Saturday, May 31, 2008

Since today's the last day of May before the new month rolls out , time to end things off with a bang with 1 hell of a pic :






YUM what can I say ? :D

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Friday, May 30, 2008

To kill sometime earlier on in the afternoon , I finally managed & decided to watch Koda Kumi's 4th DVD KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Black Cherry~ SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME which alongside with her 1st 3 concert DVDs , I purchased all of them from HMV HK seeing that it's MUCH cheaper to purchase online . I paid about $35+ or so for KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Black Cherry~ SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME DVD & that includes shipping too .

HMV Heeren is selling it for a ridiculous priced amount of $54.95 :O

The KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Black Cherry~ SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME concert footage lasted almost 3 hours & I must say that I enjoyed Koda's latest DVD a hell lot & this's probably my fave concert DVD coming from her so far .

The 3 interlude movies are very nice & it's a refreshing concept . I wish there were more interlude movies though as 3's not enough for me . Basically I like the whole concept of a pirate theme going on in the KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Black Cherry~ SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME DVD .

Some of the songs were arranged differently like a jazz version of CUTIE HONEY , a rock version of Real emotion which was really cool .

TOHOSHINKI made an apperance performing LAST ANGEL alongside with Koda . It was a decent performance even though I'm not really a fan of the band's works but Hero's hot . The outfits that they wore were a bit funny & off key though :S .

I'm glad that I purchased KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Black Cherry~ SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME as it's honestly a great DVD . I like that Koda offers something different in each of the 4 DVDs that she has released so far in her career .

Here's to more from her !


I probably have died & come back to life so many times the past few days , I sometimes wonder am I a walking corpse to begin with .

I had hearing/ear problems at the beginning of the week & then the last 2 days , I was down with a viral infection no thanks to the stupid nasal spray that I inhaled . I probably overshot with the dosage which led me to keep on sneezing like a total shithead .

Thank goodness my health seems to be back on track now . The only thing that keeps me going is music . I just download a whole buncha stuff & not to mention saw a few PVs to keep my spirits alive .

I'm listening to Koda Kumi's That Ain't Cool which feats Fergie . They probably shoul renamed it as Fergie feat Koda Kumi instead as it's essentially a Fergie song , period .

Not exactly the type of comeback I was expecting for dear Kuu especially since the covers for MOON are so very beautiful & pretty .

I also saw the PVs for Moon Crying & That Ain't Cool earlier on . Quite a bore/disappointment especially for That Ain't Cool , doesn't really do justice to the song in anybit .

Moon Crying's ok but quite dramatic in a not very good way but the saving grace's that there's a cute guy in the PV :D .

I'm just curious to know how MOON will fare when it hit stores in Japan on 11th June . I just hope it wouldn't tank badly .

& rejoy for the return of Tackey & Tsubasa too :D

Oh before I forget , here's to 10 more years of Ken's Bar where dear Ken Ken celebrated the 10th anniversary of his Ken's Bar concept yesterday .

-1st stage-
Catch Ball
Melody (Original: Koji Tamaki)
LAKuEN
Lately (Original: Stevie Wonder)
Itsuka Hanareru Hi ga Kite mo

-2nd Stage-
POP STAR
KISS OF LIFE
Itoshi no Elly (Original: Southern All Stars)
Hitomi wo Tojite
Love Love Love
gaining through losing

-Encore-
even if

ooh I would LOVE to see the Ken's Bar 10th Annivesary Special to be uploaded on youtube or something , the setlist looks great & so's the pics :D

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I went to see the ENT specialist this morning at the hospital to get my ears checked . It was quite frightening when I walked into the room because I don't know what to expect seeing that it's the 1st time I'm faced to face with an ENT specialist .

After I told the doctor on what's going on with my ears , he proceeded onto do up a few procedures to check on me including an audio test to test my hearing on whether did I experience any hearing loss or not .

I thought I was going to scream for dear life when he checked the internal parts of my ears but luckily it wasn't as bad as I thought it will be & I swear after I tolerated this ear/hearing loss problem of mine for the last few weeks or so , I'm not going to complain when my next period comes because I can say that the pain that I felt for the last 2-3 weeks , was even 10x times worst than that .

But I'm relieved that there's nothing serious about my ears as I was afraid that it might led to something that requires surgery . Aside from a ringing sound on my right ear , I'm officially alright now , phew .

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Monday, May 26, 2008

Now that I have brought back the tagboard I have a dliemna to ponder upon so opinions will be appericated if you leave them in my tagboard .

I started to lose bits & pieces of my hearing from both ears since I was 13/14. I guess it runs in the family because my dad & so's his 2 older brothers & my paternal grandpa are all deaf in 1 ear .

While my paternal grandpa restore to wear a hearing aid & my dad's oldest brother went for surgery to retify the problem , my dad's stuborrn & refused to go for an operation nor wear a hearing aid as he has pride .

Anyway in the beginning I decided that it was fated that I suffered & lived with this problem .

However recently , I realised this problem of mine is starting to take a toll on me & my overall well being . I mean , if you cover both your ears , you will not hear some buzzing sound when that happened isn't it ? That happened for my case which I know something's not right . Not to mention I can hear a buzzing sound regardless whether I cover both my ears or not .

Also nowadays , I find out that the buzzing sound has been coming back to me on a frequent basis which in turn is affecting my hearing .

Even as I'm typing this out now , I still can hear the buzzing sound coming & it has been getting even louder than before .

& so on Sat , my dad brought me to see 2 doctors back to back about this condition of mine & I'm going to see the Ear Nose Throat specialist this coming Wed to get diagnosed on where the problem's at exactly .

While I have to wait til Wed to get my condition to get checked , I'm considering to withdraw from 1 subject this trimester & then push it forward all the way to next year when the new trimester rolls out due to my hearing problem .

Which means to say when the new trimester for next April rolls out , I will be doing 3 subjects & also I have considered on what my mum & Hui Li has said about the fact that I'm doing part load & taking my own sweet time to do my degree & graduate .

Because by right , I'm supposed to graduate next Aug if I were to undetake full load (4 subjects per trimester) since last year but being the lazy idiot I'm , I decided that no to do 2 subjects per trimester (part load) is better .

But now the more I think of what my mum & Hui Li has said , the more I'm considering to go for it . Because I have no idea when I will graduate if I keep up at this pace that I'm , ie. keep on doing part load per trimester where I myself have no clue when I will finish my degree .

Also my mum commented that it's better that I choing & get it over & done with fast , as evident to my dad when he went to Canada & got his degree at a much faster pace than his peers as judging from this snail pace that I'm at now , I have really no clue on when will the day that I will finally see the light & graduate .

Even Rachel said that I should have no problem to juggle full load should this idea of mine materialise . It's only a matter of whether I want to go for it or not .

Because at least if I were to do full load in my final year , I have a rough idea on what the day will come .

Ah opinions opinions opinions .

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

I saw a thread posted on Gareth Gates's forums & it was a message that Sandy has posted on behalf of Nicola's parents . Nic's parents thanked everyone in the forum for everything & that Say It Isn't So was played at Nic's funeral .

I'm glad that Nic's unexpected passing finally has some closure of sorts & that it's finally for everyone & myself to move on & move forward in time , away from this painful moment which still lingers on .

I thought about Nic yesterday & also the pent up anger/sadness/upset over my supposed helplessness over my current schoolwork in which last night I shed tears over these 2 matters .

That's me , I will always cry after a bad situation has hit & sunk in me a few weeks after the incident took place but I must add it was a good cry on my part .

I know Nic will hate to see me in this current state where everyone including me grieved over her death . I was in fact relieved to see Sandy's post just now because that was essentially the catalyst for me to wake up & move on in my life now .

Not to mention earlier on this afternoon , I screwed up on my 1st Business Finance spot on quiz so I suppose both of this matter were knocks that I needed to say that 'yes the time has come to move on . Nic's in a happy place now with no more suffering at hand so you shouldn't moan & be upset over this anymore longer ' .

Yes I admit , I'm lagging behind in school but thanks to the support of Des , Mags & Jen , I decided to pick & dust myself up & continue to fight on despite the unexpected passing on Nic .

I can throw in the towel now but after reflecting & looking back on what I have accomplished the past 2 years , I figured it's not worth it . Somemore my parents will be pissed again .

Looks like I will take the weekend to do some serious catch up in a marathon style & Nic , this imaginery glass of wine is a toast to you from me to celebrate your life & on what a wonderful person you were .

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Ever since I started school again 2 weeks ago , things has not been smooth sailing for me .

I have just recovered from grieving over Nicola's unexpected death & needless to say , I'm quite way behind on my schoolwork .

I personally don't like the new timetable for the new trimester , period . Who would have 2 lectures/tutorials of the same subject back to back in a week ? That's really stupid but I suppose it will benefit me in time to come as there's a 'holiday block leave' of 2 weeks at the last week of June - 1st week of July for me to enjoy but still I rather suffer later than NOW .

So basically , timetable , screw it . Expectations from the subjects I'm taking , also screw it & my mum thinks that doing part load's easy . It's not . I can imagine if I were to do full load , I probably will end up at IMH at this point in time .

Bottomline , I don't know if I will have enough time to update this blog of mine frequently . I might consider to blog on an irregular basis or maybe switch to update my music blog on a more frequent basis .

Not to mention I have to curb the usage of the internet too . I suppose another reason as to why I'm lagging behind in my schoolwork is due to too much distraction in the ahs sekai forum & also searching for new items to buy online & last but not least , gymming after I come back home from school in which after that I get so tired , the last time I want to do's to revise my schoolwork for the day bleek .

I guess it's about time that I now do up some work & play timeplan for myself in that to cut down on the usage of the internet slowly bit by bit & maybe before I head to school , I head to the gym as to me exercise's sometimes a chore .

I hate to do this but sometimes I have to do what I must do .

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Saturday, May 17, 2008

I've been a member in the sekai forum since I signed up to be a member on my birthday this year & most recently , I have came across people who're younger & older than me & are willing to spend big bucks to fork out on gazillion million of tour merchanise !

I don't mind since I myself have been doing that but what amazed me is that they buy by the truckload which scares me !

I have seen pics of their purchases & they don't buy 1 item . The $ they spent is not a small figure since they enlist the help of middleman sites & you probably can imagine how much such sites charge people for .

I have seen my friend posting up pics of her latest purchases of ayumi hamasaki's asian tour '08 10th anniversary tour merch & what she bought is really up there ! 3 keychains , 4 phonestraps , almost a dozen of AyuPans . Wow I say .

While I do buy tour merch & other items from the net , I have to be selective especially since the purchases that will appear on my debit card are gonna be in Yen . Add in bank transaction , insurance fees , commission , shipping & the snowball effect goes on .

I have been using a middleman site for the past month or so & I must say despite the rather skyhigh charges I have to pay them , they're very professional in doing business with me . I'm waiting for 1 more item to be mailed to the office before I can send them a shipping request so that the middleman site can ship out everything to me all at 1 shot .

After that , I'm not going to use their services anymore . Instead I will sought help from my new Japanese friend Shuji to do so since when you do business with a person that you trust , you will be more at ease .

3 purchases of mine came on Thurs , Fri & today , 3 days back to back & I have to say so far the purchase that came on Thurs is my fave outta the whole lot of things that I have bought from the net since I started doing this in late Feb .

It's quite a pricey & rare Ken Hirai tour brochure but it's worth every penny considering that there're not many of them floating around the net .

I went to the post office this morning to collect the parcel that Shuji mailed out to me just this Mon & I'm 1 happy bunny . The extra bunch of merchanise that came along in the parcel's <3 . I mean you can't say no to 6 exclusive postcards of dear Ken Ken , isn't it ?

Ah I can't wait for more to come . This's not the end , it's only the beginning .

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

So school has already started for me & at this point in time I'm quite lagging behind , tutorial work wise . Because of the fact that I spent the weekend grieving over Nicola's sudden passing , this weekend , I really need to stay at home , catch up on my work & also speed up on my revision .

People are correct when they say time does heal wounds . I received support from people which enable me to get through this rather difficult time period that I'm currently facing .

Well it has been almost a week since that happened . I wouldn't say that I'm 100% emotionally recovered but I'm sure by next week or in probably 2 weeks to come , I will be fine .

Anyway I'm sure whether Nicola is right now , she's in heaven & is finally reunited with Tracie .

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

This is what I was woken up to when Hui Li came to my room when I was having my beauty sleep & she screamed in my face over this matter - Breaking Electrico News .

Yes folks it's official , Electrico is now a quartet & before you go on MSN & bombed me with questions on why this happened , I'm not going to answer nor eloborate any further details because whatever Sujin has written on in the article , the answers that you seek are all on there so it's pointless for me to talk about it even more is it ?

On a separate note altogether , a big happy 13th anniversary to Ken Hirai ! It has been exactly 13 years since he debuted on the scene with Precious Junk .

Many happy happy returns to him , I can't wait to see what he has gotten under his sleeve for this month's double celebrations for him .

The reason why I say double celebrations is because later on this month on the 29th , he's going to celebrate his 10th annivesary of his Ken's Bar concept & on 29th , he will be holding a Ken Bar's 10th Annivesary Special concert in Japan .

I hope to see clips of it being uploaded on the net soon !

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

I came back home , logged onto the net & then I was greeted with sad devastating news on Gareth Gates official forums .

I have lost another friend Nicola from the forums who unexpectedly passed away 2 days ago . I found out the news from the forums through Sue & this time round , everyone's extremely shocked , probably even more shocked than Tracie's passing .

I had known Nicola since the old forums was established & I had talked to her quite often on MSN so in a way , both of us gone way back & just like Tracie , Nicola also had various health problems since young .

Apparently Nicola was warded to hospital 2 days for a kidney infection & it was that which cut short her life unexpectedly . She was 25 when she breathe her last .

Nicola & Tracie were close to each other & I was quite close to the both of them & yes I'm upset over this especially since it felt like deja vu all over again for me because Tracie passed away 2 years ago & then now it's Nicola .

Including myself , everyone in the forums are still recovering from the state of shock over this matter . It's always always horrible whenever such a thing happened . Not to mention you don't know when you will make a date with The Grim Reaper .

But I suppose everything happens for a reason & both my friends are now finally resting in peace & that Nicola has met up with Tracie in their next lives . Also whatever Nicola has suffered , she will not have to suffer anymore .

Nicola , wherever you're now , I hope you're smiling away & I admire your bravery for sailing through numerous obstacles despite the difficulties that you had faced in life .

I'm proud of you for being who you're & for being such a wonderful friend & a loyal Gareth fan .

You will be missed by everyone on the forums & I thank you for everything that you have did for me & everyone else .

The forums will not be the same without you .

I will miss you , friend :(

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Argh the weather has been SO hot & humid , it ain't funny to begin with . Not to mention I feel really heaty internally but luckily I have been downing a lot of cold water to keep myself hydrated .

Anyway so 1st day of new trimester in school has started already & this time I feel expectations are being set a notch or 2 from the previous trimester . It's quite daunting when all the subject's objectives , course outline & the works were laid out in front of me just now in the morning :O

But I will take it in my stride & I will take things as it's as each day passes by .

Wow , 3 items arrived in my house today when I got back home in which 2 of them are CDs (Ken Hirai's Itsuka Hanareru Hi ga Kite mo single & Maksim 5th album Pure II which I purchased from Music Merch UK because the album's only available for sale in UK due to contract obligations) & the other's a super duper rare Koda Kumi photobook which I bought it from someone from ahs .

I almost didn't want to get hold of the photobook because I assumed that it's still in print but I realised after I dig up somemore information regarding the photobook which's unlike her MAROC one , that's not the case so I decided to buy the 14 pages photobook from Julian so thanks buddy !

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