Saturday, April 5, 2003, 03:28 p.m.
N.P. Kinki Kids "Roulette Town no Natsu" and Koichi Domoto "Tsukiya Monogatari"
How's everyone today? I had a disastrous morning. I couldn't use the main computer that I usually use to go online, because my dad's using the room. Therefore I had to use the 2nd computer, where I couldn't open my own blog. Couldn't even open the Pitas page. Couldn't open ANYONE'S BLOG. I had to search for my own blog to find my archive page so that I can write in my own TagBoard somehow. Then I needed to modify my own TagBoard and the TagBoard's website wouldn't open either!
I wanted to watch my videos, but the cable couldn't be plugged because my dad's using the cable plug extension for the electricity in the computer room. One of my NHK recordings is missing and it took me an hour to find it.
I decided to go to Kinokuniya to find my magazines, only that none of them have arrived. Then I got the bad news from my mom, saying that next week I won't have a car or a driver because both of them will be needed for one of my cousins' wedding (ANOTHER FAMILY WEDDING?! DAMN IT! --> if *I* get married with Junno/Takki/Tsuba, I will marry in an island, and there will be no one invited. Just me, my bridegroom, the person who will conduct our wedding ceremony and SHARKS [this is to keep the likes of Ami Suzuki away from the island].)
Arrgggghhhh, I'm such in black mood today. Explains why I'm wearing black from top to bottom now. ~_~
Now listening to Kinki Kids to cheer up my mood but it's not working yet. ~_~ Hiks. Hiks. Hiks.
BIG HELLO!
To the new people who have come and written in my Tagboard. Nice to meet all of you.
However, as much as I appreciate people writing in my TagBoard, please remember that:
TAKKI, KAT-TUN and KK KITY DO NOT READ THIS BLOG
Sorry, but that's just the brutal truth. ^^;; They won't be looking at my Tagboard to see if someone had said hello to them. So please do not send your regards or greetings for TxT in my Tagboard. My partner and I once closed our website because of this particular problem, among other things. We couldn't stand people saying things like "Coco, I love you. I think you are handsome. Please come to my country!". That was so annoying. ^^;;;
Since I'm complaining a lot today, I might as well go ahead and say that I dislike people who think they are *all that*. I really don't. I know some people who are like this (I'm not referring to any of my online friends, though), and I have to say, it makes me want to kick their asses and strangle them so tightly when they start to *tell* or *lecture* me about things that I already know, don't particularly want to know or haven't known yet but not interested about. Gah!
I AM NOT STUPID!
I know I'm not attending university right now. I know I spend my days going online and reading Japanese magazines and listening to music. I know I don't study anything else at the moment but Japanese. But that doesn't mean I don't have a brain! That is why I dislike people acting as if they know more than I do! Sure they know more than I do, but that's not a reason to belittle me. Let's see if they can curse in Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, French and English like I do! HAH. Bet they can't do that. Well, they will surely get curses in FIVE languages if they try to act up on me again.
No offense to anyone. I'm just venting out all of my frustration.
I'll get back to everyone's emails.
I still owe Terry, Aaron and Fang.
CECE, I didn't receive any emails from you, but I did get your Instant Messages. I'll get back to you on that one.
And then what else, Kardono, check your inbox! My email for you is there. Fi-chan too (if she can even be bothered to read anything I write here anymore), I sent you something in the email.
Friday, April 4, 2003, 09:58 p.m.
FINALLY...
The schedule I've been waiting for...
From the NHK World Premium Website, next week's Saturday's schedule:
Sunday Pop Music JST 22:05-22:58
Previous "The Shonen club" and "BEAT MOTION" join as one program. Twice a month, Johnny’s Jr., an idol group, with many fans ranging from the teens to the 20’s, will bring a song and dance entertainment show on NHK Hall's stage. Once a month, new artists from a broad range of music genre, and also those artists who already have had big hits will together guest star in this Japanese pop music entertainment program.
In Indonesian time (WIB) and also Thailand, it will be 20.05 (8.05 PM). Singapore and the Philippines, 21.05.
Aahhh! I think I get it now... there will be only TWO Shokura episodes every month, and ONE of BEAT MOTION. They have the same time slots so the shows will be altered every week!
I doubt the shows will be integrated. Because the MCs are different, and the whole concept of both shows are different too.
But I still think I will have to watch the show to know for sure about the changes in the show. I CAN'T WAIT!!!
One thing for sure: I DON'T HAVE TO SACRIFICE MY SUNDAY MORNING SLEEP ANYMORE! URESHIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
Jya, minna, tanoshimini shite kudasai! ^_^
Friday, April 4, 2003, 05:25 p.m.
N.P. Skoop on Somebody "Sha La La"
PLUG: MELON-PAN
Visit Kix's (and Phi's) Melon-Pan website. It's really cool! Has J-pop stuff, as well as fan-art, and also galleries... real cool! Sugoi! ^-^ DAISUKI!
Rei-chan came to visit me a few hours ago. We didn't make it to PS together but we'll probably go on Monday, provided that she doesn't have to go to the doctor. She brought me some videos. ^-^
Now I'm trying to finish some dramas... I'm watching Good Luck on tape, but Lunch no Joou is waiting for me upstairs!!! @____@ Kyaaa... can't decide which one to finish first!!! =P I'll be in a lot of trouble if I go looking for Saigo no Bengonin, ne. ^^;;;
Today I chatted with Yona on AIM, Terry on YM, and Feli and Cecil on ICQ... ^^;;; Chotto komatta yo ne~ Four people to chat with at the same time, three different engines, and two languanges... DEMO, MINNA, TANOSHIKATTA DESU!! Kondo mou ichido yarimasho ka! ^_^
Thanks to all the new people who've written in the TagBoard. Feel free to drop in words again later!!
I'll blog again tonight. Two emails just came from Kardono and Aaron. I really have to reply them!!!
JUNNO, PLEASE BE PATIENT! I'll GET BACK TO YOU ASAP!
Thursday, April 3, 2003, 05:51 p.m.
The computer seems normal now. But I don't know if it will screw up again later. I still can't open SHUN's blog, though, and some other people's blogs take a year to open. >_< FI-CHAN's toka, MIC's toka, soshite... JENN's no website toka. >_< "Y" BETTER COME TO MY HOUSE SOON!!!
Ne, I've been thinking... is better to subscribe to Duet or Wink Up by air on Kino? Hmmm... I can't afford to subscribe to both by air, since I've already subscribed to Potato and Popolo by air. I just found out my cousin hasn't had Internet installed in his apartment and for the next two months he'd still be busy adapting to his new job and his college-life, so I can't bother him until JUNE!!! >_< Shucks. I don't know what to do.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SUGGEST ME WHAT TO DO?
*sigh*
Omoshiroi hanashi...
My sister went to Puncak (mountain area in Java Island) for a pre-summer camp thingie (she's going on an international summer camp this summer and this pre-camp is to prepare her for all the activities that she would have to do on the actual summer camp). There were also some people from other countries. She said there were Japanese people there, too, who came as guests. One of the pre-camp events was a cultural exchange activity, in which all the participants have to dance a traditional dance.
Those Japanese guests performed a choreographed dance using the song by SMAP, "Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana". Before the performed, they announced to the others, "We are from Japan. We're not going to dance a traditional dance, but we are going to dance with a song from a very popular Japanese group called SMAP. Who knows them?"
My sister jolted right up and shouted, "Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!" The Japanese guests were surprised and instead of going on with the dancing they asked my sister, "You really know them?! EEEH!? HONTOU NI?!" My sister nodded excitedly and said, "I like Shingo Katori! He's so cool!" They also asked her which song from SMAP was her fave, and she said "Freebird". The Japanese were even more amazed when she hummed the song to them. When they said that they weren't going to use that song in the dance, my sister said, "Oh I know! You're going to use that song that is the theme song for Tsuyopon's drama right?" She said all the Japanese stood there, gaping at her. So were the other Indonesians.
What's amazing from that story is that:
MY SISTER!!! MY SISTER KNOWS A LOT ABOUT SMAP!!! What the... if you knew my sister... she's the same person who used to run away every time I turn on the TV to watch J-Pop Non Stop Hits. She complains ALL THE TIME whenever I turn on one of my Japanese CDs. AND SHE MAKES FUN OF JOHNNY'S!!!
But now, would you believe that she even knows Tsuyoshi Kusanagi's nickname, and she thinks Shingo Katori is cool... AND SHE IS IN LOVE WITH JIMMY MACKEY!!!
Just the other day, she was in the computer room with me, she suddenly recited the names of all Johnny's artists who are on the cover of those magazines I have.
When she was finished, she said, "I'm down with all this stuff. Yeah. Johnny'."
@___________@
PIKA-CHAN, SUGOI!!!
Hehehehehehe... but I'm proud of her. That means, I've been able to poison her 100%. Ah, iya~ 500%!!! *evil laugh* I'm going to treat her to Starbucks for being "down with all the Johnny's stuff". Nyahahahahaha...
Thursday, April 3, 2003, 01:15 p.m.
N.P. Naohito Fujiki "Tenshi no Niji"
My computer's really screwed up yesterday. The connection was even worse. I'm afraid there might be virus in it, so if I don't go online for the next few days, assume that my computer's being meddled with by Y, who is the family techinician, who is also a family friend, who is also someone I used to have a crush with before I found out he was engaged to my good friend, and who is also my substitute for Abang Tomo (well, yeah, Y is quite brother-material. =P)
I've finally cleared off my Kinki Kids download files. Hiks. I was so sad to do that, but I need the space, especially after I downloaded Naohito Fujiki and FLAME's PVs. >_< I saved those KK files in a CD-ROM. I have 43 files and that already takes up all the bytes in the CD-ROM.
I must say, the DARS MORINAGA CM was hilarious!!! I was laughing my ass off watching the Morinaga CMs I managed to download. Oh God... those two are comics!!! Tsuyoshi, especially. He just cracks me up.
I was also laughing when I saw that Pop Jam clip when Koichi was made to watch an old clip of KK, with SMAP's Nakai, Tsuyoppon and Shingo backdancing for them. XD EXTREMELY HILARIOUS!!!
I miss Koichi in Pop Jam!!!
I've only watched him hosting Pop Jam for like... I don't know... three times. But I was able to get the idea that the show was much more fun conducted by him, than now by Yuuka. Oh, Kouchan, comeback to Pop Jam!!! >_<
Okay, this is funny. Popolo has this "EYE" thingie. You know like, "the sexiest eyes", "the most passionate eyes", etc, etc... and this really cracks me up because of the categories they are divided into.
SEXY EYES
Goro Inagaki + Junichi Okada + Koichi Domoto + Tomoya Nagase + Jun Matsumoto + Hideaki Takizawa + Tomohisa Yamashita + Kazuya Kamenashi + Gackt + Hiroki Narimiya + Takashi Tsukamoto
PASSIONATE EYES
Takuya Kimura + Masahiro Matsuoka + Go Morita + Masayuki Sakamoto + Tatsuya Yamaguchi + Masaki Aiba + Tsubasa Imai + Toma Ikuta + Kenji Sakaguchi + Hideaki Itou + Satoshi Matsuda
WARM EYES
Shingo Katori + Masahiro Nakai + Tsuyoshi Domoto + Yoshihiko Inohara + Hiroshi Nagano + Shigeru Joshima + Sho Sakurai + Jin Akanishi + Taiyou Sugiura + Masaru Nagai + Takamasa Suga
CUTE EYES
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi + Ken Miyake + Satoshi Ohno + Ninomiya Kazunari + Taichi Kokubun
My comments:
Well, I cannot tell the difference. I mean, some of their eyes (judging on the pics Popolo put for these guys for this eye thingie), I'd say some people were misplaced.
Like how can Goro-chan's (SMAP) eyes be "sexy"? His eyes are "warm", according to my opinion. Just as I thought Takashi Tsukamoto's eyes are warm. Then Sho's eyes, that Popolo put under the category "warm", is more appropriate to be in the "passionate" section. Jin's (KAT-TUN) eyes are also more in the "sexy" category than "warm. @_@
ARRRRGGGHHH!! THis is quite screwed up... XD Hahahhaha...
Well, for one thing, *I* am not that big a fan of eyes. When I look at someone, I prefer to focus on their smiles (yes, including the lips). I don't know what to make of eyes. I like smiles better. I just melt when I see a smile. Takki's melted me with his smile, so did Tsuba, and definitely Junno. Actually, when Junno smiles, his eyes are gone. =P Hehehehe, so I cannot judge him by his eyes.
I have decided to add one more category. ^_^
MASHIMARO EYES
Junnosuke Taguchi (KAT-TUN) + Kazuya Kamenashi (KAT-TUN) + Shunsuke Kazama (Four Tops) + Takeuchi Kohtaro (K.K.KITY) + Shunsuke Nakamura (the footballer)
Y'all know what I mean by "Mashimaro Eyes", right?Hehehe... *Korean* eyes, so to speak. Nyahahahahahaha...
My destination for today is... Kinokuniya. Yep. That place again. I have to order a magazine. ~_~ I think this will be the last, though. Now that my cousin is in Japan ^_____________^ I will ask him to buy me the magazines and also the CDs and DVDs I want. YAY! COOL! HURRAH!!! But I still don't know his e-mail address yet. LOL. =P Gotta find out soon.
Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 12:18 p.m.
N.P. Tackey & Tsubasa "To be or not to be"
K4R-kUN HE:
Okay, it'll take me some time to read the interviews on Handa and Izumi on Popolo but I can tell you now that the questions are posed by fans. (Wow! Popolo readers seem to like tokusatsu as well... --> maybe they are drawn by the handsome looks of these heroes XD)
Anyway... here's what I can tell you now:
## Handa Kento PRIVATE GOODS COLLECTION consist of: ballpoint, schedule book, and MD player. Handa says he liks music a lot, but right now there's no particular favorite. He listen to something "standard" (maybe that means like the music's that's "in" right now). Oh and he also says that if he goes out on a date, he'd like to go to a theme park, like his fave Disneyland. ^-^ He was asked about his favorite fashion style... and he said he likes the '70s style.
## Izumi Masayuki PRIVATE GOODS COLLECTION consist of: his wallet (with a chain attached to it, you get what I mean, right?), cap (the model is casquette --> I dunno how to spell this right, but it's the "in" caps these days), and an unidentified object. No seriously, I can't see what it is, because the picture is bad, and it's on B/W paper. >_< I haven't read all the questions posed to him but some of the questions posed to him are very interesting. Like, "describe your bedroom", "what's your type of girl", and etc. Oh but he did say: that lately he's so into Internet and he goes to check out the Kamen Rider site all the time. ;) Hehehehehe...
I'll tell you if there's any other interesting stuff. But I still have some things to read for the Junno site so please be patient. It might take long. Ok?
MACHIGAETEMO II.
Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 12:34 a.m.
N.P. SMAP "Sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana"
Fufufufufu.... ^-^
I just updated Junno site again. I've finally uploaded the magazine articles thingie. Been working it for DAYS. Well, with my limited Japanese, I suppose this is the best I can do. ~_~ I'm still very proud of myself, though, because I still can't believe I am running and maintaining a website BY MYSELF now. ^-^
The hopeless Amy, who used to depend on her best friend to make her layouts, and who used to trouble her other best friend just for a simple main page update... this same Amy now has her own website. I don't care if no one even visits is. It's my small Junno shrine, where I worship that very talented and very good-looking 17-year-old boy... and I don't give a damn what the world says. In there, only Junno matters.
^_________________^
JUNNO DAISUKI!!!
Okay, just so I won't start again worshipping Junno here while I already have another place to do just that, I just want to say that I've finally decided to make a list of my CDs. It's going to be a wearisome task but I will do my best. I have to keep track of the albums I have, whether it's CDs or cassettes... I'm beginning to forget which albums I have bought and stuff... and which have double copies... @_@ This tedious job will begin tomorrow morning as soon as I finish having breakfast. I can't waste time. The Junno website is not complete yet. I have to work harder.
GANBARIMASU!!!
Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 07:17 p.m.
N.P. SOWELU "Rainbow"
Some interesting things today... I just discovered:
TOKIO IS MTV MANDARIN ARTIST OF THE MONTH APRIL 2003
I didn't realize it until I saw the PV "Green" being played on the J-Pop Non Stop hits. Cool! This is the second time in 2003 that a Johnny's group became AOTM. ^-^ I'm so looking forward to see what special features MTV Mandarin will be showing us of Tokio. The CM for their album "GLIDER" is being played over and over again, too. I think I'm going to buy this album. But I don't know... considering that they are the same group who sang "Minna de Wahaha", I have to decide very carefully whether or not I have enough courage to try to buy their album. XD Hahahahaha!
On to other things...
I found a very interesting website about left-handed people. I was amazed because JUNNO MADE IT INTO THE LIST OF FAMOUS LEFT-HANDERS!!!
I forgot the URL already, and I don't have that much Internet time today to actually look for it, but if you're interesting, please go to this following link:
Junno News
I wrote the links there today.
I recognized some famous Japanese names there... actors, sportsmen, etc... no doubt FLAME's Yusuke Izaki is there too. I find this website fascinating because I never knew a research about left-handers had been made before!!! =O I was even more surprised that they'd recognize Junno. ^^;;; There's even a profile up about him in that website!!! AMAZING.
Un messaggio in particolare a TERRY:
Ho letto la traduzione x l'intervista a Vinci... e BRAVA! Hai fatto una buona traduzione. Neanch'io avrei potuto traddure un'articole cosi' perfettamente. Pero', sai, l'argomento di cui parlava Vinci non e' piacuto a me PER NIENTE. Sai, della guerra... non si puo' ridere o sorridere su un argomento come cosi'. ~_~ E ho deciso di non pensare della sua condizione li' a Kuwait. Non perche' non mi preoccupo tanto di lui, ma piu' perche' mi fa venire tanto stress. ^^;;; E non lo voglio x niente.
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