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Hi!!!

hmm so new year resolutions, right??

do you do any??

I don't

cuz I never really accomplish any XD;;

now wishes, that's different

you know, here we have the tradition of the 12 grapes, the thing is on dec 31st at 12 o'clock when the bell strokes start you're supposed to eat a grape with each struck and make a wish at the same time, problem is that it's too fast; hence pretty much everyone end ups with the mouth full of grapes and looking funny XDD

and to be honest I don't have too much time to make up wishes, except to wish not to die by grape choking

and hey it works!!! proof it that I'm still here, right?? XDD

I know... I should think of my wishes beforehand, but that'd be cheating... and even if I did at that moment survival seems to be the best thing to wish for :D

although there's only one thing I really wish for, and no it's not to be able to go to a con *even when that would be awesome*

I just wish to be healthy again, that's it, I'm not asking for much am I?

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...maybe I am

maybe I should stop being so selfish and think about the rest... you know, for a change

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I can try at least, can't promise anything but trying wouldn't hurt anyone, rigth??

hmm gotta think about that

oh, but don't be too happy cuz I'm still gonna continue with my whining therapy, sorry

*sigh*

let's change the subject, shall we??

AnS- was... ok, half boring half fun; as I said previously I hope they get interesting guests since most of the last ones were *meh*
and if no, why not more eps w/guests?? those are always win :D

I was thinking about them getting you know the famous ones and I vote for Hugh Jackman :D he seems to be quite amusing

now for HnA - remove the uh freezing water segment, as someone in my nh said it's not nice for them to be punished for having their own ideas in respect of dates and all that, if they were always going for the *most perfect romantic thing* it would be quite boring, wouldn't it?? because you'd already know what to expect D:

although implementing that in the government would be fun as hell

you get thrown in freezing water for saying a bunch of lame stuff?? politicians will be constanlty sick but really really clean XDD *in my country, that is* 

there's that, now for mannequin 5

I like that segment but I don't like the uh *buyers* that much, so I propose that oh I don't know once every 2 months or so the guys get to be the judges :D  it would be really entertaining to see what kind of snarky comments would Nino make, hmm maybe Squishy too...  wouldn't you like to see something like that??

I know that's highly improbable, so why not uh treating them as real mannequins and let's say, have some girls picking their clothes according to the theme and another ones judging their choices?? 

for once we will know what they really like...

you know, just my 2 cents

as for VSA - that one is fine, I just want the guys to have more screen time, that's all

yeah

besides that, I don't have much to say

See ya!!!

 
*hope everyone has a great week!!!*

I'm trying ok??
 

Kohaku　by Artist 43.2%
Nepu League  13.3%

Hi!!!

so how's been new year for you so far??

for me it's... ok, I guess

oh, on last day of past year I got an awesome gift by  ginger_ame THANK YOU *hugs*
and on the first 2 days of this year I got another nice gift courtesy of *you won't believe this* Mr. Hand Pain, that's right Mr. decided to be decent and allowed me to enjoy the beginning w/o pain

see?? I'm adorable

yeah, I hope you just kept being so

...you ask for too much

I know :D

didn't want to say so I wouldn't spoil it , you know how's he when getting some attention

OI!!!

sorry... *but it's true*

as for Da neck... he decided to try higher places so my back doesn't hurt that much, but the neck and shoulders do *sigh* guess it's an improvement since the pain area is smaller this time :D

what else??

we got Kouhaku which was my first, I've seen some perfs before but this is the first one I've really watch *except the enka parts, not my thing*

and the Countdown... which was it shorter than other years or I'm completely wrong?? oO

later that day THE MOM asked me if that was this year's con and whined a little about how she wanted to watch... first she was nagging me about me not sleeping cuz I was gonna watch, then she says she wanted to do so... who gets her??!!! ><

oh I was thinking about watching the TOKIO show too but that would mean 3 days w/o sleeping in a row and although I wanted to do so, I decided that I should try to get a little healthier, don't know if that would make me worse so... :/

but I saw the nep league thing, I think is a nice show, even when I have just watched very little of it XD;;;

oh yeah new song!!!  I think is nice...

so for first release of the year will it be 3 ver or something?? oO

talking about that... what's gonna be the real logo for Shosus' drama?? I think I saw 2 vers... and I need to start making the new banner D:

it looks fun so there won't be need for strips, right?? right??

...right ._.

hee XD;;

ok now for radio stuff, been listening to quite a bunch of shows so I don't know if you'd like me to put links in case you're interested to try some of those...

so far I've listened to a really niiice one about The Beatles, one bout the music Jane Austen would have had on her ipod *thought it was interesting*, a review of uh british music since th '60's... sorta *I'm in the middle of the '70s XDD* theres a mini series about female fairytales characters' future  *Goldilocks was my fave*

another one about DW books *but I think that one isn't available anymore*

there's also gonna be some dramas from Terry Pratchett's books, which sadly aren't really known over here, I just have a few ones and as expected the translations are not bad, but there's quite a lot of jokes that get lost D:

talking about translations I was all ready to get dad into *oh so loved Ten* and I thought he may have some trouble with the accent, so I dled the subs too... but he told me he's not that fast at reading english D: so he'll wait till the spanish subs get out...

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which would be never, since I think the only boxset that got out with those is the 1st season *facepalm*

so I had to make a fast search and luckily I was able to found some decent ones :D

now the thing is I wanted to show him Jin too, but there's only english subs... -_-  never thought there would be the day I wanted spanish subs

so I was thinking in maaaaaybe try to sub it myself *from the existant eng ones of course, cuz my japanese isn't that good yet* so I was wondering how hard is that, since I've never done such things... anyone??

and before you go on telling me that that isn't nice to the original subbers etc. the thing would be only so my dad can watch it too, I don't intend to ul anywhere...

or should I wait for subs to come up?? ._.

ok, now talking about DW...

don't wanna see him go but I wanna watch the SPs DX

;_;

therefore I'm in denial state while showing his seasons to dad, while my face is hurting... and why is hurting?? cuz I have a big grin when I watch him XDDD can't help it!!! love the guy!!! <3<3

oh which reminds me of the discovery of the week!!! *for me that is*

Moon River

John Barrowman

had no idea Capt Jack could sing... and this is the thing I'm listening between radio shows XDDD

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Shosus, long rant is long oO

will stop here

oh, I mostly listen to radio 7 XDDD is there anything you're listening right now that you think I'll like??

Agent K. I know, is funny how they are having dramas close to their b-day months XDD

VampyrRep  I think there's a bunch of drawings in there too XDD;;;

See ya!!!

Still bugs me why the Count Down was so annoying to me.
Looks like CX changed the chief producer.  Didn't see KikuP's name in the current production. 
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Let's wait for the individual artist's rating^^

no arashi school calendars anymore?

someone told me this might happen because arashi hit 10 years... i didn't beleive them... it makes no sense to me! why would johnny stop producing calendars for the most popular band in je (imho)? thats a lot of money down the drain!? johnny... you baka!!

happy new year everyone!

i'm back in aus now... >_<

2009 was the best year of my life... i can't wait to go back to japan again soon! maybe for an arashi concert?? XD

did everyone see the uchiwa for the countdown concert? it's so kakkoii, isn't it!? i can't wait to get one! my friend is going to post one for me... i love my arashi buddies!! <3

i'm glad that johnny decided to do group uchiwas! it's an awesome idea! :D

well, i hope you all have an awesome year! kore kara mo, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!!!

Jun's XMAS & NY FC Message

Arashi's XMAS & NY FC Message

please do not take my photos without crediting me... thank you!

p.s. i just watched kouhaku and i love, love, LOVE how arashi changed suits between happiness and believe in the smoke... chou kakkoii~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!

and how awesome was the JE countdown!? :D

Back from Count Down @Tokyo Dome.
It was obvious that Arashi won't appear until 2345.
Checking Arashi's performance @Kohaku with my cellphone One-Seg (TV) until 2300.
Non-OA part was mostly K-T, News (without Ryo) and V6.
Kame & YamaP were doing the talk part before the OA, and called in Arashi.
My best part should be all the boys dancing for Matchy.  Wonder when Arashi boys remembered that choreography.
Other than that, they sang old (too old!) songs so much.  No collaboration, no K8 XD
Every year, Count Down is a mess cause they don't spend much time for preparation.
But this year, more than that just made the whole show frustrating XD

Hi!!!

sooo as I said now I'm hooked into BBC radio shows, right now I'm listening to a drama adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles :D

ok, now  for something completely different and to add yet another *I was listening to a podcast* series

this time I was listening to one about how art has been linked to humanity since long ago between other stuff... and how much we value to possess original art *when possible obviously* rather than reproductions, and this is because we feel as if we can connect with the artist mind at some level

this made me think about another podcast about webcomics and there's a guy who sent a question to the show asking how they manage with reader mail and hate mail, if they have some sort of *answer ready to send* or something like that, since he spends so much time answering to his

so the guys were talking about how much they prefer short and sweet mails with something like  *thanks for your hard work, I love your strip* rather than long messages and how they usually ignore the hate mail

but they also were talking about how... weird is when they get messages that are something like *I have been reading your strip for a long time and I'm not satisfied at how things have been going lately, so unless you change this I'm not gonna read it anymore*  "not exactly the words but that's the idea"

and they were saying things along the lines of *who do you think you are to tell me what I can or can't do with my strip?!* but let's put that aside and something that really got me *I didn't know you even existed*

which brought back to my mind yet another podcast hosted by a couple, and I was thinking when they were telling his experience of meeting/interviewing some of the cast of MST3K *if you don't know what that is, google is your friend* and how weird it was at first for them cuz they didn't know how to conduct themselves, specially the woman cuz she said she was there expecting some sort of super friendly almost family welcoming and how she was thinking *c'mon guys, it's us!!* because she's been watching them for so long, that it felt as if those ppl were family

so I was thinking about all that *I know it's too much...* and the strips, because now and then I get some comments from you telling me that the strip of that day made your day better... or how you've been reading those for months and how much you like them

and this is nice and a little strange for me, cuz sometimes that's the only message I get from some of you like, ever

so it makes me feel good and perhaps a little guilty because it's like *wow this girl has been following my silly strips for so long and I didn't know she existed!! oO* and at some level I feel guilty for not knowing that, I know it's impossible to know who's reading, but still...

however, is nice to know that even when you don't say a word, you're still there; laughing with me...

*or at me, but I prefer to think is with me*

so I just want to say:

and now I believe what will be the very last strip of the year

is good to know it's just a *little* advice

*as usual locked in 2 days*

See ya!!!