Everyone please pray for Hyoshin!

I remember finding news about my hubby and a loooot of money. Finally some light (as in translations) has been shed on the legal war between Park Hyoshin and his recording company, InterStage. Months of suffering under constant pressure and drudgery has amounted to nothing, not even sympathy, but a shocking move by InterStage to further humiliate the harassed singer.

Excerpts from several news reports:

"On Jan. 31, InterStage filed a $3 million [note: 3억원] law suit against Park Hyo
Shin to make up for the 'loss in profit' due to a breach in contract."

"The management company erroneously accuses Park Hyo
Shin of a breach in contract without looking at their poor treatment of
their artist... Of course, the 'heartless' Interstage company did not see a bed-ridden star as a human being in need of care but rather a 'profit loss'."

From fans' comments:

"Anyways, on 28th concert, he did not say much but sang the songs, then
he said he has a lot on his mind and wants to say so much that he
better not start, and that THEY are here at the concert. Well, THEY
meant Hyo Shin's recording company's heads and staffs, who were
controlling what he can or cannot do... Around the end of the concert, he finally broke down and just cried,"

Ok. WTF?! They exhausted him to death and now they want him to pay 3 FUCKING billion won for their loss?

AAAAAAARRGGGHHH!!!!!! Those fucktards! How dare they do this to him?!

Go here to read the extended report at ShenYuePop! and the news which can also be found here and here. Naver has been sprouting a lot of reports, but I guess they're about the same. This link here shows a fancam where he cried during the concert.

Furthermore, I'm still damn pissed off at why he didn't win anything for Breeze of Sea. C'mon~ that's easily the most effing beautiful album from 2007!

Debu Note [SMAPxSMAP]

Boooo~ I couldn't follow Kak Bailah and Farah to Pavilion today (they went to eat ddukbogi). It's a good thing I decided to go home after lunch at Saji with the CinemaOnliners. Because my stomachache got worse... 물똥했어요. I shyte-ed like never before T_T

A bad day it has been for me it was. This and the booking error boo-boo that SERIOUSLY scared the shyte out of me. Pun intended. Mr Chan and Encik Naza, you are my saviours ♥.

Enough of the shyte talk, aight?

My colleague, Ria, insisted us to watch this "Death Note" parody. The interviewer is Kusanagi Tsuyoshi ("The Sinking of Japan") and I took a long time to figure who the fat kid was. After Googling it turned out to be.... Goro Inagaki! If you don't remember him, he's the kuku besi sensei that wanted to expel Nakatsu in "HanaKimi".

Anyhoo, GONG HEI FATT CHOY to my beloved friends and dear readers!

Smeared with (chocolate) cake

Thanks to Nwar for highlighting this most recent issue among concerned local bloggers. I'm amazed why it hasn't spread like wildfire yet.

The government's campaign to encourage literacy in our beloved country has unfortunately allowed numbskulls to cash-in on the "Celeb Writer" status through cheap publicity. By (allegedly) plagiarising someone else's work.

Read this fascinating entry from Jannah Raffali's blog. There are other blogs discussing the Hudson Boo-Boo (I prefer it as The Hudson Conspiracy) which can be linked from the site.

Ah, such a delicious morsel to feed to the entertainment industry's gossip-mongers. Kek Coklat, anyone?

SUGIZO with X Japan?!

Hey, what's this I hear of my Sugi-chan taking up hide-sama's empty spot for X Japan's concert tour? TT_____TT
Pleeeease, please please please, come to South East Asia.

In the meantime, "I.V." sounds promising. But.. I dunno. I'm not really feeling it, although the lyrics are hot diggidy awesome (Yo-sama still writes the best) :

(In the rain) I'm calling you, dear
(Fight the pain) Can't you see me standing right here
(Feel my pain) Life is bleeding from fear
(Find its place) I will give it straight from my vein

I'm also unfeeling of the GazettE's new single, "Guren". I just watched the PV but it started to bore me even after 3 minutes into the song. It sounds like their other ballads. Nothing new here. Where's a.b.s when you need them, eh?

Alright, so I tend to be biased these days. I blame Sugi-chan for brainwashing me with his trance remix album. SPIRITUARISE is damn spanking, I tell ya. Go and listen at his MySpace.

Another recommended listen is "Fuyu no Maboroshi" by Acid Black Cherry. I've only experimented today and I must say, the single is really really unexpectedly nice. Yea well, I sorta dissed Yasu's voice when he was still singing for Janne Da Arc (tho their songs were not that bad).

Again, another Sugizo influence. <-- He helped out Yasu before.



Why did I ever divorce him? I'm so sorry, my love~~~

Ohhh and before I forget, Happy 39th Birthday Haido-san!

I've been (Face)book-ed

I've succumbed to Facebook.

The first thing I did when I got home after work last night was open my Facebook. And this morning, the first thought that cleared my sleepiness away was if my pet is feeling happier.

It doesn't help that everyone in the office keep SuperPoking their friends, playing with their own pets (plus minipets) and even racing with each other. Even my bosses.

What a fine productivity-killing-machine.

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.

Google-d

here i was, on my best behaviour, Googling for the latest Luna Sea news in CD-Data when:

wow! O_O i made 1st page from such a random keyword.
seeing is believing, dude~ huhuhuhuuu

no one on Earth really knows how Google works (genius as it is) as compared to other search engines. must've been sheer luck. however, seeing other blogs citing purr-fect capitalisation i'm beginning to rethink my foolish 'No Caps' principle. :P

and how come i can NEVER get my Geocities site to creep into Google when i type in my fullname? tsk tsk

Jaya Sect 14 to be demolished?!

Read! The Star Metro, 05 January 2008.

I am surely one extremely ignorant Petaling Jaya citizen to only just realise that my good old hangout joint will soon be a pile of rubble. I practically grew up living in that mall (literally).

Jaya Supermarket happens to be the first shopping complex in PJ (goly!) and was THE place where my father would drag our family to for grocery shopping (back when Cold Storage was still affordable), toy hunting (remember Kathy's Toys? Gosh, that was my haven!), book hunting (my love of books was nurtured there) and then Daddy would spend hours in the music store listening to oldies. During my teens a lot of shops had changed. Of course, by then Jaya was pretty much cursed with ever-changing tenants. Except for Cold Storage (well, duh), the watch shop and the DIY shop which were covered in the news article.

Lemme see.. There was this quaint CD shop when I was 16 where I bought my first Luna Sea album after saving up my pocket money (the cashier was gaping at all the coins and RM1 notes). There used to be The House of Chicken Rice with yummier nasi ayam than Chicken Rice Shop's.. And what about Delifrance? Secret Recipe? Oh, and Famous Amos Cookies which I'd stare at longingly as a little girl.

Boy oh boy, those were the days.

It's said that the replacing slab of concrete will be housing a cineplex. Ooh.. GSC? TGV? Sounds too good to be true. Haha.. Maybe Lotus Pyramid Saimira. What a sure fire way to make the blasted traffic jam there even worse.

gaining through losing

In one zodiac (Chinese and Western) reading I did, it said that chances and opportunities lay abundant in 2007 and decisions -life changing decisions- had to be made for a better future. And I'm happy that I took up those challenges! *pats own back*

Well. 2007 has passed. And what a year it was.

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The Good
1. Work: Yep. I finally got rid of all my insecurities by getting myself a job.
2. Family: 16ppl in a big loving family. It really grew with the addition of my stepmom with her 3 children (+1 bro-in-law, +1 future-sis-in-law) and my sister's fourth child The Bad
1. Health: Gained so much weight ever since I started work T_T. More stress, more tired and I can see grey hair... >_The Ugly
1. Friendship: (a) Lembu = The Devil Incarnate. The catalyst of all ruined trust.
(b) Lipas = Never trust someone so completely until you're blinded.

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Yes, I've gained a lot through losing half of my former life. But I raised myself up from that slum. And I sure as hell won't feel bad for the things I had to do to get to my goals.

Carpe Diem, people. Let's usher in the new year with lots of love and hope.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!