my first KAT-TUN meme! :O

Stolen and adapted shamelessly from the KAT-TUN Worldwide website. Kill me :P

long post!

Forgive me if this post comes out not so well finished; I've only just finished watching the footage of the big live tour, the DVD I put aside because of the exams, and I wanted to hurry and get it written down here while this feeling is still at its peak.

Seriously?

fly high

Hellz yeah it's Friday. Which means the big ol' accounting mock exam is today. Be very afraid!

I'm not as sleepy as I thought I'd be (rather the opposite, in fact); I think it's the excitement. Not from the prospect of the test, obviously, but from watching too much drama. The website isn't called DramaCrazy for nothing. :/ Anyway, I'll just wing the test the way I usually wing the revisions. Should be alright. I hope. Hee, dramas.

There's always a microscopic, remote chance that someone might be curious so these are the shows I'm following:

1. SungKyunKwan Scandal

[on KBS World (it's on Astro - top-notch subbing!)]

2. Mary Stayed Out All Night a.k.a. Marry Me, Mary

(the male leads are brilliant)

3. Secret Garden

(odd, very different, but interesting so far)

4. **** *****

(I'm keeping this nugget under wraps because it's so clever that I want to go around quoting it, haha. It's the only Japanese one on this list though...)

Happy happy me! :D

*gets bricked by Ms. Anu for failing test*

p.s.: I realised today that I'm still as much in love with Kame as ever, that my recent lack of extreme fangirlism was just me finishing with the insane freshie phase. Yay!

Let tomorrow come NOW!

Kame's high notes are KILLING me. Thought it was Ueda when I first heard the song, but when I found out it was Kame I was really impressed! See, they don't need Jin to be amazing. He can go on with his Yellow Gold Tour for all I care (and, by doing so, fill my inbox with spam from Johnny's International). I'm not really an Akame fan, ugh.

Kame looks a lot healthier and happier these days. I'm glad. :) There was a point just a few months ago where he looked so drawn and tired that I really wished he'd stop working so hard. Sure I'd see him a lot less, but I'd rather see him less than see him looking so ill... Anyway, he looks better now, so yay! Maybe interior designing is therapeutic! :D

change ur world

A preview on Kame's own radio show, Kase by Kase! Happy is me. :) They've gone back to semi-rock! I've replayed the preview so many times since Saturday that I might just get tired of the song before it actually gets released next month... but no matter, there's always the PV (and the making of it) to look forward to! Never mind the fact that I have a serious mock exam two days after the release date, I'll be waiting online all day for the downloads to become available. :D

If only they had a wider fanbase here, I wouldn't have to be criminal about it and could've just bought the single (all three editions, woohoo) in original form, but nope. Not a peep. :(

Give me a week or two, maybe I'll be done laughing by then.

Mi Nam's Generation! Super awesome parody, with Lee Hongki in heels, LOL. I maintain that Jang Geun Suk makes quite a damned pretty female. Tae Kyung = ♥




Something that showcases just how crazy the love rivals are. I have no idea what Tae Kyung is doing to the wall, by the way.

Can't - stop - laughing!

Probably only so hilarious if you know how super serious most of these characters are within the actual story. Especially Mr. Biting Frost himself, whose actor is in actual fact a total dork worthy of rivaling SJ's Heechul. Oh, what am I going on about? They're ALL such dorks in these vids! ♥

ballads and the like

Cuts from episodes 16 and 7, respectively, of You're Beautiful, which doesn't have a single unlikeable track in its OST. Both songs are the sad, melancholic type, but they're so lovely I can't help loving them and keeping them on replay. I seem to have been on some kind of Korean roll lately. Hmm. I've been told that this was shocking since I've always been such a Japanophile, but I don't see why being one should mean that I'm automatically anti-Korean. I have always, from the beginning of this hallyu thing, maintained that each has its own merits. And like I've mentioned before several times, it doesn't matter what language good music is in and whether or not I understand. Good listening is good listening, and this OST is good listening.

BUT. Change Ur World will be out in a month! :P

You can bet your horse (or, failing that, your sibling) that I'll be ranting like crazy when it does, whether or not it lives up to my expectations. So if I appear to have cooled down at all about KAT-TUN, it's only because they've not released anything since NO MORE PAIИ. I still love them to distraction!

when the weekends come

I owe my survival to KAT-TUN, A.N.Jell, Younha and 9th Street. Thank you for existing.

for the lulz

The more I watch him, the more I love the character Hwang Tae Kyung in You're Beautiful. Smooth character development aside, he has such funny quirks and such weird habits! Shellfish and sesame and pollen allergies, leporiphobia, an obsession with cleanliness and order, perfectionism, night-blindness, the weird thing he does with his mouth when he's thinking... O_O So many weaknesses in one character, but somehow he pulls it off quite well and it doesn't seem overdone.

[link] <-- super LOL moment.

I really like this K-drama, because of how visually pleasing everything is. And I'm not even talking about the people - though the main four are indeed a pleasure to watch, if only because they're all fantastic actors. The set itself is gorgeous, from the office/studio to their dorm.

A dorm? Really? I'd never have believed a 'dorm' so sumptuous and well-designed. The band members each have such spacious and amazing rooms (cleverly designed with the character's personality in mind, with brilliant uses of the huge space and of textures... Oh, now I'm waxing estate agent), and the common spaces are so well done! Good lighting, the right colours, excellent props... I could go on for hours. If I ever had a plot of land to build a house on, I'd model my house after this so-called dorm.

The clothes! I've always had a thing for the boat neck thing and the oversized neck thing, no idea what they're called but they're cho cool - and this drama ships both like no-one's business. Tae Kyung is almost always in either (follow link above)! Plus they have the other guys wearing other awesome gear, like the plethora of jackets they all seem to own, everyone's shades and the extremely cute beanie from Episode 8. (No-one beats the Japs at rocking hats, though, it's a fact.)

Ah, and the music. As expected of a story about a band, it's almost always playing just the right kind of song in the background. I guess it helps that the main actors are all also singers to a certain degree?

So, yes, in case it isn't bleedingly obvious by now, I am obsessed with this drama. The plot isn't much, but it's everything else - cast, costume, music, setting - that keeps me drawn to it. Nice, short, manageable dramas are bombs! On to the next episode!

mixed

Today was so... eventful that I don't quite know how to feel about it. Good and bad, fantastic and horrible. I think, on a whole, I am more happy than not (the scales tip in whichever direction I will them to), though I am also extremely tired. But let's be systematic about this.

Reasons to be happy:

1 The KAT-TUN concert DVD sitting on my shelf.

2 The Le Premier Verre (starring 亀, naturally) DVD sitting on my shelf.

3 The final volume of Those With Wings sitting on my shelf.

4 The three pieces of completely OOC clothing mummy bought for me.

5 The big fat Teach Yourself kit daddy bought for me.

6 The new packet of McVities in the kitchen.

Reasons to be less-than-happy:

1 The fact that I couldn't bring myself to buy my expensive Emo Gamer Guy cosplay ensemble.

2 My lack of a personal statement (and the inspiration for one).

3 The feeling of hideousness that always comes with shopping.

4 My near-bankruptcy.

5 The infuriating, rage-inducing slowness of my internet connection today.

There. Data to support my stubborn intent to be happy with what I have and not to bemoan what I don't. Really, it would be foolish to allow this happiness to be marred by such immoderate greed, dissatisfaction and impatience. Contentment. That's what I need to learn.

Imitation

I finally realised that I am rather like the character K from the manhwa I Wish by Seo Hyun-joo, in that I tend to become a wannabe clone of people I like. Seriously. Like in my Howl phase, when I wanted earrings like his, my Cian phase when I thought Irish names were so fascinating, my Izumo-no-Takeru phase when I decided that tsundere was out and smiley was in...

Yeah. But, er, I'm not sure what effect my 亀 fandom has had on my preferences just yet. Unless it was the whole eyebrow thing?

more video spammage

The pleasant surprise jpopasia gave me with that last Younha song had me trawling through its archives for other Younha stuff, and I found this! It's Korean, which isn't my usual fare (75% of my listening is Japanese), but music isn't limited to language, yes? Hmm.

Well, in this one, the lyrics don't actually fit the song much, but it's a good video nevertheless. I just love music videos that tell stories, rather than those that only feature random dancing and pointless posing. Cough cough half of KAT-TUN's PVs are like that cough cough. And 80% of the world's music videos. Which is probably why White X'mas is still one of my all-time favourite PVs. If only I could find it on YouTube! I'd embed it here and force people to watch it, heh.

On an unrelated note, I've discovered that the only way I can still apply colours to my posts is by keying in the html codes. Meh, what a pain.

normalcy

To make up for the plain foolishness of all my recent posts, I tried to post something more normal this time but somehow nothing in my to-post queue qualifies as normal. Fanposts, by the way, are considered very abnormal as well, in my desperate bid to hold on to the sane, uninfested part of my mind.

Hmm. There are, at the moment, quite a number of things I have to (or maybe just want to) say, but I can't find a way to convey all of that across. My word-blindness again, no doubt. Not unexpected, either, since it's been aeons since I've actually picked a book up. To have five books half-read and waiting around to be read is something that still shocks me now, and would have appalled my schooling self. I had a free evening today with about three hours to spare, and I spent it reorganising my economics notes. If that isn't unnatural, nothing is.

Oh, here's something normal to blog about. Blogger is messing around and I can't colour my words. How horrible. I had no idea blogging would feel this dry without the ability to add colours to my posts. Grey counts as a colour, mind you, so I can't even vary my words within the boundaries of monochromatism. What a blister.

For fear of sounding positively vapid (more than I already do, anyway), I shall stop here and go to sleep. And...bye-bye.

Oh noes, some fandom managed to slip in. Oops.

hi there, burogi

IELTS. Hmm. Yeah. Mm. *hysterical laughter*

Aaaaaaanyway. Tokyohive has made me a very excited kid tonight and now I cannot wait for October the first. Reasons being:

1. It's a suit. Suits are bombs.

2. After the last one with the Panasonic Lamdash, who doesn't want to see another one?

3. His hair, thank goodness it's all right. The sudden scissors scene was terrifying.

4. IT'S. A. SUIT.

I want a Gao Gao toy (some kind of Jenga-like game). It would be the most hilarious thing in the world to play with friends. 8D

nankurunaisa

Lanterns in Vnam Kitchen, Ipoh.

Keep the faith; one faraway day you'll see your real face and understand that no one can rescue you but yourself. If you don't start to love yourself right now, it is only to your detriment. You say you wish to feel no more pain? Then get going! There is no signal, no flag to start your journey but your own will. Start now and DO THE D-MOTION.

Hahaha.

A silly, poorly disguised piece of fandom that was almost obscene to write, what with all my laughter at my own expense. But hey, we all have our vices. Mm. Oh, yes. Nankurunaisa, by the way, is a quirky little bit of Okinawan that roughly means, "It will all work out." Admirable attitude, that. Just the right spirit to take with me into the test tomorrow.

Nankurunaisa, everyone!

om nom nom

An ADDICTION. That's what this is.

Another pressie picture. :)

counter-poison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMs-mKjXiQ

Currently, the only thing that can successfully distract me from general KAT-TUN fandom (I swear NMP exacerbated the syndrome) is Matsushita Yuya. :D No comparison, of course, but definitely good enough as a distraction. Sure, he's a little too girly at times, but it's all good because he's also childishly funny at times. It somewhat makes up for the deficiencies.

Picture is of a highly treasured piece of lettuce (haha).

we're alive today as well

Tomorrow, I have a mock exam for economics. And here I am ensuring my FAIL grade. I never will learn, will I.

Is it hypocritical of me to repeatedly insist that my level of English is just decent, but then get unhappy when someone misguidedly attempts to correct me? Is it being arrogant or boastful in any way? Worse, am I belittling that someone's abilities?

Tell me it isn't so, or I will die a sudden death by guilt. D:

p.s.: You know, the surest sign of how much I love KAT-TUN is my blithe, feigned ignorance of their atrocious English.

prelude to greatness

"Chief..."

"What is it?"

I kid you not. Those four little words up there almost always herald EPICness.

I love the Factory Skit. ;A;