aren't you getting A LITTLE EFFING BIT GREEDY here??? >_<>.... even if you're not really making big profits (not as big as i originally thought, with names as big as DBSG and SuJu under their wings), it doesn't mean that you can enslave your trainees/stars as your money-making machine! go reshuffle your company and improve on your management instead of netting in kids to work for you for 13 bloody years! >_<> i feel sorry that your stock market value has dropped on top of the fact that you're actually not as rich as people might thought you be, but you can't deny that you do house some of korea's largest names and people would expect that out of you (to be rich). a lesson to be learnt? if your stars demand for a talk, don't just waive it aside and skirt around it. what you expect them to do to get your attention and cooperation, then, other than filing lawsuit?
to close this long post, let's just say that i think jaechunsu will be remembered forever as the ones who revealed the truth of korean music industry. hopefully they would have helped smaller artists who are in the same position as them. cheers for the revolutioners.
and, ALWAYS KEEP THE FAITH! (===>there's international project that collects supportive messages for DBSG from fans across the world and they've garnered so many messages that they managed to create so many videos out of the pics!)
2:18 pm
Tuesday 4 August 2009
i'm back at home. and while usually i'd spend more time in front of the comp than ever, this time i was spending more time downstairs in front of the TV because my bro's hogging up the comp table when he's at home. and, since daytime=tv time, i ended up checking my flist at night. usually it'll take several hours for me to check out my flist completely, coz i'm subscribing to several fandoms (arashi, news, dbsg) not to mention several fandom-subbing pages and they all have things to post about in a day. multiply "several" by "several" you'll get quite a big number of posts to check out every single day. Labels: jaechunsu, jaejoong, junsu, lawsuit, tohoshinki, yoochun, yoshiki
so, my experience told me that if i'm away for 2 days, it'll take about half a day to finish checking out everything. but lately, i've been neglecting to read properly posts from news and arashi fandom, so i usually take half of that time to check out the day's flist posts. BUT it'll still take several hours -_-
my resolution is not to check out anything in the weekend so that i can spend time with my parents instead.
on saturday night, i was watching this taiwanese channel with my mom and dad in their room. the programme was night-time news (so boring...) but i was diligently trying to read out words that i can read....when i suddenly read familiar kanji words that i've mastered to write several months ago: dong fang shen qi
!!!!!!!!!!!!! i went squealing to my mom! "ini group idola gw!" *______* and i was ecstatic about being able to catch them on TV
but... i don't understand what the heck the news is all about -_-
so i asked my dad, "papa, mereka ngomong apa????"
and my dad was like, "...huh? papa tidur barusan"
ROFLOL!!!! xDDD oh well.... nevermind, i was happy ^^ i was on the verge of flailing when they zoomed in on jaejoong, junsu, yoochun...but i didn't. my mom was there, see, don't scare her too much xD
the next day, i tried my luck again. "papa, kemaren yg berita malem2 itu, inget ga tulisannya apa?" and my dad was like, "ngga baca...." v__v so sad....
oh well. maybe it's just some news about their upcoming concert... in, shanghai i guess? but the news is from taiwan, tis a bit weird...
and the bomb dropped today. just now, in fact, when i was checking out my 3-day-worth of flist.
apparently. TOHOSHINKI, in particular jaejoong, yoochun and junsu, are filing lawsuit against SM Entertainment. when i read that, i remembered a rumour that flitted about on thursday and friday about DBSK disbanding, but everyone waved it aside as another wild rumour. afterall, dbsk is at the top of their careers right now. i even commented at one of the posts, saying that the only possible way they would disband is if a war breaks out in the korean peninsular and the boys were recruited into army.
but horror behold, the rumour was true!!! well, not really, but the fact that the boys were facing a departure from SM Entertainment is true!! and i guess, if it even made its way into Channel News Asia, this news was what i was reading that night in the taiwanese channel. only now that i realised that, hey they DID only zoomed in on jaechunsu, not homin, in that news. now, that SHOULD have sparked off some suspicion, but at that time i was just too surprised (and happy) to see them on TV that i didn't give it anymore thoughts. i couldn't imagine if i had known what it was about, maybe i wouldn't be able to spend my weekend in peace -_-
there were several things about the lawsuit. jaechunsu weren't asking much, they just want to be freed from the current contracts that's very resctritive. really, i've never thought about SM entertainment as such a....company. i mean, we see dbsk flying back and forth korea-japan all the time. they can be having their japanese tour, but would be back in korea for 3 friggin days just to shoot commercials, or like yunho who had been seen flying korea-japan DAILY last week just to that he could do his drama filming and participate in japanese activities as well (they're having a-nation tour now, i think).
and ALL this time, i just thought that dbsk is truly a very very VERY hardworking group, and everytime i imagine them being super tired for flying back and forth, all i thought about was that they're working really hard, but they've got what they've been aiming for: success.
but with THIS LAWSUIT, now i finally understand that it's part of their contracts that they're so hardworking. or more like, they HAVE TO be that hardworking. or, even more crudely said, the company is FORCING THEM to be that hardworking.
imagine, i could just imagine the scenario. they're having their japanese tours, and the tour is important coz they're finally becoming really popular in japan despite being a foreign group. but in korea, they need to keep holding on to their fanbase. so, when a CM contract was offered, say Haptic, or Seolleim ice cream, the company accept it coz it will bring the boys' faces back onto korean TV and make Cassiopeias happy. so, the boys have to fly back to korea while in the middle of their japanese tours, do the CM filming, and back in japan again to continue their tours.
and then, because they're doing their ASIAN Tour at the same time, they also have to fly to different parts of Asia to do concerts while their Japanese tour is still in progress. bear in mind that Asia tour concerts and Japanese tour concerts are different (how could they not, when japanese tour means japanese songs and asian tour means korean songs???), which means they have to practice and rehearse different songs (and sometimes the same song but in different languages) for different concerts CONCURRENTLY. not to mention that they released a single while in the middle of the particular tour, and it means promotional appearances at various TV shows and magz interviews and radio shows and half a million other promotional activities...
now, that is just a probable scenario. but very probable, in fact, considering that i've been a fan for only a short half-a-year and have seen them doing ALL OF THOSE in these 6 months. but can you see the difference if: a) a fan thought that the boys were just being hardworking, VS b) the company is really forcing them to do it, coz they can't say "NO" as they're bound to the company's contract??? the difference is HUGE, okay. last time i was filled with admiration for their hardworking-ness, but now i just felt really, really sorry for them, and angry at SM Entertainment.
Johnnys' boys also have multiple projects going on. they can be filming drama, or having butais, while in the middle of their tour. but at least they're only serving japanese fans and japanese fans only. DBSG has japanese fanbase AND korean fanbase to please, and both Avex and SM Entertainment can't possible let them slack around when they're in japan or korea, coz they're super money-machine. so let's just overwork these poor souls and let them lie to the fans through their smiles and interviews and concerts and say nice and sweet things about working hard for the fans while they're really nothing but underpaid slaves bound to SM for 13-friggin-years who can't say no lest they breach the contracts and have to pay millions of money just to settle the violations.
SM Entertainment, shame on you! i always want to kick Johnnys' Entertainment for having the fans fork out money to buy many-versions-of-one-single, but now it seems like SM is no different from JE....
future of DBSK seems cloudy... i know they're reassuring fans that they're going to stick together as DBSK no matter what. but with only jaechunsu filing lawsuit, they can't allay the fans' fears that there will be a crack formed in the group, jaechunsu-homin. even their standing position match the crack oh goodness...
i heard that H.O.T. used to be from SM? and that they left SM but still stick together as H.O.T.? i'm not sure where i heard that from, but if DBSK can do that, it'll be for the best, ne, sticking together as DBSK but leaving SM. maybe they should join JE instead, and start appearing in Shounen Club LOL!!! xDDD
but homin's not filing any lawsuit against SM. could they still stick together as DBSK if jaechunsu leave SM and homin stay? has there been any group out there which have 2 agencies managing them from the back? i know it's common for JRock bands to have agencies behinf each member. like in X, yoshiki has Japan Music Agency, hide has Headwax, toshi has toshi-office, and even pata and heath have their own managers. but in jpop group? can this possibly work?
a sidenote: i'm amazed at jaejoong's courage. on top dbsk activities (A-Nation now), he also have his duet with yoochun that's gonna be used as Sanrio's 35th anniversary theme song Colors~ Melody and Harmony, and his movie Heaven Postman will be released in a near future. but he's still going ahead with the lawsuit.
homin are both going to follow jaejoong's footstep and act in a drama. could the drama be possibly a reason why they're not filing lawsuit?
at the end of the day, Cassis and Bigeasts and international dbsk fans just have to keep their faith on the boys and pray that the lawsuit will be settled amiably and well for both parties. TVXQ cannot disband! it's just too...scary to be true... we don't often see pop groups disbanding while at the height of their achievement, and TVXQ is very popular in Japan, China and Southeast Asia, Korea just can't have them disband!! cassis, any boycott event being planned against SM?
some days ago i checked my MySpace and found out that last week Yochan has just undergone a surgery to correct his neck ailment. that neck injury that has been bothering him for tens of years... i know it's not a good thing that he started drumming again... still duno anymore news regarding that but i do hope that the surgery went well and that he's recovering nicely... >_<> be safe, yochan!!
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JaeChunSu - The... (preordered)
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Tohoshinki - Five in the Black album
Tohoshinki - Heart, Mind, Soul album
Dong Bang Shin Gi - Tri-Angle album
Tegomassu - Tegomassu no Uta album
Tegomassu - Tanabata Matsuri
NEWS - Touch
Tegomass - Miso Soup
Yamashita Tomohisa - Daite Senorita
Hizaki GRACE Project - Ruined Kingdom
Hizaki Grace Project - Dignity of Crest
Within Temptation - Mother Earth or Silent Force
Saint Preux - Concerto Pour Deux Voix
Lord of the Rings Complete Recordings
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Complete Recordings
Raphael (Kazuki) - Forever and Ever
Raphael - Raphael Singles
X - Vanishing Vision Album
X Japan - Dahlia Album
X Japan - Art of Life ~mini album
X Japan - Art of Life ~live
L'Arc en Ciel - Smile
Hyde - 666
DVD Wishlist
Tohoshinki - The Secret Code live in Tokyo Dome
TVXQ - All About TVXQ Season III DVD <--- !
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Chateau De Versailles DVD
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - History Of The Other Side DVD
X Japan Returns Complete DVD 30th/31st December 1993
Versailles - Aesthetics HIZAKI version, with perfume Princess Stairs
Versailles - Aesthetics Kamijo version, with perfume Louise
Hizaki Grace Project - Monsho
Raphael - First
Raphael - Last
Raphael - Raphael Clips
Raphael - Pictorial Poem 2
X Japan - Art Of Life - 1993.12.31 Tokyo Dome
X Japan - Dahlia Tour / Dahlia Tour Final
X Japan - Complete Collection II (which, upon acquiring, will cancel the earlier 2 DVDs mentioned)
hide - Film The Psychommunity Reel.1
hide - Film The Psychommunity Reel.2
hide - Seventeen Clips - Perfect Clips Presented By Hide Museum
hide - Ugly Pink Machine File 2
hide - Alivest Perfect Stage 10000 Cuts Hide Hide Hide
CD In Possession
Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Jubilee (major debut album)
Tohoshinki - Bolero/Kiss The Baby Sky/Wasurenaide Triple A single <--- !the perfect single!
Tohoshinki - Stand By U single
Dong Bang Shin Gi - Mirotic album (Platinum edition)
Tohoshinki - T album
Tohoshinki - The Secret Code album
Versailles - Ascendead Master (Reg + Ltd Ed. DVD Type I, II, III)
NEWS - Koi no ABO single (Reg and Ltd Ed.) <-- i'm selling the regular edition, contact me if you're interested (only for beijing, singapore and jakarta buyers only)
Versailles - Prince & Princess single
NEWS - Color album
Versailles - Noble album
Tegomass - Ai Ai Gasa single
Tegomass - Kiss ~Kaerimichi no Love Song single
NEWS - Summer Time single
NEWS - pacific album
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
HIM - And Love Said No, The Greatest Hits 1997 - 2004
HIZAKI Grace Project - Curse of Virgo single
Hyde - Faith
Yui - Can't Buy My Love
Versailles - Lyrical Sympathy mini album
Yoshiki - Catacombs Soundtrack
HIZAKI - Maiden Ritual ~experimental edition
HIZAKI - Dance with grace
Raphael - Fumetsuka
Within Temptation - Heart of Everything
X Japan - Blue Blood & Blue Blood Special Edition
X Japan - Jealousy & Jealousy Special Edition
X Japan - The Last Live
X Japan - X Japan on Piano
X Japan - B.O.X (Best of X)
X Japan - X Japan Perfect Best
X Japan - Best Fans Collection
Yoshiki - Eternal Melody II
hide - hide BEST Psychommunity
Malice Mizer - La Meilleur Selection de Malice Mizer "best selection"
Moi dix Mois - Dix Infernal
Gackt - Mars
Dir en grey - Macabre
L'Arc en Ciel - Awake
L'Arc en Ciel - The Best of L'Arc en Ciel 1998-2000
Luna Sea - Never Sold Out
Glay - Speed POP
Glay - Rare Collection vol.1
Glay - Rare Collection vol.2
Glay - Love is Beautiful
Glay - Drive, Complete Best
GLOBE - Level 4
Aikawa Nanase - ID, Best Album
Hamasaki Ayumi - Duty
Every Little Thing - Every Best Single + 3
V6 - seVen
V6 - Very Best I
V6 - Very Best II
My Chemical Romance - Threee Cheers For Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
DVD/VCD in possession
X Japan - X VISUAL SHOCK DVD BOX 1989-1992
TVXQ - All About TVXQ Season II DVD Set <--- ♥&hearts♥
NEWS - Pacific Concert 2007-2008 and First Tokyo Dome Concert
NEWS - Never Ending Wonderful Story
Happy Feet Japanese version - Tegoshi Yuya as Mumble
X Japan - Aoi Yoru Shiroi Yoru Complete Box
Yoshiki - Yoshiki Symphonic 2002 featuring Violet UK
hide - Ugly Pink Machine File 1
X - Hamettsu ni Mukatte 'On The Verge of Destruction' Concert
X Japan - The Last Live
X - X Clip 1
Phase 3.2 (2008)
Phase 3.1 (2008)
Phase 2.0 and 2.1 (2007)
Phase 1.2 (2006)
Phase 1.1 (2006)
Phase 1.0 (2006)
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featuring: Yoshiki
about: Yochan underwent a surgery to correct his spine, a problem that had persisted since 1995, when he finally started to feel numbness in his fingers. the surgery went fine, thank goodness. hopefully he will recover completely and it doesn't affect his piano playing. as for drums...don't forget your neck braces everytime you drums, yochan!
etc: read below xD i've made too many layouts featuring Yoshiki i don't wish to repeat myself =P
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Featuring: Versailles
Background: formed in 2007 by founding member Kamijo (ex Lareine) and Hizaki (ex Sulfuric Acid), they released their debut single Revenant Choir which tells a story about a clan.
Just as like Kamijo's past works, Versailles tells a story through their symphonic metal music and extravagantly elaborate costumes inspired from antique European era.
Members: Kamijo (vocals), Hizaki (guitar), Teru (guitar), Jasmine-You (bass), Yuki (drums)
etc: Versailles beautiful music managed to win my heart totally. saddened by the loss of Jasmine-YOU in 2009, but i hope the 4 of them will still make great music from now onwards. rest in peace, Jasmine-YOU, and watch out for the guys from up there...
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featuring: S.K.I.N.
Background: Formed in 2007, performed first during Anime Expo at the States in May.
Members: Yoshiki (drums, piano, guitar), Gackt (vocal, piano), Sugizo (guitar, violin), Miyavi (guitar, shamisen)
etc: ekkusu phase 2.0 was lost because i didn't save it in photobucket (because it refused to upload it properly).
and so, from now i'll start my skin from phase .1 instead of .0
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Featuring: Hiruma Youichi
Model's background: manga character (Eyeshield 21)
More about the model: quarterback of Deimon Devilbats, The Commander From Hell;
the backbone and the brain behind Deimon High School's American Football Club, The Deimon Devilbats.
Icons: various facial expressions of Hiruma, the maniacal, elven-faced leader of Devilbats ^^
Etc: Eyeshield 21 is a sports manga about American Football and it's one of my current favourite.
My rating for them is:
hilarity 10/10
excitement: 9/10
intellectual level: 9/10
drawing: 7/10
characterisation: 9/10
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Featuring: Hayashi Yoshiki
Model's background: leader, drummer, pianist, main composer of legendary band X Japan (1982-1997); leader, drummer, pianist,
guitarist, composer of band Violet UK, debut coming soon.
More about the model: Yoshiki in the early X Japan era in early 90's when he still has long curly locks.
Etc: YOSHIKI IS MY HERO AND IDOL!
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Featuring: Hayashi Yoshiki
Model's background: leader, drummer, pianist, main composer of legendary band X Japan (1982-1997); leader, drummer, pianist,
guitarist, composer of band Violet UK, debut coming soon. Born in Tateyama, Chiba (Japan) in 20th November 1965 and currently living in Los Angeles, California (USA).
Head company of Extasy Records, Extasy Japan and Extasy Records International (now defunct). http://myspace.com/yoshiki
More about the model: the faint background picture of Yoshiki was taken in the recent years when he's already cut his hair short and
started the habit of wearing sunglasses.
Icons: pictures taken from Yoshiki's house in LA: his front door, piano in the middle room, dining room and swimming pool.
Etc: I can write essays on Yoshiki, but let's just keep it simple and straightforward: YOSHIKI IS MY HERO AND IDOL!