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VyLeTtE
3 days ago
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arashi finished performing already geee felt like twas a concert when jun shouted "we are arashi" hahaha loved how they changed their outfits from fuschia to white my niece who was watching with me was so amazed asking how did they changed and how fast it was hahahaha...

glad i ordered countdown uchiwa... its my first group uchiwa yay! also last nite met with katie, jen, marszz, lyn, she and other fans who are into kpop... went to eat at soms and then noraebang after... twas like a battle of kpop vs jpop wahahahaha katie probably got tired of jpop and kpop songs that she sang killers' mr ooopppssss forgot the title is it mr sunshine? mr brightman? ahahaha gudness i forgot... got my first non-arashi uchiwa... v6's junichi okada as gift from katie yay! we missed cathy last nite since she wasnt able to join us....

kyaa!!!

VyLeTtE
3 days ago
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watching kouhaku now... hope it finishes before 12 so il have time to bathe before new years eve har3

to everyone in my flist...

akemashite omedetou!!!!!!

Weee!!!

VyLeTtE
Dec 24, 2009
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happy birthday masaki aiba-by! celebrated last night with fellow fangirls... its a small but intimate celebration.... post celebration for oh-chan and pre-celebration for masaki baby!!!! gee to think ohno just turned 6 and aiba just 24 when i became arashi fan wow.... time flies really.... again happy bday masaki baby! and to my fellow aiba wifeys and arashi fans, cheers to more fangirling years!

advance merry christmas to all

...macau, beijing, hongkong 2009...day 2

10.28.09

macau, hk, beijing

prepared for check out coz after our macau half day tour, we'll head to hk airport and then beijing. got a few pics here taken from our permanently closed glass hotel window. hehe...

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waited with our luggage at the entrance for our tour bus. here's our hotel...

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our tour guide was on time. headed to venetian for the other tourists who will join us. the retired teachers were there too. yey! took a pic of the bus service outside the venetian...

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it took sometime before we we're able to head to our first destination coz we waited for a while for the other tourists to board the bus and we still went to 2 more hotels after the venetian to pick up the other tourists.yaiks! anyway, finally, we're on our way... hehe.

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the westin resort sign. we've been planning to go there since it was also a location for the princess hours series ,however, we don't have extra time to visit the place. maybe next time.

1st stop of the tour is the ruins of st paul. it's my 2nd time there but now we entered at the back of the ruins. last time, we entered at the other side so we were able to go and see various shops along the way. would really want to do some shopping but we're on a tight schedule now and we can't go down and go to the stores anymore. hehe.. some pics here..

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off to our next stop.. food shop. we were brought to an area, forgot where, sorry, where we sampled some beef jerky. bought some as well as some other delicacies for pasalubong. hehe. after this, our tour guide bought us to a hotel where we had our lunch. i totally forgot the hotel's name and wasn't even able to take a pic. our tour guide said that it's the best hotel for indian food. they decided to take us there coz most of the tourists who were with us are indians. here is a pic of the buffet table for those who are not indians.

Macau Hotel

anyway, we need to have our lunch asap coz we're running out of time. we needed to be at the ferry terminal already for our ride going to hk skypier and wait for our flight to beijing. so after lunch, our bus went directly to the ferry terminal. our guide then left the bus with us and got our tickets going to hk. once me and my travel buddy were in, they went on to continue with their tour.

waited for a while at the ferry terminal. my friend was approached by a staff. she told me later that she was interviewed re her stay in macau. if she tried the casinos, where did she go, etc .. heheh.. she was given a souvenir pen as a token. cool!

the ferry ride was directly headed to the sky pier.

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once we arrived, we immediately saw the check in counter for hongkong express. we then approached it and was surprised when the staff spoke in tagalog. haha! we were easily recognized as filipinas. anyway, checked in our baggage then for our 7pm flight. it was still early so more time to go around hk airport. yey! after the baggage check in, we then went outside to ride the bus going to hk airport.

spent extra few hours looking at shops inside the airport.. cool! not enough money though so i only looked...heheh.. here's our plane as we wait for boarding....

Hongkong Express

the food was delicious..

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flight was 3hrs+.. and finally arrived in beijing..

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as we exited the immigration area, we were then approached by our tour guide. we immediately knew she was the one coz she was the only one there at the arrival area at that time.. heheh.. yey! she's very nice and spoke good english. she escorted us to our van that will then take us to our hotel...and we're on our way.. took a pic of a toll booth here..

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it's about 45mins+ ride going to wangfujing and to our hotel wancheng huafu hotel. she then accompanied us to the reception and once all were done, we went to our room to rest for next day's tour. by the way, xt welcomed us. chu liu xiang was airing when we checked the local channels. cool!

new banner

aiLaMarie
Dec 20, 2009
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To celebrate Arashi's amazing year and because their CUT photos are so gorgeous....I made them my new banner.Weeeeeeeeee! Must get my copy

My men

Hisashiburi (urimanetta - is the romanisation correct lols)

VyLeTtE
Dec 11, 2009
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its been almost a month since i last posted (last post was to greet aiba papa a happy2 birthday)...

its december already,,, christmas month... somehow i dont feel like its christmas.. a lot of things happened that makes me have mixed emotions about celebrating christmas... but then again i guess thats just how life is... we all experience ups and downs... but life must go on...

also, december is aiba's birth month :) he's turning 27 yay! when i discovered arashi masaki was just turning 24! gee time flies!

2009 will come to an end in a few days (i better make the most out of this post since i might not be able to post again before the year ends)... arashi celebrated their 10th year with a bang... starting with a 3-day concert in kokuritsu and ending their concert tour early next year at nagoya... wasnt lucky enough like my friends jen and she who were able to watch the 2 nights' con at sapporo, but im super hoping theyd go on their 3rd AAA next year! i wanna see them again!!!!

i gave into temptation of buying magazines with arashi in it (okei not all i dont have that money for it lols)... i just started last year and... i started computing how much ive spent on them... i was shocked lol i stopped computing when i reached a certain amount already (i could just imagine how much more money my more addicted friends have spent on them and other fandoms ehem ehem you guys know who you are)...

i didnt buy 5x10 cd and 5x10 dvd... im not really into buying cds and dvds... so i just go for other stuff... i was hoping theyd release an official photobook for their 10th year but looks like they wont tch3...

overall 2009 has been a great year... made new fan-friends whom i think id still be friends with even after our fangirling days are over... unfortunately i think i severed ties with some of them... if you get to read this post,,, you know who you are... im saddened by what happened... and i hope time will come when we're both able to forgive each other and forget what happened... i still consider you a friend...

this year i attended arashi parties like last year... i started with matsujun's last year as 1/2 of ohmiya, then aibakaland party (wearing yukatta)... missed riida's.. but was able to go to sakuraiba party as mirrorman yeah! missed nino's :( and for the first time i joined in organising a party... to celebrate matsujun's 26th birthday and arashi's 10th year... this time i didnt wear any costume... need to rest it becomes korny if i always go in costume har3... then there was ohno's bday celebration as well :)

i dont think il be able to share pix of ohno and arashi/jun party this year... for those who are connected with me thru fb, ohno bash pix are up already since last week... arashi/jun's will be uploaded probably early next year hahaha...

il be ending this post with the video cathy and i made for the opening of arashi/jun party... we do not own the vids used for this fanvid credit goes to the uploaders... my apologies i couldnt remember the uploaders (but if you recognise a vid uploaded by you please pm me so i can credit you), we were so in a rush we had to search and download everything and finish the video in just 2-3 weeks... so we could well relate with sho's friend who barely slept for 2 weeks to come up with the video shown for the party thrown for him by his buddies :).... we are not pros so there are some glitches, but please do not claim the vid as your own... feel free to download or share the vid just please give proper credits

ar.ash.i/mats.u.jun party vid

we ended the video presentation with poppers lols

dl it thru mf

watch it thru vimeo

SHINee @ NAIA

i am ai
Nov 27, 2009
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Im soooo glad I went(with my bro) at the airport. A meter away from them *faints* Jong blocking my view of Onew is sooo WTF. I was on the wrong side XDD But damn, thank God OUR EYES MET EVEN IF IT WAS JUST FOR A SECOND OMFG. Thanks so much ailamarie / ailamarie for the camera!!! Pasensha na girl sa istorbo XDv

Also posted HERE.
Will post more pics and a detailed fan account later after the concert ^_^

LOL @ Onew♥. I wonder what he's doing. I was just snapping shots as we're walking sideways XDD

Jong blocking my view of Onew T_T
Look under Jong's chin... that's Onew ><
That's Minho infront of Jong.
Look at Key in full make-up. Hehehe. Sooo pretty

Again, Jong blocking my view of Onew, but this time he's is visible! Hahaha. My Onew♥♥♥!!!!! Why am I on the wrong side ><
A clearer view of Key♥'s side view.

Off to CCP! Waaaaaaa! SHINeeeeeeeeeee ^______^

...macau, beijing, hongkong 2009...day 1

Undying Lands
Nov 22, 2009
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our packaged tour was supposedly hk, macau, shenzhen. we're scheduled to watch a play in shenzhen. we even got our play tickets already but as it turned out, the play was moved to december. 4 of the group decided to move the trip to december and still watch the play and 2 of us retained the orig sched but changed shenzhen to beijing instead. yey! when i learned that the play was cancelled, it's the first thing that i thought of. push through with the travel but change shenzhen to beijing. it will be my first time to travel there. good thing, my friend thought of it also eventhough she's been there thrice already. yey!

10.27.09

hk, macau

8am dep. mnl hk flight. first time via hongkong express . the plane is nice. the snack is good.

arrived at hk at past 10am. found our tour guide and was advised to wait for others to arrive. we thought that we'll be going directly to skypier for our ferry trip to macau but as we found out, we were to join the other tourists in a bus. they'll be dropped off at their respective hotels before we were sent on our way to macau at tsim sha tsui ferry terminal. wasted a lot of time during the bus ride there. gosh! by the way, here's our bus at the hk airport..

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finally, on our way to macau. here's our ticket given to us by our tour guide. rode the ferry.

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and after a few hrs, arrived at macau, was picked up by our macau guide and we're on our way to our hotel. taipa square hotel. by the way, we traveled with some filipinos too. they are retired teachers and the tour was a sort of a treat for themselves. they were to be dropped off at the venetian. wow!

at about 4pm, *and we thought we'll be there at 12 or 1pm..gosh*, finally checked in and rested for a few mins in our room. here's the hotel's corridor near our room.

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here are some shot of the room.

nice room by the way.. so after just a few mins, went out and headed for coloane. this is what we really planned to visit in macau coz both my travel buddy (she's also the one who's with me in japan just this mar 09) and i are big fans of princess hours. i'm not really good at remembering the places shown in the series so i'm grateful for her coz she remembers it. she'll tell me the place and i'll just research for details on how to go there. great team up. anyway, just to be sure, we also asked the staff at the hotel re coloane and they told us that it's better to ride taxi coz buses going there are few. it's already late so we rode the taxi as what was advised and we just showed the chapel of st francis xavier in the macau guide given to us by the hotel staff to the driver. the fare as i remembered is about 60hkd. a bit expensive but it's ok at that time coz we're in a hurry. hehe.

arrived at coloane after about 10mins. yey! it's not dark yet. hehe.. we were dropped off in front of st francis xavier church.. here it is.. princess hours.. woohoo!

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and biblioteca which was also shown in the series.

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and a temple at the end of the street

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dead end already so went back again to the church area going to the other side..

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passed by the church area again.

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there are dried fish stores there and a dock...

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went back to where we first entered the town square

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and headed directly to the famous lord stow's bakery. we passed by the store earlier as we went directly to st francis xavier.. you'll never miss the store when you go to coloane.. it's just in front, sort of, entrance of the town square. it's a small store. when we were there, there were a few tourists taking pictures of the place and buying and eating the famous egg tart!

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and here's the plaza just across the shop.

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and a residential area across the plaza.

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and here, my travel buddy told me that this store was also shown in a scene in princess hours.

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decided to eat our snack at the plaza. the egg tart is maximum umai!

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after eating those delicious egg tarts and resting a bit, decided to go to our next stop. done now with coloane town square tour. yeah! rode a taxi now going to the venetian. it's really grand. got a few pics here..

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the canal...

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st mark's square...

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had dinner at the food court. forgot to take a pic of the food but it was delicious. it was steamed chicken with vegetables. roamed around a bit and decided to head back to the hotel. we just walked. we asked for directions from one of the security outside the hotel. he's probably thinking we're a bit crazy coz we told him that we're going to walk from the venetian to our hotel. haha! as we found out, it was really a long walk. about 20-30mins i think. some pics i got while we're walking.

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we got a little bit lost and we decided to cross at the middle of a major road coz we realized we're on the wrong side of the road. we had to jump over some bushes to get to the other side. hehe... this is where we crossed.. the pic's a bit dark though. sorry.

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good thing there are only a few cars then. had to ask again for directions twice and finally managed to find our hotel. yey!

Arashi hunt

aiLaMarie
Nov 22, 2009
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8 days is too short for Sapporo, Tokyo and Osaka.

I was able to watch a lot of CMs ( Nino's, my girl single, AU), My girl drama last friday,
New Zero and Shukudai plus Utaban last Tuesday while our Japanese friend translated for us...hehehe!

Arashi hunting is so much fun.

A bookstore in Sapporo

photobooks

You will love the trains....

Arashi in densha

Sho in an Able Outlet in Osaka

Took this at 1 am ...lol

Who wouldn't miss them in magazine stores, especially if you have them on cover!

Ninooooooooo!

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My Girl was no.1 last week in HMV

No.1

HMV

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They're in Shibuya Station

Ofcourse , Harajuku...

Lemme join you there!

The fab 5!

If only i could stay longer and hunt the real ones...~~a stalker in the house~~..lol

back from arashiland...

aiLaMarie
Nov 21, 2009
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Sapporo is not a very good place for someone like me who comes from a tropical country..lol..super cold! ~~but if it's for Arashi i will go as far as Mars or to Jupiter to see them.~~
The passage way to the dome is too narrow for the thousands of fans flocking ~~the noah's ark.~~..If i'm not mistaken there are only 2 ways to go in and out of the dome.
even the subway gets too crowded before and after the concert.

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It rained on the first day..didn't queue for goods but God heard our prayers...
The sun shone for a while on the 2nd day...and i got my goods really fast

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The boys mentioned during the 2nd day MC about a lot of fanboys present.I agree! I even noticed there are more kids and couples . I saw this old couple and the husband knows furi for some songs.lol
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Yatterman cosplayer

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and kids wearing Yano kenta costumes. Kawaii!

Tickets here are cheap (compared to Tokyo and Nagoya) and there were many tickets available online a few weeks before i made a decision. I had no choice but to go because my original plan was Osaka which was impossible at that time.
Surprisingly, eventhough the dome is big..the 1st floor and the second floor are not too high that's why you can see the boys clearly down the arena.

My first day, i had a good seat at the right side of the stage...stands but close enough to see the hanamichi. Jun was always on our side.kyaaaaaa!

Never mind my second day, but I'm thankful at least i was there. (laughs)... in fairness, the seat was ok and we got decent view.

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1st night

2nd night

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The MCs for both nights were so funny...it was so difficult to react on time, blame it on my super poor nihonggo. But my favorite would be the fanboys shouting they like Arashi. Honestly,I wanted to shout too, ARASHI, MAHAL KITA!
I wonder if they will hear me...

Last year, it was Sho kun...but this time around, that BRAT who kept on promoting Mario,made this gorgeous face during typhoon generation and gave me my fave solo for this tour became my concert ichiban. He was so kakkoii! I hope i get over with him soon because it's seriously yabai if i don't!

The backdrop is so amazing. I think i saw that style in Madonna's Confessions concert tour.
If most of you feel that Everything is a forgettable song then you should see the concert.The video is too beautiful.
For me,Ichioku no hoshi's counterpart this year is Bokuga boku no subete .I love the perf and they danced to it.

Aside from Believe, my fave parts of the show were the medleys
and the part where they were at the hanamichi moving around the arena. It started from A day in our Life, Hadashi and Oh yeah! Super fun!

This concert is super special for me because it's their anniversary tour.
Both nights, they played with my emotions.
The opening gave me goosebumps.
I seriously cried during Ashita no kioku .I lost my super exotic contact lens ( ~~without grade)~~ on my right eye at the height of the concert because of too much tears...I realized that i was wearing only one at the train when i checked myself on the mirror.lol
The video after that just makes me so proud of them ( video of their achievements) and the tears continued...
then,they came out with the raincoat costumes and made me laugh all of a sudden.
and the 5x10 song, i broke down again.

I have seen Arashi in 2 venues last year but their japan shows are the best.
Bigger stage, the video wall, the little fireworks during Believe,fire during Truth, the colorful water fountains during Jun's solo.
The atmosphere is quite different compared to overseas shows.

Again, Arashi took away my heart ~~(and my money)~~
and it's still left in Japan.
I don't know how to take it back.
It didn't come home with me...

I miss them so much!