backtrack

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Too caught up in my thoughts and the recent SuperBand fever that I’ve left out quite a few things.

  1. Haven’t visted JpopMusic forums for a long long time.
  2. Forget to visit Binan no Nikki and friends’ blogs.
  3. Haven’t blogged on certain things.
  4. Haven’t made screenshots from Kanjani8 Spirits! dvd.

Point 1. I’m trying hard not to go there too coz there’s just too many temptations there. Too many things to download. Still haven’t cleared out my harddrive. I’m seriously lagging behind. Haven’t even downloaded the new dramas. Bleargh.

Point 2. I somehow forget to check on Binan no Nikki. Always end up having to go back at least 2-3 pages to read the entries. Ryo and Tacchon went to watch Da Vinci Code. So cool~~~ And I haven’t watched it. Shige talks about English and Computer class. He has bad luck manz. The computer he uses always hangs while he’s doing his quiz. I had a really bad thought. Imagine him getting the blue screen of death one of these days. Muahahahahaha… Friends’ blogs aren’t that bad…coz there’s usually not much to catch up.

Point 3. Fancy me talking about wanting to blog about Xiuwei’s party. Actually I don’t really have the mood to blog about it anymore. And I actually missed out with all the birthday wishes. So whoever I haven’t wished in my blog yet. Happy belated birthday to you guys! May all your dreams come true. 🙂

Point 4. Meant to make a screenshot of aho Maru in his “aunty” costume. To make an avatar out of it. Need to get it done soon so I can return the dvd to Per. By the way, Per, is my Summary concert vcd with you? Or is it just somewhere (lost) in my house? Can’t seem to find it.

Recently, my posters are all falling off the door/wall/cupboard. First it was my S.H.E poster, then the Arashi one, then the Ayu , and just yesterday, the Eriko one. It’s a sign that it’s high-time I change them. The plastic is all warped already. The big Ayu A Ballads poster on the wall just above my bed decided to drop in the middle of the night. Thank God it made a noise loud enough to wake me up before it actually dropped. Imagine waking up to an Ayu poster covering my face. But I don’t really want to change the plastic and all that coz it won’t be long before we move. So there’s no point at all. Maybe I’ll just change the blu-tack.

Just visited the SuperBand blogs. I must say that people can be quite stupid. Yes, it takes some guts to post a not-so-nice sounding comment. But please consider what might follow. Say your not-so-nice comment in blog A (belonging to a not-so-good group), that’s still ok considering the number of other people who are also posting their not-so-nice comments. But if you go post your not-so-nice comment in blog B (belonging to a popular group), I think you’re just digging your own grave. Simply coz the number of fans outnumber you and I don’t think the fans are just going to take all your “valuable” comments sitting down.

Be smart. Post in your own blog. Like ME…HAHAHAHA… Coz it belongs to you so you more or less have full control. :laugh:

Ok…got to go now. Going to watch X-Men…lalala…

relak one corner

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Everytime I watch the SuperBand results show, I can almost get a heart attack. Lucify seems to always get thrown into the “unconfirmed” group. And it doesn’t help that the stupid show keeps going on commercial breaks. The feeling is like pushing you off a cliff and then holding you back just before you actually fall off.

Anyway, 夏日风 is still in. Dots. Static. Whatever. WTF!!! Heard that they get backing from church. Isn’t that like that Jerry fella from Singapore Idol? Even the judges had that “WHAT?!” feeling when he kept getting through.

Thank goodness Lucify is still in. Can you imagine if they got kicked out again? Wah lau…it’ll be like playing ping-pong. Out, in, then out again. *CHOY! touches wood*

Out of sheer boredom (or maybe to celebrate Lucify’s success in this round), I decided to do something…

:woot: WOOT! I finally couldn’t stand it. Photoshopped the uncle out! *pumps fist in the air* To match Kel’s level of nonsense humour, I added the words and the kira kira. HAHAHA…new talkshow on the block. WOOHOO!

Another thing, I find the bassist of Amber, Butter looks like he just walked out of a Digimon episode. To prove it…I found a picture of a character from Digimon…

Butter looks like him right? People said he looks like Naruto. Looks more like this character lorz. Ain’t I a genius to have figured it out? :laugh:

retired idol chaser

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I probably scared off the spammers with my previous post since I logged in to find…NO SPAM COMMENTS! :rofl: Hallelujah!

Have I passed the phase of idol chasing? Getting the adrenaline rush when queuing up and then seeing my idols. Or is it simply coz I’m not a big fan of the people I’m supposed to be there for? Now, I’m half expecting someone to scream “THEN WHY THE HELL WERE YOU THERE FOR?!” in my face. But I must say, it’s kinda nostalgic doing this all over again. When was the last time I actually did this kinda thing? 2 years ago?

Thinking again, no…I don’t think I’ve really passed that phase. Hell, if it were a JE boy now…Massu, I’ll probably queue up overnight or something. I think it just depends who is it now…

So, I’ve been rambling on and on without getting to the point. The point is…I went to a SuperBand recording (on the pretext of supporting Lucify). Don’t get me wrong here. I do support them since they are sort of related to Japanese music. How related? Ermz…it’s quite a long story and I don’t have the mood to explain now. But anyway, I’m not like a big fan or anything. Unlike Sis who’s laughing really LOUD behind me now…chatting with her friends (fellow fans of Lucify) on MSN. You can call me a…sidelines supporter?

Yes, I did scream to support Lucify while holding Vics name board. It’s only appropriate to do so. It gives the performers encouragement to do well. They enjoy, you enjoy. But it’s not like I’m going to go all doki doki if Vics saw me holding his name board and smiled at me. If Massu did that to me…it’s a different story. *slaps myself…ya…dream on* Yea…so now you get the idea of how much of a fan I am.

After the recording, waited around to take photos with the guys. Again…Sis being the one more excited ok… They appear. A million other people zoom in on them. Ermz…so now we wait?

While waiting…

Then we got to it…

Fanservice…100% :laugh: I must explain the weirdness of having a guy stick his face so close to mine. That’s coz even my poly guy friends don’t do that. So just not used to it ne? And it sucks being short. Coz everyone has to freakin’ bend down when taking photos with me just to match the level of my face. Damnit. :angry:

Here comes the highlight of the day. Sis, Carol and I had supper with Kel. :whistle: Looks can be deceiving. He looks scary and fierce but he’s really not at all scary. Quite a funny person. Talk about 人不可貌相。

So…I guess everyone’s first impression of me is…Elisia is quiet. Damnit. I seem to give everyone that impression. Even my tuition friends said this of me back when I was having tuition in secondary school. Ok, fine. I am quiet. But only towards people I don’t really know. Just ask Per…she’ll tell you when I’m being high over Massu.

I mean…the only options I have probably are:
a) talk something wise/funny and end up the wise/funny topic is only something I can understand. The rest are all going *blink blink* Haha…NOT.
b) hold a conversation totally in Mandarin. I swear I will see question marks popping out above your head. I’m quite comfortable conversing in English…thank you very much.
c) find any topic to talk about. My brain probably runs on 56kbps. Plainly, I’m not skilled in this area. Unlike Sis…
d) remain silent but laugh and have at least a little input at the right moments. So…ME.
e) tune out. I’M NOT RUDE OK!!!

To summarise everything. I’m probably not going to another SuperBand recording. Probably just support Lucify from the sidelines. Go, Lucify~~~GO~~~ *echo: go where? I don’t know~~~* HAHAHAHA… Ok…not funny. But really, ganbatte ne!

Now, with everything said. Should I prepare myself of getting bashed up again? This time by a million Lucify fans?

spam

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Recently I’ve been receiving spam as blog comments. I don’t mean just one or 2. 20-30 per day. Luckily I adjusted the settings to put any comment with more than one link on hold for approval. This sort of works coz the spam comments usually contain links.

Until today. I find Pwen’s comment thrown into the same area for approval as well. Now, this is worrying. For the last few days, I could have deleted a valid comment without knowing.

Why do I always get these unfortunate kinda things thrown at me? ARGH! :angry: :angry: :angry:

when we question about life

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Following the link from Pwen’s blog, I got to this site which is very interesting. Didn’t believe I would read all 27 chapters of it but yea, I did. It talks about the Chernobyl disaster and life in that area after that.

This sentence in Chapter 2 made strong thoughts form in my mind. I was actually bursting to tell someone about it. But the people who would discuss this were either a) asleep, b) talking on the phone and c) well, just not around. So what to do? Pick someone at random on MSN. Yew Seng…who ended up…not answering me. -_-|||

Quote “In keeping with a long tradition of Soviet justice, they imprisoned all the people who worked on that shift – regardless of their guilt. The man who tried to stop the chain reaction in a last desperate attempt to avoid the meltdown was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He died 3 weeks later.”

My thoughts:
Humans are fuckin’ stupid. Why the fuck go sentence the guy to 14 years imprisonment when he’s probably going to die of radiation in a matter of days? Like he’s not suffering already. Yea, way to go manz. *rolls eyes*

Open the room door. YES! Dad’s still awake. Finally, someone whom I know will discuss this with me. *teary eyes*

He said that’s coz they need to make someone the scapegoat. Whatever happens, SOMEONE needs to shoulder the responsibility or rather, be blamed for it. I didn’t quite get what he meant at first but upon further questioning… It’s like how the boss never gets the blame but the small frys get the worst. So I said, “like the government?” Which was precisely what he meant.

I came to the later chapters which described this town where all the people were evacuated. It’s practically a ghost town.

Quote “This town might be an attractive place for tourists. Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange tours in this town, but the first group of tourists found the silence unnerving and downright SPOOKY. And it is. They charged 1200 hryvnas for a 2 hour excursion and after some 15 minutes, they wanted to flee to the outside world. The silence here is deafening.”

Reading on and looking at all the photos, it IS kinda spooky since time really seemed to stand still for this town. Calendars hung on walls are from some 20 years ago. Decorations put up to celebrate Labour Day…a day which never came for this town.

The town would only be ready to be re-populated after 600 years. But by then, the people who are going to live there probably won’t feel anything much for the town and its sad memories. Simply coz the people aren’t descendants of the original population. In case you’re wondering why, the original population would have died of radiation. Even if they did reproduce their next generation, how long would this go on? Their children would either be born deformed or have a short life.

I told Dad my thoughts. We need experiments to learn about things. Whatever those people were trying to do, they were doing it to learn something new. To prove a theory. If you don’t try, how would you know? But the sad thing is, failure does happen at times. And in this case, this failure cost the lives of thousands of people. Sad isn’t it?

I went on to tell him about what Per and I talked about some time ago. The lack of friends to discuss matters like these. No offence to anybody but I do have friends who refuse to discuss such stuff. Partly coz they find it profound? But I don’t understand why people refuse to think and question? Is it so hard to do so? To me, it’s just linking thoughts with events happening around the world. If we don’t question then how do we learn? Which is why I get pretty frustrated when people watch certain “thinking” movies just for pure entertainment value and later say it’s boring. Why do you think it’s boring? Coz there’s not enough action? Not enough blood and gore? Not enough romance? It does not follow the usual storyline – introduction, problem, happily ever after?

Dad presented his theory. Don’t laugh ok…I’m sure everyone has little theories of their own.

He said people can be classified under 10 different levels. 1 being the “earthy” people. With their nose to the ground, like hogs sniffing out truffles. They only worry whether they have a roof over their head, when their next meal is and how much money to make. 10 being the saints. Eyes fixed on the skies. They only think about their next life and reaching heaven. The last they worry about is food and money. Then there are the people who are in-between. Those are the ones who think and question about all sorts of things. People like us (him and me).

Per, you gotta give it up to my 老爸 for this little theory of his. Haha…I love my dad when we discuss such matters. He always gives me answers or new things to think about when I ask him questions. :laugh:

it’s complicated

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I thought of blogging about Xiuwei’s birthday party but after I stepped out of the bathroom, an article on the newspaper caught my eye.

Well, it’s about Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. Like why am I not surprised? As they say, religion is a very sensitive (and dangerous) topic. Trust me, I’ve been said to have given a figurative slap to the person I was debating with on some religious thinkings. Anyway, I knew that Catholics and Christians would somehow get annoyed by the book/movie. Afterall, it does question on certain things in the religion.

I’m rather curious to know why do people have to make things so complicated. It’s just a book/movie. It’s just Dan Brown’s perception of things. If you believe it, then so be it. If you don’t, then just as well, so be it. Why go create an uproar and make yourself so unhappy over it? Oh…and in turn make other people angry with you?

But that’s just it. I can’t stand some Christians who act so self-righteous. I mean talk about learning God’s way and the next minute you’re condemning someone and saying that he/she will burn in hell. Talk about going to church every Sunday and the next minute you’re spreading rumours and backstabbing someone. *breaks into song* It’s the rumour weeeeeeeeeeeed… Ah sorry, that Veggie Tales song just popped into my mind.

Burn in hell? Who are you to judge me? If God thinks I should burn in hell, that’s for Him to decide, not you. If you think I’m bad, by saying such things, you’re already stooping to my level isn’t it?

Haha…having said the above, I should prepare myself of getting bashed up… :laugh:

yoso wa yoso, uchi wa uchi

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“他所は他所　家は家!!!”

I bet my mum would have said that if she was Japanese. Hina says this line in a very おばちゃん manner at the beginning of “∞SAKAおばちゃんROCK”. It sounds so funny. Direct translation: “Somewhere else is somewhere else, home is home!!!” Per said it’s probably a common saying for mums when they scold their kids. Like when their kids always come home late.

Oh…I have quite a few things to blog about. From the previous entry, the meme that made me so high… Haha…some people should know why. Give you a hint…Ma___. :woot: It was a meme rin-chan posted in the forum.

MY RESULTS 
Who do you like: Massu :heart:
Who likes you: Shige
Where will you meet the one you like: KFC (Why am I not surprised? KFC = food = Massu) :rofl:
Who do you marry: Shige
Who loves you for real: Shige
What is your ending: have twins

The first line already made me go “AKIRA SHOCK!”

Second, Tacchon’s birthday. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, TACCHON! Per and I met up with Cindi and Julia again to celebrate Tacchon’s birthday on Tuesday. They couldn’t find a green cake again. Some explanation here…light green is Tacchon’s ranger colour. We ended up ordering desserts that were green in colour. With one exception, the red bean ice-cream which has a kanji (小倉) that almost looks like Tacchon’s surname (大倉).


Red bean ice-cream, some green tea mousse (can’t really remember the name of it) and warabi mochi with green tea ice-cream

The green tea mousse came with this cage-like cover…

After the dinner, I went to meet Sis at the airport to welcome Yui and Ryoko back from their trip to Japan. Haven’t read their report on the KAT-TUN concert which they went to watch.

Today, went to ktv with Sis and Per. Cash Studio at Apollo Centre. Good place if you want to sing Japanese songs coz they have this whole book of Japanese songs, almost phonebook thick. I think the only bonus for me, the one being the worst at Japanese, were the NewS songs. We were singing NEWSニッポン and 希望～Yell～ so loudly. :laugh: I can only manage songs that I have partly memorised or have lyrics almost all in hiragana and must be pretty slow coz I read pretty slowly. Which is why Per has been “reprimanding” me that I should go study Japanese. Too lazy lahz…hehe…

Oh. Mum just called me to go bathe. Shall end here. Thanks Per for sending me the radio rip of “∞SAKAおばちゃんROCK”. It goes on repeat mode everytime I listen to it. :rofl:

buay song

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Buay song = (hokkien) don’t feel good / not happy

Lucify lost this round of Super Band. To make things worse, they lost to 夏日风. WTF!!! 夏日风 can’t sing or dance. THEY ARE the weakest link. They should be the ones getting kicked out. Other groups/bands are improving each week but 夏日风 is still of the same standard since they joined the competition. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

WAH LAU…was doing this meme…made me so high. Then I have to hear this kinda news. No mood liaoz.

i can afford it

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Something’s different about today. While everyone is blogging about how they spent Mother’s Day, our family did nothing. As in, we went about doing things like it was just a normal day. I haven’t asked Dad why we didn’t celebrate since the past Mother’s Days we go out for a meal at a nice restaurant.

Hmmm…I didn’t buy Mum anything. Or maybe I haven’t really gone out to look for something. No effort being made? But of course I don’t believe in buying something for the sake of it. It must be something chosen with much thought.

I went to Per’s degree show instead. The last 20 minutes of it. And helped her take down everything. After she had a small celebration with her friends, we went down to Mise to collect Sis’s magazines that she reserved. Walked down to Wheelock to have dinner at Nooch. But the place was gone so we settled for this Japanese restaurant.

I don’t know if I’m being too sensitive but sometimes I think some service staff look at us differently. Like stereotype. Just coz we look like students, they think we have no money. They have this “are you sure you can afford eating here?” kinda look which irritates me a lot. If I can’t afford it, I wouldn’t be stepping in here already. I would have chosen to eat at Mac or something. :angry: :angry: :angry: By the way, the food at Mac isn’t getting cheaper. So don’t think you’ve won or something. *rolls eyes*

Makes me feel like taking a wad of $50 bills and slapping them in the face with it. Except that I don’t have that kind of money. HAHAHA… But the point is, whether I look like a student or not, I’m still your customer.

Thinking about it. My sense can’t be wrong. Just like the time I asked sensei about something to confirm that I’m right about it. He said that I might be wrong but time proved that I was right. It’s just women and their “sixth sense”.

easy on the eyes

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Ah. I like this little change. The colours. Not too bright, more soothing. I wanted to change the layout totally but then I saw this set of photos and fell in love with it. So I guess I’ll stick to this format for one last time? :laugh:

I haven’t been sleeping properly. Sleep at weird hours. Get woken up pretty early, try to go back to sleep but can’t. I’m annoyed with myself now coz I’m trying to clear some stuff in my harddrive but I’m feeling so sleepy and can’t really concentrate on what I’m watching. :glare:

I hope Sis comes home soon. If she doesn’t, I think she’s trying to run away from her problems. 逃避。:angry: