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.

ORION - Mika Nakashima

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

Warning: I curse a lot in this entry

MatsuJun, Gakky pair up for "Smile"

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

All material, unless otherwise stated, copyright © 2006-2009 Tokyograph. All rights reserved.

 

 

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!

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.

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!

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.