This isn’t News. This is Rant.

I don’t think people love rants, I would like to make this long to lose the interest of any possible reader.

First off, the good thing about Arashi (but not for me), they will have their 2nd ARASHI Around Asia (edit: Around Around Asia?) tour this year. Good for people who can go there. It’s the baddest baddest thing, when you know you’re just some miles away from the people you love and you can’t go, just because you can’t. It’s Asia, I’m an Asian, living in Asia but why does it have to be so impossible to get there? I’m this inch closer to their location than the other millions of people in this fandom, yet can’t go. Oh well, I’ll get pass this after 10 minutes.

I wanna laugh at the faces of those GMA forum groupies, who said Arashi will be here to promote Bambino? Then slap them hard one by one. Really hard.

Another thing, I hate burning backups. I am buying external hard drives instead. I decided to make space for new downloads and burn backups today. Then, horror! I try to rearrange old backups to make complete ones. I realized that I can’t read some of them back to my laptop. Which means there’s a possibility that all of them can’t be read back. They may be few (25+ times 4.3GB) but they’re still worth some files. And redownloading those files would mean no sleep for my laptop for days again. Which will surely make her sick. I don’t like dealing with services and technical people. They’re oftentimes more frustrated than their customers so they really suck. So, instead I’m buying XHDs. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET TO TAIPEI, SEOUL or SHANGHAI THIS WAY? Buying the TIME DVD is again, canceled for me. And considering my JE interest continues to evolve (Kanjani8, TxT, SMAP, NewS, etc) and my ambition for HQs is developing (should I thank you Pat?), I’m not satisfied with FLVs anymore. Oh, and I heard Zettai Kareshi is a good drama to watch, must get that. WAhhh!

I’m beginning to hate Arashi. I was a lot peaceful 6 months ago when all I knew was Ikuta Toma. I’m sort of wanting to leave the fandom, devote myself to charity, go volunteering, that seems more fruitful and far far better than crying for failing backups. THERE ARE BIGGER PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD OUT THERE, ACE!

To correct my sleeping habit, I am thinking of reversing my sleep time. Instead of sleeping at 6AM, I’ll wake up at 1AM, go to work and sleep at 6PM. And wake up again at 1AM. But then, I just know that I can’t follow it. Plans don’t work on me.

On life, my father (Happy, Father’s Day… oh yet another HAPPY XXX event?) is not-so-sober from beer and talks too much again. I think he’s lonely (I’m lonely too, can I drink?). It’s also his birthday tomorrow. Papsie, we love you.

Important Randomness

• I just learned that the telecast of VS Arashi was delayed because of the eathquake in Japan. Now, if there’s 3 things that scares me about Japan, it’s the earthquake (are Arashi members ok?), the yakuza, and the high suicidal rate. I sympathize to the families of the hurt and of the 2 people who reportedly died in the disaster. Here in the Philippines, we had episodes of earthquakes but my history teacher back then told us that earthquakes in Japan are worse. This may not be true but he said that if plates here moves from side to side, in Japan it moves vertically – up/down. Well, I wouldn’t know, but any tragedy isn’t nice at all.
• I just learned from khimmy that I appear on her spam list. What? If I can’t find a way to stop that, I would close this blog. Spam comments on my Akismet is enough to lose my love for blogging, and now, I would be one them? No, I’d better be gone.
• I saw finally the Kodomo Bangohan rip aka Himitsu no Arashi-chan ep10. Wow, even Arashi can rip-off their own previous shows (and they didn’t mention the similarity?) All in all, it’s a fun episode, the kid is lovely, a real kid in a sense that she doesn’t trust just anyone. Remember: kids just don’t trust easily! So, don’t mess with them! But she eventually gave in to the equal cuteness of the two Arashi boys. But really, it’s like seeing a show reincarnating without the silly costumes. Next week, they’re not in their suits again. So, don’t worry Arashi fans, I guess they’ll keep the format but lose the formal suits. TO LIGHTEN UP THE SHOW. COZ GREY SUITS + HEAVY JAPANESE TALKS = DRIVES FANGIRLS AWAY! The Lolita episode may be good, interesting and surprising to some, but unfortunately, not for me. Cause I happened to watch Kamikazee Girls back then when I was some years younger. All they talked about, I saw already in the movie.
• Someone sent me a comment in the KeyHoleTV post about FreshVerse.com that streams FujiTV. And what best way to test it but on the only Arashi show on FujiTV — VS Arashi. Keyhole was still a lot ok coz I can hear at least a steadier sound, but I really can’t test it’s reliability since 1) I already had a slow connection and 2) I am massively downloading on MU. But I get to see pictures… and… some… sounds… which… s-top… e-ve-ry second. I don’t know who made the site (if it’s legally from FujiTV or not, but I guess not), but still, this is another alternative for people out there itching to see Arashi in real-time. Also, be aware of the people in the chatroom. In the few minutes that I *tried to watch* VSA, I had the impression that they’re somewhat English (speaking) people waiting for anime telecasts. And you might encounter a few not-so-subtle messages out there. I *think* they *talked* made fun of *Japanese game shows*. Whatever. Just remember [deleted] = censored words. While I’m typing, they’re watching Pokemon there. (Pokemon? FujiTV?) I don’t really know how their programming works. Just check it out if you want to. FreshVerse.com
• Correct me if I’m wrong (coz I had a hard time researching for concrete facts) but I had this impression that Himitsu no Arashi-chan’s rivals in the ratings were: Last Friends (Nagasawa Masami, Nishikido Ryo), CHANGE (Takuya Kimura) and Gokusen 3 (Nakama Yukie, HSJ boys). Now, I think even if there’s 3 billion Arashi fans in the world, it would really be tough to fight the competition (Gokusen is in the long time lead). And considering HnA is the only non-serial drama in this ball. So, can we forgive them now, if they change format? I already did News source.

So there, I hope you had time to read them all. For now, let me go to sleep finally.

Pat, the project will push! I’ll try to research later!