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Sunday Night Report: Things I’ve Done For J-Pop

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…:

This is 100% authentic man, I swear. And the 4 singles inside it too, in perfect condition. And finally marble’s singles (they sang for Hatsukoi Limited?) are able to arrive at my abode:
This is truly something I have not expected ever since I started buying from CDJapan, but a breakthrough is a breakthrough, so… maybe I should try again? There’s this limited edition SPECIAL OTHERS single I’ve not gotten yet because of its price, but…

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:Guys, the photo of TOMOMI is only part of the equation. There’s this poster hanging in my room now that… haha I will not show you, but you guys don’t know how awesome this is! But then I asked myself: Which is more important, listening to songs or taking the special goods, which kind of made me revise my roots. And yesh, I was under the assumption that I’ll like Aki-chan’s latest single and have it the thumbs up even without hearing everything. SCANDAL’s one was a different case, though…

Also, this date also marks my mum’s loss of a day’s part-time salary to receive this AND THIS:
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*laughing on the inside* Yesh it’s room makeover time! Clearing the room for this sure took a lot of time: DSCF3435 DSCF3431

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!!!
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*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~
Order20130612 Really man, it’s the season. Even though I don’t have many songs this year, but songs that come together in CDs do come out in these few months. In the month of May last year I have already brought in my first 13 singles of my life and last year. With the present count (including the order above) to be a pathetic EIGHT singles, things clearly need to improve. But never mind, at the least I’m satisfied. I’m satisfied of being able to see the feel the joy that many others are at their homeland, and also to be supporting the artists the way it is supposed to be done. Hopefully for many years to come I can still do that, and I would see more of J-Pop flowing all over the world (there have been reports and events to support that) so that one day (actually I have considered SCANDAL live, but I’ve not gone there) I would be able to attend a live that I can say I love. Soon, huh…

[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!!!]

Sunday Night Report: Entertainment News, On The Things I Missed

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…]

Saturday Morning Report: APoL Chapter 5?

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?

Sunday Night Report: Entertainment News Weekly

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~

Sunday Night Report: The Many (Fun) Faces of Tomatsu Haruka

Hi guys. Just been thinking of something recently, that I have been taking some screens off the latest PV from her 2nd album, and think I should share with you guys, since I haven’t yet: