Friday, 30 January 2009
A little bit closer
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)
Every Saturday [12:59 – 13:30] VS Arashi (Fuji TV)
Every Saturday [19:00 – 19:57] Tensai Shimura Doubutsuen with Aiba Masaki as co-host (Nihon TV)
Radio
Every week: Monday to Friday [6:50 – 6:55] ARASHI DISCOVERY with Ohno Satoshi
Every Friday [0:00 – 0:30] Arashi * Aiba no Recomen Arashi Remix with Aiba Masaki
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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