paper and news

I still need to write seven sections (around 15 pages) more on my term paper.

But I got distracted by the news of:

• tetsu and Ayana's wedding (see my past post).
  
  I heard they were already registered around November last year, but the wedding is today! Ayana is so adorable... They are just a sweet and cute couple ^o^



• Gackt's first Hollywood movie, BUNRAKU!!!
  
  He'll be in that movie together with Josh Hartnett and Demi Moore. WOW. Can't wait to watch it when it's released next year ^-^



• Plagiarism! One of Gackt's fans that copied several of Gackt's songs and released/sold them under his own name without even crediting to Gackt, and he refused to admit the plagiarism *o* That's what I heard from Gackt's fans.
  
  Apparently, this situation started quite sometime ago but I just heard of it today. I like Gackt, but I'm not a big fan of him so I'm not too familiar with his songs. However, I do know Gackt's 'Vanilla' and the song by that Joost Maglev guy really did sound alike! And he gave the title 'Caramel' himself, which is so obvious... As for the other songs, I can't really tell though since I'm not that familiar with other Gackt's songs like I said before.
  
  Another fan of Gackt made the video below which put side-by-side comparison of Gackt's and Joost's songs. You might want to give it a try and see if that's really a plagiarism case or not.
  
  

Ummm... so... I'm lagging behind my schedule... I told myself a few days ago that I should finish writing three more sections by this weekend, but...

I wish the teacher asked me to write about HYDE, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Keita, w-inds. or even J-Pop/J-Rock. I think I can make 30 pages pretty quick without any difficulties.

So, seven sections more to go...

In conclusion, I should stop writing my blog =P

I want to be in J-san's position when...

"I asked HYDE what he is doing after the shoot, he stared at me for a minute, and then said he is gonna drink... then he smiled! He is very funny though, and usually jokes with me, so I have no idea if he is really going to drink."

Oh my gosh, I am soooo sooooo so jealous with J-san. I also want to be stared at by HYDE and see his smile. If that really happens, I think I am going to faint xD

Click here for the complete version of his post.

MySpace Craze

Recently there has been some commotion happening in MySpace. One quite-famous, one soon-to-be-famous-for-sure, and one completely-totally-major Japanese bands joined the social networking site.

As for me, I have an account in several different social networking sites as well. There are two that I use quite often and the rest are rarely used at all. For security reasons, I decided to close down all that I rarely use anymore, and MySpace is one of them.

Just a few days after I closed my MySpace account, I found out that MONORAL had an account there. I kind of regretted deleting my account, but that was too late already, so I thought 'Whatever...' A few days after that, VAMPS, a band that was just started by HYDE and K.A.Z. (yes, by my lovely HYDE!!!), also opened an account in MySpace. That sort of motivated me to reopen my account, although the actual action never happened.

And then something happened on the next few days. L'Arc~en~Ciel opened an official MySpace account. DOH, I so totally went to MySpace and opened an account right away without thinking of anything anymore. LOL. Although I know those pages must have been maintained by the staff, not them personally, I just like the idea of being "connected" to them, although it's just through a social networking site and no more. I must be insane for doing all of these... ^-^;;



Anyway, check Laruku's MySpace out. The layout is so COOL. I want a nice layout like that too...

VAMPS' MySpace, reminds me of... McDonald's??? xD (Edit: The red and yellow layout has been changed now).

MONORAL's MySpace

hyde's Experiment

Background: hyde heard that there were a lot of fans who dressed up like him during the concert.
Hypothesis: hyde thought since that was the case, then maybe if he walked around among the fans nobody would notice him.
Objective: To prove if the hypothesis above was correct.



Result: IT IS CORRECT!!! O_o

hyde was so reckless >_< It's good that nothing bad happened to him. Hahaha... I have to admit, he's so brave to try something like this ^o^

Hmmm... I wonder if I was there, would I notice him right away?

The Demon Ororon by Hakase Mizuki

Why are we even born,
why do we fall in love,
why do we struggle for dreams?

-The Demon Ororon vol. 4-

The Demon Ororon. The drawings are not that good. The graphics are quite violent. The story does not flow so nicely. The ending comes abruptly.

But somehow it leaves a deep impression on me. Maybe the unexpected ending, or maybe the topic of "good" and "evil", is what makes it "something".

It is not the best or anything, but if you are open to controversial topic, I definitely recommend this manga.

Keita... LOL

Watch the video below. Keita is so amusing xD

Is it just a coincidence?

One of my hobbies is blog walking. Nowadays I don't do that as much as two-three years back, since I have a lot more things that need to be done now. Recently though, I've been checking some of my favorite stars' blogs. I enjoyed doing that because I get to know them more, and for some reason by reading their blogs, I could feel that they are just ordinary human beings like us as well. I mentioned this before: I check on Keita's and Ryuichi's blogs almost everyday. Other than that, I also like to read Ryohei and Wu Chun's blog. The last one is the easiest to understand since Wu Chun's blog is written in English (there is the Chinese translation as well).

Around two weeks ago, I found out that MONORAL also has a blog! Considering their root of origin (and also their songs), I'm pretty sure they can write or speak in English fluently. However, their posts were 98% written in Japanese without any English translation at all. All I can do is just using Babelfish online translator, but the translation is just not clear at all. So then around a week ago, I posted a comment on their blog (it was on Ali's post) wishing that there would be an English translation.

And then guess what? Around five or six days later, Anis posted something on his blog. It's not entirely in English but he wrote at least a full paragraph in English! OMG!!! I can't really say that it's because of my comment or something. I believe there are some other fans who requested this as well. I'm so glad though, that means they listen to us. \(^o^)/

But then again, it's only a few days after I posted my comments. And looking at all comments on Ali's post that day (I didn't look at any other posts though), I think mine is the only one that requested an English translation. So, is it really just a coincidence?