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Pre-ordered NEWS' album~~ Can't believe they included SNOW EXPRESS! ...I hadn't listened to this song until now... Heard that it was a good song so I refused to listen to it unless it'll be on a CD, like now XD And it is a good song ^.^ I hope the other songs in the album are good.

Yay, so happy that NEWS and Kanjani8 are releasing more CDs. Wonder if Kanjani8 will release an album in December... This year is almost ending..

I browsed through November's issue of Wink Up. On the message board page...Yamapi wrote a message to his cell phone... o.o; He wrote something like he's happy that its there and wrote thank you to it XD

...I think I'm getting a bit obsessed with Maou.. Wanna watch the drama again~~

time for another sad/ranting post... sorry XD

lately, ive been having the very similar dreams that always make me sad when i wake up.  they are not dreams that are of the things that have happened before or anything.. they are dreams of things that will never happen. T_T  whoever said that dreams are our desires put into action in our minds is so right!  it saddens me how much i want this to happen yet im not even close to making it happen and turning the dreams into reality T__T


at least i know i have dreams i can look back to when things in the real world isnt working out. >_> which is most of the time..... but "all dreams are possible"! with this, i will keep working hard to turn my dreams into reality!! GANBATTE!!!!

YOSH!!  d (^_^) b



i think i feel better now....... letting things out feel so good ^_^

"McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a 'decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.'"
~ "McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd", Associated Press

I would like to make a solemn promise to everyone in the United States of America and to myself:

I have a vote. This vote is a very precious thing, and I promise that I will never cast it for a candidate because I am afraid of that candidate's rival.

Casting a vote in fear undermines the very system that gives us that vote. We're here to vote for who we think will make a good president (or senator, or governor, or eighth grade class president, for crying out loud), not to vote against someone who we're scared will turn America into a socialist nation or will rob the middle class of their homes and cars and give the money to Saudi Arabian nobility. Have a little faith instead of buying into the hype and the outrage.

I wish that both sides could win this election, so that my conservative family can see that having Obama in office won't be the end of the world, and all you liberal nutcases on the intarwebs can see that McCain won't bring about the apocalypse, either. Geez, people.

~DF

I'm keeping lots of things within me, till one day i'm gonna burst, like a balloon filled with too much air. I'm a balloon filled with secrets.Or rather, I won't burst, I'll bring the secrets to my grave.

Name: 백만장자의 첫사랑 (A Millionaire's First Love)
Director: Tae-gyun Kim
Genre: Drama/Romance
Released: February 9th, 2008
My Score: / 5
Spoilers?: Screen caps may contain spoilers.
Summary: Kang Jae-kyung is a typical spoiled rich kid; he’s arrogant, drives sporty cars, attends the big clubs, and rides through school corridors on his motorcycle. As his 18th birthday approaches, he’s set to inherit his grandfather’s fortune, a five star hotel. However, Jae-kyung must earn his fortune. His grandfather lays down an ultimatum; Jae-kyung is required to transfer to a new school in Gangwondo and graduate. Until then all access to his penthouse, cottage and credit cards are denied. Should he fail to graduate or drop out then he loses everything. With little choice he heads out to the countryside and a small town in which daily life is far removed from what he’s used to.

Shortly after settling into his new home he meets 19 year-old Choi Eun-whan, who just happened to run into him back in Seoul. They don’t exactly hit it off; he’s far too stubborn and cool for school, while she sees hope for him and sets out to make him see it for himself. As they eventually draw closer, thanks to a set of coincidences and school projects they learn more about one another, but soon a shattering revelation will change these people forever.



( SIXTY ONE SCREEN CAPS )
Review: I really liked this movie. Though the plot was a bit hard to follow at times, the movie as a whole was very enjoyable. One negative aspect was that I wish they had spent more time explaining certain things, though I think in the end it doesn't necessarily take away from the film. The acting was good, along with the cinematography--one thing that stood out in particular were the amount of close up shots, specifically of things like hands or faces. This particular style adds to the "drama" of the story. The soundtrack is another notable strong point of the film, mainly made up of calm, classical music. I recommend this to anyone who isn't afraid of sad stories and is interested in Korean film. But I did end up crying about three or four times

My leg hurts, and it hurts in a spot that I can't stretch out. :(

Now, I know that the global economic meltdown that's been going on lately is srs bznz and all, but I can't help but be amused at the images that MSNBC has chosen to highlight the situation, especially these two:




Heh. If I could justify spending money on a really good camera, I might get into photography. I still have coupons for photography classes that came with my digital camera; maybe I should cash those in.

The leaves are just beginning to turn in full force around here. On my drive home from work, when I change from one highway to another, there's this really pretty stretch where the road curves along a line of forest, and the trees look like a wall of fire now. I wish I could take a picture to show you, but I'm not inclined to test my ability to manage a camera and a steering wheel at the same time. XD

So I was watching Wife Swap (lol trash television; in my defense, I don't watch anything except Eli Stone regularly), where two moms trade families for a few weeks, and one of the moms has a little business where she hosts tea parties for little girls, but her husband and son aren't involved at all. The other mom was from a family that does lots of things together; it was a striking comparison. She made the husband and son throw a tea party of their own, so they could see and get involved in what their wife/mother is so passionate about.

That made me a little sad. I love my parents, and, really, I wouldn't trade my family for anything; but as far as my hobbies went, I was more or less off on my own. There were games that my brothers and I played together, but no one in my family is at all interested in anime or any sort of fandom.

It's like they were supportive, but selectively supportive. Mom and Dad would go to our sports games and my brothers' band and chorus performances and plays, and they were always proud of our accomplishments, but the thing about always saying "Good job" to a person is that after a while they'll start to wonder if you'll still love them even when they screw up.

I would have been so happy if, just once, someone had sat down and asked, "What's this show about?" or "How do you play this game?" Maybe it's a lot to ask, but I really think that sometimes supporting a person is the most important thing you can do for them, even when you think they're wrong.

...I used to work with a woman who watched Fullmetal Alchemist every week with her husband and two sons. XD She had a desktop wallpaper of Ed and Al on her work computer.

Heh, post-graduation has been rough on me. I'm changing the way that I define my self-worth; it's no longer about getting the best grades in the class, because I'm not the best in the class anymore. I'm a good programmer, yeah, but my social skills aren't great, so as far as being a valuable employee goes, I'm not quite top-notch. So what happens now that I don't have the security of having a number that's higher than everyone else's number?

Where do people get their self-worth? Mine's coming from my faith right now; I think that's the answer. Even if I were to lose everything I had and everything I am, all my memories and knowledge and experience and everything that's unique about me, I'd still have my Christianity. I think there's really something to be said for that.

I feel better now. Writing is cathartic.

~DigiFaith

I guess we all went for the last day with mixed feelings, some more than the rest. Ask anyone in CJC, and they can probably tell you the reason why they love going to school is for the people, and for some, the teachers. For the most of us, life in CJC rocked. Because of the friends and buddies you make. Some become life-long friends that graduation will not break, some you will remember for eternity for their antics, others you'll fondly keep them in our memories because we were once one class, one hectic, crazy, havoc-creating class.

One of the most important reasons why I stayed in CJC was for friends. Utimately, I didn't think I would find a better batch of people to suffer two years with. After 1st three months, I had a bunch of friends that decided that we will stick together and hopefully end up in the same class again (oh thank God we did), I was already in a CCA that I found people I could get along with, seniors that I could hang out with and that was enough. Well, even if I had left CJ, I guess making friends again is still possible. but i didn't want to think of all that 'what-if's that would set me thinking about how they were, what kind of new classmates did they have, and all. And so I guess I can proudly say, now that i'm at the end of this road, I do not regret staying in CJC. I've found new people, all with different quirks, and met up with familiar faces and formed an even closer bond with them.

In the end I didn't manage to have the sort of friends that I could form a clique with for life. Not that I'm gonna abandon the rooftop gang or the JE clique, but it's just nice to have had that group of crazy buddies in every school you go to, that had suffered through every sort of indignity and faced evils of school together.

T37 2008, most of us were together for 1st 3 months. To tell the truth, I guess I didn't like you guys at the start. Maybe that was because I missed my old class a bit. Then we went through all GP and H2 Lit lessons together, bracing ourselves against Mrs Sng's verbal diarrhoea and throwing back a few of our own concoctions at her. There was that bread incident as well. Valentine's Day, the prank some of them pulled then, Veronica the super annoyance, Victoria for sleeping even in Fahy's class. Ah yes there was Fahy and his tennis ball. Cross-country 2007, and of course, winning the Netball inter-class competition despite being the only class who had all the matches in one day, almost back-to-back of each other. Perry throwing the ball from one end of the court to the other, and Jordan falling into the bushes to catch it. And how can I forget, the constant cam-whoring that the rest of you were involved in, every single day in class. The pictures that were strewn all over our class notice-board is more than enough proof. And of course, our favourite HTC to bully, Jamie. After we cleared up our misunderstanding, things were all fine.

Even though something that someone said on that class outing after we got JAE results made me feel like CJ was the wrong choice again, sticking through it now, i feel like i've proven that person wrong.

T37 went through plenty too, getting new classmates and fitting them in, losing some people like Jamie, then after J1 losing Weixuan and Hanif, sitting through all of Fahy's merlion moments and scariness. Mr T's moodswings, skipping lectures and tutorials and school and what-not. Fights, anger, happiness, disappointment, joy, jealousy, forgiveness. We've been through it all. Rockafella 2008 was the pride of our class. Then came Stardust, which the band was disappointed by losing first place by 0.01, because it was a xxx-organised event and xxx's students won. Then of course, the sports carnival, where T75 won 2nd place for floorball, and T37 plus Nigel did us proud in winning champion for net-ball. And of course, the incident where four of the class stayed overnight in school, and got caught. Lastly, the many gossip sessions we shared, be in during P.E. or break, with Inez, Rhian, Alyssa and Sharifa.

The last day was the best outing we had, even though Liling, Clare and Radha didn't go. Yosephine joined us for the first time ever. The people at my table went crazy over the number game, everyone ate happily, everyone talked to everybody, there was only laughter. Laughing at each other losing, laughing at the next table, laughing when they started jacking our table's people. Food Fight even though only two of our numbers fought back; the rest were too busy laughing.


Feng, Inez, Rhian, Joey, Alyssa, Clare, Sharifa, Jordan, Perry, Sam Lee, Eliz, Mersa, Jen, Ivan, Gladys, Radha, Yosephine, Glenn, Liling, Sam How, Val,  Jeremy, and Ms Chia. And me. T37 2008. Unforgettable.

As for the A's, all of you!!!
i'll miss coming to class, climbing that five floors to see you people, hear the laughter, bask in that joyful atmosphere.

I was so happy to see them with cracks finally!

Edit: *pouts* One of my eggs died.

One thing I've always loved to do ever since I was little was to collect things. So sure when I was young, it was all about collecting video game magazines, basketballs cards and even barbie trading cards (you can lol at that). But once I was old enough to move out and into Columbus, it was all about collecting media. I was very much into collecting all sorts of europop (not eurobeat) cds, and of course my love and support for Click-B had me hunting down and buying everything I could find including all albums (minus album 3 which I still cannot find even through auctions and private sellers) and concert dvds , posters, magazine pages, the rare photobook, rare postcards, fan-recorded tv segments on VHS tapes, a custom-made baseball jersey, and even of course my license plate. And when Click-B did a joint album with J-Walk to form JNC, I bought 13 copies because each member hand signed over 200 copies each and I had to have all of their autographs _o_ And I still have 10 copies today XD!!

Heck I sure didn't think it could get any worse than that. I mentioned about my Kanjani8 collection a couple of posts back. Just today Merk mentioned hers. Then I thought I better check to see what I was really missing. So instead of 2 items, it's really 3 items I don't have... Naniwa Iroha Bushi (kansai release), LE Oh ENKA, and the RE of KJ2 Zukkoke Daidasso *growls*

but you know what's funny... I was doing some cleaning up in my living room and found singles that I didn't know I bought XD I know I have bought too much when I don't know what I have actually bought! XD!! I have pretty much stopped collecting KAT-TUN after LIPS was released, though I did buy Queen of Pirates LE. I thought I stopped collecting NEWS after weeek but while cleaning I ran into an unopened copy of LE Summertime O.o I have also realized how many unopened copies of stuff I have ^^;;;  Sure, it's a lot of fun to see how much stuff I have accumulated over the years but once I start adding how much I have spent on all of that... yeah... it's not very pretty >_< I think I'll spend tonight actually listening to some of the stuff I bought ^^;;; I must cut down on spending...

Hams in da House. TFS.

А я уже даже не сумимасеню - дважды, так дважды. Японский вынес мне мозг окончательно, теперь уже просто или я его или он меня, хотелось бы надеяться на первое.

I love the PV. [duh!]

this week has just dragged by! while I was glad for the change of pace and that I haven't had to teach any lessons in a while, it was rather boring whenever I didn't have exams to grade.

I'm planning on leaving in a few minutes, but I thought I'd update and say that. Surprisingly though, I didn't post at all these few days... so I thought I'd post before I leave. I'm not going to be home this weekend, wheee. And it's a three-day weekend too. Yay for national holidays!

ALSO, IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU COULD AT LEAST PRETEND YOU DON'T NOTICE HOW I COMPLETELY FAILED TO ACTUALLY EXPLAIN WHY.

edit now back to qmi. or cinhae. idk they both kill my soul.

So the PV is out... [read more]