hidamari no tami craze

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I didn’t even realise the ticket sales started on 16 April. Got the news of the Energy when I was in China and that was coz Desmond was checking out tickets for the Kylie concert (which has been cancelled) and he happened to see it.

So I made a mental note to check out the seating when I was back. Wasn’t hopeful since it’s about a month since ticket sales started. And I forgot till today. Well, I’m right. The good seats have been snapped up. So, I don’t think I’ll be going for it.

*consoles myself* That way you can save up money to “go crazy” in the Johnny’s shop in Japan.

Oh oh…I just checked out the Tomy website regarding the Hidamari no Tami. Recently, saw a new one. The Odoru! Hidamari no Tami. Lo and behold, I found more cute stuff. Hidamari no Mickey, Hidamari no Minnie and Hidamari no Pooh. My goodness. I’m going crazy over them now. Check out my wishlist under the links to see the picture.

I saw a new Flip Flap as well. A flower bud but it’s not as cute as the seedling one I’ve got.

more NewS

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*sing-song voice* genki…yuki…koyama. *frowns and begins all over* genki…yuki…masuda. *smiles*

This has become the associative few words whenever NewS is mentioned. I remembered vaguely that it was in the first NewS vcd. Then Per kept reciting it at the chalet. And now it’s permanently stuck in my head. It was only about a week ago that I discovered the phrase was in NewS’ “NEWS Nippon”. *big smack on forehead*

Also, commented on the J-music forums about my feelings after watching the dvd that came with NewS “Touch” album.

I need a translator desperately!

Heez…this is like another entry on NewS but I really can’t help it.

I know that it’s hard for people to understand my liking for Japanese stuff unless they like it too. That’s why I’m thankful that Sis and Per are big fans of Japanese stuff as well. So I can talk all this stuff and know that someone understands my liking.

I really want to blog about my trip but everytime I find myself not having enough time to really sit down and think through. Partly coz computer time is now shared with Sis (until her computer is cleared out and reformatted) and partly coz my grandparents are around so we can’t hang around too long in the study room. They sleep early.

mickey

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I’m back from pandaland (as Per calls it). Yes, China.

My mind is in a whirl now coz I realise I have tons to keep up with since the past 2 weeks of being offline. TCGs to keep up. New songs to download. Emails to look through. Blogs to be visited. Updating my own blog. Getting my photos in order so they can be printed on time before grandpa starts hounding everybody. And not to mention the J-music forum where I get my daily dose of Japanese stuff downloaded from.

There’s lots to be told about my trip but I’ll save it for the next entry. Right now I shall just say that it was wonderful meeting up with Per and Pwen yesterday. Checking out the yukatas, tees, shoes, hats and caps at Bugis. Per decided to try on almost every cap or hat on me but it was kinda the wrong day since I tied up my hair and my ponytail was in the way.

Then we went to the mickey shop. Trying to find the same mickey cap Masuda picked up in the NewS dvd. Had a light snack in My Secret Garden while waiting for Pwen to knock off from work.

At last, Pwen arrives and we settle down to show her some stuff we found. Had dinner at Pasta Mania.

They headed for home. I headed for Orchard to meet Sis and Desmond. Bought some stuff at Mise S*Clusive. 2 uchiwas! One Aiba, the another Masuda. They are having this sale for certain items. Buy one get one free. Yay~~~

7ners chalet

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Back from the chalet. Our steamboat dinner was also successful with a lot of leftovers. Initially I was afraid that the food would not be enough.

Checked in on Sunday which was also Mother’s Day. All the hustle and bustle, afternoon spending time with my family and then getting home in a hurry to pack up for the chalet. Afraid I didn’t feel my best making Mum feel at the top of the world. But yea, I love you, Mummy. I know how it is to be politically correct to say sorry for all the bad things I have done. But I know I will still do more bad things and then say sorry the next year and it just goes on and on. So I shan’t say sorry but just that I’m trying my best to make you feel proud of me and that you will always have the biggest place in my heart.

So off I went to the chalet. Had dinner out on the first night. Played mahjong. Haha…managed to win once. I’m still a beginner anyway. Stayed up late as usual. Per, CJ, Jo and Up sitting around talking. Up doing his card love life telling again. Strumming his guitar, telling jokes. Got a little sleep in the rather cramped bed.

Next day, a few of the 7ners went canoeing. Pwen, Jo and I went cycling with Nad on her rollerblades. After which, we lazed around till evening. Encountered a problem. The meat didn’t thaw out so dinner was quite late. Quite weird to see smoke from BBQs all round and at our chalet, 11 people huddled around a table having steamboat instead. Like I said, too much food. Per went to feed the leftover fishballs to the cats around.

And then the saboh started. It was to make up for not saboh-ing me on my birthday. Per did say anyway. PK warned me beforehand not to bathe yet. I thought they were going to dump me in the sea so actually I was anticipating that the whole afternoon. Forgot about it during steamboat dinner. Then while watching tv after dinner, Pwen suddenly asked if I was going to bathe soon. Which was a weird, out-of-the-blue question. Too suspicious. Knew it was coming.

So they hid clues and I was supposed to go “treasure hunting”. Thought then that it was something bad at the end where I had to do which would get myself dirty. Last clue was to look around the big dustbin outside the chalet. I knew then that the saboh was to bomb me with water bombs. Coz…

  1. I knew it was coming. Asking me to look around a dustbin with no clues. I knew you guys wouldn’t ask me to do something stupid like sifting through the rubbish for a clue.
  2. From the corner of my eye, I saw you guys holding stuff behind you. You cannot get away looking so damn innocent.
  3. I told you I have good eavesdropping skills. While coming out of the bedroom, I heard you guys rushing around trying to ask each other to hurry up. Same while I was looking around the bin, all trying to hurry each other up and yet not let the cat out of the bag.

Well, I knew I couldn’t run away. I was outnumbered, resisting it would be stupid. Since you can’t win, might as well join in. Got to their stash of water bombs, PK desperately trying to run away with them. Pelting each other with water bombs. Getting wet. Of course, I got totally wet but it was fun. Per tried putting ice down my back later but seriously it was no use. I mean, the water from the bombs was already cold so it makes no difference putting ice down my back.

After my bath, we just sat around, talking. Then played card games. Then talked some more till the early hours of morning. Left the chalet at around 10.15am. Went to Mac at Parkway for breakfast. Then went home.

For some weird reason, I expected to see Mum at home. Maybe I missed her. When I reached home and didn’t see her shoes at the shoe rack, it dawned on me that it was a weekday and she was at work. I unpacked everything and then went to sleep.

Wasn’t in a good mood in the evening since Sis was being unreasonable. Trying to “pull” me out of bed to go buy dinner. I tried to bargain that she left me alone and I’ll buy dinner the next 2 days. She just insisted. That got me mad. C’mon, just let me have my sleep alright?!

As you guys know, when I don’t get enough sleep, I get cranky as well. So I was almost in tears when walking downstairs. I didn’t care if I banged the door shut. Maybe God was fair, coz the stall was closed. Sis called Mum and then it was decided that everyone would walk to TM to have dinner. Worst, Sis acted like nothing happened while I was fuming away. Like stop acting so damn cute when you know I’m so mad at you.

Hmmm…so that’s an account of what happened from Sunday till yesterday. Tomorrow midnight, I’ll be leaving for China with my family. So it’ll be 2 weeks of no updates.

not easy being a star

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Recently I’ve been collecting pictures of Morning Musume in kimono/yukata. Coz I think they look really pretty in it.

Well, since we are on the topic of MM pictures…

Newsboy cap! And it’s 2 of my favourite MM members.

Then there’s this. I like the track suit. Ermz…that’s the point. It’s not about the MM member who is wearing it. Oopz…no offense to Kamei Eri fans. Ok ok…I’ll say something good. She looks better with short hair now.

Been downloading some MM clips as well. Anybody who dreams of being a star. I’ll tell you now, it’s not easy. Watching the girls getting scolded by their dance and vocal teachers. Almost to the extent of getting insulted.

And the new generation members ought to thank the pioneer members. I think they really paved the way for the future generations of MM members. MM started out with 5 girls. Tsunku challenged them to sell 50000 copies of their first single within 5 days else MM will cease to exist. The girls had to do everything themselves. Put up posters in shopping areas. Give out flyers on the street, dropping them in mailboxes. Liasing with media companies. Now, all the new members have to do is just audition and wait to join. Or like what Per said, “show their pretty face”.

life at this point

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These days it’s just me and my computer. That’s how I live everyday. Night becomes day, day becomes night. Seriously becoming an owl.

I have been working on my portfolio site. After exclaiming that I can’t figure out the script, I sat myself down and told myself I could do it. And I started to figure things out a little. It’s strange how we often tell ourselves we can’t do it but end up doing it in the end. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still think I lack flair in designing.

Yesterday, I was thinking of what I was going to get in the Johnny’s shop in Osaka. Now with an added Masuda to the list of Johnny’s artistes I like, I think I’m going to spend quite a lot. Meikan, uchiwas, photos etc etc…

Moreover, Sis found out the address for the Morning Musume shop in Osaka. So, hmmm…is this bad or what?

itching to go shopping

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Aiyoh…itching to get NewS’s album le. Itching to go to Mise S*clusive. Itching to get a new bag. Damn. I need money to fall from the sky.

Stressing on settling the food for the steamboat for 7ners chalet. Costs. The size of the fridge. Argh.

the love of your life

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I like it when we have a light-hearted chat like that. Even if most of it is nonsensical. From discussing Namie’s new boyfriend which by the way is Ken Miyake from V6…either she bak jiu tak stamp or she just likes baby-faced, mickey mouse sounding guys. Anyway, from discussing that to bishonen to YamaP looking lem bek to Hyde’s new look etc etc.

That was the msn conversation I had with Per yesterday night.

Have you guys seen the Mother’s Day Johnson & Johnson’s advertisement. The baby is so cute! And the tagline for it. “You always went for the tall, dark and handsome. Who would have thought that the love of your life would be short and bald.” Something like that. It makes me smile.

click click type click

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Click click. Type. Click.

Repeat this for another few thousand times. Tell me whether your eyes go awry.

Busy uploading images into the database. Well, maybe you could blame it on stupid us who didn’t know how to implement batch upload. Ok, I might as well just shut my mouth here coz this uploading part was done by Zhihao *our saviour* for this darn FYP.

And I’m itching to do other stuff. Like now. I’m taking a short break. I can nod off while doing all this stuff ok even if there’s Koda Kumi belting out fine sounding tunes on Windows Media Player.

Alright. Back to the clicky click.

back with hilary

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realistic-soul.net is back. After a few days of trouble with diaryland *their server broke down* and then having trouble with the cache and all *still am*…I’m back.

Actually I did up everything days ago but was having trouble with the cache, css yada yada… And I figured, what the heck. So if you see the links portion, the scrollbar is white, it’s not my fault. My tcg page is lime green, it’s not my fault. I asked Vince for help and after some testing, he concluded that it was netrillium’s fault. The old css is stuck in the server cache or something.

I know this layout takes some time to load…sorry, I got to carried away with slicing. Heez. I doubt this layout will stay up long. I have ideas for a new one already!

Tomorrow will be back to school again to continue work on the project. *sigh* Just back from Malaysia, a little holiday and there’s work right in my face already.

Went to Malaysia to celebrate my paternal grandpa’s 80th birthday. There was all this big hoo-ha. Everyone getting flustered and all. Sis and I were going “but it’s just a birthday celebration.” And Mum came back with the reply “wait till you reach 80-years-old.” That shut us up.

Oh oh…and my little cousin-once-removed, Lee Ann is so adorable. She looks like a little doll.

Alrighty…need to take a bath now. Will be back with more.