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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love,
ekkusu
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Ekkusu no Identity
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.
...taking each other's songs and performing them for entertainment purposes??
i'm highly, highly amused by all those performances of SNSD (Girl's Generation) and Super Junior covering each others' songs.
in particular, this one: Super Junior dancing to Gee
heechul is EFFING HILARIOUS!!! xD he's the one with the red cheongsam and looked too much at ease with the costume and dance movement LMAO!!! omg centilnyaaaaaaaaaa xD!!! with that posture and height, and FACE, he could've joined SNSD straight away! xD i remembered that he looked like jolin tsai when fully made up and when his hair was still very long! and when they switched back to Sorry Sorry and continued dancing with their cheongsam and not careful when flicking their legs around--> LMAO!!!!! xDDDD
of course, being the sister group, SNSD has also done the cover of SuJu's Sorry Sorry, and personally i thought they looked really cool and slick =D full-lipsynch-ing, of course.
apparently Gee is quite a popular song xD this one is called "Boys Generation" and they consisted of boys from SuJu, 2AM, 2PM and SHINee. dun ask me who's who, i duno! xD i only cold recognise Shindong xD
i thought the earlier SuJu's version was much cuter coz of heechul's antics omg but this one was not bad either xD
this is a commendable cover of SNSD's Genie (Tell Me Your Wish) by 2PM, SHINee and MC Mong.
after listening to the original, listening to this song with those voices just sounded weird! lol! xD the pink bows they wear on their hair were really funny xD but i think it'll be funnier if SuJu had done a cover for this instead, coz they're more crazy xD in fact i'll be waiting for heechul's version, that crazy, centil man xDD in particular, i'll want to see if his legs can be as sexy as SNSD's xD
these below are the original MV of those three earlier songs:
SuJu - Sorry Sorry
SNSD (Girls Generation) - Gee
SNSD (Girls Generation) - Genie (Tell Me Your Wish)
if you tell me you weren't staring at their long slender legs, i don't believe you.
i kinda feel sorry that TVXQ wasn't in Korea much if not i'm quite sure they would've done covers like this too, or have their songs been covered likewise v__v sigh, the price of chasing fame in the neighbouring country...
the only funny cover of mirotic i found was this one, and inside i could only recognise heechul (always crazy, hyper heechul) and kangin xDDD
heechul going hyper and dancing and jumping on the sofa and failing to reach changmin's epic yell after yoochun's rap, and kangin's half-hearted attempt to do the same thing and produced a frightening bellow instead, was hilarious! xDDD there were mirotic cover by SHINee and epic high too, but the interesting thing is, nobody covered their dance? it's interesting to note that they seemed to like covering the singing part but not the dance when truthfully mirotic is a dance song, one of TVXQ's most popular dance song, in fact. strange? =/
so, once upon a time there was a breakout of BOF fever in the class. suddenly every now and then kpop-related talk would surface and suddenly gu jyun pyo became the hottest topic everyone seemed to love talking about. okay maybe not EVERYone, but quite a number of them =p like berns. and when she's into it, she talks about it!
so it was with great surprise when one day i found berns commenting on my wall saying that she liked arashi. i mean, arashi??? why the sudden jump from BOF to arashi?? and she liked sho-kun, so i don't think it has anything to do with BOF japanese and korean version.
never the less, i was very pleased, of course.coz i wasn't into BOF and i would become kambing-congek if they started talking about it, but i know arashi and their persuasive power to make people laugh and yes i CAN talk about it =D if there's any group that's always fun to be watched, it's arashi. even suju still loses to arashi in terms of hilarity. and, most importantly, arashi has so many variety shows that the source of laughter will never end xD why just now i was asking berns which arashi shows she usually watch, and we were like AnS, VS arashi ok la, H no Arashi, mago-mago stopped already, blahblahblah xD
just now she introduced me to this wan-nyan game. i had forgotten how it was like to watch arashi. i'm gonna hunt this AnS episode down, coz in the short 6 minutes of the clip, i had given my stomach and jaw muscles some exercise by laughing so hard xD
highlight: the ears that they wore!! xD especially ohno and aiba's cat ears, they're SO adorable!! and everyone's expression as they tried to translate "nyan nyanyanyan" or something xD that bewildered "...HEH???" face!! xD matsujun's surprisingly good at speaking dog-ese whereas ohno and aiba were completely dumbfounded by sho-kun's cat-ese at the first session xDDD
if linda's fics are beautiful like a light, misty afternoon in the woods, then milena's fics are beautiful like a knife slicing open a heart in skillful motion.
i don't know why i still read her fic when it's nothing but 20-odd chapters of heartbreaks, aches, pain and sorrow so heavy i feel it in my gut while reading.
but it's so addictive! her style of writing is kinda unique and the storyline always kept enough suspense for me to keep wanting to read more, to find out if they would have a happy ending in the end or would her fic be pure angst. it's truly the most beautifully painful angst i've read.
and to think that i've endured more than 20 chapters and still hunger for more...
firstly, i want to say, congratulations pi-chan on your first solo concert! i still duno when and where it's gonna be held, but i've read enough snippets from the community that he's gonna have one pretty soon? and alongside the solo con he's gonna be releasing his second solo single too! awesome! i really like daite senorita and himawari. as much as i love tego and massu's voice more, i still think that yamapi has a really steady voice that seldom goes out of tune. i'll be waiting to listen to more of his solo stuff =D
now with this my favourit 3 NEWS members would all release something this year instead of the pathetic single SINGLE earlier this year followed by a near-hiatus -___- i think NEWS' management has really been pulled out to help the promotional campaign of arashi's 10th year anniversary -__- i shouldn't have much to complain coz tegomasupi would've released some stuff this year, but still i feel bad to koyashige, especially shige coz it seemed like he's doing the least among them all -_-...
secondly, i want to announce that: as of today, i'm a certified bachelor of arts with honours, specialising in fashion design! xD just had my convocation this afternoon and finally received that little slip of A4 paper with my title written on it.
thank you god for pulling me to and through this.
thank you my parents for their never ending support even though i always go back home with bad news and gloomy attitude and never a good promise of a good result, just that i'd try to hang on and survive.
thank you koko for willing to be pulled to school to help me out even with his own fyp going on.
thank you hany for being a sponge for my moodiness and irrational irate behaviour and for putting up with me even when i sms-ed at 9 at night asking for immediate help at H503.
thank you bel and ning for being the bestest friends a simple me could ask for, for pulling me up and pushing me through this year with huge amount of encouragement and reasonable dose of scoldings.
thank you my whole classmates for being the bestest class a simple me could ask for, for being a really fun class that dropped by each others' desk for a chat or a talk every now and then.
thank you LR for being patient enough with me til the end, for showing faith when i finally started knowing my own style, for the one-to-one guidance in draping and transferring them onto pattern, and even for the eyes that sometimes speak a thousand things.
thank you PL for being the most patient and reliable teacher anyone could ask for, for the patience in trying to solve endless problems arising from our incredulous designs and making them possible instead, for the OT that you always take and the headache you always get, from teaching nearly ALL LEVELS of the fashion design faculty, nearing assessment!
thank you ED for never letting us go even when we were hanging down the cliff by a single thread, for keeping faith in us and trying to throw out threads of hope for us to catch and hang on to, and for always, ALWAYS encouraging and complimenting us for every little-est bit of improvement we made. especially for you, ED, i can never thank you enough for the help you've given me, us, in extended essay!
thank you SR for being such a sincere teacher that enthusiastically keep introducing us to new techniques of fabric manipulation. most of the time i feel ashamed that i can never match your enthusiasm and sincerity, but the presence of a great teacher that's always willing to help is always immensely appreciated.
thank you LL for your help, even though it wasn't going on well at the start, you did help me quite a lot after i've gathered enough coherency and direction in my essay.
thank you my karaoke-mates, obachan, dira and harry, for being very reliable when i'm looking for entertainment mates to distress and to relax.
and thank you for everyone else whom i've been relying on for support, help or a simple listening ear, a dinner or lunch together and a random chat through facebook wall.
and thank you pi-chan (and kei-chan to a certain degree) for being an inspiration that pushed me to take up this additional one year instead of dropping out at diploma!
this is the very first korean song which lyrics i've memorised, and remains the only one til this date, coz i just love it so effing much.
i love it so much that i wanted to search for the instrumentals so that i can do a cover, aka karaoke it over. of course, searching for instrumental means finding the original song, a studio release instead of a cover done during a concert.
and behold, i googled out the original singer of Footsteps, which korean title seemed to be, according to my limited hangul knowledge, bal geor eum, or something like that.
Emerald Castle - Footstep
when i first listened to jae's version, maybe i was attracted to the rockish-ballad feel of the song as much as i was attracted by jae's voice. it shouldn't come as a surprise, then, that the original song WAS indeed by a band. the date was in 1997, and it has a very similar feel like JRock bands MV during the middle 90s. in particular, i was reminded of x japan's rock ballads, like Forever Love or Tears, with sad, sad melody and enhanced by emotional guitar solo that tugged on heartstrings. toshi is still the king of rock ballads, imho
the audio quality of that youtube link wasn't really good, but i've listened to a streaming version from 4shared and it was AWESOME! the starting part was a bit *ngeh* coz jae's voice is a bit more steady than the original vocalist. but the chorus was amazing! i must say that as much as i love jae's voice, the original version is still more emotional and powerful! *__*
Jaejoong (TVXQ) - Footstep cover (Rising Sun concert)
what's missing from jae's cover version is, of course, the power of the band. of course, the star of this performance is Jae, so the band can't possibly outdo him, or even playing on par with him, which is what rock ballads should be. still, i love it!
alas, even with knowing the originl singer of the song, i can't find the instrumental of it ;____; someone tell me where to get the instrumental version of Footsteps (bal guhl eum, as some spell it) pretty please??
i think i've heard someone sang this song before, and i imagined it to be obachan...deshou? xD obachan, sing this with me in ktv!! ^^ ohohoho
aaand, the first officially-aired-on-tv performance of Colors~ Melody&Harmony
this time they did the ending harmony perfectly ^^ the recording for Music Japan was weeks ago but they're just going to air it this sunday. i hope they're going to be invited to perform in music station too =p
really, their Music Fair performance reminded me so much of tegomasu's one o.o firstly, it was a shock to see just the two of them instead of the original 5/6 membered group they were. there were some awkwardness and loneliness aura, but they will improve WITH PRACTICE *coughs*wishingformoreduetreleases*coughs*.
secondly, they sang songs that are beyond their usual genre, and it was very refreshing =D i really appreciate jae's rocker voice here, eventhough normally i don't really xD
and since my blog hasn't been having any comment link due to a glitch that i couldn't solve for the past 3 years i've been here, there's no way you can talk to me here now
bleah..
i'm gonna change my layout pretty soon.
meanwhile, text my cell to comment xD
10:36 am
Thursday, 24 September 2009
R.I.P. Usui-san
someone from my flist put up the news, i was so shocked....
i've been reading shinchan ever since i went to penang in 1998, that was like 11 years ago! i owned all the shinchan's tankoubon ever sold by penang's popular up to the year 1999. though i lost most of them when i went to singapore, i still owned some copies of the malay-edition ones and when i moved to sg i started buying shinchan when i'm back in jakarta for vacation, thus most of my shinchan copies at home are all in indonesian.
lately shinchan's story had developed into a new direction and i've been looking forward for a new volume everytime i'm back in indo.
it's so sad to read the news about his demise, especially because it's an accident...
rest in peace, usui-san! >_<> you'll be dearly missed...
things to do while your parents are here for vacation
...and you run out of plans for them to do.
1. let them discover the flaws of the house and spend some time fixing that <-- evil plan, but essentially a very effective one
2. search for the daily drama that they usually watch and make it available for them to watch here too <-- will entertain them for several hours at least
3. accompany them watch TV or something, later on some discussion will take place or they would start telling stories <-- can take hours or many many hours depending on the story being told, use this option with care.
when i listened to the preview version, i was only like "okay" with it.
then i listened to the radio rip, a longer version of more than 4 minutes. hmm, this song is pretty good, i thought. yoochun's rap really suits the song unlike in Colors~ melody and harmony which i thought was a bit...can-do-without
then i listened to the full version, and i decided that i love this song. or more specifically, i love the bridge part!
i'm not a fan of rap, i kinda hate it especially when the rapper doesn't happen to be my fave singers, but i love the rap parts in this song! firstly, the background music is pretty and kinda haunting. add that with yoochun's rapping (which i always think loaded with, what i call for the lack of a better word, attitude), it became really, really cool.
still, the highlight of the song for me is definitely the bridge onwards til the end.
like what yoochun said in Bigeastation #130, the melody, rap and bridge overlapped each other, which means chun's rapping and jae's rocker wail and the background music combined together, overpowering one another at specifically different points and creating a great dynamic!
i love the arrangement! the basic melody (right at the start and end) and the part when yoochun was rapping kinda reminded me of yochan but anyway, i really like the flow of the song, the rising up and down of the tension and the fuller, more intense sound that contrasts with Colors~ Melody and Harmony's light and simple one.
Jejung&Yuchun - Shelter (4.6 min preview)
starting with serene and lightly haunting, echo-ed piano sound under the sound of rain, it slided-in easily into slow-paced, easy going beat and melody. then yoochun's husky whisper signalled the start of his rapping part, and it turned slightly darker and more haunting with the water-drop melody (sometimes i amuse myself with my choice of descriptive words, ghah!). the chorus came along and it brightened again, with fuller sound and voices that echo and overlap onto each other. then it turned light again with jae's tranquil voice accompanied by the piano and synth beat, and some strings (cello?) just before chun's rap. the song dimmed down a little bit again, and his rapping became slightly more intense here and so did the background music, rising the tension slightly before it slided smoothly down into the chorus again. and then it's the bridge and suddenly the music take a different feel altogether. it didn't only accompanied yoochun's echoing rap at the background but side by side, going on equally strongly, and jae joined in with his rocker wail while chun and the music still going on strong, and suddenly the melody dropped down drastically into a lighter sound before sliding into chorus again, with fuller sound and more overlapping voices and wails, and then smoothened down into the simple serene melody it started with.
i love the arrangement! i'd say, bravo jaejoong and junsu! can't wait to listen to future work from the both of you!
i'd love to hear them performing this song live! i think that this is going to be much more fun to be performed live than Colors xD
firstly i just want to say that i'm very very happy that i understood most of what they're talking about here even without translation. i should perhaps find more interviews like these, short and simple and easy to understand, to practice my listening comprehension before JLPT o.o
mini translation + comment:
mc: tohoshinki personal question mc: firstly, yunho. where's the place you want to see in Japan? yh: tokyo disneyland. mc: with whom would you want to go with? yh: i want to go with the members. jj: *chuckles* *followed by silence* text: really? yh: *laughing* i want to go with the members! mc: suspicious... all: *laugh*
mc: jaejoong, [i duno what does tsuiyatte means but it talked about] bad habit? jj: while singing on stage, how to say it, my tongue just slips out. mc: if then, please show us a little bit jj: *singing* you're such a beautiful woman~~ *licks lips* mc: [i think it called jae a lizard...] all: *laugh*
mc: junsu, what's your most recent story of failure? js: always lose in 'janken' game with members. [janken = scissors-paper-stone] mc: what do you usually put out in 'janken' game? cm: [answers on su's behalf but i didn't know what he said] js: [didn't know what he said either...] cm: then, please have a 'janken' game with jaejoong. jj+js: *plays game* *su loses* js: *with straight face* hai. all: *laugh* js: one more time, one more time. jj+js: *plays game* *su loses* js: hai. text: . . . . all: *laugh*
geee, yoochun was practically non-existent in this show =P
trust tohoshinki to tackle a question regarding PLACE by answering about FOOD instead xD love it when yunho started whining that he's hungry and wanted to eat. and the highlight of the short clip is, of course, changminnie blurbing "konbini bento!" and high-five-ing with su-ho-chun while chanting "kon-bi-ni ben-to!" xDDD now we know just how appreciative tohoshinki are of those mini-marts' lunchboxes.
i believed that "the day that i go back to singapore after finished schooling will be the day that i stop feeling depressed prior to taking the flight."
who could've thought that i was wrong.
i was still experiencing BTSS just now while on the car, which is WEIRD. i shouldn't be having anymore apprehension about coming back to sg, i'm off school!
but perhaps due to 10years of BTSS, my body has developed this instinct that i can't just shake off within a few months =/
but anyway here i am back on the fine land of fines. for the next one month, yoroshiku onegaishimasu~
and, happy aidil fitri to all muslim friends out there ^__^ mohon maaf lahir batin!
so, bel and ning are both at the land of the rising sun now.
can't tell you how envious i was. then again, i was sure that i wasn't ready to start my own label yet.
but nevermind. as i told my parents, i will get there one day by my own means.
anyway, bel sms-ed me yesterday, asking if i want AADBSK3 coz she happened to be at that giant cd-store+bookshop in shibuya. i was like, of course i want it dammit that the highest in my wishlist right now. but instead, i asked her, "have you take a look at the pricetag? i think once you buy it, you'd have less than half of your pocket money left" coz AADBSK3 comes at a hefty pricetag of more than SGD$200. now, convert it to rupiah and you'll say the same thing to her.
and then the little devil still tempted me by offering some of their photobooks. OMG bel!!! you sure know how to make me drool!!! then again, photobook, like the name, is a book, ne? i'm afraid that it'll weigh quite a bit. considering that we were traumatised due to overweight luggage problem during our HK trip, i wasn't keen on imposing the extra luggage weight upon her. on top of that, rather than photobook, i would be much more delighted to have something of them that i can listen to instead of something to be drooledseen/read upon.
anyway i was very, very grateful for the gesture ^^ i think there are soooooo many things that i want to buy from japan. it's just that once she's there and suddenly came at me with "okay na, what do you want?" my mind went totally blank xD
so in the end i asked her to get me the 2 singless that i said i want to have: Bolero/Kiss The Baby Sky/Wasurenaide triple A single and SBU single. i'm tempted to get Doushite too...perhaps if she's somewhere in any CD shop again. and come to think of it, i haven't checked HMV singapore if they carry Tegomasu no Uta...
just a pity that jaechun's single is going to be released at the end of the month, if not i so want her to get to any sanrio shop out there in japan and get me their limited edition single ;_;
but anyway i can't wait to see them again. there sure gonna be loads of stories to tell, ne ^^ *excited*
i've been hunting around for cloud tagger code that i can put in the blog. there are several versions out there, but when i try them out none of them fits my html codes. i was asked to find some codes in the template html to paste the cloud-tag codes, but i can't bloody find it! can it be that my blog html is too different from the normal blogspot html that people work with and thus the code doesn't work?
>_<>
i. so. want. a. cloud tagger. in my bloody blog!
>_<>
someone make me one!!!
*hints at obachan whose Final Year Project involves cloud tag* *hints hints hints*
when they didn't appear in the lower 10 ranking, i put my bet that they're at least in the top 3. for a moment i even entertained the possibility that they're at number 1...completely and conveniently forgot about the giant monster boyband that had been snogging top position at the chart since last year which is arashi. but well i'm glad that they're number 2 ^___^ couldn't be happier that i saw kattun first before i saw them, heh
by the way, some weeks ago someone posted a poll in dbsg-lj asking singaporean fans to vote for Tohoshinki in Sistic's "who do you want to see" poll. at that time, there was already Super Junior among the choice, but there isn't for tohoshinki. SO, we fans decided to vote for "others" and ask for tohoshinki.
weeks later, someone posted this poll again, but this time in arashi community. i had completely forgotten about it after i voted once for "tohoshinki", but their update just reminded me that i can vote more than once. this time, tho, tohoshinki had made into the list as "Dong Bang Shin Ki/Tohoshinki" and so i happily voted for them again.
by that time, kattun fans had also been informed about this and had shown their power and they were fast zooming into the top spot. some days after that was a struggle for power among TVXQ, KATTUN, Arashi and SuJu fans as the ranking fluctuates up and down and the groups took turn into taking the number 1 spot, sometimes sharing the same percentage of votes.
by this time, the top 5 spot had already been completely dominated with these boybands, pushing other events aside like Les Miserables, or justin timberlake, or michael buble.
when i voted during the past few days, tho, the list had somewhat calmed down a little bit. currently TVXQ's sitting at top spot with 34% followed by Arashi at 33%, SuJu 19%, SS501 9% and Kattun 3%.
i really doubt that Sistic would be able to pull the boys to Singapore but, well, we just have to let the boys know that they're WANTED HERE too xD
so, yesterday was Sunday. the sunday AFTER jaechun's Music Japan recording, if i may add. i really didn't remember the actualy airing date but i took it for granted that it would be the following week, which (i found out later) is NOT. but anyway, we were driving home when my appointment calendar alarm went off, telling me that Music Japan was going to be broadcasted soon. thus, the rest of the journey back home, my mind wandered about.
like, i was wondering if other fans are annoyed with us jaechun-shippers because we're everywhere and making a great deal out of their upcoming single. in particular i was wondering about yunjae and yoosu fans. then again, i thought, it's not our fault that SoulMate is infinitely more catchy than yoosu or yunjae. there are other couple nicknames which names are just as catchy, though they're not really prominent, like soulfighter, kisu/suki, and 2U. and i was wondering about 2U, why the hell is it 2U? even both of them didn't know the meaning, and i wondered if they've found out about its meaning since the last AADBSK2 talk. then again, 2U? where does that come from??
and then suddently everything clicked into place. geez, it's all because i'm reading the words "2U" instead of hearing someone mentioning it to me. 2U, of course, refers to 2-YUs: YUnho and YUchon, like how their names supposed to be written in hangul (instead of english-sised spelling of "yoo" instead of "yu") geez, took me so long to realise! i know i was able to write their names in hangul months ago, and i remembered noting that to write yunho's "YUN" name i just have to add an "N" underneath yoochun's YU. but i didn't make the connection between that and 2U -___- how slow...
i hope 2U know, by now, what their nickname stands for ^^
yesterday i was watching Spiderman 3 on AXN with my cousin. while it was playing, i looked at the clock and found that Pops In Seoul was playing, so i skipped the channel to Arirang. at the same time, my cousin asked me to take a picture of her and her birthday present. so i turned to get the camera from her hand, but at that point my ears caught a melody that i thought was vaguely familiar, and i turned my head and gasped out loud when i saw yunho's face on screen.
geez, i actually managed to give myself a fright! O_O!! it was The Way You Are playing on the TV! i don't know how the heck did they manage to come up, but they did xDDD
i always try to watch Showbiz Extra and Pops In Seoul everyday if possible, tho i don't know what i was trying to achieve. TVXQ is still in dispute with SM, they haven't been releasing anything korean since Mirotic last year, and yet i'm still hoping that their name would pop up, somehow or another, in those shows. so far i managed to catch them 3 times, inclusive of last night's ^^
talking about dbsg, Cassiopeia had made another move. they've posted another advertisement in Hangyuhreh newspaper, appealing for the boys' case. this time the advertisement featured 3 monkeys being bound at its eyes, mouth, and ears, along with the words "You don't have to know," "Do not argue," and "Don't expect an answer" and "Dong Bang Shin Ki has moral rights and are people that should be able to make their own decisions" at the bottom credit:allkpop, gwynsu@lj [dbsg] source:newsen
Cassiopeia is exerting their power again. here's hoping that their efforts won't go to waste!
SM had failed to comply with the Preservation of Evidence that jaechunsu had applied and approved by the courts. but the deadline for all the submission had passed yesterday. now what's left is to wait for a verdict.
goodness, i feel anxious for them.
i mean, the whole world is behind them, everyone who have been interviewed expressed their support for TVXQ's case. but will the court?
...coz if they lose, i don't know what will happen to them, i really don't. i think they will be in so much trouble if they lose...
GAHH don't let them lose! >_<> as this case became well known in Japan and in the TVXQ fandom (which means people from all over the world know about this!), all eyes are on you, Seoul Central District Court, don't make the wrong decision please!
more SoulMate stuff are circulating the net. magazine interviews, fan reports of their Music Japan recording, webmail pictures... the newest one is article from Arena 37 in which they showed that their couple talk in AADBSK3 was not just a one-time thing: they even managed to sound mushy in magazine interview *amazed* 0_0
lol to soulmate who were already anticipating christmas xD but really, personally the calendar year is divided into 2: "the first half of the year" period and "christmas time" period xD meaning, after the month of June passed, i've actually started anticipating for christmas xDDD
in this high-anxiety time of waiting for the court verdict, soulmate fans could take heart and be really happy, i think we're really being pampered ^^ yunho's drama has also started and received much support from the fans. didn't hear much about the babies of the groups, but i hope they're doing fine, ximin =)
just point form coz my parents are asleep. it's hard to watch this coz it's hilarious but i can't stop!! xD
- sometimes their Doushite acapella live performance is off-tune, but i'm glad that in this show it was flawless! it's really good! i'm gonna learn how to harmonise to that song by listening to yoochun here ^^
- ah, of course the dance representative song is Mirotic, ne. i feel like thumping the back of yoochun's head tho, his movement was only half as energetic as in the MV *pokes chun* be more enthusiastic about showing off your dance moves, chun! he looked so delicate and demure when he dances like that and with that face in that hair he looked more like a girl in hot black suit than a man
- su looked pissed and i don't blame him. anyone would be pissed if they're cornered to do something embarrassing on TV and in this case su can't escape from it, poor dolphin.
- yunho's fast reaction time and hapkido moves were really, really cool *____* he managed to throw over that man but hung on to his body so that he didn't hit the floor afterwards, and that's awesome *___* sasuga leader-sshi desu ne.
- yoochun's stuttered answer "miji...ka...sugi...runjyanai desuka?" was hi-la-ri-ous! i can't believe he's falling for this trap again after jaejoong had to answer an embarrassing question in other variety show when he said that the shocking thing about japan was the girls wearing short skirts while riding bicycles and he was asked "why?" --> i could still recall his expression as he was asked "why", that priceless split second silence and his dumbfounded expression was a total win xD that should be very memorable, but i can't believe chun's repeating jae's mistake by mentioning about girls skirt length again! xDDD i'm not surprised that jae went to his rescue =) after all, he SURVIVED the question! xDDD lol!
mc: kirai nano? (about the short skirt) chun: ...maa~ <3> L!O!L!!!! naughty editor who anyhow added graphics to his answer xDD chun, you only have yourself to blame that you were asked that question xD although i must say that you wriggled yourself out of it very, very smoothly indeed ^^
- topic of conversation was embarrassingly.....sensitive~ =/
- okay! let me guess! "ichiban erokunai menba" is~........ yunho? xD okay, junsu! i duno... junsu or yunho? heck, let's just check it out.
eeh??? LOL!
cassiopeias would, of course, know which tvxq member is the most ero, and i think they would understand that jae's only trying to move away from the subject so that changminnobody gets implicated or something. poor jae got misunderstood for trying to protect the magnae ^^;;;
- bratmin laughing out loud when the only 2 members getting the vote, that was funny. he should be amused coz really the 2 voted as the biggest 'casanovas' were the 2 sitting at the back, NOT the 2 sitting at the front xD
- i love how yoochun kept standing up throughout the show in appreciation =D he really looked like he enjoyed himself in this show to the point that when yunho was tasting the sukiyaki he stood up and looked as though he's part of the shabekuri 007 regulars xD omg he's hilarious! i LOVE watching chun on variety show, his reaction is always SO fun and sincere! ^^ LOLOLOLOLOL "mmffhfhhhh!!!" tsk tsk, don't talk with your mouth full, chun.
- LOL shabekuri007 member getting his first taste of changminnie-the-sharp xD and his habit of laughing too hard while thumping his foot LOL min!! xD
- tohoshinki definitely learned a LOT about comedy through this variety show, ne? that third man was so funny! xD and jae sitting with his elbows on his knees and his hands on his cheeks was CUTE!
- LOL CHUN! xD
- yes, his reaction and ad-lib impersonification deserved a point form on its own xD
- oh LOL! i had just watched FBS Night Shuffle show so i understood his "narumai" gag, but apparently everyone else didn't xD LOL! suddenly the japanese man found that the korean man sitting opposite him was able to use classical japanese comedic expression that he didn't even know it himself =P i'm proud of you, chun! you learn fast and use it well ^^ . . . .that man looked ghaydangerous chun, get away from him =P
- ....i know yoochun was really cute here with his long hair tied in a cute lil ponytail and his huge sincere grin and that flawless complexion that made him look so girlysweet, but the PDA left me in a bad goosebumps hands off! chun belongs to jae! maybe i'm just not used to seeing more than a friendly hug from a non-member, but, really chun, don't keep in contact with that ghay man okay??? =P!
the immense amount of tvxq clips out there to be watched just made me tired before i even started watching. there are seriously thousands of clips, some of them as boring as short promotional clip for a new single, some as highly entertaining as Come To Play MBC in which members revealed a lot of secrets on national TV.
then again, how to know what to look for, or whether a particular clip is worthy to be watched?
one way is to read the comments following the clip, of course. youtubers LOVE leaving comments. even if the clip is boring, they would almost always leave comments, sending their love or something. the funnier their comments are, the more interesting the clip is, most probably =p
another way is to join a "yyy-gif-a-day" community. unlike "picture-a-day" community in which posters just put up a picture, gif-a-day community posters are able to tell a short story or a split second moment of fun.
i just realised that those "highlights" gifs usually became the trigger for me hunting down the particular show or clip =) thank you to all gif-makers who would almost always make our day brighter with entertaining gifs ^_^
was thinking about it since some weeks back. it's funny that only after we've moved on further in life and create our own version of "success" that we got to know the dirty little secrets of our elders, sort of.
like, a greatly respected uncle of mine whom, for all my life, had been seen as someone with high education and thus able to be successful in life, i just found out that he went to private university and got diploma as his highest qualification. he's amazing now, of course, but considering that my mom had always been asking me to look up to him and everything, i would've thought that he went to NTU/NUS (the "measuring ruler" of success for JC graduates, kind of?) and got a degree.
and, my own parents. i know that both of them didn't get high education, but i didn't even realise that the highest qualification my dad has was a primary 5 education in chinese language. o.O he didn't even finish primary school, and his official indonesian education was only a couple of years, i believe. no wonder his indonesian is rusty lol
really, parents were always pushing us to do better and better and sound disdainful if we're not up to par like the others (well, my parents aren't, but i've heard many stories from friends), making us feel like "hell, they're parents after all, we won't be better than them" or something. but once you get your degree, open your eyes and perk up your ears and you might just find out the "dirty lil secrets" of your parents =P
really, i don't think many of us can be "less successful" in terms of education as our parents. i think they've done amazingly good job in raising us and bring us thus far in life.
what we have to do now is to make sure that, with all the capitals that they've provided us, we can stand up on our own two feet and move further in life.
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was watching the secret code final in tokyo dome. searched through the entire clip for Rising Sun live (it's becoming one of my fave song, Rising Sun) but couldn't find it... maybe it would only be included in the DVD? it's a shame that i can't watch it now. the most recent Rising Sun live i've watched was during their Five In The Black tour and it was awesome!
but anyway, i want to say that their performance was great. i mean, live singing throughout + dance, it's not easy feat considering the kind of dance songs they have and the difficulty of their ballads. but they pulled off everything very nicely.
and right at the end of more than 1 hour and 55 minutes was Bolero, the killer song. and they pulled that off amazingly well too! 0_0 no off-tunes and everything was perfect other than chun who sounded a little too harsh/raspy during "kikasete" after his monstrous high-pitched wail *salutes*
i need to make myself a new blogskin. now i wonder what picture should i put... i need to look for a new blog template too. for once i want people to be able to leave comment on my post instead of just the chatterbox, and i want to be able to see all my tags like in lj. time to start hunting~
i've been looking for the subbed version of this show for sooo freakin long and finally i found it. thank you GOESS!! love you all forever!
obachan, how could you NOT like yoochun and junsu, they're so cute! i recommend you to watch this radio show interview, really. they're all with their Mirotic haircut and everyone looked really good.
warning: spoiler + really boring and random comments that i typed while i watched the show =P
jae's growing on me. i mean his silliness.
"what body part of other member that you like" to the scream of the fans (who were standing OUTSIDE the studio, mind you, but their voices were carried into the studio) --> "butt" xD everyone would hardly guess whose it is that he's talking about, which was proven quite nicely when the camera immediately switched on to junsu cam xD i LOL-ed hard at junsu's expression xD
yoochun's question received equal approval from fans -> "which part of woman's body that you like most?"
i'd say, soulmate gets the best questions ever.
*flails at chun's smile as he answers "neckline"* --> wonder if there's any connection to that famous neckline of his.
jae's growing on me. i mean his cute way of sitting with both hand on the earphones and elbows on the table which kinda restricted the angle which he could turn his head.
really, yunho has really nice voice! *__* "miduhyo~~" he should've started the song instead of junsu xD
*raises up hand* i like chicken better than pork too!
"My Life's OST" sounds like a very interesting corner.
i never know that I Believe is actually Korean....O_O and the singer is that singer that appeared in variety show together with yunho and junjin from shinhwa. his voice is really nice~~
yunho has really nice voice~~ *__* he has very soft vibrato and sound really sweet ^___^
lol junsu, you're just like that other kim, prone to saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, ne jaejoong? xDDD
yoochun's answer is a food for thought. when i reflect on it, yea, he's right. nowadays when me and my parents are on the subect of who's-together-with-who, we would always touch upon the subject's parents. i just realised that someone's partner would always be associated with the partner's parents, the approval level and reasons. kinda illuminating, huh.
chun's never far from the housewife-y girl when talking about his ideal girl, he's very specific about it. sometimes the part about having to be able to cook makes me wanna shove jae under his nose.
LOL-ed really hard again at jae. omg jae xDD he's after runners! if not, tennis players, badminton players! xDDD come on girls, build up your calves muscles from now! xDDD
i really think he's kidding tho =P jae's dream girl is always different. he said once that he likes girls with nice pretty hands. but maybe they're pushing for it, coz they did say "unprecedented answer" xD cheh, he was really kidding, stupid jae.
fans who're after min have to have it the hardest, coz he wants physical injury instead of beautiful hand/feet or something xD
oh gosh you're just like yoochun, yunho. your gf and chun's have to watch out, coz they would be competing against youngwoong jaejoong in terms of cooking capability ne
my my my, did we hear yunjae's fans scream just now? xDDD lol to jae offering himself (not once but TWICE!) and lol to yunho taking up on the offer xDDD jae, really, chun's sitting next to you, don't break his heart xDDD LOL!
....really yunho.... i think every fans who were listening know that you're describing jaejoong xD!!!!! can cook well, has straight hair, at first look cold and distant but as you get to know him, her, would become very sincere. who agrees with me that it's jaejoong? *raises up hand*
omgggggggg..... junsu singing that Autumn in My Heart song... he raised my goosebump just on the very first note >___< his voice is absolutely, absolutely dreamy!!!
youngwoong jaejoong's trick into passing singing audition: sing your national anthem in 3 different keys.
DBSK really could've debuted as 5 different solo singers. i wonder who was harmonising with changmin nearing the end of his short singing? o.O
someone should make a gif out of yoochun peeking as jaejoong wrote his answer down ^^
!!!!!!!!!!!!! eeehh????????????? THAT song is the song that jae sings for his solo in concerts???????? i thought the title is Maze or something... i've been listening to him singing it while showering for some weeks. i still prefer Footsteps, tho...
*cringes* ..... i'm sorry jae but you either had a bad throat on that day, or finally the cigarettes' effect showing up >_< please don't smoke anymore!!!
yoochun's OST...is that the song he sang while playing the piano during "Come to Play" show? o.O the title sounds a little bit familiar... *googled* yes it is!! ooooh he sounds really good singing that song!
recently everyone's been on the soulmate twins syndromme, but even before chun got the same haircut as jae, they are already so similar together. look at them both laughing at junsu singing dragonball with both their hands folded on the table.
eh...why didn't chun sing his OST life? unfair!!!! oh well, i've listened to him singing it LIVE with a piano accompaniment anyway =/
Love In The Ice live. awesome awesome awesome!!! *jae went a bit sharp* awesome awesome awesome *yunho's mic is much too near his mouth, he's drowning everyone* awesome awesome awesome
anyone who wants to learn how to sing harmonisation of LITI should watch this performance. yunho's been giving really clear and good example throughout xD
yoochun's cheating!!! lol, he sang with falsetto. but that immensely high "waaah~" was perfect.
...that guy impersonating a woman is NOT cute at all. come give the script over to junsu, let junko show you how it's supposed to be done xD
ewww to the story xDD the only people who should be allowed to wear jacket without inner shirt are dbsk! xDDD
sou desune.... jae's answer make sense. wait, does yoochun's preference to wear flipflops til november included in it? xD
i agree with the female MC (i should learn about her name coz i see her pretty often in shows..), the story does remind me of dbsk too. chun LOVES t-shirts with plunging neckline, and everyone else seemed very comfy wearing wifebeaters or tank tops with low neckline too. (in fact when they button up, they looked weird...unless the outfit is a suit =p)
omg this is the first time i heard about someone moobs distracting a female away from a broadcast. usually the subject of "distracting chest" are females, ne? omg yunho don't you feel violated or WHAT? LOL!
correct me if i'm wrong, but i think the recepient of the show's "doenkkk~~"-failing sound effect is jaejoong. i heard it beign directed at him TWICE xD LOL to junsu+changmin+yunho rejecting jae's answer xD oh chun you're just too nice xDDD
i can't believe i just screamed like a banshee laughing at jae during Mirai Souzoudou... omg if anyone had heard me just now, they would be freaked out!!
*shakes head* jae, you have this exceptional talent at failing xDDD and in such epic manner too, after declaring confidently that you know the answer LMAO!! the person pressing the "TEEET" button couldn't be happier insisting that you're wrong xDDD
it's hilarious watching tohoshinki talking about the subject of anime, they're SO hyper!! like excitable little children, really. and it's interesting to note that the least excitable of them all was the youngest. different generation anime, perhaps??? i don't even recognise 10% of all the anime they mentioned! O_O but perhaps i was more into shoujo anime last time, so..
still, i really wonder just HOW MANY bloody anime have they watched.... the way they're able to guess so many anime songs right... O_O it's cool that they can recognise the opening song even with different language, ne... and it's delightful when they started singing them in korean xDDD lol!
looooooooooool to jae blurting out the name of the anime in korean xDDD *shakes head at jae*
toho: *singing* ogon ba~~~chi mc: 'bacchi' jyanai tte 'ba-tto' datte!! toho: *singing* ogon ba~~~chi mc: ...jya 'bacchi' ni suru wa
LOL! xD
i wasn't surprised when yoochun happily raised up his hand when they revealed the green peas "natto", he's been saying that he likes edamame, ne. the look of the fermented tofu is.........disgusting? eww~ it's about as disgusting looking as cheese xD but apparently, "the cheese is.....very much like cheese" --> eehh??? xDDD boring~~~ xD
poor junsu has to try the fermented tofu omg that really does look very disgusting.... the things that idols have to do in front of the camera *sigh* i think arashi members will be able to sympathise with you 100%, junsu xDDD
aaaaand they bully poor yoochun, who was sitting very nicely at the corner, into trying it out. they know that he hates trying out questionable food. but between the table, junsu, jaejoong and changmin, he couldn't escape anywhere LOL! evil jae sprouted horns as he laughed at yoochun being force-fed the questionable-taste fermented tofu. they just love doing this to him, don't they?
i'm thinking of moving out all my tvxq-related entries to the lj after a month. but that would leave this place bare.... hmm... dou sureba ii no?
for once junsu's not the clown. and neither is yoochun. nor jaejoong. uh-uh, not changmin either.
one last guess! xD
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LMAO, yunho!! xDDD that CM is real cute!
a sidenote about Pinky. apparently there's "limited edition" product that's supposed to be on sale only until 14th september. BUT, just 24hour after the start of sale, it's completely sold out O_O and that news was out on the 31st August, if i remember correctly. tohoshinki's fans are quite scary... i wonder what they would be selling til the 14th september then.
the problem with reading f-list from top to bottom is: you get to read the latest news first, and sometimes the "later" ones have filtered information. read: not complete.
i should retract my whole entire previous post, since i posted it not less than 15 minutes ago. but nevermind, i'll let it stay, just as a remembrance that i've had my doubt.
but that was because jae was presented alone, with the questionable tattoo.
when i was presented with jae and chun, both with the same tattoo, watermarked with the same copyright, and still followed up with a picture of them together with (i suspect) the tattoo artist, both still having bandages, and the picture was signed (duno the hell who signed it), my confidence was won over.
what can i say. ...wow. i didn't really think it's true, but apparently it IS.
i don't know... when i knew them, jae had already had his "TVfXQ SOUL" tattoo, though i think the additional wings were added more recently. i have no problems with that, or chun's much-speculated-but-still-lacking-of-officially-clear-picture-of "TVfXQ MYC" tattoo. i guess i kinda accepted those as part of them.
but these new tattoos....
sure, the idea sounds highly romantic. what could be more romantic than a message permanently etched to someone chest as a rememberance to always keep the faith, no matter who the target recepient of the message is (members, fans, they're all equally touching) other than having two members having it at the same spot (inclusive of parallax error please)? two members, if i may emphasise, whose couple nickname is SoulMate.
then again, the problem lies with the "permanently etched". tattoo isn't something that will fade off once a lawsuit is settled; it's not something small like piercings that will only be visible within a really short distance; it's big and clear and permanent.
actually i have no problem with tattoos. i'm just thinking of them, whether they would have second thought about it in the future or something.
of course, the question seems silly if we consider that the size of "always keep the faith" is like 10% of their "TVfXQ" etched on their backs, or even smaller.
then again, that's it, the position of the tattoo themselves. like... chest? front? i think i kinda like the idea of tattoo at the back, but i definitely have second thoughts about them at the front torso. i understand the idea of keeping it close to the heart, i do (and it's very meaningful, that), but i just can't shake this off my head.
p'haps i need to let it grow on me.
i kinda like jae's position better than chun's, tho. he kept it lower and i think he'd have less chance of letting them peep off his tank top, unlike chun's which head and tail have been having a hide-and-seek game with the airport papparrazzi-fans for some weeks =P
i know i've been saying "someone strip jae off his shirt so that we can take a look at his chest" but i didn't really mean it.
i mean...alright, i meant it. but, with masters of photoshop everywhere, it wouldn't be difficult to manipulate a picture and make it look like someone has a tattoo, would it? my own mastery of photoshop is still questionabe, but i can even attempt it, i think...
like, choose a good body that has similar build to jae, cut off his head from somewhere, put on his head on the body, blend the neckline, get the font of chun's "always keep the faith" tattoo, recreate the letters, put it on jae's chest, adjust the position, add a little brush of redness around the lettering to show some swelling after tattooing process, and voila~ if you're expert enough, you'll get jae with chun's tattoo. you can even have junsu, changmin and yunho's version too, if you're all about ot5.
so, before i really comment on anything, i really want someone to convince me that that picture, jae with his "always keep the faith" tattoo, positioned almost at the exact position as chun's, is real.
aadbsk3 couple talk - KangXi. or XiMin, or, as a personally like to call it, MinSu
the little brothers of the group.
minsu's relationship's pretty tricky to describe. rather than yunho, i think that these 2 are the most manly in the group. or maybe i should use the term boyish instead of manly. as such, i was expecting no mushy talk at all. in a way, they're about the complete opposite of sickeningly sweet, sweeter than sweet jaechun =P
i was laughing my head off watching them talking rudely about their oldest hyung, LOL!! don't worry jae, we still love you even if you're the least athletic among 5 xDDD
i still don't know why junsu can be SO descriptive in terms of min's ideal girl whileas he beat around the bush when asked about chun's o.o
"we urge the fans of KangXi to be more active" --> OMGLOL xDDD what, su, you're tired of yoochun and jaejoong already? xDDD "they're not visible at all" ROFLMAO xDDDDDDD
warning: contains spoilers. (i just remembered i forgot to put the warning when i wrote the earlier 2 couple talk review xD)
well well.
i really don't know why the boys are doing this but it seemed like they're all really determined to tell the fans that they're NOT THAT CLOSE after all. what with epic statement from yoochun that they're "the best failure ever made by our fans" and that "we don't get along with each other" to which junsu added that "it's the power of marketing/promotion" that they're so popular and that their "relationship is strictly for business".
but that's about as far as it'll suceed, coz the talk that followed completely obliterated their earlier claims and smothered it to smithereens. it's either that they're lying about their earlier statements, or they're both such awesome actors to be able to pull off such display of affection when they "don't get along with each other" =P
or maybe it's just that chun's character made him a magnet for affection people simply want to strangle him down, which is often mistaken as a sign of affection, LOL. i mean, when he sat at that position, twice out of thrice ppl just lounged onto him like predators o.O ppl ->jae+su. yunho's too civilised to hit on his own member xD.
why i think that yoosu's such an interesting couple is because i always believe in casanova chun and simple-guy su, and when these 2 are together, it's highly likely that we get the "chun tease su with cheeky words to which su can't reply and he got confused" situation which is really adorable. make me wanna pinch junsu's cheek =p lately he's learning to tackle yoochun's cheeky comments well though =D
a comment to bel if you're reading this: junsu made a referense to Old Boy! that movie that our president showed during the speech, right? =D he said yoochun looked like a character in there xD
i just can't stop laughing at these 2, really. it's really true that yoochun had gotten so comfortable with the members if compared to aadbsk2, now he even dared to ask for a change of question. ouch, su! xD "he lacks in some ways but overall he's loveable" --> exactly my opinion, chun! xD
su's answer for "yyy is loveable when..." for both jaesu and yoosu talk receive 2 thumbs up from me. way to go xiah! ^-^
xiah's depth of perception startles me sometimes. his comments used to be kinda general, but recently he seemed to be able to overcome his shyness and able to express his real opinion which is very interesting.
i think junsu chose an excellent stage name for himself. Xiah doesn't sound as normal for a guy's name as Micky, or as catchy as U-Know, or as cool as Hero or Max (when translated), but the reasoning behind his name fits him perfectly: i also think that he deserves that name. in terms of vocal+music+dancing ability, he's fit to compete against anyone for the title of Asia's number 1 =)
for that last story.... i can't believe jaejoong didn't get back to them. jae, who loves to check on the members so much that yunho got annoyed at him, didn't reply? duno what to comment on this =p
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THE SUPER IMPORTANT WISHLIST :
Yoshiki - Eternal Melody 1
CD Wishlist
JaeChunSu - The... (preordered) Versailles Philharmonic Quintet - Jubilee (major debut album)
Jejung & Yuchun from Tohoshinki - COLOR~ Melody & Harmony/Shelter Double A single
Tohoshinki - Stand By U single
Dong Bang Shin Gi - Rising Sun album
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
JYJ - Thanksgiving Live in Dome DVD (preordered)
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
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Tegomasu - Tegomasu no Ai minialbum
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
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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
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V6 - Very Best I
V6 - Very Best II
My Chemical Romance - Threee Cheers For Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
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Versailles - Ascendead Master (mini movies in Limited Ed singles type I,II,III)
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
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
Phase 3.1 (2008)
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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...
Phase 2.0 and 2.1 (2007)
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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
Phase 1.2 (2006)
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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
Phase 1.1 (2006)
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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!
Phase 1.0 (2006)
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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!
