Hi guys. Not that I’m here to write anything important, but as Tsuda in Seitokai Yakuindomo would have said:
“If I were a writer I could make hell a lot of money…” –Kaineng
Yesh. I had a wonderful and long weekend. Cya guys next Wednesday. (Audience: Eh? Entertainment News leh?) Wednesday perhaps? I scared my mood gone off by Wednesday, or actually tomorrow? Just being in a parade sucks huh…
Well since I have an opinion, I might as well say it here. And also the many things that are affected because of the recent haze due to irresponsible farmers burning crops in Indonesia as cheaper means sent the smoke flying west followed by a unlucky south wind that ended making a little red dot blinded in a haze of PSI readings up to 400 unhealthy just a few days ago. Well, that pretty much sums up everything. How was it? (Audience: Wonderful. Have no idea why you would fail in the General Paper.) (Hmm I wonder too…)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION (I noticed doing in points makes it easier to me to write and you to understand!)
About a week ago (yesh it has been already) Singapore sees a sudden haze enveloping the skies of this small city-state (as how the papers call our country), which sent PSI (Pollution Standards Index) readings sky high, reaching 401 on Friday noon, twice the worst they saw since 1996, or is it 1997? Oh whatever. Anyways, it’s bad. And long-term exposure to such a haze is bad for health (need I explain this anyway?), so makes people stop activities and avoid the outdoors.
IMPLICATIONS
Well, there are many. In “The New Paper” (Local newspaper name, people. If you don’t know means you don’t even bother reading FREE newspapers.) reactions have been seen at first is prevention. People start to comb all pharmacies and stores which sell effective masks like the N95, famous for its appearance from the SARS incident in 2003. Prices of masks have thus been high, with stores selling twice the price and other people selling at blackmail prices. Also, this has restricted the outdoor activities of people. Since it’s starting of peak PSI numbers on Tuesday, parade rehearsals have been called off (SAF Day Parade, I heard also NDP) and more focused on wet weather indoor rehearsals (which I’m still in it, no choice). Yesh, even my meals were done indoors that day, haha. Last Friday’s biathlon have also been cancelled (I’m not inside so doesn’t matter) and we have a half day off despite the cancellation of the event. The battalion have also decided on cancelling the Formation Run in Marina Barrage today, which is why I’m here. Haha. *woots*
At home, this weekend was spent mostly… indoors. And not only indoors, indoors with air-con on. Like now. Haha. No, not now. I explain to you guys why later. Over the weekend just below my block no one is seen at the nearby playground, nor on the streets when I go home frequently from camp. Seriously, man. People are SCAAAARED.
THE SITUATION NOW
As we can see from the recent PSI readings have dropped close to healthy standards, more people are seen out of buildings already. (Not me, you wish) Personally I’m not using the air-con anymore despite the heat, because… there’s no haze. So why bother? The cold air makes my hands sweaty, and my knees don’t like the cold. At least for now, we can safely say… we’re safe? Do you guys even know why it’s like that now? Yesh, there suddenly comes a northern wind just yesterday which helped clear the air above my homeland…
NOW WHAT?
Well we shall see, then. I hope to only do the wet weather program for SAF Day Parade (Yesh I’m in it up to here *points at neck*), and avoid another week’s physical activities, but from the looks of it… Nah maybe not. But I could be wrong, haha. So looking at the government’s point of view, observing the situation seems to deem fit. Really, the f****ing gahmen sent out the N95 masks so late until the smoke clear off liao then give expensive masks to the poor? Seriously.
Cya guys then, until next time… I should be talking about my NEW PACKAGE!!! *ding dong* Oops, I got to answer the door~
[P.S.: That was a fluke. The real one supposedly comes at Wednesday. Or Thursday. Or Friday, anytime within this week. I’m only just guessing…]
[P.P.S.: *pant* I’m tired. I need a nap. WHERE THE HECK IS THE AIR-CON REMOTE?]
Hi guys. I’ll be updating her more frequently these days because… it’s been five years, huh. YESH! It’s been five years since I started listening to Japanese songs, really. Looking back at those days… I have so much to remember them by. The great songs, the not-so-good, the disappointing, and the ridiculous. All is in my list of… what’s the number? *takes script* All in my list of 892 songs (excluding f***ing Korean songs and dialect songs which… you guys wouldn’t want to hear?) are the many memories I share with myself, and you guys too. The Song of the day plan is one of the ways you guys know what’s hot and what’s not.
AWARDS
This time I have decided on the method of doing this instead of just giving prizes and needing to choose like five songs from the 800+ songs: A song competition! Yeah! I randomly choose a list of 64 songs (because it’s easy to eliminate) that I eliminate and choose the best among the best, which I will share a few with you guys every week starting next month. Look forward to it, ne! (Audience pukes) Oi.
TOP SINGLES AND ALBUMS
For this I will set the charts up by ranking up the top singles and albums that I possess (of course, if it’s good it should be on my shelf liao), and try to picturesque it so you guys can get more info as to how good it is and how to get them. Really, if you don’t know how please contact me at ********. Thanks. Haha.
COMPILATIONS
Ah this is the important part. Celebrating Klassic Note Song Awards 5th Anniversary, I’m releasing (well not really, since I don’t want to burn 20cent cheap CDs anyway):
Hell yeah. This is going to make it a heck of a celebration. Actually I have more ideas for these compilations, but I’m keeping it seeing the number of compilations I need to do already… More details to be revealed soon, don’t worry.
Above all these the official webpage for this “Anniversary” thing is going to be at Webs.com (not here of course due to many reasons) revealing all the above things I mention. And I’m finding another reliable way to NOT upload songs and yet able to let you guys hear the songs I recommend. Yeah. To warp this up:
”お楽しみに!”
Next up: Me? Talking about the haze? Okay…
Hi guys. You didn’t see wrongly; It’s a Monday I’m living OUTSIDE camp now. So, since that I have so much time due to the haze recently (it has cleared up liao wor, should’ve pissed those organisers already) I might as well do everything now.
ANIME
RDG: I almost forgot to watch it, so did it along with the other two shows yesterday. It has reached its last episode already, and I can surely say it ended quite reasonably, though not wonderfully. Izumiko then found out that she was actually the new generation Red Data Girl, and the previous one obviously said she found her last “vessel” to be her successor? Yeah, something like that. I guess 12 episodes isn’t enough to explain more, huh. Well, Takayanagi the dog sure made this episode interesting…
Oreimo: Hmm another episode of Kyousuke enjoying himself? And finally Ayase said her words of wanting a piece of the main guy, just like every other girl in this show. I finally now know I’m watching a dating simulation anime instead of a otaku-knowledge show liao… You guys heard about the worldwide simulcast? Unfortunately for me in Singapore watching it means I must have a Starhub cable TV system… I think?
Shingeki no Kyojin: This episode is great, I think, personally. The start to some great action, and it was wonderful to see the soldiers fly around and killing titans (or be killed by, haha). Armin hit the jackpot of waking Eren up to explore the world instead of taking revenge for his mother which clearly is in his dream scene, (Seriously? He still has time to sleep? That could only happen for the main character, huh…) which is good news. On the other hand, things are looking up, as people start to believe in the absurd assumption that transforming titans can save the humans from the threat of titans. Well, halfway there, another half to go. And next week should kick start the release of new opening and ending themes from Linked Horizon (again) and cinema staff (just take them as another random rock band in Japan?), which is going to be good to look forward to, wherever the show goes. No, the show is good. It’s getting better, actually… This week also is the date for releasing their superb soundtrack with songs and music sure to make me hyped for watching the show. Yeah.
SHOWS
MythBusters: Jamie and Adam traverse the canyons with only duct tape and bubble wrap. They’ve proven you can abseil yourself down a cliff, make yourself a boat to coast the rushing waters, and pretty much camp outside the wild. Well, clearly we can see Jamie’s much more survival-knowledgeable than Adam, yes? Adam’s just being camera-friendly….
CrazyGod: A competition-like ending to 苏乞儿，西游记 is next! That white cloud is so doing the pig role…
MANGA
BLEACH: I noticed I didn’t cover this the previous time, but it seems that Ichigo has gotten back his zanpakuto, and Namaiya, like a wholesale market owner gives a “forge-1-get-1” offer, and now Ichigo ALSO has dual swords, like Kyoraku, Ukitake and Hisagi. Really man. But let’s hope he gets back in the fight. At the time lapse they’re moving, Soul Society should be a piece of flat land by now…
Kuroshitsuji: Finally after waiting for a month we get the conclusion to the mystery of Derek, the victim that Ciel and Sebastian were tasked to find. And it seems to be seriously surprising. You guys guessed the “that was a funny joke” part when they were revealing the principal? Welcome to the Undertaker fan club then, haha. And yesh, why the hell zombies again? Poor things… let’s see how Sebastian takes it next chapter; This is going to be interesting…
MUSIC (I almost forgot, haha)
This week… yesh. *cheering* Mi-na-ko, Mi-na-ko… (Audience: Seriously? We know liao lah…) Okay. *ahem* This week’s the release of MIna-chan’s new single “Prism”, and both songs are surprisingly good, without any extra verses before the last chorus, which is good news, since I don’t want to be disappointed due to my pre-ordering weeks ago, haha. Also is the release of the first two Oreimo Ending Songs (which I didn’t mention above, sorry), which are… very Anime-style as you guys would have expected. Also just heard this week’s release, one of them lah. ClariS’ “SECOND STORY” album is… not very satisfactory, as I try to search for a song to remember this album by. Sambomaster’s single is definitely expected to come late, so I may end up having to do CD ripping of my OWN stock in order to meet the quota for the month. (Audience: What? There’s a quota you have to meet?) Seriously didn’t want to rip my own CDs, so… please upload people? Yes…
Hi guys, welcome back. If you have been only reading the first and last paragraph and getting a text-to-speech software to read the rest you will only understand… 10% of the content. Yeah. So please take a read, ok? Lazy people…
Next up: The Official Announcement for Klassic Note’s 5th Anniversary plans have been decided!!by me!)
[P.S.: Oh and forgot to say, that just yesterday I tried to waste about 40 SGD on purchasing two singles… from TAIWAN! OMG! It works like CDJapan, but I wonder if it would even arrive here. If it does, I now know of a new avenue to getting Chinese release much earlier than it comes to Singapore! Three cheers for my success!]
Hi guys. Just saw the latest PV of Ikimono-gakari “Egao”, shows a lot of faces of random people, smiling. Which is the main point of the song anyway. I just don’t get why it becomes the theme song of the latest Pokemon movie. Never mind that, it is THEM I’m more interested in. If you guys still don’t get their profiles by now (if you have been listening to them as long as I do), then it’s a good time to do a refresher:
Yoshioka Kiyoe (Vocals)
Blood Type: A
Birth Date: 1984.02.29, or 29th February 1984 (currently 29, and a leap year child)
Mizuno Yoshiki (Guitar & Leader)
Blood Type: A
Birth Date: 1982.12.17, or 17th December 1982 (currently 31)
Yamashita Hotaka (Guitar & Harmonica)
Blood Type: O
Birth Date: 1982.08.27, or 27th August 1982 (currently 31 too)
(*References: The PV copyright Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Profile Information Ikimonogakari’s Official Website)
Also, this PV has given me a vast database of Japanese names, which I no doubt would use it in APoL somehow or another, haha. No, not that I have any news about Chapter 6 yet, no…
[P.S.: Really, the song is good. Even when I’m talking people are uploading this PV. Go listen to it, ok?]
[P.P.S.: “Why no put the star sign in?” You ask. If you know someone’s birth date astrological sign is already a given. Can?]
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| She wakes up, |
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| stretches herself, |
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| opens the window for some fresh air, |
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| puts some sauce on her breakfast, (you think it's not important but it is vital, or her dish has no taste...) |
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| says "Itadakumasu!", |
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| and leaves house. |
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| She walks down the street, |
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| sees the same boy going to school, |
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| comes back late at night, |
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| and sighs after a day of voice acting. |
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| She has some entertainment... (by reading a book) |
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| and goes to sleep. Note that she likes cats a lot. |
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| Wow she has strawberries for breakfast? That's healthy... |
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| You guys believe she leads a healthy lifestyle? Hmm... |
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| Hey guess which Manga she's reading, haha... |
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| “元気ない~” |
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| *yawn* |
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| Hey it's the quick breakfast tactic! She doesn't run out of the house with it on her mouth, right? |
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| Yep, she doesn't. （笑） |
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| Oops, looks like the kid dropped something, |
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| and Mina-chan's here to save his day! Minako Good Job! |
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| She really wants a real cat badly, huh... |
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| If you need me to tell you the rain was a fake, you really don't know much about drama. Really. |
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| Her breakfast is as lavish and healthy as always... |
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| 'Luckily for me, I've got my handy umbrella!" |
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| It's not clear, but she jumps over a puddle. Cute, isn't she? |
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| If one Mianko isn't enough... bring in five Minako! (In her blog post she states she wears seven attires...) |
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| Another picture for my collection? Hell yeah... |
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| 嗨，小小年纪就…… Childhood friends perhaps? |
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| "Hey look what I found..." |
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| ”ネコだ!” |
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I thought I might show you guys how many songs I have this year liao. But it’s not much, just 87 only, haha. Below are sorted by album, so don’t be surprised if you thought you had problem with counting items, haha:
*admires* I’ve come this far, huh… (Audience: Can you don’t talk like you’re some veteran already?) Haha, sorry… tehe~
Hi guys. I specially make this effort to just let you guys know on how much of a J-Pop fan I’ve been over the years, and things really started when I noticed I can collect my own salary, or allowance from being in NS. But then, I hope this does not stop after the service too, so maybe…
Talking about the main story, I’m just going to touch on the recent packages that have been dropped at my home, yet mostly received by me. Well how can I anyway? I’m in camp… Well, specifically saying:
(*All dates are with respect to the days I… the order was received xD)
May 8th: Catching Up To The First Japanese Songs + The Duplication Event
Well just picking up pieces from singles that I’ve missed is okay, but then it is only until I place the singles on the shelf that I noticed… that I got two of the same single! I must have loved Porno Graffitti to forget about that man, really. To what I shall do is not sure yet, because selling it already poses plenty of problems for me in Singapore wanting to sell a… not-so-popular single out to the mass. So, for now… I think I’ll keep it to myself. Really. On the other hand, I also caught up to the (supposedly) first Japanese song I heard: Koda Kumi’s “Koi no Tsubomi”. Surprisingly it was a movie theme song so it’s single-track, which is immediately placed in the basket. This order was specifically planned to come on my block leave (it almost missed it due to me not knowing the holiday schedules in Japan), so I was able to listen to it…
May 9th: My First Order From Amazon Japan
This took a year later than expected, but here goes. I’ve been able to get the releases I wanted from CDJapan most of the time, but what happens if I were not able to get it or the availability is low? The only other solution is to approach Amazon Japan, which ended up… quite a heck a lot more difficult than I thought. As my Singapore address is not recognised, I have to send it to a Japanese address and get a delivery service for Singapore to send it here. And it came, and here it is! You don’t know the expression on my face man…:
May 22nd: My Room Makeover + My First Pre-Order
On the 3rd of the month I have made an important decision in the one year I’ve been ordering CDs, is to pre-order a single. And not only for that. Also, I pre-order a single when I have only heard a preview of 90 seconds! Man! What did I mention about listening to it full before considering to buy it? But I cannot control myself due to seeing the first press goods that came with it:
Also, this date also marks my mum’s loss of a day’s part-time salary to receive this AND THIS:
*laughing on the inside* Yesh it’s room makeover time! Clearing the room for this sure took a lot of time:
But all in all I was satisfied with the end result, a new desk and bookshelf for an excuse to move the computer from the living room to my room (I wonder if LX has done this already?), and you see something beside the old desk? Yesh it’s a DVD TOWER!!!
*laughs loudly and proudly* (Audience: You done?) *calms down* Haha, I’m okay. But then I see that pictures say a lot more than me isn’t it? Besides, this joy can not be expressed in words, especially coming from me. If I did this earlier I think I’ll be writing an essay for each paragraph already, hehe.
And you thought my craziness has ended isn’t it? No, you’re wrong~
[P.S.: DAMN I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER TWO WEEKS JUST BECAUSE OF SAMBOMASTER’S NEW SINGLE! I SHOULD”VE PLACED IT IN MY NEXT ORDER INSTEAD DAMMIT!!!]
Hi guys. It’s been some time. Well when I say some time it’s always more than a week. Sorry for forgetting already, I’m already planning on a new structure and schedule to do this every week obediently. But for now… (Audience: You can just slack off any time you like?) Well I’m afraid so…
ANIME
RDG: Hmm looks like next week’s the final episode? And somewhat I still don’t get the show, but I know something epic is going to happen soon. So I’ll just wait. Let’s see how the Himegami wants to settle this…
Oreimo: Well looks like even their parents create chances for Kyousuke to have his personal time alone… with a variety of girls, it seems. Don’t complain people, and I’m not, since this is mostly a show of fan service, so I’ll just keep silent and watch. Haha…
Shingeki no Kyojin; Interesting developments, it seems, getting recognised by Commander Pixis who actually knew of Eren’s condition to transform into a titan, and then trying to use this to save the people. And yesh Eren, attacking your childhood friend is incorrect, you know~ Really. But then I cannot wait for the show next week so I went on to find out that **** ********** ************ *** *******, **** **** ********** **** *****. Haha, spoilers people. So you guys might as well wait, or JFGI. Yesh? (Audience: What’s that?) (Just F****** Google It) (Audience: LOL)
MUSIC
Ahem. May I announce that… Klassic Note is celebrating it’s 5th Anniversary! Yesh, it’s on! For quite a few weeks I’ve been thinking of things to do on the 6th year of listening to J-Pop and eventually I decided to do up a series of competitions and contests RIGHT HERE (yesh right in this blog) to comment about the many times I had with listening to J-Pop! With reviews, competition reports and much more, I suppose sticking here every week would be your choice to finding out more of how I enjoyed this experience! Next week I think I’ll start with the two compilations that I’ve been preparing for the last few months: THE EMOTIONALIST and THE ENERGIST, introducing the most emotional and most lively songs I’ve heard over the past 5 years. Stay tuned for more, people; This is going to be interesting…
That aside, this week… no songs wor. Well maybe because I’m busy with the parade rehearsals and things, and have no time to listen to new songs. Besides that, Tomacchan has revealed her new single and a preview which… makes me want to see the PV more than listen to her song. But that comes a few weeks later? Pre-ordering mah… I think wouldn’t be as exciting as this month’s… (*wink* more to come later)
SHOWS
CrazyGod: Need more jokes? Well if you’re non-Chinese this may sound a little racist, but, too bad! (Audience; |||…) Ohohohohohoho…
MythBusters: Adam and Jamie are testing about fat people (sorry, haiz another bias) can be a cushion to surviving a “T-bone”, ie. accident where a truck hits a car from the side. Well results are, that (sorry again) the obese people would actually make you even more dead due to the weight, compared to things like air bags. On the other hand, the other three are bringing in the theory of Hypermiling (Well Wikipedia suggested article?), where they bring in all the legal methods of increasing one’s driving mileage, and yeah they were successful, though not to the mythical target. Not like I would drive like them just to save fuel…
Well I guess that’s all, people. This week’s quite intense, considering I inevitably lost half a day because someone doesn’t want to do his duties. (Blah blah here, blah blah there…) (Whatever.) But then next week… damn it’s supposed to be intense, like… my package for the month? Because of Sambomaster it’ll be pushed a week later! DAMN! How can one take this anticipation?!! OMG…
[P.S.: Next up is a review of the orders of J-Pop I’ve done over the past month. You can say it’s an important part of why I’m taking this 5th Anniversary thing so seriously…]
[P.P.S.: If you really want to know what happened to Eren, it is that “Eren actually completed his mission, with some persuasion from Armin”. That’s all I can tell you guys. JFGI if you really want to know the full story…]
Hey I’m finally done! Well expect a v2 as always. I need to keep things logical before I continue with… don’t worry I’m at the next big arc which will span the next three chapters, so stay tuned.
Here it is~
APoL Chapter 5
Cya guys then. Until… tomorrow? I guess?
Hi guys. It’s supposed to be “weekly” so I better do this every week. Seriously…
ANIME
RDG: Interesting developments already as we can see, and it looks like the “information” itself is actually a being, but then duno why she dies and starts possessing others as a hobby. Sick.
OreImo: Well somehow the story about sibling love is so emphasised here that I wanna introduce my sis to watch this too. Haha. Next on, would Kirino really wear a wedding dress? We’ll have to watch on to find out. The ED song is kinda… yesh not in the show but you can hear it in the official website if you want…
Shingeki no Kyojin: Well, well. This show is getting more into the truth as we can already guess that Eren is the first guinea pig for his father’s human-titan-transformation hybrid injection already. Looks like for the next episode someone is going to stop him from being killed, and… maybe I shouldn’t spoil more anyway. I just read on the Wiki to take a look whether my presumptions were correct…
SHOWS
MythBusters: Another battle of the sexes episode, as more things NOT concerning gender discrimination comes to play, like throwing like a girl. In multitasking, I agree that females do housework more often than males? Kinda biased experiment there in the case of activity to test, right? For asking for directions, seriously; People who don’t want to get lost WILL stop and ask for directions. Stubborn people don’t. I’m not, fortunately. If I don’t know the place and I’m lost, I’m definitely going for an information counter. If I know the place and I’m lost… we’ll see about that, haha.
CrazyGod: Just last week’s final for Jurassic Park is kinda disappointing, but then the next one would get be going. I peeked at the latest episode already, haha. If you’re Chinese, PLEASE go YouTube it and enjoy. It’s just some humour you can get in these hard times. *music effect* Oops I forgot how to sing that song liao, haha…
MANGA
BLEACH: More of Komamura’s grandfather and how small he is compared to that big animal. Looks like Ichigo’s going to go back in shape, provided… he does not lose Zangetsu. Really, can’t bear to see the old man go. Can’t they just filter the hollow out from him and keep Ichigo as he should be – a pure shinigami? Haiz…
OK that’s all the time I have for you guys already. Damn the weather’s hot, so drink up guys. (I sound like the conducting officer in my camp already xD) APoL Chapter 5 is almost done, but then I need to settle some things first, and this weekend is kinda tiring, with the restoration of the 7-inch tablet from dad… you see where I’m going, yes? So it’ll be promised next week, and see if you guys can help me in by guiding me in children thinking. I thought I know a lot about them but looks like I don’t, haha. Until next time guys, cya~
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| Tehe! |
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| This is like, SOOOO cool... |
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| That is... |
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| Her worried face? Hmm... |
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| What's with the cover up? |
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| OMG! |
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| If you see the PV this is her wrestling pose. Not like anyone would lose to that stance... |
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| Aww, please don't~ |
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| Full gear Tomacchan. |
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| Flea in her head? |
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| The best smile. Ever. |
