Tuesday 29 July 2008

RIIDA!!!

ugh...I just had to post something to respond to the latest Ohno scandal that's surfaced in the media.


I'm all the way in HK and am feeling so frustrated right now with just...EVERYTHING. The media, the fans... even Ohno himself at the moment. (No I'm not giving up on Arashi's dear leader, but ...)


If those blasphemous photo's are real then I hope Ohno learns to be more careful in the future to avoid this type of situation. Although... I wish the media would have let him off easy. It IS his FIRST drama after all.  >_<. If those photos are photoshopped I'd be slightly more relieved but still...not completely satisfied To the fans who have given up on Ohno right from the start of this...never EVER call yourself an ARASHI fan. It doesn't matter if Riida is your "ichiban" or not he is still part of Arashi.


Which brings me to wonder... how are the boys doing? They've all been in some sort of scandal before (Aiba's would so far be the worst), I hope they are helping O-chan get through all this and are not to affected themselves. I am also wondering what JE is going to do about this, they definitely can't let it slide and they aren't suspending Ohno because apparently all the concerts/singles/etc. are still scheduled to happen.!


WAAAH!!!! ARASHI!!! And just before their 10th year anniversary...I hope they get through this.Ganbatte minna, especially you  Riida!!!



Friday 18 July 2008

Vacation + Hong Kong = ARASHI?!

Hi, hi, just wanted to say I am away on a trip in HK and thus am unable to update my vox, except for this small post.


 


I am quite excited about being in HK although a bit sad that I can not watch videos or download any videos or new songs coming out although I am not deprived of news because I do have a laptop and free wireless but sadly, not much time to use it because I'm always out.


 


One thing I am INCREDIBALLY happy about...because ARASHI is popular around Asia, I get to buy their stuff...but, I think they are too popular cause their is such little stock of their stuff. (I'm talking about in big official music stores like HMV) I did manage to get the TIME DVD and their Dream A Live album but that was it. I want to get the Time album to but can't seem to find it.


 


Best thing of all though - my hotel room has a dvd player which is free. YEP! That means virtually every night I've been watching the Time Con (well a bit of it... since I normally get back to the hotel dead tired at 11:30-ish PM). Oh well, just having a copy of the DVD and being able to watch it while in HK makes me incredibally happy.


 


I can't wait to return to my home though because I have MANY Arashi related things to download...I still have another 2 weeks to go - now returning on August 3rd - so I'll just have to wait. I really wish I could watch MAOU but the crappy wireless sucks and I can't even watch 30 second long videos properly without it taking ages to load. Ah...must be optimistic.


 


I'll update another time when I am able to...Ja ne!



Friday 4 July 2008

Oh the drama(s)..

I woke up at 6:00am this morning.. and do you know why? Well of course to watch MAOU. My god. I was completely and utterly blown away by Ohno and Toma's superb acting skills. I didn't know such small grins and what not could be so terrifying. Aside from the drama, I was also eagerly looking forward to listening to the theme song "Truth" and I must say, it seems to fit the drama very well.


The few lines of Ohno in the song "I'll take your life forever, you take my life forever" oh dear... like wow, they fit the drama so well. I really can't wait to hear the full version and get the lyrics. At first I was hesitant about such a up-beat song for such a dark drama, but it was probably stupid of me to have doubts. I should've been sure that ARASHI would create another top-notch song, especially for this very special drama. (Riida's #1 leading role and first drama)


I feel sad that I will be leaving for Hong Kong for three weeks but the bright thing is, by then, 3 more episodes will be out and hopefully at least 3 of the 4 episodes will be subbed. I'm really curious as to what Ohno says to people, I'm especially curious as to what Ohno said to Nino when the latter was pinning him against the wall under the tunnel. I thought it was strange, how fired up Nino was and then Ohno says something and then suddenly Nino's character just walks away. Obviously whatever Ohno said must've been pretty powerful... or maybe I'm just reading this drama to deeply.


Ohno plays his character extremely well, he pulls the looks of perfectly and you can really see the difference from his real face, to the fake one he shows to people. His expressions... executed beautifully. Toma's acting is superb as well. His character seems to fit the role of Naota. A funny thing I thought up while watching Toma yelling his lungs out was... he reminds me of Jun (Domyouji to be exact). Why? Running across Tokyo... yelling his heart out... and there you have it, doesn't it remind you of Jun? xD


Anyways... why I said "drama(s)" is because I recently watched the 1st, 10th and 11th episode of 1 Litre of Tears starring NewS and Kanjani8 member Nishikido Ryo.


...Why did I skip from the 1st to the last episode, cause honestly I'm not interested in these types of dramas and after watching the first episode I knew that I wouldn't make it to the last episode so to save myself the pain of having to go through the episodes in between I just decided to skip until the end... after all the end is the most dramatic.


I never cry much... for anything. Like it takes a lot for me to get a tear to slide down my face. My eyes may tear up but most of the time the tears never fall... oh boy, the last two episodes... I was so shocked when a waterfall started pouring out of my eyes and by the last episode I was sobbing so hard. I should have expected this though, I mean the title of this drama IS "One Litre of Tears" but ... I didn't think it'd affect me to much. Just judging from the 1st and last few episodes I can tell this drama is very good, but as I said it's not my type.


=P - I'd reccomend for people to watch it though, but honestly, hold a bucket of tissues cause you'll be pouring out a waterfall.



Thursday 3 July 2008

Himitsu no Arashi-chan

Saw Himitsu no Arashi-chan today (it was really hard getting up.. I only got 5 hours of sleep but it wasn't bad. The end of it with Riida was pretty funny even if I couldn't understand what was going on.


The beginning was the skin-thing again with Jun, Sho and Riida. There was one point where a girl came and started demnonstrating some hip excersizes or something and I had fun watching that xD (Come on ARASHI, swing those hips!!)


Mm... the next part was something to do with spicy noodles. Aiba changed the name so it had the word "MAOU" in it and Ohno was to a do a "commercial" for these noodles, except it was totally set up by Aiba, Jun and Sho. It was pretty hilarious. I can't really describe what he did, but seriously, as soon as possible go up to Veoh or something and watch the end part with Riida.


(Sorry I have no videos or screens >.<)


Next week for HImitsu... guess what? NINO + JUN WITH KIDS!!! *squeals like a little girl*  


Tomorrow - Things to look forward to?
(10:00pm) - 1st Episde of (MAOU) - (6:00am)
(1:00pm) - VS Arashi - (9:00pm)