Are you ready? 2007 またハートに火をつけろ！in OKINAWA

I finally watched L'Arc~en~Ciel's Are you ready? 2007 またハートに火をつけろ！in OKINAWA DVD which I've abandoned for almost a year! I haven't watched the second DVD yet though. Hahaha... I bought a lot of DVDs lately in an attempt to complete my Laruku and w-inds. collection, but they keep releasing new stuff (which is good!) before I finished watching everything, so many got abandoned =P

From watching the DVDs, I could tell that there were various types of people that came to watch Laruku. From young to not-too-young (I can't say old because they are not grannies), people from all around the world, etc. The way those people dressed were also different. I can see people in casual clothing, cute dress, feminine type, rock style, kimono, and another one that I only saw in this DVD (which means in Okinawa): beach style!!! You know, girls with bikini top and beach sarong. Hold on... Why did I review the audience instead of the DVD content in the first place???

Well, I only have one thing to say about this DVD: hyde IS SO SEXY!!!! Especially during Pretty girl, the backdrop screen was showing a girl dancing shaking her butt throughout the whole song, and hyde exactly did the same thing!!! And then metropolis, he's always so inviting whenever he sings that xD~ If possible, I would certainly hug him right away after he finished singing those songs xD

OK, let's get into the right direction. The song list contains some old and new songs (new at that time, from the KISS album, I believe this concert was held before the Theatre of Kiss). The songs that I love most was there, 叙情詩 (Joujoushi), performed at the end of the show, as lovely as usual. I'm also happy that 砂時計 (Sunadokei) was in the set list as well.

Something worth noting:

• Watch Link carefully, and you might see hyde tried to poke the others' butt. Hahaha... He went to ken first, and tetsu after that. Of course, he wasn't able to do that to yukkie, since yukkie was sitting to play the drums. He's such a naughty boy! Hahahaha...


• Unlike the other concerts, after the concert ended, all the members came out to the stage again and bowed to the audience while holding hands. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first time they did it. Oh, before that, tetsu made sure that he threw enough bananas to the audience! He might be promoting "a banana a day prevents a problem in the restroom", if you know what I mean. Hahahahha... JUST KIDDING!


• P'unk~en~Ciel performed two songs: Feeling Fine 2007 and HONEY 2007. I must say they were so great to be able to play twice faster than the normal speed. You know how HONEY is already a fast tempo song normally, so playing it faster than that is really amazing. By the way, I like the way they played HONEY 2007. Slow, and fast, and slow again, and fast again. It's like they were trying to tease us! Hahaha...

Overall, I personally think that the concert can't be put into the same level as Grand Cross, L'Anniversary, and Theatre of Kiss. But it's LARUKU, you know!!! So it's still good as always. Worth watching =D

PS: If there are things worth noting on the second DVD, I'll make sure to write about it! ^^

Seputar Menjadi Ibu

Dua bulan yang lalu, gue sama pacar mengunjungi sepasang temen untuk menengok anaknya yang baru lahir. Kebetulan gue kenal sama sang istri, sedangkan pacar gue kenal sama sang suami. Selama kita di sana, orang-orang ngobrolnya berkelompok. Mirip anak-anak jaman SD, ada grup cewek dan ada grup cowok. Di tengah-tengah arisan cewek-cewek ini, gue pun mengajukan pertanyaan yang udah jelas banget jawabannya namun selalu gue tanyakan pada cewek-cewek yang baru melahirkan.

Gue: "Melahirkan tuh sakit ya?"
Si istri: "Iya, banget! 12 jam gue di sono nggak keluar-keluar anaknya. Di tengah-tengah proses melahirkan gue hampir aja putus asa, gue udah nggak mau ngapa-ngapain lagi saking sakitnya mati-matian."

Horror gue bertambah. Semakin sering gue bertanya, semakin bertambah kengerian gue. Tapi nggak tau kenapa, gue tetep bertanya hal yang sama kepada semua orang yang baru melahirkan.

Pas di perjalanan pulang dari sana, gue pun bercerita soal percakapan tadi ke cowok gue.

Gue: "Tadi aku nanya si QE, dia bilang melahirkan sakit banget sampe dia hampir putus asa. Ih serem... Di masa depan kalo waktunya aku yang melahirkan gimana ya? Aku kan paling nggak tahan sakit."
Pacar: "Ah, kamu mah belom fit buat jadi seorang ibu."
Gue: "Maksud kamu apaan?!" *tersinggung*
Pacar: "Maksudnya, kamu tuh sekarang nggak suka makan, kurang tidur, kurang olah raga, sakit-sakitan lagi. Dengan badan lemah gitu, gimana kamu kuat melahirkan? Sekarang aja, kamu masih nggak bisa mencukupi kebutuhan gizi kamu sendiri, apalagi nanti kalo kamu hamil? Selama kamu hamil itu bakal ada satu ekstra tubuh di badan kamu. Kamu harus bisa mencukupi kebutuhan gizi dua-duanya. Makanya dari sekarang kamu harus ngebiasain diri untuk makan, tidur, dan olah raga berkecukupan, supaya kapan-kapan kalo kamu melahirkan, anak dan ibunya bisa sehat."
Gue: ".............."
Pacar: "Kamu tau nggak, begitu kamu punya anak, hidup kamu langsung set, fixed gitu."
Gue: "Maksudnya?"
Pacar: "Ya, jadinya semua diprioritaskan buat anak. Kamu nggak bisa tiba-tiba kepengen liburan trus besoknya langsung cabut keluar kota. Kamu nggak bisa nggak masak karena males. Kamu nggak bisa tidur 12 jam nggak peduli apa-apa karena ngantuk. Kamu juga nggak bisa nyuruh orang laen ngambil keputusan buat anak kamu karena kamu takut ambil resiko."
Gue: "....................................."

Setelah gue pikir-pikir, cowok gue bener juga sih. Bukan masalah fisik yang gue pikirin (ya itu juga sih, tapi bukan yang utama), melainkan mental gue. Ngurusin diri sendiri aja masih nggak becus, apalagi ngurusin orang laen. Ah tidakkk!!! Gimana kalo nanti gue punya anak? Anak gue mau jadi apa nantinya!? Apa gue bisa mendidik anak gue untuk menjadi orang yang 'baik/bener'? Itu pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang muncul di kepala gue, membuat gue menyadari betapa hebatnya orang tua gue udah berhasil mendidik semua anaknya menjadi orang yang 'bener' (Dedi, mami, makasih =D)

Semisal semua rencana berjalan dengan lancar, kira-kira 5 taon lagi gue bakalan menikah dan mungkin punya anak. Hmmm... Lima taon, kedengerannya waktu yang cukup lama. Tapi mengingat gimana gue baru masuk SMA, trus tau-tau udah lulus dan masuk kuliah, trus tau-tau udah lulus lagi dan sekarang kerja, mengingat semua itu berjalan cepet dalem waktu 7-8 taon, 5 taon adalah waktu yang cukup singkat. Jadi dari sekarang, gue harus mulai bekerja keras dalem mencapai tujuan gue 5 taon mendatang, yakni:

• Makan makanan bergizi secukupnya


• Tidur secukupnya kalo bisa 8 jam sehari


• Olahraga yang cukup sampe staminanya kuat


• Rajin bebersih apartemen maupun diri sendiri

Itu kata cowok gue sih. Kalo menurut gue, dalem waktu 5 taon gue harus bisa mencapai ini semua: xD

• Wisata ke Jepang


• Wisata ke DisneyWorld


• Nonton konser L'Arc~en~Ciel


• Nonton konser w-inds.


• Nyelesein semua RPG yang belom gue maenin

Melihat temen gue satu-satu pada married dan punya anak, apalagi gue sampe berdiskusi tentang punya anak segala, membuat gue merasa gue udah tua. Ah, tidak!!!

Glasses on the Wedding Day

I know this is still far ahead. Please note that I am just thinking of the future. I never make any plan on this yet, and nobody asks me to get married either. So don't panic! And no gossip please. Hahaha... I'm just thinking of the "what if" scenario.

And so I've been wondering about this topic. What will I do with my eyes on the day of my wedding? My vision is pretty bad. Seriously, without my glasses I can't see anything. I won't be able to see anyone unless that person is standing next to me. With my job and my hobbies requiring me to look at a computer screen for more than 12 hours a day, my vision is getting worse faster than the regular people's are. Imagine if I am getting married 5 years from now. By that time my eyes will be much worse than today. So there is no way I can go through the day without wearing any vision enhancer.

The problem is, putting something that requires a direct contact with my eyes is something very problematic. Putting some eye drops on my eyes is seriously a hassle. It can take around 15-20 minutes just to get it drop correctly into one of my eyes (yes, it's a pain every time there is something wrong with my eye). With that background, wearing contact lenses is definitely not an option. So then I was thinking of getting a Lasik surgery 5-6 months before my wedding day.

That was my plan up until a few minutes ago, when I found out what they actually do to your eyes in a Lasik surgery. During the surgery, a small flap will be cut from the eye. And then they will do something to your eye with laser, and then the flap will be repositioned back into the eye. I don't know what exactly a flap is, but I could imagine it is a part of the eye. Uhhh... As of that moment I decided not to get a Lasik surgery anymore. Although people told me it didn't hurt, I just couldn't stand the thought of my eyes getting cut, whether it's just the cornea layer, tissue, or whatever. Imagine that a small metal blade is coming closer and closer, making a direct contact with my eyes. Oh my gosh!!! There is absolutely no way I am gonna go through with it.

So then the only option I have is wearing glasses on my wedding day. Although I don't actually want to, but I can accept it since there is no other choice for me. The only thing that might be problematic about this is how I can persuade my mom and whomever I am marrying, that it is okay for a bride to wear glasses.

Clean-Up Project

It has been a long time since I want to do a clean-up on my blog. I think since I opened this blog years ago, I have gotten more mature quite a bit. When I read back all my posts from the past, once in a while I thought 'Really? I wrote this?'. Some of them showed how childish I was. Not sure if those were the product of emotion, but I guess it's a good indication that I'm growing up, not just stagnant. However, I do feel the need to remove some of them, since they were nothing but a bunch of unimportant grumble. They would just make the readers feel bored anyway. Hahahaha...

And recently I learned that it is not secure to use your real identity. I used to write about anything that I liked to write about, be it a personal or non-personal. Now that I realized it is insecure to do that, I decided to remove anything that is too personal. And yeah, I used to write the real name of anyone that I wrote about. That is not good, not for that particular person, and not for me either. I apologize for anyone who was involved in this. During the clean-up, I'll make sure to keep the anonymity.

Lastly, I am in the process of updating the layout. I asked my little sister to design it for me. She showed me the first revision and I can assure you it is going to be GOOD! I feel sorry though for my current layout as it is there only for a short period of time. Poor Keita! Hahahaha... I'm planning to keep the Keita layout on my LJ though =)

Since I have more than 500 posts, the clean up will take a very long time. I will try to work on it during my free time and hopefully I can finish it as soon as possible. And now the Clean-Up Project begins!

Blood Test

Last weekend, I went to the clinic lab to get my blood taken as my physician told me to do so (read this post for more story). I told the receptionist that I had an appointment, and then she asked me to wait while she processed the necessary paperwork. I had a bad memory of getting my blood taken, so I felt like waiting for my turn to be called into the torture chamber. Haha... My boyfriend said "Don't worry. It will only hurt a few seconds when she poke you."

The nurse called me and I went to follow her. She asked me which arm I wanted her to take the blood from. I preferred the left arm, since I used my right arm more than the left one. She tried to find the vein on both arms and she said it will be easier to do it on the right one. Oh well, I could insist to still use my left arm, but rather than being poked multiple times because she could not get it right the first time, which meant getting hurt multiple times, I let her do whatever she wanted to.

And then she said "I have two kind of needles here. I'll sterilize both and see which one works better." I wasn't sure how she would be able to tell which one worked better, but then I saw her taking one of them and moved closer to me and got ready to poke me. I was filled with terror. I thought, "Are you serious!? Are you going to do a trial-and-error on my arm!?" It would be ridiculous if she poked me with one needle, and then "Sorry, but this one does not work so let's try the other one..."

I saw the needle and it seemed to be smaller than what they used back in my elementary school days so that was good. As she tried to poke me, I looked away. I didn't think I could stand seeing my fresh blood flowing to the tube. I felt the pain for a few seconds, and the next few seconds, and the next few seconds, and the next few seconds... Huh!? My boyfriend lied to me!!! It hurt more than just a few seconds!!! I kept waiting and waiting when she would be done. She asked me, "Is everything ok?" I answered, "Oh yeah, no problem." If my boyfriend or my sister were the one who performed this, I would have yelled "That hurts!!! Stop it!" and then kicked them or so. But yeah, this was someone else so I needed to keep my image. Hahahahahaha... I just stayed quiet even though I felt the pain, and even though I could feel my blood getting sucked by the needle -__-;;

I heard her said "Okay, that works well." I looked at her direction and I felt so weak as I saw a tube full of maroon-colored blood. I looked away again. Gosh, it's good that I didn't look at it when she tried to take my blood, otherwise I would surely faint xD

It seemed that it was a success, because she told me everything was done and I could go. I still don't know though what she meant earlier about which needle worked better. I don't know if she already made the decision before she poked me, or if she really meant to do that trial-and-error thing. All in all, I'm glad everything was successful after the first try. And also I'm glad I only need to do this once a year (hopefully, if everything is good).

[Currently + Will Be] [Reading + Watching]

Currently, I am curious about this story called Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu or Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa. I just started reading the novel. After that, there will be 4 other stuff to compare it with:

• The manga adaptation.
• The Japanese TV Drama adaptation, with Hiroki Narimiya as the leading male character.
• The Japanese movie adaptation.
• The US movie adaptation, rumoured with Jennifer Garner as the leading female character.

I will call this the "Be With You" project, planned to be completed in 2009. Why is it so long, you say? Because the US movie adaptation is still in process, and hopefully it will be completed sometime next year. So I need to wait patiently until that time comes.

Annual Health Examination

This is the first time I ever had it. Back then my mom always said I was still young that I did not need anything like that. But then I worry a lot. What if there is something wrong with my health and it is already too late by the time we know it? Now that my health insurance covers 100% of the annual check up cost, I decided to use the opportunity. However, I am very sensitive to pain. I think I only have a very little resistance to it. When something hurts me a little, I can't stand it already.

Not knowing what the check up comprised of, I just went ahead and take it. They started off with a physical exam from the head to toe. It felt kinda weird having to take off everything. Although I was given the medical gown, but I still felt uncomfortable.

The next thing was the pelvic exam. I heard in order to get the test material, the doctor would have to put some sort of stick inside your private organ. I imagined it to hurt a lot, I was very scared. But after the doctor asked me several questions, she determined that I did not need to take it at this point. Ahhh... I was relieved.

She went on to check my immunization records. Apparently my last tetanus shot was 10 years ago, so she decided I should get the shot right there right then *shocked*. She said it should be fine, it should only hurt a little. I guess I should be fine too. When I took it last time in 6th grade, it hurt, but I could stand it. She told me on the count of three "take a deep breath and I'll give the injection." One... two... Before I could take my deep breath, she already poked the needle!!! I was caught off guard, it felt as if I was sewing something and my hand slipped and the needle stuck to my upper arm. Hahahaha... And then she warned me that the arm would feel a little sore. Now, as the time passes by, it hurts a lot!!! It's not just "a little"... x|

I thought my pain would end at that time. Apparently, she decided that I should get a blood test on Sunday. Ugghhh... The last time I got my blood taken was when I was still in 1st grade. I can clearly recall that the needle was much bigger than the immunization needle, and I cried like crazy at that time. It will be painful. The thoughts of fresh blood flowing out of my body is driving me crazy. I'm scared to death!!!! *fainted* @_@