Tomatoe Diary V.06 ~atashi no senaka ni wa hane ga aru~

Tomatoe @ Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - 04:56 p.m.

Let's hope today's entry won't take as long to write as yesterday's entry. ^^;;;

I already re-registered for the new Japanese class. I'll probably start next week. I hope I will get two teachers again this term! Eka-sensei and Indra-sensei both. *crossing my fingers* The IT course won't start until next month so I won't be super busy soon... but after I start IT course I will register for the French lesson as well. I have to fix my French! @_@

PLUG: STARBUCKS OFFICIAL WEBSITE

Yesterday evening I went to Starbucks in Town Square. I went there to get ideas for the Starbucks layout design. Well, whaddya know... it was a fruitful trip!!!
For one thing, I met a really cute guy there. Correction: not CUTE, but HANDSOME. His eyes are deep... think: Ken Hirai's eyes. He's tall, around 180. He looks like he's 25-26. Very, very HANDSOME. But he's got a girl. >_< I knew he was looking at me, though, because my seat was facing his and we could directly look each other although we were some five tables apart. I momentarily forgot about all the J-artists I like. This rarely happens because usually even when I see handsome guys when I go to the mall, I always compare them to the J-stars I like... this time, he's not even Japanese/Korean... he's Indonesian... but I was greatly attracted. *sigh* Why are all the good guys taken? Well, except Junno, that is. Because I plan to be the one taking him. ^-^

I stayed for nearly two hours, making sketches for the Starbucks layout design and the Arashi Blog Crew banners, and even writing an outline for the prequel that Terry's so enthusiastic about. My playlist yesterday was the World Cup 2002 Official Korea/Japan album, Tiziano Ferro's "Rosso Relativo" album, Tackey & Tsubasa's "Tobe tobe TEN made Tobe" single and RUI's "Tsuki no Shizuku" single.

And... what a suprise! I met my friend, Rei-chan, who was there with her dad who was having a casual business meeting in Town Square. She got bored and wandered off and she barged into Starbucks when she saw me. I shrieked when I saw her because it was such a coincidence!!! But that's Cilandak Town Square for you: YOU ALWAYS MEET SOMEONE. Rei sat with me for around 30 minutes. I continued designing and she read a book. We didn't talk, we just mind our own business. I'm glad she's such a calm and quiet person, unlike *someone*, who seems to say things where and when it's inappropriate. Anyway, Rei had to leave soon because her dad was finished so we said goodbye and I continued with my design stuff.

When I finally felt full of the blueberry cheesecake (surprisingly Starbucks Indo have a really, really delicious blueberry cheesecake compared to other cafes!) I decided to leave. Thank God for that because not so long afterwards Starbucks was suddenly INVADED by elementary school kids of an international school here. They were practically screaming, "JACOB! WHADDYA GONNA HAVE?" "CAN I HAVE A MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO?! OH NO WAIT, LET ME HAVE CARAMEL FRAPPUCCINO! OH, NO MAYBE THE MOCHA IS BETTER!" >_< And the girls were dancing in front of the cashier counter. They chose separate tables to sit at and some of them occupied the tables next to mine. @_@ So noisy. I couldn't concentrate anymore.

So, about the Starbucks design, I've managed to make two basic templates on sketch for me and Terry... ^-^
All I have to do now is follow these templates to create the design on computer. Designing a Starbucks layout is tricky because the pictures I use are originally from Starbucks flyers and their graphics are already so good and so complicated that I have to carefully choose particular elements for the layout. I can't use everything because it'll be messy! @_@
Anyway, my color theme is green and Terry's color theme is brownish cream/beige. My theme is FRESH, and her theme is WARM. ^-^ I find that it's easier to make layouts when you have a theme. Like, I try to think of what kind of impression the layout is trying to make when people see it. That's how I came up with the layout for Milk White. Heh, heh.

I am so going to drag Fi-chan to my house so she can teach me more about Photoshop editing. If she can't come, I'm going to kidnap her. ^-^ Fi-chan, yoroshiku onegaishimasu. (Do I sound annoying or what, huh, Fi? =P --> HAHAHA. She doesn't read this anyway! ;) )

Now I was going to comment on Naoya Akama of Ya Ya Yah on yesterday's entry. I'm upset because I read on Jenn's talk entry that he hasn't been singing any significant parts whenever Ya Ya Yah perform. Jenn also mentioned a fact that I kept thinking about: why didn't Naoya go to Pattaya?!
QUESTION: WHAT DOES HIKARU YAOTOME HAVE IN CONNECTION WITH YA YA YAH?
Was he an ex-member? Or a future new member? What??
Instead with Naoya, Kota Yabu now duets with Hikaru all the time.
No offense to Kota and Hikaru's fans, but I think when it comes to Ya Ya Yah's performance, Naoya deserve a better attention because he's a an official part of the group now and Hikaru isn't! Since Johnny Kitagawa has decided to "market" Ya Ya Yah from early on (they've released a single! @_@ Even *KAT-TUN* hasn't even released a single! @_@) and chose Naoya Akama to be in Ya Ya Yah, why does now Hikaru Yaotome should join in? His participation in every Ya Ya Yah performance lately seems like an "intrusion". I have nothing against him, but I just dislike the way he outshines the other Ya Ya Yah members. Maybe it would be even better if he and Kota make a duo unit, and put someone else in Ya Ya Yah so that they equal singing parts. @_@ And as much as I like Kota's cuteness, I think his voice is a bit overrated. It's too high-pitched and he doesn't seem to be able to project his voice well to match the songs. Naoya is better at this. Take a look at his singing in the KAT-TUN concert DVD. When Naoya sang "Sekai ga Hitotsu ni Naru Made", his voice was very well projected. Even though Naoya doesn't look as cute or lovable like Kota does, I'd say he's certainly got talent. (UNDERAPPRECIATED talent for now, that is. >_<) I wish he'd get more singing parts and can be on the spotlight more.

That's why I'd say:
NAOYA, GANBATTE!!!
AMI-NEECHAN WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT YOU!!!

Oh yeah, speaking of Jenn, SHE'S LEAVING FOR JAPAN!!! HOW LUCKY!!!
I can't believe Jenn shook hands with Junno in Taiwan last year. I had only found out about that this morning when I read her message on the BBS!
JENN YOU ARE SO LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, please, please, please, please say hi to Junno for me! Tell him that he's the cutest Junior ever and tell him that he'll always receive my support!
(Is it too late for Jenn to read this message? Hahaha...)
I'm envious. =P But I'm happy for her!!! I know Fang canceled her plan, because of the SARS danger. ~_~ I'm so sorry to hear that. But I hope one day we can all go to Japan and watch a Johnny's concert together.
Let's all meet up in Japan sometime in a large group and have a large gathering for the Johnny's concert! ^-^ Me, K4r-kun, Mubesu girls, Jenn, Yona, Mic, Fang, Aki, Fi-chan... heck, I'd drag Terry and Priska as well! *evil laugh* Terry will see Junno with me, and Priska will get to see Jimmy Mackey. ^-^ Heh, heh.
Maybe Japan police will have to send reinforcements because it looks like it will be somewhat chaotic when we all meet up for the concert. ^^;;;;;

One thing for sure: EVERYONE MUST PREPARE FOR THE ABDUCTION OF JUNNOSUKE TAGUCHI, TSUBASAI IMAI AND HIDEAKI TAKIZAWA BY A RABID FAN NAMED TOMATOE. ^-^ *angelic smile*

Okay, I think I'll stop here. Heh, I always take long time to write entries. >_< Or maybe that's because I don't do round entries anymore. ^^;; Anyway, once my nosebleeding is cured I'll start working on the Junno site again! ^-^ (Junno's response to the questions in Myojo really cracked me up and they definitely make me nosebleed... BIG TIME.)

Tomatoe @ Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 03:11 p.m.

I'm calm today. ^^ Heh, heh. Thanks for everyone who visited the Junno site and congratulating it. I appreciate it a lot, guys!!! ^_^ [Gosh, even Fi-chan who's on hiatus and is not using Internet often anymore these days went online just to see it! You don't know how touched I am! And she wrote a really nice comment. I had thought she'd forgotten about me. ;) LOL! Haha, kidding. If Fi-chan forgets me, I'll kick her. - sorry Fi - But she's my best friend since elementary school... so if she forgets me, I'll not hesitate to make her remember me again by kicking her derriere. Huahahahahahaha... --> Okay, gomen, omen!!!]

I just read something shocking about Kouki and Naoya Akama from Jenn's RealDX Diary. ^^;; I feel like crying. But, oh well, I'll talk about that some other time. What I'd like to say now contains of two things:

"FRIDAY, GO SCREW YOURSELVES!"

and

"NAOYA-CHAN, GANBATTE!!!"
(By the looks of it, I might have to make a website for Naoya Akama too just to show my support and appreciation of his talent!)

^^;; Those who reads Jenn's Talk entries will understand what I'm talking about.

Me bought Popolo and Myojo June issues yesterday. *knock my head* I know I shouldn't be buying Myojo because the copy that was on display yesterday is a by-air-shipment copy (meaning: EXPENSIVE-ASS!) and I'm already subscribing to the by-sea-shipment (which is also quite expensive if you count the currency). I also shouldn't buy it because Junno's pics are so small there... BUT I COULDN'T STAND IT!!!
Junno's pics may be small but he's DDG (Drop Dead Gorgeous)! Then TxT's pic... *faints* Someone explain to me why these guys seem to wake up everyday only to look more handsome than before!!! I was squealing and shrieking in the bookstore yesterday just seeing those three guys' pics... and they're not even on the cover. (I swear, if ever Junno & Takki & Tsuba ALL THREE OF THEM APPEAR ON A MAGAZINE COVER TOGETHER, I will buy five copies of that magazine!!! Seriously!) --> how to get five copies? One from Kino PI, one from Kino PS, one from Singapore, one from Japan and one from YesAsia. HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!
But I hope the magazine is not Myojo. ^^;; It's my least fave of all Johnny's-featuring magazines. It's always unfair, and they bore me to death by presenting the same methods for every issue. It's *always* Jin-Kame on the pin-up/poster (w/o KAT-TUN) and Yamapi has hundreds of pages in that magazine while Toma, Hasejun, Kazapon and Jimmy *always* get less (sometimes not even more than one! @_@). Pics are not always that good. Sometimes the layout even cries out for someone like Jenn to fix it. ^^;;

Now, Popolo is another story. ^-^ I like it a lot, as much as I like WU. But I haven't seen anything from the new Popolo except for:
1. Arashi's WEIRD fashion sense (HELP, TSUBA! YOUR FRIENDS NEED FASHION CONSULTATIONS!!! -> seriously, I want to burn the pages with Ohno's pics... ^^;; I don't like the style at all).

2. Junno DDG again. There's a PATTAYA report... KAT-TUN's featured there... Junno's so DDG. (How many times have I said that?) JUNNO DDG!!!

3. Kimura-kun... SASSHIN FEST! Whoaaa... so many pics of Kimura-sensei!!! That man is just so kakkoii. Even now that he looks older and he's married with two kids, he's got a big appeal. Speaking of him, I wonder if he's going to release a photo book called "KAI-HO-KU Kimura Takuya"?? The ad campaign seems to be all over Shueisha published magazines. =O I'm looking forward to that! I want to buy!

4. Hideaki Itou. ^-^ Aiaiai. Can I steal him from K4r-kun? Heh, heh. He looks just my type. He looks younger in the Popolo pics 'cause his hairstyle has changed somehow. He's as cool as ever, though. And would you believe it... HE SMILES A LOT! ^^;; I rarely see him smile but here he smiles quite a lot.

Speaking of magazines, now I'm missing my work for the magazines... ~_~ I haven't written in magazines for a long time. I didn't mind for a while but now I miss it. It's not about the money because it's not important in the sense that I just do it because I really love writing. I just feel like writing for magazines again.
The talk about journalism with Aki just somehow made me miss writing for magazines. ^^

You guys certainly know by now why I keep writing long reviews of the CDs and DVDs I bought, and why my entries are like opinion columns in newspapers (that is, LONG). ^^;; It's 'cause I love writing. I just want to write, write, write...
Unfortunately, writing is not a recommended subject for me to study in university. ^^;; My mom told me I can already write so it doesn't matter if I study it again in uni or not because I already have my own style. She told me it's better to study something else that will support my writing (and all the languages I've learned). I used to disagree vehemently... but now I see her point. I'm afraid if I go to study writing in university I will be forced to change my style of writing by stubborn professors. ^^;;; So that's why I need to chase another dream... something that I haven't quite grasped yet. Cinema, web-design, and graphic design [and getting hooked up with Junnosuke "DDG" Taguchi, Tsubasa "Sexy" Imai, and Hideaki "Kakkoii" Takkizawa" --> XD Joking, joking...].

Huahahahaha, this entry took one hour to finish. ^^;; I think I'm going to Starbucks after this. Believe it or not, I'm making a Starbucks layout! ^-^ I've created several designs... but they're still only designs, just the graphics, still not combined with fonts or the HTML setting. (I think I have to bother Ters again for the HTML codes! I'm so dumb when it comes to HTML-izing).

I HAVE AN IDEA!!!
LET'S MAKE A STARBUCKS BLOG CREW!!
Huehehehe. I want to be "COFFEE CARAMEL FRAPPUCCINO".
Who else wants to join? ;)

Oh yeah, speaking of blog crews, K4r-kun and I are making some... but it's not animanga blog crews (enough of that already! ^^;; XD Hahahahaha...) It'll be Johnny's blog-crews. What we have in mind is ARASHI BLOG CREW and KANJANI 8 BLOG CREW. Now, now, before anyone reserve any places, the plan's not been finalized yet!!! We still have to make up some plans. Heh, heh.
I don't even know who wants to join... but Kardono and I are *definitely* joining!!! LOL. (Of course, we made it. ^^;;) Hahahahaha.

Okay, I'm signing out now. I've been speaking too much and this is not even all that I want to talk about. ^^;; I'm going to Starbucks to design the graphics. ^-^

(But I miss Italian coffee... ~_~)

Tomatoe @ Monday, April 28, 2003 - 05:22 p.m.

DEKITA!

Pardon me for being so happy, but I've completed the junnosuke-taguchi.com website! Bye, bye Geocities!!! ^-^

IT'S OPEN!

Didn't sleep last night completing the work for that website!!! YEAH!!! Soooo happy. ^-^ HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!
I am delirious. Genki. Sugoi ureshii.

JUNNO! YOU HAVE A SITE WITH YOUR NAME DOMAIN!

I know my website is really nothing much and it's probably bad @_@ but I HOPE JUNNO SEES IT. I want him to know that he receives *that* much love from his fan even though he's exactly "very popular". He's special in his own way and because of that I also hope he gets more love from his other fans... because someone like him deserves a love soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo big, larger-than-life-itself kind of big!!!

PLEASE COME AND VISIT

^^;;; I sound extremely vain by inviting people to my website. GOMEN. But I really hope you can come and play... even if you're not a Junno fan. ^-^ If you need a new "playground", you're always welcome, ne~

Mic, Jenn, I don't think my site can be compared to yours... ^^;; But, I WANT TO AFFILIATE WITH THE TWO OF YOU!!! 'Cause I think we're the ones crazy enough to do *this* for Johnny's best 3 most lovable guys! ^-^ Heh, heh.

I feel so happy I'm crying right now. *sob* Hiks. Hiks. *cheer* YAY! YAY!

ITSUMO JUNNO WO AISHITERU!

Tomatoe @ Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 01:24 p.m.

This is BAD.

I really shouldn't make this a habit but I can't help it! Waking up at noon, then going straight to the computer to work on the Junno website or to drool at Tsuba on Jenn's website, and then going to the TV and drool on either one of them Johnny's boys on the recorded tapes. ^^;; I really need to get organized.
Oh another newfound habit: I'm having a LAYOUT-FRENZY. I've only had this layout for one week and I have three more waiting in line to be used, I've already finished another two!!! ^^;;; [And they're not even the layouts I promised to people]. Even thought most of my layout sucks [Ohhh, I know someone who would immediately say, "Oh yes, your layout sucks. Mine's better. You should learn from me!" To this person, I'd just like to say, "VA A CAGARE!"] but they've somehow become my own pride because it's made by *ME*... MYSELF. When I design layouts I feel like, "Yay, I'm not that hopeless." ^-^ Just that, I know Terry's going to smack me because I'm supposed to be working on the prequel instead of layouts! ^^;; GOMEN.

Jenn, those Italian phrases I wrote below mean:
It doesn't matter if Tsubasa Imai is gay or not. To me, it matters only that he's a guy with great talent and an admirable looks! As a matter of fact, I will be very, very happy if he turns out to be dating the love of his life, TAKIZAWA. What matters most is that the two of them like each other!
So to speak. Don't you agree?
Maybe Mr. Gragnato wants to have Tsubasa. ^^;;
But Takki would knock ANYONE out first before he/she reaches Tsuba, I think. [Except me, 'cause I'd probably knock Takki out first just to get my hands on Tsuba... *EVIL* I'm sure Yona have the same sentiments, too. How's abouts yous, Jenns? ^^]

Saw the trailer for LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN for like 20 times yesterday. (Gosh, you guys know that this is SO GOING TO BE my next cinematic obssession!) Dorian Gray is so cool. I don't even see Shane West, who plays Agent Sawyer. Now I really need to understand why many girls drool over him. I found out that many girls like him!!! [Is he as cute as JunnoBaby TaBunny or Prince and Princess?? --> MY SISTER IS SO GOING TO KILL ME IF SHE READS THIS!!! ^^;;;]

I saw the trailer while chatting with Cecil. She was sending me the split files for V6's "Mejirushi no Kioku" PV and so we chatted for a very long time and talked a lot of nonsense. I told her the most outrageous story about how my sister's friend (nickname: D-kun) collapsed right after their other friend (nickname: N-san) f@r#-ed. [You get?]

Okay so what happened was... in one of the pre-camps my sister attended a few weeks ago, N-san ate durian (you guys know what it is? That's an exotic fruit which smells like... well... "HELL". ^^;; Either you love it so much, or you hate it completely. Most Asians should know anyway. Gackt hates it.) D-kun and N-san were on the same performance team for the pre-camp's cultural night's activities... while they were rehearsing, N-san f@r#-ed and it smelled like durian and D-kun, who couldn't stand the smell, fainted in the middle of their dance. D-kun fainted in the middle of dancing and since the others were paying attention to the dance, no one noticed he fell! Poor guy!!! ^^;; And my sister said N-san was soooooo worried, because he's the oldest in the group and sort of like their "unofficial leader", so he tried to help the most but he was still so smelly that everyone else had to push him away so D-kun could regain consciousness. LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!

That is just plain hilarious!!! I always joke with my friends how a f@r# bomb could really knock people out and gasping for oxygen... but when I heard this kind of story, which occurs in REAL-LIFE, it really cracked me up. I mean, seriously... That's the most hilarious story I've heard this year so far. My sister told me about it yesterday when we were waiting for mom in the hospital. I laughed so hard that I had to go to the toilet so that my mom wouldn't be disturbed by my outragous laughter.
Sorry for the gross story but there you go, the highlight of my Saturday afternoon: Tomatoe hears a gross story from imouto. ^^;;

I've blabbed too much. I'll just go have my lunch. [Okay, how I can eat lunch after recounting that story, I have no idea, but I haven't eaten anything decent since yesterday so I really have to eat something.] Njya~ 'til the next madness.

Tomatoe @ Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 07:24 p.m.

I'm tired. I don't want to ever go out of the house anymore. ~_~ I feel like sleeping only. I WANT TO SLEEP (preferably with JunJun ^-^ LOL!). That's all.

PLUGS:
- LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
I was so ecstatic when I found out about this movie yesterday. Gosh. I didn't know it until yesterday. WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL THIS TIME?! [Okay, I know: I've been stuck in the Junno world for too long. :P]
This is my most anticipated movie for the summer!!! I *MUST* WATCH THIS FILM. Sean Connery stars in it, as well as ... ehem ... Shane West [I don't really know who he is but my sister and Cecil seem to like him! ^^;;] But actually, the reason why I really, really want to watch this film is because of the characters!!! They're all practically legends here... should I say, fictional legends... Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde... My eyes were about to pop out when I saw Dorian Gray in there. When I read the book by Oscar Wilde I was fascinated. The story was dark but I liked it very much. So now that Dorian Gray is featured in a motion picture, I really MUST see it.
I spent a good hour in the website yesterday just marveling at the fact that this film is being made. I really hope it's going to be released soon in Indonesia (although I somehow doubt that! ^^;;)

Un messaggio a Mirko Gragnato:
Ciao! Ma a me non importa se Tsubasa Imai e' gay o no. M'importa solo che e' un bravo ragazzo con un grande talento e un look da amare! Beh, infatti, saro' molto, molto felice se in realta' Tsuba esce con l'amore della sua vita, cioe' TAKIZAWA! ^-^ Conta solo che stanno bene insieme!!!

VIVA TxT

Mom's out of the hospital. No more worries for the moment. Let's see what happens next month. As for now, I really need to get organized and do the things I have to do first. Japanese lesson, web-design course, French class and most importantly, the Junno website!

*sob* I think there's no Shounen Club today.