Taking this from bloodyapplepi because it's interesting.

Day 01 → Your favorite song

PS. So how did operation #tsuribaka & #wemakestorm go? I did contribute a bit, but I hate the time difference with Japan. >___<
PPS. On Wednesday I got sick, so I'm still recovering from that, but at least I function now. 8D
PPPS. Also happy birthday to Maruyama of Kanjani8 (he's 26 now, right?)

Since Arashi's official anniversary is coming up (for those who believe it already happened.... no, it hasn't. Not according to their official calendar anyway) the group is the theme this time. I was going to chose something plain and nice, but then I spotted some really nice layouts over at okimiyage. It's a nice layout. I wonder how long it'll last. Before I was using one of  milou_veronica but now everyone uses one of her layouts. I got tired of seeing the same style everywhere, but her layouts really are amazing! I might go back to one of those at some point. 

Yes, I know I said I'll work on my characters, but... yeah... procrastination happens. I'll go do that now. Character sheets, not procrastination... ¬_¬

Music Station October 16th broadcast. Um, does this means Kis-My-Ft2 have now officially debuted??? Wanting to be cool like KAT-TUN... perhaps you guys should consider renaming (even Mis Snow Man is a better name, but I'm biased cause I like their voices more). :O Oh god, I really cannot accept this Music Station performance as debuting. Let it not be true! TT-TT

Wanting to be like dai-senpai Hikaru Genji. Please, no way. Just no! Awful costumes too. Mariah Carrey must have been flashed although she behaved very elite. Anyway... The only thing I approved of was Tamamori's hat. Yay for random Indian hat! And cute Tamamori. <3

On another note Jpopsuki has now changed servers and look and there are loads of seeded Music Station episodes from long ago, so I'm trying to download them without killing the ratio watch. 8) I have a week to upload about 6GB. 

I'm off to try and make those character sheets for NaNoWriMo and attempt to find a title for the story. I can't keep calling it 'the Mayonaka story'. OTL

PS. I'm still resizing photos from the Expo but I'll try to make a picspam tomorrow.

Since I've been staying away from eljay I've ended up with a full inbox and a whole bunch of things that I need to catch up with. :/

Well, I tend to do this, but I like that I can actually stay away from LJ without going completely mad. Then again things are pretty quite in fandom, right? Well, some of them anyway.

I have watched the pilots of House and Heroes and I can say that I'm looking forward to finally watching more of these shows. Especially House. It's really different now, isn't it? I love it. Heroes was interesting. Claire made it to Collage. Hey, never knew this day would come.

I'd say that I'm watching it for Hiro, like the previous season, but I really want to see what'll happen with Sylar and all that. Peter is a workaholic with a huge hero syndrome that needs to snap out of it and get a life. It's disappointing to be honest.

Anyway, in the Prince of Tennis spirit, happy birthday to Kirihara Akaya who we'll be seeing more of in the Shin Tenipuri manga. You know, I absolutely LOVED what Renji did. Winning, then resigning. Grow stronger, Akaya! ;A; Renji, kakkoi sugiru! Then... Sadaharu, let's go home and you know what I mean by that. Brat!Ryoma goodness is coming up next. Yoshi! Like good old time, please!

Tsubasa has one of the best, most twisted plotlines ever! And it is also finishing. NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! I cannot believe that Tsubasa is finishing. I still remember the first time I picked volume 1 to read. I wish there was more, but since everything is falling into place now, it's kind of unnecessary to continue. It's actually good that it's finishing here, I guess. Tsubasa is my third most favourite CLAMP manga mow. Not that I've read everything by CLAMP, but maybe one day.

xxxHolic is being utterly awesome. Watanuki's choice makes more sense now that we've seen what happened while he spaced out (see Tsubasa ch231? I think) and the 4 year time jump was not bad. <3 The whole Doumeki/Watanuki pairing felt the other way around. :O Kind of in the same way you'd think Yuuko/Watanuki. :D

Anyway, Holic is #1. Card Captor Sakura is next, then Tsubasa. I'd like to read their really old manga. Like CLAMP school detectives and X/1999 and erm, I forget the other name. LOL

Not enough time to read manga though.

I'm trying to read Kafka on the Shore on a faster pace, cause I've going really slow. >_< I got Norwegian Wood as well since it was the first Murakami book I ever noticed back in 2006. Plus, turned into a movie with Matsuyama Ken'ichi? Y/Y? It could be interesting, but isn't the main guy meant to be older? Hmmm... I don't know yet.

I also to The Picture of Dorian Gray (with pretty Ben Barnes on the cover) and The Time Traveler's Wife. I've been told it's awesome!
Anyway, last time I tried reading Dorian Gray I was 11 or 12 and it was a Greek translation and I failed. >___< The movie was pretty cool so I'm going to try reading Oscar Wilde again. Hopefulyl it won't be a disaster.

PS. BUZZER BEAT IS AWESOME.
PPS. Finally someone's subbing Otomen. Twas about time...

Shogo, Kamiki and Doori have been hanging out. Quite a bit.

You'd think this is because of The Game thing that a trillion Amuse guys are doing, but they hang out even during their free time.
Shogo has admitted being converted to UVERworld by Doori. I'm guessing Kamiki might follow. They were watching the band's DVD and playing guitar the other day. It's really nice to know that they're such close friends. Oi, invite other people you guys!!

Then Shogo and Kamiki have been hanging out even more. As if being classmates and working together isn't enough time with each other. Somehow I can't imagine them playing table tennis, but I am curious to know who is better at bowling. O_____o

No, I have not been stalking Shogo's blog. ¬_¬ No idea how I ended up there again.

Anyway, this would make good material for those who write Horikoshi fics for those willing to write more of those. I've been thinking of starting to re-write those first couple of awkward chapters from that long forgotten tenipuri fic. ;_; I really miss tenipuri despite reading the SHIN POT manga. 

Hey, katiedistance 178 ep / tenimyu marathon when you get back???? y/y?

PS. I finally watched Myuu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru, last year's 24 hour TV  special drama with Karina and MatsuJun. TTwTT It was really sad, but at least it's not as depressing as 1litre of Tears.

MatsuJun did great!! Loved his face during the side-effect from the steroids. :)

I wouldn't look at their emails unless I was allowed. Nor the journals. I guess I'd want to know what's written there, but the guilt of looking into it without permission would eat me later so I don't want to do it. Besides, if the person has a secret or thoughts they don't want to share yet then nobody has the right to barge in.

I like to go through other people's books or text books, but that's about it. I don't think it's too private. ¬_¬ I just like the little notes and doodles in the corners. Or the books might tell me something about the person.

Hey flist.

I'm really really tired after staying up and watching the entire 24hr television event. Every now and then I'd get really hyped up about something (even if it was the smallest thing ever) and ended up using up all my energy.

I got up around 9:30am British time as it started at 10:30 British time on Saturday morning.

Now it's Sunday and it's almost 2pm, so you can understand that I feel like I'm turning into goo. I started feeling tired around 7/8am this morning, but I was fine before that. In fact when it was morning in Japan and Tegoshi, Becky and Yamapi sung the Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni song I pretty much thought it was morning. orz I was utterly amused that they were singing this song and doing the small choreography. 8D I want to learn it. It's so cute!

Anyway, who even was in charge of the music for the entire project needs a special award. I'm not kidding. The background music was awesome! I wished I had been noting down the songs just so I can make a compilation!

I'll just talk about my thoughts for the show later on after I sleep tons. I'm so tired I won't even feel falling asleep. It'll be like... /drops dead on spot.

Due to 24hr terebi... I think that Imoto Ayako is actually really cool right now. Sure, she's weird but after this I think she deserves at least a bit of respect. She's also quite a big icon over there too. With the thick eyebrows and that attitude of hers.

She arrived pretty and cried when she saw the finish line had drawings of herself and then she got her big hug from Tegoshi. It was the best! Tegoshi was also crying saying, you did well and so on. T-T I want such a hug from Tegoshi too. :D

In the end, I cried too. A bit, at the end. Because everyone was calling out her name to encourage her and fans had been calling out to her when she was running toward Tokyo Big Sight (the venue) and saying 'ganbare'. You could feel the expectation and pressure, but not in a negative way. She really did her best! After all she was also injured and had to run through some mad wind and rain. (>w<) I wished I could yell 'ganbare' with everyone else.

They made the best choice this year with Imoto for the marathon.
Now I don't understand this, but there seems to be some kind of voting thing in Japan and so there's NEWS ZERO on TV, but erm, there's no Sho. I thought he was in every episode. O_o Maybe it's because of the Arashi tour.

How are they going to manage to do this epic anniversary tour and film all their variety shows is beyond me. Probably like Aiba-chan mentioned once, they'll do 2-3 VS Arashi episodes in one day. ¬_¬ Not good. I wish they'd rest more often.

More on 24HR television later. Too tired to think and politics on Japanese TV is just more confusing than politics in either the UK or Greece.

At least I managed to keep up with tagging the posts in the 24hr tv community. 8D

Sorry guys. I haven't really been online much for two days now. Well, the computer is online, but I'm doing offline things.

I still feel a bit down, but I downloaded tons of new music including Fujiki Naohito, ayaka and what not. I even got some mihimaru GT to check them out. And yet another album by Ikimonogakari. Funky Monkey Babys and Monkey Majik, more Mika Nakashima and THYME.

I'm looking forward to the 24hr Television marathon I'll pull this weekend. I need to get supplies so I don't have to go out. I'm hoping that despite the fact the event is made to make you cry a river, I'll cheer up a bit. :/

What made me happy was the Arashi no Shukudai-kun 148 (oh lolz) and VS Arashi (has anyone watched the epic Hexagon VS Arashi 26Hr terebi Special? It's so good!). Anyway, bits of this and that.

I'm pretty hooked on the B'z song for Buzzer Beat. Sadly there is no full translation of the song yet, so I'll just give you the one provided by the softsubs. 8D

( ichibu to zenbu lyrics )
While typing these lyrics... I thought that some needed editing, but I'm leaving it as they are in the episode. :) Here's a link to the PV.

I'm checking out Meteor Shower, which is said to be the Chinese version of Hana Yori Dango. So far it's ok as a story but it has nothing to do with the Hana Yori Dango you may know. I love the Jdrama, but I'd still vote for the Korean one as best. ¬_¬ I should give Meteor Garden (the Taiwanese version) another shot. Maybe at some point. 

BTW next drama season seems a bit neglected. I hope they decide to make good dramas since I always have high expectations of the Fall season for some reason. I guess a lot of some that are left as rumors. Oh well, I think there's 3 I'm looking forward to. Or something like that. Specials don't count, obviously.

I'll get back to my inbox (both LJ and email) tomorrow. :)

Yet another meme post because there seem to be too many again. lol

Comment on this post and I will choose six interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean/why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
( meme 1 )

Meme #2 from sylphiawings 

1) I will give you 3 people.
2) If possible provide pictures of these 3 people and...
3) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.
4) Post this meme with your answers.

She gave me Seungri (Big Bang), Domoto Koichi (KinKi Kids) and Satoshi Ohno (Arashi).

( meme 2 )
Meme #3 from katiedistance and a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away (Naboo was under an attack~)

It's that person you like meme. She gave me Taguchi Junnosuke (KAT-TUN).

( meme 3 )

And that's it. I'm doing the other long meme some other time. So tired right now. Guh~ my brain is dead.

So I've watched the last Music Station.

( music station stuff & comments )

Charts were dominated by Domoto Koichi, UVERword (that I should pay more attention too) and B'z.
Kobukuro's new album in #1 and GReeeeN are still in the top 10. YAY!

I've been re-watching/catching up with the TeniMyus. I re-watched Dream Live 5th and all three versions of Imperial Presence (Tokyo Gaisen Kouen still wins, but I like the 4A as well). Daisuke Watanabe and Sakamoto Shougo FTW. I still think the 5th cast looks ugly and I can't decide if they can sing. Go for some lessons, guys. I might be able to make up my mind about you.

What happened to casting ikemen in tenimyu? ;A; Anyway, I don't like the 5B version even if Aiba Hiroki is there as Fuji. What have we come to? Aiba is not enough anymore? No way!

I'm going to catch up with ShitenhoujiMyu and Dream Live 6 within the week. 8D I want to see how I'll do that before Ayacon. Oh LOL.

I'll just babble about everything else some other time because I'm distracted by Karei Naru Spy. Seems really interesting. Fighting insomnia and weird sleeping patterns with Jdrama and movies. Works fine for me, why should I complain?

Also, I have this headache since I went out to get milk today. It's like I'm allergic to the outside air or something. >_< I always get headaches these day when I go out. It feels weird. Like, you want to sneeze, but you don't really. :( WTF?

Nevermind. Goodnight for now!!!

☆ the yeah, i totally ship it meme ☆
my thread here
Yeah, totally... stole this because it sounds like fun. Ship me? I'm really curious about what'll come up. ^w^

And this, from... before. I didn't post a link. 

Really bored, so I'm adding memes here.

Taken from tenimyugirl .

Rules:
1. Write down every letter of your name.
2. Then type a song that pops up in your mind in each letter of your name as the first letter.
3. Count the letters of your name, and tag people you know in that number.

Alibi - NEWS (more like KoayaShige & TegoMass)
Moonlight - Yamada Ryosuke
Aozora Peral - Arashi
Love Addiction - Koyama Keiichiro
I wo Kure - Hey! Say! JUMP
Ashita no Kioku - Arashi

My name has way too many As. Anyway, second meme:

What are your nicknames?
Amy, Ames...

How do you style your hair everyday?
Sometimes straighten, sometimes just tie back... it depends on what I want to do.

What's new in your life right now?
I have no idea.

How many colors are you wearing now?
White, black, green (shirt w/ design), blue (pants) & pink (socks).
 
Are you an introvert or extrovert?
Introverted, for the sake of honesty. I do get pretty hyper sometimes though.

What was the last book you read?
Eh? Umm... which one was it. I think it was Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro.
 
Do you nap a lot?
No. I just sleep weird hours.
 
If the person you secretly like is already taken, what would you do?
What would I do? Maybe feel bad for a while, then decide that they're happier this way anyway as I fail at relationships and get over it or something. Or maybe I'd just ignore it completely.
 
Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
The bloody weather here. Um... being unable to sleep properly.
 
What was the last thing you ate today?
Some chicken I cooked earlier.
 
How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Not long. I can be up and ready to leave the house withing 10 minutes.
 
What websites do you visit daily?
LJ, Emails, d-addicts, facebook, OneManga/MangaFox, YouTube. I think that's about it, but there's tons I forget I guess.
 
Do you like to clean?
Most of the time I don't mind. I get irritated when it too messy, so I clean.

What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
Umm... I don't know. I think it was Everything by Arashi, but I don't know. >_<
 
What are you doing right now?
Listening to Weird Al on Spotify, trying to close the hundreds of tabs I have open. Actually online on MSN.
 
Are you a picky eater?
Not really.
 
What kind of cell phone do you have?
A nice clamshell Motorola U9. It's really nice, but it's kind of failing lately.
 
Worst time of your life?
I can't pick one! Probably feeling suicidal during high school. Really suicidal. :( 11th and 12th grades where the worst! So happy that everything changed since then.

Tell me something good.
Too much J-fandom, here's something from the K-fandom: KEY IS GAY!!!!! In case you were unsure. LOLOLOLOL
Ah, I love SHINee. I need to dedicate extra time to them. :P

Oh good god. Ohkura and Yasuda got a new drama. Like Aiba-chan. Can't wait to see that!!!!
I wonder if they're trying to make the fall season better than the summer one. I mean, considering the many good dramas the ratings are pretty average for some you'd expect to do much better.

Well, who cares? I watched the first episode of Otomen with Okada Masaki. It was so great! I went and read the first 3 (50page each) chapters. Different, but still as good. I liked how the changed things in the drama to make it more real and funny. It's a bit silly. Only a little bit. Well... so far. Also, I LOVE SETO KOUJI'S HAIR. He's so cute! I want to see more of him even if he has this small supporting role. :D

It's like 7:33am right now. I can't tell if I'm tired yet. I can tell that I'm hungry. >_< Fooooooooood~~~

So here's a meme (that I probably did in the past, but I wanted to do it again).

Lst 10 things you like starting with a letter I give you. I got an "L" from welt .

1. Lovely Complex.
A great anime about a tall girl and a short boy who make the best comic duo ever. Hilarious, cute and very pretty style. Also a movie starring Koike Teppei. BEST THING EVER. <3

2. Lemon Ice Tea.
One of my summer addictions. Every summer, all summer long. I can just live on Ice Tea if I have the supply.

3. Long Ma.
He's the equivalent of Echizen Ryoma in the Chinese live action Prince of Tennis drama. I reall like how he's portrayed.

4. London, UK
Where I am right now. I've been here since Sept 2006 for university studies. The weather is driving me crazy but that's okay. 

5. Lomography
A secret cult of awesome film photographers. Not really. The best and most fun film cameras you can possibly get. Ever! HERE.

6. Love Shuffle
A jdrama broadcasted from January to April 2009. Best plot ever, great mix of character and great actors. It also became a novel after its sucess.

7. Lostprophets
One of the non-asian bands that I absolutely love! <3

8. Labyrinth
A song by NEWS (Koi no ABO single). It's really nice but most people go past it. Also a really awesome movie that should be watched at least once!

9. Lord of the Rings
Great books, great movies. 

10. Lazyness
A sort of condition I have these days. I don't know how to get rid of it. ;_; 

Sorry about the last one, couldn't come up with something else. >_< L is not a very easy letter.
Comment and ask for a letter if you'd like to do the meme as well. ^w^

Now it's 08.07am. I think I'll go to sleep.

ALSO, GREAT TO MEET EVERYONE FROM THE MULTIFANDOM MEME!!!
hotfruits , mrschul , inastr8jacket ,say_o_kay , foukay , sylphiawings , tenimyugirl 

If you want to chat on MSN feel free to add me. I have my MSN on my profile. :3
Who ever has Last.FM/Dailybooth/twitter/AnimeList/deviantART let me know so I can add you there as well. :P

Feel free to say anything in the commnets even if it's completely unrelated. XD

I went to sleep leaving MediaFire to upload yesterday's Music Station. Thank goodness it finished uploading. This time the file may be quite big, but the episode is worth it.

Tamori-san returns! But Katori Singo steals the show as Ryo-san.

I really liked the M Compi, which is a compilation of songs they sometimes put together. I even liked that old 80s song. God knows what the title was. Yuzu's song in M Compi was nice. Kinki Kids with their '97 Garasu no Shounen (Glass no Shounen) song. OMG @ Imai Tsubasa and Sakura Sho dancing in the background. I LOL'ED! Then rewinded and watched it again. 

Uploaded here for download.

Yeah... nothing new. I'm SO sleepy. I think I actually fell asleep after 5am again. :( Despite going to bed at 3am. Thus I have had about 5 hours of sleep which doesn't feel more than two to be honest. :O At least I'll forget that I want to sleep during the day. 

Sorry for spamming you with Music Station stuff.

Chinen and Yamada are going to be on VS Arashi.

ASFKGAKFGVAICBASIGDCASOFGSDFVSLGJKE#RH;JYLHJWSGPJ!$!£"%&$!%"!GAEIP!!!

Chinen's dream comes true at last. So maybe it's not a stage, but it's VS Arashi.
I cannot wait to see Nino's reactions.


BUT! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE ON THE 15TH OF AUGUST???? That's the AyaCon weekend, which means that I cannot glue myself to the screen and watch it! D: Wait... Maybe I can. Probably not.

Also, Koyama probably should stop talking about Shige on his Jweb blog. Same thing goes for Shige about Koyama. (No, keep going at it guys, we can feel the member ai overflowing).

/I'll try to make a proper entry later.

I update the Music Station community (musicstation ) and added a few more older episodes from 2009. April, March, February.

I'm going to upload the 2008 Super Live and the January Special along with the Haru Special. Those ones are epic and they have this timeline with clips and songs from the '80s!

You'll only be traumatized a little. And no more than any other 80s music show. Then again, in the western part of the world, we never have artists with names like ZARD.

I'm off to make some small banners and continue uploading. I promise to try to give out mirrors as soon as possible. My mac hates MegaUpload and I can't upload at the same time. :(

Anyway... next broadcast is on July 10th! I really look forward to it! TegoMass, Orange Range, Perfume, Koda Kumi and others.

And I just realised that I've been so busy updating the comm that I still haven't watched the July 3 broadcast. OMGOMGOMGOMG! Yes, watching NOW.

Sorry for the useless update. Kath and her sister, Athena are coming around 12am/1-ish depending on the bus. I need to make sure food is ready by then. Spinach & rice goodness.

It just occured to me that I would totally want to work in Asahi TV, even though in reality it wouldn't be so great. ¬_¬

It's really hard to work without music. I usually pick original soundtracks (movie or tv soundtracks) because I know they won't distract me too much. In some cases, classical music is great as well,  but I suppose it depends on what I want to write.

In the past I would put everyday radio style music instead of my favourite bands because they distract me and I want to sing along. :)

But soundtracks are always the best!

 My iPod's screen froze just now. DX Bummie what happened? ;_; 

I thought it was just me, but it really did freeze and I tried fiddling with the hold button and play/pause but it wouldn't work.

In the end I googled it (seems that it a popular problem) and I found this. So I reset it pressing the Menu and centre. Good thing resetting it doesn't mean formatting so all my songs/music/photos are saved. 

For a moment I feared something had happened to it. It's just recharging now (which what I originally wanted to do). O_o Has this ever happened to anyone else?