Big Bang - Best newcomer. What'd I tell ya? Boo ya!

So, I just saw on allkpop.com that Big Bang won the best newcomer award in Japan (don't really know which awards show but I don't care). Eeeeeee, so excited. T.O.P looked oh so hot and cool. Although I really wish they'd learn Japanese faster. Taeyang, poor fellow, is left to field all the questions. I loved how Seungri asked the host to ask Taeyang the question. Hehehehehehe. So very cute. And Daesung looked so sweet too. G-Dragon didn't look too bad considering he's decided not to go platinum blonde. I hope for him that it was a phase. Anywho, here is the video! >_<

Belated Updates

Upon perusal of some Asian music website, I found out that DBSK/Tohoshinki/TVXQ was third when it came to singles sales (or something related to the obscene amounts of money these bands make) in Japan. This made me wonder if Arashi occupied the top spot and after a little searching I found out that the boys were definitely secure in their spot as the numero uno in Japanese popdom. Needless to say, I was ridiculously happy. It was almost as if I got a share of that moolah. Anywho, then I started to wonder when Big Bang (my current K-pop obsession) would knock those smug little twats (barring Yun-Ho - we all know how very pretty he is!) called Tohoshinki from the list. Methinks the day isn't very far off when Big Bang really does replace Tohoshinki as the hottest Korean export. They are infinitely more talented (here, I use talented in the relative sense of the word >_< ) and are more involved in the music they make. And yes I know this for a fact! Bite me! Anywho, Arashi's number one spot is no cause of irritation to me because I love them. I love Sho - while this isn't really new, I find myself marvelling at how hot he just keeps getting. Aiba is still my one true love, though - that idiot. *sigh* Speaking of which, I must talk about Aiba's "My Girl." I don't like it in the way I like Coffee Prince/Hana Yori Dango - where I watch out for updates obsessively. Instead, it's a more measured sort of admiration for Aiba. He can act. And no, I don't mean all the stupid shit (which I still adore) he pulls on his show. Koharu-chan, his musume/daughter in the show, sometimes gets on my nerves because she is so damn cute all the time. Oh and that Kanjani8 guy! Why is he even there? Must they always have Johnny's boys in pairs? Perhaps Johnny Kitagawa wants to make sure there is equal opportunity practised at his company. If only he observed other things just as conscientiously. Like underage..... The MV for "My Girl" is cute with Aiba not acting like a total idiot. Infact, he is almost sad. :( I want my happy bakka Aiba back. I know MatsuJun doesn't deserve a line but I can't let it go. I just can't. THAT HAIRSTYLE IS RIDICULOUS! Boy, get a better stylist, please. You look like a total idiot. So much for being "man of the year" or any other award that you have been awarded. They will take it back, I am warning you.

Anyway, I think that's all I have to say for now. R and I are looking forward to Johnny's New Year's show. Oh and I forgot how much I loved Sakura Sake. Love it. I might even move it up on my playlist.

KOE WO KIKASETE - Let me hear your voice

This is why I love Big Bang so much! I also like the fact that Daesung finally gets his fair share of screen time. And T.O.P...soooooooooooo H.O.T. This man just keeps getting hotter and hotter. Whewwwww. IRIS anyone? T.O.P and a gun and spy-boy and I faint. The only thing I would change is for G-Dragon to return to normalcy. That boy needs to enlist in the Korean army NOW! The DMZ is sure to make a man out of him. >_< Harsh much? No, he needs to stop being Lady Gaga-Dragon, that's what he needs to do. Look at T.O.P. Drooooool. GDragon needs to learn from T.O.P. Strong, silent man is always hot. [And I don't mean that in a chauvinist way at all. I just mean it in the, "I am watching way too many Korean dramas state of mind-ness" way.] :P






Damnnnnn, they hot or what???????????? I am so in fan-girl mode right now.

In other news, I met R after a really long time! Ureshii desu! :) We went to this arcade and laser tagged. It was soooo much cooler than I thought it would be. And we took cheesy pictures. Oh, I should totally scan the picture which has R's as Einstein. Hehehehehehehehehe.

Pretty Boy of the Week

This is the belated pretty boy of the week feature, forgotten along with the blog due to hectic lives and general laziness. So this time it is the absolutely gorgeous Haruma Miura. HE IS GORGEOUS. (I don't know if he has been pretty boy of the week but I don't care. He is just that good looking.) I know he is younger than I am and all that but I like to think I am admiring him aesthetically (whatever that might mean). And so here he is.

ARASHI

I can't believe that my obssession with Arashi has STILL not ended. It's been far too long. I don't really care too much for their songs - I mean they're cute and I like listening to them when I am in the mood to be "uplifted" but they're no Big Bang or even DBSK/Tohoshinki/TVXQ. The former has great big beated songs and the latter...well, they are gorgeous. Arashi are neither good looking (some would disagree I am sure) nor are they great singers but I still love them more than Big Bang (whose songs, believe me, I am addicted to)!

It all started one dark, dank gloomy day when I decided I needed to do something more than just be miserable and mull over past mistakes. R asked me to look at some videos which had Aiba trying to speak English in them. (I am certain I have told this story before but hey it's my blog). Anywho, the reason for my bringing this up again is that Arashi's general stupidity and quirky sense of humour is what is so appealing. Aiba is stupid. Ohno on the other hand doesn't even have to try. He just is hilarious. Sho is...umm...very very good looking. Ok, fine, I take back what I said about them not being good looking. Sho is so damn fine. And he went to Keio - which ofcourse earns him major brownie points. And he can be very funny too. Nino is the skinny nerd who can do anything and everything. He is so adept at whatever he chooses to do that I feel he has some sort of pact with the devil. Matsumoto is just Matsumoto. Enough said. I liked him a little more for some time post watching Kimi wa Petto. But that was some time ago. Oh and Aiba - hahahaha - yes, I love him. I have to say more about him. I know he is a player and all but he's just so adorably dumb. Being excited about the stupidest things and getting all choked up while reading that damn letter (and getting me all teary eyed too) - Aiba is my boy.

Observations -

T.A.P ( Trashy Asian Pop) is a wonderful way of expunging four years of literary criticism.

Asian boys are hot but Asian girls are sooooooo much hotter. Hahahaha. Just wanted to say that.

Having a job and an internship at a hot shot New York magazine still hasn't helped me mature. I still spent a ridiculous amount at BAPE.

I miss R.

I don't know what I want from life apart from wanting to surround myself with beautiful Asian boys (preferably in Jpop/Kpop/Tpop boybands). :P

I am still shallow.

Koreatown, KinoKuniya and NYC

So, I am far too lazy to really write about anything that's happened in the last one month. It has been quite eventful actually. Meeting old friends and catching up on stuff is...fun. What is perhaps even more fun (only slightly) is going to Korea Town in Manhattan, checking out the cute little stores and being greeted in them by cuter Korean boys. I bought the cutest cell phone strap. See picture. Very Koizora (Haruma Muira...hmmmm). I also went to KinoKuniya, a store with all things Japanese. I was very tempted to buy every magazine/book/cd/tshirt that had my Arashi boys on them but decided that I should go a little easy on that. Which reminds me - BIG BANG posters in Korea Town...oh yeah! See picture again. :P And I found the hottest pair of sunglasses at Zara's. And I am going to watch Departures this week. And going to Boston in a couple of weeks. :P

R is back in Michigan. She is still her adorable, sarcastic self. And we love her.

P.S. And Wonder Girls is going to tour with the Jonas Brothers in the U.S. I am soooooo tempted to buy tickets. Except I cannot stand the Jonases.

PACKING - SYMBOLIC AND OTHERWISE

I think this picture captures everything the logos can't.

Please take especial note of poor Chaucer squished and looking oh so helpless. I found it very funny. >_<

GRADUATION!

Yes, we graduate today! I graduate in the afternoon, in about a few hours and R's probably already walked since her commencement was in the morning. It's been a longggggg four years but it has also provided its share of fun and love. Strangely enough I might just miss certain things - something I never thought I would. Hahahaha. I am going to miss R. But before I start getting all weepy I am going to remind myself that I might just be back. Anywho today is a rather momentous day.

We are sort of sad.

EXAMS!

Exams this week. I have one tomorrow for which I will not study because it's far too late to do that now. 0_0 Anywho since it's been such a long time since our blog was last updated I thought I'd put up something for the time being. And what better update than pretty boy updates! And since we've missed a couple of 'em we shall post up a few more than usual.

1) T.O.P from BIG BANG - Because no other man can look hot wearing a pink leather jacket and eating a lollipop. And because I love him. ^_^

2) Taeyang again from BIG BANG - Because...do I need to give ya'll a reason? Just look at him! Dayyyyyym. [I really just needed a reason to put this pic up on our blog. Teeheehee.]

3) Park Jung Min - Because he can rip his pants like no other brother. Hahahaha. And because he is beautiful. Look at that face! <3>

Getsuyoubi

Monday

R and I met just before she had to go to her Physics lab. We had dinner and then went into an empty classroom to watch videos. I believe 90% of our time is spent watching videos that only prove how stupid the people we had grown to like are. Ofcourse when they display stupidity it is very endearing because they are so damn good looking. In the evening we watched more videos but this time we sort of stuck to watching Boys Over Flowers. Now, I stopped watching this series after the 5th episode or so because I realized I would obssess over Lee Min Ho far too much if I kept watching it. I know he's extremely pretty and all that but add the Doumyoji character he is portraying and that just makes him so irresistible I would probably lose my head. I mean Doumyoji made me like even Matsumoto Jun (atleast, while the series lasted)!. While we are on the topic of obssessions we might as well talk about SS501 and Park Jung Min (who R and I call boy-girl) and the deathly distance I've so far managed to keep between myself and their videos which I am sure populate youtube. So far I have only looked up their names. I was really surprised to find so little on them on the web. Perhaps it is a good thing. *Sigh*

Anywho, on the brighter side it's finally beginning to feel warm. It makes us very happy.

Pretty Boys!

I have an exam tomorrow.

I do not want to study.

Therefore I am blogging.

So much for logic prevailing in my life. Yes, I have an exam tomorrow and it's already 8pm. I can foresee an all nighter or a "I don't care at this point" night of sleep. Therefore we should forget about unpleasant things like tests and instead look at pretty boys. This week's pretty boy category needs to be expanded to fit more boys because R and I decided they were all pretty - Quest Crew from America's Next Dance Crew. They are awesome. R showed me a couple of their videos and I was very very impressed. That move where one of them does a triple flip with his legs kicking like that. DAMN! And this has some of the sickest (the first time I've thought this strange word was appropriate) moves. Hok is by far our favourite but we like the rest too. And here they are - Quest Crew.

Yakusoku no Hi

I have this song ,Yakusoku No Hi, (Dohzi-T feat. Aoyama Thelma) stuck in my mind and keep singing the refrain in the oddest of places. The bathrooms at school is an example. But apart from my general weirdness I think it is quite an appropriate song for the last leg of R and my college life. I know we are not going to be in close proximity forever and I don't even know when next we'll see each other after we graduate but I hope to be able to meet up from time to time. It'll be our yakusoku. :) Now, before I start sounding like an overtly sentimental high school girl (I fear R will start sniggering when she sees this post) let me just recount the week that was.

Monday
We meet after the week long Spring break that seemed not to last more than a second (during which I did nothing much except crowd the blog with pictures of all the men I drool over). Anyway we met for dinner and then R went to her Physics lab. I just doodled around until it was time for me to go to my club's documentary screening. R attended it as well. It was longer than we thought it was going to be but it was a very good documentary. But I shan't write about it because then it would result in a spillover from my other blog (and I intend to separate the two as much as possible). Anywho afterwards we did what we do best. Laugh like crackpots over various videos. We thought this particular video was very funny. We think Infinity Challenge is hilarious! Their Boys Over Flowers parody was a little on the ridiculous side but Jun Jin makes such a beautiful girl! And I finally discovered that Jun Jin was a member of Shinhwa (a band I was aware of but never really bothered to learn more about). He's very pretty.

Oh and here are R's updates:
1. R likes SS501, a Korean band, primarily because of the Rui character, Kim Hyun Joong, in Boys Over Flowers. She even has their songs on her MP3 player! This is serious, people! [I like the song "Song calling out to you." It's so peppy! And the band being Korean the boys are very good looking. If I'm not careful I am going to have another major obsession on my hands again and I don't need one right now. I have enough already.]

2. She voted for Quest Crew (in America's Next Dance Crew or some show like that). And she likes them a lot. I do too. Hok, the Japanese boy with the British accent and HOT moves is our favourite. [BTW, they are going to be the Pretty Boys of the Week :)] Damn, hot Asian boys who can sing and dance and look hot all at the same time.

Question of the day? - Although I am Asian why am I not nearly as cool as all the Asians I see around me?
Also, R makes the observation that I am dumber than Aiba Masaki!!!!!!!!!! [Later, she qualified it by saying that I was dumber than him at times, which is good. Phewwww.]

Friday- Chaucer's Big Day Out :)
Friday was the day R gave me Chaucer. And yes he is very literary. But before that I must tell you the Christmas all over again feeling I got when R gave me all these gifts (things she'd forgotten to give me over Christmas, hahahaha). I got a lot of things amongst which there was a lovely pearl necklace and earrings set. I love! And nail polish that is going to be put to very good use! Anywho Chaucer being a very demanding sort of teddy bear decided he needed attention from me and asked to be taken out with us. (Which is sort of obvious considering how photogenic he is. Do take a look at his pictures. He really is a darling.) And we took him with us everywhere that night. He was very well behaved too. I even took him to my workplace where I introduced him to everyone.
GEE and Bu de Bu Ai have decided they like our soft, mushy brains very much and have resolved to remain in it. Which makes things difficult for us because we break out into the Gee dance everywhere. We even danced on the GR bridge on our way to the GR symphony concert. Two crazy girls dancing everywhere. Hmmm. Friday was very nice even though it was a Friday the 13th. We met up after classes, went to a Philosophy lecture (total intellectual cop-out on the part of the lecturer, by the way) where R made me laugh so hard I thought I was going to die. So, there's a German Professor in the Philosophy department and he has quite a heavy accent. Now, I have never really given it much thought and have always thought him quite intelligent. BUT the minute he started asking questions at the lecture R scribbles a note on her hand-out and what do I see scribbled? "HE REMINDS ME OF ARNOLD!" I completely lost it after that and was trying so hard to stifle my laughter that I turned redder than a beet root. I could hear Chaucer tut-tutting at me. Yes, R and her profound observations. Well, the lecture wasn't anything to write home about. Then we took the bus downtown for dinner with my "faux mom" who is second concert master at the GR symphony. Yes, she is all that! ^_^ Anywho, we took pictures at dinner of the two fat cats - Bob and Mirabelle. Well, Mirabelle isn't quite as fat as Bob. R named Bob, Bob the obese and we compared him to Homer Simpson. The dinner was very nice. After that we strolled about a little before heading to the concert. We went to a little store called Little Bohemia Too (we actually followed chalk signs on the pavement leading us to the place - very Hansel and Gretel we thought) and we found me the cutest (!!!!) red summer coat. And I looked so good in it too. Sadly it was a tad expensive ($80) and since I can't afford to be frivolous I had to let go of it. However R did take a picture of me wearing it. ^_^ We then went to get a drink at a very chic Coffee House (fair trade coffee, vegan brownies- we like!). It was quite nice and as always spoke of life and life after school. We ran to the concert venue because we realized we were late and got in just on time.
The concert's first piece was the most awful thing I have heard in my life. Composed as a response to the 9/11 attacks it was the most glib work of art (if I can call it that). Right after the first five minutes R and I both looked at each other and decided we hated it. Imagine how Chaucer must have felt considering it was his first concert. I tried my hardest to cover his ears! The second half was Wagner's "The Ring" and we thought that was much better. I personally like Wagner, the flourish, the bigness and all. Oh and during the interlude R and I were trying to take pictures of ourselves but got it right only on the millionth attempt. It was quite funny. I shall post a couple of pictures of our very eventful Friday. After the concert Mike, Chris' partner, decided to take us backstage and we got introduced to the conductor, a David Lockington who was oh so condescending! He thought Chaucer was present only to help alleviate the effects of the music (although if they continue performing pieces like the first one I might very well need a sleep aid). Mr Lockington presumes, quite wrongly, that our youth somehow makes us unaware of western classical music. We resent that! We've had good colonial education(s), thank you very much. O_O Anywho we went backstage and up on stage. Yes, we took more pictures. R pretending she was Chiaki Senpai (cf. Nodame Cantabille). And I pretended to be a siren next to the harp. Fun, fun!
When we came back home we ( yet AGAIN) watched Infinity Challenge. R and I vote that the creepy guy with big eyes is the best thing about that parody. We also mutually drooled over Jun Jin and discovered that Ryo Nishikido has a six pack or an eight pack or something like that. Who cares? He looks awesome without his shirt on! As does Jun Jin. Oh we were squealing like school girls. And that was the end of our Friday. I don't know if I've missed anything much.

I like

I don't even know why I like this video. The terrible art in the video coupled with the not very good looking pair makes it an uninteresting video. However, after I understood what the message at the end said I sort of "got it" and liked it. I like the fact that the ending is not a culmination. It doesn't end with the couple making up; instead what we have is motion. And despite my view of relationships and their utter uselessness (to humanity and to the people involved) I do think there is perpetual movement in them. And movements are always interesting. While tracing them beautiful patterns sometimes emerge. Which somehow demolishes my argument about their uselessness but you see only someone with an acute sense of the world like me am able to realize it. The rest as they say is...noise.

Obsessions

I am obsessed with various things at various points in my life. Right now I am obsessed with



1) BIG BANG - I absolutely love their big beat-ed songs. And I am quite annoyed to find that they are so very popular. Damn it. I find myself torn between TOP and G-Dragon. I can't decide who I want to like more. :) TOP is the manliest man I have liked in some time (That really says something about the boys I like now, doesn't it? ). I think it's that husky, sexy voice. And G-Dragon is just so pretty and boy can he move.



2) AIBA MASAKI - I have quite the roving eye when it comes to men. I never like one for long (which might explain all the failed relationships :P ). BUT this man Aiba Masaki has had me squealing like a teenager every time I see his stupid face for the past five months! And I see no end to this ridiculousness. I am sometimes reminded of the saying about God looking after fools when I see Aiba. He is so dumb and completely oblivious about the immense charm that his stupidity has for fan girls. Ofcourse his idiocy is endearing only because he is so freaking good looking. Ugly and stupid? Don't work, sorry. I became interested in Arashi only because of Aiba's wonderful "I can really speak English" videos. Infact I once sent R a link to an Arashi video because I thought it was so funny (and now I am a total fangirl, yep). I suppose I still can't stomach grown men all dancing to silly moves (the dancing is just laughable) but their dynamic as a group evident in their shows is what makes them so loveable. The only one I don't really like is Matsumoto Jun. I don't quite know why. Anywho Aiba Masaki - he's the man for me. He could very well be the stupidest person I know of (I do know him, don't I?) but I don't care because he is so lovely. ^_^



3) TATTA HITOSU NO KOI

This was the drama that made me want Kamenashi Kazuya as a boyfriend. This was also the drama that really made me wish I could fall in love (love as an existential reality is a myth as far as I am concerned). It made me want to believe in a youth that is full of love and goodness. I am quite obsessed with the drama and watch it from time to time. The simulated innocence invigorates me somehow. It makes me wish I was a nicer person...but that doesn't last very long. Thankfully. :P I also like the end song Bokura no Machi De. I was so excited to find that the Kat-tun cd R gave me had the song! Arigatoh R-chan.



Anyway I shall find out R's latest obsessions too and blog about it.

The Week That Was

I blogged about this before but sadly it was lost in the vast unknown of internet space. So here I am blogging about, not last week, but the week before the last.

Monday
Sleep over was very fun. We talked about things profound and not. We talked about Japan and possibilities. About doughnut boys and chef boys. Both of us miss our study abroad Universities for vastly different reasons but the longing is the same. We spoke of how we became friends. Funny story. I shall have to recount it some other time. In short it was a long, rambling conversation that reminds me of why we are friends; we understand each other.

Tuesday
I woke up feeling like something was going to happen. Showered, put on a really nice dress-shirt, cute pants and high heels (R hates the heels :P). R woke up, looked at me and gave me a "what's with all the dressing up?" look. She later told me that she sort of guessed my intentions. Anywho, I had decided subconsciously that I would talk to the boy I had been crushing on for a year now. And talk I did! AND he was really nice about it too! (He looked so cute up close.) He said he'd add my on facebook and all that. I wish I could end my story here and say that we hooked up and are now madly in love with each other but sadly I shall have to be honest. When he did add me I saw he was already in a relationship.
*HEART BREAKS INTO A MILLION PIECES* *WILL NEVER FALL IN LOVE EVER AGAIN*
The End

Wednesday
Not much. I watched a J.P. Melville movie. Quite bleak in certain ways but a fantastic movie about the French resistance.

Thursday
Quite possibly the most entertaining day and humiliating day (for me). My Lit. Modernism teacher let us off early because he felt like it. He's an old grandfatherly type who doesn't whack people when they make stupid comments. I think he leaves the tongue lashing to me. Anywho I went to a lab to see if I had any events lined up and I saw a message from R saying that there was a Japanese movie screening. I was only 5 minutes late and I ran to the venue. The movie, Takashi Miike's "The Happiness of the Katakuris" was wonderfully strange. It reminded me of Katsuhito Ishii's "Cha no Aji." Ofcourse Miike could never make a movie with half the insight of Ishii. However, it was very funny and had both of us cracking up. Towards the end of the movie we were rudely interrupted by the fire alarm and were standing in the bitter cold for some time. After the movie was over we decided to go to Kleiner and have dinner. I really wanted Asian food (mostly rice ^_^). On our way there what should happen but the biggest fall I have had in three years! It was so surreal and cartoonish. I almost didn't believe I was in real time. There was absolutely no way I could fall in the same manner as a Hanna Barbara cartoon character. BUT I did and I started cracking up. R to say the least started laughing at me too. A kindly soul asked me if I was alright and thus making me realize that I ought to feel slightly humiliated. R even went as far to say that she wished she had remembered to take a picture of me on the ground. [I am quite pleased she forgot.]
Thursday was interesting... :)

Friday
I slept the moment I got back from classes because I was so tired. I might have watched a few videos but I don't quite remember.

Very Pretty Boy of the Week

I know I am supposed to write about the memories we created this week and I did. But for some reason blogspot.com decided to slice it in half and devoured one half. Needless to say I was as angry as little Rumpelstelskin and although I didn't get my foot caught in the floorboard I deleted the entire post. I will, of course, write about a week that was very interesting and peppered with various little gems but for now I shall have to make do with the pretty boy of the week. And pretty he is! R and I both agreed that he ought to be this week's boy. He is KIM BUM from Boys over Flowers. And he is so cute one wants to adopt him or atleast buy him a lolly. We find it hard to believe that he wasn't always this cute but apparently in high school he was called "scary" by a girl he confessed to. There's a lesson to be learnt here somewhere but I just can't seem to be able to figure it out! ^_^ Anywho here is the gorgeous boy himself.

A Man With a Good Sound System Don't Need to be Justified

I have various reasons for coming to the library. R knows the single most important one and perhaps I should just admit to myself that I come to the library [SO OFTEN] only because the current love of my life happens to camp out here quite often. o_O But I might just have another reason for coming to the library now - the computers. Yes, these computers have the most amazing sound system and I finally know the meaning of big beats and other cool terminology like that. Daaayyyymmm, every song I listen to just sounds so much cooler. Sadly, my laptop only produces tin-box sounds. And yes, I am at the library now and Big Bang's "Lady" and JJ Lin's "High Fashion" sound so damn sexy. I am quite the sucker for big beats and mindless pounding. It makes me want to go clubbing.

However, I ought to take all this wearing head phones all the time a little easy because I find myself straining to catch what my Professor of Philosophy is saying. I was always a little deaf to begin with but now I am in danger of carrying a hearing horn to my ear. Professor Calculus anyone? [rf. Herge's TinTin, for all the boors who did not read them when they were young].

Ah, if only the weather was warmer I would totally dress up and go dancing.

Monday

This Monday, like all other Mondays, consisted primarily of drama viewing and listening to songs. We talked (read: complained) about our classes and the remarkable consistency of intelligence in all the classes.



Example : A girl in my English capstone class asked what "parody" meant. What sort of educational system lets someone like that graduate with a degree in English Literature and allow her to teach (I am assuming she is part of the "teaching" track)? And people ask why high school education in America is in such a sad state when compared to high school education in Asian countries.



Anywho R complained about how different classes taught her the same thing and that she could very well die from boredom. Me, I think I could die from a heart attack induced by anger at classmates who should be exiled to Siberia. If it was the 1660s and I was Tsar Alexis, I would ship all of them off to the North Pole without an ounce of guilt. Alternatively, if I were their career counsellor and allowed to be brutally honest I would tell them that flipping burgers could be considered an art form (in the future, perhaps?) and that they shouldn't hesitate to take it up.

Pardon the rant but I need to "let it all out" somewhere.



Coming back to the original theme/topic, this week's sleep-over was uneventful because I had to rush off to my club meeting and had to write a paper for the next day leaving little room for fun and frolic.



Updates: I am now "in a relationship" with Aiba on facebook so I suppose that makes things real official. ^_^ I think it's very amusing and am clearly flouting my own rules that dictate facebook relationships can only be used for frivolous purposes. Eeheehee.



R and I both hate the cold (hold on...this isn't an update, it's merely a wry comment on our lack of enthusiasm for snow storms).



Most importantly, I get to choose pretty boy of the week. He's part of a Korean band called Big Bang and he has the face of a baby. So here we have it - G Dragon. I chose him because he's the cutest member of Big Bang (arguably) and I have been listening to nothing but Haru Haru for the past two weeks.

Boy of the Week

And the boy of the week is Lee Min Ho. He plays Doumyoji in the Korean Hana Yori Dango - Boys Over Flowers. He is gorgeous, just gorgeous (cf. Matt Lucas in Little Britain :P). And there's this unmistakable similarity to Jerry Yan who played the same character in the Taiwanese version, Meteor Garden (a painfully long drama that I watched only for the most beautiful quartet of boys). I doubt I've seen four prettier boys share screen space.



So Lee Min Ho - R thinks he's a bit too thin but I sort of like skinny boys. And like the Taiwanese version this one has three very very pretty boys. The last one would probably be considered good looking had he been isolated from the rest. And here's Lee Min Ho. He's much cuter than he looks in the picture (just so you know ^_^).

Sleep-over Continued

So, as R has very dutifully reminded me I completely forgot about the pizza incident which was perhaps the highlight of the evening. I have been self-diagnosing for the past few days and wikipedia tells me that I have mononucleosis (by the way a terrible time for me to get it) and various other ailments. Anyway, I think the mono is reason enough for me to not eat anything that is good for me and start ordering pizza. Which is where the "stuffing-your-face-with-pizza" incident begins. Moaning and complaining about how I didn't want to eat the very healthy vegetable foccacio sandwich in my fridge I tell R that I want to order pizza. I don't quite remember what prompted it but I suspect it had something to do with me complaining about how the Japanese boyfriend would weigh less than me...when R turned around and goaded me into stuffing my face with pizza since I was so concerned about the not insignificant disparity.
Now, I am fairly capable of preventing images overpowering me but last night I just could not
stop thinking of my mouth quite literally stuffed with pizza. To say the least I started wailing and threw a faux tantrum. And then ate the v.f.s sandwich - half of it to be precise. I even stopped eating them sour teddy bears or whatever they called.

So there we have it - the highlight of the evening. It was quite funny actually. We were very very amused.

Oh and I think the exam went quite well. My pen wasn't moody and decided to aid in my quest to dazzle the Professor with my beautiful handwriting. I had a very very long day and am quite exhausted. I was supposed to go to the store and get my mp3 played checked because it decided to stop working. (Somehow I always get stuck with the temperemental object petit a's.) I never got to the store because I went to watch a Bergman. YES, my two worlds exist quite peacefully, thank you very much. And I have liberated myself from Aristotelian categories. There is no high or low art. Just pretty boys and prettier boys. Hyuck hyuck.

P.S. I know a "Pretty Boy of the Week" is in order but I am quite torn. I shall devote an entire post to this little aside. I also have a fair idea of who it will be. ^_^ Oya suminasai.

Sleep-over 2

So, I think I am going to christen our sleep overs something else. Perhaps a name that does justice to our mutual inclination to make each other aware of more madness in the Asian world (and hence the cooler half of the globe). You see, in my mind Geography constitutes a simple division of halves - one side has Asia and the other has everything else. Anywho last night was no different with R showing me a drama which had Sho in it. Yes, and he looked very cute. I remember Ohno's song where he talks about looking at Sho's face in the morning and wondering how a Keio student could have a face like that. It's a drama about Sho going back in time and meeting his Dad's younger self. (See, I knew there was depth in Japanese dramas. There must be. Just notice the wonderful play on the idea of self and creation of self - with memory thrown in it could become the next "Speak, Memory." Hahahahahahahahaha. Errmm.)

Anyway I took a look at the Dad and thought he looked like Taichi. And this I know from watching the video where Aiba dances in a hula skirt entitled "Aiba steals Taichi's thunder." And I am still immensely attracted to this man! How obssessed am I? I do wonder sometimes. I possess this Dirac-like focus with an ability to concentrate on one thing isolating all else! But going back to the drama (I remember not the name and am far too lazy to look it up). We watched bits of various episodes. And then! And then we watched Big Bang parodies. Big Bang is the latest in a very long line of boys I fall for the instant I see them because they are so pretty.
The first one was of Hana Yori Dango and the second was of Coffee Prince. Both hilarious and had us cracking up.

I have an exam tomorrow. I won't even bother to mention which discipline because it just might induce a few heart attacks. However, I shall write, one day, how all this stupidity is actually wonderful for my study. One day!

Important Updates: Both of us have haircuts. One of us is happy, the other not so. It won't surprise you to know who is dissatisfied with the haircut.


*** More on Big Bang next time. ^_^

Monday Sleep-overs

Monday sleep overs really just means R sleeps over at my place because she has this ridiculous Physics lab that takes place at 6 in the night and goes on till 8pm. It would be almost as criminal as my Studies in Poetry class that started at 6 and went on till 9pm! No matter how much I love Paz, Muldoon, Akhmatova and others like them I CANNOT appreciate lyrical beauty at 9, in a cramped classroom, next to an old man ("non-traditional" student for you) who refuses to shut up and a teacher who makes me burn with jealousy because he speaks ten languages (or more, I am not sure).* Enough ranting. Gomen, gomen. We usually meet at the recreational center. I go for my club meeting for an hour and then head home with R.

*I speak six. Ahem!

We did little apart from learning how to sing Aoyama Thelma's Soba ni Iru better. I suggested putting up a video of the two of us singing but I think we're not quite there as yet.

Songs of the moment - Utada Hikaru's "First Love" and Kingone's "The World that I Want." I listened to the first the entire day. The snow and the cold outside made it sound so much prettier. I'd actually all but forgotten about Kigone and his hot-hot-hotness until I saw his song on R's playlist. Now that Kingone's entered my "beautiful men" consciousness I shall nominate him boy of the week.

Boy of the week: Kingone Wang - because he is bootiful, has some semblance of talent, and

because he never gets the girl in the end. So we thought he deserved a little something-something from us. ^_^

XOXO

We went to XOXO, the Thai restaurant in downtown G.R., last night. Took the bus downtown and according to R we had a girl roll her eyes at us because we were talking about my (dare I say our?) latest obessession - Johnny's boys. Oh, oh, oh and although I am getting ahead of myself I must tell you this and I feel awfully clever too; Johnny's Entertainment has a brother/sister organization right here in the United States of America. Disney! In Johhny oji-chan's defense I must say he picks out better looking people and in rare cases monkeys who can really act (cf. Ninomiya Kazunari).

Getting back to my central narrative, we ordered what we ALWAYS order - Penang Curry. I got crab rangoons instead of tom-yum soup. Methinks they do not sound similar but the waitress looked so nervous and new that I let it be. In any case I was glad we sat next to the windows again. Vantage Point! I had an excellent view of a very good looking old man sitting a table away. R rolled her eyes when I told her this. I was merely admiring his obvious ability to age gracefully. We also wish R's hot Japanese chef-boy could work at XO if only for the obvious benefits. I tell you, there is a drama in all of us. Mine's fairly straightforward - I go to Japan, I meet boy-band (preferably named Arashi), member falls in love with me, member is bit of a brat, I fall in love with a different member, different member is a bit emo and has blonde hair, different member loves a beautiful model, I realize, slowly, through various twists turns and rounds, that I really do love member, member and I marry and live happily ever after.

THE END

I know what you're thinking - Hana Yori Dango, you little .... To all of you - Hey! It's all permutation and combination anyway! Now for R's drama. Her's has more tears and heart tugging moments than mine. Thankfully no one suffers from a terminal illness.

R goes to Japan to study at University where EVERY Japanese drama (read: Gokusen) is filmed. Takes difficult-ass classes that make you want to jump off bridge. Anywhich way R craves T. food. Friend recommends a restaurant she works at. R and friend go to restaurant. Restaurant has two hot chefs. One hotter than the other. R falls for the less hot one (quite obvious really). Anywhichway R and chef look longingly at each other every time she eats there. One day chef gathers enough courage to ask R if the food is alright. Days pass and R's stay in Japan is coming to an end. R is stupid and does not talk to hot chef boy. Hot chef boy is stupid too and does not talk to R. Both are stupid. Last week arrives and finally R's friend insists on giving chef R's phone number/email address. There are cheers when chef receives phone number from friend. R runs away in the rain. No need for umbrellas, thank you very much. BUT it too late, fool! R needs to return to the land of opportunities. Chef promises to love her forever. R promises to love chef forever. TEARS, tears and more tears at Narita. Then it happens! The hug that brings a lump to your throat (Utada Hikaru's "I'm a Prisoner of Love" as background music). R walks into immigration (?) gates in slow motion. Looks back with tears in her eyes. Chef has hand on heart and mouths Aish teru.

THE END

What? That really is the end! Next summer we'll have the sequel. O_O Muhahahahaha.

Updates: R might blog! Applause everyone!

DBSK has some hot hot boys. Me likey Mirotic.

Aoyama Thelma's song is stuck in this head. Arggggh.

Johnny's of the Week: Ryo Nishikido. Because he is an evil psycho, is mean as hell to Ueda Tatsuya demo, demo soooooooooo SEKSHI! So here we go, a picture of the man/boy/boy-man/man-boy of the week.

We make "memory" for real

M.M / Making Memories - The Beginning

Memory is such fertile ground for literary expositions. But what need have we for literary expositions when all we want to do is emulate our dear Japanese brothers and sisters by "making memories." Every Japanese dorama we watch tells us how important it is to make memories to cherish forever. For one, it is just too tempting a thought to give up. So, in the ways of the twenty-first century we decided to create a blog. I shall use "we" very loosely because one half constituting the "we" will participate in this precious activity of documenting memories merely by grunting and sneering at it. The other half is I, very much at the service of our common memories. I intend to be as scientific and accurate as possible; no tainted memories for us please. Let us start with a little equation: We = I + R**


I= yours truly
R= scornful cynic/ soul mate when there's a buffalo wings eating competition (a story worthy of its own blog)


A bit of history is warranted no doubt. If I were to think of a starting point it would be my intense curiosity of R's Asian dramas which she watched on her laptop outside her lecture halls. Now, loyalty has never been an outstanding trait I possess. That is not to say I am not loyal, however if one were asked to fix one distinguishing characteristic it would in all probability be my beauty.*** Yes, and loyalty is an indispensable requirement for drama viewing. But, but, but Asian dramas were usually only ten episodes or so long. I need not supress my philandering for long then. Hana-Kimi (the Taiwanese version) was the first drama I watched for precisely three reasons:
1. Wu Zun (hot Taiwanese idol)
2. Jiro Wang (see above)
3. Nose bleeds were a novel concept to me and therefore very amusing.

The rest as they say is history. I gradually moved from Taiwanese dramas to Korean dramas and then finally to Japanese doramas. And it was the last that taught me I could infact make memories.

And because it is our final semester before we graduate we decided to document all our memories. Ofcourse we plan to meet each other in Tokyo for Johnny's Entertainment's New Year Countdown in Tokyo next year but that would be getting ahead of ourselves.



** R might just be the sleeping partner but I shall try and coax her into contributing very hard.
*** If you must know, R does not have a distinguishing characteristic; she has two: long legs and a scorn that will cutchu in two.