Yes I am currently lol-ing. Whatever, I know I can be really sacarstic when I want to. I guess it helps me let off some steam from the whole GU matter. And I guess one of the reason I leave things unlocked to shoot people if they ever decide to shoot me. I might not be able to argue orally but I seriously believe that I won't lose if it's written verbal fights =) Oh but my invitation for joining JMC is sincere, despite the sarcastic tone. Or putting it in another way, I would deeply appreciate it if you do (and will be deeply troubled if you don't).

Right now there is a downright divide between J-pop and J-rock in JMC, so I guess we would like to recruit ppl from both sides, if not I think Gravity, Inifiniti (ie the J-rock festival) will disappear forever... But still as my small wish I want to find friends who are into seiyuu music xD And the Vocaloid series! And as usual I feel off-tangent...

Oh btw... I was watching the new Kuroshitsuji (really, what was that stupid curry pan ochi...) ending... The Kalafina song... So they (she?) are produced by Kajiura Yuki? I was listening and thinking how come I get a mild SH feel in some of the phrases... Haha. Personally I think a person who listens to anime music and dunno who are the two Y.Ks in anime music (Kajiura Yuki and Kanno Yoko) are like ppl who listen to J-Pop but don't know who are Ayu and Hikki.

And because it's the start of hols for me, I picked up To Aru Majutsu no Index again (from eps 3 all the way up to 16 ie this week's eps)... WHY IS IT A CLIFFHANGER D: Oh but then poor Index who totally becomes 路人甲 after the first arc on her... Isn't she the main character? I mean, look at the title of the story! Is Accelerator/Mikoto possible as a pairing? (Ok no wait, is Accelerator/Misaka Imouto more interesting...?) Lolx. I haven't liked a female character so much since... a long time ago! Mikoto is in many ways really 理想 to me haha. But then at the start of the series I thought both Iguchi Yuka and Abe Atsushi were really bad and now it's only Abe Atsushi... Ganbare, main character =.= It's sad that Nobu sounded so much better... But then again Nobu sounded rather er... in Koukaku no Regios too though (I swear he's better in Asu no Yoichi)...

DIE, EMCC, DIE.

Apparently the theatre (UCC Theatre) we are using for Gravity, Unleashed has a capacity of 400. It's not the national rally place with 1700 seats. Apparently the tickets is only available in a booth outside the theatre 1 hour before the show starts and "pre-registration is not allowed for EMCC regular shows". Which means we aren't actually going to distribute tickets! CFA is going to print the tickets (not us!) and questions about getting tickets is supposed to be directed at EMCC/CFA. So what were we thinking so hard about ticketing for.

Of course, this isn't the only problem we have on hand.

DIE, EMCC.

Hmm. I didn't realized I forgot about our JMC meeting until I saw yumegal's message... Erm well. I don't have any excuse.

phoenixhime, I found the cover you want for GREEN/Days but not Mirrorcle World... SGD44 for JP version and SGD13 for HK version. Do you want it?

yumegal, I got your TJ green pen. Erm I think it got a bit more ex, HKD15, so SGD3?

[Edit] Uchi didn't sing Heavenly Psycho. PHAILZ! But I'm really glad he sang all those pre-debut songs~

[Edit 2] GRANRODEO DARLIN' SINGLE!!!!!

About time, right. It was out some ELEVEN days ago, peoples.

SUGAR is uber catchy and weirdly high in a sunny way? Is it just me or there is something about "sugar in your brain, trigger is my pain" in the lyrics? Tsuki ni Neko sounds like some early 90s ballad meets GR. Ok it just feels rather nostalgic, idk, it sounds rather different from previous GR ballad-y songs imho. Not the lyrics, but the song itself. I want the booklet D:

僕を突き動かす　まとめてその名は　衝動

"All the things that drive me on, they can be called collectively, 'impulse'." My favourite line in Darlin', I thought it ties in with the theme "instinct" a lot. "Impulse" ~ "Instinct"? Lolx. And it explains why I have the *shiny* RE Moira album *sparkle* next to me now. Moira is currently my favourite SanHora album. Lolx.

Attention all JMC ppls!!

We (phoenixhime and me) saw Mori-shachou (from COMM) at AFA today (he was emcee-ing the May'n concert with Reiko-san), AND WE MANAGED TO TALK TO HIM (after stalking them for almost half an hour while they are greeting all the staff farewell).

We talked to him about how we want them to sponsor us hosts/judges instead, and he goes "oooh yar thanks for reminding me! It's in my folder of 'to reply' emails and there are like a hundred mails in it. Yes, I'll definitely look through and sent you a reply." He asked for who was our correspondence so I told him to look out for midnite_rain's name. He actually wanted to meet up with us between the next two weeks (that means he's actually chotto keen?) but I told him we have exams. Lolx. Let's see if he actually really replies? (One of his colleagues was asking "you have a venue for your contest already?" and "how big is the place?", then I was like "er... it can seat 1700 ppl...?" and feeling rather 心虛.)

Ok that aside.

MAY'N 最高！

( AFA '08 Singapore. May'n mini concert. Random stuff, fangirling, no pictures, haha. )

Back to mugging!

I guess the most eventful things happening atm is, er, like, making annoucements for Gravity, Unleashed '09? AKA the NUS JMC Japanese Karaoke Competition. (I'm banking on the possibility someone will chance upon this post looking for info on this like for our welcome tea.)

( Click for poster. )

Also, visit our homepage for updates! (Erm. When it is up.)

I was hoping the Nico group will win... I guess the Speed group was more star-y and the Nico medley was really too long?

Oh well, main point of this is that, I've never felt so happening in my life.

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不望無風無雨，不奢無雲青天。
天昏不曉，卻聼葉搖，風起吹我兩袖飄。
又何妨，驟雨縱降，仰首凝目看，雨點紛紛雙頰涼。
雨偈亦無晚晴，把酒長吟，襟濕亦怡然。
日復如是，莫不欣，步履甚輕盈，難路悠悠續緩行。

Yay I finished my 沒有格式的長短句!

( Which one is better, brighter or lighter? )

( This is more to show how I slacked in class. Pretty long since I last had an original art entry that is not JMC related! )

Oh and my highlight of Seiransai is that! I won a Umai-bou in one of the games and it was corn potage flavour and I LOVE UMAI-BOU.

OMG. The chinese!Gokudera voice is horrible. Just when I thought you can't get worse than the original version. I can stand the rest of them but not Gokudera!!! Sigh. Can we let's get past all these random episodes and get to the Kokuyou part sooner. Lolx. I-pin sounds really like the Japanese I-pin though.

Ok actually my main point is about my disastrous JTB email experience. When I emailed them I ACTUALLY FORGOT TO ATTACH THE PROPOSAL. I realized that when I was on the way home and thanks to that I actually didn't sleep on the bus for once... Then when I got home there was an email from Yamakura-san (who talked to me on the phone) asking "where the hell is your prposal" (ok that's not what he said). Then I had to crap up an apology mail to go with my proposal thing to him. THEN he replies and I'm now in trouble. His (third) reply is as follows:

可能でしたら、昨年度の様子がわかる様な、写真や資料があれば
送っていただけませんでしょうか。
会場の様子、バナーやチケットにＪＴＢのロゴがどのように印刷されるのか、
昨年のスポンサー名などの情報を頂ければ幸いです。

"If it's possible, can you please send me photos/info that shows how the past competitions were like? It would be good if we can know how the venue looks like, how JTB's logo will be printed on the banners and tickets, and also who were the sponsors last year."

!!! I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I CAN FIND PHOTOS GOSH.

This is the first time someone said that my blog entries are interesting. Lolx. Hello are you reading this? Haha. 褒められて伸びる子なんで、どんどん褒めてください（笑）

OH AND. The one song that no one got and Fa THOUGHT it was One Love? It's KinKi Kids' Anniversary. Hahaha. Oh but apparently my comp likes to hang at least once a day. Listening to Yoko@fantastic music and thought "I should have totally cut his 'oppai ippai oppai ippai' part." (For those who needs translation... "oppai" = breasts and "ippai" = a lot of.) But then I guess this is rather hard too because it's not even a CD-released song.

And oh gosh this is my biggest news of the day, I FINALLY GOT HANDS ON TAMURA YUKARI'S "CHEALSEA GIRL" (actually, on her "Izayoi no Tsuki, Kanariya no Koi" album). Lolx. I don't suppose there are a lot of Yukarin fangirls around right. At least around me? I know a very big Mizuki Nana fan (who collects EVERY music-related work she releases) though. Yukarin's con had quite a few females (mostly in loli dresses, haha) among the audiences though.

1. Erm. Why did JSS take (steal?) our idea of a song guessing game at their welcome tea??? The only thing is that they showed PVs/perf/OPEDs. Haha they had ZARD's Makenaide. Apparently they go k-ing every week o.O So I randomly was the first to answer for Whiteberry's Natsu Matsuri (they prob chose it because tmr is Natsu Matsuri) and got the present. I swear, you can play ANY part of that song and I can recognise it. HAHA. Ok at least I know from that choice of songs, the new JSS president gets a weekly dose of M-Ste and watches anime.

2. Btw. NUSSU replied me. Apparently:

"Please be reminded that the poster size cannot exceed A3. Only a total of 200 copies of the posters may be printed and they are to be put up on NUSSU noticeboards with pins and staples only. Putting them on walls and pillars with tapes would result in it being torn down.

The posters will be removed within a week after the end of the event ("Expiry Date"). With effect from 1st Oct 2007, there'll be a charge of $2 for every 50 posters being put up and this sum will contribute to a fund which will be used to pay helpers in taking down all outdated and unauthorized posters."

Hmm. Does this mean that we should have just ignored them in the first place and paste the posters up anyway cos I don't even where the heck are the NUSSU noticeboards? So at least we were right about something. The posters we see at every single pillar in FASS? They are not approved by NUSSU.

3. Seems like there were ppl who like seiyuu music like me within the bunch who signed up with us today. Now, the question is whether they turn up for our welcome tea session.

Lolx. I actually forgot to listen to SZBH last week! 二回まとめて聞いたんですけどねつい先。 What is with the 超時空普通シンデレラ thing? Lolx. I want to see fanart of Hitou Nami in Ranka's Seikan Hikou costume =)

緊張してます。

1. OK so now comes the problem. NUSSU wants us to send them a email with the poster for approval and then they will only reply "within one week". さーて。Would we make it in time for our welcome tea? 欲知后事如何，且看下回分解。

2. Am I reading it right, Sakurada Dori as Nogami Ryoutarou's grandson as another Kamen Rider? LOLX. Kanda Sayaka is the girl who was in that movie Kamiki Ryuunosuke was in right. But yay for third (and last D:) Den-O movie~

3. 変わり行く時の中で　変わらないモノがあるね
でもこんな騒がしいご時世だからこそ
変わらなくちゃイケナイモノもあるんだ

If you can tell, it's arranged from the lyrics of Yells ~It's a beautiful life~, ie theme song of Animelo Summer Live 2008 -Challenge-. Which I'm playing on repeat (well including the 3 karaoke versions) and trying to irritate the hell out of my neighbours should they be able to hear it.

1. Lolx. これって立派な一大事ですよちゃんと。

( JMC WELCOME TEA for any NUS peeps who chance upon this, click for poster/details! )

2. And then because of today's JS2203 I'm suddenly very in the mood for Saiyuki Gaiden. I nearly LOL-ed when someone's example was a Reborn doujin. Hmm you know I'm somewhat too exposed to Japanese media when I think the katakana forms ゴミ and メガネ are the correct, natural forms of the words. But seriously, how often do you see these words in hiragana/kanji except in textbooks?

3. I saw Elizabeth (Borders sale colleague) in school today~

1. Pixiv is now my new playground... I don't for good or bad? Lolx. I never got used to devArt in these 5 years but somehow pixiv agrees with my system, I think.

2. I need to buy a new black marker. The JMC poster used up mine. Can I put the new one on JMC tabs?

3. As I draw the poster I think I should read more Oh!Great. No I'm not saying this because I am pining for Air Gear. Just that I'm kinda looking up to that style while drawing this.

1. ASDFGHJKL:"msalgjqoj3w!!!!!!!

I WANT TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER TO KLAN♥♥♥ Klan/Toyoguchi Megumi is going on マクロスF○※△ soooooon (next next week)!!! Lolx. Ok but I'm not as li hai as those who write in. SOMEONE WRITE HER A VERY VERY MUSHY LOVE LETTER PLEASE.

Lolx. Gosh.

2.JMC PPLS!

phoenixhime suggested we look for seperate words starting with J, M and C and we can play permutation and combination (lolx) with the words! So that we can finally shake off that... name of sweets.

待ってます！ (Edit: Suggestions in comments.)

3. Natsume Yuujinchou 2. 涙目。むぅぅぅ。

Nabari no Ou 15. Eh? The whole Kasa thing is gone!? Hmm. Wasn't that the biggest point/伏線 of the whole Aruya arc? Eh!? Nvm the point that they changed 脳髄 to 肉体... I can understand the effects of the media even if it's a 深夜アニメ。But still. How is the whole Kasa thing going to come in...

4. Setomaru in Koizora is still a trauma to me. However pretty the pics. Sigh? Hmm. At least I think he looks good in anything = looks good in that white hair (well please he looks good in that Eiji hair which I think is probably the hardest hair for anyone to look good in). Er. *biased* Personally... from what I've seen in Gokusen 3 and Kamen Rider Kiva I think Miura Haruma probably acts better than Setomaru (I liked Miura in that one Yuzu PV. Ok no link). Hmm. Just that no one has ever seen bad boy!Setomaru so... Potential exists I guess? Anyway I'm looking forward more to the Kiva movie, MUCH MORE. (And I hope the kids aren't going "OMG my Kamen Rider no Onii-chan is actually a delinquent!!!" I'll be sad. Wataruuuu Dx) LOLX! とにかく、どの仕事もキバって行くぜ！

( Oh well. Just thought I'd give a small preview pic now that I'm at the final stage. JMC PPLS. I think you are tired of me. )

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Yukata!Sheryl is PRETTY. But unfortunately my focus was on the small small Klan (well and Michel) behind. But I need to agree that the cover of Continue = WIN. I actually think VF-25 is pretty. Haha. This coming from a non-mecha lover. Although I am usually biased towards everything red, I actually prefer VF-25 over VF-27, regardless of which VF-25. Lolx. Ok fine actually, I like both... but only when both are in the... I dunno what it's called, plane-form? Hmm.

And speaking of that, a listener wanted Kamiyan to bring Youkyan (I can't rmb if he did have a chara with name in the show... think he did some of those nameless 路人甲 roles) to Sayonara Zetsubou Housou on a Valkyrie. Lolx. で、スルーした。The next futsuota the listener wanted them to invite Koyasu (Itoshiki Kei) to the show "before it ends! After you invite him then you can end anytime." Lolx. So Kamiyan was like, "yar let's invite him!" and Ryoko-chan was all "on a Valkyrie?" (and reading "ba-ru-ki-ri-" very slowly)... "No, I'm talking about Koyasu-san." LOLX. And then Kamiyan was really high about getting Koyasu on the show, and was all like "let's call him on the phone now! Let's message him now!" Hmm. Lately they have all been blatantly saying "this show will be ending soon" x100. Oh well. I want Koyasu to come on the show before it ends too. Haha. I wonder what the 標語 will be on Koyasu's turn. Lolx. I mean, there are so many roles of him to be used as neta. Hmmm. (I liked this week's one! "Turn the volume mute and sit 300m away from the computer as you listen to this show.")

( First off, JMC PPLS LOOK HERE! Warning: Random photoshop colouring rant. )

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( It's very easy to change my opinion of someone. )

今はちょうど日本語ムードなの。ほっといてよ。

なんだかいろんな食べ物の日本語の名前がわかっちゃった気がする。なんかブランド牛の種類とかも。んー。｢裸の少年｣観すぎ？最近カザポンあんま出ないしそんなに見たくはないが。隔週ほどにキタミツ出ってるんで一応楽しく見てますけどね。しかも来週はキタミツとタイピがコンビで出ってるねん。それにすごいおいしそうな和菓子あるみたいで。実は結構楽しみ。

意味分からん。

なんか最近…絶望的なことも多いよね。数え切れぬほど。それにしても、絶望的なお知らせは何だよ！じれったいっすよ！

まあいい。

というわけでJMCバンドで励んでいる俺がいます。結局（色使いが下手な俺はみんなの意見を聞いて）黒と赤基調で何とかしています。PBのメンテが終わる次第画像をアップしますので…乞うご期待？（こういう広報してるのに難しい日本語を使ってる俺もどうかしてる。グループ内これを分かってくれる人ってそんなにないっていうのに。）ついでに。これ、独り言ですけど。セル風のヤツ、ちょっとチャレンジしたいかも。やったことない！まあ、ああいうキレイさっぱりの画風は俺にとって一生無理かもしれんけど、憧れるなあ。

タイナカサチの新曲、「もう　キスされちゃった」は。すごい。もう。タイナカさんの声大好き。夏っぽくていいね。

[Edit] ( JMC ppls look here! )

JMC peoples look here!

Remember Jelly Milk Chocolates our mascot band? Well I finally *guiltily* scanned it in and tried to think of colour schemes. But. But. I hate colour schemes (and colouring in general) so somehow my bias come in and everything turned red(ish) D:

( So I need your help in suggesting, oh, this chara should go for xxx colour instead! )

I await your advice☆