Tashii’s Temporary GREETINGS! post :D

HI THERE. 8D

You here for awesome!FAIL…?

…or plain spazz!crack?

Well, you don’t really have a choice there. You’ve got everything of BOTH here… with quadruple dosage.

YOU SHALL NEVER LEAVE HERE ALIVE.

Have a nice day! :D

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JUST SO YOU KNOW:

• I hardly ever update my blog on a regular basis.
• I always vanish out of nowhere, and make a fail!grand return out of nowhere.
• I take ages to reply to a comment.
• …but I read them all the time. Your comments are always read and loved by me <3
• I don’t keep up with Arashi news or TV shows or music or whatnot.
• Heck, I don’t even come online often anymore!

And despite all, I’m still a loyal fangirl, I still love Arashi to bits, I still love my blog, I still love you guys for visiting my blog, and I still love fangirling.

I just don’t have the privilege of having my own PC, or freedom from a demanding school life.

November 2009 is an important date — it’s when the 2-month school holiday starts… and when I finally get my own laptop. <3

* source of the GIF images are linked through the images.
** this is a sticky post. Latest blog post updates are posted below.

…Back?

HI GUYS.

I know — you’re probably asking the Whats and the Whys now. And I kinda anticipate a furious flurry of flying bricks in my direction. 8D

I’m gonna be honest with you to say it straight out that I was taking a break. That is, kinda like stepping out of the Arashi circle, the fandom circle, and the fangirling circle. To be EVEN MORE FRANK, I was in this episode of having my fangirling/interest waning to a dangerous non-existent level. It was when I started returning back to my all-time-since-I-could-always-remember loves — romance novels and writing original stories. Did you know that I actually haven’t really written and/or finished an original story? I have spent my entire writing lifespan on fanfiction! You have no idea how shocked I was when it dawned on me. So anyways, I was ‘re-discovering’ my old loves, working on my stories and also reading all those mushy romance novels. I kinda didn’t have any sort of contact with Arashi at all. I stopped listening to Arashi songs on my iPod and went back to my ol’ favourite American songs (not those generic trash, but indie/alternative country/alternative rock genre). I started going on the computer lesser and lesser, coming on only to play some online games (my usual way of stress-relieving, though mostly it’s a closet addiction lol), or idle internet-surfing, or researching for my school projects/assignments. My phone is screwed up so I don’t have access to any videos, PV or crack!vids or no. Even my Arashi goodies have all been stashed into a box next to my study desk! It’s as though my 2-year obsession with Arashi never existed.

BUT. Of course, it takes a long while of taking a break before I realise how much I still love my Stormy boys. Of course, I’m not as obsessed as before, but I still love them. I started putting up my old Arashi photos/posters around my study desk, and at times I’d flip through old magazines to read those pages on Arashi, and sometimes I’d switch my iPod playlist back to Arashi. In fact, the other day during a free period in school, I plugged in my iPod without knowing my brother had altered the settings to play all songs instead of a specific playlist. The first song that came up was Kitto Daijoubu! IT WAS SO AWESOME. I’ve always loved Kitto Daijoubu, but hearing the song again after so long almost made me cry because I SO FUCKING MISS LISTENING TO ARASHI’S UNASAHAMED BUBBLEGUM POP SONGS. I was grinning like an idiot during the entire song. AND, I was so fucking happy to know that I still like Arashi songs. If it were otherwise I’d be a lost cause, man.

Give me some time, and I’ll find my way back (:

So — other updates on my life:

1. EXAMS ARE NEXT WEEK OMGAWSHWTF. And look at what I’m doing, in front of the computer. XD It’s exams for one whole week, before the last 2 weeks (or 1 week? I’m not sure, the school admin hasn’t confirmed anything wtf) of school and IT’S 2 MONTHS OF WELL-DESERVED HOLIDAYS, BAYBEH! I so need to get back on track with my life, man. 2009 has been such an eventful, screwed up year for me.
2. I GOT A NEW PUPPY. Although, he isn’t so much of a puppy anymore. XD He’s (currently) 3 months old, the MOST ADORABLE BEAGLE IN THE WORLD, and he’s named Benji <3 He’s amazingly huge for his age, because we were told the litter he was born in had only 3 puppies (imagine all the nutrients fit for 10 puppies going into mere 3 puppies! D:), and assuming by his I’m-the-boss swagger, he’s probably the first out of the litter. XD He’s nosy, too curious, too eager, he slobbers so much, he’s unrelenting, he loves playing with/bullying my other dog Tinkles and my 3 cats (who love teasing him), he drinks too much water that his entire snout is in the water bowl… and he’s just so adoring of us all, and he’s so goddamn adorable to be alive. I don’t have pictures of the computer right now, sadly. I posted a few on my Facebook weeks ago, just because my friends were pestering me lol. I swear I’ll post up a million of them when I get the chance!
3. HERE’S A HUMONGOUS UPDATE ON THE SOON-TO-BE-HALF-MIND LAPTOP. My dad and I have been eyeing on the Dell Studio 15 for some time, since it’s specs are pretty good considering the price is a bargain, before my dad started looking at the Dell XPS 16, just because it’s more of a game-inclined notebook and considering the awesome FPS/high-end games I’m planning to install. XD Then, my dad is also considering the Sony Vaio, as the price is only a few hundred ringgit more than the XPS yet its specs are of top-notch quality. I SO WANT THE VAIO! DDDDDD: The design is sooooo sleek and chic, and the functions are fantastic. The touchpad and keyboard function so effing smoothly (I tested it out at a Sony centre, mind), and look at the 8GB memory RAM <3 The GOOD news is that the laptops we’re looking for are all equipped with the new Windows 7 OS, which is our main priority, and hopefully by the time the school holidays arrive I’ll get the laptop!
4. When I get my laptop, it’s gonna be a TOTAL revamp of everything computer and internet. I’m changing my e-mail address, closing down several accounts, starting new ones. Basically, starting afresh. I’m mostly doing this in a way of ‘getting rid of the baggage‘ and starting anew with the chance I got. Most of all, I’m sick of all the junk I’m getting in my Hotmail account, and I need to get new e-mails, separate accounts for separate purposes, and I’M SO ANTI-MICROSOFT NOW. Hotmail is crap, man. I’m so pro-Google now XD So anyways, those who are connected to my Hotmail e-mail, I’ll notify you when my default e-mail is changed.
5. I actually have this piggy bank I call my Yukata Fund. 8D My friends and I decided, after Bon Odori, that we would save up a little from our allowance everyday so that we can afford to buy a yukata set next year (which costs around RM300++). But in recent weeks the Yukata Fund has been converted into a Holiday Trip Fund. XD I have been having doubts of buying a yukata. It’s really nice and awesome and all, but I don’t think I want to spend so much money on something which I can only wear yearly and only perhaps on one or two occasions like fangirl meetups. And my friends and I are planning a holiday trip to Penang, which is gonna be awesome because it’s 10 of us young ‘uns on a 3D2N trip up north with our teacher guiding us around since she’s a Penangite 8D BESIDES. I YEARN FOR THE SANDY BEACH MORE THAN CLOTHES ANYWAYS.
6. I mentioned this earlier in the post — MY BELOVED PHONE IS BROKEN! T_T The screen is totally fucked up, in the sense that it goes static and often blacks out completely. The functions work fine, though. And I haven’t been able to get it fixed at a service centre because it opens during office hours only. D: So I gotta wait till the holidays to make the trip there. Geez. I’m now using my mom’s old crappy non-colour-screen phone. Texting is so much fun because the keypad is awesome 8D
7. And the online game I mentioned earlier — it’s called Left 4 Dead. :D Think zombie apocalypse. Four survivors on a mission to find rescue. Awesome graphics. First Person Shooter mode. EPIC AWESOMENESS! <3 You should go on YouTube and watch the gameplay. I’m a self-confessed L4D addict! Zombie horror genre is my favourite, and this game totally converted me into a FPS player. I play almost every day when I get the chance on my brother’s computer lol. And yes I’M A CLOSET FEMALE GAMER! 8D And random fact: my in-game ID is Sakurai. Yes, as in Sakurai Sho <33333
8. My bedroom has gone through major arrangement changes! Before this, my study desk was in a study room, which is technically a GAME ROOM since it has 3 computers that are always on and occupied. It’s so goddamn hard to concentrate on my homework with the games distracting me D: So I moved my desk up to my bedroom. My sister is fine with me doing anything (she’s only in the room to sleep and bathe, anyways, she spends the entire day on the computer in the ’study room’), as long as she got the bed with the frame, and I get the pull-out mattress XD But in exchange for that, I now have my own bookshelf (PACKED with all our collection of books, books, books, that I only have one miserable shelf to fit all my school books LOL), and my own desk. The room is officially my GROUND ZERO, and I have easy access to all my stuff. INCLUDING MY ARASHI COLLECTION XD But the arrangements aren’t done, yet. I need to do a major spring cleaning and it’s gonna have to be during the holidays. And we need a bunk bed, lol. When I’m done I’ll take pictures :D

That’s all I can remember of in regards to Life Updates. BTW, the main reason I actually came on my blog is actually THIS. Arashi has been featured in numerous local magazines in recent months, but Galaxie is the only one I read regularly (and the only English entertainment magazine so far to feature Arashi, lol?), and IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I SEE A HALF PAGE FEATURE OF ARASHI! I love my mom for totally randomly buying this issue for me <3 Serendipity is such a wonderful thing, no? And yes, judging from the way I squealed and flailed and read through the article 3 times, I AM NO LOST CAUSE. YET.

Oh, and a month before, a letter from a reader in Galaxie magazine mentioned Arashi. Firstly, I’M SO HAPPY IT TOOK THE GALAXIE TEAM JUST A MONTH TO RESPOND WITH THIS FEATURE ARTICLE. It took more than a year of pestering them before they finally feature Arashi (prior to this, they’ve feature Matsujun and Aiba, individually and separately). And secondly, KITTY/FIQA DID YOU WRITE THAT LETTER? XDDDDDDDD Because the reader was signed as ‘Kitty’ and I SWEAAAAAAAAAAR it’s you. XD

So anyways! That’s a long post to make up for the few months I was gone. I would like to remind those who posted comments on any posts that I DO READ THEM! I’m gonna go read them after this post is published, in fact. XD Any comment left by my blog readers are always welcomed and well-loved. I would normally say I’m reachable through e-mail, but since I’m so inactive… I’m practically unreachable. XD Just leave comments and whatnot, and I’ll read them sooner or later, but never never!

Tashii, OUT.

iPod. ;D

My dad signed my family up for Maxis’s family package plan thingy, and got a few iPod Shuffle for free. Here’s mine! :D

Gorgeously tiny, innit? It’s the size of my thumb! xD Yet it has a 4GB memory space — think of tiny little Nino capable of all that DoS bullying — I can stuff in all 130+ Arashi songs I have in my hard drive and still got space for 300-350 more songs. THAT MUCH SPACE. It’s so huge I have no effing idea what to do with the other 3.40GB free space… but it does make me feel secure. Just like Nino and his 30GB hard drive for all those damn Nintendo DS games. XD

Seriously. It’s time I start digging up my old English songs and Japanese/anime songs! *coughlinkinparkgoodcharlottegymclassheroescough*

One thing I absolutely ABSOLUTELY ADORE about the Shuffle is its VoiceOver technology — Shuffle doesn’t have a screen (with instead a tiny remote control on the earphone cable on which you press an ‘Enter’ button for any command), so the Shuffle tells you what song/artiste/playlist you’re listening to — through a synthesised voice. How cool is that D: And yes, the voice can even interpret JAPANESE! Whenever an Arashi song plays, a cute female voice (just like those automated female announcers on subway trains or in elevators) would announce it AND IT TOTALLY MAKES ME FLAIL~ <3

I foresee a healthy obsession with my iPod. XD

OMG SHO IS THAT YOU

Take a look at this image (TenjoStyle’s current header banner):

Ignore the Junaibatoshi pic in the middle (lol gomen xD).

Look — LOOOOOOOOOOK at the group pics on the left and right.

TELL ME I DO NOT SEE SHO WITH ABNORMALLY SHORT HAIR. D:

I hope this hairstyle isn’t permanent… I love Sho’s clean-cut NEWS ZERO-worthy haircut. T_T

*untitled title since I can’t think of any title*

Hi~ I’ve been on bedrest for the past 2 days and now I’m all better! My throat is still sore, but oh well. I’ll just mentally/virtually fangirl!shriek when need be. xD

As you can see, I’ve partly edited the sidebar. I’ve taken out Meebo because it’s crap. I actually have to log onto my account ON MEEBO’S WEBSITE to actually see the personal messages sent to me. How troublesome! D: Too bad no other chatboxes are compatible :/ But thank you so much to the few random people who posted messages on Meebo! <3

Also, I’ve taken out the ‘Current Wallpaper’ and ‘Tashii’s Perving Station’ widgets off, since well, I don’t have a permanent computer or a permanent perving station any more, so what the heck. When I get a permanent workstation (*coughalaptopmydadpromisedattheendofoctobercough*) maybe they’ll come back on. xD

AND! I found something interesting on Google Images today:

I totally LOL-ed. xD Except, this term is used to describe Twatilight fangirls. Replace ‘fictional charater’ with ‘Japanese idol’ and you get JE fangirls! YAY!

Okay, I’m off to write my long-delayed fanfics~

What I want to do for my wedding

Hi. 8D

I’m still sick, yes. I thought I’d drop by since I was idling around FB, updating and stuff, finding something productive to do on the internet. Y’know, I’m still trying to make an effort of posting daily :D I ain’t making any excuses now that I’m on holiday!

So yes, post of the day.

Remember in my previous post I briefly mentioned ‘thriller’, yes? Well take a look at this:

I SO WANT TO DANCE THIS AT MY WEDDING.

Sho can take the lead dancing role of MJ, seeing as he’s gonna be the groom ♥ The rest of the Arashi boys (his best men~♥) can fill up the front line of the dance, while me as the bride tiptoeing my way around in my enormous wedding gown xD Think of it: Arashi dancing to Thriller at a wedding! HOW AWESOME IS THAT.

But I’m serious. When I get married, I’m forcing my husband-to-be and his best men and my bridesmaids to dance to Thriller for the wedding dance. Whee 8D

IT’S THE HOLIDAYS YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY

It felt like Christmas Eve in school today. XD My Math teacher grumbled to my class about how her Form 5 class of 27 students had 20 students absent today. Apparently it’s a school tradition for the students to generally and unofficially start their holidays a day earlier, lmao! In fact, even my brothers were part of a massive absentee movement. I, on the other hand, went to school like a good girl I am *cough*

So it’s gonna be a one-week school holiday, and I SWEAR I AM GOING TO DO THE THINGS I’VE BEEN WANTING TO DO EVER SINCE I WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, i.e. writing long-unwritten fanfics and/or completing unfinished fanfics (coughheavenswindcough), i.e. watching all Arashi dramas I’ve missed before Aiba’s drama season, i.e. going back to my daily blogging habit, i.e. going back to my blog-visiting habit. The list goes on!

I wanted to post up a fanfic today which I wrote ages ago (it’s a secret till I publish it! ;D)… buuuut I’m plagued with a worsening flu. And a sore throat I developed this morning. As I said many times… these are two vital symptoms of the H1N1 virus DDDDDD: I can’t sleep because my runny nose kept me awake, yet I’m so damned tired I’m gonna go back to bed and try to get some sleep. I’ve got a lunch date and dinner/supper date with old school friends tomorrow and I don’t want to skip out on them T_T

I’ll just let you in on a TEENY spoiler on this fanfic I’m gonna post:

it’s a one-shot
it features our beloved riidaa
and think “THRILLER”.
:D

OYASUMI NASAI~!

[EDIT:]

I just HAD to add this picture…

…of Masaki baby in his high school days. In his high school uniform.
[EDIT]: Okay, it’s really just Aiba in character for his old drama called Mukodono. I didn’t know until Kitty told me. FANGIRL!FAIL FTW~ 8D
but still.
KLGNDS04U689;SMDG’1TIONSHHAWTHAWTHAWTINOERITE. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Okay, I’m seriously off to bed now. xD OYASUMI NASAI~

My first time at chatboxes.

So Zephyyyy-ku~n ordered told me to get a Cbox just so he can spam it with anti-arashi slogans lololololol, which I actually thought was a good idea.

…until I found out almost NO CHATBOX WIDGETS are compatible with WordPress. Javacript-enabled HTML codes are automatically erased from any codes pasted into the textbox “due to security issues with Javascript” (really?), so that pretty much rules out Cbox and any other known chatbox services . T_T And the only chatbox that is WordPress-approved and WordPress-compatible is Meebo… which is weird. It isn’t as simple as  Cbox — it’s a cross between a Facebook status wall and an IM messenger like YM and WLM. I actually have to log on to THEIR WEBSITE to be shown as online in the chatbox, and I can post status messages from my account (something like a What Are You Doing Now? on the FB Wall), aaaaand… the messages history are erased the moment you close the browser. It’s sort of like a private instant messaging system where you can send private instant messages to me that won’t be public on this blog, which kinda defeats the purpose of a chatbox, no? xD

Well anyways I don’t mind giving it a go. Let’s take this as a beta-testing period xD As you can see, it’s in the sidebar now (titled ‘CHESUTOOO’ :DDDDDDD). SO GO POST SOMETHING UP NOW!

(if you’re wondering, I’m making an effort to write at least one post a day~ :D)

FYI – I almost don’t reply to comments these days. It’s hard to explain my… lack of enthusiasm in replying comments. I’m so sorry if I seem cold! OTZ If you have any questions or messages directed at me (and warrants a reply from me) you can always e-mail me (: As of now I think you’re most likely to get a response from me through e-mail rather than comment replies.

日本 FTW!

My class did the Listening Component of our MUET test 2 days ago, in which we were given a few text scripts to listen to and answer questions based on the text.

And guess what one of the text was?! :D

I LOVE NIPPON. <3

And yes, TEXT GA TOTEMO MUZUKASHII DESU YO. Imagine my shock when I found out I got a 19/20 D:

After returning our paper today, my teacher asked if that’s hiragana. I was like, GKLS0326759;NDSGKB YOU KNOW JAPANESE?!?!?!?!?!11111 And it turns out she studied Japanese during her university years. My awesome Indian teacher studied NIHONGO for 4 years! *inserts happy-joy keyboard-smashing*  Sadly that was aaaages ago and she has lost her fluency in the language. She struggled so much trying to read the text xD

And here’s something random from my Advanced Mathematics textbook:

:D

Two more days of school leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeft before the semester break! It’s just one week (and tests start right after we return to school, wtf) but anything goes with me as long as I get a break from all the insanity called impossible school and impossible homework.

I actually am in the midst of writing a… rather descriptive post regarding an issue I’d like to voice out. It’s related to Arashi and the fandom, and me. I started writing it last week but didn’t have the chance to continue, so with the time I’ll have hopefully I can post it up next week and get it off my chest.

Aiba’s FIRST lead drama role!

Yeah, I know, I’m meant to be scooting off to do my homework, but I just can’t DENY THIS PIECE OF NEWS.

AIBA IS STARRING IN HIS FIRST LEAD ROLE IN A DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!

At first it was a rumour circulating around, and I was notified through SMS by Kitty, but as usual I always take rumours with a pinch of salt. Getting hopeful is fine as long as you don’t take it for word. Word of wisdom, yo :D

BUT NOW IT’S EVEN CONFIRMED ON TOKYOGRAPH!!!!!!!!

LIKE, FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

AIBA DESERVES A LEAD ROLE. BECAUSE HE JUST DESERVES IT (he’s Aiba, for god’s sake, doesn’t he deserve ANYTHING in this world? <3) AND BECAUSE WE MISS WATCHING AIBA IN TV DRAMAS, AND BECAUSE HE IS NOW OF EQUAL STATURE WITH THE OTHER ARASHI BOYS :D

Now we may all boast to others that ALL of Arashi has had lead drama roles. Sounds pompous, no?

AND TO BOOT, HE’S GONNA PLAY THE ROLE OF A DADDY!

TALK ABOUT OUR MASAKI BABY BEING A FATHER.
xD

Hitotsu dake no happiness~

before I begin my flailing session!
Normally when a post is being written and is yet to be untitled, a default permalink to the soon-to-be-published post will be generated. Sooooo, while I was just beginning to type this post out, this permalink was generated:

*points at highlighted four-digit number*

My immediate thought was HOLY SHIT ARASHI’S DEBUT YEAR! KFH/J89SY-3;L’MSDGNKLSH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

It’s love. It’s definitely love. I’m keeping the link as it is! :D

– now, onto the REAL post! xD –

I WANTED TO FLAIL ABOUT THIS A WEEK AGO, BUT THE INTERNET JUST HAD TO DIE ON ME FOR 6 DAYS STRAIGHT. WTF.

First of all, guess what I found sitting oh-so-inconscpicuously on the top shelf of the Japanese music section in a local music store nearby my house~?

loooooooooooololololololol. *gets bricked*

I don’t even know why I took this picture or why I’m even writing about them. Maybe it’s because they were stuffed snugly between BoA and Ayumi Hamasaki, and I’m marvelling at the irony? *cough* ;D

So then I flipped through the shelves below… AND ON THE BOTTOM SHELF. WAS. THISSSSSSSSSSS:

ARASHI.
OMG.
ARASHI!
OMGGGGGGG!
DREAM-A-LIVE.
OMGGGGGGGG.
RM29.90 (USD8.50).
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

You can kinda guess what happened after that. Lots of fangirl screaming, lots of stares from passerbys, lots of ’shhhh!’ noises from my friend trying to shut me up, and lots of scrambling as I went straight to the counter and paid for the album without a second thought. As expected. xDDDDDDDDDDD I should probably mention that it’s the exact same place where I got my How’s It Going? Concert DVD! MAN I LOVE THAT MUSIC STORE. IT FEEDS MY POOR LACK-OF-OKANE FANGIRL NEEDS :D

The album is the regular edition, and China Edition, so that kinda explains that price. But it’s in perfect condition and it’s original and it has J Storm Inc label on the back cover and the CD plays the music… IT’S ALL I CARE~ I’m listening to it right now lol, but it just doesn’t have the kick unless I play it on the stereo in my living room and put the volume on full blast. I should try that the next time I want to do my homework in the living room. xD

Better views of the album:

This was on Saturday.

On Sunday (the next day), I met up with Hui Ling and Eu Geen (whom I met at Daicon <3) to collect the magazines Hui Ling bought for me, and at the same time watch a band-and-brass performance by the Japanese Navy band. I went JUST SO I could watch the taiko drums performance — in my head I could NOT envision anything else than the taiko drummers I saw from Bon Odori xD — but I missed it. I arrived late! T_T Watched the recording of the performance and it was aweeeeeeeeesome. The drummers weren’t the same young boys from Bon Odori, of course, but they were still haaaaaawt in traditional haori and hakama pants, despite the fact they were probably twice my age. XD

Here’s the fangirl-worthy haul I collected from Hui Ling:

she got me these as presents! <3 She was appalled that I didn’t know I could get C1000 easily from Isetan KLCC, lol xD I can’t believe I actually FORGOT there is an Isetan in KLCC… and to think I only visit KLCC for Kinokuniya, wtf.
(and I will ALWAYS associate Isetan with Aiba… if you’ve watched Arashi’s ‘Birthday Presents for Girlfriends’ segment on AnS you would understand. XD)

And my magazines~ :D

These are old issues — the Non-No ones are 2008 issues, and the Wink Up is from April ‘09, if I’m not mistaken. And because they’re old issues, THEY’RE HELLUVA CHEAP. And I love cheap. XD
and you have noooooooooo idea how I suffered, carrying this 5kg load of magazines home through two trains!

Matsujun’s KAWAII OVERLOAD poster:

which I would DEFINITELY want to hang it up on my wall because both the human and the doggie are equally charming XD

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND:

OHMIYA AU BY KDDI AD! <3

I really miss Arashi’s AU ads. I really, really do. Has anyone noticed they’re not in magazines any longer? The ads are still promoted on billboards around Tokyo and such, but I don’t ever see the same ads in magazines. At least, those without Arashi’s endorsement. Everytime I see an Arashi-less AU ad, it just reminds me of how such certified assholes the AU people were when Ohno’s scandal broke out last year. D:

Anyhoo, I shall cherish these ads <3

So! That concludes my 6-day-delayed flailing :D I’m off to do homework now, AS ALWAYS.

OH. MY. GAWD.

I are returned! Once again! ;D

…to find that I have 17 blog comments in moderation, and 76 unread e-mails.

O_O

It’s gonna be a loooooooong day.

Bon Odori ‘09 ~ so much awesomeness! ♥ ♥ ♥

I seriously have no idea how to describe to you HOW MUCH FUN I HAD. I came home last night exhausted beyond any level of endurance, and this morning I woke up with a sore throat and aching shoulders and legs… and yet I am EXHILARATED beyond any level of comprehension~! Seriously, I regret none of it. I don’t regret having to endure the dusty environment (the air was extremely dry), I don’t regret having to carry my 5kg bag while dancing all 3 sessions of the Bon Odori dance, I don’t regret fumbling around with my limited Japanese understanding to speak with a few Japanese families… ALL THE PAIN IS WORTH IT! Gawd I sound like a DoM loooool xD

I would really, REALLY love to write up my report-cum-review of the festival, but I am currently bombarded with a huge load of homework that I need to complete. YOU KNOW I HATE DOING HOMEWORK. OTZ but somehow I’m too darn ridiculously happy that I don’t even mind finishing up my homework so I can come back later and write up my source of happiness~ ♥

So, while I am away for the next 12 hours, here are 2 teaser photos for you:

aaaaaaand…

;DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I’ll be back later! <3

[updated! :D]

(though I warn you, it’s a HELL LOAD of a picspam…)
(and yes, this report is finally complete!)

WHO’S READY FOR BON ODORI TONIGHT?! ;D ;D ;D

I should probably go:

MINNA GENKI KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~?
a la in Aiba high-pitched-and-squeaky-and-crazily-excited voice. xD

I remember on this exact occasion almost a year ago I vowed that this year I would earn the money to buy a yukata and wear it to the festival… and sadly that wish is left unfulfilled. ALL MY OKANE HAS WENT TO SHOPPING AND ARASHI AND FAMILY NEEDS… AND ARASHI. XDDDDDDDDD I’m such a horrible money saver, like Aiba. Damn, Nino would’ve been so disappointed with me! OTZ

Oh well, there’s always next year, and the year after that, aaaaand the continuous years to come. It doesn’t change the fact that there are awesome maximum umai Japanese food and OMGSOHAWTYOUWANNAMELT Japanese boys, especially the taiko drummers… *swoons*

I’m only able to fulfill two vows: join in the Bon Odori dance, and bring an Arashi uchiwa. MWAHAHA I’M SO GONNA PARADE AROUND WITH MY SHO DAL UCHIWA XD

So yes, if you were to search for Tashii… LOOK FOR THE WAVING SHO UCHIWA. FIND SHO UCHIWA, YOU FIND TASHII. *nods*

(Seriously, Miki, I hope you won’t miss out on me again… like DaiCon. That was epic fail on both our parts LOL)

And, after the success of last year, I got more friends to come along! :D One of them is supposed to drive us in her car… but I was told this morning (I had just woken up and I was all blurry when I read her text lol) that HER CAR IS NOT AVAILABLE. LIKE, WHUT. XD So we’re taking public transport now, which isn’t any less fun. I swear I’m gonna go absolutely mad and start singing Arashi songs throughout the journey (and annoy the hell out of my friends AND other train passengers). w00t

I’m off now. I’m dropping by Kinokuniya before meeting up with my friends and taking the train to the stadium. I need my Arashi drugs in the form of magazines to get me pumped up ;D

SEE YOU GUYS AT THE FESTIVAL <3

DaiCon – full of AWESOMENESS and FLAIL ♥

I am PAINFULLY exhausted right now. My body is aching and my eyes are threatening to close any time now — I had only 5 hours of sleep last night — but, I can’t bear going to sleep without first writing down the day’s awesomeness. ;D

however, do forgive me if you come across any incoherent sentences or spelling mistakes, since I’m half-asleep as I’m writing this. xD

So! DaiCon: As I’ve flailed over for a thousand times, I was part of the volunteer team manning the Arashi booth. That means having to reach the convention waaaay before it opens to public. Izzati was gonna fetch Kitty and I from the station to the MMU campus (where the convention was held) at 9AM plus… so I had to wake up at 6:30AM. 6AM ON A SUNDAY! T_T Gawd, the things I do for Arashi: waking up at an ungodly hour on a Sunday morning, and travelling to a faraway place (Cyberjaya) that costs a whopping RM10 to travel to by KLIA Transit. SERIOUSLY xDDDD But – what could’ve been a 1-hour drive turned out to be a 15-minute train ride! Plus, the transit was extremely comfortable and the ride was smooth. So worth my RM20 round-trip fees.

Being typical flailing-and/or-giggling fangirls being HELLUVA genki and excited, we started camwhoring during the train ride. Yes, we earned stares from other passengers. XD
  

Random but:

 Kitty’s and my footwear! I was wearing ENTIRELY black and white, and the red shoelaces were the only evidence of colours in my outfit. XD SHO COLOUR~ ♥

More camwhoring:

  
(in the last pic Kitty and I attempted a typical Sho-pout. WE FAILED. XD)

When we arrived at the convention hall… it turned out that NO ONE HAD ARRIVED YET. It was just me and Kitty and Izzati of the team, and it was already 10AM when guests were arriving. And, out of the four booths in the J-pop section (Arashi, KAT-TUN, Kanjani8, NEWS), our booth was the only one not set up yet. O_O *cue upbeat, heart-stopping dramatic orchestral music* Seriously, we were in a HUGE MESS. It was chaotic, with all of us trying to stick up posters and uchiwas, but they kept falling apart because the velcro were useless and the double-sided taped was even more failure (velcro only works on the STORMY boys’ concert outfits. xD). I sweated so much from all the scrambling lol~ but after an hour — and more volunteers arrived, thank god — everything was finally set up! 

WE’RE IN BUSINESS, BABY~:

     

THIS POSTER:

 
was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE. Compare the size with the uchiwa, man. It’s so fantastically ginormous! AND IT’S YOUNG ARASHI :D I want that pasted on my ceiling above my bed. xD

Part of the morning shift’s volunteer team:

…posing with a Star Wars Trooper! ;DDDDDDDDD

The J-pop section~!

Our first customers of the day :D
whom we had so much fun chatting and flailing together with! ♥ I found out about Kinokuniya’s occasional magazine bargains from her! That, and a particular shop in Sungei Wang that sells Japanese magazines to as cheap at RM10. D: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO! And Hui-ling’s (I’m SO SURE I got your name wrong – I’m so so sorry T_T I admit I’m horrible at remembering names) puppy headwrap/hat is SO KAWAII~ lol she had to wear it on a dare by a friend. How convenient that it’s perfectly normal in an anime/manga convention. XD

Fangirls registering on the MyArashi fanbase:

  

A no Arashi! XD

The youngest fangirl I’ve ever met – at 10 MONTHS OLD!! xD (pictured here being cuddled by Aina, and her okaa-san and onee-san are in the 3rd pic)
 
she absolutely loved holding my Sho uchiwa, and she even kissed it too! HER FUTURE AS A SAKURAI WIFEY IS SET IN COURSE. LOL :D Kyaaah kawaii overload ♥♥♥♥♥

And another mother-daughter fangirl pair!!! –

Yen and her daughter Su-Ann (assuming I heard her pronounce her name right… though I’m not sure about the spelling. Sorry!). The okaa-san is a Sho fangirl (SAKURAI WIFEYS UNITED~ ♥) and the maximum-kawaii little girl is an Aiba-chan fangirl! She said she loves watching Tensai! Shimura Doubutsuen, awwwwh~ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Yen became an Arashi fangirl 2 years ago from Junbait, and further Arashified her family. Sososososososo cool! And so kawaii♥. Seriously, nothing melts my heart more than seeing two generations of Arashi fangirls! I’ve only EVER met fangirls around my age, but never of ages much older or much younger. It is absolutely refreshing to meet more diverse fangirls, which proves that the love and hearts and rainbows of Arashi has touched so many! Gawd, it makes me love the fandom so much more. T_T ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

My lunch:

xD 

BTW – In response to Miki’s question as to why I wasn’t found anywhere at the Arashi booth at 2:30pm… well, that’s because I was having my break and eating lunch in the park at the back of the hall. How could we have missed each other! T_T

Ohhhh, btw, I HAVE GOT SOME JUICE/DIRT FOR YAH. Let me just say that: in the online community, Arashi fans and KAT-TUN fans don’t get along. In real life, THE SAME PRINCIPLE APPLIES. Apparently I was told by Izzati that some tension had built up between the Arashi booth and KAT-TUN booth yesterday (I didn’t attend the convention), just because the KAT-TUN fans thought our crew members were taking up their space. And, they started bitching around behind our backs. Unnecessary drama, much? What more – I noticed that, among the four JE booths, Arashi, NEWS and K8 booths members got along really well. Well, us Arashi fangirls were the ones doing the initiating. XD A few girls constantly visited the K8 booth, while Izzati and Aina and I danced to Koi no ABO with the NEWS booth’s leader (who was also Izzati’s friend). As in, we were all really respectful of each others’ fandoms and we shared the fangirling together. On the other hand, KAT-TUN fans were kinda isolated. They were mostly sticking to themselves a lot :/ It’s just an observation… but TBH, this further fuels my lack of affinity (I’m putting it nicely!) for KAT-TUN. :D

ANYWAYS. I took loooooooots of videos! There are 2 crack-filled videos of us doing a synchronised choreography of A.Ra.Shi. WE WERE SO HIGH ON ARASHI CRACK xDDDD What happened was that ALL THE LIGHTS were turned off in preparation of Chihara Minori’s concert, and it was completely dark, and we had nothing to do, so we started singing and dancing to Arashi songs played on the laptop. And when Love So Sweet came up on the large LCD screen (which was placed in the middle of the J-pop section, fixed with speakers), WE ALL SCRAMBLED FORWARD TO SING AND DANCE ALONG. It was sooooooo fun and soooooo full of crack! I got scolded so many times because I kept doing the choreography wrong. XD Such wonderful moments ♥

I also caught videos of Chihara Minori’s concert… and I’m so sorry to say but I CAN’T STAND HER. She speaks in an all-too-fake-and-high-pitched voiced that it hurt my ears (literally). And her songs aren’t my type. Us exhibitors got free tickets to attend the concert, and so I went in just to get a glimpse of her, but ohmigawd I escaped 30 seconds after that. Seriously, I just can’t stand her. It was fun watching the audience doing the furi, though. xD

So that’s all. We packed up and left at about 4-5pm (I was so glad I didn’t have to listen to Chihara anymore or my ears would bleed). WE WERE ALL SO EXHAUSTED! Exhausted, but definitely exhilarated. All the maniacal flailing and group-fangirling did not go down in vain :D And, I had sooooooooooo much fun – in fact, I HAD SUCH A WONDERFUL TIME!!! Also enjoyed meeting SO MANY MORE FANGIRLS, ohmigawd I love you all. To everyone whom I met today: Aina, Zati (finally, eh? xD), Ema, Iqqa, Nasyer, Chii, Yen, Su-An, and to many MANY more whose names I cannot recall (I’m so sorry! T_T), and to old buddies I have known: Kitty, Madi, Anim, Chika, Aki-chan, Kak Kairi, Kak Fad — you guys are awesome! All of you add up to the happiness and rainbows of the Arashi fandom, which makes this fandom so close-knitted and so full of love.  ♥

As for those whose emails/blogs/FBs I’ve noted down — I’ll add you guys tomorrow, yeah? Kitty accidentally took home my notebook with all the contact details in it. xD

Tashii, half-dead and exhausted yet extremely contented, signing out!