In V6 hiatus and addiction to other J-music
Finally an exam down and 1 more to go next December 16!! Thank God I passed this morning's exam! I was totally blanked this
morning. There are lots of business law terms that actually similar and IMO they're making simple matter more difficult to
understand.. :( Well, the textbook for the remaining is far thicker than this one, but involving my area of knowledge,
Information System.
Cepi had been picked by one of my father's employee. We could not afford to take care of him anymore. He became more naughty
and destructive. I want to concentrate only to my current dogs. It was actually hard for me and my Mom to give him back to
his owner but hopefully he'll get much better love and care than he got here.
By the way, recently for these couple weeks I've been sorta vacuumed from V6. I don't get enough V6 materials recently as I'm
more concentrating on buying Kamen Rider 555 books. As for my music, these days I'm really into
Janne da Arc. The
vocalist, Yasu, has a very clear, high voice. Although they are categorized as J-Rock band, but their songs are sorta pop-
rock. Songs that echoed in my head recently is
Black Jack, a bluesy fast-paced song, and
Kiss Me, a lively
and beautiful song. Kiss Me is the first Janne da Arc song I heard and made me instantly fall in love with Yasu's voice! More
over, like the other J-Rock band, they wrote and arranged their songs.
Kiss me angel Falling angel I want to be stained by love
Shining angel Maybe angel In order to be born again
Kiss me angel Falling angel Once more, a last kiss
Shining angel Maybe angel Please kiss Kiss me Say Yes
I also got 2 Pierrot songs,
Purple Sky and
My Clouds. Many said that My Clouds is not too good, but it reminds
me a lot of couple of songs on
Heaven album. Purple Sky is a beautiful song, a very Pierrot-ish song I like very much.
Kirito's voice is flowing gently at the beginning. At this rate, I can't decide whose voice I like better between Yasu's and
Kirito's. Aside from Hyde's falsetto voice or Gackt's deep, sexy voice, I think I'm mostly hooked on high-pitched and clear
voice of a J-Rock vocalist. Pierrot, Janne da Arc, and Siam Shade are one of those. Never heard how Yasu sang on concert, but
*so far* he's one of the high-pitched singer that can control the melody and tune in a fast-paced songs very well, things
that even Inocchi or the rest of V6 are sometimes hard to control. Their song
Wizard can show what I mean.
My current favorite J-Rock band other than Janne da Arc and Pierrot is
Asian Kung-Fu Generations. I took my words
saying that their PV
Rewrite, which is the opening song for anime
Fullmetal Alchemist, is the most uncreative
PV I've ever seen in J-Rock PV. I took that words back... since I'm currently ADDICTED to this PV!!!! ^^ Somehow, Gotoh's
geeky face (compared with the usual make ups visual J-Rockers have) and his glasses make him looks very cool!!! Especially at
Rewrite, when he entered the refrain. Somehow his face reminds me of Inocchi especially when he wears his glasses... they even share the same birthyear.. Hehehe. I
think Rewrite is the best PV of AKFG, compared with their other 'geeky' PVs that sometimes even make no sense at all. For
example, on
Kimi no Machi made PV, I can understand that the synchro swimmers are dancing according to their musics
and they are sometimes seen as the jury for the synchro competition, but what the heck is the purpose of the giant crab
living in the pool? Gotoh's stratled expression was very good, but then he's continued singing with innocent face.. *
sweatdrop* Well, that's AKFG for you... the simple but creative band.
Last week, I had a very good conversation with
Cicha about
Boy's Love (BL)... hahaha, Cha, I was quite surprised to hear that you're also a BL fan~! I thought that IJers are all
straight.. hahhahaa... Gravitation is indeed a very good anime for refreshing. It lead you to a BL relationship but not very
graphical, but the romance is very touching. I love Sakuma Ryuichi!! Kumagoro rulez!! Hahaha. By the way, FYI, all music on
Gravitation is produced by another top J-producer,
Daisuke Asakura, the one behind
T.M. Revolution. DA's music
are mostly pop-techno. My first J-band and J-pop I knew was
Pool Bit Boys, another DA's project that was disbanded
long time ago. The one that sings on behalf of
Bad Luck is
Kotani Kinya that joined DA's project for
Gravitation,
Mad Soldiers. Gravitation opening is sung by Sakanoue Yousuke. Nittle Grasper's song on TV series is sung
by D.K.+K.ITO, another DA's project consists of an androgynous vocalist, D.K., and Kenichi Ito as guitarist. Daisuke Asakura
himself is well-portrayed in Nittle Grasper president, Seguchi Tohma. For the OAV, Nittle Grasper's song
Shining
Collection is sung by
Iceman, where DA himself joined in it as the keyboardist before Iceman finally disbanded and
DA continues his project on Access. DA has good singers and good songs, but I just wonder why his projects are never lasting
unlike Johnny's Jimusho's projects.
Anyway, after discussing Gravitation with Cicha, it brings back lots of good memories with DA's songs since I first knew them all long before I knew V6. I took out all of my
Gravitation and Kotani Kinya's songs and currently addicted to Iceman's Shining Collection. I also took out my Pool Bit Boys
CDs, my first owned JPOP CDs. Natsukashii...
@ 10:11 p.m.
Summing up the all 3 weeks
These days, lots of unpredictable things occured around me. Starting with my grandmother (from Dad's side)'s sickness to her death,
my grandfather's sudden death and the coming of his relatives and also my aunties, the emergency condition of grandma (from Mom's side)
so we brought her to emergency room at night, the coming of my relative's new dog that temporarily settled
at my home, etc. Plus, internet connection at office reached its limit since the modem was drop dead so we were vacuumed from internet
for almost 3 weeks. Fortunately, it has been brought back to life although the speed decreased drastically so no messengers could be connected.
Well, at least for those 3 weeks I've been used to work solemnly on my works although the last week before Idul Fitri long holiday all of us had lost our working spirit ^_^ (plus because there was no boss around… he's on training). Even at the last day we were barely worked, just playing games, went to mall, and thinking about holiday. Well, on this holiday, I couldn't fully enjoy it though. I even made a long to-do list to remind me of what I should do but I haven't, including translating Myojo article I've promised
Nova and add a new blog entry. I also have to start studying LOMA 311 which exam will be on next Thursday and I'm still stuck at chapter 2 of 12! *cry* At this time I really hate FLMI courses and want to drop it, but I can't let go the skill, the title, and of course the incentive.. ^_^
Last Sunday, for the first time in my life, I'm finally dare to say that I have siblings, although only half-siblings. I have a older brother and a sister-in-law, 2 older sisters and 2 brothers-in-law, 2 nephews and a niece. I'm very happy they are willing to admit me as their sister. Although I still cannot blend naturally with them, I'm still very happy for this moment I've been waiting for these 23 years.
Last week, my relative brought his new puppy, a 7-months-old black Chihuahua originally named Dede, but lately his new name is Scruffy and nick named as Cepi. Cepi is temporarily stayed with me since my relative is going for holiday vacation. At first, Cepi was very hard to be hold until one day I could finally catch him and since then he's stuck to me and becomes very spoiled and naughty. Somehow I'm also stuck with him and I love him despite of his annoying voice every 5 a.m. that enforces the entire home to wake up. I was once told my Mom that someday when I had a kid, I can be hard to him if he's naughty since I felt so… but from what I treated Cepi, I thought I might not be able to do that.. ^^;; Cepi is too cute and sometimes his eyes are too innocent I cannot be hard to him. He loves to bit and sometimes chew my hands although his teeth are sharp! Tomorrow is probably my last day to be with Cepi forever, since my relative didn't want him due to his naughtiness and going to give him to another person or sell him to petshop. Mom also loves Cepi but she can't handle his naughtiness. Benji and Gasper are enough, she said. This afternoon, I almost cried to realize that I'm going to be separated from him in the next 24 hours.
On this holiday, I love to experiment with my cooking. I actually love cooking but unfortunately I can't ^_^. My favorite dish is oyako donburi, rice topped with chicken and egg. To cook this dish is very simple but at restaurant, this dish is quite expensive. The other dish I love is tuna spaghetti. I got the recipe from Jalansutra mailing list, and the ingredients are very simple… just spaghetti, tuna chunks in oil/water, onions and garlic, and cheddar cheese. It tastes so good! I'm going to make it again tomorrow.
I finally got my
Kamen Rider 555 Paradise Lost Koushiki Album! OMG! At first I thought that the thousands of audience at the hall where the Ouga vs Faiz battle occurred were only CGs. In fact, those are real humans!!! Plus they are fans! They had a chance to see directly on location the making of that climax scene! Envy theeeeeem!!! At the very last scene, the whole main actors/actresses were gathered (including m.c.AT) and waved to fans… Izumi looked TOTALLY KAKKOIIII!! OMG, how I love this guy's figure. He's not very tall, but he has a nice built body with wide shoulder and chest. Inocchi also has the same wide shoulder and it make them looks very good in armless shirt! I also love the on location photos. His smile is really the best! ^_^ *love love love*
By the way, below is the translation from Myojo 11 (2004) I've promised Nova weeks ago. The article is about Inocchi and Okada's opinion about cell phone. I absolutely love the photo where Okada laid on Inocchi's back… I always love when these guys together.. ^_^ Anyway, today is Okada-kun's birthday!! Omedetou gozaimasu! So I present this article also for all Okada fans.. *wink* My usual disclaimer, this was translated with my minimum understanding of Japanese and skill of English, so if the translation seems to make no sense, I'm very sorry, Nov. Apart from it, enjoy.. ^_^
Okada Junichi (Cutting off distance between people is not always good)
When I saw at the news the severe flood on Shikoku Island as the effect of the typhoon, I made a phone call with my grandmother who lives there. To hear her voice saying "It's alright here", I was very relieved. Phone is really convenient. As for me, I'm usually made a phone call only when I have a business. Back then, I even had made an approximately 5-hours long phone call. Now, I'm not used to make long phone call again, and I limit the longest conversation to only 6 minutes. 6 minutes is enough, I think. I also disliked writing mails. I started thinking about writing ones only when it came to seasonal greetings (laugh). Nowadays, I can finally write one eagerly.
In Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)'s works, there are lots of situation where people wanted to meet each other right away but they couldn't, exchanging letters, and each was thinking about the other party all the time. It's the world like "Please wait for me until the day we can finally be able to meet each other". At that separation time, each bore their own love and jealousy, then various feelings were also grown… Good old period literatures are often picking themes like that. Telephone is surely an amazing tool since it can connect people anywhere anytime. Nowadays, since that amazement becomes so common, it seems the loveliness and pain of the words "wait" or "endure" or "patience" are hard to be understood. People are hard to wait or endure for something.
Telephone, especially cell phone, can rapidly shrink the distance between people. Just by exchanging (e)mail address, we can make friends and became ones so quickly. We can also simply share the cheers with people live on the other side of this Earth. But sometimes I think, is shrinking distance between people really a good thing? I mean, of course it's a good thing, but sometimes it can be not that good. For example, in a fellowship, there must be a time when we must meet each other. At that time, we might have to rush to get there in time, so the essence of telephone that cut off the distance becomes meaningless.
Still, in nowadays world where there is tendency of people to do things fast and lightheartedly spirited, various strains are also appeared. As the usage of cell phone becomes widely spread, at the same time it seems that crimes and problems also arise at the communication place. For people who feel disturbed by others who are doing phone conversation cheerfully, communication can be much stressed and they can eventually shout their heart out.
Actually, cell phone is not a bad thing… not at all. There are people who can't live without cell phone. Although direct conversation face to face is said to be the 'raw communication' where there is no 'beta' version of the thins you are going to say, still I think that is the basic method of communication.
Anyway, tolerably, I'm also one that cannot live without cell phone (laugh). At night, I put my cell phone at my bedside. Hmm…
-- Photo mail from Okada:
The brand new dance shoes "for the first time 3 years… maybe?" It's very useful during the summer concert.
Inohara Yoshihiko (the eye to eye conversation… that is the basic, right?)
Among V6, I'm the first one who had cell phone at the first time. Ettoo… when I was 19 years old. Although I thought it was very useful, there were only few people around me who also had one at that time since they were not so depended to it. I was somehow lonely. But rapidly, as the usage of cell phone became widely spread, people become more realized about how useful cell phone is. When people were late to attend something, they can still communicate and make coordination each other. Also when people encounter accident or incident, cell phone can be very useful. I cannot even imagine a living without cell phone.
The time when there were only ordinary phones at my house was very awful. Since cordless phone was quite expensive that time, we didn't even had one so I even had to pull the cord to my room. Every time I made a long phone call, I was angered "how long will you call?!" When I made a call to with a girl and her parents came in, they were also unpleasantly puzzled and troubled with it. There were times when I was finally succeeded to arrange appointment with someone but eventually there were a miscommunication so we could not meet each other. Not knowing whether the other party was also waiting for me or had returned home, I just kept waiting. Perhaps if we already had cell phone since the elementary school period, we would not guessing on each other, but back then, it felt so inconvenient.
Only, I thought that the inconvenience people had on me was not a big deal. At some situation, I had even practiced to be prepared for situation when the other party's parents ran to pick my long phone call by dokidoki greeting "Ah, konnichiwa. I am Inohara…" It was my first step to learn speaking to adults. At midnight, when someone wanted to hear the voice of the person he likes but he could not make a phone call, it felt very painful so the next time they met, they chatted their heart out… For me, such feeling is very important. From such situation, drama was also born.
Besides, as I thought, talking face to face is the basic of communication. As for person like me, I think the most important thing in communication is especially looking at my opponent's eyes when talking. For example, you can directly follow the feeling of the person you like. If you were confessing your love by mail, you would be separated by mail and the feelings could not as much as telling it directly. Nowadays, when someone was late to fulfill an appointment, they tend to "talking at mail is okay, right?" Somehow it seems that the quality of communication becomes less important and people's manner on their livelihood has lost.
On the other hand, strangely, once some convenient tools increase in numbers, stresses also increase. Although cell phone is very convenient by connecting people anytime anywhere, for this reason conversely people tends to angered when they could not be connected. They rapidly become proud for convenient things. I think, because of cell phone, a new culture is born in present time where manners are declining, crimes entangled by cell phones are rising, and problems that demanded settlement are increasing. Because I live in such period, lately I prefer to talk in person because it is very important and I found it is much more enjoyable.
By the way, I also sometimes think to stop possessing cell phone… hmm…
-- Photo mail from Inocchi:
This is my pet dog, Nell. I've been socializing with her for approximately 10 years. We can possibly make a communication that beyond words.
@ 09:36 p.m.
