So Tohoshinki has gotten the number 1 spot on the Oricon Daily chart. Arashi's in 2nd place.
from oricion.co.jp

5/07/09
Tohoshinki - Standy by U 29278
Arashi - Everything 21181

Arashi has still sold more units of the single than Tohoshinki has sold of theirs. I can't find the exact figures and am too lazy to calculate them myself but Arashi's in the 300 000's and THSK is in the 100 000's. The increase in their daily sales, I'm guessing, is because of their weekend concerts at Tokyo Dome.

( This all crazy, rant-y stuff ... Please don't read. I just needed to type it to get it out of my system. )

Crazy, fangirl mode over ... XP

So, the first thing I did when I came home was do this because ... I don't know. I'm stupid. I have stuff to say.

I was up all night studying for Korean. It didn't really help much. So, I wasted precious sleep time. But more on that later.

( Farrah. )

I left my house at 4:45am to get to the racecourse opposite my uni where my exam was going to be held. I took pictures and stuff. But I'll do that tomorrow after I've slept heaps.

( MJ. )

And the exam ... first question and it's parts I totally got it wrong. I'm sure of it. It was reported speech. You had to read the conversation and then answer the question. The questions all just "... 뭐라고 했어요?" There were long parts to the conversation. If you were retelling what someone said you wouldn't say it word for word, especially if it's long, with just 라/다/자고 했어요 or whatever it is. I'm also pretty sure I didn't conjugate right. So, I shortened it. To get the gist of the sentence. But I don't think I looked over it carefully enough and I don't think it makes sense. But you could just have this big, block of words and just tag whatever the correct reported speech pattern on the end. That is 15 marks gone. I'm not quite sure what we were supposed to do. But I had to get that off my chest. I realised whatever study I did, it was pointless, because it didn't help. I spent maybe over 10 hours cramming this in. Ack!

And in point form:
- Had breakfast at McDonalds
- Did exam
- Had Yum Cha
- Took sticker photos (so nostalgic)
- Went to karaoke
- Went home on the train. Was asleep for most of it. Only woken up when the person sitting beside me needed to get off.

So hungry. But there's nothing nice to eat at home. Want some sort of soup like thing for my sore throat.

Like everyone on the net has posted. Arashi is going to have a 5 dome tour and a 3 days of consecutive concerts at Tokyo National Stadium. Plus a "best of" compilation CD is going to be released. SO YAY!

I'm in Japan in November. If I can get tickets (which seems really hard) I'm in Japan in time for the Sapporo Dome concerts.

Links to more detailed posts:
http://chesto.vox.com/library/post/johnnys-fc-mail-tour-information-translated-by-dellie.html
http://matsubunny.vox.com/library/post/20090625-arashi-wideshows.html

It seems, though, like a normal concert tour. I wanted something else too. Maybe they have something else up their sleeves.

Do you know what I want to see? Like a TV special with them, with clips from when they were in Johnnys Jrs til now. I just saw a clip of a really little Sho (voice is so different) and there must be more clips like floating around. XD

Well, now that I'm distracted myself thoroughly, back to studying.

If you've been following me on twitter I twittered or is it tweeted that on ASAP09 - a Filipino music show type thing that you can get worldwide on TFC (Filo PayTV) - that there was an English version of Wonder Girls' "Nobody". I heard it from the other room and was like "Wait. I know that song." After that they also did a whole Boys Over Flowers segment. Singing English/Tagalog/Korean versions of songs from Meteor Garden and Boys Over Flowers with a bit of skit poking fun of dubbing and I guess at the drama as a whole. All in fun. But it totally made me geek out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya_(anime)#Anime

I cannot for the life of me find a good trailer for this anime series. I found an English dubbed one but I think that'll put you off watching it.

I first stumbled across this while reading a review of it in someone's blog. I was looking for new things to watch. I just never had the time to download this. Then a friend just gave me a bunch of anime and in the bunch was this. And I love this. I love the time travel and sci-fi and sentiment. ( Read more... )

I'm glad that I got to watch it now so I didn't have to wait the 3 years it took to get to the broadcast of the second season. I just watched the first ep of the second season. Which is the first season plus extra episodes. So basically 14 new episodes.

I really loved the non-linear broadcast of the episodes. The whole anime was so my thing.

Want to read the manga and the light novel. XXDDD

I'm loving this at the moment. But can't find an mp3 download link anywhere. Have just been replaying the MV over and over again.

Shinjuku Gift Gate. The world's largest Hello Kitty monument greets visitors at the Shinjuku Gift Gate, making it a popular spot to take souvenir photos. The elegant atmosphere inside the store makes shopping a pleasure for adults as well as children.
I want to go here and buy cute things that I don't really need or use. XD
See, because of twitter I don't really post anymore. Because twitter is like instant, yet short, blogging. (FYI my twitter is http://twitter.com/darenothope)

Plus, I don't have anything in particular to blog about.

I'm going to Japan in November so if anyone has any suggestions for stuff to do there that'd be great. I was going to post a relevant "cute Japan" picture. I google imaged that and just got Japanese girls in bikinis so ... not going to post a photo of that. XD

( I had already set the bar low ... )

Net's on off-peak time and back to fastness until 7am. Off to read episode reactions of various season finales!

I didn't like the song when I first heard it. It was alright. But it wasn't catchy. I loved "Sorry Sorry" as soon as I heard it. This took a few more listens. I started to like it when I saw the leaked MV. And now I love it. Ever since watching the proper MV with English subs, ie. this YouTube video. The lyrics are really nice. Going to try to find them in Hangul to see if I can understand it without the translation. Is that considered part of Korean study???

http://www.plurk.com/darenothope

I don't know what it is for. I just keep seeing people with it.

Yes, I am a sheep.

He's going into the army.

Also found this here on omonatheydidnt. This is such a beautiful version of "Parrot" from the Goong soundtrack.

I'm not getting my tweets shipped in here. I think someone else is LoudTwitter-ing to my LJ. I think it's a random spambot or something. So yeah.

So, if you want to read random updates my twitter is

http://twitter.com/darenothope

XD

twittered.

• 01:41 @yygallvox He doesn't remember. I kept asking him if it was normal TV not like the pay TV we have. He insisted it was normal TV. #
• 02:12 Watching old Arashi Utaban eps. I like Ohno's Maou hair the best. #
• 19:27 I think I have a cold. BOO! It's so cold now. #

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twittered.

• 00:43 I was watching SBS news so I could watch the NHK Japanese news for the SMAP story but I fell asleep! #
• 23:01 My dad said he saw that thing about that SMAP guy on normal Australian TV news. I was super happy about that. xP Need to find vid of it. #

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twittered.

• 00:08 @shomygosh Kicked out? I thought, because he's been around for a long time, that he'd be still part of Johnny's. Just low-key for a while. #
• 00:15 @shomygosh The whole thing was totally random and unexpected. I was just flicking through my LJ flist and saw it. xP #
• 11:24 SAW LEE MIN HO AT THE AIRPORT. HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE. xP #
• 12:03 twitpic.com/3vajg - Lee Min Ho. I love you all over again. #

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