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| Like my last entry, I'll just do bullet notes cause I don't have much time for details. Why? - I start my first real full-time job tomorrow! Well, technically today since it's past 12am. It's a basic documentation computer job but it gives me a whole lot more than my other jobs have. I'm hoping on being able to earn enough in a good amount of time that will allow me funds for a trip to Japan for NEWS and my parents' 25th wedding anniversary in the Philippines in December. The hours are 8:30am to 4pm from Monday to Friday. Oh boy.
Aside from that~ other random stuff I've had in my mind for a long time and just other stuff to talk about, haha. - NEWS. OMG NEWS. I lost sleep over NEWS' sadistic countdowns. I literally shed some tears when I was listening live to the Kchan NEWS live broadcast with Koyama, Shige, Tegoshi, and Massu in the studio together to announce their single, album, AND concert tour. No major details were given but I have so much positive hope for this. People have mixed feelings about the Best of album but I can only think of good things that can come out of it. I do believe that the songs voted for will be re-recorded with the four of them. Oh, by the way, my top 4 NEWS songs I voted for was Dreams, Fly Again, Open Your Eyes, and with me. But yeah, I'm super determined on being there in the crowd for NEWS' tour. I want to welcome them in person.
- Prince of Tennis/Tenimyu. Yep, I'm still super into this little fandom 'comeback' of mine. There's just something about these boys and characters that are different than Johnny's that I love so much. I've managed to have gotten to know the boys so much so where I've had to get a separate Twitter and Tumblr. I got so invested on the tenipuri anime that I actually want to go to an anime convention again and cosplay again. Also, I'm super determined to actually owning a Tenimyu dvd for once!
- Tegomass no Mahou. I loved their new concert. I wasn't a fan of a lot of the songs from the album but when I saw them perform it for the concert, I loved it. They looked SO GOOD too. The energy and passion they put into this concert was amazing. Though, I have to admit that I kind of prefer Ai as a whole but Mahou still got me watching it over and over. Sakura Girl made me tear up a lot~
- Livestream. It's silly but I got pretty obsessed with livestreaming and watching videos with a few other people. I was happy to have made some new friends too! I've been feeling pretty blah when it came to fangirling personally because I haven't been able to have other people fangirl the things I like with so it was nice having a way to watch something together with other people.
- AVENGERS. The midnight premiere in the city was really fun! The people on the line were pretty cool. We have a Captain America and Iron Man cosplayer with us that a news reporting crew came to our area to film. I think we were the only crowd with IMAX 3D so we got this cool exclusive IMAX poster too. As for the movie... I have to admit that I was really worried that with all the hype and anticipation for this movie that spanned more than a year that the movie would not meet my expectations. Instead... IT WAS BEYOND WHAT I EXPECTED. HOLY SHIT. Best thing ever for my tiny comic book fangirl heart.
I think there's more but I need to go to bed. Like now. It's almost 1am and I need to be awake at 7am to prepare for an 8-hour work day. I hope it goes well. | |
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| So, I was late on the Tumbling train when the drama aired but I've been on a Daito Shunsuke and Yanagishita Tomo high. It brought me to try and find the Tumbling stageplay, which wasn't an easy task for me, haha. I finally got the 1st Volume stageplay and while it wasn't much like the drama to me, it was still fun to watch. I couldn't understand some of what was going on but still fun. I love the boys in it too. Daito Shunsuke Hosogai Kei Joey Beni (Joey Tee) Nakagauchi Masataka Suda Masaki Tamoto Soran Rachi Shinji Sohma Keisuke Araki Kentaro Mikami Shun TETSU Honey L Days Daito's character, Kiyama, is a high school teacher and teaches his own group of misfit and strange boys tumbling. Kaneko returns to reprise his role as coach to the Karasumori High school. At first I thought it was a musical but there was only like 2-3 scenes with them singing, oh well. I thought Suda Masaki would have a big role in tumbling but his character breaks his leg anyway. I hoped to see Daito tumble again but I guess it wasn't to happen since he had his motorcycle accident. I've only really skimmed through the play and stopped onto to watch parts that looked interesting. I also didn't try to understand too many scenes... so my bad! X3 Now for some bias-centric screencaps of boys and moments that I like. ( Read more... )WHUT If anyone is interested in checking out the Tumbling stageplay I uploaded it for ya'lls viewing pleasure. No subs though. Mediafire: Tumbling Vol 1 stageplay (PW: izumigeorge) Minus: Tumbling Vol 1 stageplay | |
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| Too lazy to recap what's been going on in the past few weeks in detail so quick bullet notes it is! - Gold Peel facial treatment - So paid a lot of money to get this facial treatment done in the hopes of trying to clear up years and years of acne and sun damage. It's been a full week since I got it and it's slowly showing signs I believe. At least people are saying that they've seen a difference. I hope so. OTZ
- Jin Akanishi concert in NYC - It was a lot more disappointing of an experience to me compared his first LA cons and Yellow Gold tour in terms of the music and setlist. The management and production felt really bad too, not to mention I felt like Jin could have put himself more into the concert. The brighter side of the experience was that I was able to meet some online people, even it was for a short time, and the small attendance to the concert gave me the opportunity to see Jin a little closer.
- TeniMyu/Prince of Tennis - I've been a fan of the Prince of Tennis anime, manga, and musicals since like... uh 2002 or 2003 but it diminished a bit into 2007 when my Johnny's fandom kicked into high gear while TeniMyu was going through a cast change and the anime had ended. But, I've gotten back into it a lot and have been trying to make up about 4 years worth of fandom up within a few weeks. I've learned to accept the new casts more and gotten familiar to the story plots that I hadn't followed before. It feels like a whole knew experience again while reliving some older ones so it's been fun.
- The Hunger Games - I used to be so against the hype until almost everyone around me read the book and was looking forward to the movie so I decided to finish the book before watching the movie. I finished the first book in the span of less than a day. It's a pretty simple read, no wonder it's for young adults, haha. Then I watched the movie. Harry Potter movies were the only ones I've watched after reading the books prior to Hunger Games. Other times I've watched the movies then got interested in reading the books, like Lord of the Rings. I didn't know what to expect from the adaptation but I was left a little disappointed but I still enjoyed the movie overall.
- Weather - I can't remember when it started but about a week ago the weather here in New York has been rather nice like around the high 50s to low 70s which is around my comfort zone. So, for about a week now I've been leaving my windows open to let the outside air in. It's been really comfortable to sleep in and wake up to. The noises can sometimes be annoying but they're easy to drown out. A part of me wants to try going through the whole summer without an air conditioner and to just get used to the heat naturally. Also, it'd help on the electricity bills too. XD
- Random JE fandomness - A comment on one of my Youtube videos of my room tour made me want to make a new tour since it's been like 2 years apparently. But... I'm TERRIBLE at organizing my room in a decent pace where I get distracted by things I find or I messy up a part of it. But it also made me realizing how many fandom things I have. One of the main reasons I am brought to selling my things is mostly for space. I legit have no room for many things. ALSO, I tend to forget what things I already have and all too many times have I bought doubles of something. I've slowly been working on compiling a list of JE goods I have too. Below are a few pics of parts of my collections.
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| So I've 23 year's old for almost a whole day now and it's a'ight, haha.
I had a pretty good day in terms of my activities. In the morning I spoke with my grandmother from the Philippines, my mom treated me to breakfast, I went to the city where I met up with Cassi for a little bit, and I did a little shopping.
However, unfortunately I kind of let my fandom feelings get the best of me that kind of put a damper on my day. Well, it's been bothering me more than usual for many days now.
Yes, it has to do with NEWS, Yamapi, Ryo, Kanjani8, Jin, KAT-TUN, and Arashi. Just... fandom.
It makes me wish that I had the same confidence as so many others to share my opinions and feelings, and just the urge to argue with someone to defend or counter something goes against my favor. I get scared that my feelings would be belittled with what people can describe as obvious. And, I very well can't ask someone to stop talking about what they talk want just because I get sensitive and uncomfortable. I can't even let them know it upsets me when it makes them so happy.
I get frustrated that I make myself hold it in because I don't want to upset anyone else and possibly lose a friend.
It's hard to ignore and avoid it too. It's just always there in the places I try to find what makes me happy too. I don't want to be seen as one of 'those fans' or as whiny or impatient or simple-minded when I'm just expressing what i'm feeling at a certain point. It makes me feel bad about liking what I like. It makes me feel bad for disliking something I like just to spite people who wouldn't know anyway.
Yeah, I'm jealous. There are so many would-haves and could-haves and should-haves. But they end up being never-haves.
Yeah, I do feel like I wouldn't be feeling what i am feeling if there was something else to distract me. But there isn't one. I feel like I've tried keeping such a positive outlook and being hopeful for so long that it's beginning to wear my out. Things are happening that are just making me tired of hoping. I do see the good in the little things that I get but the impact of other things just outweigh my good on my scale.
Wahhh I'm rambling and it probably doesn't make sense to anyone.
I just have all these emotions that I don't know what to do with.
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| Uchiwa- $12 each ( Read more... )Penlight - $15 Kanjani8 Live Tour 2008Yamashita Tomohisa Super Good Super BadPamphlets - $40 Arashi 10-11 "Scene" ~Kimi to Boku no Miteiru FuukeiJin Akanishi - You and JinMagazines - $10 each ( Read more... )Books Kanjani8 Honma ni Kanjani8 - $30 Calendars Kanjani8 2008-2009 - $15 Arashi 20009-2010 - $40 CDs ( Read more... )Magazine Pin-ups/Posters - $2 each (subject to change depending on condition) ( Read more... )Glossy / Hard cards - $1 (subject to change depending on condition) ( Read more... )Stickers - $2 each S001 - Johnny's Jr 2005-2006S002 - HSJ
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S005 - HSJClippings ***I also have about 5 years worth of hundreds and hundreds of group CLIPPINGS that I'm almost done organizing if anyone would like first dibs on any of them! Feel free to inquire about them. (No Arashi clippings) Roughly $.20/page Hey!Say!JUMP clippings (Winkup/Duet/Potato) - 141 pages - $30 Kanjani8 clippings (Winkup/Duet/Potato) - 231 pages - $45 KAT-TUN clippings (Winkup/Duet/Potato) - 272 pages - $55 I have yet to organize my Myojo and Popolo magazines. If you would like those to be added to your order, feel free to ask. I have separated senpai pages (T&T, V6, KinKi Kids, Tokio) and the junior pages (Kis-My-Ft2 and younger) and will sort accordingly as per request. Prices are in USD; shipping not included. I accept other price offers and discounted prices for multiple items purchased. I ship from the US and only accept PayPal payment. If you are interested please comment or PM me. You can also email me via alkoi.swen@gmail.com for serious inquiries. First pay, first served please! Thanks! - Tags:sales
- Music:Time is Up - LED Apple
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| I'm slowly trying to get back into the groove of writing LJ entries again! Lately, LJ hasn't been much of a priority to me unless there is a buzz on Twitter and Tumblr then I'll go hunt around LJ for whatever it is. But yes, this entry will be as random as I said it would be. Though... not TOO random, haha. Last week I went to Mitsuwa, a Japanese marketplace, where I bought this incense from Ka Fuh with the White Plums scent. I've always loved the smell of the stick-burning incense over the oil burning for some reason but the place I used to buy my incense from when I was younger closed. So, I saw the variety of incense at Mitsuwa and I bought myself a pack~  I picked white plums for several random reasons such as the pink box, relation to Rurouni Kenshin, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) whiteplums' LJ name, haha. The sticks have a pleasant smell even before burning them, though honestly a lot of the time I feel like the burned smell is all the same. But I may need to try other scents to compare~ Also at Mitsuwa, in the Sanseido Bookstore, I bought a small notebook with the picture of Sharaku on it. Shige's often talked about the work of Toshusai Sharaku when he had a high of it, even as to doing an impersonation of it, so I had to buy it! I kind of tend to impulsively buy notebooks all the time but this time I have a real use for it!  In my journey on trying to translate Shige's Pink and Gray/ ピンクとグレー for myself, what better way to do so but with the Sharaku notebook I have~ All I'm really doing though is just translating all the kanji i don't know... I still haven't really worked on the grammar of it all but it's a start! I hope to eventually catch on the flow of the novel and start reading it properly! Yes, the only reason I wrote this because I'm currently trying to translate as the incense burns~ I hope it's not getting to my brain, haha. That's all! | |
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One is for me and one is for jadeyeap so I hope she doesn't mind that I took pictures of it~
I bought the ebook version of the book on the day of release from the Kadokawa Book*Walker app I downloaded for free from the Android market. I made an account and bought the book which, unfortunately, was the same price as the book itself but I didn't mind at all~
I bought my physical book from CDJapan and paid the FedEx express shipping so it got to me today 1/31st at 10am!
Here are some pics of the cover and the cover sleeve!
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SPOILERS~
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| It is just a little after 10PM here in New York on New Year's Eve~
I'm ready to say goodbye to 2011. It's been a year of ups and downs but I'm happy leaving 2011 with no regrets at all.
So here's an advanced
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012
I don't really have time to recap the past year but you'll see another update a day or two after tonight!!
I hope everyone has a fun, safe, and contentful end of the year and welcome to the new year! | |
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| Ganbare ganbare asu no kimi he asu no yume he todoke sora made
Ganbare ganbare donna toki mo kono yume wo te ni nigitte
Aruite yukou kanau hi made
GanbareJust a song from a band that kept me in good moods while I was out today~ So today I took the JLPT N4 that I had been so eager about since the registration in the late summer. I was really excited to test my Japanese skills which I admit I had been careless about for a long time. I had this whole study schedule planned out. However, my 2 jobs took up more time than I thought and... the happenings in fandom kind of got me very off track. I definitely did not study as much as I should have. I don't feel good about the test in general but I can always hope for the best! Lately I've been in rather terrible moods that have brought out the worst of my attitudes which I realize frustrate and upset others but I'm stubborn and justify my assholeness. I hope it's just signs of my impending period so I can blame it on that, haha. With the slight income I've been getting, I'm afraid I've been spending it on useless things. VINYL TOYS. I love tokidoki and I'm addicted the blind-box surprises so I've managed to collect some 9 tokidoki x Marvel frenzies phone strap charms. I'm currently using Thor but.. you have NO IDEA how much bad luck I've had with them! Spend so much money trying to get ones I want! I've been luck with the 9 tokidoki unicorn figures because I have almost all of them and I have some extra special ones from NYCC11 too. And finally, I got back in the kick of Disney's vinylmation figures which I managed to collect 20 of them plus an extra double. Oh noes~ It's been a little hard to find time and energy to talk to Sho but it's like the gap between us talking to each other is totally forgotten once we do send that random text or magically be on Skype at the same time. Tonight I've somewhat managed to incept his mind with the possibility of letting me use his home address in Japan to join JFC. Possible consequences of being involved with a Johnny's fangirl, fuhuhuhu~ It's almsot 3am and I have work at 9am. Goodnight~ | |
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