Credit: crowdings

Ryo's SCP was very good. Someone mentioned he looked like a starving panda, which I kind of agree. Poor guy needs to sleep. I always enjoy his solo interviews more than anything, the previous one was Chubo. Maybe it spares the cringe to see the other members act silly. Glad he left behind the usual facade of egoism. He was warm, natural, down-to-earth, and very enjoyable to watch. His thoughts were very mature and it was interesting to hear his analogies and the confidence in his expression of the topics discussed. It was a good interview. I'm glad I'm fangirling the right guy XD

Simple is best.
~ Ryo's recent jweb entry

Ken's recent jweb entry says it all! Everything I'm trying to remind myself, everything everyone should try remind themselves. Another guy I'm glad I'm fangirling too XD Behind the smiles and mischievousness, lies someone with a gratitude to life. Everyone is always saying how he posesses eternal youth. The secret behind that is not a secret at all. Your experience of everyday life depends a lot on how you choose to perceive the situation around you. And so Ken says...

Be optimistic, be positive right till the end...
Such trivial, nonsensical things, laughing with one another, enjoying together, they may possibly be the key to happiness.
~ Nico nico Ken ° sono 12 (Ken's jweb entry 12)

It's not surprising how young he looks when youth is reflected in his thinking.

Thank you to v6fan_in_jp for translating his entries. His latest is a must read:

Living life to the fullest by Miyake Ken

Everything you do or experience now, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, whether you like it or you hate it, no matter how big or small are important because they will make you who you are. Lots of these cannot be pin-point, are not very obvious. But small things accumulate to big things. Every opportunity is worth the run. So all we need to do is enjoy the journey.

I remind myself, we need to lay the groundwork... & I am a very lucky person. Anyone who knows he/she won't go hungry and have a roof over his/her head tonight is a lucky person.

Fully obssessed with this song at the moment. I love love it ♥

Firstly, the lyrics.

I can't find a translation of it yet. But from what I can pick out, its about life :) Looking forward in life. For example, the chorus 越えて 越えて 越えて (koete, koete..) means 'To surpass'. A theme about hope, light, the colours of the rainbow span across tomorrow. (I'm pretty desperate to know what it means^^ ahaha.)

Secondly, the PV.

The first thing it reminded me of was the Studio Ghibli anime, Howl's Moving Castle. Just because the building could move XD But the concept of this PV is brilliant, eventhough I don't totally understand it. Anyone want to try give their interpretation? The people in the moving cafe probably represent individuals who do not know one another but happen to cross paths at that point in time and shared an experience together. I wonder what each of them saw through the hole? I'm guessing their childhood, their past or dreams or precious memories? Also maybe the enclosed gloomy cafe represented a form hiding and through the hole they saw the light to their future.

( 虹 PV )

I've found two performances of Niji! Which are both superb.

This first one was performed at the recent 24hrsTV programme aired in Japan (which probably most on my f-list know was hosted by NEWS). I'm not going to lie, I've no interest in NEWS anymore. When I first started following them, I already had a dislike for Shige and Koyoma. And Tegoshi followed soon after. Shige=smug face. Tegoshi=arrogant brat. Koyoma=nice & ok when not singing or dancing. The last straw was when Yamapi changed his hairstyle during the Koi no ABO period, that was pure hideous. Only liking 2/6 members wasn't helpful. Although I think I will always keep up with NEWS just because of Ryo & Massu XD Yamapi redeems himself sometimes when he smiles from the heart, otherwise he is pretty bland most of the time. So feel free to de-friend me if you can't bear to read me dissing your favourite members :) I'm totally ok with that, because people move on.

Back to the perf, fortunately one good thing came out of NEWS hosting the show this year, hopefully someone shared this for download somewhere. This song makes me feel so good.

( 虹 24hr TV Performance )

On Music Station yesterday (friday). Super HQ video thanks to the uploader. I really want to know a way to contact her, its been difficult to find a good raw to subtitle V6's 2 appearances on this show for Guilty. SMAP (the group of men they spoke to) is awfully weird. Why the Japanese love this idol group, I've never been able to understand. And because of that, I've always wondered what tastes these people have -_-'. YUZU look awesome. I like both their clothes. Did I say already, I love the song. Yujin so handsome!!

Do you spy V6 looking cool in tux behind? ^_^ Don't slouch!! :(

( 虹 Music Station Performance )

Since we are on that topic, HQ video of V6's performance of Guilty yesterday. ahaha, you can see some of the 'uh-huh' moves I was talking about. That aside, very cool performance, different from the one last week but both very 'attractive' to watch. Some of the vocals were shaky though. I think they were talking about the picture of Ken taking a shower that they showed at the beginning of the CC concerts.

( V6 Guilty Music Station Performance )

The only clip I downloaded from the 24hrTV show was Ryo's Darts Trip. So cuuuute I tell you. I love how he is so straightforward all the time.

( Oh Ryo! )

Was suppose to spazz about this 2 weeks ago. But I had no time. So now I'm late. And I'm still busy. Don't get me started on how stress this semester has become. Anyway, on to the fun stuff :)



two友 PV!! Collaboration between Yuzu and Kimaguren. I'm still not over YUZU's last single Aitai yet. The songs were so pretty, although this PV is way better I must say. Love the concept and it is more akin to YUZU's normal style. I dunno, maybe its just because I'm thinking of studies all the time, the feeling from the PV and song comes as a double dose for me. The people on the swings in the sky seem to radiate this 'lightness' (heavy vs. light), almost like a cool breeze on a clear morning. I think it is a very cool idea for a PV. And they look so cute, especially the scene where 2 of the guys hold a guitar in the air. Yuzu is a citrus fruit, where the name of the band originates from, hence the guy with the cute Yuzu head as YUZUman. I assume the two small blue 'monsters' represent Kimaguren (the cookie monster from Sesame Street, if my memory serves me right, looks like that?)

I really like this 15s clip showing them having fun at the studio together. Sadly the uploader has disabled embedding.

Speaking of 'Aitai' earlier, Yuzu were on Music Station on the same episode as NEWS were! And because of that, someone had the full episode so she kindly cut out Yuzu's part for me too!! She's so nice :) And the perf was lovely. A bit like this performance below on CDTV, without the sparkles.



My original plan was to spazz about NEWS's variety show appearances and Kanjani8's new album too. Then time became too tight, so YUZU took the front seat. I just stuck to making a post about their new PV instead. haha.. The live performances by NEWS were much better then the PV, so the song has redeemed itself. Oh Ryo! He looked so handsome in everything. I really like when he sings the solo line in the beginning. The bungee jumping clip was awesome! And all the NEWS whining on NEWS wo Abake, their chipmunk voices made Shige sound like a poor mama's boy with his smudge face. Although Koyoma consoling Massu was too adorable to miss. I would say Ryo was bored with the unnecessary fuss and whining.

Puzzle song is so pretty, especially the lyrics. I assume their voices on Shounen Club Premium were altered somewhat, because they sounded too perfect. Although Yasuda's singing was weird as usual. Oh Ryo (again)! Solo lines in the beginning and at the end. Lucky man. Love the enka (maybe it wasn't enka) sound to the song.

mp3 Sogou has put up a compilation album of 101 mandarin love songs here. All the lovely tunes I myself am not sure where I keep hearing them from, what more remembering most of their titles. haha. But I guess some songs are like that. Every one knows the tune somewhat and it brings back some sort of memories. That would be every artist's dream to make a song like that, a song that not necessarily makes the most money or win the most awards, but a song that remains in people's hearts.

By the way, anyone know of any graphics maker that make Asian/Oriental stock icons or banners? I'm not too keen on using western models as graphics, although they are pretty and very artistic I don't deny. But too fake I feel, just not the feeling I'm looking for. It'll be cool if people make graphics of Chinese/Japanese scenery and mountains, or the vibrant markets, people, architecture or anything that reflects oriental culture. But unfortunately not many people do :)

Watched the countdown yesterday. Thank goodness V6 and Tokio were there too. Sadly, Tackey & Tsubasa couldn't make it together. But it was their year of solos in 2008, I'm really happy they can manage alone, and it seems they really enjoy their individual projects, which is great!

Arashi are hosts again. With their singles doing so well last year, their faces looked as bright as a bubble. Countdown is the time I catch up on other Johnny songs released throughout the previous year. That means songs from V6, News, Kanjani8 and T&T are already familiar to me but those of Arashi, Kattun, Tokio, Kinki Kids etc. now would probably be the first time I'm listening to them.

( Songs in order of performance + spazz + gayness )