On K8's Puzzle, NEWS, JND, and Online Thieves

Okay, I've been really busy this month (and might even be busier next March) that I almost failed to reach my minimum fan posts per month. My aim is to at least post 10 entries a month, you see.

Anyway, I heard that Kanjani8 is releasing a new album soon entitled "Puzzle." Hurray for K8! This time, I'm hoping to hear non-cheery music, not necessarily sad but less bubblegum pop.

This makes me sad for NEWS. I seriously miss them! I want a new PV! How long will it take for them to release a new single?? Or when will the DVD for Diamond be released? I'm too impatient! Waaah. Announce at least a new drama for Pi or a lead role for Ryo and I'll end this rant right now. XP. Of course as an ordinary fan, I can do nothing but wait for something to happen.

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Johnnynodepato is getting more and more inactive these days. My schoolworks interferes with our business and vice-versa. Sometimes, I feel that it's quite unfair that I always get to work hard and maintain the business site, meet customers, organize promos and advertise, while my cousin only does the rare job of shopping for the shirts (per batch) and meeting customers in the southern area. *Sigh* And we get the same amount of incentives. Oh well.

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Speaking of JND, I discovered this newly opened online Malaysian fan shop that sells imitation JE shirts (like us) over LJ. This isn't an issue about competition. What bothers me is that she dared to use the pic I personally took for the back design of our KAT-TUN QOP shirt. I know it's my shot since the background used is even the bedsheets in our room! I want to scold her and let her earn a lesson of learning to ask permission before posting first, but I accidentally deleted the comment I already typed. Lucky her for not experiencing my "wrath", especially when I'm in this kind of stressed mood. X)

Kame's Birthday Parteeh!

Feb 23, 2009

I'm late by one day.
Oh well, Otanjoubi Omedetou from the Philippines, Kamenashi Kazuya! ^^

Anyway, it was my nephew's baptismal the day before Kame's birthday. My cousins and I were on the reception when I mentioned that Kame's birthday was going to be really near. Rio corrected me by clarifying that Turtle's birthday would be the day after the baptismal (February 23)! I immediately thought of having a celebration since there would be no classes on that day in our country.

So we planned to have a sushi party for him! Good thing that the supermarket was so near the reception area that we just asked for the help of our elder cousin to drive us there. We had a hard time finding the crab meat, sushi mat and nori so we had to commute to get into another supermarket. We really exerted a lot of effort. Rio said that even though Ate Len, Kame's official wife in our clan, was not even going to be there to celebrate with us, we still did it that big! She would have work that day. :(

Back to the party planned. On the 23rd, Rio and I started making sushi at 10am. We had our little cousins help us too. Party balloons that were used during Keichi's baptismal were reused while our little cousins designed each balloons with doodles of Kame's name, etc and also made the banner.



This is our little cousin Yomi, whose ichiban is Massu. She used to be Kame's ex fangirl though. We convinced her to let Kame go for Ate Len. LOL. By the way, K & A are kani sushis while M, E, and the heart-shaped thingys are all california makis. It was my idea to shape them all like that. ^^



Take a look at the final table set-up! :D



These people (actually my cousins) were trying to pose with the set-up we made. We don't have a printed pic of Kame ready, so we just used a laptop as a pic. We even changed our wallpapers for Kame's special day. That boy who looks annoyed is Ice, one of my nephews (child of my cousin). I'm proud to say that he is a Koki fanboy. LOL


Rio made these 3 special sushi! 3 KAMEs (Turtles) of course. :D


Our final pose! They were really yummy! Our efforts were paid-off. :D After eating, we extended our celebration by playing guess the tune, badminton and basketball.
:)

Yay! FUNFUNFUN!


Again, happy birthday Kame-chan!!! :D

Ryo-chan Won Best Supporting Actor!

School is keeping me really busy that I don't even have the time to go home (or atleast write a proper blog entry here, or read my friend's page on lj, etc.etc.)! Yesterday, I was sooo in the mood to write and rant about our loss during this interclass basketball competition that I wanna kill this player who was hugging me all the time, and the ref wasn't even calling a single foul, dammit. *Sorry for the run-on sentence* But yeah, I don't have the time since I had my Fil report done. We actually lost by a single point! Shame on me that I didn't even score a single basket. LOL

Anyway, this might be late but I just found out that Ryo-chan actually won an award for Ryusei no Kizuna as the Best Supporting Actor (TVLIFE awards)! Amazingly, he was also the 2nd Best Supporting Actor for Last Friends. WOW. I know you deserve it more than everyone so, omedetou Ryo-chan!!


Likewise, Ohno also won the Best Actor award for Maou, awarded the Best Drama. It's so funny that I was just recently talking or debating about who is the better actor among the two JE idols (see my previous blog post)! No doubt they are both good.

Only, it's not fair to compare a lead and a support. Well, Ryo-chan should definitely earn a lead role for this! He is always a support but never the main! It's quite unfair for a guy with that acting skill! *Gyaaa~* I love you Ryo! :)

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Sigh. I seriously miss NEWS! Darnit. I can't fangirl harder without them. :( KAT-TUN fans have actually experienced the same when KT had their QOP. It took a while for them to release a single. I WANT A NEW NEWS PV!!! Waaah....

Why NEWS is Loved. :)

"Why do you love NEWS?" This topic is currently one of the hottest discussions in the news_jpop community @lj.


I've read various and interesting reasons why fans love the group. I was so amazed to read all these sincere reasons, straight from a fangirl/fanboy's heart.

I admire snowflakezz's short but *boom* answer: "KAT-TUN sucked me into JE but NEWS made me stay."

As for my case, Arashi was my first JE group. But there was something with NEWS and Yamapi that got me rooting for them. An invisible bond that ties me into liking them more.

yumenostalgic's answer is definitely a favorite for this discussion. "My reason is that, maybe for me to choose a singer or a band itself, I look/research more on each others personalities and well life. One main reason why I liked NEWS is that 4 out of 6 members of their group are studying/graduated from college aside from being a member of NEWS."

I find this so true. One day, they are going to retire, looks will fade away, fans will leave as they grow older and older -- a sad reality of an idol's life. By that time, what else can they do but to use what they've learned in college?

And lastly, heroismine's answer. "...the group who survived the greatest test of all, self reflection days. all of them had gone to a depressing stage in their career, its good to know they were able to overcome that, and still hoping they will become 8 members someday. Even if they wont, they still support Uchi and Kusano." *Sorry for that, I admit that I'm a 6-member NEWS fan*

NEWS is here to stay. Despite all the obstacles they've encountered, they were able to come back. They fell down seven times, but they stood up eight.

Of course Arashi has all these TV shows, singing and dancing skills.
Of course KAT-TUN looks way cooler in terms of PVs.
Of course Kanjani8 skits are way funnier.

But NEWS is loved by the fans for who they are now -- the not-so-good, not-so-funny, under-exposed JE group of all.

Just by being NEWS, by being together, a group with the most amazing group chemistry on JE, they are and will always be loved. :)

Ohmiya Love

What the?! A short clip of OhMiya sleeping and hugging together! I can't stand this. I dunno if I should feel kilig or what. Hahahaha.

Anyway, I'm fully aware that they are both guys. I just hope they are both straight. LOL.



Still, I love you Nino. :)) Even though you dance like this. LOL



And I just realized that Arashi is the group full of member ai. I'm having an overdose right now. Seriously. Hahaha.



Happy Valentine's Day? Haha.

MatsuJun as a Half-Fil, Half-Jap :D

Hurray! Finally, after the long wait! :)

Jun will have a new drama soon this April entitled "Smile"! And this time he's playing as a Half-Fil, Half-Jap person, whose Filipino father died due to some reason. He's currently living with his Japanese mother.

Wow. This fact made me sooo excited. Could this be it? Jun, another Arashi member after Aiba, going to the Philippines to shoot for the drama?! OMG. If they would, then I would surely travel wherever the shoot is going to be (or be in the airport to wait for Jun-sama's arrival, hehe) *stops daydreaming*:D

But of course, not all Filipino fans are happy about this fact, taking things seriously. Most Filipinos are afraid of being stereotyped. They develop this sense of unity and pride as a Filipino. Thinking about things like: Are they going to show the bad things about being a Filipino (like being a DH, a prostitute or a third world country person) or what? Grabe naman. Audiences are not stupid, so I hope not.

Oh well, it can't be helped. We have different stands regarding this issue. Basta I want Jun here naaaa! Hahaha.

Anyway, "Smile" will air on April, every Friday 10pm. :)

Jun cosplaying as a nurse

Note: He was introduced by Ogura-san here as a nurse from a third world country in Southeast Asia who went to Japan in search for a job. I immediately thought of the Philippines. *sigh*

Ja, mata ne Matsumoto Jun-sama! :D

*I just realized that this is actually my first post for Jun? Whaaaaat?*

Ohno vs Ryo: Better Actor?

I received a text message from Onee-san who appeared to be watching Maou. She was admiring how good Ohno's acting was, compared to Jun and Kame (whom she said to have same facial expressions for all emotions). She even commented how Toma got ran over by Ohno's acting, and it's too bad that Ohno doesn't have face value. But still she considers Ohno as the best Japanese actor she has ever seen so far.

Anyway, I answered by texting that Ohno's acting skill is really superb that he won a best actor award for Maou. But of course, Ryo-chan can match that of Ridaa's, especially in Last Friends.

My sister has already seen how Ryo's acting. So I wasn't shocked when she texted back "Of course! Ryo is still the best! One Litre pa lang, he's really good na. That's where Ohno loses, he has no face value."

LOL. Whatever Ate. He's still Arashi's leader, he can't be an idol without the looks, okay? Don't go reveal yourself. You'll gonna get killed by angry Ohno fans. Hehehe.

:D

One Drop PV :D

Finally, KAT-TUN's One Drop PV is out! Yay! :D

I seriously love the PV. I dunno why some fans don't like it. I find it hot, because of those mouth-dropping cars with their initials and birthdays as the plate numbers. *super amazed.*According to springswan of LJ, the KAT-TUN boys used Hummer, Ford, Cadillac, Chrysler, Lincoln (all limousines!) as their rides for the PV. Waaa! Hihihi. HOTNESS much!

Anyway, I wasn't expecting to like the song. When I first heard of the preview, it sounded ordinary to me and nothing much. But hey, as you listen to it, you'll actually learn to love it. *hmmm. psy101*

Okay, some screencaps of the members. :D

Kame

I like this part when Kame said "bye bye" but the cap didn't appear as awesome as in the video.

Jin

Awesome! :D The hair/over-all look(?) kinda reminds me of Keep the Faith in some way. *hmmm*

Koki

Who finally dyed and trimmed his hair back! And he finally shaved too! Hurray for a more good looking Tanaka! :D

Junno

I still think Junno looks hot with short black hair. :D Anyway, what's up with that much lip gloss? Too girly. Hehe

Ueda

I love him much in this PV!!! :D Hahaha. I actually had a hard time choosing which pic to post here. I actually took 3 screenshots of him when I only took one for each member. X)

Maru

I don't like his close up shots so I decided just to take this one. X) Nice hair, I'm learning to love it. When I first saw it, before Rescue, I was like "What the Heck??" But now, I'm fine with it.

The Group

Over-all judgement: Awesome! Super looove! :D

Sho in NY, USA!

Waaa~ I'm seriously teary-eyed right now. Yeah, I'm kinda emotional. I'm so jealous of the American fans who were able to see Sho in person! I've been reading various fan reports, from the POV of ordinary fans to the powerful (those with media connections). It was awesome. It was a dream come true for them.



I got this video from joannakuang of lj. I'm not sure if I can post it here though. I do not claim this vid as my own anyway.

The fans were all singing A.RA.SHI and Sho really looked amazed, thankful and happy! Thanks to joanna for sharing the vid. At least for a moment it felt like I was there, it gave me goosebumps.

Shoooo. I seriously want to rape hug you now! Soooo cute! Thanks for repairing my stressful day! XD

A Family of Fangirls?

Well, we are definitely a family . \(^__^)/ And we actually turned our Lola's 80th birthday party into a JE fangirls' concert. (We even preformed a 7-minute JE medley twice!) LOL. We ruled! I love my cousins for having the same obsession as I have! Tanoshii deshita~

Ate Len, Rio, Mara, Shalyka, Ueda, Laine, Yomi, Quenee
and our ichibans respectively ^^
Kame, Jin, Tego, Ueda, Pi, Massu, Maru

Note that you can actually divide us into 2 groups: KAT-TUN and NEWS. Hahaha. :D

NEWS!

KAT-TUN *KA-UN* and a fan.

I'm the tallest, but I'm actually not the oldest but only the 3rd in our group. Hahaha! *Defensive*

Those awesome shirts are courtesy of johnnynodepato! *ehem, shameless advertising*

We did lots of OTP pictorials but I'm not posting it here. I'll just leave it for my network in multiply. (^__^)/

Ja ne~
Ely-chan

P.S.
One of Rio and I's bakaness.

Sukiyanen Osaka Distorted Version!