Amanda Mandy Miura, 16, shuttler of Nan Hua Badminton Team, true blue 6th member of Arashi ★

Ikuta leads adaptation of Dazai's "No Longer Human"

Popular young actor Toma Ikuta (24) will star in a new movie directed by Genjiro Arato, the producer responsible for the award-winning "Zigeunerweisen" in 1980. The film is "Ningen Shikkaku," based on the Osamu Dazai novel of the same name. Also known in English as "No Longer Human," the book is generally considered to be Dazai's greatest masterpiece.

Ikuta has recently had major roles in several television series, but this role will actually be his first time appearing in a movie. Published in 1948, the semi-autobiographical "Ningen Shikkaku" was Dazai's last completed work before he successfully committed suicide. Despite selling millions of copies, the story has never been adapted to screen. However, this year is the 100th anniversary of Dazai's birth, prompting the decision to create a movie.

Filming starts in July, with a release projected for spring 2010.

Toma's first movie! Yay! :D

Went to the new Jurong SAFRA earlier today, with mom, brother & his gf. The place is quite big. And pretty awesome. :D Or rather, the kids' play ground is FRICKIN' AWESOME. I'm not kidding. It's a gigantic play area (you know those climbing kind of kidplay caves/buildings?) building and with huge, long slides extending from the THIRD floor to the GROUND FLOOR. IT'S DAMN AWESOME I TELL YOU!!!!!! Even overgrown kids like me want to play the huge play building lor!!!!!!!!!!!! D8
And because today is the last day the centre's open to public for free, after today you'll have to pay to play that stupid play building. :(((((((((((((( I think it's $15 or something, not sure, but if it really is, IT'S SO EXXXXXXXX. :( Can play for the whole day though. I WANTTTTTT. I was thinking of going back to play catching/games with friends some time too... :/

Photos will be up! ASAP, I hope :P

Another reason why this SAFRA is awesome is because they have a Japanese food court. But it's pretty much overpriced. But it's still nice to see lots and lots and lots of Japanese food in the resturant. :P

Am listening to Bay Storm now and there's a nice song playing now. ._. Nino always plays damn nice songs.... ^ ^b back to top?

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Sometimes it's random times like this when LiveJournal comes to my rescue...

I need - really need - to get a hold on my studies and everything else around me in life. back to top?

Yeah, what my title says.
*Dies*

This ep of Arashi no Shukudai-kun is possibly the spazziest and most ridiculous one yet.... after the Oppai/boob episode. |D
I srzly don't know how much face these guys have thrown away from their bangumis/shows....... gggaaawwwdddddd

Pardon the unglam; here goes the caps. xD
Btw.. this is Ep 131 on 20th April. Haha. A tad long ago but still. :)

Did I say how much I love Aibaland's segment? xDDD

This time round, there's a new game, and the members+guest are divided into 2 teams and vs each other in making expressions according to the given scenario (eg. when being released in a bungee, etc xD)

One word to describe their faces: priceless.












Aiba VS. Nino (these are taken continuously so..):







DYING. SO. HARD.



Nino wins, in the end. Ahaaaaa. 8D

Next up, is Sho VS. Jun... the scenario given was something like "the first time you see snow" but Idg that "Nan2 guo2" part. -.-




Finally, Ohno VS. the guest xD
I have no recollection at all of what the scenario for theirs was, but WTF @ OHNO. SRSLY, WTF. XD




...Nino VS. Guest VS. Jun XDDDDDD back to top?

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I AM FUCKING FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED.




















First the fucking 10th anni concert this August to January, and now the single shop photos. HOW MUCH FUCKING MONEY DOES JOHNNY WANT TO EXTORT OUT OF US FUCKING FANS? I'VE HAD IT WITH BEING SO FUCKING BROKE EVERY MONTH ALREADY. I'M ALREADY TRYING MY BEST TO SAVE UP AS MUCH $ AS POSSIBLE FOR THE CONCERT THIS YEAR END IN HOPE THAT THERE'LL BE THE TINIEST LITTLEST GLIMMER OF CHANCE THAT I MAY GO TO JAPAN TO CATCH ANY OF THEIR MILLIONS OF CONCERT DATES OUT OF THE FOURTEEN FUCKING DESTINATIONS JAPAN-WIDE. AND NOW ALL THESE NEW GOODS COME IN. FUCKING HELL. MY WALLET'S HOLE IS BURNED SO MUCH THE BURN IS EATING UP MY ENTIRE WALLET ALREADY. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! back to top?

ASHITA NO KIOKU (MEMORIES OF TOMORROW) FULL PV IS RELEASEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

SO FAST, BUT IT'S GOOD Y/Y!!!!!!!!!

I'm so going to preorder my AnK LE single with this nao.

THREE MORE FRICKING DAYS TO THE NEW SINGLE'S RELEASE! ASHITA NO KIOKU / CRAZY MOON -KIMI WA MUTEKI-, HOORAAAAAAAAAY :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD back to top?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HAYAKAWA BITO, THE HALF-FILIPINO & HALF-JAPANESE ALWAYS-SMILING OPTIMISTIC STRONG WEED GOOD-HEARTED GUY, WHO IS THE AWESOME MAIN LEAD ROLE OF JUN IN SMILE!!!!!!!!! ♥

LUVVVIT THAT SOMEONE though fictional FINALLY SHARES THE SAME BIRTHDATE AS ME!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE NEVER HAD SOMEONE TO SHARE MY BIRTHDAY WITH, TOO UNIQUE ALREADY XD!

Okay thank-you list now LOL.

• TQ ELDEST BRO + MELISSA FOR THE RAINBOW STRIPED HOODIE SHIRT. I love it loads. :DDDDDDD ♥
• TQ second bro + Meiyu jie + Mom for the birthday cake (srsly, I totally forgot that you're supposed to have a birthday cake on your birthday.... wtf)!!! Umai yo. xD ♥
• TQ PUIKAY STRIFE-SAN FOR THE THREE LOVELY CDS + HILARIOUS BUT RANDOM AND CUTE GIFT + TOMA GLOSSY (LATEST ONE, MAJO SAIBAN HAIR, KYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) + RANDOM + CUTE BIRTHDAY CARD! ♥
  You know what this banana here gave me for my birthday?!?!?! A GOOD LUCK DARUMA-SAN MINI STATUE WHICH LOOKS LIKE THIS!
  
  ...Well not so big of course haha it's hand-sized. My hand's size. LOLZ.
  
  
  This one is damn cute!!!!!!!!! But nvm not in topic HAHA.
• TQ RUIXUAN FOR THE cheep cheep clips! ♥
• TQ FISH & HUINENG for the pretty A4 (?) morning glory notebook!!!!! ♥ I'll use it, definitely! :D Yay good friends forever!!!
  
• TQ (in sequence) Christine, Mewleng, Ruixuan, Yunmin, Hayati, Fish, Evia, Xinying, Jasmine, Puikay, Rachel Ng, Alicia, Xinyi, Yaying, Bella, Maggie, Mom, Rachel Peh, Melissa & eldest bro for the birthday smses. They're small acts but I appreciate them a lot ^ ^ And I love smses HAHAHA
• TQ all those who wished me happy birthday in school aka. Eveline x 4 or 5 omfg Idk O_o + Miaopei x2/x3 + Audrey + Lihui + PK + Yunmin + Park jiaobin yige XDDDD + Fish + Alicia + A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE lazy to type/recall everyone haha oops sorry *shot* ♥♥

Okay that's all. Nothing much. I don't feel extremely excited for my birthday this time. :O It feels like any other school day/day.. Maybe it's because I'm maturing. Hehehe 8D

MAGGIE HAS FINISHED WATCHING KIMI WA PETTO! Happy happy :D Hopefully she'll start watching Stand Up!! soon~.

Lots of people are online in Plurk now. Which leads to massive responding & spamming omfg LOL. Fio + Park is enough for me to spend an hour+ replying responses again and again already hahaha. :D

OOH YEAH TODAY'S MOCK CHINESE ORAL TEST WAS THE WORST MAN. I got 25/40. Wowza. And I had to be the timekeeper for the class. ;~; LOL. PK got 27! Lihui + Park got 32/40, congrats! Fiona got 33/40!! As expected ne XD

Didn't have training today cus the cheena oral took up the entire stupid hall and ended at only FIVE. Hurz. So PK + Lihui + Park + I homed together, as usual. ^ ^

Got back our Geography + EMaths MYE papers too. I got a 24/50 for fucking Geog _|_ _|_ _|_ _|_ _|_ Which later turned out to be 27, cus of a calculation error. Wts?
EMaths was 48/80. D: I got higher for AMaths wtf lol.

So now all that's left to be given back is English + SS. We've already found out our SS marks, though. And so far I already have 3B4s, 3C5/C6s, 1 fucking F9. I love Chemistry.


HAPPY BELATED 15TH TO JOEY YEW! :D
HAPPY BELATED 13TH TO XUEYING JUNIOR :D (18 May)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NINOMIYA KAZUNARI'S WIFE! :D (19 May)



My tension is chou uppu~ Going like ~woo~~ back to top?

Vote for Jun as your favourite Doumyouji out of the 3 drama versions! <- Click. LOL.
Or you can vote for Shun for Rui, that's fine too. :)
Daily votes are allowed. Trash those sickening Taiwan actors!!!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR THOSE WHO'RE WILLING TO VOTE.
It's really simple, just check Jun's/Shun's name and enter the 4-digit verfication code and voila, your vote is sent. :D:D

Survey: who would you want as your teacher?

An internet survey taken among first-year junior high school students asked them to rank celebrities by the statement, "That person would be nice to have as a teacher." 500 boys and girls participated in the survey, conducted by the company Superweb.

For the female rankings, actress Haruka Ayase came in first, while Arashi's Sho Sakurai topped the rankings for the male category. Professional baseball player Ichiro was first in the athlete category.

Ayase recently played the role of a junior high school teacher in the hit movie "Oppai Volleyball." She barely beat out actress Yukie Nakama, who starred as a teacher in the drama series "Gokusen."

In the men's category, Shinsuke Shimada placed second while Ryuta Sato of "ROOKIES" ranked third. Swimmer Kosuke Kitajima came in second behind Ichiro in the athlete rankings.

The survey also included a politician category, led by Hideo Higashikokubaru. He was followed by Barack Obama and Junichiro Koizumi.

Hahaha Sho! ♥ \o/ And Ayase Haruka LMAOZ SHUKUDAI OPPAI EPISODE! XD She's really a dimwit in that ep~

I'm going to wake up for school in time tmr after all!! My mom's back temporarily cus my uncle's free to take care of my grandparents HAHAHA. :x

I still feel quite betrayed/hurt from all the Neen issues circulating in the fan comms lately. And that Shiina Noriko..... I don't think she is very pretty............................... _|_ But oh well. At least she has nothing to do with Ninomiya anymore. back to top?

♫ Aitai - Yuzu

:O It's Chanyong's birthday today! Chanyong, happy 15th birthday! Yay 1 out of the only 2 people who share the same birthmonth as me in class!! :)

UGH FUCK MY CABLE DOEZN'T LISTEN TO ME it keeps connecting & disconnecting to the laptop ugh Sony Ericsson sucks T-T

Anyway, yesterday:

Watched Haikei, Chichiue-sama with my DVD all the way from 1am to 9.30am Friday omfg LOL. Then I slept and woke up at only 4pm. s: Slacked the whole day as usual. Post-exam days are really eventless. Slacking too much for too long can also get a bit... sick. :/ But I think I'll prefer this than mugging for the whole day hehe

Haikei is a really nice drama. :) Subdued & peaceful & homely and maybe even a bit slow-paced (which I got a bit impatient at at the start of the drama HAHA), but it's still a nice and heart-warming drama overall. :)

Today:

Couldn't wake up at 8:45am to catch Jun Style (0920) on Japanese radio realtime because I slept too late. Too tired. :/ But I woke up (reluctantly) in the noon to watch VSA. But KeyHole was lagging like shiz as usual so there wasn't really any point to watching it. :|

I slept too little, so after having my meal + using computer I had to nap again to get back my lost sleep. Around 1 hour-ish? I guess. Woke up at 3 and quickly dressed up for jap lessons. ONIICHAN 2ND BROTHER RODE ME TO JURONG EAST WITH HIS BIKE. :))))))))) It's been ages since I've hitched a ride on his motorcycle!!!

Today's japanese lesson was okay...... not as mind-screwing as last week's cover on mostly particles and ajsndjhdbthas all those shit lol. But RX got confused this time round XD
But I still h8 those grammar shitz like ohmg lol memorize till you dieeeee

After lessons ended, eldest brother drove Melissa, mom and I to Kranji Farm Resort @ Neo Tiew (?!?!?!) Lane, Lim Chu Kang I think?, for dinner. Anyway it's this really really suburban area in Singapore LOL which still preserves its olden-Singapore-days kind of look cus there's kampong-like shops and houses etc and there's LOTS of grass. Haha. Which was quite pretty in a sense cus there's quite a lot of grass + wide skies to see which isn't really common in most areas in Singapore. 2nd bro came by his bike w Meiyu jie. Lol.

Had chilli crab + pepper crab + prawns + fish etc etc yay happy :D My favourite part of the chilli crab meal HAS GOT TO BE THE MANTOU. XDDDDDDD I LOVE THE BREAD!!!!! It's just *umai* and looks darn cute as well hahahaha. And plus I die at the 3rd tasting of the crab meat most of the time so. -..-

I SAW A REALLY PRETTY SUNFLOWER AMONG THE MANY PLANTATIONS THERE BUT IT WAS ALREADY DARK AND THE SUN HAD SET BY THEN SO IT WAS QUITE DARK TO SEE THE FLOWER but I took a photo of it w flash and it's DAMN PRETTY!!!!!!!! I want to grow sunflowers! :( Aiba!

I'll post my photos up once my f'ing cable finally listens to me and connects to the laptop lol.

Oh and Melissa & eldest bro gave me my birthday present in advance. :O? It's a rainbow-striped short-sleeved hoodie, ME LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it's a tad too small so they brought it back to bring to Esprit to change for a bigger size HAHA. I bet it's ex..? ._. TQ & ♥ TO THEM EVEN THOUGH THEY WON'T GET TO SEE THIS HAHA.


Gwyneth's S4 cousin Amelea is going to have a puppy and it's coming today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG LUCKY!!!! :O She hasn't told me what breed it is~

I've revamped/updated my LJ already. Did I mention this already? s: Ah heck. Anyway hopefully my fangirlings will revert to there and this place will be more dailies-centric hehe. :)

I WAS HAPPY TODAY BECAUSE MYSOJU'S MAJO SAIBAN VIDEOS HAVE FINALLY WORKED AND I CAN FINALLY WATCH MS!!!!! \O/ (HORA, PEKLIAN, YOU HAVE SOMEONE TO WATCH & TALK ABOUT MAJO SAIBAN WITH AFTER ALL!!! ^ ^)
Toma in his new perm 'do is FRIGGIN' CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!! *Kya* And his occupation is a designer. :D But a pretty fail one at that though hahahaha. Shiroi-san is quite pretty!!!!!!!! ^ ^
I realise that I've been watching a lot of suspense jdramas unconsciously hahaha but they rock so much and the CASTS ROCK MORE \o/ Eg. Ryusei no Kizuna = NINO, Majo Saiban = Toma, Smile = JUN!, Voice = TOMA again hahaha, The Quiz Show (!!! ♥) = SHO!!! Suspense jdramas are getting much much better by the season!!!! You don't know how much I enjoy each episode of The Quiz Show~ :D

I LIKE KUROKI MEISA A LOT. HORA:



(Stolen from DWiki hehe)

She acts as a half French, half Japanese baker in Haikei, Chichiue-sama and is also Nino's role, Ippei's love interest. :)))))))))) The two of them are pretty cute together. And she's REALLY PRETTY. WHOO!!!

She happens to be the main lead in the currently showing Jmovie in SG, Dance, Subaru! / Subaru, which is one of the reasons why I really want to catch that movie, apart from it being Japanese and seemingly promising ^ ^ I just think she's darn chio hahaa. Her father's South American, her mom's Japanese, which explains her good mixed blood haha.
The movie's OST includes a DBSK song too!! Haha. Kakkoi ne~. Jiayun/anyone, movie date??? 8D

My mom changed her phone to the latest Walkman SE phone, W705i (??? I don't bother checking if it's right LOL) very recently. Ohmgosh :O. My mama's phone is so much more updated than mine!!! LOL~

I think, for me, I'll just patiently wait for iPhone for its price to dip so I can get it at a lower price by the time my contract ends in September. Only iPhone fits my requirements so far I think... big screen for videos + sufficient space + good music quality hahaha. Gosh Idk. K skip skip lol.

I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW THE HALE I AM GOING TO WAKE UP MYSELF AT 6AM IN THE MORNING ON MONDAY *AND* THURSDAY BECAUSE MY BROTHER WILL BE AWAY AT BASE FOR WORK AND WON'T BE AT HOME AND MY MOM WILL BE TAKING CARE OF MY GRANDDAD AT MY GRANDPARENTS' HOUSE AND MEIYU JIE CAN'T WAKE UP TOO OMFG DOUSHIO. LOL!
I'll prolly need to sleep at 7 or 8 or something OMFG LOL. MURII YO!!!!!!/IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!! back to top?

♫ Ashita no Kioku - Arashi

It's already past twelve but nevermind I'll still blog about today yesterday anyway :D

I FUCKING MISSED MY TRAINING DAMNIT. GOD KNOWS WHY BUT I HAD A STUPID CASE OF INSOMNIA OF SOME SORT AND ONLY FELL ASLEEP AFTER FIVE AM. Which ended up in me waking up at like 3-ish. :( And training was like 3-6 so I was already late ugh wtf hurzzzzz

Anyway was supposed to go to town to collect/buy my jmags in the morn before training so I still had to go to Kino to get them anyway, after I woke up. -..-

PUIKAY, I AM EXTREMELY SORRY FOR TOTALLY SPOILING OUR OUTING TODAY. 本当にごめんなさい！！！！　ｍ（　＿　＿　）ｍ

So anw, joined PK, Park & Shimo at FEP at around 5-ish (wtf lol). Did some window shopping. :D And Jiayun bought a pair of gold jewelled thingum sandals hahaa (Park was so happy xD). Attempted finding the shop that Vernis works full-time at but found out from Ollie that she's already switched her job LOLZ. But we found the shop anyway!! :o
I remembered about that CD shop that allegedly has old J CDS specifically *Arashi* ones LOL so PK & I went to find it, and yay we did. :D Inokii at level 3 mhm yep. But it didn't have any old Arashi cds. :/ There were V6 + SMAP + Yuzu ones though. Pretty cool. :D

Winnie left after a while for tuition @ Queenstown (?) so after that Park, PK & I went to Kinokuniya for me to buy my jmags hehe.
Bought Duet + Popolo June issues whee yay jmagazine therapy \o/
THE POPOLO POSTER OF SHO IS FRICKIN' AWESOME, I'M SO GLAD I GOT IT. *O* THE SIZE OF SHO'S FACE IS COMPLETELY COMPARABLE TO THE GIGANTIC UTA NO ONIISAN OHNO POSTER WTF.....Yes it's three-fold omfg and I even think Sho's face is bigger than Ohno's HAHA. xD

Homed at 7+, nothing much after that. Lol.

Mom will be staying over at grandparents' house these two weeks, to take care of my grandma and grandpa; grandpa's finally discharged from hospital ytd (I think). Oh man. :| My grandfather is really pitiful..

Which leads me to think just HOW am I going to wake up myself for the next few school days before the June holidays arrive. *fail* I'm so going to die for the coming school mornings lol.

Updated/revamped my LJ again. :P I *may* convert my LJ to my fangirlings blog, since LJ's where all my fandom-related stuff are. Or maybe it'll be where I post my more personal/private issues too. Idk, I'll see how things go lol.

I MAY BE PREORDERING LE1/ASHITA NO KIOKU LE SINGLE. :DDDDDDDD If no one is kind enough to sponsor $ for me for my birthday or wtv (which is, well, no one LOL). At the most I'll go broke again this month hehe but for discography it's quite worth it. :P

Jap lessons this Saturday again yay yay yay I can't wait \o/ back to top?

♫ It's You - Super Junior

Random caps because I am bored.

• Kaze no Mukou e PV caps:

• Performance of Crazy Moon + talk @ Utaban;
  

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