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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
6:28 pm	~*YATTA!!!*~  I got accepted to Texas State!!! XD XD XD Now I have to get an appointment for an audition and music theory test to get into the Texas State Music school because I am majoring in Music. o_0 I really need to work on my music theory because I need to know: 1. Aural Skills Placement Test Every student is required to take the Aural Skills Placement Test. It consists of: matching pitches (we play a pitch on a piano and you sing the same pitch) sing a major scale sight-sing a simple melody (we will give you the notation of a simple melody, and you sing it) repeat short melodies (we play or sing a melody and you sing it back to us) sing a well-known song repeat short rhythms (we will clap a rhythm and you clap it back to us) perform a simple rhythm at sight (we will give you the notation of a simple rhythm, and you clap it) identify melodic direction (we will play two notes and you tell us whether the second note was higher, lower, or the same) This aural skills test will take approximately 5 minutes and does not require any preparation. 2a. Written Music Theory Placement Test for Freshmen Auditioning freshmen also have to take a written Theory Placement Test. This test helps us to advise students regarding the study of written music theory. All students who receive a high score on the test can place out of our basic music theory class (called "Essential Musicianship"). The Theory Placement Test consists of: Pitch Notation (notate specific pitches in treble, bass, or C-clef) Rhythmic Notation & Meter (complete specific measures with a rest; find an appropriate meter signature; rewrite a rhythm with correct rhythmic groupings) Key Signatures (for all major and minor keys) Scales (notate any major, natural minor, harmonic minor, or melodic minor scale) Intervals (name or write any interval above or below a given note) Triads and Seventh Chords (spell major and minor triads as well as any common type of seventh chords; identify triads and seventh chords within a simple piece of music and determine their harmonic function) Figure Bass I can do all of the aural test fine, it's the written theory I'm going to have trouble with. I have trouble writing the key signatures even though we've been working on it in class because I can't figure out how the sharps and flats are placed on the scale. Intervals...I know the name but I can't really remember if I know how to do it or not ^^; The triads and seventh chords I haven't worked on at all that I'm aware of, and I suck at the bass clef because I sing treble clef and the notes are in different places. I'm going to have to buy some books to get ready for this -_-" I'm wondering if I should sing the solo song I learned last year or if I should sing the one I'm working on right now. I have to sing the song memorized at the audition and I don't have the song I'm working on right now memorized yet, seeing that it is Italian and I have trouble with it sometimes. The song I sang last year for Solo and Ensemble contest was "Se tu m'ami, se sospiri" and the one I'm working on now is "Gai il sole dal Gange" if any of yall know them for some reason ^.^ I guess I'll have to ask my voice teacher or Mr. Dill what I should do... I think that's all for now, since I have a headache and it's almost supper time ^^ Current Mood: relieved (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
10:19 pm	Friend-locking I'm reading back on some of my posts and on my latest one, and I'm friend locking them because I don't want someone to stumble across my livejournal and then show my livejournal to a certain someone(s) and I don't want them to think I'm some obsessed crazy girl, though I might seem like that in my posts, I'm not like that in real life, k? feel free to friend me if you tend to just lurk on my livejournal ^.^ Current Mood: working (Comment on this)
Friday, October 5th, 2007
7:07 pm	Grrrr...terrible day Today wasn't a good day at all  (well, after 9:30am...before then it was ok)  >.<  I woke up at 4:30am to watch Tackey and Tsubasa live on the Music Station SP ^___^ T&T both looked Genki ^^ Tsubasa looked a little out of it, I dunno if this was filmed before or after he fell down the stairs and sprained his ankle/foot/leg, so he was either just tired or loaded with pain meds ^^; Though, I'd probably be tired/zoning out, too, sitting there for 2 hours...Takki looks like he's finally gained some weight again ^________^ ( More about my day... ) Current Mood: infuriated (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
11:41 pm	Chinatown's first anniversary in Austin NOW with pictures There's a Chinatown near my house though most of the stores are Vietnamese there LOL This past weekend was its first anniversary and they had Japanese traditional dancers (LOL 2 of them were white girls and the other 2 were obaachans =P ) I took some pictures of them. Then they had international singers but I didn't really know who any of them were (except this one girl looked familiar) though I took pictures of them if anyone might know them or something. They were really good actually, I didn't think I would like vietnamese songs but they were pretty good ^^ I went to a cafe at the chinatown where a friend from choir's mom owns it, and Chantel was working there, Lisa who is a family friend was working there, and a girl from my AP art class back in 10th grade was working there (and for the life of me I can't remember her name -_-" I can remember everyone else's names from that class but HERS *dies*). I'm thinking of asking Chantel in choir tomorrow if they need anymore employees because I wouldn't mind working with people I like and know ^^ I also saw a cute guy working at the supermarket there, and it makes me want to apply to be an employee there though I can't read or speak any asian languages except some Japanese =P He's the same height and build as Takki, but has a skinnier face, glasses, and Kame re Nobuta hair cut style/Takki's short dark hair style. Heehee mom and I went into the line that he was bagging but I tried to ask the lady if they had nattou and she got some manager over and he took me to an isle but it was black beans, not nattou -.-" so I didn't get to get the bag from him...I took a pic of him from behind LOL cuz I'm too scared to try to get a pic of them while they're looking my direction ^.^; but from the back, he looks like takki somewhat =P ( To the pics ^^ ) Current Mood: stressed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
5:11 pm	T&T JE shop pics I just got some lovely JE shop pics from a friend who went to Japan XD I feel like sharing them, so here they are ^___^ ( To the pics... ) Current Mood: crazy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 17th, 2007
10:17 pm	Best Of album CMs I made Hello!  I made 2 CMs for T&T's Best Of album coming out October 17th (Tsu's bday XD)  Please post this every where, we need to get the word out about this album!! ^_____^  You don't have to credit me, just spread the T&T LOVE ^.^ ( to see vids + info  ) </div> Current Mood: hyper (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 10th, 2007
10:43 pm	Tackey & Tsubasa's 5th anniversary It's been a year since I've known these boys, and they're the love of my life. They are my will to carry on. They make me feel happy when I'm sad/depressed and I don't know what I'd be doing now if I had never watched those fateful Inuyasha episodes with my big brother where they sang Sostugyou and One Day One Dream.  I'm so glad that I also met Bonnie, which then led me to the fandom =) This is one of the nicest, warmest, loving, close-knit fandoms I've ever been in/seen. I had been really emotionally and physically hurt from the last fandom I was in because of the people in it, and now I'm more cautious about things but I feel this is a new start for me and fandoms. I never realized how happy a fandom could be until I found T&T's. T&T has such a good fan base that I think that's why they keep going and being strong together. I think it's also why they've bonded more and more over the years. I think that's also why we, as fans, have bonded even more, too.  I'm glad that I've gotten to buy, listen, and collect things of T&T and they will always have a big part of my life/ be in a special place of my heart. I could never turn my back on these boys and I don't plan to either. I hope that someday I might get the chance to actually see them in concert, and I would hope that somehow I'd get to meet them, but that'd probably be rare occasion if it'd ever happen. I yern to see these boys perform, and maybe I'd be able to convince my dad to let me go this Christmas or this summer for a graduation present. It also helps when your mom is a big fan, too, so she can stress the issue ^_^  I know I've only been a fan for a year now, but I've watched so many videos of them from when they were backdancers for KinkiKids to now, and it feels like I've known them forever. I think they are what I was missing in life before I found them. I know it sounds weird to others, and a lot of people around me/ my friends don't understand why I love them so much, but it's so emotionally hard to explain why they could help me the way they have and make me feel better when I listen to them even though I might only understand 2 words in a stanza of their songs. Their songs hit the core of my soul and I just can't stop listening to them.  It's really because of Takki and Tsubasa that I aspire to go into the music business. I was thinking about it but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to do that or teach music. Then I found them, and I saw how cool being in the music business could be esp. when you are also the performer and the peron working behind the scene and I want to do that for a living. Yes, I love to sing, but I don't know if I could be a professional singer, so I want to do something like working for record labels and maybe even being a manager for a label, or even promotional stuff. I'd like to write songs and compose songs like T&T, too, but I need to work on it and work on my piano skills LOL I'm very happy about their 5th anniversary together, and I hope that they're celebrating it now because they've been working really hard and they need some time to have fun. I also find that I have a lot in common with Takki and Tsubasa, though others might say "well, you just think that because you're a fan", but it's really true. I find it very interesting, too, because I wouldn't think that I'd have so much in common with 2 boys on the other side of the world from me.  I find it very cool that I've met so many people across the world because of Takki and Tsubasa, and I love talking to them. I would hope that someday I could meet all these friends I've made online, because I think it'd be very interesting to talk to them in person. I find it intriguing that 2 Japanese singers could bring in  a fandom filled with all different kinds of people of all different races, cultures, ages, nationalities, personas, and more together. Thank you Tackey & Tsubasa for everything!! ^_____^ Happy 5th anniversary!!  ( P.S. ) Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
12:00 am	Today So, I'm going to write about today.... Today was the last day of my highschool choir's camp where we learn the region audition music. I'm a Soprano 1 and to others that know nothing about singing, Soprano 1= the people singing the highest notes. Let's just say my throat hurts now LOL We were singing the songs more than once, then recording them, and the tempos of some of the songs is really slow so we're having to hold the high notes for a long time T_T  I got to see Ali! XD she's one of my Soprano 1 buddies from last year that graduated, and she dropped by ^_^ She has a really pretty car, too, a Sky convertable.  At my school Disney was filming some pilot for a series called "Life bites" o_0 I don't think I've told you this before, but I hate the Disney channel. With. A. Fiery. Passion >.< and one of the main character was walking by with this dyed blonde curly hair looking like a britney spears wannabe with a bunch of make up on in skimpy clothes (short shorts that barely covered her ass) and she gave me this vomit-inducing smile that made me crindge/wanna beat her up LOL Stupid slut had some lady that was with the crew stand outside of the bathroom while she changed in there 0_0 Grrrr....I hit my friend Michael instead in the arm, because I was afraid I might've actually hit her if she got close enough. Acting like she's the shit, thinking she can walk all over my school campus like she owns the place. I talked to some extras, one of them got sunburned really bad because he had to be on the track for like half the day. Seriously, he was so red it started looking purple. Why don't they have them put on sunscreen??? Do they not know how easy it is to get a sunburn here?? Back in 8th grade I was outside for 30 minutes and I got a 2nd degree sunburn o_0 (the art class was working on an art car). That boy and another one were just starting 8th grade and i'm think WTF this is suppose to be for highschool, and you can totally tell they were not in HS. The other guy was a cute hispanic guy that just moved from Dallas to Austin and he's a Sophmore (too bad, ne? I don't date guys younger than me). I think he was hispanic, he could've been some kind of asian, too. Had a very pretty smile ^_^ They all hated that brit wannabe, too XD I guess they'd also hate her more since they had to work with her.  My school starts back on Monday, and I'm excited to see my friends again, but also sad because I've gotten into a pattern where there's summer, then you go back to school and see your friends, the same people, and the same teachers, but this year is my last year T_T Sort of depressing, kinda like I don't want to grow-up, why can't things stay the way they are kind of thing.  I'm going to have to get started on the college essay and finding scholarships and taking the SATs, etc. and I really don't want to do that. But nothing will get done if I just sit around. I found out from my choir director that Texas State University does have Music Business as a major, and that the professor is good/nice or something because he got interupted by someone else asking him a question -_-  Hopefully my classes won't be that hard and that I can raise my GPA up. French really screwed me over with my GPA rating, I was barely passing that course so it made my GPA go from like a 3.4 to a 2.8 T____T Well, Math also helped in lowering that ^^; (I blame it on the teacher because in Algebra I made A-B's, and in Geometry I shockingly made A's). I also get an off-period this year! and I can go off-campus for lunch ^^ I probably need to look for jobs now since people are going back to college/school and I can work at least a half time job ^_^ oh! my friend Taisuke recorded 24hrTV for me on dvd, and he said that this time it worked on both his dvd player and computer so I should be able to watch it XD (last time he recorded T&T for me, he didn't finalize the dvd so it wouldn't work). I'll write later! Sorry for any mispelling/the wrong words (I tend to make a word in a mispell, like one instead of on) ^_^; Jya Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
12:53 pm	Samurai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alkdfjadflkjfadjfhadlksjakdj **spoilers** + other things I got my Samurai CDs today!!!!!!!! I've never had them come on the release date!  It's so good ^_____^ I got a T&T card, but it seems like they have different versions of the T&T card...mine looks like this: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/Samuraicard.jpg I really like the PV, and the live version PV which is them singing without the fighting. I wish I had better comp speakers because it can't stand the bass and it makes a horrible noise whenever there's bass and it gives me a headache =(  The offshot is sooooooo dkfjadlfkhdkaksdlfdalks (I can't show you pics because my mom isn't allowing me to take screencaps anymore until I remove some cuz it's taking up a lot of space (2 GB) on the comp) they are so kakkoi and kawaii!! I <3 Takitsuba ^__________^  Tsu's yukata kept slipping down LOL and he walked by shirtless and you could see his undies *___* Then they showed Takki and it looked like he was looking into the camera putting on chap stick with his finger ^^  They both kept playing with their swords like little kids ^______^ I like their solo songs, the PVs were okay, but I don't think they were as good as the Samurai PV....Tsu was just walking down the road throughout his LOL but it was still good....Takki's had the city/city lights/etc. going on in the bg with flower petals raining throughout most of the PV. Himegoto sounds good, too!! I like it ^^ Now I need to get these on my mp3 player ^^ They folded my poster!! but I think it was Avex that did it, not CDJapan -.-; I had already bought a frame for it since my other T&T posters were the same size but this one isn't the same size -_- I also want to see both sides because Takki is on one side and the other side it Tsubasa, but I don't think you could get a frame that can show both sides (unless it's $$$ and hangs from the ceiling). I'm glad I got these today because my allergies are all hay wire. I think it also has been triggered because I helped move the bushes/tree branches we cut down a few months ago from the backyard to the front for brushy pick up and there was mold/fungus stuff growing on the leaves. My throat hurts, it's stratchy, dry, and it feels like I swallowed sandpaper >.< my head also feels light headed and my nose is all stopped up....Ragweed is now showing up here in the pollen count and it's low right now but if it's making me feel this miserable, there's no telling what it would do to me when it gets into the high count o_0 Here's a pic of the brush: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2112.jpg Here is my Tsubasa dance shirt!!! XD I didn't realize until now that I've been writing Tsubasa's name wrong LOL I've been doing an x in the 2 little top things instead of a `/ but I can't change it now ^^; though I think if some Japanese person saw it they'd still know it was Wing ^^ Front: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2064.jpg Back: Do you know how hard it is to draw Tsu on a shirt??? it's hard LOL It doesn't look completely like the pic I used to look at, though I got the drawing on the piece of paper almost exactly right ^^; http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2063.jpg http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2066.jpg This is a pic I took of the sky and a cloud shaped like a heart ^^ romantic, ne? I'm going to use it somehow on my page for the T&T 5th year anniversary scrapbook ^.^ Also, there's another pic I took of a cloud that reminds me of  滝 like the way they drew it on the Enbujou dvd (it has the dots and the tail, etc.) http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2072.jpg http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2083.jpg I also made Omurice ^^  (the thing that Takki mama made when he had to babysit that little girl for some show)though I let the sticky rice set too long before putting it in the pan with the chicken, green bell pepper, onion, ketchup, and mushrooms so I had a hard time mixing it all together ^^; I also probably needed to put more water in the rice pan since the rice was a little hard, but other than that it was oishii XD Here's a pic of it: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2104.jpg If you watched Yoshitsune, you know little Yoshitsune was playing with a "dragonfly" spinner thing, right? well, my mom was cleaning under her bed and she found one that used to be mine or my brothers XD except this one's plastic, not wood like his ^^; see: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2105.jpg I can't remember if I wrote about the spider here or not, the one I couldn't really describe that I'd never seen before that I almost ran into while mowing?? It's so weird yet interesting though I absolutely hate spiders... here's the pic of it: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2054.jpg http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2052.jpg Oh, and here is this weird bumble bee thing that looks like a big bumble bee and his legs look like those craft stem things (aka pipe cleaner craft things) and he was about an inch and 1/2 big o.0 (sorry for the bad pic, I caught him in a vase with a candle lid that'd fit the top and my camera doesn't like to take pics of things in glass ^^; )  http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN1999.jpg Here's my Raspberry Bevarian pie I made ^^ (the right way this time, my dad was helping me last time and I was on the phone to my grandmother asking her why the evaporated milk wasn't stiffening and he forgot to whip the jello and just mixed it all in so it was right the 1/2 layer of the pie and the other 1/2 was jello >.<) http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2110.jpg http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2111.jpg Here's 2 pictures I took of the sky through my sunglasses I bought in NYC XD http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2036.jpg http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2037.jpg Oh....this is a spider web that I thought was pretty neat when the light hit it, thank god there wasn't a spider on it XD or at least I didn't see one on it... http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x212/SarahskybirdTX/DSCN2040.jpg Thanks for reading my random post XD  Gomen if there's mispelling in my post ^^; Now I'm going to see what I can do to feel better.... Jya ne! Current Mood: sick (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
12:16 am	Random thoughts/things So I haven't written in a long time, so this post will probably jump topics and have a lot of and's =P  So I think I saw Tsubasa yesterday in Osaka!!! XD XD XD I was watching a camera and I swear it had to be him but he kept walking so fast that I couldn't really get a nice picture of him, and he didn't show his face towards the camera and I lost sight of him because of the stupid range the camera had -_-;  I mean, it was his walk, his pose, the kind of clothes he wears, the shoes (I saw them but didn't get a snapshot of them), the bracelet/watch, ahhh~~~ He has his first show in a few hours and this was yesterday so he should've been in Osaka for practicing... Here are the pictures: (I was kidding about the stalker LOL at least I don't think she's stalking since I thought I saw her go another way that the poss. Tsu ^^) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/tsubasaspotted4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/tsubasaspotted23.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/tsubasaspotted33.jpg I tried to fix them up some.. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/1tsubasaspotted.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/1tsubasaspotted2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/1tsubasaspotted3.jpg Here's the camera if anyone's interested: http://www.us-tec.com/live/index.html So, my dad's friend keeps pestering him to retire and to go work for the city of San Antonio (my dad is working for the city of Austin) and it's really pissing me off....He keeps sending applications to my dad and we've discussed it that if he did go work for the city of San Antonio, if they needed to lay off people he'd be the first one to go because he'd be the new guy and it doesn't matter what qualifications he has. Also, I dunno if this is true for this business but I know others have a waiting period of like 6 months before giving you health insurance and they don't cover pre-existing conditions and my mom has asthma and her inhalers would cost over $200 each if it weren't for our health insurance and the other asthma meds she's on. I have a feeling that my dad is going to give in to his friend because it seems like everyday he's either sending e-mail or calling him -.- He's also coming over sunday to talk to my mom about it because my dad's been telling him that mom doesn't think it's a good idea, etc. and I really don't think he should come over because he's going to get an ear full LOL Also, my dad's job isn't even what his friend's job is and they won't be working together and my dad would want to work at the Austin branch and his friend works at the San Antonio branch. He also can't be 100% sure that my dad will get the job. What if my dad does get the job but in a year or 2 they tell him that he has to work at the branch in San Antonio?? I don't want to move, and my parents finished paying off the house 2 years ago and they'll have to get a new house in San Antonio. I also can't speak a lick of Spanish and everyone in San Antonio practically is Mexican. Cauasians are the minority there o_0 (if you've seen a pic of me, I'm as pale as pale can get LOL and I remember people staring at me last time I was there with my choir) and the crime rate is really bad (I'm sorry, I really don't want someone breaking into my house or worse >.>). The traffic is worse than Austin's, which is really really bad .___. I mean, my dad's work is 10 miles away and it takes him 2 hours to get home if he doesn't get out of work at the right moment. Sorry for ranting, but I really need to release it somewhere so I don't blow up in my dad's friend's face Sunday ^^; The people that did our roof finally came to fix the beams on the front part of the house. They were suppose to do it a year ago but they kept making excuses and that the info wasn't being given to the manager from the receptionist (they really need to fire her -.-)...The beams were starting to rot because of hail damage we got in April 2006 (well, it was rotting before that but the hail made it a lot worse...the hail was the size of golf balls o.0) so they were suppose to cut the beams back to the good wood and cap them with metal plates so it wouldn't rot....well, the peope that fixed the beams only cut it and painted it saying that they didn't need to put metal caps on it 0.0 oh well....now we can finally paint the house if it will stop raining for a few days =) I mowed the front lawn yesterday and my dad was all, you know how to mow?!?!?!?!?!?! Of course I know how to mow! I learned when I was 8, it's just my brother kept wanting to mow the lawn so I let him (I don't really like getting grass all over me in the first place or dirt flying in my face)...I mowed because my brother is at my grandparents and the grass is growing so much from all the rain so our yard was looking bad...I mowed the backyard today and I almost ran into the weirdest spider I had ever seen o_0 I screamed when I saw it but you couldn't hear it over the mower LOL I don't really even know how to describe it, either, I'd have to upload the pics I took of it and post them (I took pics of it then killed it LOL it looked like it was poisonous and I didn't want it biting my dog or me, and I had never seen a spider like that before)... I <3 the Samurai PV!!!!!! it's sooooooooo good!!! XD Hopefully T&T will get a lot more fans with this! This is really their first dark/rocker PV and it's amazing! I love it to death LOL All of the lighting, the clothes, the katanas, the lightning, Tsu's hair blowing in the wind, T&T's face expressions, the bouncing of the camera, ahhh~~~ I love it!! i could watch it over and over again all day ^___^ I wanted to see it on the big TV in the living room with surround sound but the file didn't have the DivX thing on it so my dvd player couldn't read it T______T and none of our 4 dvd players will play region 2 so I still can't watch it when I get my Samurai cds =( That's probably enough for now, ne? ^_^ It's 1am here so if I don't make sense or I mispelled words, gomen!  I'm tired XP Jya! Current Mood: tired (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
1:15 pm	**~spoilers!~** Takizawa Enbujou 2006 DVD **~spoilers!~** I  know, I know, my userpic has nothing to do with the post, but I just made it and wanted to use it ^____^ I'm going to write about Takki's Enbujou, so if you don't want anything spoiled before you see it for yourself, then I suggest you DON'T READ THIS ^^ I really really really love Enbujou!! Now I want to go see it for myself ^_^ it's soooooooooooooooo much better than the plays/shows people put on here ^.^ Seriously, if you haven't bought Enbujou yet, you need to ^^ Oh, and the poster that came with the dvd *___* His eyes are so pretty! and he looks very kakkoi in it ^_^ here's pictures of it XD in the middle of the flower, it has Tackey written in Japanese ; )  (stupid image thing still isn't wanting to work for me -_-) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/DSCN1903.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/DSCN1904.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/DSCN1905.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/DSCN1907.jpg I took soooo many screencaps from Enjubou, I have at least 84 good ones, and that was only from the end of the first disk and the second disk...I'm uploading them to photobucket, so I might come back in here later and put up some of the screencaps ^_^ The beginning was so kakkoi! *.* he came out of a thingy with a picture of his face on it flying into the air (over the audience...man, I would've wanted to be there!!) singing then during the 2nd song, he got a red cape and the red cape we was wearing flew off and he disappeared and was this little stream until it went to the 2nd floor and he appeared again!! o.0 sugoii!! and he goes into the 3 way wall like thing with all these different kinds of drums and cymbols and the jrs/JE boys are making this beat with drum sticks and their shoes (those wodden Japanese flip flop like things) and then Takki comes and starts banging on all of the drums and cymbols and it was Kakkoi! THEN he gets on the BIIIIGGG (taiko?) drum and stands on it and does cool beats with it, dancing on it, hopping with one foot and then switching to the other foot and ahh~~ o_o sugoiiiiiii ^____^ Oh, and his arms *_* so much muscle!!  I couldn't totally understand the plot since I only know a handful of words, but it was still really good! and you could get the jist of things on what basically was going on... Might I add that it sounds soooooo weird but Takki looks good dressed up as a girl XD when he came out looking like a woman, he had this really pretty parasol and there were either snow flakes or sakura petals falling from above him and it was gorgeous! Man can that guy change costumes fast! and when he was doing all the kabuki stuff it was really cool! all of the different masks, etc. it was so neat! what else...the emotional Yoshitsune scenes T_T those faces he makes break my heart =( when he's angry (I never want to see him angry in real life if I meet him LOL I'd probably pee my pants if he gave me one of those angry pissed off stares o_0), when he's sad/depressed/crying, I just want to hug him!  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/Takki%20Enbujou%20DVD%20screemcaps/PDVD_1501.jpg see??! how pitiful is that face??!! you just want to go over with an umbrella and tell him daijoubu, daijoubu T_T I think the jrs/JE boys did really well in this! it looks like they really worked hard on it ^_^ and that poor ya ya yah guy (I dunno his name LOL) broke his arm and it was in a cast (I dunno if it happened in Enbujou or if it happened outside of the play)...in one part during the adlib I think Takki asked him what happened to his arm and he said Arashi did it LOL (ohno and aiba were there that night) =P The audience was very good, too, during the yokai scene I only heard a few screams...and OMG LMAO it looked like Takki was popping out zombie babies! LMAO at least I think it was in that part...well, there's a part where it looks like he's popping out adults babies LOL Also the audience was very quiet and polite during the whole thing ^^  The bungee scene was kakkoi!! His suit was a very pretty shiny red ^___^  I wish I could do the spinning like he did, it looks fun ^^ but with my vertigo, I don't think I could handle it ^^; (esp. when I get vertigo just riding in a car with poor shocks or when I ride a bus T_T I didn't have vertigo until I went on an airplane #&@#^@&@*& stupid plane! >.<) That boy sweats up a storm!! I'm surprised his eyes weren't burning from all the sweat on his face (unless it was and he didn't care) and Michelle's right about the Hidejuice! ^^ then came the singing part of Enbujou.......... *________* askdfjadlaksdjfaodlkiadjfadkadfj!! *dies* I was hyperventilating during the whole section LMAO that boy is just so sexy!! First, he sang Yume, then Balance alsjfkdlsdfk and then he sang Balance alsjfkdlsldfk he was wearing a sleeveless shirt 0.0 so much muscle! his arms looked so delicious nice and I usually don't pay that much attention to muscle (I'm not the kind that usually goes gaga over muscles...men with boobs (fat or muscle, if it jiggles it's boobs in my book) are disgusting >,<)  Then,  he was wearing a red suit (mmmmm) and a black fedora with shiny jewels on it for Serenade *_* aaaaahhh~~ I took soooooo many screencaps from just this section, I think I could make a clip of it and it look like it's vid from the show LOL (sort of like a flip book) Here's a blend I made with some of the serenade screencaps I took: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/enbujouserenadeblend.jpg Serenade was sooo good! then came... Diamond! OMG I love that song with a passion and I dunno what it is about it, I just really love that song...he was trying to do the leg thing and it made me lolz though I know it was most likely because his legs were tired but he wasn't doing it right ^^; it reminded me of the dance you do to that song...I think it's Jump on it LMAO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYQVXPv27k) LMAO...or sort of like he was doing a ho-down LOL Though I know he can do it right from seeing the Diamond perf in the spring 2004 con ^_^ It was still a really sexy perf even with the leg thing said ^______^  THEN came the Takki with the screen in front of him making him look really big and sexy alskdjfdkladkfj *dies* kakoiiiii!! and he did magic tricks XDDD and he went into a cage 0_0 *dies* and he disappeared 0.0 and you could see under the tables, etc. and you didn't see the girls or Takki drop down or anything...it was MAGIC XD  Then everyone came out to sing Venus with Takki, and he had on the hot pink sparkly jacket that they've used before in I think the 2wo you 4our you con ^_^ He then came out with the yoshitsune cloth holding it over his head and took it down to his shoulders to sing Epilogue on the bridge ^____^  he was starting to (or at least sounded like) cry T____T and they had scenes from the show going in the background sepia colored and stars and it was chou kirei! XD  He came down the bridge onto the stage and everyone started coming out in white suits/dresses except "yoshitsune's" mom and sister were still in their suits while he had on a sparkly black and white tux with a red and white rose linked with gold chain in the breast pocket area and a black tie ^_^ him singing and everyone coming out etc. was really pretty XD It was a very good show, and it looked like they worked really hard to make it this good ^^ I seriously want to get a plane ticket and a ticket to Enbujou right now ^_________^ but I can't >.< I still don't even have a passport yet  T___T I hope you liked my "review" though I couldn't really tell you what was going on story wise ^^; I had to help move things from the garage to the curb because tomorrow's bulky pick up -_-' it seems as if we got rid of a lot of stuff, but the garage still has a bunch of things in it -.- and bulky pick up won't take cardboard so we have a pile of flattened cardboard that's like 3 ft tall that needs to be trashed...the only way we can get rid of it is if we put it in bags with $2 garbage stickers on each bag, or we drive to the trash dump itself -_- grrr...we also have a bunch of tree limbs in our backyard that have to be "cut into 5ft long pieces, no bigger than 3 inchs in diameter limbs, tied up in bundles with string (and my dad said with a pretty bow on top LOL) and light enough one person can lift it with one hand" or they won't pick it up >.< I don't like this city's way of dealing with trash... anyway, I'll write later! Jya! Current Mood: exhausted (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 20th, 2007
4:02 pm	dammit...2nd time...it came!! XD Stupid post! I was almost done with it and I was back spacing a space that wasn't suppose to be there and it when back to the home page T_______T My Takki Enbujou DVD finally came!! XDDDDDD It's really shiny LOL 0.0 here are the pictures from the booklet! (I got to use my new "arcsoft photostudio" program that came with our new printer/scanner ^^ the booklet is matted so the pictures were really grainy but I used the blur enhancer and it fixed it up really well imo)...lj and photobucket are really pissing me off today LOL the stupid image thing isn't working so you'll have to click on the links -_-;  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/takizawaenbujoudvdbooklet.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/1takienbujoudvdbooklet2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/21takienbujoudvdbooklet2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/1takienbujoudvdbooklet3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/21takienbujoudvdbooklet3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/takienbujoudvdbooklet4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/takienbujoudvdbooklet5.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/takienbujoudvdbooklet6.jpg Here's what the front of the DVD looks like (sort of...the pink color is a little distorted so you can't really tell the difference between the branches and the sakuras, but there is) ^_^ http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/takienbujoudvdcover_0002.jpg Mom and I are going to watch Enbujou later tonight ^___^ I can't wait! though I don't think I'll be able to understand most of it, but it hasn't stopped me before, ne ; ) It's been raining here again -_- we had like 2 inches this morning....at least we aren't in a drought like we have been for the past what, 4 or 5 years? something like that... Yesterday and today I've been having an allergic reaction to something that's making my skin really itchy -__-; I took benadryl yesterday which usually stops the itching for me but it didn't do jack squat except make me sleep o_0 My mom thinks that it could be the blanket I've been using didn't have all of the detergent out of it from when she washed it because it's a thick blanket, so I've switched blankets....other than that, I can't really think of anything else that would make me do this unless I've become allergic to the detergent itself -.- Last night I only got 3 hours of sleep because my arms, feet, and legs were itchy and that I have a lot ot thoughts flooding my head when I try to go to sleep so I try to drown it out with music but it didn't help that much last night...I dunno if it'd make me feel better if I wrote out the thoughts here, but I'm sure ya'll don't want to read some long emo post from me ^.^; so basically it's the thoughts that: I'm really terrified of dying, I'm terrified of being alone, I feel as if I'm not loved/no one really cares about me (though I know that's not true, my family loves me, etc. but I just feel that way), I wonder if someone will ever love me, I feel like I'm the ugliest person around (though I know I'm not, I feel like it), I miss my pet bird that died in Feb (I taught him to talk and whistle so now it's really quiet/lonely in my room, and he'd always cheer me up and when I'd play T&T in the CD player, he'd dance to their songs and I miss seeing him do that plus I sort of feel like it's my fault that he died since it was after I switched bird seed brands, though my family and I think it could've had that poisoned wheat gluten in it that killed the dogs, but we'll never know since we threw the seed away)...stuff like that -_- see, emo right? LOL somehow I'll figure out how to deal with these thoughts, I guess...if yall have any suggestions, please tell ^^  anyways, I'm happy that Tsubasa got his hair trimmed cut....though I'm not really liking the buzzed side -.- I didn't really like it on Takki, either, but it's not like it's totally ugly on both of them, but I like it better when it's not buzzed on the side ^.^ I'm also happy that they got to sing Samurai at the JP all-stars halftime game and I thought it was sweet that the baseball players were clapping happily when they were done singing ^___^ I thought they sang really well XD Oh! Mom and I have started watching Yoshitsune XD it reminds me a lot of Inuyasha (probably because it was set in the same time period and that the opening song sounds like one of the songs in Inuyasha ^^), it seems like a good drama so far, we just got to the part where little yoshitsune turns into Takki yoshitsune in the river ^.^ Oh, and my friend Taisuke in Japan met one of his old friends at a piano recital and her younger brother is in JOHNNY'S ENTERTAINMENT!! 0___0 and he got to meet him, but knowing guys, they don't give out good descriptions/names...so I'm asking him what the boy's name is. when I first read that I was like WHAT?!?!?!? 0.0 cuz isn't it hard to meet Jjrs/JE boys nowadays? dangit...only if he got me an autograph....doesn't really matter who it was, at least I could say I have an autograph from a Jjr/JE boy XD oh well ^^ I'll write later, k?  jya! Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
7:05 pm	My cousin's wedding here are some pictures I took at her wedding :)  It was suppose to start at 7pm but it rained so we had to wait it out, so it was more like 8 -.-' and then it was really humid and there were flies everywhere LOL and at one point during the wedding a fly landed on the groom's face =P Oh! and at the place the wedding was at they had HUGE ants! o_0 like they were an inch long and black and creepy o.o On to the pictures... Brian's daughter (the groom) from a previous relationship, and she was the flower girl..Man, when I was little I always wanted to be the flower girl but no one I / my family knew got married so I never got to be one =( My cousin Alicia with her dad walking down the isle ^_^ I loved her wedding dress! it had like a 5 ft train in the back, and it was reallllyyy pretty!! Alicia and her dad again...I call him Uncle Tom though he divorced from Alicia's mom before I was born, so he's technically not my uncle...   Alicia  and Brian ^.^ They look so happy in this picture XD The mic system was down because of the rain so we couldn't hear anything that was being said =( I was sitting like 20-30 ft away, too... They had this weird "lighting the candle" thing which I've never seen at a wedding before (though I've only been to like, 3 -.-) but I liked the picture and you can see a lot of Alicia's wedding dress... Kiss! ^.^ Brian looks so relieved LOL  The formal wedding picture of Alicia and her dress ^^ Cutting the cake!! it was good cake, too; it had strawberry layers in it with a vanilla/coconut/lemon like frosting on it (sorry for the bad description -_-') I thought this was a good picture XD I absolutely LOVE this picture I took! I loved how it got the lighting on the bubbles!! XD and they both look really happy ^__^ and if you look closely you can see my dad's head over Brian's shoulder LOL Getting into the car =)  It's really a small world, ne? a guy I went to middle school with was there and I was like "I know you from somewhere, did you go to Murchison or do you go to Anderson??" and he said that he went to Murchison and we remembered each other...I asked him how he's related to this and he said that Brian is his uncle...weird o.0 so now my cousin is his aunt...what would that make me to him? aaahh~~ I'm not good at the family tree kind of thing! And he kept looking at me when he'd walk by during the reception and he tried to talk to me more before that while we were waiting for the reception to start, saying that he was bored etc. etc. (small talk stuff) until another one of his uncle's came by and gave him a phone to watch movies on...His friend also looked at me oddly -.- I couldn't really tell if it was a "who's that" or "who's that" kind of look ^^; but I had both of my brothers there so I don't think they'd get by them that easily =P One of the bridesmaids was asian (I dunno from where in Asia, and she might've been 1/2 asian) and she had a cute little baby! reminded me a little bit of a toddler Tsu ^^  So they had this dancing thing where you pay to dance with the bride or groom, and my brothers wouldn't dance with my cousin so I did ^^ we had a nice little chat during our dance LOL asking how school was going and what college I planned to go to and I asked about her changing her major in college again LOL...a country song came on (of course, it's Texas LOL) and I started to do the grapevine/ two step/ whatever you call it where I was standing and my family pressured me into doing it on the dance floor and my uncle Bob took video of it -.- geez....and no one was doing it with me so my aunt Loa came out and tried to do it, but failed LOL So, my big brother was drunk and he's loud when he's drunk 0_0 my mom was trying to call over my twin brother and then I hear this "DAVID!!!!" and I looked around and it was my big brother doing that and you could hear it in the whole building =-_- = and when I was trying to catch the bouquet he yelled "GO SARAH!!" and I was like o_0 *rolls eyes* I told the lady next to me in the crowd for catching the bouquet that I was going to fight for it, and when Alicia threw the bouquet, the lady shoves her elbow into my neck!! >__< and she was like 20+ years older than me, too! I guess she needed it more badly than I did, though she wasn't the one who caught it, some 40+ yr old did (though I thought I saw her with a husband ><)....  Okay, so I guess this is enough about the wedding, ne? supper's almost ready, so I better hurry up ^^ Jya!! Current Mood: sore (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
9:53 pm	Takki sending secret messages So, I was looking at a zip file mom had d/led from boys paper and this is the picture I saw: I had gotten it over at Michelle's when she put it up, but I just now realized that Takki's "shhh"ing with his middle finger 0.0 I think he was secretly pissed off at the camera person or something LOL Both T&T look reallllyyy tired in this picture, too, so I guess I couldn't blame them ^_^ or maybe he just likes using his middle finger..though in Zubari when he was trying to get into Kazu sama's dressing room, he shushed Teppei using his index finger though.... Just thought I'd point that out ^_^ I'll write sometime tomorrow... Jya! Current Mood: sleepy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
4:30 pm	Weird T&T dreams LOL Okay, so I had weird T&T dreams last night/ this morning o_0 One about Takki and one about Tsubasa... Takki's was first, and for the oddest reason he was doing a Serenade photoshoot in my backyard (and it was only him, and I dunno how it was a serenade shoot, but it was...). The ash tree in front of my dining room outside wasn't there, too...it was nice seeing Takki in my backyard with the sun shining on him and the pretty blue sky with some puffy clouds above =) There was a girl helping him get dressed and stuff, changing jackets, etc. which made me mad because I wasn't allowed outside >.< so me and mom watched from our dining room window though we'd duck if they looked our way (dunno why). I saw him unzip his fly while he was tucking in his shirt and I tried to see what kind/color undies he was wearing but I couldn't really tell LOL I think they were black, or a dark green....Then for the oddest reason he appeared in a banana suit (like this: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v514/redheadrocks/?action=view&current=jplfunny7.jpg) taking pictures with people (I dunno, staff maybe??) inside some building LOL he was like going down a line of people standing behind them and getting pics with them. It wasn't a regualr banana suit, too, it had holes in it like it had been used for a swiss cheese suit before it became the banana suit or something 0_0 LOL..then I woke up. I fell back asleep again.. Now Tsubasa's dream... There was a thing with water and if we could all wish to go to someplace, we'd go there (sort of reminds me of Dragon Tales...the girls I used to babysit were over yesterday, so that's probably why I thought of that LOL) and so me and some other people with me wished to be somewhere, and we got there. I think it was like a cruise of some sort or something because they had a club, and concert arena, a dining room/ball room, etc. and for the oddest reason BETTY WHITE was there (I think it's cuz I saw her on a commercial for pet meds online LOL) and this one lady from One life to live (soap opera) Marcie I think, was there...anyway, and my school choir was there, too o.0 and so I was running with some other group of white guys and people from my choir down to the concert arena and I was saying that I wanted to go to that because Tsubasa was having a con there, and some other people wanted to go to the club, so they went the other direction. The guys from my choir came with me and that little group of white guys who I didn't know at all and we got really close to the stage!! Tsubasa came out and we were cheering, and it looked like he was wearing lipgloss/lipstick but I think it was stage make-up  and we were just really close LOL and he started singing Toriko XD and the guys were all, let's jump! so we were doing this mosh pit jumping, and Tsu was doing some little jumping while singing the song because he saw us jumping, though me and the choir/white guys were the only ones jumping LOL Then he comes down with these microphones in his hands and he handed one to 2 choir kids (Blaise and Clayton) and they were singing it or humming it (I couldn't tell if they were singing the Japanese or not) while laughing because these choir guys that were with me at the con are immature -_-' and he was going down our line handing out mics for people to sing the song with and he gave one to Jordan (another choir kid) and he was laughing the song like woody the woodpecker -_-' -_-' -_-' pissed me off LOL before Tsu got to me with a mic I woke up!! X(  I really wanted to sing that song, too...I fell back asleep again, and I had to go back through that water thing to go back and the people that went with me last time didn't really want to go so I'd put my hands in the water and it'd just hit the bottom (I'm guessing it was some kind of bowl LOL) and not take me there to see Tsubasa again so I was running around trying to find people that would go with me because apparently I couldn't go through it by myself, then mom yelled at me to get up so I woke up again -.- WEIRD....why do I always remember the WEIRD dreams???!!!?? though, this morning after I woke up I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget LOL XD Yesterday the girls I used to babysit came over, and I think they were both sick, though their dad was saying they weren't >.< Sofia's cheeks were red and she kept saying she had a "fever" (I think she was just hot, but that could've meant her fever was breaking) and then she kept  puking, though her dad was saying it was just because she had too much popcorn or milk or whatever. Her older sister was coughing a lot, too...grrrr I love them, but I just don't like them bringing in sick germs with them...They both fell asleep and the older one was on my bed cuz she fell asleep watching the wizard of oz and sofia fell asleep sitting with her dad, so I put her on my floor with a pillow because I didn't want her to throw up on my bed, and put a bucket next to her (which came in handy). After they left (around 1 am, which pisses me off because they shouldn't be up that late, they're 3 and 6) I disinfected EVERYTHING LOL I changed my sheets, used clorox use anywhere spray on my carpet, and disinfected all the light switches, door handles, sink knobs, and the toilet, and put a new handtowel in the bathroom. I'm not taking any chances to get sick because I don't want to get sick on my summer break.  Today we went shopping for mom to get some nice clothes to wear to my cousin's wedding, so we went to the mall. I found the "allure" by chanel that Tsubasa wears or use to wear, and it smells really good!! though the allure sport was sort of aggravating, though it was suppose to go well with body sweat LOL. I'm very picky on colognes, because a lot of them (the cheap Axe, Tag, etc. ones) close down my airway like I'm allergic to them -.-' There was another one we looked at, and it smelled really good, too, but I forgot the name of it...it had a fruity smell to it =) Acqua di gio by Giorgio armani smells pretty good, too...we didn't tell the sells lady why we were wanting to smell the colognes LOL and she was all, well how old is the boy? and we'd be like, 25 =^_^= , and then she would show us the "popular" colognes for young men =P They didn't carry the CK one anymore, but I smelled that one at the grocery store a month ago. I wish I took the list of what T&T wore that Bonnie had researched with me so I'd know which ones to smell.... I also bought a Dallas Cowboys official 2007 hat and Cowboys keychain for my friend Taisuke in Japan XD I wrote on my exblog about how I went to Dallas and he wrote me saying that he LOVED the Dallas Cowboys and wanted to go to Dallas someday, and I can find Cowboys stuff in Austin easily, so I got him that.  I also needed to repay him for recording T&T for me (though we haven't gotten it to work because the format is screwed up and can only view it on the same DVD player (which we don't have) and mom's been trying to find out how to change the format so we can watch it).  He's really into football (american football, not soccer), he plays on his Highschool team and he accidently sent me one of his football game DVDs along with the recorded T&T, so I got to watch 2 Japanese HS football games  =) It's interesting. I'm tired of typing now, and this is a long post, so I'll write later! Jya! Current Mood: exhausted (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
7:43 pm	Picture spam So I felt like posting some recent pictures I took... Dame ^_^  one of my roses from my rose bush my cousin gave me a clay thingy she got in Tennessee that you put oil in and light a wick that burns the oil the sky seen from a puddle... Green leaves!! Green grass! XD A butterfly that LOVES our car with a passion LOL he/she's always on it every year for like 10 years (probably not the same butterfly, maybe its babies) sunset through the storm clouds if you can see in the bottom left corner there's the moon ^_^ Storm clouds from this evening.... So, I'm getting really pissed off at my big brother, he's wanting to bring his gf to my cousin's wedding and when my mom asked about my brothers bringing their gfs to the wedding, they said they were already over booked, but my big brother is being INSISTANT that his gf come to it too! grrr...I dunno, maybe I'm being bitchy thinking that only family should go to it, but it's my cousin's wedding!! I think this should be her speacial day and no one should ruin it or bring more people than they can fit. Anyway, I'll write later because mom is wanting to watch Lunch Queen... Jya! Current Mood: pissed off (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
6:17 pm	water water everywhere! It's been flooding because of all the rain we've been having. It hasn't flooded here yet, but they had to open the 4th flood gate at the dam about 8 miles from my house, and they haven't opened that in 4 years or more. The most flood gates they've ever opened at that dam was 6 back in 1957.  40 miles from my house is a city named Marble Falls that's making national news because they had 20 inches of rain just last night 0.o cars were up in trees, boats from upstream were littered everywhere and houses had 5 ft of flood water in them. Roads have been torn up and bridges have collapsed from the floods. All the rivers around here have surpassed their "flood stages" and they're predicting 9-10 inches of more rain by tomorrow afternoon 0_0 and in the extended forecast it shows 40% or more chances of rain EVERYDAY -_-' I really, really, really hope it's not going to rain on my cousin's wedding July 7th, because I think they're having it outside. In a way I'm happy we're getting all this rain because we've been in a 3 year drought, and I've never remembered a summer here where at this point in June the grass and the trees were a vibrant green like they are now. Usually, all the lawns would be brown and dying from the heat and lack of water and the trees would be wilted. I know, this isn't a T&T post, but I didn't know if anyone watched the news and saw they were talking about flooding in Texas, so I just wanted to let you know I'm okay, and I would hope that yall would write too if something were happening where yall live because I'd be worried.  Jya! I'll write more if anything else happens or something with T&T comes up ^_^ Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Monday, June 25th, 2007
5:44 pm	SAMURAI! SAMURAI! Samurai is going to be released August 8th!! I love that song XD or at least what I've heard of it...it sounds so cool! here are some screencaps of them singing it at their cons... Apparently they also have SOLO pvs!! =) they also made a PV for Samurai, too! I had my mom order all 3 versions and when she'd hit the "add to cart" she'd cringe =P $39 isn't that bad, right? for 3 different jackets. Here are the different versions (or jackets), and pre-order sites! Samurai (Jacket A limited edition +DVD) Price: 1680 yen (tax included) Limited edition includes a bonus DVD with “Samurai - Live Version Music Clip” and offshots. CDJapan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-31301  Tower: http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfCardMain.jsp?GOODS_NO=1619442&GOODS_SORT_CD=101 Samurai (Jacket B limited edition +DVD) Price:1680 yen (tax included) Limited edition includes a bonus DVD with Takki solo song and Tsubasa solo song music videos. CDJapan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-31302 Tower: http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfCardMain.jsp?GOODS_NO=1619443&GOODS_SORT_CD=101 Samurai (Jacket C regular edition) Price:1260 yen (tax included) The regular edition has a bonus song that's not on the other 2 jackets, first press comes with sticker(s) and a poster. CDJapan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-31303 Tower: http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfCardMain.jsp?GOODS_NO=1619444&GOODS_SORT_CD=101 They haven't said what T&T's solo songs are yet!! Michelle said that it's the same melody but different lyrics and arrangement. The bonus song for jacket C is Himegoto...I'm happy my mom bought all the jackets XD I'm happy that she likes T&T, too, so it's easier to get her to buy all the jackets =P  I tried to put some of the lyrics in my subject line, but I couldn't find the stupid kanji online and my dad won't let me change the keyboard to Japanese, so I just decided to leave it at samurai -_-' I really like the beat and their suits and everything about that song!! I can't wait til I get my hands on it XD  On another note, a thing came in the mail for SAT prep...you know what pisses me off? the school isn't going to teach us the stuff that's going to be on the SAT, they're only worried about us passing the state exams >.< Seriously, if anyone's seen Dragon Zakura, I think that's how we should teach. The school system here is so screwed up and they only care about getting their nasty little fingers on money. They take our tax money and waste it on putting ugly ass cabbage plants in front of the school, not pretty peonies, but smelly cabbage, and they keep the thermostat at 32C so it's running constantly (freezing the kids/making us sick by going into freezing classrooms and walking out into Texas heat everytime we go to different classes) wasting hundreds of dollars when they can set it to 72C. They even have it running like that in the summer when no one should be there o.0  Our stupid govenor is bringing in school money from the lottery, cigarettes, and alcohol sales (yeah, the stuff HS kids AREN'T suppose to do) and there were 2 winners in the TX lottery and they don't have enough money to pay them off, so they're digging into the school funds from the lottery to pay them. We're also getting a new principal at my school and I heard that she's going to change EVERYTHING and that the seniors will probably not be able to eat off campus (which I've been a good girl not going off campus to eat lunch with my senior friends, so I want to go off campus my senior year dammit!) and that she's going to completely change the curriculum >.< grrr...sorry for ranting about school stuff ^_^' I started Forbiden Love today!! (Majo no jouken) Poor Takki!! =( I was cringing when he was getting beat up...Mom and me tried to get my dad to watch it, though he said no, he watched most of it =) and he asked why Takki was playing the student o_0 he's 17 there! he's student age! and then my dad went on the computer for awhile, came back, saw Takki was beat up and asked why he was beat up and we had to explain it to him. So, I think my dad actually likes to watch Takki dramas, but doesn't want to admit it ^_^ and that he gets tired of reading subtitles...Mom and me are going to make him watch Yoshitsune with us, too, because my dad's into historical stuff, and that means we'd get to watch it on the big TV in the livingroom with surround sound XD My dad watched Taiyou no Kisetsu with us, and he seemed to have liked it, but probably won't admit that either. He and my big brother watching Antique with us, but mostly made fun of how bad the subs were -_-'  I've been working out every morning before eating anything or drinking things with calories (I usually drink tea since it has no calories) so I'm burning pure fat =) I've been burning 500 calories on my exercise bike and I've been doing 50 rolls with my ab roller thingymabob. I've lost about 30 lbs since last summer, and I hope I can lose more. Lately though on my exercise bike my left knee keeps popping, which isn't good -_-'. Today I tried lifting 2 heavy binders filled with choir music with my right hand and did something to my thumb and now it hurts if I lift anything with that hand using my thumb or if I move it a certain way o_o I dunno if I sprained it or just pulled a muscle in it or something. *sigh* It's been raining here A LOT lately! I think this is going to be our wettest summer on record...today there was a storm and a lightning bolt amost hit my neighbor's house, and cut off the electricity for a few minutes, and my dad had left the computer on 0.0 luckly nothing got fried or erased. I guess this is enough for today, I'm getting tired of typing =P Jya! Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
11:46 am	hehehehe... Hey!!  So, I saw that you can make your own emoticons on LJ, so I've been working on making T&T ones!! XD... I also was trying to find out if the Texas State University has music business as a major, but the site's weird and I couldn't really tell if there was one or not. I think I'm going to have to ask my friend who's a music major there if she knows... I love singing and music, but I don't know if I want to become a singer because I'm shy about singing in front of audiences by myself, and I get paranoid that I'm going to mess up on stage and everyone's going to know it and ahhh....>_< I think why I'm like this is because when I was in 5th grade, my elementary school had a talent show, and I sang "You Drive me Crazy" by Britany Spears in front of the whole school o.0...then we watched the tape of it in class and I got really embarrassed, though I can't remember now if I sang it well or not for being in 5th grade =P but I think that's what started my stage fright LOL anyway, I like the music business, so I think it'd be cool to work for a music label or something. Going back to the uni thing, I also looked at the "studies abroad" on the website, and they have one for Japan, in Nagoya at Trident college for the summer and the cost is $3, 436 for about a month's stay with 6 hrs of credit and I also found and exchange program for MEIJI UNIVERSITY!! XD XD that's where JE boys go!! kyaaa...and Yamapi is currently going there majoring in business hehehehehe...I wonder if I got to do the exchange program, if he'd still be going there or not. I think he's proabably the only JE boy I could talk to as of now because he loves English, so hopefully he'd understand me =^_^= but probably by the time I could do the exchange program (when I have the certain amount of credits and money), I'd know enough Japanese to make it okay.  Ahhh! wouldn't that be so cool if I went there, and Yamapi was still going there and I was talking to him and then TAKKI pulls up in his Ferrari to take Yamapi somewhere?! 0.0 and then I'd get to talk to Takki!! *.*OR if Shoon or the other boys from Ya3 went there, and I could talk to them, too, since they're cute, but I'd only want them as friends ^_^ I have all these little scenarios running through my head ... and since it's in Yokohama, that'd be really close to the arena, ne?? so if I could get the money, I could go to a T&T con since it seems like they always play at that arena XD They also have an exchange at Kansai Uni, but I don't know much about that one, and the website's in Japanese...AND if I were able to do the Meiji thing, we could have a pre-con party at my place!! ^_^  I'm afraid that if I were in Japan, I'd probably randomly ride the trains to see if any JE boys get on =P though, I say and think these things, I'd probaby never really do it...unless I saw T&T get on the train XD... I've met a few celebs before, and in my head I'm like asdkenlksjeOMG but I've been told by friends with me that I seem really calm and collected talking to them, so hopefully I could act that way with T&T if I ever meet them...though I'd probably try to talk to them in Japanese and mess up horribly o_o  here's a couple of pics I have of celebs... I met Taylor Hicks (winner of American Idol) and I hugged him, but he had to keep moving so I only got a pic of him moving down the "line" I met Chris Daughtry, too! this was all during the American Idol tour, and they had a con in Austin, and afterwards the guys came to a local night club where Taylor's old band from Alabama was playing, so I got to meet them and watch them sing from like a foot away ^_^ we had read that Taylor and the guys had been showing up to the clubs Taylor's old band was playing at, so that's how I wound up at the club with mom... I dunno if I really look that bad, but it was 2 in the morning, going from the AI con to the club...I've met other celebs, but I don't want to make this post any longer ; ) anyway, this is a really random entry, gomen! I just write down what topics come into my head at the time...I'm really not crazy ADHD in real life, though it probably seems that way when I write XD EDIT:: Mom and I got Panda Express for lunch, and my fortune cookie's fortune said this :Romance and travel go together now   XD XD and mom's said: a wish will be granted after a long delay   =) hmmmm...are these fortunes trying to tell me something? ; ) Jya! Current Mood: bouncy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
9:13 pm	Konnichiwa! I haven't posted in my LJ account, and I got the urge to post here ^_^ I think I'm going to reserve this place for writing about T&T, since my other blog has other people visiting it that probably don't want to hear me fangirling over T&T all the time, and that most visiting my blog don't speak English as their native language...I might also fangirl about MatsuJun, YamaPi, and Oguri Shun here a little bit, too =^_^= but T&T are first in my heart, just to let you know, T&T will always come first, no matter what ; ) I found T&T through Inuyasha, when I heard Sotsugyou (though I didn't know they sang it at the time) and the 6th season opening song One Day One Dream (I think it was the 6th...) and they listed who sang that song, so I googled them up, and then that's when my T&T addiction started ^.^ I love all kinds of music, and when I heard both of those songs, I knew I had to find out who sang them because they are very good singers! and I first, I didn't even realize it was 2 people singing o_0 but I can tell their voices apart now. They dance very well, too!!   I love them so much....I dunno what would've happened if I had never found them. It's weird how songs and the singers can help you through tough times, and watching them being baka/kakkoi/kawaii and making me smile when I thought that nothing could've cheered me up at that moment. Their singing always helps me get through a tough day at school, or whenever I don't feel good, or if I just need to forget the stuff going on around me. I think they've really helped me find my way and helped me figure out what I want to do in life. I know a lot of people would think 'How could 2 guys that talk in a language that you only know 30 words of help you in a way like this?!?!?' , the answer to that is I don't know, but they just have, and I'm very thankful that I found them, and thankful that my big brother showed me Inuyasha last summer ^.^  I've met a lot of T&T fangirls online that are so nice and very welcoming, unlike another fandom I had just "left" (long story....) so it made me really really happy to find friends online that liked T&T as much as I do ^_^ I got my mom into T&T, too, but I haven't been able to get my friends at school to open up and listen LISTEN to T&T, they've heard them singing, but it didn't seem like they were really interested in listening to people singing a language they couldn't understand -_-' *sigh* so, the only people I can fangirl with is my mom and my online friends.... btw, I dunno how often I'll update this, but I'll try my best to remember to update =)  about me: My name is Sarah (Sarah Ann is what I usually go by online because we have like 5+ Sara(h)'s in the T&T fandom), I'm 17, and I will be a senior in high school once school starts back up. I'm trying to teach myself Japanese for the time being, but I will most likely get into a Japanese class once school starts back up at a local community college because my school doesn't offer Japanese. I want to go to Texas State University after I graduate so I can major in Music (Music business if they have it) because I love singing and I love music. I'm wanting to minor in Japanese because I love the language! It's so pretty, and I've always liked Japanese (when I was in middle school I wanted to take Japanese, but they didn't offer it and neither did the high school, so for my language I chose French o_0 I didn't like it very much). I'm also thinking of minoring in photography, too, since I love to take pictures...and I also like to draw! ^_^  I have a twin brother and  an older brother (he's the one that showed me Inuyasha).  If there's anything else you wanna know about me, ask away  =) Jya ne! Current Mood: tired Current Music: Tremolo-Tackey & Tsubasa (Comment on this)