welcome to an omphalos of my ironies.
moping starts at the top.
now playing:
IKEMEN BOOGIE
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e OST
(Japan version, of course)
P.S. i survived ma'am rivera's and sir padilla's subjects... 4th year hell year awaits me... in the meantime i have to have my ojt... 
at 5:32 AM
Sunday, April 20, 2008
wee! another Arashi happiness!
i'm getting addicted to online purchasing... after my items were shipped from Singapore, i received a confirmation last april 14 that my parcel from Japan had been shipped... i was expecting to have it on the 21st since the dvd's release was on the 16th... but i was surprised to receive an sms from my sister last wednesday saying that a postal notice was sent to me regarding a parcel that i should claim in 30 days... the next day, i frantically went to our local post office and took my parcel... i was laughing to myself like a maniac, guffawing like i found something incredibly rare amidst a public area... then i ordered another stuff from Japan, a Hana Yori Dango booklet... i saw the ad just this afternoon while writing my article when in two minutes i placed my order already, lols... *cancelled, too trifling despite affordability, must save for the 'Stormy' seasons ne*... i am turning into this online-purchasing monster...ssssssssshhhhhhhhh!!! my parents know i buy through the net, what they don't know is the insane frequency...the screenshots from my Arashi Kotoba no Chikara (Power of Words) dvd are too many to post in my blog so here's my multiply photo widget... too many motion disturbances, gomen ne? i can't afford to scratch my dvd by play-pause-play-pause-nth times just to capture hi-res images...
at 9:33 AM
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
MY Arashi day!!!
while my classmates are nearing the half of their ojt hours, i spend my days watching dusts gather in our house and waiting for mr. postman to arrive with my parcel... out of doubt and paranoia, i rushed to the central post office in manila last march 25 to check if it has arrived and they're holding it for custom reasons or they found my cds rather interesting and decided to keep it for themselves... i'm that suspicious... i had another of my transaction paid through a certain money transfer since i do not have and do not intend to have a Paypal account *ok, i've gagged myself again with my words and i'm applying for one soon*... that too, i was anxious whether they will send it or not... i was pestering the old woman in the window if their money transfer can be tracked, how long will it take for the people in Japan to receive the money, etc... she casted me a disapproving look and i shoved myself to one corner where i checked and arranged my things after being harangued haranguing the old lady... and so, i went home downhearted...
come today and i finally have in my hands the two Arashi cds i have been waiting for: 'Time' Limited Edition Japan First Press Version, and 'Step and Go' Limited Edition Japan First Press Version: i can't help but stare at them, when all those days i was just downloading ripped copies of their songs and now i finally have my original copies...
still, i was not able to savor the happiness completely since i am still worried of my grades... then i checked my email and lazily opened each message... i thought it was another of the promotional emails that website sent me... when i read through it i was sooo happy that my payment finally and safely reached the company... my sister had to calm me down because my first order with them, which was a limited edition calendar, was cancelled as pathetic fan girls were able to place their orders first... *sobs* now i'll have to wait for the 16th for the concert dvd to be released and shipped, and for the 21st for it to bask in my loving hands...
at 7:47 AM
Sunday, March 30, 2008
and then what?
it took man a million lives to be wasted before he finally takes action... too preoccupied with stock market, power-grabbing, talentless talent searches, anti-aging-whitening-rejuvenating creams and shits, and needless flaunting of surgically-repaired-used-to-be-hopeless horseface (the times are yielding too many 'beauties' that you no longer know who was born with it, or born with the money to buy it, or borne as much moolah-producing jobs as they can to have the money to buy it)...and he came up with the "Earth Hour"... okay, so there's an action already, but how often do we need to dine in candlelight just to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions and other earth carnage that those bigwig boors can't seem to resist? then there are people who began jumping into the bandwagon of 'caring for the mother earth' while yanking money with their 'earth-friendly' products, that you can actually do away with and still do your part in saving our home... with the exposure provided by some people in the media (who are NOT supposed to be there anyway, i.e. just because he/she is whoever he/she is, or they know this and that and he/she is connected with who and who)... eventually, the poor (not entirely in the financial aspect) unscrutinizing viewers simply nod their rationality away and buy those stuffs... why buy a new 'earth-friendly' something when there are so many more and simpler and cheaper means to save the earth? try planting in your backyard, or take care of the existing ones, refuse the plastic bag offered to you by the manong when you only bought one item, i.e. one ricecapade :p, don't forget to give him a good sermon on reducing the use of plastic for the following customers (you may look quite stupid babbling there but it's worth the try)... make a campaign of your own, share your insights with friends and encourage them... you don't have to don something 'green-y' to show your concern... and puh-leeese!!! enough of the tag "green is the new black"... can't we do something just for the heck of it? is there a dire need to fashion-ize everything just to get everyone involved? isn't the thought of robbing the earth of its life a reason already to check our ways? we cannot and do not have the right to disown the earth of anything, bear that in mind... how dare we plunder it to exhaustion when in the beginning, man was a solitary being that the earth gave shelter to?die... if we must die at this moment because of our earth carnage, then so be it... humanity comes to an end if man cannot be humane enough for the earth... so much with people crying over 'innocent' victims of catastrophes... get over it, we no longer are the victims... and death starts in rice crisis...
at 1:52 PM
Saturday, March 29, 2008
'gay' tendencies
and then there's HANA KIMI --- insert Otsuka Ai's "Peach" in the background (japan version of course... being first to do the production doesn't make the Taiwan version the 'original') without a fail, i'm here squeaking the fan-girl squeak: kyaaaaa!!!! compared to joycee, i'm such a slowpoke at dorama watching... i think she can round up three doramas in two days when i can only finish an entire series given the same time span :(... i love ikuta toma in this dorama, his hair, his smile, his acting, definitely different from that sucker role he played in Hana Yori Dango... Nakatsu and Mizuki should have ended together (not that my hormones are going low on oguri shun, i still drool for him, you know) and the entire gakuen cast is just hilarious, crazy at that. they're a bunch of 'hotties' who attend school just to flex their muscles and win the hearts of girls... they have every matsuri (festival) you could imagine... them goofing around shoots my blood pressure up, i can't stop laughing and many a time i really fell from my chair... can you see the subtitle "Hotties are Japan's assets"? hontou ni, hontou ni! which includes the scene where there is a group of obasan and ojisan huddled in front of an Osaka Gakuen student who's screaming that to solicit funds for their 'closing' school... the old people are then focused on by the camera and wonder, "what are hotties?" with a wrinkled nonplussed look on their face... and then nanba-senpai's approach to things reminds me of kuya tope, a senpai in the college publication...
which makes me crave for these: (sorry to the owner of these pictures, i was not able to jot down your url, but i believe your name is kate... i'm borrowing this)... i REALLY WANT these!!! (gah, i'm becoming worldly again... these are limited editions, and anyone who is kindhearted enough to give me these on my birthday will be magnanimously blessed in the afterlife... :)
at 6:35 AM