I COULDN’T EVEN REMEMBER ARASHI’S DAMN TV SHOW.

Unforgivable.

Because I”ve been living under a rock and/or outside the Arashi bubble for a considerable time, and I’m considered pathetically late in the news in our modern tech world (lol I sound like I’m writing karangan/essay), I’m going to cut to the chase.

Arashi is this week’s feature on Channel [V]’s Videoscope.

Yes, OUR BOYS BEAT SUPER JUNIOR, AND DBSK, AND KATTUN, TO WIN THE BATTLE OF THE POP!

take that, generic hotshot boybands! :D :D :D

btw, I had so much fun teasing my SuJu and DBSK fans-friends. The satisfaction was just so gratifying, bwahahahaha.

Sadly I missed the first airing last Sunday, so I caught the rerun tonight at 11pm.

And I was so unexpectedly NOSTALGIC, omg. Watching the old PVs made me miss my innocent fangirling in my early fangirl life, and watching the newer PVs made me feel guilty for the momentary loss in interest and close abandonment :/ But one thing’s for sure — I STILL enjoy their songs, I STILL love watching their PVs, and I CAN remember their lyrics and sing to it. AFTER SO LONG!

And speaking of lyrics, I was  rather rusty, tbh, and fumbled a lot with the words (heck, being able to utter Japanese syllables as fluent as before is a miracle), but yeah I could sing along without shame! I can actually remember the lyrics, man, after so long. I’m so fucking proud of myself that I can actually remember the lyrics. :D

I should also mention that Dom is SO HAWT and I LOVE HIM and HIS ACCENT IS SO CUTE, but he totally and EPICLY PHAILS in Japanese. XD He called Ohno, ‘Satachi Ohno’ (think of the all-American way of saying ‘Ohno’), and he missed out the ‘mo’ in Yamada Tarou Monogatari! Such an outrage. If he wasn’t so damn cute when he says ‘Arashi’, and if he hadn’t said ‘One Love’ is a personal favourite of his, he would be absolutely unforgiven. *nods*

If you don’t have Channel [V], or missed the reruns, then you can download it here (although you’ll have to join their community in order to have access).

As for me, I’m totally catching the last rerun at 1PM! I need to say goodbye to Arashi’s final spotlight moment on international television. And have another chance for an all-out karaoke session. XD

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.

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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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

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

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~

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 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~

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.