Current mood:

bouncy

power end year post.
here's the year in review. I hope lj can take this amount of words.

fandom

jrock

D! I still haven't kicked myself hard enough to listen through all their stuff, and I haven't finished watching their concert. should really, they produce good music even through their indie days. and it's just the type I fancy -- jangjang occasional bach guitar, steroid eating drummer and opera singer. woots.

MOAR gazette. they released guren, one of their best, in my opinion. and it seems ruki carried his abortion theme right into the concert tour. totally explains the foetus picture on the dvd menu. plus now we know that kai has some of the lousiest photoshoots, uruha's double eyelid isn't drawn consistently, aoi's eye makeup is getting weirder and weirder, reita is beginning to LOOK like ruki,

and ruki had ORANGE hair. oh and the nerd!glasses and the silver suit and the gem face and and and the list doesn't end. ruki's stealing the show and the rest are letting him. kai probably couldn't win him, and everyone's against kai. maybe they all scolded him. as usual. poor thing.

gackt's doggie passed away. poor dear bell. she was nine. and very cute. miniature dachshund.

hide's dead for 10 years. already. o_O.

dir en grey released some of the best stuff ever this year. after ryojoku no ame I thought they were quite doomed. or that dozing green was the last decent one. but then glass skin made me cry and uroboros has beautiful songs. like ware, yami tote, which TOTALLY made me cry. such exquisite songs, beautifully arranged, wonderfully sung. the lyrics don't fail, as usual. but really that was one good album. finally.

daigo yoroshiku-WIISH! it has been nearly 4 years since I last bothered about daigo, and suddenly he comes back full force. I tittered about some of the breakerz stuff, but then because their first couple of songs didn't interest me, I didn't bother about them. then daigo kept appearing. appearing, appearing. from his first joke on domoto kyoudai, to more rubbish on shukudai. and there's MORE, okay.

and I have officially, totally given up on alice nine. completely. I shall sieve through the discog and throw out the stuff I don't want. I might do the same for kra, except that I continue to check out new kra releases, while I've thrown arisu out of the window. unless they have a miracle single. sound unlikely though.

jimusho

takitsuba hajimeyou! yes april marked the beginning of my downward spiral of takitsuba goodness. including learning dances, laughing at pvs, digging for moar files. and my total addiction for yume monogatari. which I still have till today. and there was A LOT of screencapping. A LOT. and that meant a lot of picspamming. my goodness. I even bought dvds. GOODNESS. takitsuba stole my brain, I swear.

higashiyama squeeing started too. and it sparked off a little shounentai madness. but then I don't remember the other two members' names, and I realised I prefer matchy songs to shounentai songs. well yes matchy. and I have all 3 matchy appearances on domoto kyoudai. I must be nuts.

arashi struck back. after condemning them for too long, suddenly they're in my face. and I've gone from being just matsujun fan to sho fan as well. YES sho is freaking useless but we love him all the same. it's maybe even why sho fans love sho. and seriously when I watched him apologise to oh-chan, I could see chibi sho in that expression of his. really. and truth is the BEST thing arashi has ever released. really.

kat-tun has been pushed slightly to the side, but then lips was such a good song I let them back in. and kame + ueda = DAME was priceless. the two girls of kat-tun. and the kame and jin perms (plus pi and ryo and aiba) were terrible. absolutely. horrible.

kanjani 8 has some nice songs. they do. I am now also officially a chibi ryo (secret agent man!), subaru and tacchon fan. doomed.oh and an uchi fan too. oh dearie me.

also for some reason or another, there is a slowly but surely increasing amount of tokio songs inside my laptop. I watch some performances, and then find OH it's a tokio song. again and again. no I'm still not morphing into a tokio fan although I support taichi forever and ever. XD

I've watched so much domoto kyoudai these few months. but they are such fun. I love koichi to pieces. and I FINALLY got to watch endless shock dvd! subbed! so lovely. yes the story is thin, the stunts are scary, but then there's good music, good dancing, there's some comedy, loads of drama, and there's KO CHAN and there's of course, tsubie. *beams* oh and secret code has to be one of the best singles kinki kids has ever produced. collaboration with the tokyo SKA paradise orchestra (I will get it straight this time) was a fantastic idea. absolutely.

jdorama

byakuyakou. I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED IT. man. neither have I finished maou. but I finished hanakimi SP the other day, and I'm continuing on 33pun tantei on tudou. and I wish to watch galileo, and kuitan, blah blah blah the list is so long. oh and added innocent love to my tudou list. we'll see about it.

jfood

osashiminasai! and edamame. everyone thinks of me when they see edamame! and I've eaten a record amount of sashimi this year. seriously. and eaten at late hours (or at least later hours) just to eat slashed priced sashimi. gosh.

tongari corn! tsubutsubu haichuu! PARIPARI JUMBO CHOCO MONAKA! so doomed when it comes to advertised food. but not tempted by ozack chips. yet. pari pari~~

jkaraoke

I have never, ever gone for so many karaoke sessions in my entire life. I must have gone nearly 10 times this year or something. it's really a lot of times. because nore and I went with rin before she left, then we went with rae sometimes, then sometimes with wanting and weichun and fuzz. goodness. plus I went with my sister. that's at least 6 times, by the way.

rae and I are doomed at karaoke together, but she's the only one who really knows how to sing a load of takitsuba songs, and the only one who knows and is totally more than willing to scream gazette with me. that's the fun of karaoke (that the twins don't seem to understand) -- going crazy together. literally. and hopefully not losing your voice along the way, that is.

kogepan

watched all 10 episodes of the anime, I have a pile of pictures, and I BOUGHT THE BOOK! it's the book where they introduce kogepan, his story, and all the other pans involved. it's more or less the 2nd episode, I believe. and it's ultra cute! my gosh! and then my mum bought me a nightdress with kogepan on it, and my laptop wallpaper is ALSO kogepan. I'm nuts. it's just a piece of burnt bread. but soooooo cute. I love ichigo pan to bits too! she's so cute too.

real life

school

laj: ohayou bloody gozaimasu! 6-8pm lectures, 8am tutorials, 6pm tutorials. plooey I survived the weird hours. dinner with osodo sensei! and I will miss horie sensei. like A LOT. after two semesters with her, you bet. and the japanese primary school kids were ultra cute, even though the idea of being child minder was rather frightening at first.

copyright lecture: so late, so crappy. edamame eating, tidbit munching, most rubbishy

sharkboy: after 3 semesters without him, he appeared in my 4th semester in a different way -- as sam's neighbour. amazing how TEENY this island is. and he's slightly scarier than we all think. in the uh, pets part. more than we think. I called him mr anomie. hmm.

keigoboy: KILL HIM SOMEBODY. 'nuff said.

151 changes: double decks, wheelchair friendly buses. it sucks. really it does. and it seems like almost all the buses on the island are changing into those wheelchair friendly buses. argh.

my laptop: the ultimate machine of doom. but it's been nice having my own laptop, with everything customised, everything in one. nothing to fight over. and I can bring it about and type everything. there's always that convenience factor about it.

others

heath ledger died. =( that's enough in itself.

I took a less complicated but famous personality test. the results, are as usual, o_O. the enneagram test is horrendously famous, but it's hard to understand how they got it so straight with 9 basic personality types, where you can be a one, and have a dominant two wing. (mainly 1 but inclined towards 2, sort of idea.) my results were a 5 (which landed me in the same category as einstein, bill gates and horrors of horrors, nietzsche), and I think I have a 4 wing. which is very scary apparently, when I turn a bit lunatic. and then I took it again, and it seems I'm either 4w5 or 5w4. saa~

chickenpox was dreadful. I'm too old for that for crying out loud. the good part is, I'll never get it again. or at least the chances are lowered by like a lot. but absolutely dreadful.

of course, the 12 days away. people around me know where I went in those 12 days.

blasts from the past

星さん: also 歯磨き,sometimes あいつbut same person. it's been 2 years yet the name appears now and then. amazing kid. too much mystery. like tacchon. HAHA.

ym: suddenly saw him in orchard. very weird. but he just passed by, so not so weird. but still.

guanie: she suddenly talked to me online. and I mean suddenly. and it was just that once. and there was no more. so weird.

miki: she suddenly emailed and I suddenly decided to reply her this time. she actually emailed a few times over the past few years but I never replied her, until now. partly because I know her english is terrible, and now my japanese is so much better. not fantastic, but good enough.

work

working at nets: was fun. short, but hey it was fun. and the people weren't too bad. plus we found out we were fantastic factory workers, even though we were well on our way to university graduation. tsk.

working at central: was even more fun. paid peanuts but we didn't give them monkeys okay. we got to know more staff, more stuff, and the dinner was the most hilarious, honestly. feet almost broke off, but then it was a good experience altogether.

stories

read so much philip dick. so so much. also a few more strange books, like perfume, more vonnegut, and more. also more murakami ryu, endo shuusaku, and I just borrowed a enchi fumiko. we'll see if it's any good. =)

it's a year of fics. okay, a half year of fics. written so much garbage. the last time I attempted was so long ago, and I have no idea where that fic is anymore. I'm very sure it's in my archives, but I don't know exactly when I wrote it. gosh.

friends

vicks straightened her hair. that was unprecedented. she said she'll keep it straight forever. and well, there went the famous galvez tradition that carissa and I laughed about for years. the frizz will keep coming back, but I doubt it'll ever be the same again.

nore. we're SO BROKE. nore quote: we don't work and we spend more money together than any money that we might ever earn together. HAHA. and the priceless birthday party, where we cosplayed, blew hell lot of balloons, watched too much nonsense, and found lizards on the fried rice. rawks. and I see her too much this sem lah. everybody's eyes pop out when they hear we took 3 modules together the last sem, and this sem we take all 5 modules together. gosh.

I added rin on lj this year! surprising? I'm surprised myself! I must have been so lazyyy. and she's in sendai now and she managed to extend. woots.

ah mae took a semester's worth of leave, and now she's in kyoto. many things to sort out for her, and I hope she'll sort them quick and well.  

aaaaannnnnnddd we're.....
tsuki tsuki tomo
getsu getsu tomo
gatsu gatsu tomo
RAITO TOMO!

tsuki tsuki tomo
besuto tomo
gomi da kedo
SAISU TSUKI TSUKI TOMO!

that explains almost everything by itself.

poopoochan received ufo noodles for her birthday. we found them! and she had her hot balls. we laugh at it everytime any of us walk past an azabu sabo. it's priceless. and I had a higashiyama. so priceless. plus she and her DDS. sounds like some new game console.

rae and I are killers at karaoke. two crazy girls screaming gazette, trying too hard to be rukis. terrible. although the funniest was when we simultaneously tried to sing the female backup vocalist part of fitb at the same sections of the song. super hilarious. that, and we seem to know a ridiculous number of songs. it's the uh, deep in my heart theory.

yaozong, weiye and chenguo come together as one package (even though I knew yaozong like 2 sems earlier), and they're hilarious. it seems like edmund has been added to the mix, which probably doesn't help things. but for now it's uncle yaozong, auntie chenguo and his son/daughter weiye. hilarious bunch.

there's a pile of others -- including denise, crystal, mingboon, meida, nat, blah blah blah and of course the huge pile from church, and the troopers.who have all helped to make the year a fun year. really.

the internet

well it's a whole category of its own. it's been nuts MF acceleration, and MU plugins work perfect. most of the time. except when it's MU who refuses to move, that is. also, I joined a small pile of lj comms just for stuff inside. my actual f-list is pretty scary.

layouts

it was uruha at the end of 2007, and then hidezou took over in early january. after that it was kimono clad aoi and tsubie, followed by tsubie all by himself, and then what do you know, it's koichi! which is the present one. to think I used to change my layouts every single month. no wonder I grew tired and less creative after a while. I have an idea for my next one, but then I don't know if it'll work. worth a try anyway.

icons

totally dry period. my last icon post was actually in 2007. but I actually have a small pile of jrock icons made in the earlier half of the year, and a smaller pile of takitsuba icons done in july, during the holidays. after that it was silence. silence silence silence. even though I have half a million screencaps and five billion scans. well not really but you get my drift.

graphics

that I have. I attempted selling my boys, I turned tsubie into the best maid on earth, and then I went through some of my most constipated kai pictures. that plus I made graphics for christmas, for my 12 days away, for takitsuba's 6th anniversary, for wwp blah blah blah. some were really cheap graphics though. but fun.

so that's the year, mostly according to my blog.

as an addition (omake?):
uchi WHAT ARE YOU WEARING.



I'll never get myself out of the leopard print, nor the feather boa world huh. when I watched obachan rock's pv, I knew the leopard print phase will never go away. NEVER.

and to end off, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!