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
Thursday 30 April 2009
i duno what caused it, but i'm feeling nauseated now. ate some cereal in the morning, and it didn't make me hungry at all til late afternoon. then ate a single banana. and started singing TVSQ out loud while doing my flats instead of the usual humming that i do in class. and now i'm feeling somewhat dizzy and getting increasingly nauseated.... could the empty stomach + banana have caused it?? -____- or has it got anything to do with my singig??
o well. will get better soon. i guess. i'm just not going sch today. yay, labour day eve holiday!!!!
...yea right. i gotta finish all my flats today so that tomorrow i can be in sch throughout the day to finish up my jacket, pants and other finishings.
stupid banana. i mean body.
8:37 pm
i was so out of touch with him. other than the X Japan concert in Taiwan at the end of may and the Tokyo Dome concert on the 2nd of may, i don't even know what yochan has been doing. it's shameful, considering that the address of this blog is yoshikifanatic -___- maybe i should change it to foreverlovingyouevenwhenidontfollowyournewsanymoreyoshiki.blogspot.com? -___- geez Labels: yoshiki
but anyway, i'm in front of the computer after many days of not touching it, so apart from doing school work, i'm also wrongfully searching tvsq -___-
and, shamefully, it's from one of those tvsq-related sites that i got to know a place whereby i could catch snippets of what yochan's been doing these days.
http://74.125.153.132/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://www.barks.jp/artist/%3Fid%3D52004612&prev=_t&usg=ALkJrhhfNxk55i534AIM295XoSe2JgB6nA
so, quite recently he went to donate some things to children from somewhere (geez i don't even understand the translated page!) and performed Forever Love with Toshi at some event
and, perhaps the biggest news for me, released yet another Violet UK song as theme song for the movie Goemon. the title of the song is Rosa, and it is SO yoshiki! the melody, the lyrics...
i have to have the song!
and it's been so long since i saw yochan's clips. i forgot how much i love watching him playing piano -_-
apparently the song that he was doing above is going to be "donated" to zoom in O.O it's called Blue Sky Heaven, something that is so different from the normal yoshiki theme which are usually about (i quote him) "rain, darkness and night" xD
what's with artists giving songs to zoom in? i think tohoshinki also donated Kiss The Baby Sky to zoom in?
okya, that was in october last year. i suppose yochan's new song would be the newest wheather forecast song then?
4:55 pm
100% TVSQ Labels: tohoshinki
random comments about tvsq
- veli and i agree that while changmin seems like the member that we like least, he seemed like a very hardworking person, if not "the" most hard-working one.
- and we also agree that seemingly least-hardworking one is yoochun xD
- whom also, we think, has a rich-boy face and aura about him
- and after watching (goodness-knows-how-many-i've-watched-until-i-can-make-this-kind-of-post) clips, i think that while yoochun might not be as good-looking as others, he exudes the playboy charm and charisma, and seems to understand the essence and importance of fanservice (esp in a certain clip when he was shooting with junsu)
- but, while we agree that junsu is very funny, i'm starting to think that yoochun is even dorkier than him, seeing that many of the tvsq-dorks clips out there has yoochun involved in one way or another
- it's confirmed that my 2nd fave tvsq singer is jaeejoong, even though i agree with vel that junsu has better singing capabilities. i just like his soft voice that has rounder edge, like chun.
- and, even though initially i was put off by his face the most (coz he looked too much too typically....something), i'm increasingly drawn to jaeejoong persona (read: his dorkiness). plus, once the initial barrier had been broken, he's such a bishie too.
- but above-all, yunho's still the coolest of all. that clip whereby he was pranked by the other 4 was an admirable example of how gentlemanly he is while other clips show off his fatherly charm. sasuga leader desu ne.
here's a clip that made my day today. watch out for 2.45 --> tvsq and the chibi-tvsq who are soooo adorable! yunho's looks so much like him xD yoochun's looks even cuter than him xDD jae's refused to look at the camera even after being guided, just like the chibi jae in Balloon, and jae was at loss as to how to handle this stubborn kid xDDD and chibi junsu is too adorable to mention xDDDD and, if by this video i was still put-off by jae, by 3.25 i wouldn't be anymore: i would be laughing my ass off xDDDDD and changmin redeemed himself a lot at 3.56 onwards, though i must say that i was also laughing because chun was obviously trying to control his laughter on the floor at 4.05 xD
i'm off to do my tech drawings! 3 more days of slaving over assessment!
12:34 pm
Monday 27 April 2009
25% school, 50% tvsq, 25% news Labels: NEWS, school, tohoshinki
i'm taking a short break, which i don't actually suppose to have considering that next week is assessment and my garments not finished and my portfolio not done. but after a week of not sleeping properly and having loaves of bread and kit kat bars for dinners while rushing through garments for photoshoot, i just need this break.
but since i still shouldn't spend too long blogging, i'll just try and give a short yamapi-style updates during the time when i wasn't blogging. it's not in chronological order.
1. did my photoshoot on sunday. my model, bruna from avenue, is such nice model. i've not been working with many models so i don't know if everyone else is the same, but she's very friendly and nice. never a word of complaint (she came about 10 and didn't have proper meal til 6 when everything ended, on her feet most of the time, and on impossibly-tall heels then) and always reassuring. sorry if i prick you, i'd say, oh don't worry about it, she'd say. chris, the hair and make-up artist, was there to help me dress bruna, and she's also really friendly and nice, kept giving me tips how to make it easier to fix the unfinished garments and loose hems.
and basically everything else about the shoot was wow. i learnt a lot about working with pros for photoshoot even though i was zombie-ing half of the time before and after my shoot because i was too freaking tired. but when i was awake, i was constantly in awe watching may and ash. we started with a few shots, adjusting the lights and stuff, may shooting and ash in front of the comp checking the pics and giving advices, and when there's a good shot he'd review it again while may kept clicking, and when there's a potential pose that's good, he'd ask to keep the pose and explore on it, or when there's a pose that wouldn't work he'd say not to keep it and say why, and may would understand what to be done, what angle to work on, and so would bruna, what pose to do and not to do, and it was fascinating! when asked about opinion, sometimes i have a comment about something, but usually i won't say because i honestly think that i don't know enough to start making comments. but it became more often that the thoughts that i have was voiced out by ash or may later on. that kind of made me more confident to form my own opinion about things. perhaps, one day, i would know enough to start giving comments on my own =p i really learnt a lot from them and was so ever thankful that i have the chance to work with such professionals.
wow, what a yamapi-style update this is going to be -_____- geez
2. if the jacket collection would remind me of Love From Dead ORchestra, i think i'll remember this final collection with tohoshinki xD although i kept shuffling between jpops (news, tohoshinki and yui) and classicals (mostly haydn's cello concerto, vivaldi's 4 season and beethovens piano concertos) everytime it comes to news song, i kept pressing forward and would only settle for a tohoshinki song xD oops, news! i've learnt the name of my favourite tvsq singer: junho! or yuno? oops i forgot... but anyway he's the guy with super adorable massu-like face with pinchable cheeks in Kiss The Baby Sky, which happens to be my current tvsq song. he's so cute and sweet-looking that when vel said that he's the more manlier and gentleman one in the group i didn't believe her O.O with that face? are you sure?? xDDD he seems more suitable as the cute/shy one than the manly/gentleman one xD but however he looks and whatever image he gives, i like his voice the most. omg veli i'm so ready to strangle you senseless, yunho is not the one whose voice i like the most LA!!! omg.... i was watching the youtube bolero/kiss the baby sky/wasurenaide interview and was reading their katakana names when i realised the mistake. no, veli, no! yunho is the one whose looks i like the most -_____- the one whose voice i like the most is called *goes back and read name* yuchun! -______- alamak veli, no wonder the image is so freakin different xDDDDD
btw i include the interview i was talking about. these 3 songs (bolero, kiss the baby sky, wasurenaide) is my current 3 faves out of 5. they're in 1 single! wow! if i see it in hmv i think i'll get it xD
i can't find Kiss The Baby Sky PV in youtube! O.O like NONE at all! removed due to copyright issue?? gee avex is even more protective of their artists than johnnys! -____- but here is Bolero live. i can't decide if i like Bolero more than Kiss The Baby Sky, but in terms of difficulty, this song definitely could show off their voices more than Kiss.
they didn't sound as smooth as the studio recording, but it was live performance outdoor and bolero is really quite a tough song. that's why i thought that the performance was great! they went offtune at the first part of the first chorus. but i just have to salute yuchun's perfect wailing at the bridge. bravo, yuchun! and yunho's part during his duets is cool. he held his part firmly and sang well.
i think i have to talk to vel again about who's who. i get the feeling that we;re not on the right frequency when we're talking tohoshinki. so far i get the feeling that she meant that yunho is the leader, but who knows i'm WRONG?
btw this is a cute lil clip of korean-guy jaejoong in open-the-sausage contest in hey! hey! hey! his comments is so funny: bikkurishita, boku shiranakatta desu! matsumoto: nani? jaejoong: konna hayai no ka. LOL!
this is tvsq getting drunk in the day. no, i mean junsu and yoochun getting all silly and funny.
and this is a short clip to end this increasingly-tvsq-oriented entry. the first tvsq clip that made me laugh til i cry. junsu is hilarious! but watching yoochun and changmin laughing at him like crazy is the funniest!! xDDDDD and can you notice that within this very post i've learnt many of their names and even corrected myself of their spellings? o.o
3. koi no ABO was performed in music station last week. and will also be performed again this week. they're so silly looking that i hope with all the gimmicks that they have the sales of this single will be high. yamapi with omg-i-couldn't-believe-it afro hair like in Seishun Fever with gYm O.O!!! kei-chan with a big yellow bow on his hair is the silliest-looking next to pi-chan. the next most eye-catching is of course tesshi. he has his hair half done up in his famous hairstyle from NWPD tour, and has stickers on the corner o his right eye like harajuku-girls style years back. there you go, my top 3 fave news members trying to hype up the performance xD i especially enjoy watching tego dancing in this perf, i don't know why. he looks too...freakishly comfortable in the dance moves and everything. he's truly NEWS no hime, no doubt about it. tegopi at the centre is really attracting a lot of attention! and, of course, a perfect bridge and a perfect "koi no ABO~~~~~~~~~" ^^
watch the HQ perf here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9nl_Qm5B0 that has been translated by dearest newshfan. i love the fact that all the members talked! and they were also joking while talking xD (yamapi: 'let's talk about this backstage later', LOL!!) btw if you notice, behind tamori-san is: chiaki-senpai!!! XD!!! and beside him is: Gackt!!! xDDD ohisashiburi, chiaki-senpai and gackt! xD
4:01 pm
Wednesday 15 April 2009
it's kind of sad that now, just a mere 2 weeks away from assessment, the time when i'd really like to document every single day, time is too precious to be spent in front of the computer. thus, as much as i'd like to blog everyday, i've decided to not touch the comp until i have to do my portfolio and catalogue. maybe i'll revert back to old-day diary-writing =p Labels: 101 things i love about BA, school
anyway quick updates.
1. we have our first case of assessment-stress-induced incident yesterday. rache fainted at about 6pm. earlier on she was going around looking for chocolate, saying that she's dizzy and needs some sugar. unfortunately, even though my place is quite known for stocking up chocolate bars (i can buy 10, and eat only 1 while the rest are eaten by others xD), i've just finished my last bar of kit kat, and nothing else is available. lis urged her to go to mot for beng-beng. the next thing i know, everyone was yelling out her name and i saw her slumping on the floor while everyone crowded around her -_- bern said that she hasn't been sleeping and been rushing to finish her garments for her photoshoot this saturday. oh man... firstly, that sleeping-only-1-hour-a-day for several continuous days is hell. i do that only for assessment, coz right after that i know i can reimburse my sleeping hours. but now is only week 15! when is she gonna repay her sleeping debt? secondly, photoshoot this saturday is plain crazy. because... (*continue below)
2. yesterday i met my photographer may lin. i'm always nervous around strangers, and somehow photographers, models, pose higher level of intimidation than normal. but she had been really nice (not to mention really pretty ^^) when we were talking and discussing about the photoshoot. i'm glad she didn't show impatience to my obvious oblivion about photoshoots and photospread in general. we talked a little, decided to think more of it as we go home, she would send me some ref pics for me to think of what we can do for the shoot, and we decided on some things about the details. like, i said i want a studio shoot, and that would make things much easier, she said, and there wouldn't be a problem hiring a model for just half a day. then the models, i told her my budget for the whole entire thing, including DI and model-hiring, and she looked somewhat relieved when she know of my budget. i just haven't told her that i'd want at least 2, or 3, pics for each garments. next, the D-day. it'll be in 23rd, next week thursday. if we count properly, i only have 8 days to complete 9 garments. and to design one more pants plus making the toile plus making the real pants. if i can do that, i'll be a superwoman with The Flash's speed by next thursday, i tell you. it's crazy! which is why i gaped at the idea of rache doing photoshoot this saturday. (*) i know quite roughly how many garments she has to do, and it's not little, okay. she has infinitely much more garments than me! to finish everything all by herself within 4 days is quite a tough task. i don't want to say impossible (esp if it involves other people's work) but i'd say that she should outsource some garments lest she ends up in hospital by the end of this week due to lack of sleep. i know our stuff are really not easy to be sent just like that to tailors, alice just got hers rejected yesterday and rache went to some tailors who said that her stuff is "impossible to do" and many of us think that explaining to them how to sew it would take longer than to sew them ourselves, but if she needs her garments out by this saturday, she'll need a tailor, or two, and desperately!
right. i'm going off to school. luckily yesterday we settled many of our fabric details. i can start on my harder pieces first and engage dira to help me for the easier ones. i wish i can call on joyce and hidayah too, but they're working. and anyway i'm much concerned about ning and vel, both are not outsourcing, and seemingly has nobody to help them, and their garments are TOUGH. ning's been doing her jacket for several days now, and her other garments are as difficult and time-consuming as this jacket -__- goodness knows how we can get through this...
but i get a little bit of hope everytime LR came and spoke about our stuff in confidence (or delusional about how we would be able to finish our garments xD). yesterday, after rache's fainting spell, he treated us to some snacks from tauhuei. perhaps he felt that we're gonna spend another dinner-less night.
7:52 am
Friday 10 April 2009
i haven't talked about this before but i've been listenin to Tohoshinki for quite a couple of weeks now. Labels: tohoshinki, yamapi
surprising, no? personally, i'm still quite surprised at myself.
the story started when a particular girl in my class insisted that i listen to some songs from her mp3 player, which happens to be filled with mostly kpop. since i practice double standard for almost everything (sort of like things that i really dislike, if they're offered to me from a friend, there are chances that i will reconsider accepting them, but otherwise i'll refuse to even let them enter my life), i agreed to listen to these songs. it happened quite a few times, but mostly she just wanted an opinion about their voices. i don't consider myself an expert in this, but i offered her my opinion anyway.
and one day she let me listen to Doushite Kimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimattandarou, which is by Tohoshinki. accompanying the song was a story about Tohoshinki appearing in a Smap talk show. i don't know which one played a more important factor, is it a) the mention of the group doing something with smap, or b) their voices are really quite amazing, or c) though the group is Korean, the song is essentially in Japanese. but anyway after listening to that one song, i was more or less intrigued by this group, which beforehand i refuse to even look at.
and so, i started fishing out their Japanese songs. hey, a major change in preference like this must be done sloooowwly, okay. if i go into their korean songs straight, i know what will happen next, and i won't be sitting here typing about them now.
and so, 3 albums and one single had been accompanying me doing my final grad collection since 19 of march. and the highest playcount is Forever Love acapella version. though the first song that caught me to them was Doushite, the first song that i really really listen a lot to is Forever Love. i must say that i love trying out new group and trying to distinguish their voices, it's really fun trying to discern one voice colour from another, and judging which one sings better than which one, and how could they look like based on their faces, and so on. furthermore i love most of their songs, esptheir ballads, and all of them sing absolutely well, it's just a matter of preference of which voice colour that people like.
after some days listening to them, and after velnyo's constant interrogation about whose voice that i like the most, i started trying to single out a voice out of many. it's not that i like this particular voice the most, but his voice is the easiest to pick out. i still duno his name, and don't try to tell me, coz stupid veli had been forcefully planting a single name into my brain, the singer that she likes a lot, and now i can no longer boast that i only know 3 korean names (kim jong il, bae yong joon and jang nara). *kicks veli* ..but actually after i said that to hany, she pointed out that i know more than 3. like kang ta. true. and then.... i forgot what else she mentioned that i also know. but, yea, see, i don't remember them! and stupid veli has to keep bombarding the name into my ears and now the name is stuck in my head. and i still DON'T KNOW who the hell is joon soo, i tell you! xP
but anyway. i kept trying to familiarise myself with their voices before starting to see them in person (as in watch their vids), and when veli showed a youtube clip, i didn't want to see them. i want to be able to judge them based on their voices rather than their looks, and knowing how they look like will affect my judgement of their voices.
so i managed to single out this voice that sings somewhat like pi-chan in higher notes, sounding like as though he has a cold. what's attractive about his voice is, perhaps, that he sings well and his voice stands out among the crowd. there are 2 other groups of voices that i can't discern at the beginning, but i can almost always pick this voice out. and i like it when he sings high, coz he doesn't sound screechy and too falsetto-ish, and it doesn't sound like the voice is being forced out of him, it doesn't sound harsh and has a rounded edge to his ending. and, like inocchi who is not the best singer but whose voice i like the most, i don't think he's the best singer coz i've heard a better singer among the others, but i like his voice the most, i guess.
after about 3 weeks (or more?) of listening to them, i finally allowed myself to fully watch their videos in youtube. by this time, i've caught some snippets of their mv-making and some bits and pieces of concert clips. and i'm attracted to one person, from his looks alone. voice-wise, i'm usually able to discern 4 voices. yes, 4. like FOUR! where's another member?????? o.O!
only when i watched their clips that i realised that the person whose voice i like a lot (let's say a) has really really similar voice with the person whose looks i like the most (let's say b) o.O and judging from the amount of singing b has done, i think he's whom velnyo described as: "the lousiest singer has quite bass-ish voice" o.O and b's voice is the one missing voice that i usually couldn't pick out even with 3 weeks of listening O.o but then, out of those 4 voices that i could discern, there IS a voice that i thought doesn't sing as well as the others o.O! hee.... dou? xD
and even then, there is another voice which i don't really like, coz he sings too well with falsetto that he sounds too gentle/soft/sweet/lemah gemulai/whatever O.o... let's say c. but, but, earlier on i said that i believe that there are someone who sings better than a in the group? i think that voice belongs to him. but i also think that the screechiest voice, yang paling melengking tinggi, is also him. i still duno which one veli likes so i better not say too much about anyone xD and another one, d, is the one who sings the most in many of the japanese songs that i listen to. his voice is crisp and steady even though it has a somewhat warm tone. he held his ground and so even with falsetto he still sound firm. the last member, the one whom i said i thought that he's the worst among the group, has a cooler voice similar to a, but his voice is more forced out and so sounded more harsh at times, and i don't really like the way he handles changing of note coz sometimes it doesn't flow really smoothly.
it's sad that they're now assigned alphabets just because i don't want to learn their names. yet.
appearance-wise, my first reactions is like this: d, the one who sings the most, has really typical korean look; e, whose voice i don't really like, looks too much like jerry/taguchi that it adds to the negative points; b, who sings the least and (now i believe that he's) the so-called worst singer, is the cutest of all xD (and i think hany agrees with me!); while a and c are forgetabble in terms of looks, but has some of the strongest voices xD
now i have their faces embedded in my mind, and so i shall attempt to pick out b's voice and separate him from a or e who shares similar voices.
and after watching this i can fully confirm whatever i said in the above, about a's voice being the one i like the most, b's voice being worst, c being too good a falsetto-singer for my taste, d's voice being the steadiest alongside a and c, and e's voice that i don't like (despite b being a worse singer than him). who is a,b,c,d,e for you? i'll tell you who's mine, at the bottom. make up you mind first, then check mine if you think it matches mine =p
and, i posted something to my LJ but haven't blogged about it here:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YAMAPI! wish you the best wish you wished! xD you've been a source of inspiration and hopefully you'll continue to be ^_^ happiest 24th birthday!
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so, tohoshinki standing arrangement: from left to right (our left and right):
c - a - d - e - b
haha.
okay la , that wasn't being fair, coz out of so many clips that i watched, that was their worst performance yet xD so here is a better version of Forever Love =)
9:11 am
Wednesday 8 April 2009
85% JE - 15% school
koi no ABO PV brought a mixture of reaction from me... amazement, admiration, embarrassment, a feeling of "ngeh?", disappointment, incredulity and amusement.
but no time to blog about it now. apart from my horror at the white outfit at the end (and their omg-spare-me-from-the-terror-please hairstyle) i just want to say: kei-chan just keep getting cooler by the moment, pi-chan gorgeous as always, ryo is to-die-for in this PV (he's the sexiest!), shige is the most adorable one and i love how his personality started coming through more strongly, massu looks like sporty gentlemen with his short hair and suit, and koyatego moments at the end is HILARIOUS! xD especially kei-chan with his tied hair o.O!! and petite tego in that get up dancing disco is......xD he looked like a hyperactive girl! i think there are 2 himes in NEWS =P
week 14 is ending soon...and i'm still toiling in my toiles. maybe there's a reason why toile is called toile. maybe someone wanted to spell it as "toil" and accidentally added an "e" at the end, and thus "toile" is produced. coz that's what toiles are all about: toils.
11:38 am
Tuesday 7 April 2009
sometimes what we need is just a word of encouragement and faith from the teachers to drive us to keep on going. i so wanted to record whatever he said so that i would always remember how much faith he has in us. i think it's the 2nd time, or 3rd, that he said that he wanted us all to join competition after assessment to prove ourselves because when he sees the things that other schools do, what we are doing is beyond them, and that the reason that a particular school keep winning award after award is simply because nobody compete against them, and we ALL should join so that the first place, runner-up, second runner-up..... yea he didn't continue xD and he also said that apart from local competition, he'd want us to compete in international competition to see how we fair against people from other countries. Labels: 101 things i love about BA
just simply hearing his words is enough to light up the spirit to keep me going. it's week 14, and i'm still not finishing my toiles soon, which should be very, VERY alarming, given that photoshoot should be done next week and i can NOT send most of my garments out due to the complexity of the production.... god help us all.... all i can do, we can do, right now is just to keep on going, and keep on going... LR said that we're all turning into adults. he sees that our faces change, he sees responsibility in our expressions, not going nyaahnyaahnyaah anymore xD ning said we still do, and he said he knows xD
ning asked PL if she's worried for us, i suspect she meant that our progress is like such when the time is ticking. but PL said no, because whenever there's problems and she taught us how to rectify them, we know how to go on and move on from there, unlike many from last year. and she felt challenged when she saw our complex things and she enjoyed thinking to solve the problems. what more could a BA class want other than 2 really supportive lecturers? i mean 3, i was forgetting ED ^^ or 4, including SR at earlier part of the year and semester. i can't repeat myself enough, how much i'm grateful for continuing to BA, and how i regret that many of our friends last year didn't give the lecturers enough chance to prove their worth.
i'm gonna miss having chocolate bars for dinner, and some chips of pringles and khong guan biscuits. i'll miss having teachers dropping by everyday after their lessons in other blocks and checking up on our work even when it's not lesson time. i'll miss lis ngasi sesajen buat si babe demi bikin dia kenyang n hepi. i'll miss the stress-induced hysteria in class that fills the classroom with laughters every so often. i'll miss the late-afternoon sun shining down on our studio every 6-7pm and me trying to escape it by going for dinner at those time. i'll miss the little break i always take whenever the cleaner comes to clean the studio. i'll miss meeting the security guard every night who'll shoo us home in a very kindly manner (we're gonna buy them coffee at the end of semester!) i'll miss having to dress up as lightly as possible on saturdays and sundays because they turn off the air-con really really early (like around 5pm??) so that we don't sweat too much for the next 6 hours. i'll miss having to take the lift at block E to level 4, cross the sky bridge and climb the stairs to the studio on saturdays sundays coz the lift at block F don't work. i'll miss fatima lying around dismantled, her legs at the middle of the room, her head and body and arms at the back of the studio. i'll miss BA so much!
1:46 am
Sunday 5 April 2009
....IS: dreaming of them when sleeping -.- it could be because my mind was very tired and my brain couldn't sort and store info very well, but when i went to sleep at 6 yesterday, i dreamt of nino o.o and he was asking for a date xD ok that comes later.
...but why nino??? -_- prior to sleeping i was watching and laughing at aibajun, juntoshi, shohno, but the one whom i dreamt of is nino????? further more it has somewhat yamada tarou monogatari-ish setting o_o and on top of the drama being so-so, i finished watching yamada tarou monogatari like weeks ago...
the dream started in a bookstore setting, and i was looking for something across the shelves, and there's this guy who was crouching down and reading a magazing while wearing a cap/helmet (couldn't remember) and i saw him looking at me as i scanned through the shelves. after some time, i passed by that same area again and re-scanning the shelves coz apparently i didn't know what to get, and he looked at me again, this time with his head tilted and a hand on his cheek like as though he was lazily observing people. i passed by the area again. until that time i didn't realise it's nino.
the next thing i knew, someone tapped my shoulder and when i turned, nino was standing in front of me O.O... and he said, "ashita hima desuka?" and then "wanna go for a date?" o.O""??!!?!?!?? and i stared at him..... and just suddenly the thoughts of my unfinished toiles and the looming deadline for photoshoot and catalogue and assessment entered my mind, and i automatically said, "ashita chotto......" xOOO if that happens in real life, i'd chop off my tongue xOOO turning down a date invite from nino?????? unimaginable! and somehow the next thing that he did was writing his working address on a piece of paper to me, and me watching him doing that happily, and then on a different day i was going to pay him a visit, and suddenly i have a lot of people to consider about before i go, like tarou who has to include his whole family in whatever he does. and i remember obachan being one of the people who tagged along with me as i went to search for nino in his part time job. see, very yamada tarou monogatari!! -__-
by the way i just watched the tiny clip if hikaru graduating from high school. omg he went to horikoshi high too???? that high school produced a LOT of stars, johnnys and non-johnnys alike! for exmaple, junichi, matsujun, yamapi, tesshi, koki, goro and kusanagi (both smap), domoto tsuyoshi, matsuoka (tokio)... then there's ayumi hamasaki, aya ueto, TEPPEI, perfume.... mothers out there who'd like their kids to go to the entertainment industry, perhaps you could put them in this school xD
in hey hey hey, once, yamapi complained that perfume greeted tegoshi but not to him, even tho they came from the same high school, and perfume said that they were in the same batch (as in they attended school at the same time even though tesshi was senpai) whileas yamapi had already graduated, and since yamapi is like a 'legend' in the school, they feel uneasy to greet him. tesshi also said that the reason of him entering johnnys is because he wanted to become like yamapi. maybe because he's so popular? but if that's the case, wouldn't mentioning matsujun be more appropriate? coz matsujun's name, and arashi, is definitely bigger than yamapi and news? ...then again, since matsujun's 2 years older than yamapi, who's 2 years older than tesshi, perhaps they're not in the school together so his 'legend' might've been overridden by yamapi's 'legend'? *shrugs* why am i bothering myself with all these? -___-
gotta rush to school. tomorrow's bento box presentation aarrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
11:43 am
Saturday 4 April 2009
on a more sombre note, reading obachan's entries and comparing them with what's happening around me, i must say: WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS WRONG THIS WEEK?????? too many deaths and misunderstandings are happening this week -____- let's hope for a better week ahead...
3:47 am
thus, 100% JE-related entry
nobody can make me laugh like arashi can xD i'm a devout follower of arashi-therapy! was watching Himitsu no Arashi #42, it's regarding human beatbox, arashi version. man, that was SO funny!! members kept doing weird things to add to the normal sound of "bun" or "tch", like sneezing, vomiting or snorting sound. and because we see them in action while they were producing the sound, it became really really funny!
look at ohchan at the end of the clip... look at that face! like, how could you see that face and not want to pinch his cheeks??? xD thank you gachapin for the vid! i don't know when was this episode aired, but by right it shouldn't be too far back, yea? coz nino is already filming Door to Door, aiba is already rehearsing for Green Finger and ohchan is still filming Uta no Oniisan, if i'm not wrong. they got matsujun and sho right after they did the previous session of H no Arashi, the really cool session of matsujun throwing a ketchup bottle back to its place without looking (after 77 take!!), sho throwing a pair of bread right into the toaster from a metre away and such.
by the way, Koi no ABO preview is up everywhere. when i was listening to the song, i thought alright. the song is catchy, but not as catchy as weeek. but after watching the pv preview, i think i'm gonna like this song. i'll especially enjoy watching their usual promo performances in music station, utaban and hey hey hey coz the dance moves is more fun than happy birthday or summer time ^^ and for once kei-chan's flamboyant (and really flexible) dancing style is not out of place xD
and back to arashi that never fails to make me laugh (NEWS clip di atas kayak iklan aja xD), i found this clip on youtube that makes me went back to the community and search for the complete episode. i cracked up!! AnS and every other arashi variety show are the sole reason i'm their fan. i'm not too much into their music, and there are more voices that i like in some other groups, but nobody in Johnny's Jimusho are as funny and adorable as them. even matsujun, that annoying-to-hell tsukasa whom i hate sooooo much, i like him a lot now xD especially when being paired to ohchan xD juntoshi ftw!! and it's only after i started liking him that i can see why so many girls fawn over him, he's really quite gorgeous xP and aiba, that aiba that obachan likes but i don't give a damn earlier on, i really like him too ^^ he has such adorable personality, and the pet-name aibakaland for his corner in AnS is perfect for him xD
anyway, watch this clip that makes me almost cracked my jaws xD
the aibajun moment was ROFLOL! matsujun is clearly on the verge of laughing! i'm surprised that he still managed to say the "chuu shiyou" xDDDDDD i can't find a name for the pairing though, i think it's not a really popular pairing. as far as i know the most popular pairings are sakuraiba, ohmiya and juntoshi.
2:56 am
Friday 3 April 2009
Koi no A-B-O, as it's supposed to be pronounced, is catchy. not as catchy as weeek, but i'll definitely like it better than happy birthday, i guess. tesshi has another bridge whereby he show off his voice and sing at the top of his lungs. awesome! ^^ Labels: school
a few days ago LR talked about music for our fashion show. man, that sure gets me excited! i've been planning my music even before i stepped my toes into the programme 3 years ago xD i've been dreaming of it since i was introduced to yoshiki, in fact. now, since the only song Violet UK has released officially is Blue Butterfly, i'm gonna propose it to him. wish me luck! i HAVE TO HAVE that song for my show! HAVE TO!
it's hard to be in the middle and take natural side. on one side i try to make people understand, and at the same time trying to make them give in to the other party, but i know it's not fair coz they're not in the wrong. and yet, if both sides keep standing up to their own beliefs and wouldn't relent, the situation is just gonna get worse.
my late principal said once, as you grow to become adult, the boundaries between right or wrong will be blurred and what's left is the consequences. you can choose to do the wrong, nobody will stop you, but you have to bear the consequences.
i guess a sign of maturity is the ability to let go and compromise and to understand that whatever decision the other party make, it's totally their own decision. i don't say to agree to the other party, but to understand that they have their own way of doing things, you have your own way of doing things, and sometimes you just can't make people see your way. i totally, totally agree that if it happens to me, i would most probably react to it in a worse way than you do (hell, if i'm angry, i don't listen to people at all) but i'm sure there will be friends around me who will be saying things like i do right now.
the question now is, would you rather insist that you are right and they are wrong and want them to see it your way and things will stay at a knife-edge until someone does or say something (whether good or bad) and we'll have a cold war til then, or, would you rather know in your heart that the other person is wrong, but you understand that they're doing it because of what they believe, just as you are doing it because of what you believe, and be the generous and charitable party and forget and extend the friendly hand to them even though (and precisely because) they may not accept it and maintain the friendship (or the facade of a friendship, whatever you wish to believe) and let time solve the problem?
i hate to see the class crumbling down... it's just a few more weeks people, let's preserve this absolutely wonderful class ambience til the end, shall we?
11:04 am
Wednesday 1 April 2009
once when we were eating our dabao food outside, lis said, "na, you weren't used to be a fussy eater is it?" i said no, then she said, "can tell." still duno why she could see that, but i'm really not a fussy eater. in fact, i don't mind eating something hot or cold as long as it's nice. lately i've been dveeloping a strange habit of eating cold food, like cold satay or cold rendang, straight from the fridge =P after lysia's party, there are still loads of leftover food which she leave here, and at night after i came back home, i'd just grab a plate and eat some cold rendang and satay =P talk about body image xD
Versailles just announce the release of more stuff. this time it's 2 DVDs. they're even more expensive than the 3-type single -___- manz....
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CD Wishlist
JaeChunSu - The... (preordered)
JYJ - Thanksgiving Live in Dome DVD (preordered)
Tegomasu - Tegomasu no Ai minialbum
Versailles - Ascendead Master (mini movies in Limited Ed singles type I,II,III)
Yoshiki - Eternal Melody 1
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
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
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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
V6 - seVen
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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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
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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
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/?action=view¤t=ekkusu3.jpg
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...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/arsenal_x/ekkusu2.1copy.jpg
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
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/ekkusunostudio1-3.jpg
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
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v457/arsenalx/?action=view¤t=yoshiki56trialwithrollovercopy.jpg
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!