It's Already June!

How fast time goes by, yet still no KinKi related DVDs. Good morning, people. This isn't what I wanted to talk about today. Sorry about that.

I'm getting dragged to Lanchang (spelling?), Pahang this Sunday for a wedding. So I'd need to go shop for new shoes on Sat. And perhaps squeeze in movie watching in the agenda. A-Team's awesome! But I'd love to watch Prince of Persia. Anyone?

There might be reviews coming up soon once I get my hands on MUCC's Yakusoku maxi-single. For now look out for Sugizo's musical soundtrack (biased review), CPS's 'Tokarev', DELUHI's 'Frontier' and NoGod's 'Kakusei'. Still halfway to a complete wishlist.

Anyway, June is the time when big announcements should come out regarding Seoul, yes?

Other than the above and CDJapan purchases, my money will be used up for Brian Joo's showcase on July 10 and quite possibly Wonder Girls' event.

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. ;)

A (Very) brief shot to fame

My shameless fangirl antics on Sunday will forever be recorded into my mind until I die. I'm planning to kill myself next month cos we're slated to be broadcast on MBC. Yes, MBC Korea.

This was another one of those interviews about international Kpop fans. Unlike the Song Seung Heon interview last time, yesterday was more of a mockumentary as they followed our 'fanclub' on a fanclub-esque day out. We were forewarned that we'd only be inserted into a 5 minutes slot of their program... However, the whole ordeal took almost 6 hours so I guess my face is gonna be edited out a lot! xD

It's a royal shame that Farah wasn't able to join us. But twinnie, you should count your blessings for not having to endure any future embarrassments.
Guh. I'll make sure to post the video up when it's ready.

The first part was a meeting/gathering which consisted of some 13 people (that's 8 of us plus 5 of Mr.
Seo's former students) and it was obvious we outshone those poor
people. We next moved to Tower Records for them to capture us
fangirling over the 'latest' Kpop albums there like we always go there to buy our stuff. Puahah. Oh, the irony!



Above is Moonie and me capturing each other on our K800i(s). Our last scene is at a noraebang (Korean karaoke), so on the right there is Tasha and N'war when we just arrived.



Here's Kak Bailah and those four on the right (Lyndy, Moon, Jess and Fel) who kept randomly picking songs they liked but couldn't sing.

Then there's teh Lyndy in Wondergirls action. It being my first time in a noraebang, I was quite surprised at the number of Jrock songs listed although they're pretty old. Whoohoo! I'm gonna have to look for lyrics so I can go there again.

Anyhoo, it was fun! Somehow, Mr. Seo conveniently forgot to mention that the cameraman is in reality a renowned director for MBC >_

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.

My walk down the old path

a recent spew of new Jrock singles and albums (the GazettE, Kagrra, & Rentrer en Soi for instance), has revived a flame of passion in me which almost died in March/April last year. one downloaded album led to another and now i'm tracking down full discographies. that is if i can find working torrents who did i start listening to in the first place? well it's a looong story.. to cut the history lecture short i'll just shortlist my favorites:

[1998] L'Arc~en~Ciel; Rurouni Kenshin movie. Glay and Dir en grey; from Jrock Channel. Malice Mizer and Gackt, too. X Japan!

[1999] Luna Sea -Hyde (i want the old Hyde back!!). basically i just fell out because Kpop demanded so much from me.

suddenly, now that i'm older (and hopefully, maturer) i'm hopelessly lost amidst the whole download-every-show-follow-every-video mentality of Kpop fans. it's scary how the scale might tip at any time and unseat my Kpop-fan identity. i love Kpop, i really do. but i realise i don't like to collect every single thing (DVD, photobook schmuck) because i'm content just by listening to music. and break me or waive me, i am still a hardcore Jrock-fan at heart. before anyone counters and calls me an undignified fan, let me assure ya that i still keep Shinhwa and Hyoshin foremost in my heart. but anything/anyone other than them... i'd only manage to get bored with rather fast. ah, it's just me.. i fall in and out of love too easily.

do u want my spazz, er.. love?

Park Hyo Shin songs keep randomly popping up in my head. lol. i can't get myself to memorize all the song titles tho ^^.  oh, crap.. now it's Buzz. heh.

i dunno why i'm in such a good mood. i guess, because i haven't been going into forums this past few days.. so when i saw soooo many new news and posts on Shinhwa activites.. ^_____^. i feel so happy liao! Kyochon CF is out, new pics are up, ah~ i tried to catch up.

like my twinnie said, if only Hyesung and Andy turun ke Malaysia for a day, kan best? woo she can kejar Hyesung while i kejar Andy!! mwahaha. OMG!!!!!!if they're in Thailand, then the rest of the Xman peeps are there too! ah how come i just realized that?! MC YOO.. so near yet so far. T_T i wanna go see MC Yoo!!

oh hey, 1TYM's - Can't Let You Go MV is good. i love Teddy's unbraided hair. he looks so handsome. Baekkyoung too has straight hair now. and Danny and Jinhwanie are so cute! can't wait for their album!! i'm just wondering whose huge studio-ranch they stayed at? that place is massive o_o

ok, one last spazz before i sign off: i just read the latest chapter of Guiyeoni's 'To My Boyfriend' translated fic. it's got one last chapter to end. guys, you have to read it. the story is so sad.. but i dunno how they're going to make it into a movie. eh, considering that the ending is the best part.

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kekeke.. i just noticed that my previous post was gloomy and dreadful =_=''. and this post is so uber-happy. ^^;; choa yo!