This is about Hero.. again

You've probably have seen VCD shops all over Singapore selling Hero DVDs/VCD already. I was tempted to buy till I saw the features of the DVD being utterly disappointing - There's only trailers, and the cover's that montage that I don't like There's a special edition that comes with a Hero Tshirt and a booklet it seems. But that didn't get my interest as much either because I have the official movie guide already.

What I really really want is this:
A region 2 DVD, with English subs and the following:

This 3-disc Special Edition comes with:

Disc 1: Feature Film
Theatrical Trailer & Teaser
TV Spots
Cast & Crew Profiles

Disc 2: Hero Documentary Disc Making Of Hero (100min)

Disc 3: Hero Campaign Disc Campaign Footage (Cannes Film Festival, Advanced Screening, Premiere Gala, Pusan Film Festival)
Cast Interviews (Kimura Takuya, Matsu Takako, and Others)
Hero: Yes, We Have It.
Hero Spin-off Special
Hero Comeback Exercise
Furifuran TV Shopping CM (Complete Version)

Bonus Gifts
Postcard Set
Kuryu Jacket-shaped Phone Strap with Screen Cleaner
St. George's Tavern Coaster
Leaflet

Cost: $108.52
This is how a good DVD should offer.
Get me this and I'd be grateful to you for eternity, my BFF!

After my test I really can't wait to start Elementary 2 but the next earliest class's at June. :/ When can I start reading my Hero guide~~~

Talk about interests!

This is my story. A very long hobby rave post of accumulated fangirling over the years.

I'm here because I'm suddenly inspired by Yishan to write a post about why I like Kimura Takuya. [omg a confession!] Well everyone's gotta have some kind of interest if not life's gona be so boring right?

In my secondary school days, I was in love with the Final Fantasy series, especially FFX. Everyday I use the computer, I'd be sure to check out news on when's the next FF's coming out and then fangirl about the slightest bit of news. I was so into RPGames I even wrote a sequel to a game I like so much. I didn't even remember I wrote something like that till I happened to see it while ransacking my old stuffs to look for.. paper. Well that's not the point of this post ^^"

I was just so amazed by the CG, I can't help liking the characters, who wouldnt! This is Yuna by the way.

My post secondary school days, I was crazy about anime. There was Juuni Kokki that started it all, Inuyasha, Bleach, especially Gundam Seed. I never expected myself to like an anime like Gundam. You know Gundam as in hello this is a robot anime man! But the reason was not because of the big shiny mechas but of the characters in the show. So much angst, characterisation, emotions and DRAMA. I became a huge fangirl of Athrun Zala for about 2 years, I have a Gundam Seed folder dedicated to it consisting of 290 scans, 36 scans of Athrun individually, 16 scans of Athrun & Kira, 16 scans of Athrun and cagalli, the rest are group shots with Athrun looking good in them and of course scans of other characters la. Now looking back I've no idea why I'm so attracted to this blue haired guy except that he's very angsty and emos sometimes. I have a thing for angsty guys it seems? Maybe.

No points for guessing who's Athrun

Till about year 2 in poly I was still fond of animes but gradually I found most lacking depth to those that I've watched. You know like when you watched something really good, you just feel that the rest all mostly superficial. Nana was the peak of it all, Bleach wasn't even close [ I'm not fond of 100 over episodes animes] and Towards the Terra's the most recent I've watched so far. I've got no interest to pick animes up anymore unless it's as good as Nana/Juuni Kokki/Towards the Terra.

I was gradually moving on to the drama craze starting with Summer Scent. Thanks to Brenden ha, the first one that got me into the craze was Stairways to Heaven. Never have I watched something this sad and torturing, I was totally swooning over Kwon Sang Woo. I watched Goong, I watched My name is Kim Sam Soon, then I watched Full House and was mesmerised by Rain for a period of time. I continued watching My Girl etc.. till I came upon Japanese dramas. Totally done in different taste compared to the Korean dramas.

Rain and his grin ^^

Korean dramas are very love centric, tragic sometimes, draggy at the end when either the ex bf returns, the girl has some terminal disease, 3rd party issues etc whereas Japanese dramas, the pace is faster because the average span of the series is about 11 episodes at most 13 perhaps. Not saying Korean dramas ain't good but Japanese dramas just appeal to me better. Sometimes I feel like I've learnt another viewpoint about life from this drama. There are junk dramas I believe, just need to be careful not to step on them. ^^"

As for English dramas, I do like Lost, Prison Break and recently Grey's Anatomy. But it's far too long :/ They're all really great dramas but it really starts to get slow and draggy because there's probably 3-4 or more seasons yet to come. It's a good watch once a week, but even too much of something good can kill your appetite. Taiwanese dramas I haven't watched much but they're definitely idol-centric, to sort of promote the idols, make them look cool in this really nice romantic drama thing. Maybe you can reccommend me some that proves otherwise? But I do like Corner with Love though.


The Hero cast and a very awkward looking Kuryu.

So now getting to the end of this long post.. I finished watching Pride today, it's definitely getting into my list of drama favourites. Can't tell whether I like Pride or Hero better, Hero is afterall the reason I got all hyped up about Kimura Takuya! Every angle of him looks good, he's burning with charisma and talent. There's this superstar aura oozing out from him every minute on screen. Maybe the drama is made bias to make him look good, but it's definitely more than his good looks that attracts so many fans from all over the world, me included. I dare to say he is good in everything be it singing, dancing, comedy, especially acting. He works hard I believe, very hard.

I've seldom felt so charmed by an actor to dig up news about Hero leading to finding out about SMAP, leading to watching bits of SMAP Bistro, leading to finding out about the rest of SMAP's members and how they have cool personalities. Like how Nakai can't sing without being out of tune most of the time, Goro can't dance, Shingo being the crazy Shingo mama, Tsuyoshi speaks Korean. It's strange to say this though their songs are of the okayokay standard, not exactly the kind that will make someone touched to their knees by their awesome voices, I like their songs because it makes me happy. Ha. I enjoy deciphering who is singing which parts and get all happy hearing Kimura san's part. Their songs are pretty catchy and easy to remember that's for sure.

Ok, didn't expect this would get this long, if you managed to read through all that that here's something for you:

Tee heehee!

The drama department

I just watched 3 episodes of Pride yesterday night straight. Well not only because Kimura Takuya-san's in it but also Takeuchi Yuko who's also in Bara no nai hanaya, [Some awesome drama I haven't got over with] plus the scriptwriter who wrote Bara wrote Pride too which makes it 10 times the reason I should watch Pride. Even though I've got no interest in ice hockey whatsoever. Turns out I like it just the same.

Looking through the wikipedia for Nojima Shinji (The scriptwriter), to my surprise I saw Golden Bowl! One of my favourite dramas. So that just proves that whatever drama he writes could be something.. this good!

What appeals to me is that his dramas[well at least these 3 that I've watched] have very strong characterisation, in my opinion. Very unique personalities, or even the most ordinary person has a certain depth about them that is really well-written. I can't go into very much detail if you want me to spoil the story.. so if you're a drama fan going for character driven dramas, you may wana try those I mentioned above. Well, I'm not saying all the other dramas have bad characters just that, these 3 dramas gave me very deep impressions ^^"

There was this scene in Pride ep3 that made me felt something about: [Spoilers below]

A fellow team mate friend, Matoko, got retrenched out of the hockey team by the coach. Everyone was pleading Halu [Captain] to say something to the coach, to keep him. But instead Halu said he agreed with the coach that he should leave and left the room like nothing happened, without even saying any word of console to that guy. So icy cool. Later in the episode Aki asked him why and this is his reason:

Halu: People who are half-hearted, or cheaters. I hate them. When I see someone not aiming for number one, it makes me angry. It nauseates me when I see a person, who prepares excuses from the beginning... They only want to be themselves and are content with just that. But then... They envy the people who achieved number one. After that, they only grumble, drink and smoke, not making sincere efforts. But inside they are already content and have given up. Those people really get me angry.

Well, this dialogue got me wondering whether I'm putting enough effort to whatever I'm doing.

Anyway I finally got a job today and I'm gona report for work tomorrow morning. Better be going to bed though I'm like craving to watch the next ep.

I'm a little nervous. Maybe.

Lesson 7

We took photos with Murata sensei today, as though it's our last lesson already. Well it is kind of, because next week's test and that marks the end of my elementary 1 course. She's a really nice teacher, sometimes teaching us extra stuffs. I'll miss her classes. :/

Think I can read my Hero guidebook now for at least about 30% of the contents, slow, minus the understanding part. Need to learn more vocabulary and there's still katakana and kanji to memorise.. ^^"


sensei kawaii deshou? ^^

I look a little tanned here..

We were doing worksheets and then there was a question:

きむらたくやわしってうますか。
Kimura Takuya wa shitte imasuka
(Do you know Kimura Takuya)

I was like shitteimasu! shitteimasu! hahaha. His name to appear in my shukudai worksheet, haa now that's something =D The question setter must be a fan too *giggles*

Moan Moan Moan

I just rejected an intern job offering $700 + $100 transport, doing some designing stuffs and teaching primary school kids dreamweaver. When I heard it was $700, my mind already said no. The person asked if I would turn up for the interview, I said "I think no" and he hung up immediately. Sigh now I wonder if it'd be fun. It probably wouldn't be so stressful because I'd be only an intern and I can gain portfolio experience. I'm regreting my impulsive decision.

I said no because I've got like 5 pending jobs from 2 agents that offer me $6 per hour at locations nearer my home for desk jobs. Just that they haven't get back to me yet. I applied the internship one 2 weeks ago and didn't expect them to call.

Would you choose a higher pay job that's nearer your home or somewhere further with lower pay, but it'll be a more fun job?

Ok, my objective now is to earn as many bucks as I can so that I can prepare the extra cash for uni/overseas trip. But I think I'd choose the latter. -.-

No use moaning over spilled milk now HL, you can find a better job, your hair will grow back, I'm getting used to it. [I've never had my hair this short since primary 3]

Ahh. Screw this.

Be my leaves

I feel obliged to post something today. Tonight. Here's something:

If I were a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I were a tree growing tall and greeen
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves

My head is running Juno's opening song, and that's the above.
Am I expected to post what have I done today, yesterday? and the day before yesterday?

I had fun at the playground, as you can see below

Veron and I talked about earrings, creativity, karma, dreams, languages, revised Japanese, got chased out of our sitting spot thrice in the NLB, listened to random songs at HMV, explored the hidden side of Orchard Road. We found people operating business and living in the shophouses itself. Totally cool side of Orchard Road I've never seen before.

I watched Grey's Anatomy. Christina's my favourite character so far. I like how she's workaholic, awkward during dates, saying things like "Ok we're a couple. Whatever. It's no big deal" And walks out of the room. Hilarious.

I watched Bridget Jones Diary. I loathed Bridget in the beginning and even feel like changing discs in the first 30 mins of the show. But it eventually got better and we watched it to the end.

I ate Char Kuay Teow, Amy ate Hokkien Mee, Jia ate gong bao ji ding at Makansutra, just near the Esplanade.

Call me when I'm not sleeping

This morning I woke up discovering 3 miss calls from recruit express on my phone.
When I call back, it's the same thing: No idea who called me. If it's important they'll call again. Thank you.

Damn it, call me when I'm NOT sleeping can?

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Lying on my bed testing the loudest volume of my assigned ringtone, unexpectedly my phone vibrated and rang. thoughts to self: What nice luck! It starts with 6, could be the agency =D

Me: Hello =D?
Caller: Hello I'm xxx from Singapore Polytechnic. May I verify whether your email is still yyy?
Me: Ohh :/

Now that I'm awake and set my ringtone to loudest they don't want to call. After these 5 missed calls I seriously wonder whether they'll call me back. I'm getting impatient waiting and wonder if I should go look for something else. It's so sad la, I've got no fate with this job, no fate. :/
Edit: 3.23pm

Hi kids

My dear SPCO clinched Excellence in Service Award for year 2007 Finally got it back this time. =D

Yesterday we performed for the excellence in service award @ moberly. It was raining cats and dogs but I had fun playing. There were almost to no people watching the performance [The audience seats were open air space] except the AVA people and a few random passers by walking pass the sheltered corridors. The sound was good though, "joyful joyful" never sound so good to me before because there's a number of bass instruments this time. =D It's a pity I didn't take any photos cos I thought the rainy scene was nice.

Of course the best part was the food. Slacking inside Moberly while waiting for the buffet to start, watching the Tyra Banks show on the big LG plama TV, munching on snacks, potato chips brought to our comfortable place by our boys. Then the buffet started, there were curry, prawns, laksa, satays, char kuay teow, prawns and dory fish!


This is hungry Yishan going to eat our most hardworking librarian JongJohn!

Mr David came later to talk to us about the overseas trip and now I'd better pick up my pace of finding a job if I wana go. =.= I spent my day looking for jobs today, sent resumes, called up ads in newspaper. I want something temporary, located in the West, a Mon- Fri admin office job, Is it that difficult? I was waiting eagerly for phone calls hoping somebody would call me until I decided to take a nap this late rainy afternoon. When I woke up I found 2 miss calls from recruit express. DAMN IT LA. When I called back the person say she dono who called me and probably left work as I woke up at about 7 plus. I just missed a job opportunity :/


Little totoro says hi

These few days I've been having very random dreams almost every day, during that little nap I dreamt I got lost on the road and saw Fann Wong -.-'''' I dreamt something yesterday night too.


*stares intently at scissors*

These were taken on Monday, a faux rehearsal for yesterday's performance. Had fun anyway though terribly bored slacking in the co room. I think it'd be a different feeling if I'm a junior, I'm happy being a senior heheh, I'm happy with my kids around ^^

An afternoon nap

I was reading my book by my computer desk as usual. Then suddenly everything went brown and dark. [My spectacles is brown] I tried taking off my spectacles but it had layers. After a hard time struggling I managed to take it off my face. The lens were covered with some brown plastic thing. Ah, my sepctacles is spoiled.

I dug out my old spectacles and put it on, feeling a bit weird. One of the lens went out of it's frame already. So I took it off and decided to give my spoiled spectacles another try. Nah.. no good, take it off. But I couldn't take it off this time. Try as I might, my spectacles remain stuck on my face, as I took of layers and layers of my spectacles away. I started to get desperate, I heard my phone vibrate but couldn't pick it up to see. My bro was playing his game beside me and my mother was on the phone.

I asked my brother for help and he too took out infinite layers but my spectacles was still on me and I still couldn't see anything. How am I supposed to go to school in this state. Tell them I'm sick? How I wished this was a dream.

Then I woke up, the pillow that was covering my head slid off my face. My mother was on the phone, I had a new sms from my friend, my brother's laptop had the World of Warcraft menu on. Thank goodness this is just a bad dream.

[My compo writing skills are getting lousy =.=]
Anyway time to go to school ^^

Rants and RAVES

Anything I like deserves a good post on my blog so here I am raving about shows again ^^

It's been some time since I've watched animes. Whatever I watch seems to put me off, I've been watching shakugan no shana up till season 2 somemore. But the more I watch, the more the male protagonist [Yuji] gets on my nerves. It does seem like a popular anime though. But I can't stand him being oblivious to his surroundings, having up to 3 girls flocking to him and looks like some dimwit who have no idea why these gals are moody because of the new girl blahblahblah. Yawn. And I thought this show is about the red haired Shana, fighting monsters kind of show. How many episodes are they gona show Shana jealous over the new girl who Yuji seems to like =.= Anyway this is not the main point of this post..

I started this because I wanted to talk about Toward the Terra.

This is some sci-fic anime overlooked by many, being old-school, but I liked it ALOT. It originated from a manga back in 1978-1980. It won some awards ok. Long ago huh, but they remade it into a modern anime[made in 2007] keeping the art style rather intact. I like the character designs though not instantly, [it'd take some getting used to] the pale colours used, which is quite refreshing to see than those animes now.

It's easy to watch this as this is not gundam and its insert-hard-to-remember-technical-mecha-terms-here, no giant robots, no impossible to understand polictics. Just Mus[think kind, gentle x-men with psychic abilities only] versus humans, seriously. I don't remember any episode that was filler-ish or crappy, every episode had good content. The character development's something I like too, Jomy from being a whiny kid to taking over Blue's place as Soldier, the time leaps from Mu children to Mu adults, their growth and deaths..

Throughout the show I was hooked hoping to see them reach Terra one day, wondering if it's really the beautiful blue and green world they've imagined. It's quite a sad anime actually but it's definitely epic stuff!

Looks like I like old-school stuff, but seriously I think old stories have better value sometimes.
I like Soldier Blue and his earphones :)

Transparent

Do I write everything on my face?
Whether I'm happy or sad,
Whether I'm daydreaming and not paying attention,
Whether I hate or love,
Like an open book, so transparent,
I feel naked.

Childhood Memories

I bumped into my primary school classmate today. It feels great that a person still remembers you, bothered to smile and say hi after so long. I'm really surprised that he even went forward to my table and chatted with me a little. You know how sometimes you see people you know in the past, tendency you'd just maybe smile or pretend you never met this person then just walk past. That was really nice. I'm glad my 6E mates are such cool people =D Havent met them since 2006 when those JC peeps were still in J1,I wonder how they're doing.

Don't think I've clean forgotten my primary school life after these 7 years!

• I can still remember who my desk mates were, who taught us..
  
• How we loved PE when I was in 5E! We always ask for extra PE lessons! [Because it's all games!]


• The joy when our gals won the captain ball's tournament.


• I remember there was time when Mr Choy was really mad at us and threw exercise books down the window. Tearing pages and throwing them onto the floor o.O


• How I was always caught talking by Mrs Tan those times when I was seated beside HuiXian! haha.


• Injection at the music room. Can skip lesson ^^


• Hopscotch during recess time!

I used to keep things that people gave me and I'd label them or even wrap them in a transparent plastic bag. But I don't really do these things anymore now that I'm grown up ^^" I still keep what my teachers gave me on Children's Day in a metal box. [Not all of course!]

What Mr Choy gave me on Children's Day 1999.
A smiley face keychain. It's making me smile looking at it now =)

This is my favourite Children's Day present, from Mr Yuen, my chinese teacher in 1998. I was primary 4! It's a wood-carved dragon keychain. What's so special is that, he had this bag fulled with similar keychains of the 12 zodiacs and we were to put our hands in the bag and choose one. I was really lucky and got the keychain of my zodiac- Dragon =D

I miss being a happy kid.

感想

我依然的又迷上了部连续剧，从今天早上一起身断断续续的看到现在，数数看大概看了十五集。 就为了故事精彩，人物生动有趣，非常有意思便忍不住看了一集又一集的。

今天用华文来写心情也是因为我在看的是部华文古装片！哈，我真容易被剧情煽动到想用华文来写感想。词语用得不妥当敬请原谅！

我啊是被最近八频道拜六礼拜在7点档播的戏：刁蛮公主所迷住了啊。其实想想从小我就喜欢看那种古装片，尤其是有点搞笑，有小聪明的混混人物再有趣不过的了！

我正为戏里聪明过人的皇上所吸引了啊！非常欣赏写剧本的把故事难题种种的处境化解得好聪明好精彩！趣就在于这皇上万事他几乎都有设想周到的对策，但又不用他亲自出马。这种让人羡慕的智慧我也想有啊！

如果聪明点就能把大事化小，小事化无，不会被人欺负，烦恼少一些，人人都会对你另眼相看。很酷吧。我也迷糊够了吧，因我的迷糊有了好多个不小心，闯了不少祸。真想变聪明，机灵些。

毕竟我名字里有个慧字，但愿我真是个有智慧的人吧。哈哈。

Hopeless Romantic

I feel so totally owned by this conversation.

Friend: its not that im not unromantic u know
Friend: its just that i dont learn romance from k/j drama or movies

Great. I was speechless, totally shot to death. Ouch.