beneath the waning moonlight

Surpise, surprise. ~One Night of Dejavu~ was shown on Japanese TV! *fake gasp*

Damn those lucky people who got to go for the concert AND those who watched it on their terebi set. I, on the other hand, will have to suffice with the illegal TV-rip version (mwahaha) while waiting for YesAsia to come out with the DVD. If they don't... Then my second choice would be to try my luck with CDJapan *kaching kaching*

The torrent is around 1.6Gigs and was uploaded thanks to Hikkichan from jpopsuki.

There's another 5Gig HD version O_O which will be my last resort if I can't cough up enough moolah for the DVD. hnnngg But it'd be uncut leh.

Anyhoo, I got up mighty early today (6am!!) so I trudged about in naver to look for concert images. Lo and behold:



"Totoro Boy" Inoran is all grown up and looks lip-smacking HOT.

Gosh, he always looked so cute but now that he's shed the babyfat... Amazing how I completely overlooked him after their breakup even during his Tourbillon stint with Ryuichi. And might I add that those two are extremely lovey-dovey on stage? lol. Sugizo must be torn with jealousy.

overspent x_x

i pray that Shinhwa oppa deul will forgive me for the sins i have done. *chews on fingernails* the introvert-shopper in me was caught purchasing several items that may or may not cause setbacks to my Seoul Trip Budget (let's name it STB).

you see, with my STB plan in motion, i vowed not to indulge in materialistic endeavours apart from spending on food and necessities.

now look what i bought within just a period of TWO days! T_T

1. L'Arc~en~Ciel's KISS CD - it was only selling for RM60 which would've cost a TON if i bought it off YesAsia. i swear i really thought it through instead of just grabbing it off the shelf and running to the counter (who am i convincing?)


2. CDData November issue - erm, i was feeling a tad excited yesterday frolicking in Kinokuniya's newly renovated Japanese corner. besides, it has abingdon boys school and Luna Sea featured... *feels guilt pricking on skin*


3. Korean to English dictionary - aha! i need this! i really really needed this. ahahahahaha. -_-

i'm not even sure how much i spent for the past 2 months. God knows what my total savings amount is since i haven't gone to any Public Bank branch yet. clever, Arfah, clever!

mayhaps the splurging was due to the full moon? <-- what a stupid excuse.

before i forget, i'd like to wish a HAPPY YULETIDE to all my beloved friends, acquaintances and oppas *points to those six guys and one other man*.

anyway, i'm in the midst of finishing my new Luna Sea Skin. errrr this was an unplanned skin, and i have like 3 or 4 skins that i should have finished 6 months ago. siiigh. couldn't very well pass up the chance to do a tribute to their concert last night, ne?

Luna Sea covers

mwahahah i'm practically salivating right now listening to the just released Luna Sea Memorial Album - Re:Birth by various jrock/jpop artistes. apart from that i'm also orgasming in my pants for this Monday's concert (in Tokyo, duh) which i'm sure will be HOT.

anyway, haven't yet found a working link to the album. imeem doesn't have the complete tracklist, but i'll find the album sooner or later. uhuhuhuhuhu *skips around in circles gleefully*

--edit; i leeched a link off some LJ comm :P here's what i think about the cover songs and how the bands scored:

1. Dejavu - MUCC
verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. haha Tatsurou's a Luna Sea fan! The song doesn't run astray much at all from the original. :D

2. Sweetest Coma Again - abingdon boys school
verdict: At first I didn't understand why a.b.s. would use a song from Lunacy (not one of Luna Sea's best albums I tell ya)... But holy smokes~ It's more of a remake rather than a cover song. SASUGA a.b.s DESU!! SPANKING RAW RIFFS that totally shows how truly talented they are. This earns a full 5 stars score! Or maybe I'm just biased.

3. Storm - Nami Tamaki
verdict: Aha. Now I know how this Nami Tamaki sound like. Eh sorry lah, she sooo ruined this song. Her voice is so effing whiny. A real shame cos the re-arrangement with the violins and synths are cool. 1.5 stars for this saving grace.

4. Precious... - merry
verdict: 2.5 stars. I can't remember how their own songs are like but.. OK lah~ so so only. Precious by Luna Sea was fun while this one is er.. too kawaii for my taste. Are they oshare? Or is the audio just bad?

5. Rosier - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
verdict: 2 stars. Hmm. Somehow the edge from Luna Sea's most mind-blowing and heaviest song has been punked up but it manages to still become nice. The vocalist is so lembik...

6. I For You - Juichi Morishige (ZIGGY)
verdict: 3.5 stars. A ballad for a ballad :) Wonderfully done piano re-arrangement. He brings out a different emotion from the original. If Ryu was mellow, this guy is emo.

7. In My Dream (with Shiver) - LM.C verdict: 3 stars. Ehm. Disco-fied like crazy. It's sadly similar to Wonder Girl's Tell Me. lol. Are they only singing the chorus? I can't differentiate the different stanzas. Nyeh. They could've done better.

8. End Of Sorrow - YU-KI & DJ KOO from TRF
verdict: She sounds familiar wei but don't think I've listened to TRF before. Anyway, phroar! They made my favoritest song into a tasteful dance track. They get 4 stars.

9. Love Song - kannivalism
verdict: 4.5 stars woh! Wow. Why didn't Luna Sea just turn the song into this instead of the original's unforgivable sappiness? Same arrangements, just a different beat ;)

10. Shine - Marty Friedman VS LEGEND feat. SHINICHIRO SUZUKI
verdict: 5 stars. Niiice. Dunno how to comment. It's just.. NICE.

11. Wish by SID
verdict: 5 stars. They also totally rawked this song like a.b.s. I know only a few people like the original so I hope this will change their mindset.

12. Moon by Masami Tsuchiya
verdict: Haha a veteran rocker doing a Luna Sea song? So random. 3 stars ;)

=> Final verdict? Hmm. I think I'll delete the Nami Tamaki and H&MC song. Annoying leh. The album is after all.. a tribute album. I guess I shouldn't compare and understand the complete meaning of how these bands are/were influenced greatly by Luna Sea (mwahaha).

I'm disappointed that an earlier uncomfirmed tracklist didn't quite make the cut (Gazette!! UVERworld!!). And now there's only 12 songs T_T

1.LUNA SEA -Special Medley-／YU-KI & DJ KOO from TRF
2.TONIGHT／Mihimaru Gt
3.TRUE BLUE／HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR

4.BELIEVE／UVERworld
5.Dejavu／ムック (MUCC)
6.END OF SORROW／メリー (Merry) -- eh why they changed song?
7.DESIRE／Gazette-- ARGH i wanted them to participate too
8.SHINE／土屋アンナ (Anna Tsuchiya)
9.STORM／玉置成実 (Tamaki Nami)
10.IN SILENCE／WaT -- er, scrapped because too Jpop?
11.gravity／土屋昌巳 (Tsuchiya Masami)
12.MOTHER／坂本龍一＆坂本美雨 (Sakamoto Ryuuichi & Sakamoto Miu)

13.I for You／Mr.Children
14.ROSIER／abingdon boys school
15.WISH／Special...

tired and heartaching

*stares at monitor then stares at keyboard*

i spent almost 6 hours in 1Utama >_< and now my body aches all over.

*stares at monitor and cries*

TT___TT uwaaaaaaaaah!!!! i suddenly feel so sad and pathetic and *siiiigh* i'm like seriously bawling my eyes out like a crazy woman right now. my exhausted physical and mental state is somehow unbalanced this evening to handle the riot of emotions.. initially i hadn't felt like blogging tonight since my last entry was yesterday. but i just had to after finally looking at new Shinhwa pics!



i'm seriously seriously sad. i don't even know why i'm not happy and spazzing at their pics.

i. am. inexplicably SAD.
what if i can't save enough money to go and see them? what if i can't see them -see Dongwan- before they go to army? what do i do??

bosan-haeyo

i'm seriously bored of blogs. don't get me wrong, i do still love 'blogging'. but the notion of conjuring up words has become too tiresome for my current lifestyle (go to work -> come home -> play around on Net for 2 hrs -> sleep). plus, it's not as if i have the patience to maintain a photo-blog. and it's not as if i have the talent to start one. ahaha.

myspace scares the shit out of me with all the weirdos and wannabes.
livejournal is too cult-ish where everyone must speak the same way. and i'd constantly need to catch up on updates. you know i can't spend time on reeaading.
friendster is just... well, just really plain and boring eventho it allows me to update on my own sweet time.

then there's that nagging habit where i always never can concentrate on two things blogs at the same time. so marr fan mah.

maybe i should consider facebook since everyone's hanging out there these days. yet by 'everyone', i bet none of my friends are using it anyway. bleh.

meanwhile, i've always wanted to play around at the Korean cyworld cos of their nifty hompy feature! but i can't remember my damn ID!! pucker. if it's worth any dime, us.cyworld PALES in comparison to the Korean one. argh~~~

i guess this is why i'm so effing loyal to friendster. cos i'm just that: plain and boring. and too wordy for cy. double pucker.

if books (and money) grew on trees

It's painful to know that eventhough I have the money to spend on literary endeavours, I feel reluctant to pay such a ridiculous sum for a paperback romance novel. Bring back the good old days when I could easily afford a new-released novel for less than RM30! *blames the 60% of Malaysia's population who don't buy (nor read) books*

However, I do confess that my guilty new hobby of album collecting is the major reason for my reluctance. Apart from this, I can no longer find time to lie down (my favourite position) to finish a book in ONE day without falling asleep - I'd be too bloody tired to even pick my hands up.

So what do I do to assuage my deprivation? Illegal download, of course! Mwahaha! Hooray to bittorrent! All the.. erm, 'romance' e-books I've been wanting to read (like Jet Mykles' Dark Elves series) are just a click away. I've already started with 40 titles :D

But slouching infront of the monitor while tapping away at the Page Down key won't ever feel the same as having my nose burrowed into a book. Never! siiigh.

너무 슬퍼요 ;_;

time flew by so fast that i didn't even realise that we'd already reached the end of our tuition classes. i knew vaguely of him telling us before today, that he'd be leaving at the end of 2007. but somehow i was still taken aback when just now he broke upon us the news: that he's going back to Korea in two weeks time.

argh! this is so sad ;( eventhough i didn't learn much, but we always had extreme fun together; with me and Bailah bullying him by getting him to teach us swear words (he's such a nerd).

so now i shall search for the perfect present for him to signify the best of Malaysia and how much he's gonna miss the food, the banana trees and us.

besides that, he's promised to take us touring around Seoul whenever we go to vacation there :D whee to free food! mwahaha

....... *sob sob* Jay씨, 가지마요~

Yosh! IKUZOU!!

check out my new profile page background - exchanged Dongwan with Luna Sea. i finally got my fat, lazy muse to do the graphic before it's too late.

20 more days to Luna Sea concert! my body can't go under the circumstance of my substantial wage (boo to poverty!). i have nevertheless, prepared and trained in astral projection in order to be at the concert venue in Tokyo.

and then my soul will be stuck there because i'd never want the concert to end and never wanna leave the damn place. thus, my wandering soul shall haunt the streets of Japan and the houses of every Jrocker and J-actor i like (mwahah), leaving my empty shell of a body aka zombie-self responsible to work 9 and 1/2 hours a day until my brain finally dies out. xD

T____T if only that were possible. siiiigh. i probably shouldn't think so much about it anymore. *heartaches*

p/s: don't mind my nonsense, i grew up watching too much of The Twilight Zone and X-Files