Summer Is (Almost) Over

Dramas are drawing to an end. Concerts have begun. Rock bands are touring.

It isn't like I followed a lot of summer dramas this year anyway. 'Tobo Bengoshi' worked fine for me to eclipse the disappointment of 'Tsuki no Koibito' and the frustration I underwent no thanks to Celcom Broadband not letting me download 'Unubore Deka'. I'm looking forward to next season's 'Reinoryokusha Odagiri Kyoko no Uso' and maaaybe will try out 'Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo'.

Domoto Koichi's BPM concert tour will move to Hokkaido this weekend so I predict audio rips for Saturday and Sunday are going to be available on Monday. Workaholic Kochan has a really tight schedule this year with back-to-back stages: Shock > BPM > Kansai Super Show (Seven Samurai) > KinKi con > next year's Shock!

Eek! >_< Who designed Kochan's costume??

Besides KinKi-san, I'm also anticipating NEWS and T&T cons because they've been absent for too long :)

Chemical Pictures is at this very moment at their first one-man live (Congratulations!), NoGoD are moving about at an extremely crazy pace and D'espairsRay are having their US tour. MUCC, on the other hand, is gearing up for their new album release (6 October wheeee). Oh and we can also expect a new album by abingdon boys school if I understood Nishikawa's tweets correctly!

2010 had a slow start with a few hiccups here and there for me. But I like how it picked up rather momentously since August :D

And October onwards (especially November) is surely going to be even moar awesome. *winks*

Brand New Man-Love Obsession

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Tsurugidake got me started on my latest yaoi-OTP obsession: Matsuda Ryuhei x Tadanobu Asano. I am horribly late in realising that these two had acted in 46 Okunen no Koi (aka 'Big Bang Love, Juvenile A') which sparked my interest after reading coding Zee's interview back in 2007. Am I a sucker for pretty manly men, or what?

There's also 'Taboo' which is Ryuhei's samurai-esque debut film to fuel this new fantasy. Mwahaha.

After that, maybe I should look for the documentary film tribute about Ryuhei and Shota's dad. So I can justify why I prefer Ryuhei more than his younger brother. Adik tak dapat, target abang dia plak. Wakakaka.

p/s - I is thinking I should post that photo of RicSyungMinJin supporting their home team against Argentina but FB and Twitter combi should be more than adequate. Heh. But YAY anyway!

Fandom Meme

Was reading random meme posts at LJ and decided to tweak it a bit for fun.

Pick three of your Jpop, Kpop and Visual Kei group of your choice (no solo artistes pls coz the quiz would be pointless then) and answer the following questions:

1. The first member I fell in love with:


2. The member I never expected to love as much as I do now:


3. The member everyone else loves that I don't:


4. The member I love that everyone else hates:


5. The member I used to love but don't any longer:


6. The member I would shag anytime:


7. The member I'd want as a BFF:


8. The member I'd slap:


9. A pairing that I love:


10. A pairing that I despise:


11. Favorite member:


12. My favourite members from most liked to least liked:


13. Which member am I most like:


14. Which member I would most want to be like:


15. My deep dark fandom secret:

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[ KinKi Kids ]

1. The first member I fell in love with:
Koichi.
2. The member I never expected to love as much as I do now:
Tsuyo.
3. The member everyone else loves that I don't:
Love them both.
4. The member I love that everyone else hates:
Same as above.
5. The member I used to love but don't any longer:
Still love them.
6. The member I would shag anytime:
Koichi!
7. The member I'd want as a BFF:
That's easy. Tsuyoshi.
8. The member I'd slap:
Koichi, for flirting with underaged girls on Domoto Kyodai and for being undernourished.
9. A pairing that I love:
KoTsu (where Kochan is the guy) compared to TsuKo.
10. A pairing that I despise:
Not really related but KoichiXFukada.
11. Favorite member:
Koichi.
12. My favourite members from most liked to least liked:
Koichi, Tsuyoshi.
13. Which member am I most like:
Koichi?
14. Which member I would most want to be like:
Tsuyoshi, for his acting skills.
15. My deep dark fandom secret:
As much as I want to believe how well the chemistry is between them, their real feelings and thought towards each other is still a big mystery. Gossips and rumours about their love-hate relationship might be true after all so I tend to shove those negative aspects away from my perception of their 'love'.

[ Shinhwa ]

1. The first member I fell in love with:
Dongwan. Initially it was Eric, for being incredibly romantic on SBS Love Letter.
2. The member I never expected to love as much as I do now:
Minwoo. Honestly, I hated his guts back then.
3. The member everyone else loves that I don't:
I like them all.
4. The member I love that everyone else hates:
Andy?
5. The member I used to love but don't any longer:
Junjin because he's... too insecure.
6. The member I would shag anytime:
Dongwan.
7. The member I'd want as a BFF:
Minwoo since it looks like he takes care of his female friends.
8. The member I'd slap:
Andy, for letting Solbi walk all over him.
9. A pairing that I love:
RicDy. Sneaky brothers.
10. A pairing that I despise:
Used to be MinWan when I thought Minwoo was a jerk.
11. Favorite member:
Dongwan.
12. My favourite members from most liked to least liked:
Dongwan, Andy, Eric, Hyesung, Minwoo, Junjin.
13. Which member am I most like:
Shy like Andy...?
14. Which member I would most want to be like:
Dongwan, I guess. Able to travel to Japan a lot and good at taking pictures.
15. My deep dark fandom secret:
I still don't remember their birthdates. Some kind of fan I am, huh?

[ LUNA SEA ]

1. The first member I fell in love with:
Sugizo. I almost always fall for lead guitarists ^^;;
2. The member I never expected to love as much as I do now:
Ryuichi. I really hated him when he first switched his singing to a sorta Jpop-ish style.
3. The member everyone else loves that I don't:
I told you, I'll always find a way to accept everyone in the group.
4. The member I love that everyone else hates:
Who could really hate these 5 talented dudes, I ask you?
5. The member I used to love but don't any longer:
Shinya coz he's so fat now. LOL just kidding.
6. The member I would shag anytime:
Sugizo, duh.
7. The member I'd want as a BFF:
Inoran, coz he's cuddly and sweet.
8. The member I'd slap:
Ryuichi for being one of the richest men in Tokyo and for causing the band multiple breakups.
9. A pairing that I love:
Used to be InoranXJ. It is now InoranXRyuichi.
10. A pairing that I despise:
RyuichiXSugizo. Sugi's mine!
11. Favorite member:
Uh duh again.
12. My favourite members from most liked to least liked:
Sugizo, Inoran, J, Ryuichi, Shinya.
13. Which member am I most like:
Shinya because we love food and we like to laugh.
14. Which member I would most want to be like:
Inoran for his calmness.
15. My deep dark fandom secret:
I honestly initially DESPISED Luna Sea without any reason at all when I haven't actually heard their songs before that. It was due to my childish belief that L'Arc~en~Ciel is the best band like in the whole wide world. pffft. Yes, I was only 15 and I was stupid.

KinKi-ed Up!

Owh hell yeah, I love this Mandigo theme. Now I can spruce up the background here as much as I want to (when I'm free to). Major thanks to this tip off.

Shall start with KinKi ♥

Centralised background, hence we should be able to play around with higher screen resolutions. This will allow more widescreen customisation. Meaning: MOAR images to pimp with the possibility of a larger canvas width.

Looking at the limited viewing space for 1024x768 screens, I dunno how I'd be able fit all six Shinhwa members tho'. *sheepish smile* So I urge all of you to please buy widescreen monitors in order to see all the missing parts. Akekeke.

Or you can just change your browser 'zoom in' function.

On another geeky customising move I made: Google Analytics tracker has been added! Er, so the pageviews figures aren't gonna be huge or anything (note: estimating this blog will only hit less than 20 views per month) but I'm curious as to where my readers come from :P

Since my blog does sometimes manage to pop up in Google Search whenever I look for Jrock/Visual Kei info, ya know? *boasts*

January, oh, January

No holiday 'til mid of next month. No concrete plan for our next concert viewing yet. Which reminds me that I'd need to transfer all D drive contents to my shiny new 1TB external. *grins* What a shameless way to promote.

2010 will be a weird year for me. Financially, I'm not supposed to spend extravagantly on materialistic expenditures that is deigned to bring me pleasure. Or so I understand from one Cancer forecast. May have to look for a CrabLion cusp-ish site so I'll feel less guilty on buying DVDs. Mwahah.

Onnnn a slightly angsty mode, Andy's soldier boy life is just 5 days away! ;_; He's so gonna be thinner, ne.

Secondly, I don't get why people are so stuck on proving why Koichi doesn't publicly show his affection to Tsuyo. By telling other fans to not get worked up over his cold expression during Tsuyoshi's love song recital, that blogger herself is strictly viewing the situation as a KKL extremist. Her own words degrades their relationship -'ghei love' if you wanna call it that- to a one-track-mind bond.

C'mon kids, wake up and smell the flowers. Why torture Koichi for being himself? Tsuyo's done that to Koichi too woh. I don't see you getting sad over that.

Their bond is too profound for categories. *kicks*

p/s: Sugizo's second tour for Cosmic Dance around Taiwan and Tokyo is done. Can we see some pictures, pls? *bats eyelashes* And ehem, finally a post I can tag with Shinhwa! (Mian -_-)

Goodbye to a Decade. Gokurasama, 2009!

Here's a not-so brief recap of my life from 2000 to 2009. No big accomplishments. But I take life as it is (with a grain of salt) and although resolutions aren't my thing, this is definitely the right time for a milestone post :)

My head's merely going with what I can dig up from my weak memory.

1. [2000] Final year of school life. Aah~ the bittersweet times of being a teenager.


2. Death of my love for L'Arc~en~Ciel. It was a joy knowing them but I have moved on. Thank you for introducing me to Jrock, Hyde-san ;)


3. Malay-dominated Matriculation course in Pulau Pinang killed my English. Seriously. So few English-speakers to befriend. Malay songs rotted my brain :[


4. Death of a loved one [2002]: My mother. Al-Fatihah.


5. Shortly after that, I enrolled at UKM studying Computer Science. Another major reason why my English proficiency died. XP


6. But if it wasn't for UKM, I wouldn't have berjinak (sorry, can't find a better word for it) with Korean entertainment. And I wouldn't have met my beloved separate-end-of-the-Pole twinnie Farah. ♥


7. Koreans overtook my heart. I flitted around a lot at first before stopping at Shinhwa and Park Hyo Shin. Hmm actually I've now cut down to only Shinhwa. Even just the six of them hurts my money.


8. Rise and fall of a kingdom. Heart still pains over this. "Gaining Through Losing" is an apt metaphor.


9. SHINHWA IN SINGAPORE! Enough said. *eyes crinkle from awesome unforgettable memories*


10. The trials and tribulations brought us all closer. ILY, Orenji Famili.


11. My slow but sure return to Japanese rock with the help of several bands I call my saviours: Gazette [2006], MUCC [2006], RENTRER EN SOI [2008].


12. My very obvious rekindled love for LUNA SEA [2007]. They were my sole reason I could survive in Penang for 1 year without reliable Internet connection. Although I couldn't forgive them for disbanding, their comeback made me realise where my loyalty truly lies.


13. A 'steady' career working with Elderaan Technologies, if I may call it that, ensures that I have an almost steady supply of Kpop and VK. And no, I'm not thinking of continuing my studies.


14. Har har. So much for Kpop eh? Jaded-ness has ruined my respect for the Korean music industry. Goodbye, fake love.


15. Family rifts. I'm neither here nor there nor on the fence. I sway whenever it pleases me. However, I will NOT end this cold war with that asshole of a person I should be calling Brother.


16. Sarina Abdullah Thani and Siti Aishah Khairazan (+ her sporting hubby). My bestfriends and soulmates? ILY as well. ♥


17. My disgraceful yet verrry satisfactory downfall into Johnny's and Associates fandom. All thanks to KinKi Kids, my newest heroes who protected me from a period of depression during early 2009.


18. Japan. Oh my God, JAPAN. My utmost travel dream came true. ♥♥


19. Visual Kei and Orenji Famili. Highly impossible to be crossed over was my first thought. LOL. Look at us now. We're even holding concert nights :D


20. Two weddings in a year [2009]. My eldest brother and my younger brother.

A lot of good and bad things happened this year. I may have even changed a bit eventhough I'm still generally young at heart. *cough*

I dunno if I'll be able to think up of more because you're in danger of falling asleep from boredom. Guh.

Torturing Myself...

... with photos of food is one of my weird hobbies. Google Image and Naver Image are the best dungeons sources for smackaliciously beautiful pics of food.

I'm the visual-version of Yamada Taro, ne? This is best applied when dieting or on empty-wallet days. You'll either go mad or become stronger, like I have.

Or not? Puehehehe. I'm still plagued with that Smoked Turkey Legs photo by a blogger who posted about Tokyo Disneyland.

Oh and how come I only got to know today that Yara is working in Playzone 2009? No wonnnnder he wasn't appearing on the latest MA Dancing with Japan on Shounen Club Premium (SCP)~ I must've forgotten about it. Bad fan!

Oh oh oh and I can't download the Shinhwa clips from Veoh! D: Must be Firefox issue. Will try again then.

PS: I ♥ my twinnie, my student and Fel

Longing

Itsuka dokoka no sora no shita de mata aou.
(Let’s meet again under the sky, some time, somewhere)

Ryuichi's words tear my heart into pieces. I know it's needless to say 'Goodbye' and weep all day long for someone you're about to half-lose. But for my hubby, who would instead be pained if fans crumble, I fortify my promise of undying loyalty and to live my life to the fullest. Eventhough I may stray you know that after 2 years (or 4 years, if you insist) I'll still be here for you, 동완이오빠. 기다릴게!

Please don't worry yourself too much over nicks and scratches. And I hope you get wonderful bunkmates so you wouldn't unnecessarily fuss over things. :D

Well hey, I'm devoid of tears right now. Can't squeeze out any tearduct juice. I am apparently still... in denial.

Not even this below picture of Shinhwa together could induce any sob.

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I'm like more of nosebleeding over the fact that Minwoo (?) is wearing a Rokkasho tee *points to green 'More Trees Less Nuke' t-shirt* by the tree-huggers-movement in which Sugizo is actively participating in. Ah!

*slaps self for being jaded* Anyhoo~ Maybe the acceptance will gradually wash over me. In due time. Oh well, I think I shall go watch that Can't Forget MV for a coupla days to get the fact into my thick skull.

Let Me Rephrase That...

Yeah twinnie, you had me thinking about my most repeatable Shinhwa song. I kinda felt guilty and tak puas hati for not having an absolute answer to it. However, setting out my mind by naming only one or two or more songs as my utmost forever-listenable-song and conforming to that fact would make me call myself a liar.

Hmm. Probable explanations to this would be that I can't think of any at that time. Or I couldn't remember the titles. Or I like too many to come up with a few without thinking rationally. Perhaps...

My best reason? I guess I've always been the sort of girl whom regularly flits from one artiste to the next too easily. My music is always in-the-moment, at-that-exact-moment and constant-listening-right-at-that-moment. I'll have a certain album/song/artiste that I'd like and I'd bury myself deep by frequently listening to only that obsession.

But when something else catches my fancy, then I'd as easily jump onto a different obsession. And maybe, maaaybe, all the songs that I like would be exchanged with another.

It takes a couple of reminiscing to finally get back into a certain moment. That's why you hear me say things like "I haven't been listening to them for a long time" which would then lead to "I feel like listening to them again" or "I feel like listening to their whole discography ALL OVER AGAIN!"

I'm really not kidding when I say I haven't been listening to any certain band for a LONG time. Coz I'd have been busy-ing myself with something other than Shinhwa... or Luna Sea. Or any other bands that I say I'm in love with. Har har.

Yet no matter what, these two bands affect me pretty differently from any other favourites. They'd still be the ones who can time-warp me back to that exact same moment when I first giddily heard their songs. ;)

You DA Man!

set to induce tears

Hwa-Shin-Hwa

I didn't know Hyoshin sang the main ballad 'Hwashin' for Junki's new drama "Il Ji Mae"! *slaps myself for being a retard wifey* [And because I'm nice, LINKEU!]

But will this knowledge encourage me to watch the drama? Hmm... Maybe once the box-set is out. The last K-drama (which also happens to be a Junki starrer) is still unopened by the way. :S

*slaps myself again for drooling too much over White Edition pics* The website is up with preview pics. Can't wait to listen to their new R&B song :D

Oh, I dropped by YesAsia earlier to find out that Dongwan's 2nd album repackage preorder is now open. Aaaaaaaaahh!!! Moneyh moneyh moneyh. If myshinhwa is opening orders thru Yeonin again I might as well get 3 copies, ne, as the extra two will be for **** and ******. Hikhikhik.

Something's wrong with my connection tonight (>_<)~ Can't download a single thing in Firefox! Although IE gives me slightly better results if the filesize ain't huge. HUH. And here I was hoping to get to watch "Wanted" or "Get Smart" online.

As Dorky as They Can Be

Why are there no longer videos that show all six of them being dorks like this?

I miss seeing them in the same video together...

The Secret Is...

Dongwan's diary entry just made my day. Granted, it was already a few days old but nothing will stop me from spazzing now. Mwahaha. I'm crediting this to shinhwa_daily.

[08.06.06][diary] Dongwan: About Shinhwa~

Do you know what's the question we hear the most when we get interviewed?
It's "What's the secret for Shinhwa's longevity?"..
Maybe, they don't understand.
Because friends who stay together and share such strong bonds,
They don't see that around them at least...
Actually Shinhwa doesn't have any secret to longevity to begin with.
We're just a few guys who want to be together.
We just want to live together, work together, laugh together.

We're a bunch of really cool friends who are stuck together!

p.s. It's past 12 but I still can't access GOOD's website, so I came here to leave a message.

Source: November21
Chi trans: 韩小国 @ BESTSHINHWA
Eng trans: midnightgirl13@shinhwabiz
Exactly. There are no big secrets to their loyalty, friendship and brotherhood. Their tolerance for each other over the past decade hasn't been fake or manipulative.

It's strengthened by Love. Doesn't take much to understand that now, do we? *flamethrows those pesky lil' reporters*

Sorry about the double post, guys. I just find my previous entry to be inadequate considering it was my 200th post. So yeah.

p/s: I've officially un-friended myself from the L'Arc~en~Ciel and Super Junior comms because I can no longer stand the sight of them. (The bands, I mean) And it helps to make my Friends' Updates page shorter.

신화 때문에

Me, twinnie and Mishiewashie met at KL Sentral McD for our much-needed Shinhwa obsession session (haven't done this for a long time, ne?). We unwrapped our newly arrived Shinhwa normal edition parcel with unsuppressed glee.



I really didn't care if anyone stared at us doing the fangirling thing xD

Hey! The mini photobook is from the same photoshoot for the limited special edition one... The novelty (almost) wore us off since we'd already ogled the bigger and extensive photobook to death.

Well, at least the normal edition poster is comparably yummier. And I don't mind ogling at more pictures of my yuhbo. Big nor small. Eheh ;P





I also received my Limited International Special Edition today! Thanks for taking good care of it, girls ^_^

As Mish had to return to Geek Mode, Farah and I then further continued our spazzing at S&M where I bought KimuTaku's "Hero" and MatsuKen's "Sexy Voice and Robo" (Lin's recommendation). *sigh* I really missed our theory exchanges and intense discussions, twinnie! Sankiu <3

I solemnly swear...

... That I am up to no good. Er, sorry. Wrong pledge. *shoos Fred and George away*

I solemnly swear that Shinhwa will forever go on in my heart.

Those ShinhwaChangjo-ers really made me, made us all Shinhwa fans, very proud. The Oath was drowned out by all those girls' (and boys') tears. I'm sure I would've choked up too.

Action speaks louder than words, no? Ehh, or tears work better than.. than.. whatever :S

*blows nose* That was the first time I cried while listening to a heavy metal song on fullblast.

Orange Attack

Tadaima! My PC is finally back, alive and definitely kicking after I succeeded to godek it up over the last weekend. Alhamdulillah... Just in time to spazz some more for Shinhwa's 10th Anniversary.

I'm sure a lot of people did the same as me yesterday. The orange fever really hit me bad last night. Look what a sappy fan can do with a whole lot of spare time (under the circumstance of a broken down computer) and a spanking new camera phone:



Crazy woman gone overboard? I doubt I'm even close to owning orange as a true fan would have amounted.

Go ahead and post/talk about all the random orange coloured stuff you can find in your house :D

Orange power!

S H I N H W A    C H A N G J O !

10 years, baybeh~ Woohoo!

Squeeze me in will ya?

Aha! Finally!

A Kpop album in my Current Music list. *points to all the Jrock albums on the right bar*
(Nevermind that there's a Hikki single sesat there)

I hear RicDy <3 I hear RicWanMinDy <33

Rejoice, all ye SHINHWA fans~

*sings 'Give it up, give it up' and flails around*

Wilting away

"Heart of a Kpopper, soul of a Jrocker." - I never thought I'd reach such a bleak point in my life.

My Heart is wilting. Unsustained. Uncared for.

The fire's almost snuffing out. I stare at it, motionless, my mind clutching at the memories; Resilient to never forget the warmth that used to encase the jaded heart. Yet never stoking it. Not once do I stoke the dying flame. Finding no will to salvage it.

A sense of dread befalls me as the fire flickers out.

I try to stop my restless Soul from leaving the lifeless shard of my broken self. Empathy assailing Its cruel judgment to flee.

What's left of it? Gathering the ashes into my cupping hands, a small thought niggles into my head: I am not alone. I still have them.

A cure? No. Not a cure. A balm to sooth the burnt edges. The only balm that can redeem my acceptance of Kpop.

They have and always will be my heroes.

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??