胸のポッケトのへや

For a few nights I would try to plug my earphones in to the stereo and listen to Dream Alive in the dark, scribbling my thoughts on the song because I feel the dark helps me hear better. But most of the time I'd fall asleep after Sirius. :P So anyway, finally getting down to it..my Dream Alive review..so far (:

01 Theme
Not any particular feelings for it but I find it a good opening, sounding very fantasy-like. Fantasy, dreams...yeah I get it. Oh hahaha you know how after 42 seconds, the beat changes..yeah well, I thought it was another song! xDD I was picturing how they could use it as an interlude song between costume-changes, what sort of props they could have..

02 Move Your Body
Great dance song! It's not something I'll fall in love with immediately, but it has an addictive tune. Especially che-che-che-che-check! and da-da-da-da-dance!

03 Happiness: (:

04 Niji no Kanata e
Okay you know how Oh Yeah was the song that I really love from Time? I think this song is the song from Dream Alive. It's absolutely poppish and it makes me feel happy. Like I'm in a good place. This may sound really weird, but I imagine rainbows and green fields and...wildflowers..fluffy clouds when I listen to this song. Gosh I don't even know what it means yet! xP

05 Do My Best
Infectious beat! It gave this fresh feeling when it was just Ohchan singing at the start <3

06 Sirius
Nino's voice at the beginning..*melts* I have to say that I think Jun's control over his voice is improving. And I'm not just saying this because of the solo solo he did in this song, but generally in the album. I love it when he goes lower. I must say that I was surprised with the choice of Jun singing the solo. Oh and there was this one bit where Ohchan was singing "Whoa~ whoa~"..oh gosh his voice is so amazing.

07 Flashback
Hahaha okay this is funny. I feel this song seems like something they would have done in 2004. I don't know why. Maybe it's just something in the song, or the tune, the style... Haha geddit? Flashback! xD I like the rap and the jazzy feel to the song.

08 Dive into The Future
Hahaha so much english lyrics. But I think Move Your Body has quite a bit too. You know when Nino sang "Soulmate"? I thought he sang "Sorry"..LOL! But Ohchan's "Give me more!" is awesome <3333

09 Koe
I thought the start of the song reminded me of BSB's What Makes You Different. Very sweet. Aibachan's voice is so yasashii <3 I really like this ballad. But my only problem is the "beat" in the background when they sing. It makes me think of Sirius and I just don't want them to sound similar.

10 My Answer
I like! At first I didn't, but this keep getting stuck in my head. "Tsutaeyou!" and "Body & Soul!". "Body & Soul" doesn't even sound english to me LOL. I like the pace I guess. Both the verses when they sing fast and also the chorus.

11 Life Goes On
I'm going to have to say I'm just okay with this one. Originally I thought it sounded very normal and I'd have a difficult time remembering it. But the chorus..Ohchan and Jun and Nino..the high voices..and "kyou mo life goes on.." proved my first judgement wrong.

12 Step and Go: rolling rolling on

13 YOUR SONG
Lalala lala la lalala lala la...I think the starting bit till the point where they sing "YOUR SONG" sounds kinda disjointed from the rest a lil..but I like the lalalas :D

*Oh no I haven't heard the bonus track from the normal edition. -hangs head in shame-

01 Hello Goodbye
This was the solo that stole my attention right away. I love it. I get teary sometimes thinking about Otsuka-san. I get teary thinking about how Aibachan will sing this with all his being. I don't know why but I really really like this solo. It's so pure Aiba. I think it's my fav solo so far among the 5. And probably second to Itsuka no Summer.

02 Gimmick Game
I'm trying to get use to it... a bit sexy, hip hop and cool. But I like! <3 Only right...now I do get confused sometimes whether I'm listening to Ohchan or Nino singing. Because the genre's what Ohchan did a lot in the past solos.

03 Take Me Faraway
I can't seem to put this song between a ballad or some sort of dance. Beautiful voice, nevertheless <3

04 Naked
Why do I like this boy...he just completely throws me off the tracks a lot of the time. It's again new and different and more mature sounding. Did Jun help in writing the lyrics of this song? (Also I think he mentioned something about considering something acoustic for a solo? Please do next time, okay?! I want acoustic!!)

05 Hip Pop Boogie
I felt..not enough Sho raps in the album. I don't know if it's because I wasn't paying enough attention. But I felt so anyway. xP So this is a good dose of Sho xDDD But really what gets me is: MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE. Enough said ^^

Okay I didn't have much to say about the solos because I spun the album cd more than the solo cd. I just need to listen to more of it.

Album-wise, they seem to have more mid-tempo songs this time. Current favourites will have to be Niji no Kanata e, Sirius, Koe, maybe Do My Best and maybe Flashback. Cause I really am satisfied with the ballads. It will be interesting to see what they'll do this spring. I'm curious to see what sort of theme and how they'll incorporate the mid-tempos in.

Okay I was half procrastinating, half busy. So now I'll get down to posting what happened on Saturday.

I went to school to attend this Mac training session but seeing that only a handful turned up, I went to the school library instead. And I ended up watching the original Kakushin Toride no San Akunin. Yeah I'm starting to love my school library cause it has all these cool films there :D Anyway I've been intending to watch it since I spotted it on the shelves, but at the same time I didn't mean to watch it on saturday.

I'm glad I got to fulfill my wish of watching the original before I ever caught the remake. It's quite funny at times, but then the two peasants get a bit irritating at points - so I can't wait to see Jun in that position. I HOPE I get to dislike him in the film, even if it's for a few moments here and there. It is a bit difficult for me to appreciate properly, but I was able to see how it was comic and serious at the same time. Most of the time I was trying to draw parallels to Star Wars xD

Then I went to collect my album. Will have to find some time later to talk about it. Now I'm still a bit messed up (not the album, I mean. Messed up as in me in person).

Dream Alive

Saw Hog's Breathe Cafe guy. Even if it's just a glimpse. He's so cute. I totally want to go back with Wan Chien for another Foodie Adventure! Ahh speaking of Wan Chien, I picked up her discman from her that morning. Very nice of her to give it to me. I've been wanting one for awhile now. (I shall listen to the album on the way to school later :P)

Then I went to Starbucks in town for a study session with Kelly, De and Sui. Sui brought this for me:

Uchiwa back

Hahaha I think even the bag is precious. Okay, not that precious but still..I don't have that size of Mise bags. Never had a uchiwa until this one. I was sharing with Sui the other day how empty I felt my hands were while I was watching the Time concert dvd. And thus she sold me hers (only I haven't paid her xP).

HiG Jun uchiwa

I love it!

(^_______________________^)  <-- that's me for the past 2 hours :P

And I really think that the outfit that Yamapi was in - the jeans and simple white shirt - with that cute hairstyle, is the hottest Yamapi I have seen so far. To me, at least. I really mean that. :D

And I love how they used the same music. And the way the plot was written and the scenes arranged.

Will watch it again with english subs because I had to pause lots of times to read the chinese subs. xDDD

Wow seriously, after watching the dvd (I kept my promise to watch it tonight! Now I'm super tired~), I have to say that this time round it felt different from the rest of the con dvds I've watched. I don't know if it's because TIME was my first Arashi album release as a fan and I had more time to put the songs on repeat, or maybe it was just simply missing them. Or maybe because it's the first natsu con that happened since I became a fan. I don't know. But it really hit me hard somehow. Like a different impact than what I had expected. I mean I've watched a few clips of Niji and Love Situation but when I watch it on the dvd, it still wows me and surprises me.

I'm excited for the dvd.

Hurry up hurry up! :DD

Just as well I'd just hang on to listening to Jason Mraz (and not listen to the songs already out by the radioshows) before the new album comes out. I mean, Arashi's album. (I've heard a teeny bit of Do My Best and I like it already!) Because actually Jason Mraz's new album is coming out soon too.

5 Things found in my bag

Today's got to be my best off day ever! Thoroughly enjoyed it and definitely time well-spent! :D

Went for a pre-dinner dessert plus catch-up with Bestlyn. This is the second time we had such a meeting. I think I've grown closer to Bestlyn since we left secondary school. Because we can talk about just anything. Especially extensively about Johnny's groups. Updated her on my job and cute guy. She talked a bit about school. And then we totally went on and on about Kame (she likes him and I'm pretty cool cause he's hardworking and looks good and is seems to be singled out quite a bit by Nino and sometimes Jun, so.) and Arashi and such.

Good news is she's been watching shukudai-kun, and no I didn't push her or anything. And Ni no Arashi. Which is super crack. She told me Arashi is really crack. And that when she watched Aibachan read his letter of 24 Jikan (compared to Jin's when Kattun was on), she seriously considered switching fandom. I didn't say anything but really I was beaming in my heart. Hahahaha isn't that so Arashi? They cover everything you need..from dramas to movies, even the news, to crack and member love.

And then TFP. Which I don't need to actually say it because it's been said so many times, but dang it is awesome! Ahhh when Nino and Jun hugged after the hockey? <333 One of my fav bits was when Aiba was suppose to shoot those dart thingies by blowing and before he even started Jun was at the ready, holding another one of those blow darts for him. I just love their team spirit and love! When they started discussing stuff...that really showed that they'd discuss how to work out problems as a group.

But now I realise: Sho is the best thing to make gifs of, I swear and this is not because I'm number 11. He has the cutest expressions ever!!! Hehehehe I'm probably going to watch it again tomorrow morning before I go to work. Pick my moment..such a difficult task xD

And I am excited! I'm waiting for Tokyo Friends Park to download and then I can treat myself to some Arashi goodies. My God - I don't even have to try and avoid new songs in the album this time round cause I am hardly exposed to them (but I want to listen to the songs this time round!). I haven't even begun looking through the neighbourhood's posts because it's going to be flooded way more than usual cause of TFP and the songs, right?

I feel so lost. Suddenly 3 weeks of my life gone missing because of work. :s

Also tomorrow there's a MS special or something but why can't it be today because damn it I am free today. It has to be tomorrow when I'm on AFTERNOON shift. Darn.

And afternoon shift means not the same shift as the cute guy at work (nicknamed Brown Eyes by Sui).

Not that it really matters because this guy at work makes me feel like I will never have any guy friends ever. Is it that bad? Being in a girls' school for 4 years and when I leave, I lose the ability to have any decent accquaintances with the opposite sex? (I actually contemplated about writing in to Junstyle to ask him for advice since he's such a guru on this sort of thing XPPP)

A totally random thing is...I woke up today and realised I had a dream about HYD Final. Not being in the movie or anything as good as that. Hahaha I imagined that I MISSED catching HYD Final in the cinemas because it was released on 20 March and I was so busy working that I missed it. Of course, it was Shun's movie that came out on 20 March here wasn't it? :P

I think it's because at work when I'm at the Customer Enquiries area I always look to my left and see iWeekly. Cause apparently they're covering japanese artistes on this issue. Pi's on it...Shun, Chiaki-senpai..

And when I flipped through it yesterday, there was a bit of NEWS and KAT-TUN in it..and they had pictures of HYD (like on the yellow dvd cover they sell at Poh-Kim) and Kisarazu.

At which I went, SHO!! Because I was so surprised. I was happy that for once they have something else other than HYD to promote/talk about for japanese dramas.

Since iWeekly is 2 bucks, I'll probably get it. And errr..try my best to read all the chinese.

Also did I mention my colleague from China, Carol? She learnt some japanese in China and she told me her jap teacher told her we should practise a lot - daily if possible or else we'll forget easily. It's so cool cause Carol can speak jap way better than I do. And it's all weird cause my chinese sucks, and her english isn't very awesome so we're always stuck in some sort of communication rut.

Work's cool sometimes because I learn about lots of things that happen in a bookstore. But I really miss Arashi at the same time. Only I'm not complaining because there's money coming in. And I get to know more about the cheaper eating places in town.

OH YEAH. Good news: the Apple people told my dad they can deliver my macbook today but he's not in today so he's gonna receive it tomorrow when he's home. Which means I'm GETTING MY MACBOOK TOMORROW!

YAY.