My Fangirling Outlet

Quick Hello

I know, I haven't posted anything in a while. Not even after Arashi's awesome Himitsu no Arashi-chan special, nothing about the Earthquake, nothing about anything really. I've been busy... with life. And I just haven't had time to come up with posts. Any spare time I have goes to sleeping or doing homework. *sigh*

Just want to say that I finished watching the drama Mother and it was brilliant and oh-so heartbreaking but I loved every bit of it. I pretty much teared up and cried in every single episode. I don't know if this is a drama I would reccomend to "everyone" (it's like Yasashii Jikan in that sense) but it really is a brilliant drama. I really wish it had gotten more attention than it recieved.

I started SPEC as well but lately I've taken a hiatus from drama watching and have recently gone back into anime. So... I know people must be reading my posts (due to the fact that I have followers and an average of 10 page views a day - which I find so weird by the way) - anyone have good animes to reccomend?

New Years etc.

Hello. It's been a while hasn't it? I'm still amazed that I actually get page views despite the fact that I never update, and when I do it's nothing really important either. But whoever does decide to come look at my blog, thank you? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding how the whole "page view" thing works? ^^;; Oh well. I'm just happy seeing such a large number.

ANYWAY - way off topic.

So. New Years was a while back yeah? Two weeks ago? Yes I did watch Kouhaku and it was entertaining but truthfully I didn't watch all of it. In short, considering it was the first time and Kouhaku is a MAJOR show and they must have been HELLA nervous, I think they did a marvelous job and I'm very proud of them. If there were any flaws, I felt that there should have been more Matsushita Nao x Arashi discussion because sometimes it felt like she was left out - but I understand why that happened. Writing a script and giving each person an equal number of lines would obviously mean that she would get less lines, but still. Sometimes it was just awkward. But of course this isn't Arashi's fault, so oh well.

In the end my most favourite year end music show was MSSL2010. I nearly cried watching that. Have I mentioned that already? Well anyway, it's the show that reminded me of my time in Japan the most. And I really love that, the nostalgic feeling, the fact that I recognize all the songs and what not. Makes me sad too, but I love it anyway.

Next - Arashi promoting the 3Ds is terrible for me because I want it so bad. I mean the actual commercials wih Arashi are kind of lame (if I didn't know Arashi and i saw that on TV in Canada I'd be like 'wtf?') but the actual DS is SO COOL. And seeing Arashi with one just makes me think "WANT". Such fail. I"m not gonna get it though, not until it a) comes out in Canada and b) has been out for long enough that there are more games and it's more reliable.

Onto Movies - excited for Nino going to Hollywood again. That's my boy ;) Too bad i don't live in America, why does Japan always forget Canada? Sigh. We're such a forgotten country. I'd kill to go see the movie, dubbed or not, but maybe it'll come out in DVD here instead? Or something? Come on... please...? And then of course the latest news about Kaibutsu-kun! That is seriously awesome. I don't really care about 3D movies but Ohno just being in a movie. Kaibutsu-kun or not is awesome. I'm happy for him, hope he doesn't tire himself to much.

Onto Dramas. I kind of admit.. I don't think I'm going to watch Bartender. It just doesn't look like my kind of drama to watch. Love Arashi and all but ^^;; I'm still picky about my dramas okay? So instead I will watch Mother (which a lot of people have been talking about) and Keizoku 2: SPEC. Both apparently very underrated dramas? They seem interesting though, so I'm looking forward to watching them. I just finished watching Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo which was interesting to watch while doing homework (cause I didn't really need to pay attention). It was amusing and I admittingly did learn some interesting facts, all in all it's just amusing. Brainless humor. Not the best drama, not the worst. *shrug* You know.

eh.. what else? I guess that is it?

oh... I may or may not start translating random Arashi songs. I'm not sure if I'm gonna post them here. I started posting them up at my tumblr. The thing is my tumblr has morphed into some random blog that I just throw all my.... random "garbage thoughts" in. I like putting my song translations there though, but... hmm.. I dunno. Should I move them here too *contemplating*

all I've done is Arashi's Futari no Kinenbi and V6's Only Dreaming and a snippet of Snowflake though. ^^;; Maybe when I've done more?

Happy Birthday Ohno!

Happy Birthday Ohno!! I wish I could say more but it's snowing REALLY hard outside and i need to shovel the driveway before my dad gets home so he can actually drive into the garage.

but - Ohno, Happy Birthday.
30? 30? Seriously?
*shock*
You still look like a baby.
Haha.
I hope you never change.
Eat cake, go fishing, do whatever you want.
:)

My favourite old man.

Freeter Flail [MAJORLY LONG POST]

This is going to be a long, slightly emotional, and kind of random post that will go on very many different tangents but somehow all revolves around my love of Nino's drama, 「フリーター、家を買う」. So yeah. Honestly? This is mostly a personal post that only vaguely relates to Freeter to be honest. ^^;; But read away.

So, I just watched episode 4 of Freeter and... I cried. I don't cry for a lot of things. I rarely cry for anything. The last time I cried watching a drama was when I watched "One Litre of Tears" which was 2 years ago and I only cried one TISSUE. Not a box, not a package. One tissue, that's it. Nothing more. So i guess you can imagine how hard it is for me to cry and yet I cried watching Freeter. Episode 4. The minute Seiji said "Ore shika ha nai" and the tears just started flowing down my face and I couldn't stop them.

I really don't know what it was about this scene. Actually the entire episode I really felt like crying. Or I had the urge to. This entire drama is a roller coaster for me. My heart breaks in every episode as I watch Seiji struggle with his family's problems. This episode... watching Seiji break like that, I just couldn't help but start sobbing. I didn't even know WHY I was sobbing. I didn't feel sorry for him, I don't know, somehow.. I ... I empathsized with him even though I've never been in his situation before in my life. Maybe it's Nino's acting, I'm not sure but when I saw Seiji crying my entire heart just broke for him.

I love my mom. I really do. My mom is to me, like Seiji's mom was to him. She is my support. I'm not as FAIL as Seiji was, I mean I get straight A's and study hard and what not, but even then, I'm not the proud, confident, 'nerd' that most Straight A'ers are. And so I have my mom there to be my pole to lean on. She's there, every step of the way saying "you can do it, you're fine" she is the person that asks me "Are you okay? Can you handle it?". She is there to tell me when I can take a break, when it's okay for me to break down, when it's okay for me to take a step away and just... relax. And so seeing Seiji's mom like that, in such a depression. It breaks my heart. It really hurts me and as I watch Seiji struggle it hurts me more because i know, I KNOW, if that was me in that position, I would break. I would just crumble into pieces and fall apart. Especially if Seiji's dad was my dad.

Which brings me to another point. Seiji's dad. I hate him. I don't care what his excuse is, no matter what his problem is, or why he's being such a fucking ass hole, I don't CARE. I don't have a good relationship with my dad. Granted, my dad is actually a good dad, I just... don't get along with him. And my dad actually supports my mom. But seeing Seiji's dad makes my blood boil. Seeing him yell at Seiji, yell at Seiji's sister (who I can't remember the name off), seeing him yell at his WIFE who than has the KINDNESS TO PROTECT HIM just... OH MY GOD. That is half the reasno I wanted to cry. I wanted to cry from sheer ANGER at seeing this man on screen. I just wanted to reach in there and punch him, over and over, and over again until he realized what a RETARD and what a FAILURE of a HUMAN BEING he is. *rantsgrumbleswearkillssomeone*. Yeah. I don't have a good relationship with my dad, and my dad is nothing like this man but I just generally dont' like fathers and seeing a father like this just... ugh. I'm disugsted.

See? See how Freeter does this to me? How I can I NOT love a drama that envokes so much emotion in me? Normally I have as much emotion as a rock - ie - none. I have little empathy for anyone, and the emotional and understanding range of a teaspoon. You could say this is a mental problem but whatever. And yet, to have a drama like this drive me up the wall with anger, frustrating, annoyance, sadness, heartbreak, tears... T-T

and then to move on to just the whole theme the drama seems to be showing of SOCIAL PRESSURE IN JAPAN. Oh my god. I love this drama just for this reason. This is a brilliant theme to show because it's true. This is SO Japanese and Japanese people need to LEARN about how stiffling their social heirarchy is, not just on a business level but just on a regular "neighbourly" level. It's suffocating. It's terrible. You constantly have to be good to your neighbours, your relatives, the people around you, and if you're not your orstricized, rejected. This drama is no exaggeration and I honestly think that the fact that Japan has made a drama like this is just one LARGE step for the country and I'm so glad it's doing well and that people are SERIOUSLY watching this.

Freeter I think, is not only the best drama I've seen all year, but one of THE BEST dramas I've seen so far. And I know it's not done yet so I really shouldn't be saying this so fast (I mean, episode 4 - come on) but honestly... *wibbles*.

Why? T.T

aggh.. why does vox have to close? Albeit I wasn't as active on vox as I was on LJ but vox was the place to put my long fangirl schpiels and what not. *sigh*

This was honestly my fangirl blog. I may not have posted much (nor did I comment as much as I should have) but I still love this place regardless.

I will be moving to typepad though. Don't know how active I will but I guess more or less the same as vox. I don't want to lose all the posts I've made in this blog. They are all special to me... *sigh*

久しぶり～

So, aside from my review of Boku to Miteiru Fuukei... I haven't really done much on my vox since I left for Japan have I?... err.. ok - checking back I actually did post a lot more than I thought I did, but ANYWAYS.

and I feel bad. I was going through some old posts (mostly my majority of un-finished drama reviews ^^;;) and I felt like I should really start posting here again. All my fangirling stuff, my album/single/drama reviews and what not. I would love to review NatsuNiji but I think I'll do that when the drama ends because I have a love/hate relationship with that drama.

To sum it up - I was in Japan for a year on an exchange program and came back.. recently. About two weeks ago and have thus been.. kind of out of things. But my time in Japan was great. I didn't experience any Arashi concerts but being able to watch their TV shows on TV, live, every week is good enough. Being able to see them on M-Sta, Utaban and Heyx3 live without needing to wait for uploaders is awesome. I made lots of friends, ate lots of food and had lots of fun. It's an experience I will never forget (it was one year of my fricken life for god sakes) and I wish I didn't need to come home.

but I came back. And i promise I will be more active on my vox from now (or as active as I was before I left.. which was pretty active in my opinion.). I still update my LJ as much as possible, not garunteed daily anymore but as often as possible. And so all my fangirly things will likely appear on my vox. Which means I need to get my scanner going cause I need to scan in some fanart and show you the depressingly small amount of drawing I did in Japan (because I had no time whatsoever).

and I really need to fix my banner xD Nino isn't 26 years old anymore is he?

Anyways, as I said.. try to keep my fangirling here. I got rid of my Arashi-schedule and probably won't put it back up but I'm sure everyone in my neighbourhood will start seeing more of my posts.. every.. couple of weeks, at least once a month :)

久しぶり (_ _)

oh my gosh it's been so long since my last post >_<
waah..
things just suddenly built up.
I'm in Tokyo right now.
yes.
Tokyo

but I can't go to the countdown. No tickets.

I went to the dome and bought a beautiful, beautiful Arashi uchiwa though. ^_^ I would watch Kouhaku but the family I'm staying with (my aunt) is watching something else (some "unbelievable" SP - someone please tell me what it is?) so I can't. They sort of flip to it on and off. I'm not about to ask to watch because I'm the only one interested and it's kind of selfish after already intruding in unexpectedly into their home. I don't really know my aunts family despite them being my cousins and so on. They are quite distant relatives being all the way in Japan when I live in Canada.

I will watch the Johnny's Countdown though :) Or again, I'll try.

But I find that if young Japanese people know Johnny's and aren't fans they generally don't really like Johnny's. Or maybe it's just the people I am around. I don't mind, just a simple observation.

anyways. It's probably rude of me to use my laptop when the rest of the people are still eating so.. should go. 

Quick Celebration

Okay first - Mao on Shukudai was highly amusing and LOL at the ice-cream =P Oh Aiba, never change please? Surprisingly Riida was very stiff that day o_o Less stiff than Sho?!

now to my actual point. This was only mock but I got 81% on level 4 of the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). *dances*

I could've gotten higher, there were some stupid mistakes I made (we got our tests back so I could check) but I'm still happy. I've only been in Japan a month and the first time I took the test (a month ago) I got 60% - barely passed.

1/2 a concert experience

I'm in Fukuoka right now and as you all may know - Arashi just had their concert in Fukuoka. I couldn't get tickets but I went with my friend to Fukuoka Dome anyways and ahh...

Even though we didn't see the concert I still felt so excited and so happy just to stand outside. I did buy stuff - two uchiwas (Jun and Nino) and a big poster of all the members. The posters are actually really big and...

I felt sad when we had to leave though. When me and my friend walked towards the dome we were almost running but as we walked away we were basically dragging our feet cause neither of us wanted to leave. We stayed for about 3 hours though - we got there are 3 and waited until 6 (when the concert started) before we decided to go.

It was sad but in a way we had our own fun. Just standing outside, lining up for goods and seeing a ton of fangirls can be a great experience just by itself. I hope next year I can actually see the boys though.

INOUE MAO X ARASHI

Okay. First, Mao goes on Himitsu no Arashi chan.

and now?

Mao goes on Arashi no Shukudai-kun.

For me this is like a crazy dream come true. I am so excited. I would love to watch.. except.. for the fact that my curfew is at 11:30pm and thus I can't leave my room and watch TV. *sobs*

but I am so excited, oh god, oh god, oh god. The world is wonderful. I will definitely watch Mao on Himitsu. ^_^

Japan is awesome - Orange Jelly in a can? Genious. I will be buying Arashi's Time + One Album and their Iza Now! Con DVD soon. Hearing Arashi blasting in HMV is the best!

and that is my quick update for the week (I think?) bye bye

Checking In

hi hi.

Since I'm traveling Japan with my family at the moment (I don't have to go to Fukuoka for school until Aug30) and my hotel has free internet I decided to do a quick post so no one thinks I died or anything =P

Japan is pretty awesome. Since Arashi is doing concert rehearsals (or something like that) right now I didn't really see much of their stuff on the street. I saw some AU ads though (there is one outside my hotel). I'm not in Tokyo by the way, I'm in Sapporo. ^_^ It's really cool.

I got to see Himitsu no Arashi-chan on TV on Thursday. Totally awesome xD *cheers* I also managed to buy the 5x10 album - Regular Edition only sadly, but hey! I was so excited hearing Arashi being blasted through speakers out onto the streets I swear I went braindead for a second and just spazzed.

So I'm having fun. I see Arashi every so often on the TV because of CM's.

I have to go eat now - but I'll try and do a post next week before school starts hopefully!

Off to Japan

Tomorrow at 12 noon I will be boarding a plane to Tokyo. For on year (11 months to be exact) I will be studying in Fukuoka, Japan. (NOT TOKYO).

I will not have a steady internet connection so I will probably only be able to go on, at least, once a week. Hopefully more but I am not sure. This means, obviously, that posting and commenting on vox will be less and less. I will try and update a bit about my trip just to show people that I am alive.

I will NOT be staying in Tokyo and I only have a limited budget (I am an exchange student) so please don't ask to buy anything. When I become fluent in Japanese I might start translating magazine articles or short segments of Arashi's TV shows but if you want that to happen you're going to have to wait a while (probably until Summer 2010 ^^;;). \\

I hope I have fun and hopefully when I come back I will be able to contribute more to the Arashi fandom =D

Random Update

I just watched Letters from Iwo Jima (I know, I'm slow ^^'') and I liked it. 

The ending made me feel sad... 

Nino did a great job acting. *nods* He totally seemed like a Hollywood actor. (am I being biased here..? o_o;;)

I wish I could write a review but I don't have much time these days!

Current Arashi songs I'm addicted to - ROMANCE (One Album) and Everything. I really wish they would release the ONE concert onto a DVD xD 

I'm really looking forward to July 19th because Nino will be on Shounen Club Premium *cheers*

Just as a warning, my posts will become less and less. During mid-August I will be going to Japan for ONE YEAR and I won't have a constant internet connection so I am sorry if I do not update. I will try (because computers are my DRUG) but this is just a warning before hand. ^^''

Happy New Years

Ｈａｐｐｙ　Ｎｅｗ Ｙｅａｒｓ！
あけましておめでとうございます！
ｍ(＿＿)ｍ

It's been a wonderful 2009 and I'm so glad I found out about Arashi (^_^)
They really made this year a lot more enjoyable!
I really can't wait for more Arashi stuff next year
and...
When I got to Japan for school~!

皆さんホントにありがとうございました！
これからもがんばって！

Vacation + Hong Kong = ARASHI?!

Hi, hi, just wanted to say I am away on a trip in HK and thus am unable to update my vox, except for this small post.

 

I am quite excited about being in HK although a bit sad that I can not watch videos or download any videos or new songs coming out although I am not deprived of news because I do have a laptop and free wireless but sadly, not much time to use it because I'm always out.

 

One thing I am INCREDIBALLY happy about...because ARASHI is popular around Asia, I get to buy their stuff...but, I think they are too popular cause their is such little stock of their stuff. (I'm talking about in big official music stores like HMV) I did manage to get the TIME DVD and their Dream A Live album but that was it. I want to get the Time album to but can't seem to find it.

 

Best thing of all though - my hotel room has a dvd player which is free. YEP! That means virtually every night I've been watching the Time Con (well a bit of it... since I normally get back to the hotel dead tired at 11:30-ish PM). Oh well, just having a copy of the DVD and being able to watch it while in HK makes me incredibally happy.

 

I can't wait to return to my home though because I have MANY Arashi related things to download...I still have another 2 weeks to go - now returning on August 3rd - so I'll just have to wait. I really wish I could watch MAOU but the crappy wireless sucks and I can't even watch 30 second long videos properly without it taking ages to load. Ah...must be optimistic.

 

I'll update another time when I am able to...Ja ne!