Sunday, 27 September 2009

Inside the Beginnings of Ondoy




Some of my crazy B&W pics a few days before Ondoy, some of my family

and most of the BnW photos of Ondoy itself, around 10am of Saturday. Luckily our area wasn't that affected, we only lost electricity (albeit that being for 2 days also).

But I pray that everyone else is okay.

I only got to take pictures of that time because after our electricity was gone, i didn't get to charge the camera anymore.

MOA with adserch groupmates




phohoa
dezzato pan
in my life

september 25, 2009

ADSTRAT Commecrials night 2




Adstrat right after our adserch report. :)

The Usual Suspects




August 21, 2009
Gliez' house c:

We practiced for our first presentation in ADSERCH. Go girls :D

Friday, 4 September 2009

1st MTRCB TV Awards




in no particular order (actually the pics from after the event come first) yet. I'll re-arrange it soon :D

During the 1st MTRCB TV Awards, I was Tinkerbell.

Hullo! It's been a while since I updated my personal multiply site. In fact, come to think of it, I haven't really "pimped" (I originally typed "pimpled" :o ) this site since freshman year. In any case, I thought it well to update now because I experience a nice evening yesterday [evening].

I went to the very first MTRCB TV Awards yesterday and I really didn't know what to expect from it. I had already told myself not to expect anything huge because there were just some things that I can't control.

Take the traffic going there, for example. It was so traffic! I wish I could have taken pictures, but that would have just reminded me of the perils that we had to go through and just how much patience we had to muster to get there in one piece and happiness. It took us 30 minutes to crawl through Guadalupe to Ortigas. I assumed that was what it would be like if a trip to Mecca allowed cars. :O


Lucky for my brother though, worry free,
he just slept the whole way.

I not only had to contend with the traffic (mentally, as my dad was the one driving) but the toole fabric of my dress was etching onto my legs. It was uncomfortable. And I was scattering glitter everywhere. It was disturbing. :O I felt like Tinkerbell.

Oh, btw, my brother is now a carbon copy of my dad. Checkit! :D


We had missed the cocktails of the event, surely. And the fact that we were headed North (foreign terrain) made us worry about finding Gateway on time. I kept telling my dad though that we had already gone to Gateway a couple of times because we had watched a UAAP game last season but he just couldn't remember and it kept stressing me out that he wouldn't believe me when I said, "I know where we're going." :O

Longer story short, we got there in one piece and out of the car, finally. I was still Tinkerbell. We trekked through the four floors of Gateway and we weren't (or at least I wasn't) exempted from the stares that I got. They were "what-on-earth-is-she-going-to-the-mall-in-a-formal-dress-for?" stares. I was wondering whether the people hadn't gotten used to it yet because I expected that due to the time that we had arrived, there would have already been a dozen or so people that walked into the mall in similar attire as well. Apparently not. We finally got to the venue to realize that we were actually early. o.o Go Filipino Time.

And we were trying to look for seats. I already saw a lot of name cards of celebrities. Some I knew just by name, others I didn't know at all (sorry) but I at least had an inkling that they were famous people. We were trying to look for our seats and then the usher lady said that I had to sit separately from my dad and bro. No! :c On the bright side, I sat a row behind Eddie and Gloria Romero. And I got a name card on me seat too.

Though, all I kept thinking about was, "I am seriously going to leave my mark on this seat (in the form of glitter)."

Blah, blah, blah. It was forever before the show actually started. Late celebrities. Bad, bad, you. So it started and Marian Rivera came out. In fairness, she *is* pretty. My strange paparazzi brother wasn't able to take proper pretty shots of her though.

Again, long story short, there was an opening and then the hosts came out. They actually decided to award the screenplay finalists first. They read their own-made citation of Fledglings and I was quite surprised. Because then I heard how they interpreted the screenplay. It was nice. I mean, I'm glad that they were able to draw out the essence of the script. :D

Again again, long story short, The Absentee Boy From UST won first place and The Girl Whom I Swear I've Seen Somewhere Before won second place. Guy From PLM and Girl From PUP won the honorable mentions. I and the other two girls that sat next to me all got consolation perfumes from The Gap though. Pretty cool (since I'm kind of obsessed with perfume at the moment). When we were on stage, Edu Manzano said "Smile naman kayo dyan!" and I thought "Smile under pressure? Sure, I can do that. That will make me look crazy though." Haha. It was all good though, because regardless of whether I won or not, I walked away with the experience of being there. And it was cool. The whole thing made me aspire to write another screenplay (which I am actually already starting to do. yipee!).

The rest of the night was for the other awards. The cutest thing was Santino from May Bukas Pa (did I get that right. Sorry. :o)! Because he got up on stage, got the huge trophy which was almost his height. Ryan Agoncillo carried him to the mic and he said,

"Thank you po sa MCTRB"

audience laughs

"hah? Ay, ay, MTCRB."

Ryan Agoncillo whispers it to him

"Aaah, MTRCB para sa pagtankilik nyo sa amin..."

He was so adorable!

More awards and then the ending. I guess the best performance yesterday was by Charice Pempengco.

I was initially very surprised that she was there, because I saw her from the stage already when I was up there and I kept getting distracted by the girl wearing hot pink--which I thought was kind of weird matched with bright yellow (her sash). But she was great---the sound system wasn't---but regardless. My thoughts strayed then, thinking that this was an awesome experience seeing all these people live when you've only seen them on television forever. And then I thought just. how. awesome. it would be if I could finally watch Arashi the same way I was watching these people now. I mean, I was in the second row! That was amazing. If I could get seats like that... but anyway.

I think another nice point of yesterday was when they awarded Gloria Romero with the Lifetime Achievement Award.


They showed clips of all her old films and I thought (my CommArts self clicked in), "I would LOVE to watch her old movies. And I LOVE the quality of old Filipino movies (like the visual quality--not content-wise)!"

Okay moving forward, when it was done, I congratulated the other finalists and went off on my way. I wanted to take a picture near the big tarp of the event, ala-Red Carpet, but Gladys Reyes was there and all these photographers, so I couldn't have my shot. :c

We left and at Mandarin umm.. Cafe? At 11pm! It was yummy! Nasi Goreng-eng-eng :D Dad ate Hainanese Chicken again. I got to eat some :D


All in all, it was great. I'd love love love to be there again next year. I hope to be able to join again. :D I just hope they don't put a theme next year, because that will be hard to force into my brain. :o

Oh, and I was right, I left pixie dust on my seat. My mark.

I left it in the car too, and the parking lot. And all over my room. I'm bound to start flying soon.


"Just remember sa awards night, it doesn't matter kung olats ka sa prize,  basta panalo ka sa outfit.:) "
- Sir Groyon


 





Wednesday, 1 July 2009

http://mishiellaneous.multiply.com/


http://mishiellaneous.multiply.com/
Do you consider yourself sinful? Then the place to go is Mishiellaneous! Meet The Saligia and, while you're at it, why not get a little something for yourself to help you carry your things around? c: This is my new online store! :D

MISHIELLANEOUS

If you think its a funky pun, that's because it is!!!

I now, therefore, would like you to visit MISHIELLANEOUS!!!


It's my new online store! :D

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Tagaytay a Year Later May 11-13, 2009




It was definitely around this time last year that Micah, Marge, Raisa, Meo, Chris and I went off to Tagaytay Midlands. This year however, there was a turnaround and Micah and I ended up being the only two girls! And, Chris and Meo come with us again, so the four of us were the original Tagaytay-ers there. Hahaha.
Jayme came this time and it was awesome!

Although, no. The first time we ever went to Tagaytay was in Canyon Woods. So that would make the Super Original Tagaytay-ers Chris, Meo and me.

We got to cook and have the entire house to ourselves. No video unlike last year because I just wanted to concentrate on enjoying.

Besides, it would be impossible to video things, since we had a fantasmic Kuroshitsuji marathon. Meo learned how to speak Japanese POLITELY, Jayme fed us well, Micah provided entertainment *cough*, I did a great job downing the gin down XD, Chris is proud of his first blackout and we are all still wondering how he migrated beds. O_O


Next time guys, we bet with actual money, PLEASE. And I promise if we do, I will stop playing God-is-the-Poker-Table-Dealer. xD We still have two bottles of vodka left which we should finish because we paid big money for it. And I never want to drink Baileys ever again--only if we have a steady supply of water, maybe.

Two Davids are SO much better than one.




To my cousin David, you are uniquely awesome too. When I mean "better than one" the "one" there isn't you. It's just a title. AHAHAHAHAHA (forgive me, its 1:06am). xD

Saturday, 16 May 2009

EFFIN FANTASMIC DAVIDIC NIGHT.

I simply can NOT.

And the fact of the matter is that I haven't uploaded the pictures I have because I had a ton of new house chores to do and the camera is still out of battery so I am currently charging it so that I can finally upload it. It would not be the same without pictures so I will just cut this short and make a longer post later. Until then, I just wanted to say that yesterday was EFFIN FANTASTIC.

I mean, I am not as big a Cook fan as I am an Archuleta fan, and I was slightly pissed that the advertisments all over were saying "cook DAVID archuleta" so that it sounded like we should peel, boil and eat David Archuleta. I just turned it around and poked fun at it myself. The entire experience was FANTASMIC, EPHENOMENAL, and etc. And yes, I am aware that I just made up those words. No existing words can contain the AWESOMENESS. And, btw, I felt really really pissed my camera died halfway through David Cook's set and I didn't get a pic of the two Davids together on stage. I am also frustrated that there was no encore and my hair curled and waved after Archie's set. Hahaha!

But I was really blown away. Because this is my first concert ever. xD So pardon my hyperness.

And, I must must must MUST reach out to that ONE LUCKY GIRL WHO'S CAMERA DAVID COOK REACHED OUT, AIMED, SHOT THE AUDIENCE WITH AND RETURNED. To the blessed girl, PLLEEEAASE upload the picture no matter how crappy it was. I dont know. I wanted to see the view. xD

My feet no longer ache from standing on the monobloc chair for 3 hours! XD

Lighting. AWESOME I will upload pics later. xD

Thursday, 30 April 2009

Shizen Orchestra




The cosplay pictures are in my bro's multiply. These are the ones he didn't upload. I'm the more personal one between the two of us. hahaha!

Congrats, first of all, to the Keybie Cafe (http://keybies.multiply.com) for a successful booth-thingy! I'm a good staff, so I have a few demands. xD I was there at 7:30am! :O

Thank you to Anton for coming even if you were picky about the cosplayers, Micah for letting us get in for free. xD Thanks to Meo, Rai, Jerrick and Momochi for coming. To my new friend Shiori, I hope I made your first day in the Philippines memorable! Irashaimase! We didn't get a picture together. I'm stupid.

Micah, I hope to set up a booth next to you in the near future ;)

Bianca, I'm glad we got to cosplay, yeah! Let's stalk Rihito-sama. I must tear his Mei-chan away from him. xD

To my perfect butler, Rihito-sama, I will FIND YOU. xD

There was something I totally hated about Shizen. I want my money, yo. I waited until six to be angered. AHAHAHAHA.

*on crack*

MICAH, http://mukashimukashi.smackjeeves.com/ NOW. xD

Monday, 16 February 2009

I would like to bombard everyone with songs

that you or may not understand. As of right now though, I love them.


I just had to find this!



Ayaka and Kobukoro have re-united for a second song after Winding Road! I only saw this when I came across the lyrics in my Young Song lyrics booklet! *gasps* Ayaka's voice is so magnetic.


This is my favorite drama song at the moment because it came from Ryusei no Kizuna. Plus, it's got Toda Erika in it. Isn't Toda Erika just SO PRETTY???? And Nakashima is quickly becoming one of my favorite female vocalists. You should watch her in Ryusei. She's so different from her emo PV. hahaha! I really think this song is very inspiring for me. Though, it is kind of sad. I don't know. I like this PV a lot. I love the mirroring effect. I should try that. And you should hear it when its in the drama!

And Alas, I MUST share to the world:



Isn't it just so.. DARK? It's got the same dark and foreboding feel of "truth" but much more high in tension! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, I didn't even know what Believe sounded like until I saw this preview??? I'm not a bad fan, its personal choice. I just couldn't reconcile myself when I saw the screencap. I was, "eh, are you sure that's the PV? I thought it was going to be animated (in lieu of Sho's movie Yatterman)" but it wasn't. When I clicked it and the music started my hair went up. And strangely enough, my favorite person here in this PV is AIBA. LOOK AT THAT LAST SHOT! The one where he's holding his head. O.M.Loard. Why just now????

"Aiba, you look like you need a hug. Let me take care of that for you~"


I will stop bothering people now : O

Thursday, 12 February 2009

Warning: I curse a lot in this entry

Thu, February 12, 2009 (1:53am EST)
Jun Matsumoto and Yui Aragaki will co-star in a new TBS drama series titled "Smile." Takayuki Takuma ("Hana Yori Dango") is handling the script, though he is using his real name rather than his usual pen name of Mikio Satake.

Matsumoto plays a half-Filipino whose father has died and mother has disappeared. Despite his misfortune and the issues he deals with, such as race, he lives his life positively with a constant smile.

Similarly, Aragaki plays a young woman living cheerfully despite losing her ability to speak due to an accident. Her character is said to be modeled after a real actress in the theatrical troupe that Takuma runs.

The supporting cast includes Kiichi Nakai as a lawyer who watches over Matsumoto and Aragaki.

"Smile" will air on Friday nights at 10:00pm, starting in April.
Source: Sports Hochi
 
 
oh. my. FUCKING. GAWD.
 
finally.
finally finally finally
 
FINALLY!
 
it's not really so much that he plays a half-Filipino Japanese (*this reminds me of my original thesis idea. GOGHDAMMITMISHIE), but more because, HELLO? the Philippines now ACTUALLY exists!
 
 
OMG! OMG OMGOMGOMGOMG!
 
 
I know it's really tacky for me to be saying "OMG" so much. But anyway, as an Arashi fan, I have been waiting for so long for anyone in the group to give even a tiny tiny tiny sign that they even knew what the Philippines was. I mean, they've had two "Arashi Around Asia" tours. These tours did not include the Philippines. This doesn't mean to say that I don't think the other countries involved in the tour did not deserve to be visited. Of course Arashi-love must be spread althroughout. Asia-wide and world-wide deserve the opportunity to be with them. Which is the point I'm trying to make with them recognizing the Philippines. No one probably counts how many times "I'M RIGHT HERE" has been my status on Y!M, because it seems irrelevant to their lives, but that's normally what I'm trying to call out to... or rather, WHO I'm trying to call out to.
 
But now the time has come. Of course, just because Jun (for those of you who don't know, he is the lead of Gokusen One and Hana Yori Dango which, for those that watch the local channels, played in GMA a couple of years ago) is in this new drama, doesn't mean he's coming here.
 
The chances of him doing that are slim, like shooting scenes and such because of the premise of the story (his Filipino father is already dead). Though, it wasn't stated which parent is the Filipino. If the mother is the Filipino (which is more likely actually) then there is a chance, but I don't think that is what the story is about (searching for his mother), so I don't think I would get my hopes up.
 
Rather, I'd be more happy about the fact that Jun would, through the drama, have a connection with Japanese-Filipino children that are often very discriminated against in Japan. In a way, he will be sympathizing with them and, by extension, us Filipinos who have a lot of relatives that struggle to make a living, no matter what the manner, in Japan. It's okay if he doesn't come here right away, that would take time, but at least he knows we're around somehow. Then perhaps he would be curious as to how Filipino audiences would think of the drama and look towards us even more. That's when we could probably hope that he would eventually turn the other members' attentions to us as well. I'm pretty sure there have already been Filipino fans to their concerts, but it will be something new.
 
We just have to wait a little longer. That's right. Just wait.
 
As for me, I'm just hoping that little longer is around summer time here, or June or July here, when they will have another AAA tour and finally realize that Philippines, oh, is part of friggin' Asia.
 
 
But, hey, kudos to Jun for FINALLY coming out in a drama again! Nothing since 2007, geezloueez!
 
And this means, Filipino fans, that Arashi will definitely have another single around April-July, yes? Think of it, the closest single that may ever be dedicated to us. Make what you will of it!
 
As for me, I'm sleeping with a smile on my face!
 
 
 
P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX! THIS IS JUN'S GIFT TO YOU, I SWEAR!

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

The most awesome LEAP and My Early Valentines with Mikes




We had an AWESOME and inspiring LEAP. I'm not even sarcastic. Liza Pamintuan was great!

We left school at 3pm and ate lunch at 3:45 at KAYA! We were soooo hungry that i forgot to take pictures!

and a date with Mikes because we haven't had a date in a loooong time. c:

Purikura wars with Micah! We. Must. Decide!
We had a shoot at the newest purikura booth but we had such a touch time trying to decide which of the BEST pictures went to who.

Saturday, 7 February 2009

How on earth do you expect me to love you again???

And so this is the story of my life. Someone must take it down and turn it into a Jdorama or something because its so greatly dramatic and at the same time very very very twistedly funny.

Because last week (Tuesday) I met with Jewel Castro, the very very very nice lady that I'm practicum-ing (Iknowitsnotanactualwordbutletmebe) with and she was very nice enough to give me a free ticket to watch! The catch was it was Love Me Again and, well, I haven't seen the film yet so I can't judge it yet and I don't really expect her to know that I don't exactly have a fondness for watching Filipino films because, well, I guess my taste is just a bit different. But so anyway, she gave me the ticket. Free. No charge. It was a free pass into any cinema. The rub was that during the time she gave it to me, it was almost a month since the movie first started showing. She hoped that I would watch it before it disappeared from the cinemas. In addition to that, she told me that my assignment for her, by *this* Tuesday, was to write the outline (the 3-Act Structure) for the entire film. "Watch it from the perspective of a writer and not just as a normal audience member," she instructed. So sure, okay. As if I haven't had enough outlining for WRIFILM, NARATIV and THESIS. But sure, she was very nice about it, why deny her the niceness she deserves, right? So, sure, I'll write another outline because all I can see in films now are Setup, Inciting Incident, Plot Point1, Build up, Midpoint, Plot Point 2, Climax, Payoff and Resolution anyway. Seriously. Then I have to watch other films too, also in Tagalog. She wanted one of each genre: Horror (Sukob), Rom-Com (A Very Special Love), Drama (A Love Story), Comedy (iforgotthetitlebutidontwanttoleaveitblank), etc. I've watched the Romantic Comedy and in all fairness the movie was actually very good. The story was told well, it had comedy in all the right places and lines that weren't so EEEEEWWW. Okay. So I didn't have any of the rest so I watched For the First Time... OH MY LORD my brain hurt trying to turn off the television screen and the dvd player. I was like... (i'm sorry to those who enjoyed the film...) "I'M DYING HERE! HELP! HELP!" It was... ugh. Torture. Absolute torture. But the assignment was to watch as many Filipino films as I could. And so watched I...died.. i mean, did. Watched I did. It was cheezy and corny and unbelievable and... I don't know. It wasn't convincing for me, even if I did like their performance, I didn't like the story at all. I felt that their trip to Greece was a waste... they didn't have to go all the way to Greece to shoot that.. That could have been done in Tagaytay and it would still have the same effect. None. Anyway....So skipping the other movies that I watched. My problem was still Love Me Again.

I checked the screenings and there was none, at least, in the usual malls that I visit, or any those near my area. I wanted to watch on Thursday but seeing as there wasn't any showing, I thought I would just search for a DVD. There was none in Astroplus or Odessey. I guess its because its still so new. And I found Sukob but it was either Php299 for a VCD and Php699 for a DVD. And why would I do that? I would gladly do so if it were something like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the DVD which I, funnily enough considering that I'm a huge HP nut, don't have yet). I refused to spend a dime. I resigned to looking for DVD copies. But the people of Metrowalk are law-abiding people. God Bless their pirating Hollywood-films souls fore they refuse to pirate local films. This never bothered me the least before, naturally, but isn't it ironic.. And for the first time ever I didn't buy any Japanese dramas or concerts in Metrowalk. I was too concerned about Love Me Again. WTH.

I was going to give up, but this morning my father struck gold and discovered that most SM Malls were still showing Love Me Again. The problem was we are so far from any SM mall that wasn't SM Makati, which didn't have any cinemas (they shoooooouuulllddd). But so, okay, there. In SM Megamall there is still one! Today! At 4:40PM! Fabulous! We can eat lunch, chat with my mom, make that last story for WRIFILM, get re-dressed in our Mass clothes, leave home, go to Megamall, watch the thing (even if I saw the reviews and found out that critics rated it a 1.5 out of 5 What. The. H, I say, but I won't), go home, write the outline, edit thesis, make practicum interview questions, watch Slumdog Millionaire and go to DreamLand as my Happily Sunday After... but no. I was really relieved, so I pluck the ticket from my plastic envelope to transfer it to my other smaller hand bag and I check it out:

Star Cinema Free pass to Love Me Again, yadayadayadaaaa, valid in any theater, yadayadayadaaaaa...Not Valid on First Day of Showing, Holidays and Sundays....yadayadaya---no, wait, what?


"Not Valid on First Day of Showing, Holidays and... SUNDAYS"????

I leaped out of my bed, tripped on the wire of my laptop, got up and hit my head on my fan, walked out of my room rubbing my poor nogin, sat on the chair of the desktop area which I missed, cursed at myself and turned on Firefox and checked the date on the calendar to double check that it was sunday. My head hurt and my vision blurred.. I saw it say:

SSuunnddaayy, FFeebbrruuaarryy 0088,, 220099

So that sucked. And I did my usual soliloquy and ran to my dad's room to tell him my amazing, groundbreaking, me tripping, head aching, ass-missing-the-chair discovery.

His solution: "Edi bayaran mo nalang."


"TUMPAK!" I heard some people on Cinema One tell Toni Gonzaga in some film that I don't know the title of because I was hoping A Love Story was on so I could cross that off my list.. anyway, i'm missing the point. 

So anyway, I slapped my forehead and tantrum-ed out of the room, pouting, went back into my room and stuffed the ticket back into my bag anyway. Maybe the Lord will grant me that one wish of the Megamall Cinema Movie personnel people to look upon me with pity, watching the film all by my lonesome. And with God knowing that I am such in a pinch with money because it is my life's destiny to go to Japan with every single centavo I have, will grant me free pass into the movie anyway.


Again, my Sunday story alone would make for a very interesting episode of a drama, don't you think. Very rollercoaster-y in emotion and yet very hilarious. Yes, you may laugh at me. I laugh at myself too. All the Godblessed time. c:



PS. Belated Happy Birthday to Momochi-chan!!! Yeah! Make me okonomiyaki because I've never eaten it before!

Thursday, 5 February 2009

I...have no idea what i'm going to write here so the title will be long because of that.

I remember memorizing my horoscope this morning just in case it came true. Maybe it did. The problem is I forgot the horoscope. My memory. Aya...


Then I texted my dad. He replied two minutes later and I had no recollection of what he replied "k" to. I was like...."I have no idea what the hell i just sent him." And of course I was too lazy to find out so I never found out.

Then I almost forgot to get the conforme form from Micah. It was a funny scene on the street. We got out of the CJ Xerox place and were like:

Me: Okay, you go ahead. I owe you 20 pesos okay?
Micah: No problem man.
Me: Imma head back now
Micah: work on those designs
Me: I will

*walk away*

Me: OH Micah!
Micah: yeah?
Me: conforme!
Micah: ooooh yeah! good thing you remembered, dude!
Me: I'm even surprised with myself, actually

*hands conforme*
*walk away again*

Micah: MISH!
Me: E?

<there is an empty space in this slot because i forgot what micah called me for....dammit.>


And being micah's friend is no help either because she forgets more than i do....

TIME!

I think i remem---




nuh, nope. no i don't.



Friday, 30 January 2009

A little bit closer

because of KeyholeTV!


now I can listen to arashi and watch them too. Happy da ne~


I HAVE TBS ()*#$&@#*&$!!!!
I actually saw Love Shuffle for the first time!! Matsuda Shota is SO... *sighs* and so is Tamaki Hiroki.

And I have radio! oh wow. And I get to see ohno later!

The schedule (for me so I don't forget):

ALL TV SHOWS:

Monday

05:20~08:00 (4:20 Manila) Zoom In Super (NTV)
05:25~08:00 (4:20) Mezamashi Terebi (Fuji TV)
08:30~09:55 (7:30) Hanamaru Market (TBS)
18:55~19:54 (5:55 PM) Tokyo Friend Park 2 (TBS)
20:00~20:54 (7PM) HEY!HEY!HEY! (Fuji TV)
22:00~22:54 (9PM) SMAP x SMAP (Fuji TV) —> SMAP
22:54~23:58 (9:54PM) News Zero (NTV)
23:58~00:29 (10:58PM) Arashi no Shukudai-kun (NTV)—> Arashi

Tuesday

05:20~08:00 (4:20) Zoom In Super (NTV)
05:25~08:00 (4:25) Mezamashi Terebi (Fuji TV)
08:30~09:55 (7:30) Hanamaru Market (TBS)
19:56~20:54 (6:56PM) Gakkou e ikou! MAX (TBS) —> V6
21:00~21:54 (8PM) Zubari iu wa yo! (TBS) —> Takizawa Hideaki


Wednesday

05:20~08:00 (4:20) Zoom In Super (NTV)
05:25~08:00 (4:25) Mezamashi Terebi (Fuji TV)
08:30~09:55 (7:30) Hanamaru Market (TBS)
23:58~00:29 (10:58PM) Cartoon KAT-TUN (NTV) —> Kat-tun
00:15~00:45 (11:15PM) Domoto Tsuyoshi no Shoujiki Shindoi (TV Asahi) —> Domoto Tsuyoshi (KinKi Kids)
00:55~01:25 (11:55PM) Muchaburi (TBS)—> Kanjani Eito

Thursday

05:20~08:00 Zoom In Super (NTV)
05:25~08:00 Mezamashi Terebi (Fuji TV)
08:30~09:55 Hanamaru Market (TBS)
19:54~20:54 (6:54PM) Utaban (TBS)
22:00~22:54 Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi (Fuji TV) —> DRAMA
23:15~23:45 VivaVivaV6 (Fuji TV) —> V6

Friday

05:20~08:00 Zoom In Super (NTV)
05:25~08:00 Mezamashi Terebi (Fuji TV)
08:30~09:55 Hanamaru Market (TBS)
19:54~20:54 (6:54PM) Music Station (TV Asahi)


ARASHI REGULAR SHOWS


News

Every Monday [22:54 – 23:58] News Zero with Sakurai Sho as co-host (Nihon TV)

 
TV Shows

Every Monday [23:58 – 0:28] Arashi no Shukudai-kun (Nihon TV)
Every Thursday [22:00 – 23:00] Himitsu no Arashi-chan (TBS)
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Every week: Monday to Friday [6:50 – 6:55] ARASHI DISCOVERY with Ohno Satoshi
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Every Saturday [10:20 – 10:50] Arashi * JUN STYLE with Matsumoto Jun (NACK 5)
Every Sunday [22:00 – 22:30] BAY STORM with Ninomiya Kazunari (Bay Fm)

 


Thursday, 29 January 2009

Arashi Becomes Anime

Well, I just read (I'm very behind and am very inactive, unfortunately, in my vox) that Arashi's new single, Believe, will have two versions. I think this will be the first time it will happen that Arashi will have two versions of PVs for the same song. Unless I read wrong, one version will be the normal faces of Arashi singing and then the other one will be them in full animation, Yatterman style. Yatterman is Sho's new movie and the single comes out on March 4 along with Ohno's solo single for his own drama, Uta no Oniisan.

I'm not totally sure yet if it really is going to be two versions. The preview I saw was the animated one. And because the style is so similar from one character to another, it becomes difficult for me to understand who is who. I'm very amused, actually! But of course I like seeing the real people better than animated versions. Ohno is very obvious because of his hair though. Nino has a new hairstyle (in real life, not in the animation). And Jun looks very Jun-y because of the purple...and the twinkling eyes. WTH. hahaha the only one that isn't so obvious is Aiba. He has this different look....


anyway, i better head off.

What to do with an hour, imagination and stress.

No, this is not an instructional blog on what to do with an hour, imagination and stress. I wish I could provide the answer to the last one but right now, this is my way to kill time (the hour).

I am in school, waiting for the time that I will consult with my thesis mentor. Well, there's one thing I can say about him. Stressful. Hahaha. Okay, no, really. I'm really lucky that I got the best mentor for my type of thesis because he's accomplished and really smart and, I guess if you look past that sarcastic, dark humor, he's a really helpful mentor. I guess I'm just not that fond of the sarcastic, dark humor unless its, like, me talking. Haha. That aside, I think that so far I am doing okay. I'm waaaay out of whack with my gantt chart thesis timetable-thingy that I had to make and submit last term for my thesis proposal. At this point I should already be, what, 2/3s in writing my story but since I had to submit an outline first and then NOW I have to revise it, it might take another 2 weeks before I'm able to even start writing. Is 6 weeks enough to come up with a single draft of a screenplay? The books I have read tell me that such is possible, so I guess. But here's the rub. I partially don't know what I'm doing any more. My creative juices that I've reserved for my thesis is slowly being nuked away. Little by little I am being consumed with thoughts of other stories that might work into screenplays. The books I've read on screenplay writing told me this would happen: the denial to think and write. I'm making excuses not to write, "my idea isn't good enough", "ugh, I think, why am I even doing this!", "i think I have a better idea of what to write". All those, were in the book. They knew that writers try to excuse themselves from writing. Everyday I'm becoming more and more conscious of this and add to that the fact that I am WAY intimidated by my mentor, well, it doesn't help.

And I'm at that stage, i think, that I just want this part of my life to be done and overwith. I'm trying to go through things little by little. I don't count the days that go by for as long as they, in the end, do indeed come to pass. All I'm thinking is that everyday that passes that I am productive or just doing something, not being static and idle, i come a step closer to finishing studying and finally being able to do things that I restricted from doing because I'm a student. Not that I don't like studying completely. I mean, I have heard some adults in the workforce say that they prefer studying to working (maybe because there are more vacations). But I just believe that there is more waiting for me outside of school. It's difficult to explain really. Mostly I just miss my mom because I just want to go over there and restart my life. Or rather, officially start my adult life. I want to start making it up to her that she's been such a great mom and so I just want to be able to do something for her (i said that already but I'm lazy to edit it out).

Besides, I'm confined to school. I'm tired of seeing white and green all the time. Even if I'm only here a max of 3 times a week. It's still tiring. Not that I don't like the school, I'm very lucky to be here. I just feel constricted, that's all. The world is too huge to be stuck in one place for five years and four months, you know. I guess i'm just excited to spread my wings. It was only here in school that I realized I'm, to a certain level, claustrophobic. I like wide spaces, spaces where there are minimum people, where it can just be me and my imagination.

Darn, I need my imagination for my thesis though. To be honest, I don't know exactly what i'm consulting about today. I got my sequence outline back yesterday and it just made me confused. I guess I'm hoping for enlightenment today. Just something to clear my head or open it up to new ideas. I know that perhaps I got stuck in this place in my screenplay and I don't know how else to steer it. I just need an idea and a direction in which I can go so that I can start going in that direction, to be clearer. That's what I'm consulting about, I guess. I need clarity. What shocks me slightly is that my mentor told me that I can defend with an approved first draft of my screenplay. That was unbelievable considering that I'm not comfortable with just one draft. I'm a person of at least two drafts and someone that smiles at my work. That sense of reassurance. What I'm scared most about that I haven't dared admit until now is that I'm worried that my heart is not fully 100000% into this story. Maybe I'm still stuck at a hesitance that I can't explain. Can I defend something that I haven't totally learned to love yet? I'm getting there, I know it, because it's my story (of course with the help of my special thesismate). I just need that clarity of mind. Otherwise, I am lost. Lately, I've decided to suck up my fears and consult with my mentor whenever I feel like I really have to. I'm so intimidated that I would actually rather that we email instead of have face to face consultation but that really takes a lot of time and there is a risk of not coming to an understanding. I can't bare to waste time either, because I need all the time I can get (add to that the times that I feel like I have to take a breather from all the thinking and just do something I want to do for a change)...

The book by Syd Field that I borrowed and another of his books that I read said that I have to treat my screenplay like another half, like a boyfriend. Yeah, I try my best to. I think about "him" a lot but I'm just not sure what to do with "him". It's like I'm trying to speak to a person that only speaks when spoken to (much like my own personality at times). What's more, "he" only gives me one word answers or answers that don't seem to connect or have any sense.


32 minutes to go before consultation time.

I don't really know what makes me so nervous to talk to my mentor. Maybe its because he's really so intimidating. Otherwise, he is quite helpful. Perhaps though I was expecting someone that would be able to give me concrete answers, not vague ones that keep me swimming in my melted brain all the more. :c I can do this though. I can. As long as time continues to pass and I have my head on straight, keeping my eye on the goal (finishing), I can do it.

I guess in the end this blog was more about talking to myself (again) about the things I should set out to accomplish. I rarely seem to be really talking to anyone in my blogs anyway. Though, I guess that's really the tone of most blogs: either to make other people hear you or let you hear yourself.


OMG, philosophy... on that note, I am crazy about our philosophy professor *note sarcasm*. He makes absolute sense and now I want to practice being others to others. WTH, that so totally did not make sense at all. Why on earth. He talks to himself and then goes on with examples that don't seem to add up. I almost fell asleep in his class twice, most of the time I have to get by by trying to draw (which helps Micah I guess because I'm designing during then--go multitasking!), but the point is that he doesnt make sense... and his readings dont make sense and then during the exams he's going to expect really profound answers that is just not fair and Justin is threatening to abandon me! Okay no, he's not threatening to abandon me...but he is *thinking* of abandoning me which is still bad. Don't leave me aluuun! Hahaha. I don't want to drop this subject though. My philosophy on dropping subjects is that for as long as you pass it, take it. It will only extend my stay and add to future stress if I drop it, plus, its always managable no matter how weird the professor is. GENDERS was like that for me as well. It certainly made a bit more sense than in PHILOPE now, but still. Take it. Finish it. Remember what I said earlier, themore that I get done, the faster everything is going to be. Its like a make-shift time machine or adrenalin. Or something. Instead of time going faster, you are going faster that you speed through time. Achieve a quick pace, try to achieve the speed of light, no matter how much faster light is compared to you. And then time will pass faster. Whatever, I'm no Einstien on time travel or Stephen Hawkings but yeah. Go fast. Beat time. Go forward. Do my best. Kitto Daijoubu. Rock you. We can make it! Dive into the future. *is starting to spit out Arashi song titles. hahhahaha* OMG that's the key. Listen to arashi songs. It will solve all depressions hahahah.


Do I care that this entry was long? No. I thrive in length. Let's hope I can thrive in stress as well. Though, I don't want to make that a habit.

No matter how silly it is...

...it made me make a wish and it is a wish that, no matter how silly the wish-making method, i want to come true.  hahahahaha. i got this from my cousin's blog.


DO NOT CHEAT OR IT WON'T WORK AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HADN'T.


TAKES 3 MINUTES
TRY THIS - IT WILL FREAK YOU OUT



THIS GAME HAS A FUNNY / CREEPY OUTCOME.








DO NOT READ AHEAD, JUST DO IT.






IT TAKES ABOUT 3 MINUTES - WORTH A TRY (Uh-huh. :> Hits quite some spots. -Mo)


1st. Get a PEN and PAPER

2nd. WHEN CHOOSING NAMES, MAKE SURE THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT YOU ACTUALLY KNOW.

3rd. GO WITH YOUR FIRST INSTINCT!!!!! It's very important for good results.

4th SCROLL DOWN

ONE LINE AT A TIME
DON'T READ AHEAD
otherwise
YOU WILL RUIN THE FUN.






1. On a blank sheet of paper, WRITE
NUMBERS 1 through 11 in a COLUMN on
the LEFT.














2. Next to the NUMBERS 1 & 2,

WRITE DOWN ANY 2 NUMBERS YOU WANT.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE NUMBER?
















3. Next to the NUMBERS 3 & 7,

WRITE DOWN THE NAMES OF TWO MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX. SAME SEX IF YOU'RE GAY. 















CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK AHEAD or IT WILL NOT TURN OUT RIGHT.














4. WRITE ANYONE'S NAME

(like FRIENDS or FAMILY...)
next to 4, 5, & 6.
















DON`T CHEAT OR YOU'LL BE UPSET THAT YOU DID.













5. WRITE down FOUR SONG TITLES in 8, 9, 10, & 11

















6. Finally,

MAKE A WISH




















ARE YOU READY?
HERE IS THE KEY TO THE GAME
















1. THE NUMBER of PEOPLE THAT LIKE YOU
is found in

SPACE 2 

Well, Arashi (5. Shaddap, if you know me well enough you'd know they'd have to be counted collectively) + Shia Le Bouf (1) + ...basta(1) = 7. I CAN DO MATH YUUH!





2. THE PERSON IN SPACE

3 IS THE ONE YOU LOVE 

<s>*wants to make a comment but won't*</s> technically, it's right.





3. THE PERSON YOU LIKE but your
relationship CANNOT WORK is in

SPACE 7 

Uso! OF COURSE it CAN work with Ohno!!! Stop spreading LIES, internet survey/quiz/thingy thing!!





4. YOU CARE MOST about the PERSON you
put in

SPACE 4 

Of course she's my number one!!!





5. THE PERSON YOU NAME IN NUMBER 5 IS
THE ONE WHO

KNOWS YOU VERY WELL. 

As she would say "that's true~"





6. THE PERSON YOU NAMED IN 6 IS YOUR

LUCKY STAR 

Rai, you're my lucky lucky baby. xD (listen to Kitto Daijoubu yo!)





7. THE SONG IN 8 IS THE SONG THAT
MATCHES WITH THE

PERSON IN NUMBER 3

A.RA.SHI????? E?????????




8. THE TITLE IN 9 IS THE SONG FOR THE

PERSON IN 7 

'Twas the song that made me fall. *faints* Sakura Sake





9. THE 10TH SPACE IS THE SONG THAT
TELLS YOU MOST ABOUT

YOUR MIND 

Yes. My mind is Beautiful Days. :o  that is because I spend most of them daydreaming.





10. AND 11 IS THE SONG TELLING HOW YOU

FEEL ABOUT LIFE

I feel that life is truth. xD Oh. That is quite a dark song. : O





11. NUMBER 1 IS YOUR

LUCKY NUMBER 

ever since the 6th grade :O





repost this
WITHIN AN HOUR OF READING THIS.





IF YOU DO, YOUR WISH WILL COME TRUE.

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

The World Goes On.

This is just the second time in a long time that I have posted in a long time. And I've only posted in the past or looked at a few old pictures of mine, but never really dabbled in multiply much anymore.

But today I went out of my own page and looked at my contact list. Admittedly this is because I'm waiting for something I'm waiting for to load properly, but anyway. The point is that even just through looking at everyone's Headshots, I've already been overcome with a sense of change that everyone has gone through. I'm an airhead for not really noticing or because I'm being oblivious. Yes, I am. Especially with people I haven't seen since high school, it seems like eons since and I now see them differently. I feel happy for them, especially those of my batchmates who seem to be really happy and already fulfilled in their lives. To those that still see each other regularly, I applaud them for such a friendship. The magic of this technology is that I really see all the change and remember what people used to be like. I wonder how things really are for them now and hope that the happiness they project in their pictures are real. The world could really use more happiness.

I'm not sure why I am suddenly feeling nostalgic. I suppose that I feel content as well that at least at this very moment, I am fine and I am managing myself well, just as I hope others are happy as well.

I'm not sure what I'm talking about any more.

Monday, 26 January 2009

Even in a hundred years.

Every day or, at least, every now and then, we find something that we like. We see it, we pass by it, like it for a while, a moment. We say we like it. We ponder about it for a moment and then we eventually move on. It's not uncommon to see some one and hear them say, "hey! I like that!" or "Look that's so cool!".

But then sometimes, perhaps times much less than those that we say "I like that!" are the times you see something, hear it, pass by it...and ponder for a little longer than a moment, and in that milli-second of a moment that you spend pondering about it a little more, that thing or person becomes different. Later on, you'll look back on it and think that you did not just like it. Not for a moment. Not just for a while. And you realize that it stayed.

For me, it's very very rarely that I come across things or people that have that profound an effect on me. They're few and I can count them with my fingers. On just one hand.

I can't explain how something or someone latches on to me. Or, well, should I say, *I* latch onto them. There is never really a single reason or a single word that can describe it. I just do. For some reason that I don't know but I know that it is there. Whatever it is, the feeling that I have for it or that person is unexplainable, perhaps crazy, and very strong. It's one of those forces of nature that is too big for me to comprehend. But when I latch on to it, I believe that it is for life. Latch, now that I think about it, seems like such a parasitic word, maybe that's what I am.

As parasitic and dependent as it may seem, these things and these people keep me alive. At least, they make me feel like I am alive, even just in that moment, in that second. Perhaps an hour, if I am lucky. Having those moments when I am given an opportunity to step out of my usual mediocrity, my normal-ness, makes me feel vibrant. Hopeful. And it is perhaps these reasons that make it harder for me to part with them when the time comes because it makes me less willing to let go.

Whenever I think and remember these things and people that mean a lot to me, it makes me think that I can have a life so much more different than the life I have now, that I can be far more than who I am now. That I can step out of my mediocrity and monotony completely and become real. Truly alive. Although other things keep getting in the way and threaten to push me down, it is these that I have to be thankful for, for keeping me standing and trudging on.

Because of that I believe I've developed this kind of innate loyalty to those things and people. Its like of like, how something has been part of you or with you for so long that you don't remember what it's like to be without it, so your system can't seem to deal with the thought of losing these things. That's how I feel like when I know I have to part with something I treasure. For me, these things and people that I've grown to love have helped me grow into someone I never thought I could be. A few of these people I've had to let go for one reason or another. Same with things. But there are a select few that I pray I would never have to part with.

 

It's funny how I am able to latch on to people and just know that they'll be part of me forever. Kind of like how I know how something I watch or I touch, an event or moment I experience will never be erased from my memory. They are those things that mean the most to me. No matter what.

 

I can't explain it. I just know.

 

Supporting me no matter when, to my friend I share laughter and tears.
My heart is full of just one thing, the word I'm sending is thank you.

I promise this love even for one hundred years, you are my everything.
I love you, I just love you, I will promise the same tomorrow.
You're the only one in this world and I choose you.
If you are here, the future will be bright no matter what.

どんなときも 支えてくれた 笑い泣いた仲間へ
心込めて ただひとつだけ 贈る言葉はありがとう

百年先も 愛を誓うよ 君は僕の全てさ
愛している ただ愛してる 同じ明日約束しよう
世界中に ただ一人だけ 僕は君を選んだ
君といれば どんな未来も ずっと輝いているから


ARASHI-One Love.mp3 - arashi

Friday, 2 January 2009

Into 2009 with the Loanzons




Cheers for me! My longest drive back and forth ever! >:)

It was an Ultimate Bonding Experience (UBE) with these guys. I love them to bits. It's always not enough to spend just a couple of days a year with them. Nothing like drinks to bond with the family, that's right. And we spent the next day gathering dust in the attic where I finished FFVII: Crisis Core. Whoop-pah! No fireworks from us this year. So we all just watched and shouted at the Canyon Woods staff that they were late in setting off the fireworks. Demanding much.

Anyway, stole pictures from the photographer. Haha!


"Wer na U? Here na me. We miz U p0hwz." xD Benta.

Oi, Mig, organize organize organize! :o