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Doesn`t take long to love them. Ne, Ogu-san?

I was watching this clip on youtube, the very first episode of Shukudai-kun, 2 October 2006. I didn`t catch it because I was still lingering in Tokyo at that time, freshly arrived to Japan.

And in that clip, Ogu-san watched our boys opening the show and he commented like "Ah, I�don`t feel good about this...�can I work with these boys...? I`ve worked with Four Leaves, Tanokin Trio and then Shonentai. but after that, 25 years I didn`t do anything together (with Johnnys). Arashi ne... Well, there`s nothing we can do isn`t it? Let`s just try it!"

Now he`s one of the biggest fanboy. I love Ogu-san!!!!

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Ogu san

おつりあげますんで、こんどデートしてください!

Oh-chan I love you. How can I not?

Pick up lines to ask a girl who work in convinience store :

aiba-chan : supposed you bought some things including bento and the girl asked `do you want to warm this up?`, then answered `No that`s fine. Can you warm up my heart ?`

somehow I know this is going to be his line.

I love captain`s and Jun`s.

captain : `here, you can keep the change, so please go on a date with me!`

of course 49 out of 50 people say yes. I would say yes. Captain always looked distracted or dozing off, but gosh, he`s good at picking up lines.

jun : `yes, I`ll buy just that for today. ano, I am going to buy everything in this store one by one everyday, so in the meantime, would you mind if we talk bit by bit to get to know each other, and maybe become friends?`

I don`t mind, Your Highness.

SALKDJHAKLSJDFHALSKDA;:ASDAJAJL SHO-CHAN!!!!!!!!

I LAUGHED SO HARD MY NEXTDOOR NEIGHBOUR MUST`VE THOUGHT I`M CRAZY NOW!!!!

He had to make pick up lines for a guy who works as a sentai (like power ranger) and Red wants to ask Pink out and Sho-chan start babbling about Yellow and Green and Blue and OMG I DIDN`T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE SHO ATE MY BRAIN, RION-CHAN HELP ME HERE!!!! I`M NO LONGER COHERENT IN TRANSLATING!!!

Sorry, my brain is seriously not working well now.

Lifetime Respect - Miki Douzan - RSP

The first time I hear this song, I was trying on clothes inside a store. The lyric is so raw of love that I can`t help to linger inside the store until the song is over.

It is originally a song sung by Miki Douzan from the man point of view which�is kinda proposal�song (isshou isshoni ite kureya = be with me forever) in Kansai dialect, and for me sounds very gangsta and cool.

RSP made the woman version, while still slipping in Miki Douzan`s line, like saying and answering

be with me forever

I`m happy you chose�me

look at me with love

of course, right now, for me you are everything

be with me forever

I wanna be�together until one of us die

love me properly

yeah, I really want to love you

�

It sounds cheesy when I translated it, but the real feeling of the lyric is like normal conversation.

I love it when the woman start complimenting the man`s good part

your good part is your good heart

not just appearance, you are a cool man

has sense of responsibility and aspiration

your passionate�self is great

I can know from your face�when you lie and�it`s cute

I want to encourage and flatter you more

I want to bear and raise your child

�

Really really remind me of my parents.

I remember one�afternoon when my parents and I�went�to my sister`s uni (I was�in highschool)�to pick something. My mom went to the office while�Dad and I�waiting outside the car, enjoying the breeze.

Not long,�we can see from afar Mom coming back. Dad just gazed at her.

While still locking his gaze, he spoke to me�in low voice

" Your mother... is so beautiful."

I`m keeping that moment in my heart until I die.

lifetime respect

2 September 2007 - Kyoto - Fushimi Inari Shrine : A Journey To My Heart

Pilgrimage

I feel peace. At least now. 

About life and myself.

I dragged Petya to Kyoto and since words would ruin what I want to say and photos I took are rubbish, let me show you Petya`s works instead (oh, one mine, and the low quality videos are of course mine too).

 

Kyoto station

 

Kiyomizu dera2

 

Kyoto 019

 

Torii no michi3

 

Silly me

 

Tough choice

 

Torii no michi

to be able to be true to myself

to know that there are people that would accept me the way I am

to understand that life is beautiful

 

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生きるって何なんだろう？

言葉には出来ないけど

少しずつ

本当に少しずつ

分かった気がする。

Tokyo Day 4 : I Love This Store !!!!!

Today, with no plan whatsoever, we went to Akihabara. Actually, I want to go to Canal Cafe, but we have to change train in Akihabara, and of course I want to go there, so we thought we'll look around and then change train.
Yeah, look around that resulted in one yukata for me, one for my brother, two japanese dolls, one huge really nice pink noren (cloth that hanging in front door of japanese house), and one pair of geta.
The thing is, purely by random wants, we entered this really nice souvenirs shop with a lot of cool traditional things on 2nd floor and yukata and kimono on 3rd floor. And the coolest part of the shop is that the shop assistants didn't care about us at all and let us do what we want and just waiting in the cashier.
We spent quite a time in 2nd floor and like eternally on 3rd floor. There's no shop assistant in 3rd floor, just a sign that said if you need them, please come to 2nd floor and call them by yourself. I tried maybe a dozen yukata, looking through every angle possible in the big mirror. With yubachan's help, I can find a really nice one and the obi that goes with it.
Akihabara made my every consumerism cells (if there's such a word) in my body fully woke up.
I definitely going to go again tomorrow. While trying to not notice the inside of my wallet with the reason 'I'm in Japan, when else can I do this?'

Then we met a very nice friend who took us to Jun's favourite cafe. Yappari, it has a good atmostphere and we can tell why he liked it.

Gochisousama deshita m(_ _)m

To the friend I finally met today :
I didn't speak much, I didn't give reaction much, but I was listening and looking at you and I meant it when I said I really really like you. Got a feeling like ' ah, I can depend on this person ' and not many people made me think so. Like when I met my best friend Lydia or when I met my first love.
I don't know, maybe later you'll find out that I'm just a kid ^^;
Toriaezu, iku yo ^o^
Suki ni nachatta kara mata aitai shi.
Sono toki, yukkuri hanasou ne.

Tokyo day 2 : my phone and my brain are filled with cats

So, yubachan and I made this project to record our days in Tokyo. Day 1 can be found in her vox and day 2 is here now!!!
Just skipped it if you're not interested, because I want to make it rather detail.

I don't like animals. I like watching them, but can't stand to touch them or something. So when yubachan suggested that we go to Nekobukuro (neko=cat), I didn't know that I'll never want to go home.

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Cute cats everywhere!
My fav is the white one up there since it is soooooo sweet and so Oh-chan and so big and fluffy.

After that, I dragged yubachan to TBS and Shibuya and now her legs must hurt like hell. I'm used to it since I'm a waitress in a (sometimes) hella busy Italian restaurant.

I love going to Shibuya with all the people in the intersection trying to cross the street. Shows you exactly that you're in a world where lots and lots of other people are involved and bump into you and pass you and see you and everything, but in the end, what must you do is walking as straight as you can to your goal and if you doze off too much you'll bump into people and fall. In the end, it depends on you and yourself only if you can cross the road.

While in Ikebukuro, we spotted biccamera (electronic shop) and went inside with initial purpose to see ipod I might buy for my brother and somehow it ended with me making yubachan bought a blue ds lite with the reason 'for Nino' (what else?). I found it so funny because yesterday she drank tequila for captain though she doesn't like it and today she bought a blue ds although every, EVERY electronic things she has were white. She was supposed to buy a white ds. See what a fangirl do for Ohmiya?
One thing I know for sure from this trip : I have ZERO sense of direction! I kept on going to the wrong direction, no matter how clear people told me. Yubachan had to pull me here and there. I just dozed off and walked aimlessly.

Right now we're in the hotel room and will see g no arashi probably.
tomorrow hopefully yubachan can write day 3 filled with the journey to aibachan`s restaurant ^^

It was a superb seat beyond my wildest imagination

 

Nagoya 22nd 1st part

Oh God, there`s so many things to share I don`t know where to start.

Let`s start with MC (I`ll write what I remember and it could be not in the right order).

It`s an MC in the shape of a dream come true for Ohmiya fans.

Started with Arashi asked the audience if we noticed something special about their outfit. Turned out that they were wearing the same kind of thin plastic bracelet, just different color. But somehow only Nino wear a large version as a necklace. They received it from Aiba-chan who said they were health bracelets. Everyone only wear one unless Aiba-chan who wear three so Nino complained since he wants the same bracelet and not necklace. In the end Aiba-chan gave him his white bracelet.

Then talking about how they are use to received 5 same products all the time, like t shirt etc. Talking about t shirt, all of captain`s t-shirts are given ones. He never buy t-shirt, just wear anything others gave him. How amazing is that?

After that, out of the blue captain complained he felt very lonely today. Why is it? Yes people, it`s because Nino haven`t touched him during the performance. Like during Yes?No? etc, there were times Nino ALWAYS touch captain(`s butt). Today, from the start Nino haven`t done anything to him up to the point captain admitted he did some suggestive moves that he hoped would give Nino sign (which didn`t leave unnoticed by Sho-kun who said that himself). Nino said captain kept on looking at him.

`He kept staring at me the whole time.`

Captain literally WHINED and WHINED about this,

`He ALWAYS touches me and suddenly didn`t do anything today and I kept on looking his way wondering why he haven`t touched me at all...`

Jun : `Why are you sound so dissappointed? Isn`t it `he always touches me and I don`t like it` kinda way?`

`but..but...he always touches me....! HE ALWAYS TOUCHES ME!!!!`

omg they are soooo obvious I swear they are dating

Nino can only smiled shyly and rubbed his face.

It`s obvious what the audience wants (and what captain wants), the other three just say `Nino, you heard him, just go and touch him ok` lazily, so Nino walked to captain and start molesting his butt and captain, half sulking just lightly swatted Nino`s hand saying `The timing has passed, it`s not attractive anymore` but that don`t stop Nino. Afraid of making captain lonely again, when they move to the main stage, Nino put his arm around captain`s shoulder and they looked at each other and talking in close proximity the whole time clearly not give a damn about 10.000 + fangirls who had been reduced to lumps of gasping things seeing the couple. It`s the sweetest scene since right behind them is Sho staring at them lovingly (think Mimura) and chuckled when Nino let out a big laugh over something captain said. I`m lucky to see this particular scene since I`m close enough to see their faces.

Arashi is a big and eternal love story.

The puzzle completed in the end, I`ll tell you later, it`s hilarious (although it`s purely my theory, but I`m sure 110 % ^^)

Ura Arashi was Ai to Yuuki to Cherry Pie, which somehow (thanks to Aiba-chan) revolved to talking about why is it cherry pie and not apple pie. Maybe because cherry pie sounds more American and apple pie is common in Japan. Like in McDonalds. They should gave the song name Red Apple Pie or smth. But no, McD`s apple pie is yellow. And hey, talking about McD, the bald sensei in Yamataro teached Sho & Nino a new way of eating, like put an applepie between hamburger, or eating potato with vanilla milkshake to which captain quickly agree. `you guys won`t understand, it was soo good.`

FYI, THEY said all the things above, NOT ME!!

...erm, that`s all I can remember for now. I have a very short term memory.

 

The whole concert highlights for me:

1. Did I tell you Sho is HOT? Like HOLY FREAKING HOT? Yesterday I have trouble in breathing during his solo, well, I can see even much clearer today when he passed now and then and he`s the best while singing Love Situation.

2. Captain being groped now and then.

3. During Love Situation dance, Nino kept inching closer to Sho until he has no space (on moving stage) so he smacked Nino.

4. During Fight Song when they fly by pair, Sho kept turning and turning Aibachan around by his shoulder so Aibachan revolved so much.

5. Aibachan is a doll. A very cute living doll. that`s the impression I got from him.

6. Captain is an angel when he smiles (not that we don`t know that). Seriously.

7. I can see Jun`s nipples ><

8. Sho is too thin but I believe he can take care of himself.

9. Nino is cute, adorable, a baby, whatever you imagine about him is true.

10. I`m holding captain`s uchiwa since Yubachan said she felt there`s not enough captain`s fans in the audience, and I waved it all the time but his eyes always seemed dazed whenever he pass by my place.

Instead, I got peaced by Our Highness Jun-sama (^_^)v   when he passed through upper part inside the box. I peaced him with all my might and he looked down at me and peaced (^_^)v

 

Ok, last, remember I said there must be a reason why Nino didn`t touch captain?

Well, Nino`s DAD came!

Haha, I bet he restrained himself because of that ;p 

the second Nino announced this during the last talk, what came to my brain was just `omg Ninomiya Papa saw his son molesting his group leader in front of thousands of fangirls ><`

 

only one bad news : I went ballistic on con goods T_T

Bad seat + Best friend = a perfect concert

Nagoya con 1st part

Ura arashi : Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi

MC : the three boys doing Venus (T&T) moves. they remember the melody and the moves but can`t remember the words, so aibachan just say `cha cha cha venus` the whole time. YamaTaro pair told us to watch their dorama since it`ll end soon.

Sho spilled water onstage and Nino said `hora hora, koboshita` and sho kept asking for towel because he wanted to wipe it and only then he realized he had towel on his shoulder the whole time so he kneeled and started wiping the floor like a maid. 

Jun announced about Hanadan movie and he said something about probability of Arashi member become a cameo (嵐のメンバーにお世話になるかもしれない）, but I don`t know, he looked like just joking and he did say he hasn`t know anything yet. Story, place, anything.

highlights for me :

1. SHO IS SO HOT. OMG I WOULD NEVER SEE A RED SOFA WITH THE SAME EYES ANYMORE.

    I was practically drooling during his solo. Sho-chan always so high tension in concerts, but this solo is just sooo good. Sho + red sofa + `come close to me, baby...`= long term brain damage.

 

2. I love Yabai Yabai Yabai. I always make fun of the song, but when I saw it live, Jun-kun blowed my mind. saying `viva myself` and `ore saikou`, 賛成！潤君は最高！！！

 

3. Cry for You. There are songs I came to love only after I saw the live version. this is one of them.

4. I love Fight Song performance so much. If it can be called performance. I wouldn`t mind the slightest if they want to do it for 2 hours straight and not doing anything else. The smiles and the laughs are enough.

 

I was touched by Sho and Aibachan today. Well, each of them talked but these 2 really touched me.

Sho :

He said this a lot lately, that in his surroundings (job place), people used to say that other member are group member. they`re not friends, not family, not even work partners. Just member.

But in his heart, everytime arashi is his family, friends and work partners. The look on his face just said `these people are soo important to me`

Here goes the most touching part,

`Arashi is not only the 5 of us. The staffs that help us to prepare all these, and you guys who came here, we made Arashi together. That is Arashi.`

It just hit me. WE ARE ARASHI.

 

Aibachan :

` I know all of you love Arashi. But, my love to Arashi is just as big. You see, my FC number is no 1. We have the number 1~5 and we did janken and I won. So I`m no 1. My love for Arashi won`t lose to your love. That`s why, I want to keep on doing this. Let`s make Arashi together.`

 

btw, nino`s number is 4, which he described as both unlucky (4 in japanese is shi, similar sound to `death`) and subtle (not the first, but also not the last).

 

that`s all for today.

 

note : Yubachan, that was definitely one of the best concert ever, simply because you`re beside me.

Hanakimi (no spoiler)

1. Shun-kun must`ve been paid a lot. Like...A LOT.

2. Toma was really really really handsome. For me, not kawaii, he`s handsome. He stole every attention for everyone else.

3. I fell for Umeda-sensei. He didn`t even do anything significant. I just looked at him and it hit me that he`s practically the hottest man in Hanakimi. (well, after Nakatsu and Nanba-senpai)

CM

from nikki:

Nino is going to have solo CM just like Aiba-chan.

 

Here, I can say things honestly, so..

Buy it!

I`ll say that once more ok..

Please buy it everyone!

 

Ok ok I`ll buy whatever your CM is Nino-chan.

and just read arashi.vox

well, I guess case closed then. Nino`s word is my command.