Otsukaresamaaaaaaaa~!

Bratty: Why are you intending to bombard this blog with your fangirling?

Serena: I want a place to keep track of the links so that I don't have to dig through youtube to rewatch them <3

Bratty: You do understand that fangirling is of a different language to your readers?

Serena: Be my guest to skip it, darlings. XD

Ostukaresama to KAT-TUN for successfully completing Break The Records 2009 record-breaking 8 consecutive days at Tokyo Domeeeeeeeeee~!

For an amazing concert with plenty of water shows, fire, videos, and performances!! *coughpropsareveryimportantcough*

For a concert with different setlist everyday, with daily doses of forgotten lyrics, hugs going around, general teasing and dorky boys having fun. Really, KAT-TUN gets away with uncoordinated dances and forgotten lyrics. haha XD

EDIT: Kame and Jin phails even at the end of the 8 day con. XD

Jin's Murasaki and Tat-chan's Hana no Mau Machi (whoa at the lights, and water and Romeo & Juliet play scenes *O*). Kame's 1582 version 2.

Omedetouuuu to Yucchi for making that bungee at the intended 20 metres height, you did it! Now, they better stop bugging you >.> And, you've gotten yourself into a fix by using your wild card in getting Tat-chan to jump the day before. orz

Thank you to Eito for being such dears to turn up to congratulate them on the last day! All the best to your concert tomorrow too. :D

And, asl;dkfj;ldsgbn. Now you're having KAT-TUN SUMMER’09 Break the Records Tour from July 22 to August 23? D: Seriously, give them a break. orz. Or you know, be a bit more lenient to the fangirls. They haven't even finished their planned concerts, the 3 days in Kyocera Dome in Osaka and last 2 days in Tokyo Dome.

According to what they announced at the performance, they’ll be visiting 6 towns in 17 performances in a nation-wide tour since July 22nd to August 23rd.

(who wants to bet, there will be additional shows added at a later date? =P)

Parking part 2

Serena has run out of things to say, so it's back to me, dear ol' Bratty.

A week back, Serena has a dinner meetup with a few friends. After what was a longggggggg dinner with a lot of random discussions, they call it nights.

Serena volunteered to drive some of them who lived nearby and well, she gets company to walk her back to the car.

It wouldn't be Serena to actually remember the parking spot, so what she did was to snap a photo of the location.

As they neared the parking levels, Serena starts to frantically look for the photo on her phone. It was rather puzzling to her that the photo she took showed a level that didn't quite match the ones she was on. It said P2, when there was clearly no P in sight. Plus, Serena was quite sure, even though she was a scatterbrain, she definitely did not park at a P level.

She starts to slightly panic, because she took the photo thinking that she did not have to remember the location and now that it doesn't match, where on earth is her trusty little kancil at?

D:

After 5 to 10 minutes of worrying, she cackles with laughter. her 2 friends just stared at her.

Have she gone madddddddd? Is it safe to hitch a ride home with that crazee person?

No, Serena hasn't gone mad, just very very idiotic.

Why, did you say?

..

..

..

She had been starring at a photo of yesterday's parking, when she did indeed parked at P2 when she ventured outside the office for an audit. The photo she took today was a couple of clicks away.

Why did it take you so long to realise that?

orz

The tears are flowing in my heart;
Without saying a word, you can take me for granted;

I'll close my eyes and play a song for you
Because after the tears, goodbyes are forever
But why do we still fall in love again?
After the tears, goodbyes are forever

- Sayonara wa Itsumo ~ Kanjani8

Random fangirling bits and pieces

Mostly for myself to keep track of my gazillion fandoms. (okay, not gazillion, but we're reaching there, aren't we, Aya-cchi? =P)

*from the fancams and fan conreports*

Yucchi finally did the bungee jump on Day three. Lower than intended, but *ish so so proud of him* He was really jittery about it from the fanreports. And day four. Gosh, now they'll expect him to really bungee everyday. Evil staff-san. I loved how the other members know he's really not up to it and tried to get the crowd to cheer him even when he didn't managed it. Koki and Kami are <3.

* 15 Friday (Venus) -----------> Yucchi
* 16 Saturday (Saturn) -------> Tat-chan
* 17 Sunday (Sun) ------------> Koki
* 18 Monday (moon) ---------> Junno
* 19 Tuesday (Mars) ---------> Jin
* 20 Wednesday (Mercury) -> Kame

And OMG, Kame's solo is really gorgeous, the whole set up and get up is breathtaking. I have no idea how is he going to top this next year. haha XD Jin and his duet with Crystal Kay. Tat-chan played the intro to his solo on the piano. <3 Koki has motorcycle stunts on his. Junno and his tapdancing and bright costume. XD Yucchi makes use of the screens for his solo. =3

Because fancams are delicious titbits.


Some of their choices means that the fans get to hear a) the older songs or b) live b-sides of their singles. yays!

And gosh, their MC is bordering on PG rated at times. orz.


Also, Shige and SEMINAR butai. *O* OMGOSH. You are so gonna get teased by the other members. Still, so hawt.

EDIT: Now subbed!


All the best to Kanjani8 for their Puzzle Tour 2009~! Here's one of my favourite songs played live from their 2008 concert. (where's our dvd?)

I don't want us to go too quickly;
I don't care if we go at a speed that's as slow as when people sing;
I want to confirm this "future" of mine;
With these feet of mine;
I'll tell a story that people may not like;
Of possibilities that turn out differently even when you may rely on them;
But still, I'll open this door with just my own hands;

- BJ ~ Kanjani8
(yes, they do actually play instruments <3)

3 Line Love Letters

Serena here.

Wanted to share the only bit of Cartoon KAT-TUN's which she loved from their second format, ie, the Love segment bit. (or probably the only bit she loved. orz)

Junno usually gets to read or watch this bit, the 3 line love letters which they had requested from their viewers. <3

A lovely fan compiled the english subbed version from the episodes and posted them on the JONE livejournal community.

From letter all over the nation
The love for the most important person,
Is collected to form the three line love letter.

Cartoon KAT-TUN episode 61:

Hyogo prefecture, Male, 15 years old:
Those pranks of yours,
I intentionally fell for them,
So I could see your smile.

Kyoto prefecture, Female, 25 years old:
The one who pushed and said “Ganbatte” to me
The one who held me and said “You don’t need to pretend to be strong”
Was you.

Kumamoto prefecture, Male, 21 years old:
Following me
Do you not like it?
If not, then I will follow you instead.

Tokyo prefecture, Male, 53 years old:
If you meet me in heaven,
Please pretend you don’t know me,
Because next time, I want to propose to you once more.

Cartoon KAT-TUN episode 62:

Osaka prefecture, Female, 14 years old:
Towards the anxious me before an exam
Your “Ganbatte”
Made my heart skip another beat.

Aichi prefecture, Male, 31 years old:
My mobile still kept that
“I like you”
Message which was never sent.

Tokyo prefecture, Female, 18 years old:
I fought with you over the phone
Nevertheless, I still want to see you,
That’s why I want to see you.

Hiroshima prefecture, Male, 37 years old:
Staring at the short life line upon the palm
Muttering if fate really does exist
With a pen, my wife silently extended it to my wrist.

Cartoon KAT-TUN episode 65:,

Kanagawa prefecture, Male, age 79:
Dear wife,
Although I cant say how much I love you
Please don’t go before I do.

Nara prefecture, Male, age 18:
A message came. “What are you doing”, you asked,
“spacing out” was my only reply,
Because I couldn’t admit I was only waiting for your message.

Hokkaido, Male, age 17:
The only dish that dad ever made,
Duck egg omelette,
Was better then anything I’ve ever had.

Chiba prefecture, Female, age 34:
I’ve never even told you the truth,
But the clumsy you that cried for someone like me,
Was the reason I married you.

Cartoon KAT-TUN episode 66:

Osaka, male, age 16:
I got a message,
You asked if I was well
And at that moment, I felt great!

Saitama prefecture, male, age 60:
Grandmother, Happy Birthday
It’s true that a woman’s beauty,
Is measured by the number of her candles.

Osaka, female, age 30:
I want to raise a son who resembles you,
Who has the same personality as you,
So then somebody else would be just as lucky as me.

Hyogo prefecture, female, age 24:
When I was complaining about a “long distance relationship between Kobe and Kyoto”
Grandmother smiled and said “I’ve been in a long distance relationship for 20 years now”,
Grandfather in heaven, did you hear that?


Isn't the last one so utterly sweet? <3

At the beginning of the 2nd format, the boys gets a question, 'What is love?'

Subsequently, the boys got shoved into an underground hideout with a creepy weird janitor and gets to get meet all sorts of mostly weird, some interesting celebrities and occasionally venture out to ask real people about love.

At the end of this format, they then have to answer the question which they were asked.

Here's a translated version, off a youtube comment.

Kame: Support is love to him
Koki: Love is himself
Yuichi: Love is the strength which he can bungee
Ueda: Wait for another year
Jin: I know but I won’t tell you
Taguchi: Forever in happiness


DORKS.

Parking matters

I wasn't kidding when I said that *points below*, Serena provides me with fodder to blog upon.

Serena had finally got her hands on the season parking ticket at her workplace 2 months ago. Parking for Serena is rather expensive on her fresh graduate salary.

*coughlowsalarycough*

But, considering factors such as safety when she works overtime at nights and hefty parking fines by the municipal councils when she parks at the residential area nearby, Serena supposes that it is reasonable.

However, some of her colleagues choose not to take up on the season pass. As such, occasionally when they go out during working hours or for lunch, they would borrow Serena's or her other colleague's ticket because having to pay for tickets twice a day is more expensive than paying for it once a day.

Serena doesn't mind, she gets to tag along for lunch without having to drive. XD

So on Tuesday, when colleague A asked for it, she passed him what-she-taught-was-her-season-pass.

Until, she went out for lunch with colleague B and found colleague A stranded near the exit.

'You passed me the normal parking ticket?'
'Huh?'

....






EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

When Serena checks, she realises that she still has the season parking ticket.


YOU took a normal parking ticket that morning instead of using your season parking ticket??????


I have no words for your brilliance, darling.



*inserts fangirling sessions*

To celebrate the first of KAT-TUN's 2009 Break the Records concerts, 8 day consecutive Tokyo Dome concerts which kicked off yesterday night, here's the opening of the 2008 Queen of Pirates concert opening for viewing.

Deep, long ecstasy, crazy with unrestrained emotion;
I can never go back to the luring shore;
I’m dissolving the ocean of the night, ah

- TABOO ~ KAT-TUN
(yes, I am aware it's been up before, but now you get awesome concert DVD footages)

EDITED: The correct link to the opening concert is up! >D

All the best to the boys for their record breaking concert! And I do hope that Yucchi finally does the bungee at the end or they will most definitely harp on it for years, literally. orz. *squishes*

Me and the Sheep

I am back to blog >.>

This is it!

The sheep has got to stop writing about how seemingly idiotic I am. I'm not all that bad. *glares*

Bratty: Well, you are. Most of the time.

It's not like I'm doing it on purpose. It's embarassing and orzing!

Bratty: And I get plenty of fodder to blog upon. *cackles*

Well, stop poking fun at me, I own you, you blardy sheep.

Bratty: That's what you think. Besides why are you wasting time arguing with me, I'm invisible, genius.

*kicks*

Bratty: Ouch! Go shoo off to bed, you have work to get to tomorrow. Har har har!

Meeting Flabby the Ferret

Bratty here!

I finally got to meet Flabby the Ferret because his mistress, Aya-cchi and mine decided to go shopping *coughfangirlingcough*.

Flabby-chan wrote his version of the outing which will be far more complete than mine, so do check out his May 10th 2009 post!

It all started when Aya-cchi, smses Serena mid afternoon when the sun was very very hot and asked if she would like to tag along for a very short trip downtown with her sister to pick up a very important Kanjani8 calendar.

Serena was bored and decided to tag along~

Aya-cchi only gave Serena 10 minutes notice to change!!!

What is this? 10 minutes? She was still sitting in front of the computer and ogling at random things.

It takes time to shower and dig through her cupboard for clothes.

Eventually, Serena manages to look decent enough within the time limit for an outing minus the big t-shirt and shorts which is her normal home attire.

At the bookstore, Aya-cchi manages to find what she was looking for and it wasn't sold out yet. Lucky~

Serena, however was unlucky or lucky (depending on how you look at it, ie. monies) that the KAT-TUN Calendar was sold out.

However, that didn't stop the two of them from moving on to the Idol magazines section for more eye candies. Unfortunately all of them were wrapped.

So Aya-cchi and Serena decided to take a couple to the counter and ask for them to be unwrapped for browsing before they decide to buy it.

Staff: Please browse at the counter only.

Owh?

...


...

Ok

Any fellow fangirl would know that fangirling is a rather loud and serious business but Bratty doesn't think staff know that yet.

So, Aya-cchi and Serena got down to some very serious fangirling business.

Why haven't you noticed that the staff was getting annoyed?

But, both Aya-cchi and Serena continued their fangirling because they had totally planned to buy the magazines anyway and was not merely browsing.

Oh look, very shinny pictures!! *squees**spazzes*

Look, he's giving them the stares. Being invisible mean Bratty don't get randomly stared at.

Har har har.

When all was done, Flabby-chan and I followed the trio to look for snacks before heading home.

It was a very nice outing and Bratty enjoyed meeting with Flabby-chan and his mistress.

Something went wrong with the snacks they bought, but that's Flabby-chan's story to tell, look for the 12th May 2009 post.

Heavenly Psycho in my heart;
Right now I am on the path leading to my future;
Even the tears don't hinder me from singing my wish;

- Heavenly Psycho ~ Kanjani8
(even the fans sing along)

Train stops

Bratty tagged along with Serena to a client's place for the day with a colleague of hers.

It was somewhere in the heart of KL.

They took the LRT to avoid the oh-so-awesome-kl-traffic-jam.

It was a nice office and they even had a slice of cake, courtesy of an employee's birthday which fell on that day.

That was really nice of them!

But this post is not about the cake, Bratty just wants to say that she had cake off Serena's plate.

Har har!

On the way back, Serena and her colleague hopped on the LRT again. It was packed!

Of course it is, it's not called rush hour for nothing.

Serena gets in and hangs on for dear life as the crowds start dribbling onto the train.

When it reaches her stop, she got off, and turned back to look for her colleague.

Where is he? Caught somewhere in the middle? She stares.

He stares back and mouths, why are you getting off?

Eh.

Eh.

Eh.

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

It clicks.

Serena had gotten off at the wrong stop. Serena rushes back in before the door closes again.

Giri giri.

Just made it in time, yo.

Why are you so clumsy? Sesated? Half asleep?

Just because you usually get off at Sentral to take the KTM back to Subang, doesn't mean you have to get off at Sentral now, because you're on the LRT, girl!

Clearly, someone need to be more alert.

In the moonlight that only shines one night;
I cast everything off and become a fluttering butterfly;
Hold me close even when I'm reborn;
Love me with the same tenderness;

- MOON ~ KAT-TUN

Alone

Thursday.

The exam was over, there was a few more days to enjoy before Serena has to get back to the hectic working life.

Everything was going well.

Until she received an sms from a colleague asking if she's heard that two of her seniors has resigned and that it was their last day, that Thursday.

She felt terribly left out. No one was smsed Serena nor mentioned anything.

It was 12am, he then asks if she would to join them clubbing as the group of them was there as well.

Serena knows perfectly well, her parents would mind. A lot, in fact.

So she kindly told him, no, and thank you for informing her.

Because no one else had.

While she managed to sms and phone her farewell, she couldn't help but feel rather left out.

It's the feeling that even though you were with them for months, you are never really part of them.

Is it the language barrier? Or the different wavelengths? Or probably just her?

Being weak is natural, the truth is anyone would be scared;
It's just no matter when, the bonds you persevered to protect will be your support;
I will always be your ally, Face tomorrow with that certain pace;
I don't want to see your sad face, so raise your head and smile, your life

Laugh, because it's a painful time, to the number of difficulties, show your smile;
Now, raise you voice, Wow, Might as well laugh at what goes on;
Even though it's not for you, laugh for someone else;
Because a happy face will put forth a strength that gives

- Smile Maker ~ NEWS

Colors

Backdated days before her impending doom.

Bratty would like to point out that Serena totally wasted her study leave aka what-she-calls-her-hols.

Serena has a habit of highlighting her notes with highlighters of various colors because a) it keeps her awake and b) makes it more interesting to glance at. She particularly loves using two primary colors to give her different shades, yes, she does know that you can get colors of any kind at the stationery shops but it's just fun to do so.

You know, yellow and red (or pink) gives you orange, yellow and blue equals green.

As the colors gradually fill up the pages, Serena runs into a major problem!

Some of the colors were finishing!!

As Serena's brother was out at the moment, she smses him to buy some back for her because she was too lazy to leave the nice cooling shade of the house.

She smses. 'Please buy xxx highlighters for me since you're out. '

He replies. 'No money'

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH???

What is this?

You don't bring money out when you go out with friends?!

What if there's an emergency? Or something happens?

Serena sighs and settles to go and get it herself later.

Luckily, Serena's dad has to get something from the stationery shop, and got it for her in the end.

No matter how many thousands of times we see dreams, Even if we give up thousands of times;
We start from there, There are no tricks, so;
Which way, this way, my-way is straight

- Gori Gori ~ Kanjani8