Night of Love ♥

Feels so weird to be back on LJ

2019-11-25T15:06:33Z

It's weird.

1114 Sapporo Dome really did a number on me and I'm back to full time fangirling ~

Year end nostalgia

2019-01-01T13:40:52Z

Somehow the end of the year always brings nostalgia to JE. I admit I pay a lot less attention to them but every year around this time, I realise I still love them.

2019, this is the year where I have decided to attend an Arashi concert! ～

Happy New Year!!

5 piece of stardusts

2016-12-26T16:09:44Z

★★★★★

You guys are special, irreplaceable and will forever be in my heart.
Thank you for everything.

お疲れ様でした

One of the things I'm most scared of is pissing off a friend

2014-07-26T14:27:05Z

I'm in a state of panick and paranoia because I don't know whether I've pissed off a friend. We are working for a charity organisation and last night the office went out to have a drink.

Me and alcohol does not necessary mean a disaster, but it certainly makes me high, higher than my already naturally-high state. Also the guy I'm crushing on was there, and I was interacting with him and I was really really happy that night. The group was teasing and poking funs at each other, and we mention about tipsyness. I asked my friend whether she remembers the time when we got so tipsy we leaned on the railing for around 15 minutes, being all dead and all. She laughed and said she does. At this point, I said I have a photo of that moment and every demanded ot see it. I whipped it out and my phone was passed around, and the group start flipping through other pictures of us and her being kind of dead in a bar. The atmosphere was amazing, we were all laughing, me and my friend included. There was no sign of she being pissed at me for this at all.

After the drink, the group went for dinner. Again there was no sign of her being pissed. I was still hyper from the alcohol, I jokely annoy her a bit, to which she responded kindly and no she was no pissed for the whole night. She was normal.

Then we got back to the office, I went to the other end of the room to chat with some guys about work and still being hyper and all. She might have annouced she was going to leave, but I probably didn't really register it. I turned around as she left. Later, I went home. Whilst travelling home, I was constantly worried that I may have overstepped the line during the night. Before, I went to bed, I sent her a message apologising for the photo and for being way too hyper.

I woke up the next morning and she never replied. I sent her a work-related text in the afternoon, and she didn't reply. I was anxious to the stomach the whole day, I talked to another friend, telling her how I am really worried that I might have pissed my friend off. She told me she might just be busy, and how she doens't thing my friend is pissed, and how even if she is pissed she won't stay pissed for long. I called her after dinner but no one picked up. At this point, I'm already panicking, a lot. I typed out a very long apology. I was about to copy and paste it to the conversation, I noticed she replied to my work-text. A very simple, no emoticon text saying that she will look into the email I gave her. That was it. I didn't know what to make of it. But she is a very very dear friend of mine, so I sent r my apology. She didn't reply to that.

I don't know what to do. I'm really worried. I don't know whether she is angry or not. She has every right to be angry. I know forgiveness don't come easy and it's not for granted even if you ask. I know I may have many times step over the line and I know how I always say I'll improve and make sure it never happens again. But it seems like I'm a shit person when it comes to learning from my mistake. I just never learn. I probably don' t deserve it at all. But it is eating me away so much. I need to know whether she is pissed, I want her forgiveness a lot. If she is pissed, I want her to yell at me, to be pissed at me, but the silent treatment and not knowing, it really kills me. She is one of my best friend, and I've known her for a long time.

I really really want to know. I'm worried.

charingyu @ 2014-06-07T00:26:00

2014-06-06T16:26:40Z

Back from Tokyo!!

I didn't want to leave at all ><
Now I got to face reality, the fact that I have a summer semester and an internship beginning on Monday...

Crap day at the exam, Boo

2014-05-12T13:04:48Z

Had my second exam today on Criminal Procedure course. Being a procedure course, it means we'd have to know all the process and procedures and different powers of the court and the criminal justice system. Basically cramming, because there's no logic in how a system works, what papers you have to file, how days you have to do it ,ugh. Thank god, it was open book.

But then being open book makes it harder, they can ask more difficult questions, plus there won't be anytime to actually flip through and read the book during the exams anyways. That's not too bad, I can handle dry cramming information in my head.

But it's f***ing pissing off that they manage to pick questions concerning the more obscure and relately uncommon things they could ask. Go to hell for making our lives harder than it already it.

It's bad enough that they made the alleged offence so borderline on the sentencing scale, which means there's a chance we might go off in the wrong direction when we are discussing whether it was an appropriate sentence. Especially annoying because they don't seem to accept the opposite view even with proper justification. If you don't think the same way as the marker, too bad, justify it with proper and sound reasoning all your want, you're wrong.

Then they decide to ask a questionre based entirely on a separate policy document, that I doubt manby people did read through it (I didn't!), which was at most mentioned twice in the textbook, and the said mention does not even allude to what the question was asking. So F*** that, I didn't read it, I was confused, I Bulled some random stuff in it, came out heard someone said it, remember that damn thing, knew I was in so much trouble because i just lost a 7 mark question completely, 14% of my mark gone. Oh great, now that's definitely a B-range, and that's assuming i did relatively well in the other 43 marks.

That last question they pulled out these tiny point that would've been so easily overlooked (or directs you to the wrong section). I made the mistake of reading the wrong section. But in that last 15 minutes, while flipping through my notes, I finally found the correct section! So I saved that question. That was the one good thing in this exam.

/end rant.

tl;dr, the examw as terrible, it was hell, and I'm depressed.

but know i can't let that affect me too much, I still have 2 closed book exam coming up and another exam after that. So that's 10 days to memorise everything and revise that last one.

oh the joy. can't wait for it to be over!
-x-
What made me smile: MY SHIP: #CAPTAINSWAN IS SO CANON IT HURTS ♥. I totally needed that to keep my emotions up :)

Nearly forgot about this song ♥

2014-05-09T18:47:40Z

I was watching an old episode of Otameshi ~ Ka earlier today with Shingo as the guest and a surprise appearnace by Takki and Tsubasa, and they sang "Heartful Voice"! Well well, I've nearly forgot this gem in my music library ♥

I'm glad they are finally releasing something new this year :)!

Tackey & Tsubasa - Heartful Voice PV from chau do on Vimeo.

I just love it when you suddenly remember some amazing song that you haven't listened to for awhile!

In other news....Just had my first exam earlier today! 16 more days till I'm done with my remaining 4 exams, and the starting of some binge-TV-watching!

To everyone with finals, good luck! And if you're already done, well then, have a nice summer holiday? :)

Goro you have an amazing voice ♥

2014-03-30T14:06:15Z

I really love Goro's voice and his singing ♥
His solos are amazing as well. 'Special Thanks' from the Gift of SMAP concert is my latest addiction. It's been looping for a few days already.

My favourite part is the chorus:

今すぐ伝えたい言葉

ありがとう全ての出来事に

負けない強さをくれた

君に今エールを贈ろう

Yep, this has been a post. I feel like I need to reiterate how much I love it haha.
That is all.

Have a great day!

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in other news, the weather where I live (Hong Kong) is going bonkers. There's a huge rainstorm going on right now. It even hailed. The roof of one of the major shopping malls here broke because of the hail, and rain were pouring in the shopping mall. O__O

Anyone want to help proof read my japanese homework when I'm done? XD

2014-03-11T13:54:58Z

I was lucky and I finally had the chance to enrolled in the Japanese Language 1.1 (Part 2) course for my free elective slot. (Part 2 because it's in semester 2 and I passed the placement test so I could waive the requirement *fist pump*!)

It's a basic beginner course, like basic of the basics. I have no problem understanding things and overall the course is relaxing, I would say. Well, relaxing in a sense. Years of fangirling, watching variety bangumi, jdrama etc definitely made the learning experience a WHOLE lot easier. In terms of pronounication, basic things of how the language goes, understanding, I'm fine. I mean, I watch most of the variety shoes without subs anyways, and by and large get through it understanding what's being said.

But as with all language learning goes (for me at least), my Achilles' heel - Grammar. It stumps me every single time. Learning the language from media meant that when it comes to grammar, at least certain parts of it, it comes naturally/ from guesswork/ or the whatever sounds right approach (e.g the て form). But that won't cut it for everything...

Bad grammar means I can't write properly, or string together a proper 100% correct sentence in writing/orally.
Which means, panick for the upcoming composition assignment!

The title is『将来の夢』and I'll have to include the following things:
- あなたは子どもの時、何になりだかったですか？
- どうしてですか？
- 今、将来何になりたいですか？/何をしたいですか？
- どうしてですか？
- 夢のためにもう準備を始めましたか？
- どんな準備を始めましたか？/これからどんな準備をしたいですか？
(btw i'm pretty sure we have to write about jobs. unfortunately I can't rant about how I want to go to Japan and watch arashi/smap and am now busting my butt studying so i can get a job and be able to fly there etc haha)

I haven't attempt it yet, but I am already panicking about the whole load of grammatically mistake there will be, looking forward to that page full of red crosses and circles. -sigh-

~~~

On this note, Is this the right choice? Obviously, I chose Japanese because i love it, I want to learn it and had been wanting to do it ever since. Unfortunately, my program only allows me to do one semester of it. I am enjoying classes and it's the only enjoyable class I have amongst my other ones. But still, I can't help but feel like I shouldn't have picked this.

For some reason, Japanese class, unlike the rest of the language classes, has 6 hours of lesson per week. 2 lectures and 1 skill classes. Not to mention, my two lectures are at 4:30-6:30pm which means 2 days I week, I would get home late and be too tired to do work from my regular classes. It'll be such a bummer, if my grades drop further because of this. but then I am enjoying it so much so it'll be worth it. right? right? yes. I'm sure!!! >:(

that big slap from reality - grades released

2014-01-22T04:40:43Z

My semester 1 grades was released yesterday.

I walked out of the exam hall that day feeling confident. Sure, Question 1 and its 6 sub-questions were hard and challenging, but the rest went well, quite a breeze it was. So you don't feel worried at all, and you feel relaxed and reliefed that you've just completed your last exam for the semester.

a Month later, You wait nervously for the grades to be released. You are nervous but you know it would never turn out horridly bad, because after all, despite the problems you faced in the exam, you still completed the whole paper.

Then reality gives you the biggest and slap ever.

A big C+ sat on the results page.
A big C+ for the course that you are actually not worried about.
A big C+ to remind you that reality is unpredictable.
A big C+ laughing in the face of all the efforts you put in the past semester.
A big C+ that clearly does not reflect the amount of effort you put in.
A big C+ that makes you go completely confused because you thought you did well.

It was so unjustified. It was painful. If I knew I had done badly, I wouldn't have felt so bad. The worse is thinking you did well and then reality turns back and says "Haha. nope." (And then the course that you are worried about turned out to be better)

I am at a lost as to what to do. I felt like I've gave everything and I don't know how to improve my grades anymore. It feels pointless to try to put more effort. Who knows? Maybe It's just impossible for me to get better, get beyond my average (and disaster) grades.

I've never gotten a C ever since before my GCSEs, when I was still in first/second year of high school.

I tasted defeat. A hard and bitter defeat. Can I climb back up? I really don't know. This has never happened before.
I no longer feel motivated to do anything.

独身貴族~A Swinging Single

2014-01-18T05:17:52Z

AREN'T YOU TWO CUTE?

I finally got around to watch this drama, and I finished it just now, just 2 days before my semester resumes :P.

This is actually the first Tsuyopon drama that I've ever watched. Lately, I've been liking him more and more (and I believe he is secretly talented) and that's one of the reason why I started this haha. I didn't know what to expect when I first started but the first episode captured me quite quickly and I decided to stick with it. I enjoyed it a lot more than I imagined, no scratch that, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! ♥

The pace of the story was calm and nice, I didn't find it too slow or lacking in big drama. The story was super cute and I adored the chemistry between the characters :).

Also, thanks to Dokushin Kizoku, I was introduced to this piece of eye-candy named Ito Hideaki ♥. It's a mystery how I've only got to know him now.

How do you deal with an uncooperative partner in a group project?

2014-01-11T17:36:50Z

Excuse me, but I need to rage.

For this compulsory pass/fail course in my program, a group of 2 students, randomly paired-up, are required to participate in a moot (mock trial). We are meant to use our winter break to prepare for it, but since it's holiday and knowing that pretty much nobody gives too much of a crap about a pass/fail course, I too adopted the "frankly I do not intend to put in more effort than what is necessary to pass" mentality, and I well expect others to do so. But still there HAS to be a limit to this!!

We are required to submit a skeleton argument to the opponent team on the 13th January. Maximum length is 4 single sided A4. We are to present the moot on the 21st.

My partner contacted me on 30th December about the initial role assignment. (Even more enthusiastic than me at this point!)
I replied him on the 2nd/3rd Jan since I was busy with moving house and stuff. We both agree that we won't put too much effort in this.

At this point, there is still a lot of time before the deadline. We divided the issue up and each took up one issue to write. He mentioned that he might be a bit busy with internship during the break. I completely understand that and told him it was fine.

A week ago, I quickly done my research and typed up around 3 pages worth of a first draft skeleton argument in one night. It was really just a whole load of BS-ing. I even took the initiative to format the whole thing as a proper submission, and prepared the index page for the case bundle we are meant to prepare for the moot. I sent them over to him on the same night and he replied back saying he'll have it done in a few days.

A week passed. Nothing from him. I messaged him asking how was the skeleton going on the morning on 11th (yesterday, it's 1:30am 12th Jan here). His reply was "Oh Hey, I'm working on it right now. Hopefully I can send you tonight or tmr". Oh weee that's great! NOT! I basically sat here all day waiting for him to send it to me so I can proof read/fix/make sure all the referencing adds up before I submit it on 13th and it's Mid-night here and there's still NOTHING from him.

Honestly, it's not that hard of an argument, it doesn't involve a massive amount of in depth research. How long does it take to type up a page or 2 of a BS argument?!!!!

I don't want to mean and harsh and pushy already since we still need to go over the opponent's argument after 13th and present our stuff on the 21st. But i'm seriously at the limit of my patience here. This is just plain rude. I've decided that I'm going to politely nudge him once more at noon tomorrow. I refuse to have to stay up tilll midnight tomrrow cleaning up our argument to meet the deadline.

Somehow this thing got wholly dumped on me! If my polite nudge don't yield any result, I have a feeling I would be so pushed over my tolerance I'm going to pick up the phone and call him and start biting his head off. I really don't want to resort to this, but he is totally abusing my tolerance arghhhhh!

I love Hello!

2013-12-22T14:33:12Z

I finally ripped my Shareotsu CD and had a listen. I LOVE HELLO! It's such a cute song!! ♥
In case you're interested, I uploaded it here @ smapxmedia

I also build my mini tokyo tower. I realised it's not the exact same one as the one in Ando Lloyd, apparently they have 2 versions? Nano Blocks are high addictive, I am really tempted to buy more!

Lastly, I opened my posters. That joy one is AMAZING!

Merry Christmas Y'all!!

シャレオツ到着！！

2013-12-18T09:20:56Z

IT CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Actually it arrived yesterday night) I went to collect it from the shop just now after I finished my second exam. Tomorrow is my last day!! Fight ~ !!

I ordered the RE version, it comes with a really nice mini photo booklet. I think I'm going to die if I look at for any longer! My regular version came with a poster, I think it's just the shop though, since they said they don't do the postcards. As for the poster, again, I'm opening it after my exams tomorrow together with teh Joy one :)

*pokes the tokyo tower nano block* bought that just now too cough-ando lloyd-cough! so much to play with after exams! I'm curious, how much do these nano block usually costs? I got mine for $168 (~2230 Yen?) ^____^

Someone need to teach me how to rip CDs :P. What do I need?

photobucket is being weird, I uploaded everything but the images won't show up when I insert them? Is Johnny policing?!!

here's what the back and the CD looks like. Sorry about those reflections, the plastic is still on.

front cover. Loving the black and red checkers!!

The impact is strong with this one. You can very well imagine how shock and basically alsals;dkasljak I was when I open it. One of the good things when you buy a CD without seeing people's scans first, is the surprise. *v*

He has the best smile hands down. So cuteeeee!

more walk walk fashun baby style

Tsuyopon, that candle shot is perfect!

Sorry, iphone camera sucks :P.

My mind is blank, I can't really function at this point

Goro doing his hair!!!!! Who's surprised? XD

*squish* Nakai is amazing.

Conclusion: Bow Tie = Win.

Back cover and The end :)

So, my final exam will end tomorrow, I'm compiling a list of things to do. Aside from revising ahead and preparing for this presentation in Januarty and catching up with some subjects.......

Catching up with all the TV Shows that I've taken a hiatus from. Say YAY to binge TV-Watching

Go back to my dorm and open my posters, and flail with my friend so hard that the whole floor will hear us + hot pot hopefully

Watch ATARU, Hanazaka Naoki, Re-watch Ando Lloyd hehe and find more series to watch

Re-watch all the SMAP Ganbarimas, and other shows like SxS, Arashi Shows etc.

Watch post 2008 SMAP Concerts, V6's OMG Concert, Arashi's popcorn and Arafes (Damn, I'm behind...)

New LJ Layout and New LJ Icons

Tidy my room (This ... should be further up my list...)

Meet-up with friends!

Build the tokyo tower nano block :DD

So that's about it? Back to revision I go!
I no longer understand LJ posting. The formatting is getting weird and what happened to the line spacings?!

Ando Lloyd Finale

2013-12-16T08:54:25Z

ABSOLUTELY BROKE MY HEART.

I took a break from revision to watch it, and it ended up being a complete sob-fest.
(My mum thought I was crying about my exams lol)

I was hoping so so so hard for a happy ending, although admittedly it was a bit hard given where the preview seems to be heading.
But still, I had hope. Things didn't look good in the middle of the episode, and at this point I already started sobbing like mad and yelling "No, no, no, no, no" at the computer.

Then it happened.
I cried so hard.

Then, all of a sudden, Hope resurfaced.
I was overjoyed, cheering while my face was a complete mess of tears.
My skeptism that it was a false hope quickly gave way to the thought of the happy ending that I much desired.
I allowed it to convince me.

THEN THEY JUST HAD TO RIP THAT RIGHT OUT OF MY HEART.
In the span of five minutes, I was on a emotion roller coaster ride.

Not fun.

Then the ending + it turns out Lloyd didn't "die".
I guess it was suppose to be comforting, but then it's different.
I think I'm more sad than happy.
I don't even know what kind of ending I want.

I need to heal from this. Have some gif of one of my favourite scene:

The "I promise I'd revise all week but ended up shopping for SMAP + I pre-ordered Shareotsu" Edition

2013-12-13T09:22:49Z

An update on where I'm at currently in life. I have 3 exams coming up next week, 16th, 18th and 19th, and I really should be revising right now 24/7 but as always I get beaten by procrastination. I did decide to stay home all week to mad-revise for my 3 subjects but, 2 days ago I ended up going outside for half a day and shopped for SMAP stuff (crazy-isg by my standard).

Oh! And I Also pre-ordered Shareotsu!

I was gutted when I went into this shop in Sino Centre and told them I'd like to pre-order Shareotsu. The shopkeeper told me because I'm really late in pre-ordering, they could only bring back the CD without any extra things that comes with it, ie no photobook/postcard etc. (not to mention his serious attitude problem when I asked him whether the merchandise would come when the shop has stock etc). I'm never going in this shop again. I wented back to the shop where I bought Joy! (hehe) to try my luck. To my surprise they said it's perfectly fine and they are able to order the CD with the goods that come with it. (What the heck shop #1...?) I ended up pre-ordering the Regular edition, the first press that comes with the photobook, choosing the photobook over the poster (the shop said they give poster not postcards). I can't wait for my CD to arrive!! I wonder if they'd include a poster for my RE version hehe. The fastest it would come is 18th, on the day of my second exam hehe.

So, here's what I bought, I think a lot of people would have seen the magazines already, they are a few years back :P

(This is my bed, and yes that's a football plushie :P)

The 2 ANANs, SMAP Magazine and Kai Ho Ku: I found these 2nd hand items online. Without a thought I contacted the seller, telling him I want everything haha. ($80 for 2 ANAN + $160 for the magazine and Kai Ho Ku = $240. ~ 3180 Yen)

Joy!: Found this in the second CD shop I went into. They had all 5 versions, it was such a pain to decided which one I wanted. I was choosing between Yellow and the Shocking Pink version, and decided I wanted CD-size instead. They included a Yellow version poster :O (I think they charged me $140(~1800 Yen)? Normal pricing, plus they gave me a poster so I'm not complaining if they charge me extra!!)

TV-Guide: They didn't have the one I wanted (the newest issue Dec 04 with the snow T_T), so I bought whichever TV guide they have with SMAP on the cover...

Excessive photos, fangirling behind the cuts. (Apologies for any grammatical mistake, I'm really sleep deprived)

Like I said, I haven't opened the poster yet. I'll do that after exam, as a promise so I'd revise properly now. I set stupid little promise and goals for myself hahaha. I checked the CD case, and discovered a small crack though -sigh-.

I can't believe I am able to find something like?. So this is a collection of columns that Kimura regularly writes in Myojo, along with photos of him and taken by him. I swear one day, I'll formally learn japanese and be able to read this book. :) I really like that epilogue picture, he's so bloody adorable with that little smile ~

ALSKJLAASLKAJ I never thought I'd ever be able to get my hands on this issue of ANAN? No, scratch that. I didn't think I'd be able to get my hands on ANY Kimura AnAn!! Seriously, I can't stop staring at it! ANAN is definitely one of those magazine where you don't even need to see the content to know whether the photos are gonna be good :P. The major flaw of this is...the cover of the magazine is scratched. They're really obvious scratches too! See those little white spots on his arm? and those black spots on his face? Yup. Seriously what did the previous owner do it?

ANAN you need to do more SMAP shoots!! The photoshoot here is just perfect, as expected. First page is a little surprise ~ Matsujun ad XD. Amazingn group photo follows, I see 2TOP sitting next to each other

I love all the individual shots in this issue. The clothes are worth praising too. I'm a total sucker for men in suit/blazer/V-neck Sweater + Blouse, they make a men look decent and classy no? Nakai is so cute in that woolen hat, for some reason he always reminds me of a cat?

I'm a total sucker for Shingo's smile too :DDDDDDDDDDDDD. 2TOP next to each other again (I find 2TOP everywhere...)

Since theyI didn't have the issue I want...in a fit of disappointment, I just grabbed the only TV Guide with SMAP on the cover.

I did't really like this issue though. There are some really questionable photoshopping that made them look a bit...scarily weird?. I never find the photoshoot in TV Guide particularly great to be honest. This issue includes a double sided SMAP poster, but like I said, questionable photoshopping. They look souless!! (Nakai and Kitamura though, I'm planning to watch ATARU after my exams!!)

I.WANT.THIS.ISSUE:

totally going back next week to see if they have it.

THIS MAGAZINE IS REALLYYYYYYY AWESOME! NO JOKES. The whole magazine is SMAP, like 100 odd pages or so!! To start it off, there are some cute ads that they shoot. *squish* and omg Shingo...

Then comes the group shoots, absolutely stunningly amazing. my favourite is probably that scarf biting spread. (If only it were 2TOP)

They have a lot of individual spreads as well. (gah I can't deal with this.)

A photo archive for each member, Chibi Nakai deserves a bigger picture!

more monochrome individual double spreads, and spread where it's a colloboration shoot with other actors/random people. I love Shingo's peroxide hair hehe

The magazine is too long so I only took a few pics :)

And that concludes all the SMAP things I bought! Phew ~ I felt like I splurged by my standard but I'm a happy fangirl and it seriously made my day so...no regrets!

On the right, is 8 JE magazines. Potato, Wink Up, Duet. for some reason, I've never bought Myojo...I bought these a few years ago but haven't since then. Reason being after Arashi's 10th Anniversary they don't appear regularly in every issue with a big portion anymore yeah? Or so that's what I've heard happens to groups that go past their 10th Anniversary? :( These issues are the ones where I have shoots of Arashi, Kamisen or Kinki that i absolutely adored, or they include big posters of Arashi haha.

They should make a senpai magazine featuring regularly appearance of Matchy, Higashiyama, SMAP, TOKIO, Kinki Kids, V6, Arashi. I would seriously buy every issue that comes out.

Yes, I only have 3 CDs :(. My brother bought me Monster from Japan when he went on a high school trip a few years back. As for Voyager a friend got me this. She's a huge K-pop fan but I probable ranted to her enough that she recognises V6. She said she found it in the sale area of HMV lol. I was pleasantly surprised when she gave it to me ♥

I'm not really a big CD buyer for a lot of reasons. I am the type to never open them and actually use them. I hate the prospect of scratching the new CDs and the risk of damaging the case and stuff. Also, in Hong Kong, a lot of the Johnny CDs don't come in Japanese Versions! It's not much difference except the tracklisting in the back (or maybe in the lyric booklet) will have chinese characters on them but I'm just picky like that. Most of the time, if you want to buy the Japanese version that is actually in stock, they cost double the price or sometimes even triple. That's the same for all the concert DVDs.

But I'm trying to change that though. I discovered the shop that every body talks about buying JE goods is actually in the basement. I've been to sino centre a lot of times and I've NEVER found it because I kept going upstairs. -FAIL-. Secondly, I also discovered that they do CD pre-ordering! They don't charge extra, or if they do, very minimum I think. The Shareotsu CD cost 180 (~2400 Yen) to pre-order. which to be fair, will probably be the same price as waiting it to be available in HK and then buying it from CD shops and in which case, they proabbly won't have the limted edition goods...

In other news, I feel really blessed. I moved into a dorm for the first semester (going back home at the end of december T_T), and actually managed to be on the same floor as this girl, who's one year younger and studies law as well, WHO LIKES SMAP (and she actually only knows + like SMAP haha). I screamed and went into hyper mode when I found out. Since then we kept pestering each other about watching shows together. Ganbarimasu, random SMAPxSMAP episodes, concerts and stuff. (Which is one the reason why I'm behind on revision, rushing last minute again haha)

My apologies, I felt like I needed this entry just to relax and ramble on a bit :) So now, back to revision?

Meet my new (bought) baby!

2013-11-15T16:37:36Z

I finally bought an external hard drive!! 1 TB! (I'm watching the 2008 SMAP love award haha)

I've always been plagued by the lack of computer hard drive space ever since I discovered fandom. A few year ago, my desktop computer was so full that it can hardly run properly. Then I took an hiatus from actively fangirling, and during that hiatus, I went around my computer and deleted a lot of videos. Things like TV shows, Arashi/V6/SMAP's variety shows, concerts, and all sorts of other videos. I even deleted most of my scanned magazine/shop photos/photobooks. Yes, I was that desperate to make space for other things and for the general well-being of my computer.

Thinking back, I could not fathom how I managed to do that at all. I consider myself to have a bit of an attachment issues to videos I downloaded...

After I watched it, I always think "I can't delete this, what if I need to watch it again some day and I can't find the downloads?". The result is a mass collection of videos that I hardly go back to re-watch (mostly because i actually lack the time), but could not bring myself to hit the 'del' button. I just hated the regret of deleting stuff and never getting back.

Recently, that regret hit me hard. I was having a serious SMAP feels attack week, and I went on my desktop and remembered how I mass deleted A LOT of things. So recently, I've been downloading like mad a lot of the smap shows I watched, and the concerts that I deleted or never downloaded. I can see the 'free space' bar on my laptop slowing getting shorter and shorter, I knew I had to give in and go buy an external hard drive.

And I did! it was 540HKD (approx 70USD). I feel like I splurged lol :) There's nothing in it yet though hehe. I don't know how reliable really these things are, I just hope it won't die on me after I transfer my files there!

This has been a rather pointless real life show case post. It's 00:33 am here and I should get back to reading my materials for study!

Dear External HD, I look forward to spending my time with you! Yoroshiku ne~?

Good night y'all!

Happy Birthday My King!

2013-11-12T18:29:26Z

木村拓哉さん　４１歳の誕生日おめでとう！

Happy 41st Birthday to my king, Kimura Takuya!
Stay flawless
Stay healthy
Never stop smiling

one year, two years, five years, ten years
no matter how many year passes
I will still love you
forever and ever

I love how the first post I make, after resolving to be more active on LJ from now on, is Kimura Takuya's birthday post. I wish I could do more, write a lovely post, picspams, graphics, but the usual culprit - real life is really taking a toll. I have 3 assignments (albeit short) due by next friday, and not to mention the numerous readings and lecture notes I have to catch up with. Despite this, I think his birthday worth at least an hour of my time to make an edit. Whoops, sorry work. I'm a rather slow editor as you can see. hehe. :)

I need a layout, profile, and icons revamp to mark my return, but that'll be for the soon future.

It's 2.30am here, I really should go to bed now. well, now, as in after I reblog every single Kimura post on tumblr ;P Good night!

Done with Year 1!

2012-05-11T05:39:32Z

Exams are over and I'm done with the first year in University!!!
Summer officially starts now.

going to be spending my holiday in the usual way :)
staying in my room and watching tonnes of stuff ehehee :D
and I have to tidy my room...

I'm planning to watch Riida's drama Kagi no Kakatta Heya
and lots of shows to catch up!

I love summer, except for the heat of course.

Last day of holiday and I'm bored and I obviously don't want to work, so meme!

2012-01-29T12:31:01Z

Directions are:

1. Put your Itunes, Windows Media Player,etc. on shuffle.

2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.

3 .YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

~~4. Tag 20 friends.~~

~~5 .Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.~~

6. Have fun!

1. If someone says "Are you okay?", you say?

サヨナラの向こう - タッキー＆翼 ... "beyond goodbye", does that sounds suicidal? >__>

2. How would you describe yourself?

Vivo En Sueños - Reik "Live in Dreams" HAHAHAHA it fits quite well, living in dreams, dreams of JE *__*

3.What do you like in a guy/girl?

4U - Miyake Ken I like "4U" in a guy, I like Miyake Ken in a guy, I like Miyake Ken. LOL this don't make any sense

4. How do you feel today?

My Home - 関ジャニ∞ well, more like "my room" :D

5. What is your life's purpose?

ALONES - Aqua Timez My life's purpose is to be ALONE??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's sad ;______;

6. What's your motto?

Waka Waka - Shakira ok so my motto to "waka"... yeps, I live by this motto...

7. What do your friends think of you?

Animal - Dalton Warblers (Glee) I-AM-NOT-AN-ANIMAL.fullstop, why is my itunes doing this to me...

8. What do your parents think of you?

Good Girls go Bad - Cobra Starship ft. Leighton Meester O_______________O itunes is being mean.

9. What do you think very often?

ヨロコビノウタ - Okada Junichi "Song of Happiness", i suppose I'm not always depressed :3

10. What is 2+2?

superman - Joe Brooks OMG IT WOULD BE COOL IF "4U" CAME UP HERE!

11. What do you think of your best friend?

Jasmine - V6 don't quite know how to interpret this...calm? lol no my besties are not calm at all XD

12. What is your life story?

Bills, Bills, Bills - Dalton Warblers (Glee) so my life story is "bills bills bills"...pay my bills...sounds like a nightmare -__-

13. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Dirty Little Secret - all America Rejects .................. just. no. I don't want to be that

14. What do you think when you see a person you like?

Tabitachi no Tsubasa (Hip Hop version) - Ken & Go hmmm...wing of journey? honeymoon? lol isn't that a bit quick? XD

15. What will you dance at on your wedding?

Hey, Soul Sister - Train I suppose it's a nice song :P

16. What will they play at your funeral?

Way of Life - V6 quite appropriate ne?, imagine if Sexy Honey Bunny came up ...

17. What is your hobby/interest?

Only Dreaming - V6 my biggest hobby is "only dreaming" haha somehow it fits, so i day dream about ~~arashi and v6 and guys~~ a lot

18. What is your biggest fear?

Ich kann dich hören - Fertig, Los! "i can hear you" no it doesn't make sense, unless it's like a horror movie :P

19. What is your biggest secret?

ashita no kioku - arashi "memories of tomorrow" so i can see the future? :D

20. What do you want right now?

Black out - Kamisen .....I'M NOT SURE THAT'S REALLY HEALTHY.....

21. What do you think of your friends?

Take me faraway - Ohno Satoshi lol i do love hanging out with them?

22. What will you name this note?

Esclavo de Tus Besos - Juanes "slave to her kiss" Whattttt? no let's make it "quite a lot of V6 appeared!!"

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i'm bored. School starts again tomorrow. I should be working on my research essay due mid-march, but...what the heck...I don't feel like doing anything!! I guess i'll go watch some Mission V6 or Mentalist :P

Keio boy is 30!

2012-01-25T05:23:25Z

a year has passed in the blink of an eyem Sho kun is finally 30!
It's still kinda like "WOW" for me, when I realised Arashi is slowing reaching the 30-years-old mark
Sho kun, Happy Birthday! :)

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no picspam because I'm spending all my time drooling over the Sakurai Sho tag on tumblr, and reblogging the crap out of it ;D
i'm glad I finally made a third tumblr for JE stuff

it's lunar new year holiday right now and i'm pretty much in the "i can do my work later in the week" attitude XD
Have a nice sho day!!

charingyu @ 2012-01-02T21:01:00

2012-01-02T13:01:09Z

Finally downloaded and watched the JE Countdown concert!! This is the first concert I've watched in ages, maybe in like 1+ year (I don't even remember whether I watched the Countdown Concert last year...I hope I did...better check later. I should be ashamed of myself :P, I realised I never watched Arashi's 5x10 Anniversary Concert, and the ones after that (if there's one...) SEE? that's what I meant! I'm so out of touch with fandom! Real life's an ass, university is hell and partly due to the sheer amount of TV shows I watch...9 or 10 active series at the moment XP

Ever since I reached the last year of high school, I've like...distanced myself from the fandom, not that I want to. I stopped downloading scans, stopped checking comms daily and I only watch minimal amount of videos. I also moved away from listening to J-pop and diverse to other entertainments. I was afraid that I'll never pick the fandom up again, that I grew out of it. But every now and then an Arashi/V6/Jpop song will pop up from my shuffle, putting a smile on my face every time, every now and then I'll watch a video and be reminded how much I adore them. Oh, fandom how i've missed you :')

It's a disappointment when I realised Arashi won't be in the countdown this year, NagasexJun anyone?? XD how come TOKIO can make it in time but Arashi couldn't?

also, I hope pigs will fly next year and SMAP will finally come to yhr countdown...won' t it be awesome to see SMAP / Arashi / V6 / Kinki Kids /TOKIO all on the same stage?!

But the host is Kinki Kids!! I can't complain!! oh and every time the stage / dome of these concerts, it gives me goosebumps. It's so beautiful and mesmerizing, so many fans~

Bonus candies from the countdown: Commercials

Okada, why do you look so handsome while drinking coffee *__* ~ ♥

then there's Eiji Wentz!! I want to squish him so bad, his pout! I wish WaT isn't so dead!

KOICHI IS A BEAUTIFUL PRINCE.

♥♥♥ honestly, he looks so freaking handsome, I'm glad Kinki Kids is the host, so much Koichi throughout. One of the things I love about JE countdowns: Koichi's birthday! Otanjoubi Omedetou! so lucky, so many people celebrating it with him. No kissy and rose from Tsuyoshi this year?? >3> I spent quite some time just staring at his beauty.

Tackey & Tsubasa are still together?!

honestly that was my first thought :P thought they went solo since I remember they didn't really have much release in the past year? (again that might be me being too out of touch) but I'm glad that's not the case. Tackey was so high this year!
4th panel: I honestly thought for a few seconds that he was gonna strip and change XPPPPP *smack*

Next came a WTF moment for me...O________O

Hey!Say!JUMP...I thought it doesn't exist anymore and there's only NYC LOL...but the even more shocking thing is........SEXY ZONE? WHATTTTTTTTTTT? THE NAME IS HORRIBLE AND THEY LOOK LIKE 13 YEAR OLD BOYS. THAT IS SO WRONG OK? NO NO NO 13 YEAR OLD BOYS ARE NOT GODDAMN SEXY! HOLDING ROSES DOESN'T INCREASE THE APPEAL EITHER (so they're 11-17?) IT'S SO WRONG IN SO MANY WAYS! Johnny what is this!!

5-man KAT-TUN , so it's KaT-TUN now?

not much love for them tbh, and WOW hair *___* what did Ueda do...and Taguchi! I prefer the spikey or the flowy longish hair he had before XD

Then come NEWS. I already consider myself re-entering NEWS fandom already, thanks to Tegomasu and their song ♥♥ They make good songs, and Tegoshi and Masuda have always been my favourite in NEWS anyways ~~
THIS BOY...THIS BOY ... ♥

THIS BOY IS SO PRETTY ALSJKHSL; ♥♥ SO SO SO PRETTY. HIS HAIR, HIS SMILE, HIS VOICE! Gosh, he's looks so slutty :D can't explain it in words, but he's just...pretty

and the little chipmunk!Masu :') I love his hair. I hope 4-man NEWS can bounce back and dear lord release something please!!

Arashi ~~ ♥ hello the love of my life

I like Happiness and the choreography :') The stage is awesome, but I really hope they can go countdown you know :'( I want fandom collision, I want Arashi x V6 x Kinki x TOKIO!!!

Confused!Masuda

I was loling at him being all confused and giggly. During the first half, he had no idea what he was doing, and he tried following and failed obviously and stayed at the side to wait for his chance to come back in. LOL honey, missed a rehearsal?!

FAIL.

lol I don't know who they are, Kis-my-ft2? right? but I LOL when the guy slipped :P and the little panel took all my attention away from the performance. Tsubasa getting strangled by all those hands XDDDDD

Veggies are good for you :)

HAHAHAHAHA the rotten carrot xD this performance, honestly XD always count on Kanjani8 to come up with something rigorously funny! Taikon!Tachhon ♥ and Yoko blender!!! his thug expression

love the stage, but seems a little lonely, pleaseeeeeeee come to countdown properly T_______T I want to see them seeing songs from other groups! I want to see them goofing around with everyone!

Just TOKIO being themselves

What's happening in the last 2 panel? They're just being TOKIO! Always count on them to goof around any time any where, even in Kouhaku!! These 30+ men XDD I love those airships, that's such a cool way to make an entry.
SOMEONE CONTROL TAICHI!!!!! HE'S GOING MAD! i was tempted to sing when Taichi pointed the mic to the camera, but I couldn't it was 1:30am...

BUNNIES AND SEXINESS. WATCH AND LEARN BOYS.

♥s everywhere. I love their kira kira~suits. And Ken-chan I love you so much :') he didn't' do much but he's so cute. I wished they also sang Only Dreaming! Go Rocks the hat btw~as always

Yes them again :P

*__________* Looking so good, YES? they do!! i really really like Tegoshi's hair style (stylist ILU!) and i love the pink costumes. Suddenly wanna listen to Weeeeeek so much XD

Returning to sempais

I saw Higashi appear in that suit and I'm already so excited. Then he turned his head, then then there's someone in the corner...who is it who is it?..........OH MY GOD. I ACTUALLY SQUEALED OUT LOUD. KOICHI YOU CANNOT LOOK BETTER. :') (His hair looks so silky ~~ ) AND PEOPLE KEEP ASKING ME WHY I LIKE "OLD" PEOPLE INSTEAD OF THOSE EARLY 20 IDOLS/ACTORS ♥♥♥♥♥ *roll eyes* please~

THIS DESERVES ALL THE APPLAUSE. I REPEAT, ALL OF THEM.

whoever came up with this choreography. GENIUS. Koichi looks so hot in that suit and picking the jacket from the floor with the mouth *diesssssssss* ♥♥♥ Go and Jun looked so serious XD and Ken, d'awwwww still so cute, so cute >W<

Kinki x TOKIO = adorkable adults

I just love the face of Kinki there :P, more goofing around. Especially love the bit when they went "arashi...arashi...eh..arashi???" when the transmission probably lagged a little, all of them staring in the camera and what the koichi's body XD

Okada looking awesome in that black suit. and more love, GoKen, your love is spilling everywhere, please ~~stop~~ continue :)

Lastly...
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! (I know it's one day late but whatever~)

May all of you have a great year ahead, and may it be fruitful, successful and enjoyable! To all those in Uni, Ganbatte for semester 2!!

i'm not dead, my voice is though

2012-01-01T05:04:41Z

My voice is 70% gone from all the shouting ytd at new year countdown :P

I'm glad my semester break ends at Jan 16th, thank god, I definitely hadn't had enough of holiday yet!!
Currently, patiently ~~now~~ waiting for Kouhaku to finish downloading and Johnny Countdown is come out...where is it?????????/ ;(

Happy New Year guys!!!!

SEXY HON-WOW WOW WOW? KEN?!!!!!

2011-12-08T07:18:52Z

Came home from my third exam (one more to go!!!) and watched V6's SEXY HONEY BUNNY performance on FNS
can I just:

WOW WOW WOW?!!!!! KEN!! YOUR HAIR!!!!!!!!!!! WHY IS IT BLOND?????

I don't know if I like it (yet :P), there's not enough pictures of it
I swear when I saw this, I thought he looked Korean......

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my last exam's on the coming Monday and after that I'm freeeeeeeeeee!! holiday until Mid-January!
so byee for now :D

November the first is...?

2011-10-31T16:10:20Z

V6

HAPPY 16th ANNIVERSARY!!!

結成16周年おめでとうございます!!!

♥

I know I've been like dead recently on LJ ...
University workload is so overwhelming!! ><
I have to get back to readings :(
have a nice days guys!!