Well, well, well...I've been watching so many episodes of TFP2! I think I need to take a break from it before I get sick of it. :P Anyway, I found more TFP2 episodes and I've added them to my original list. New ones have a new icon beside it's name. Finally, the RESCUE episode is subbed!

List of TFP2 episodes

I just finished watching the EXILE on TFP2 special. Seriously, toooooooo long! It's probably about 3 hours long if you skip the CMs. It's sad that the quality isn't that good but I can't download the HQ one from Gachapin clubbox. But they were super serious about the show to the point where they even had special training practices for it. XD And they even custom made EXILE x TFP2 outfits which was super cool. And I thought the Hanadan episodes was quite extravagant. EXILE far exceeds them. :P

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My first encounter with Tokyo Friend Park 2 (TFP2) is probably when Yamapi went on the show to promote the Kurosagi movie. Ever since then, my heart always leap in glee when I see announcements of drama casts on TFP2. Anyway, I went on a TFP2 hunt today and managed to find some episodes. Then I thought for TFP2 lovers like me, why not create a list linking to where the episodes can be downloaded. So here's the list! If anyone knows where to download other episodes, raw or subbed, let me know and I'll add it in. :)

Notes:
- Unless stated, qualiy of the video is of normal quality.
- Some links might lead to locked posts but don't ask me to upload them here because I don't have permission to.


Name: Arashi
Date: 31.03.2008
Participants: All members of Arashi
Download: Subbed Part 1 | Subbed Part 2 | Raw


Name: Bloody Monday
Date: 20.10.2008
Participants: Miura Haruma, Sato Takeru, Kichise Michiko
Download: Raw 1 | Raw 2


Name: Daikessen! Super Ultra 8 Kyoudai
Date: 15.09.2008
Participants: Nagano Hiroshi (V6), Igarashi Shunji, Yoshimoto Takami
Download: Raw


Name: EXILE Special
Date: 02.04.2009
Participants: 14 members of EXILE
Download: LQ Raw


Name: Hana Yori Dango Returns
Date: 25.12.2006
Participants: Matsumoto Jun (Arashi), Inoue Mao, Oguri Shun, Matsuda Shota, Abe Tsuyoshi
Download: Subbed Part 1 | Subbed Part 2


Name: Hana Yori Dango Final
Date: 23.06.2008
Participants: Matsumoto Jun (Arashi), Inoue Mao, Oguri Shun, Abe Tsuyoshi
Download: Subbed | Raw


Name: Kisarazu Cat's Eye World Series
Date: 23.10.2006
Participants: Okada Junichi (V6), Sakurai Sho (Arashi), Okada Yoshinori, Sato Ryuta, Tsukamoto Takashi
Download: Raw 1 | Raw 2


Name: Kurosagi Movie
Date: 03.03.2008
Participants: Yamashita Tomohisa (NEWS), Aikawa Sho
Download: Raw | Subbed


Name: Love Shuffle
Date: 12.01.2009
Participants: DAIGO, Karina, Yoshitaka Yuriko
Download: Raw | Raw 2


Name: Maou
Date: 30.06.2008
Participants: Ohno Satoshi (Arashi), Ikuta Toma (Johnny's Jr.)
Download: Subbed | Raw


Name: MR. BRAIN
Date: 25.05.2009
Participants: Mizushima Hiro, Ayase Haruka, Shitara Osamu
Download: Raw


Name: Nada Sou Sou
Date: 25.09.2006
Participants: Tsumabuki Satoshi, Nagasawa Masami, Tsukamoto Takashi
Download: Raw


Name: RESCUE
Date: 19.01.2009
Participants: Nakamaru Yuichi (KAT-TUN), Masuda Takahisa (NEWS), Yamamoto Yusuke, Daito Shunsuke
Download: MQ Raw | HQ Raw | Subbed


Name: ROOKIES
Date: 14.04.2008
Participants: Sato Ryuta, all 10 members of the baseball team
Download: Raw


Name: ROOKIES
Date: 21.07.2008
Participants: Sato Ryuta, Sato Takeru, Kiritani Kenta, Kawamura Yousuke, Murakawa Eri
Download: Raw


Name: Ryusei no Kizuna
Date: 06.10.2008
Participants: Ninomiya Kazunari (Arashi), Nishikido Ryo (NEWS), Toda Erika, Kaname Jun, Shitara Osamu
Download: Subbed Part 1 | Raw Ver. 1 | Raw Ver. 2


Name: Sasaki Fusai
Date: 21.01.2008
Participants: Inagaki Goro (SMAP), Koide Keisuke, Sakai Wakana
Download: Raw


Name: Satomi Hakkenden
Date: 02.01.2006
Participants: Takizawa Hideaki (Tackey & Tsubasa), Sato Ryuta, Ozawa Yukiyoshi, Shouei, Yamada Yuu, Katsuji Ryo, Yamashita Shoon
Download: Raw


Name: Smile
Date: 23.04.2009
Participants: Matsumoto Jun (Arashi), Koike Eiko, Katsumura Masanobu
Download: Raw


Name: Tohoshinki
Date: 25.06.2009
Participants: Tohoshinki AKA Dong Bang Shin Ki
Download: Opening Subbed | Show Subbed | Ver. 2 Subbed


Name: Utahime
Date: 08.10.2007
Participants: Nagase Tomoya (TOKIO), Ohkura Tadayoshi (Kanjani8), Aibu Saki
Download: Raw


Name: Yamada Taro Monogatari
Date: 02.07.2007
Participants: Ninomiya Kazunari (Arashi), Sakurai Sho
Download: Subbed

I'm in the midst of watching the 2008 24 Hour TV hosted by Arashi. Yabai, I'm definitely going to be shedding some tears when I watch this year's one. I'm very weak when it comes to such things.

I can't help but compare it to the usual charity shows we have in Singapore. Now, I like 24 Hr TV more than the ones we have because I think it's more meaningful. If I remember correctly, the charity shows we have usually have local celebrities participating in various games in the studio and both local as well as regional singers singing. Of course, there's also the videos on people who have disabilities and how they overcome them. What makes 24 Hr TV more meaningful in my opinion is that the games or challenges they participate in are highly related to the theme of the year, encouraging yet fun. It's been years since I've watched a local charity show but what I strongly remember is some famous local celebrity walking across a balance beam suspended in mid air at a very high height or something along that line. It definitely drew in quite a large amount of donations but when I think back about it now, I don't see how the act would encourage people with disabilities or how was it fun.

In short, I think that 24 Hr TV doesn't try to purposely make the charity event very sad and get people to sympathize that one time and donate money but rather they aim to encourage people with disabilities to try their best as well as encourage the general public to help them in various ways in their everyday life.

I hope my relative will be able to help me buy the 24 Hr TV T-shirts. So far 2 people has organized a pre-order but it's a bit on the expensive side. I can't really decide which colour to buy though. The grey one is too dull, the pink is too pink and the yellow is too bright. If only the clouds part of the design has more colour or takes up more space. The colour of the shirt would then not be so outstanding. For now, pink is winning. :P

I am so in love with the song Friend by TOP and Tae Yang!!! The more I listen to it (currently on repeat mode), the more I love it. And TOP actually sings and not just raps! :P Download it HERE! Unfortunately you have to be a member of the community...

I finally watched Big Bang's My Heaven MV in promotion of their Japanese single. I thought GD looked hot! But only when he tied up his hair. When he lets it down, it's beyond awful! (>___<) When he ties it up, it made him look more feminine and I can totally imagine him in the K-movie Antique. :P

I watched episodes 3 and 4 of the drama special Ketsuekigata Betsu Onna ga Kekkon Suru Houhou and currently downloading episode 2 but I might never finish downloading because there's only 4 seeders so it's going sooooo slow. But I'm dying to watch episode 2 because it's about B blood type and I'm B! I'm really curious to see if the characteristics they list is true for me. :P Because of this, I went and checked Aiba's blood type and was surprised to see he'a AB. What surprised me even more was MatsuJun isn't AB like I've always thought but he's A. I often hear Arashi members say MatsuJun's the tsundere type on shows and I've always thought of AB's as the tsundere type because they flop between personalities of A and B. I wonder if my assumption is wrong...

I'm watching Yamada Taro Monogatari and it's so funny! But uwah! The girl who's so intent on marrying a rich guy is super irritating. Her fantasy scenes are one too many until it got irritating and her refusing to accept the fact that Yamada is very poor irks the shit out of me. I hope she doesn't end up together with him.

Btw I'm actually back home in Singapore now. ^^ My mum knew I wanted to go home but didn't think it was worth paying the airplane tickets but on Tuesday, she and my sister-in-law called me around 2pm and asked if I wanted to go home but fly budget airline. Since my mum said it was ok for me to come home, I decided to do so! The climax of this is that I actually flew home on Tuesday night itself! Yes, I booked the tickets at 3pm and quickly packed my luggage and reached the airport at 10pm for my flight. It's the very first time I've made such a last minute plan for any sort of holidays and I doubt it'll ever be superseded in the future. :P

So now I'm on a mission to mass download dramas and everything else! Thank goodness I still had my free 1 month premium membership for Megaupload.

The very first thing I downloaded was Arashi's "Arashi Around Asia 2008" DVD. It's definitely on my must-buy list now! Of all the solos, I love Aiba's the most! No biasness, really. I just didn't like the other solo's songs that much. Well, except Niji but I've heard it before already so that doesn't really count. And of course it had Still... which is one of my favourite Arashi songs.

On the topic of Arashi, they finally announced their plans for their 10th anniversary. A longer stint at Kokuritsu plus 5 Dome tour huh. I'm surprised they didn't throw in a tour of Asia too. That would have been the ultimate 10th anniversary tour since it consists of everything amazing. :P Oh, I was surprised they weren't taking the new year time slot too! Makes me really wonder who it'll be this year. Perhaps they'll just go back to KinKi Kids. I would really love to buy their best collection album but totally can't since I have no savings. I did thought if I could pay for it with my Australian bank account and eat just instant noodles and plain rice with soy sauce for 2-3 weeks but I can't see that happening. I rather use that money for concert goods and NEWS's DVD if they have one. Working with my relative who's living in Japan to take orders for Arashi's concert probably won't work out like this time's KAT-TUN's tour since he seems really busy. Maybe I'll just ask him for a favour and buy just goods for me and if he wants to buy extra, I'll help him sell them.

All this worries about money could have been solved if I had worked way harder this semester and pass all of my units so I just need to take 2 units next semester and can get a part-time job. But me being me had this plan but in the end became lazy and ruined the plan. Haiz...

I wonder what lies ahead in my future. Do I even have one.

P.S.: Man, why isn't there any place that has Love Shuffle HD uploaded. :(

Yay. Yamapi has an upcoming drama for summer. His second Gekku drama too! I hope the ratings won't be too disappointing. But hmmm...basketball, I don't really watch Bball but at least it has lots of action so not as boring as soccer or golf. And salaryman! I really hope he changes his hairstyle to a short black one like those Tsubasa used to have. Anything but curls, really.

I wonder if NEWS will appear on Oshareism because of 24 HR TV because I noticed that Arashi members as well as T&T appeared on Oshareism whenever they were hosts for 24 HR TV. I hope they will give every member their own slot!

I'm starting to understand how easy it is to peel yourself away from fandom. After not having internet access to check my friends-page everyday for updates and being lazy to go school just to use internet, I didn't really cared about keeping up to date with fandom. But in the end, I still browsed the main communities of NEWS, Arashi, Big Bang and Ayaka.

Ayaka on Domoto Brothers is finally subbed! I'm soooooo glad I nominated her episode when the FS who subbed it asked for nominations. My one wish now is that she'll appear in AnS!!! What's more awesome than 2 of my favs working together. :D I want them to play games in Ailand too!

Big Bang's new song for the Cafe Latte CM is awesome! I wonder what it's called. I heard a preview of My Heaven sung in Japanese too at some press conference. Totally sounds like Korean to me during the rap! I only managed to catch some Japanese near the end. And god, GD's hair is awful!

I love the flower mosaic made up of lots of photos in Arashi's Ashita no Kioku PV. Very pretty. It's so Ohno-ish. Aiba looks good as expected. The way he sat on the chair hugging his legs reminded me of L in Deathnote. :P

The weather has been awful for the past 2 days. It's been raining cats and dogs every now and then and the wind is so strong, the huge dustbins outside my house kept being blown over. Despite the weather, me, Mag, Fayth and Nick still went and had dinner at Ipoh Restaurant yesterday. We weathered the rain, wind and cold all to try the sticky date pudding which wasn't mind-blowing yummy. The sauce is delicious though.

After no internet for just 1.5 days, I had to skip 160 entries on my f-page just to catch up. 0____0 I wonder how far back I would have to go if I went on a 1 week holiday.

Anyway, one of the posts I spent ages loading was the latest je_secrets secrets post. I rarely comment but enjoy reading the secrets for the laughs. Well, the last one was about a Youtube video where Nino ranked the members of Arashi in an episode of Himitsu no Arashi-chan. Nino was so mean to Aiba! My poor Aiba...but hey, it's all in the name of fun. But watching that clip made me miss watching Arashi's shows so much. I've at least watched 80% of all videos I have twice. I counted and I just need to endure the next 7 months without unlimited internet. It's just half a year, right. I know I can do that. Maybe I should write that on a slip of paper and paste it in front of my desk to drum it into my head. :P

Another issue in the secrets post I did comment on was about how it's not common practice for NEWS to have any sort of videos with the LE singles/albums with the implication that it's sneaky of them to do so this time. At least, that's how I interpret the comments there. But any common practice has to have a start somewhere, right. Arashi didn't had PVs or whatever right from their very first single. So if the bonus video thing happend for the next few NEWS singles/albums, it would become a common practice, no? It's a bit sad how people can't just stay in their fandom and not critize other fandoms. Sure, I don't like KAT-TUN but I don't go around bashing them or critizing them or even saying bad stuff about them to my friends who likes KAT-TUN.

But one thing I've learned from fandom is to ignore things I dislike oh and to keep my own opinions on my LJ.

WTF!!! I TYPED A WHOLE LOT ABOUT KOI NO ABO'S SALES AND HOW MUCH I LOVE THE DVD AND IT'S ALL GONE BECAUSE OF STUPID LJ!

Hmph!!!

I'm lazy to retype everything again. :(

Basically, bonus DVD that came with the LE of Koi no ABO totally helped boost sales as evidently seen from the first day sales here. That's because pre-order sales are counted on the first day and LE is obviously not really available after the first day. And the RE doesn't seem to be selling as well as the previous few singles because the sales from the third day onwards is lesser than the previous singles seen here. But it's one of their better selling singles so I'm happy.

As for the actual single, love the entire thing! I love Labyrinth! Love the DVD of course! I was more excited than usual when watching it because I was there too. I think concert going is quite addictive. From watching the DVD, I fell in love with GAN GAN GANBATTE. Enough to make me romanize the short chorus at the beginning myself, memorise that chorus AND memorise the furitsuke! My favourite action is the one where they look like they're spreading butter on toast. :P

Pictures of Koi no ABO single on Facebook

Dramas. Haven't watch any dramas for this season. :( Watched My Boss, My Hero and loved it. Matsuda Shota looks hot in Jotei! Tiger & Dragon was a little weird but I was quite interested in hearing the rakugo stories.

Because my laptop decided to go on strike and refuse to load any pages despite it saying I'm connected to the wireless network, I finished playing 3 games which I had downloaded aeons ago. The full game with cracks of course which is illegal. Magic Ball 3 is awesome as expected! I showed Mag a tiny bit only and she was hooked. But she only wants it during the holidays. :P 360 Paris Travelogue (something like that) was quite fun. The function that allows you to zoom in really saved my eyes but only for it to be destroyed when I played Magic Academy. It's a find the difference/find the items game so I almost went blind playing it. Quite a nice game though if you like such genre of games.

Last week I think, I finally chatted with Bernice online after so many months. Turned out, she's got into the programme and will be studying in Tokyo for a year come this Oct. I'm happy for her! We were chatting about how I should go visit her and I do want to visit her over the Christmas and New Year this year! But I doubt I'll have money for that. The next option would be to visit her in March 2010 during Golden Week where she'll be free plus sakuras are in bloom! Apparently her Uni has a road that has sakura trees planted along both sides. Sounds pretty.

NEWS will probably have a winter concert though. If they do and I can scrape together some money, maybe I'll make a short trip there. But a spring concert in 2010 would be perfect! I could then visit Bernice, see sakura blossoms AND attend NEWS concerts. :D Then there is also the option to travel around Japan with her after Oct 2010 as she would have finished school there and has 5 months of free time. That would be just awesome!

Well, that's just all talk. I want to make them happen though so gotta hang in there for now.

I've been working on my 101 list too. For the month of May, I'm going to drink a cup of green tea everyday and jog on the spot in my room for 1 hour twice a week. Green tea thing is easy but jogging is tougher. I motivate myself by jogging while watching concert DVDs. :P

OMGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

NEWS! 24 HR Terebi!!!

YATTA!

People can no longer say it's a rumour made up by jealous NEWS fans!

Man, I could barely keep up with fandom stuff after having no internet for about 2 days. Which also meant I couldn't download a lot of things. Stupid laptop decided to not work even though I could connect to my neighbour's wireless network. I have like the full episode of Music Station, Quiz Show, Maki's drama, NEWS on HEYx3, Arashi on Utaban and probably more that I can't keep track of to download.

I did however manage to download the HQ version of Koi no ABO performance on MS before my laptop went on strike. It was surprising how they went with the crazier outfits and hairstyles but I like! But the fans waving the alphabet balloons in the air ruined everything. :( I could barely see NEWS whenever they zoom out. Cute balloons but blocked everything. I hope this will not happen again in this friday's MS.

Managed to download the raws of Ikemen Sobaya Tantei and LOVE GAME too. The synopsis for Sobaya seemed nice but the show was a huge disappointment. I skimped through the first 2 episodes and thought it was very boring. There wasn't even good soba cooking/eating scenes! LOVE GAME was quite nice though although the vibe from the drama is very familiar. Felt like I've seen a drama with the same theme somewhere. It's a pity no one's subbing it. Boo!

My mum sent me a package and I received it last Thursday. In it was the onigiri and nigiri sushi mould I had bought in Japan. I tried the onigiri mould a few days later and it rocks! I now can have perfectly shaped onigiris! ♥

HMV emailed me informing me that they had shipped out my Koi no ABO single yesterday! YAY! One day earlier than normal. Hopefully it'll reach me by friday otherwise like always I'll have to wait till monday.

P.S.: I can't wait to watch Angels & Demons and the Harry Potter movie in the theaters! ♥

Anyone missed me? XDD Finally I'm in school and can update my LJ. Actually, the only reason I'm stuck in school updating my LJ is because I came for a group meeting very late and by the time I reached, they had already finished discussing and I can't go back home because it's raining now. Silver lining of the cloud? :D


( YOU-tachi, nani gata? B! )


( Kimi no Happy Basu-day )


( Party Time, Party High! )


( Anime Club @ Uni )


Alright, rain has stopped and I think the post is long enough! My must watch dramas for Spring season is Sho's Quiz Show and Maki's drama. Want to check out LOVE GAME too but so far nobody is subbing it. Have a great weekend!

Ayaka and Mizushima Hiro are married?!

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

That's my reaction when I read about this. It's like it came out of no where! I'm still in shock over this news. My first thought was Ayaka is still young in my opinion which is why I'm quite shocked about it. I can't imagine myself getting married at 21. Well, I'm now no longer 21. :P But definitely, I'm happy for Ayaka. I just hope she doesn't become a full time housewife. It's such a waste of her talent.

KOI NO ABO!!!!!

The freaking dance! AWESOME! The dance during the chorus made me laughed really hard. XDDDD The finger pointing part! Makes me wanna do the stupid action too. :P But hmm the part where NEWS walks around the club reminds me of KAT-TUN's Don't U Ever Stop PV. Just a nuttier version. But I was totally right. Keyword was HOST. 8D I can't wait to watch the full PV now! OH! And YOU-tachi! HAHAHAHA.

**EDIT**

More to add on about the PV. I wonder if NEWS will be on HEYx3 and if so, will Downtown point out their usage of YOU-tachi in the PV since they love to poke fun at that phrase. The longer preview in Zoom In makes me want to watch the PV more! It has Yamapi slapping his lovely ass! XDDD The chorus dance is sooooo easy to learn too! I can imagine doing the actions during concerts. :P I was humming the chorus in the shower. XDD

I finally can use internet at home! Illegally though. Shh...I'm actually riding on my neighbour's wireless internet. How I know the password is because the owner of my house and theirs is the same and their internet is set up already so it's a no brainer that the password is almost similar to ours. I feel a bit bad but I swear to just use it for surfing internet. I hope my internet will be done by this week.

Anyway I recently realized that it's going to be Yamapi's birthday soon when I watched the fancam of NEWS's 2006 concert on his birthday. I suddenly had a crazy idea to send a card to him. So my plan is to bake a brownie cake, write 'Happy Birthday' on it, take a photo of it, print it out, write a short message in Japanese on the reverse, laminate it and mail it to him! Hopefully he'll receive it and not be weird out by it. :/

Just wondering, anyone can confirm if the address below is correct?

(member's name)
Johnny's Family Club
Miyamasu Tower B1F
1-10-10 Shibuya
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8550

I saw a poster advertising an anime marathon and J-movie marathon organized by the Anime Club in my Uni. On different days of course! I'm definitely going for both, even if I'm alone cuz I'm interested in watching the movie Sky Crawlers for the anime marathon. And for the movie marathon, they'll be screening Kurosagi! Of course I'm actually not that interested in the movie but seeing Yamapi on a big screen is enough reason for me to sit through it. Another reason is Ichihara Hayato! They'll be screening his movie, Negative Chain Saw Edge too. I loaded the trailer for it cuz it looked like it might be a horror movie which I hate but from what I see, doesn't seem like it's going to be scary. I can't wait for both events! I hope there won't be like weird otakus in the club. (^^;)

Oh! I almost forgot! For Yamapi's brownie cake, I'm actually looking for a chewy type of brownie recipe. I tried the Jamie Oliver recipe but it turned out to be a cake type of brownie. It's yummy but my favourite is still the chewy type. Here comes the million dollar question...

Does anyone has a recipe for yummy chewy brownies?

So I finally got my wish. NEWS is getting a bonus DVD with their upcoming single. Of course I'm buying it. Just need to wait for HMV to have it up for pre-order. I really need to get a job next semester because I want to buy Arashi's AAA 2008 DVD (unless the contents is really boring), Time DVD (Aiba's Friendship perf. Nuff said.) and NEWS Diamond Con DVD. Johnny better release a DVD for it or I'll gladly fly to Japan and participate in a strike outside the Jimusho. I wonder if the first week sales for the new single will be much higher than their usual because of the DVD. If I had the money, I would buy maybe 3 copies to make a statement to JE that having a bonus DVD sells. But I don't. Too bad.

NEWS color album promotional wine glass set. (click) So pretty but WTF US$120! That's really daylight robbery. I wish I never saw that post now. What exactly is that though. Is it an official item or what? Hmm...

Daelite's translation of Yamapi's sad comment in Myojo. (click) Though it's harsh but I can't say I blame those original NEWS fans that left. It's human nature that people get bored when there's nothing new. It's naive of Yamapi to think that everyone who supported them when they debut would still be around now. People change, grow older and move on. This doesn't just happen to NEWS. Any other celeb or group has such things happen to them too. But what he said is right. All they can do now is to become better and win back those fans that have left. It's sad how he wants to do more but is being limited by whoever.

But guess what, I'm sick of complaining about such stuff. I'll just take what's given and continue enjoying my DVDs. Since we don't have any say in such matters.

Alright, I'm sick of posting. Somethings wrong with me. I'm even sick of eating dinner now and I'm starving cuz I ate Dorito chips for lunch only. Bad.

It's been what, more than 2 weeks since I last updated my LJ. Reason for that being there still isn't any internet in my house. It was supposed to be up last week but the internet company messed up and till now it's still not available. Boo! Of course, that doesn't mean I survived all this time without internet. I've been going to uni almost everyday to use the computers and internet but with a limit of 200MB per month (already exceeded my limit for March), I couldn't download anything at all. So I continued my drama watching.

1. Dramas, movies and specials

I scare myself how I can finish an entire series in at least 1 day. I can't really remember what I had to say about all I've watched but here are some of the highlights which I remembered. The movies Rainbow Song and Tengoku no Honya is gorgeous! Ichihara Hayato looks so good and Ueno Juri is so pretty in Rainbow Song! I think that Ueno Juri is one of the best actresses among the younger crowd. The piano piece, Eien, in Tengoku no Honya is soooooo nice!!! If anyone manage to find it, send it my way, please! I had an overload of Karina as I had watched the first 2 episodes of Love Shuffle followed by MatsuJun's SP Myuu no Anyo, Papa ni Ageru and then Tengoku which had her as well. Finished the Kdrama, I Love Sam, which has TOP yesterday. It's been so long since I watched a Kdrama and the main actresses is sooo cute! I watched the first 6 episodes of Boys Before Flowers too since I was in the mood for some Kdrama. It's quite a nice drama if you think of it as a new drama and not a HYD adaptation. The houses, school and clothes are sooooo gorgeous! The korean version definitely wins hands down in this department. But Jun Pyo's (Doumyoji) curly hair is awful!!! It's like a victorian perm gone wrong. Among the korean cast, I think Kim Bum is the best looking. No surprises there. Aight. Enough BBF talk. Or dramas for that matter.

2. New house and the extras that comes with it

Like mentioned, I finally found a house almost right before school started. I'm paying $175 per week for rent plus $10 per week for utilities and another $10 per week for a cleaner who cleans the common areas once per week including our bathrooms once per month. Yeps, almost $200 per week! Bloody expensive! But I'm a little glad we took this place as it's just beside my uni and it's a gorgeous and brand new house. Thinking back, I can't imagine myself living in the more run down houses we had previously viewed. To see pictures of my new house, check my facebook album here.

The extras that comes with staying outside of campus accommodation is that my previous flat mate, Fayth (or Hui Li which is what we've decided to call her as of now for fun) has a car. It's a small and cute blue car. Ever since she got the car, we've been having outside food for dinner more often. Like on Thurs or Fri, she craved the honey chicken at the Ambassador Chinese Restaurant just opposite the housing agent office so we drove there for take out. And on Sun, we had Vietnamese food at Viet Hall with my previous flat mate, Zoe and her friend. Then Mon we had KFC and yesterday we had pizza at Ciao Italia which was worth every penny! I had the smoke salmon pizza and it tastes fantastic! I have to bring my family there for a meal when they come over.

Also, new house mates. It's a 6 bedrooms shared house. Aurelie (O-re-li) and Gristy are from Mauritius and Leila is chinese-arabic from Malaysia who likes her Kdramas too. 3 of us shared a couple of drinks with Aurelie and Gristy last week after their house-warming party ended. They're all ok house mates which is a relief! :P

3. 101 list

So I've started on my 101 list. I started with learning how to fold a chopstick rest using the paper slip from disposable chopsticks. I was looking to learn the simple one but somehow only managed to find only the fishbone rest. I can say I've mastered it already! And last week I started on the eat a Vitamin C tablet everyday for a month and have been keeping to it. The problem is I won't have enough Vit C tablets. XD Must remember to buy more the next time I'm at Coles. And on Mon, I started on the do 300 sit-ups everyday for a month. After doing just 60, I decided to change to the easier but still quite effective crunches. :P Which is why my stomach is aching now. I'm down with the sniffles and coughs now too so everytime I cough, my abs hurts! And today is only day 3 but I'll do my best!

4. Fandom

Nothing new with NEWS still except for a rumoured single in April which is ages away! I said that I would definitely buy the next Arashi concert DVD but looks like it's gonna take a while. It's only 2 discs but more expensive than NEWS one and it's not Dream A Live which is a minus as I love the DAL caterpillar. Plus let's admit, I'm not that big an Arashi fan yet. So I've decided to wait it out and see if it's worth buying the DVD. Good thing there isn't a LE-RE thing with it. Ayaka has an upcoming single which sounds awesome but I'm not that big on her to the point where I'll buy singles. Oh! Calendars! I've seen a couple of pictures from the Arashi one. Aiba! Sho! Sho!!! I'm no Sho fan but that picture, boy oh boy! He has been getting some lessons in pole dancing! So far, I've only seen Arashi's. Boo! I wanna see NEWS ones and see if I can bear to part my money and buy theirs. Doubt it though as I'm gonna be really tight this year with the crazy rent.

Well, that's about all I have to update. I'm itching to spend my moolah on something I really want and being over the moon when I receive it in the mail.

Sheesh, house hunting sucks. Especially when you're pressed for time. I've spent AUD $770 and 10 days to date and still do not have a roof over my head. Really regret not taking the one at Fitzpatrick Street now. Could have saved a whole lot of money if we had took that one. Now, we're only left with 3 options. It's really do or die as even if we apply for all those places, there's no gurantee we'll get the house too as there will be other people applying for the houses too. If all of them fall through, I really would have to sleep on the streets. ): Whatever.

I finished watching the drama Brother Beat yesterday night over 2 days. It's an awesome drama! I highly recommend it! Lots of eye candy and good plot. It's about a single mother with 3 adult sons who are all ikemen might I mention and how they cope with life with lots of punches thrown in. Punches out of love for each other of course. ^^ The robot from Zettai Kareshi is the second brother who's a bum and the dumb guy with a smart twin brother in Dragon Zakura is the youngest brother. The single mum is Miki's mother from 14 Sai no Haha. The eldest son kinda resembles Miura Haruma to me. Just a little though. I think it's the jaw. :P

I love seeing how each family member takes turns to overcome their weaknesses and find love in the process. Not one of them is neglected and given almost no situations to be in. The flow of the drama is smooth and at a good pace too. Oh, and funny of course! I love seeing them brothers have a go at each other as I used to always physically fight with my older brother for fun. XD

Two thumbs up for Brother Beat!

( More drama ramblings )

Today I watched the news on TV. It's sad that all of them were bad news. There's the bushfires in Victoria which turns out to be arson which has caused lots of people's deaths and loss of houses. Also a guy was attacked by a shark when surfing on Bondi Beach and it was just shallow waters. One of the worst ways to die in my opinion is to be attacked by a shark. I've always had nightmares about sharks or scary huge fish slowly chasing after me while I try ridiculous ways to back away from it. Shall eat more sharksfin. :/ There's also a 13 year old boy who became a dad and his girlfriend is only 15. Times like this, I think the song 'Dear God' by Tao Ze is very appropriate. Really, what is the world becoming to.

Random things. The new computer area in my school's library is super cool. The computers are mad cool and it feels like a lounge. Today, I discovered that the screens of one of the new type of computers can be rotate from landscape to potrait way. Super cool!!! The screen in the first place is huge! 1920 x 1200! So when I rotated the screen, it was so shiok! My chat window became so long, I don't need to scroll up to see what was said previously. My list of dramas I've watched made me feel like I've really watched alot as I could see them all at once. And friends page! Don't need to scroll so much! Everytime I use that computer in the future, I'm gonna rotate it. :P I bought a trucker cap from City Surf a few days ago too. I love it! It's quite useful in protecting my face from the harsh sun too.

When I take a photo of the cap, I'll post it on my LJ! I also took photos of the super cool computer screen too but forgot to put them in my thumbdrive. I'll post them together I guess.

Yosh, what a long entry. I'm going to go finish Giragira now.

HAPPY VALENTINES, EVERYONE!

P.S.: My niece won the baby contest!!! Thank you to everyone who helped vote for her. :D

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I'm sunburnt! And I didn't even go to the beach or anything. I only walked in the freaking heat for about 3KM. Eeks! Yeah, today was an extra tough day of house hunting. We decided to view the house at Kilkenny Street even though it's expensive ($500) and looked very far from civilization. True enough, it was. We took the only bus that goes there from city, bus 31 and and stopped way after the correct stop all thanks to the outdated instructions at the transport website. Good thing we were not too far off and had the handy map we printed out. Since we were very early, we decided to walk the long way to the house so we had fantastic views of the Swan River and the gorgeous houses! Those people are really rich man.

The house that we viewed was huge! It felt like the owners of the house were old people as the decor was very victorian inside. It had a lounge room on the right of the door and a huge and long living room. Master bedroom was nuts too! Loads of room for Fayth to worm around BUT too far. It would take about 30 mins just to walk to the main road leading to uni. And we don't drive.

From there, we walked more than 1KM to view the exterior of another house as there wasn't any bus going there. It looked very decent except the rent per room is on the high side. Whatever it is, we'll just view the inside and decide later. But it's very very near uni and Coles.

Just from all this walking, I got sunburnt. Luckily not those that's very painful. Just that my arms are red and has 2 colour tones and my cheeks are half burnt as I was wearing sunglasses. XD Just last week I was commenting how even though it's supposed to be summer but it was very cooling and windy. Now, it's so freaking hot. Today's temperature was 37 degrees. Thurs is the highest this week at 40 degrees. And I most likely have to view more houses on that day. Die man. I'm gonna look like a lobster at this rate.

Anyway, this isolotion from constant internet and inability to download anything meant I had been spending lots of time in the room watching dramas and movies. I finished Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Pikanchi and will finish Kimi wa Petto tonight. I actually have watched the first episode of Kisarazu long time ago but found it very weird so I didn't continue. But decided to watch it now as I saw a lot of people kept raving about the drama. I managed to finish it this time! I think once you get past the first episiode's weirdness, you can get through the drama. Probably also since I knew about Sho, Okada and some of the other actors already so I'm more interested in the drama. Love the theme song by Arashi too.

As for Pikanchi, I think Kiroii Namida is slightly better. At least the characters are funnier. XD Kimi wa Petto is just weird. How can Sumire continue treating Takeshi like a pet, hugging him and letting him sleep in her bed like a pet when it's obvious he's a human being just by looking at him. Dramas.

I'm wondering if I should watch Innocent Love or something else after Kimi wa Petto. I'm very hesitant about IL as i hate soap operas. Oh well, I still have plenty of time.

Yosh! Off to finish Kimi wa Petto!
 

What's up, party people!

Hehe, couldn't resist starting my post with that line because I noticed Sho kept calling the audience party people in the AAA + Dome concert DVD which I just finished watching again today. XD Anyway, I'm actually in the Youth Hostel in Perth now with Mag. School doesn't start till 23rd Feb but we had to come back much earlier to look for a house. Our options is very limited now so hopefully I'll be able to settle it by next week and start moving in. I'm glad this is my last year.

The Youth Hostel is actually quite decent. The room isn't too tiny and beds quite comfortable and there's an aircon too. But for the cheap prices we're paying, they provide the very basic items like bed with bed sheets and comforter, toilet paper and soap. Not even a kettle for boiling water (probably in the kitchen only) so I've been relying on huge bottles of mineral water these past few days. But it's decent and cheap so it's stayable.

Anyway, today is Sat and the housing office doesn't operate on weekends like almost everywhere else so me and Mag went shopping in city which is just a stone throw away. I bought a top at Jeanswest. And.........fairy soap! HAHA! Well, it's actually not fairy soap. It's just regular soap but more interesting.

The shop is called The Iron Fairies and allows you to make your own soap. So you choose the spices, oils and base oil you want and create your own brand of soap for $20. But if you bring the box which the soap comes in, you can make a refill soap for $10. I have no idea how Iron Fairies links to soap. I suppose it's just to make it more fluffy. The only link is you put the raw materials you've picked into a very heavy metal ladle which perhaps is iron. :P

Anyway, curious me obviously was dying to make my own soap so I did. I didn't want to create a soap which smelled awful of course so I consulted the shop lady and upon hearing that I wanted to go for something citrus, she suggested a few and one caught my attention. Chocolate Lemon! It combines 2 of my favs - chocolate and lemon! So my soap is made up of cocoa and chamomile for exfoliating which makes up the spices part, lemon and orange essential oil and jajoba oil for the base oil. The lady then proceeds to melt them together with glycerin and let it set for 30 mins. For $20, I get to pick a fairy charm from a pile which is like finding a needle in a haystack which is tied beautifully on a beautiful box. It's $10 well spent on the packaging I tell ya. I'll take pictures of my soap when I'm settled with my house.

The shop also had premade soaps which are much cheaper and they go by the names of the fairies in their story. One of it is named Jess (my name, duh) and is a naughty fairy. Unfortunately they didn't had a charm for Jess so I picked one called Vita which is also a naughty fairy. XD Those premade soaps named after the fairies apparently are mixed to suit the personalities of the fairies so Jess's one was quite citrus which is so like my taste, isn't it. I didn't see the Jess soap but when i mentioned to the shop lady that my name was Jessica, she took the Jess soap and let me smell it saying it was their best seller and man, it's nice! *prouds* Mag wasn't as wasteful curious as me so she just bought the premade soap named Lily which smells very familiar and nice too.

I think this whole soap making thing is quite unique. I'm definitely going to be making some at the end of the year and bringing them home for Christmas pressies. I pray the shop is still standing at that time.

Viva fairy soap!

P.S.: I forgot to mention, it seems like you can make and order your own soap online! Not sure what areas they ship too but check out their website by clicking here!

OH MY GOSH! I just finished watching episode 12 of G no Arashi and it's beyond hilarious! I actually laughed till I had tears in my eyes. XDDD It's been some time since I've laughed as hard as this. What I initially assumed to be stupid turned out to be so much fun! I actually can't wait to watch the other episodes with air guitar in it.

And guess what? I added playing air guitar into my 101 list which is now complete! XDDD

What's did I find especially hilarious? Their outfits!!! Aiba's black vinyl shorts somehow made me think it looked like something a sexy wannabe police woman will wear! And his short jacket top! Just screams gay! XD And Nino! He shouldn't have tucked his shirt in all the way. Made him look like something the Pussycat Dolls from Archies comics would wear with the leapord print! And Sho's muscles! The net shirt totally showed off his muscles! And Ohno. His is beyond description already. You have to see it to know what I mean. XDD

Ah, I love air guitar or air band to be exact! :D

( It's meme time! )

Hey guys, I need a favour!

Can your please help vote for my niece, Joan, in a baby contest. She can win some baby prizes like diapers which would really help my brother save some money. The contest ends on 31st Jan so there isn't much time but might as well give it a shot. I'm not sure if we can vote multiple times as when I accidentally voted again, they didn't give me any message saying I had already voted. If your are free, maybe vote a few times more.

http://www.huggies.com.sg/photo_contest/gallery.aspx?id=8846



Here's a picture of her. :D

Thank you so much!