10 concerts to see in Japan

Just a reminder for myself what I'd like to see if I go to Japan someday...
It has been on my mind to make it a concert holiday, but that would recquire several money-trees and I still haven't found mine :'(

1. Hamasaki Ayumi
2. Tamaki Nami
3. Tsuchiya Anna
4. Takahashi Hitomi
5. YUI
6. High and Mighty Color
7. Gazette
8. D'espairs Ray (again)
9. Mucc [seen 08-10-08]
10. L'arc en Ciel

J-Drama overload

[mood : downward spiral
last song: T.M.Revolution - resonance
last anime: D.Gray-Man #88
last J-drama: Hotman 2 #9]

Actually my Harddisk is almost bursting with J-Drama.... I'm downloading new series constantly and I think I have downloaded 10 new series in the last couple of days. It has been a while since I saw a really really good drama though. Maybe I'll just become a walking database for Japanese entertainment. At least that's something that I'm comfortable doing :)

Hate you...

Neither forgiven nor forgotten but I don't hate you. Although it made me happy that my actions made you think I hated you. You should've known that I'm not capable of really hating someone. Oh well...

Time won't wait

I've been wanting to write an entry in here a lot sooner but for some reason it just didn't happen until now... So what happened to me since my last entry?

1) I had my Japanese test and I scored 49 out of 50 points. Everybody should know that this test was do-able just by looking at my results, ne ;)
Next Japanese class will be in september, so until that time I have to do some self-study and try not to forget too much. So if anyone wants to talk Japanese I'm right here ;)

2) I went to the dutch championships Iaido and Jodo. I didn't compete because I feel that I'm not at a level where I can be proud of myself. So I volunteered since it was organized by the dojo where I train. I saw lots of great techniques so that really gave me a motivation boost :P

3) As usual loads of Anime and J-Drama and some temporary WoW-ing. I just started WoWing on a private server because I don't want to pay every month just to play. A bad thing about this private server is that the majority of people is eastern european. That's not a bad thing usually, but if I get 5 whispers a day in russian it is.

4) I bought myself a metal DDR pad. Those things are really expensive so I better take good care of it... I had a soft mat before but I felt that I needed this. Don't ask why... And as I'm writing this in my bed with a laptop on my lap [it IS a LAPtop after all :D ] I'm thinking not to trip over the damned thing when I get out of bed at 4:45...

5) This weekend, my best friend had his goodbye party. He will be returning to China in 2 weeks. Although I didn't stay long [difficult reasons I won't explain here, because reader might have to do something else after reading this than sleeping], I hope that he had a good time and got to talk to all of his friends

x) just a side-note Ayumi's Euro Mega-Mix [from "LOVEppears" CD2 ] is nice and D'espairs Ray's album "MIRROR" has some really good songs to express yourself in your car when you're not feeling too well.

That's it for now...
I'll try to write down more frequently
Oyasumi Nasai

MORE JAPANESE

[mood : drinking
last song: Ayumi-sama - Mirrorcle World -> amazing mix :P
last anime: Rosaria + Vampire #11
last J-drama: H2 #10]

7 days have past since my last post and I can add 5 complete J-drama's and 2 anime series to the "seen section"
J-drama:

• 1 litre of tears　「１ リトル の なみだ」
• attention please - ROFL
  
• hotelier 「ホタリア」
  
• h2
• My Boss My Hero
  

Anime:

• rental magica 「レンタル マギカ」
  
• rosario + vampire　「ロザリオ＋バンパイア」 - fanservice A+++
  

and that's for 1 week :O
Ok... I know I have too much free time ;)
And no I don't talk Japanese all day long [although it would be better for my Japanese]
I still try to remember Japanese phrases when I'm talking in myself [yes I talk to myself a lot], but I've stopped talking in Japanese to other people who can't understand it.
Imagine that it's time for coffee and you ask "koohii no jikan desu ka"...
The frowns on people's faces says it all... :S
If someone is willing to talk or write in Japanese to me, I'm totally up for that, but I'm not gonna be bothering other people with anymore :D

My test for Japanese II is next Tuesday 「かようびに テストが あります」
I still want to do an introductionary text in Japanese, but it wouldn't be of any use if nobody here can read it... :$

　

DRAMA

Let me say sorry for not writing in here all this time [ not that anyone cares, but still to keep up apearances ;) ]
So what have I been doing all this time?
Well as you'd expect, not much :$
Continued my Japanese lessons in Utrecht, continued my Iaido lessons in Rotterdam, lots of anime and finally some more J-DRAMA!
I seem to be pushing myself to cry in some situations...
After seeing like 15 different J-Drama's I came to to conclusion there are 2 things that will probably make me EMO: injustice and sacrifice.
I guess I already had a feeling about those [remember when aragorn tossed gimmly in LoTR2?]
This time it was a J-Drama called ""たいよう の うた" or song of the sun. The story was about a girl with an incurable disease called XP [where the body does not have any defense against UV rays and exposure to the sun is therefore almost deadly]
Just seeing her condition getting worse through the series just got through to me. Of course it's a scenario thats created by some writer, but there are people with this disease in the world. If you have the time, watch it. If you can't find it or don't want to search for it, give me a message. This was one of the better drama's I've seen so far.

I guess getting through to your emo side is good every once in a while...

at night...

[mood : regular
last song: the Brilliant Green - Ash Like Snow (Gundam 00 ending 2) -> sooooo goood :'(
last anime: Saikano #11
last J-drama: still nothing!]

Finally I'm up to date again with Stargate Atlantis. I've been letting them pile up in order to look at them together. I think I watched 17 eps from this [plus the last ep from last season] in about 4 days.

I always look on TV.com to see if the ep is a "to be continued" one or just a loose ep
I don't like to wait another week [or even more] to see how the story ends...
And now you must be wondering how I can keep up with animes like Bleach and Naruto :P
Let's just say they're tradition and their download days are written deep into my system :)

Anything else?
No... no... I don't think so...
Besides, it's 1AM and I'm typing this on my laptop in bed...
Better go to sleep...

oyasumi nasai

P.S.
CHECK my current favourite song