autumnjaide

► New KAT-TUN album and new NEWS single. Why do I only feel very -poor-?! I'm not very excited about them for some reason. I'll probably eventually get the KT album when I have money, but I decided that I would stop buying singles. The only thing about this release that has me feeling strongly over is the fact that the NEWS single will come with a DVD with some performances at Tokyo Dome. Does that mean that they won't release a Diamond Party DVD?! If that's true, I'm totally shattered. I was REALLY looking forward to seeing that con on DVD. D: In any case, I can't order either right now. It'd cost me about $95 for the two and I really just can't spare that money right now. ;_;

► Yesterday asagao_blossoms and I made okonomiyaki for tea. She had to make it today for her Home Eco class so we decided to trial run it for dinner last night. It was more like I helped her with getting ingredients and stuff, and she did the actual cooking while I tried to do my assignments. xD To our surprise, it turned out perfect on the very first go! It was yummy and tasted exactly like what it would at a restaurant. :D I was still feeling a little off so I didn't have that much, but it was still good.
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We then picked up Fi dropped into Max Brenner's so I could return D's sunnies which he left in my car a week go. The girls ate, but I was feeling too sick to, so I just had some hot tea.
( photos again. xD )

!@#$%^&* asdlkhjlkajfsaaskdjf HELLO THERE, SHO!

eta: flocked arashi_yuuki post.

eta2: So much prettiness today. I love when the boys are in fashion mags. Jin. ♥

I had a strange dream this morning of me going around the neighbourhood (it was -mine- in the dream sense, but it looked nothing like my real one) putting out spot fires with a strange hose thing that wasn't attacked to anything but still spout out water. Felt so...strange when I woke up. I think this may have been affected by the sms I got yesterday from the Victorian Police warning about high temperatures and fire warning then waking up to the sound of super strong winds knocking things down (like an old gate of ours was knocked right off it's hinges).

Also received a letter from VU today. Finally found out what the decision from last month's progress meeting was. They're allowing me to stay enrolled (surprised me) if I switch to part time, so 2 units this semester until my scores (read: motivation) goes up. So instead of withdrawing totally from uni (which was what I was planning to do) I now have the option to take 2 classes while working (still job hunting) or defer for the semester. I think I may take 2 jap classes to tide me till mid-year when I'm gonna try for Monash again. I have nothing to lose really and it may help with the transfer. Going into enrol tomorrow. Wish they'd let me know earlier seeing VU has already been back 2 weeks now. >.<; Eta: And it's gonna cost me $120 for my enrolment to be reinstated. Now I'm not so sure about it.

Mum made me a huge batch of 'Sai Mai Lo' (西米露), or Sago/Tapioca pudding(?) which is a Chinese sort of dessert which I love. We had stacks of fruit so she made use of them. It's a nice cool pick-me-up for such a horrid, overcast, stifling dry day. Right, off to dinner now. Hope everyone's well. ♥

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I am so majorly excited! =D It's that time again guys! Johnnys calendars! I cannot wait. They look amazing. I had ordered my calendars (I've ordered 4, I know, omfg, right) a couple of weeks ago when Taka-san emailed me kanga's prices. Which are cheaper than I can get even on Yesasia with free shipping, so I've ordered via kanga. I can wait the extra week or two. :D Thank you to ihearyourtears for breaking the news about the vids to me (albeit unintentionally ;D)!

ETA: I should add that I'm not really paying for the 4 I ordered. I've conned by cousin into getting them for me. My cousin is buying them for me as an early birthday pressie. ^_^

Things that I am happy about:
♥ KAT-TUN's calendar comes in a jewelry box. How awesome is that. The set gives me major vibes of Arashi's Happiness PV, and its fun and as ihearyourtears said, relaxed and I think it looks wonderful. ^_^
♥ Lol, Eito's is in a confectionery box. That sorta fits, somehow. Eito's theme is an Adults School Field Trip. Informal shots of them travelling, at an onsen. I particularly loved the shot of them gathered around in their futons and Ryo was all bundled up in his blankets.
♥ Bright pink box for NEWS. Hahaha. Totally unexpected and oh-so-gay. The pics look amazing though.
♥ Arashi has TWO 'calendars'. Diary style and hang up style. The pics are really artistic.. and I think there's lots of skin. XD Not complaining, obviously. Hahah plus shiny sparkly stickers. My head is exploding at nekkidcowboy!Sho as a kira kira sticker. Just..jgdalg;

To be honest, for the last two months, probably from my hiatus and then the trip, I've become a bit uhm.. lukewarm towards JE. I think I was drifting a bit further away from it. Because I -did- manage to go two months without it, and it didn't affect me as badly as I thought it would've. I mean I used to itch to flist every day. Watching the boys in any show still interest me, it still entertained me, but I lost that sort of excitement I used to have. I think because it's become habit. And with lveaddkt on holiday, I don't have anyone to pull me into it. I honestly thought that I was about to leave this wonderful fandom.

But, with the release of the calendars, I feel that excitement I once had. It's been a while since I've squeeled. ^_^ I remember my first calendars (this year is my 3rd) and the excitement of gawking at the weird ass 'calendars' with the pretty shoots. That was only about 2 months into the fandom, it was lots of fun. Haha, now I have more RL fangirls to squeel with, I'm hoping to try not to lose what I first felt in the fandom. I'm slated to catch up with lveaddkt and breakfast_kiss on Saturday, so hopefully that helps.

I just found an insane spazz post about last years calendar here. I think I may have been on something. :D But if I can even regain HALF of that enthusiasm, I shall be happy. ^^;

Happy Valentine's Day~!
Also, belated Birthday wishes go out to xswindz, mainichi_muri and insane_desire. Hope you guys had tons of fun and love on your special day. ♥

Finally, two weeks after I'm back in Oz, I've managed to get myself together and write up a post. But I'm back and with a vengence! It's taken me two days but I have totally revamped my LJ. With the exception of my LJ header, I've changed my layout (autumnjaide), redone my usericons and actually filled in my profile (for the first time in my 2.5 year LJ history ). Profile header was a pressie from kirei_kisetsu, thanks Belle! ♥ Also, in a fit of frustration I bought 6 months of paid time. There's a few kinks I can't seem to work out with my layout but I've given up trying.

My trip was great, I just love travelling so much. I still haven't gotten asagao_blossoms photos off her yet, but she's coming over tomorrow so I shall probably up them in a couple of days or so. Chinese New Year in Hong Kong just has so much atmosphere, it was great. We went to the CNY fair at Victoria Gardens and it was so nuts, met some awesome nice people too. I'll probably write a proper writeup of the trip (once I figure out how I want to organise stuff, I'm thinking of making a comm, any ideas people?). Flew home with asagao_blossoms while the rest of the family flew to Vietnam for 10 days. And just my luck, I come back smack in the middle of the worst heat wave Melb's ever seen. Landed at 7.30am and the captain announces that ground temperature was already 31C (88F). Melbourne had 4 consecutive days of 43C (110F) days and an entire week of nothing below 30 which then peaked at 46C (115F). I nearly died, I hate hot weather with a vengence.

I'm dead beat so I'm off to bed. Sorry for such a content lacking post. This is more to say "I'm alive and back on LJ" more than anything. I will slowly (read: excruciatingly painfully) go back and try to reply/comment. But bear with me people, there's a lot. Hope everyone is doing well. ♥

How is my lovely flisters doing? :) ♥ Has 2009 been good to everyone? I hope everyone had a good Xmas and New Years.

I started off 2009 -really- smashed for the first (and probably last) time of my life. It was so much pain I want to wipe the memory from my head. xD I've really come to realise that I really don't like alcohol. I just don't see the point. I could probably get higher naturally without the aid of alcohol. Plus it tastes bad. Haha.

Did a full rearranging of my room too. My room is so much more spacious now that you can actually see my wall. One bookcase died in the process though. Me being lazy, did not remove all the contents of my bookcases and just proceeded to push them across the room. Halfway there on my 2nd one (the one holding my gazillion of magazines), after an almightly crack, my entire bookcase collapsed across my room. Here is what the disaster looked like. I am now down to 2 cases from 3 so it feels like I have even -more- space. Which is good, in my tiny room. :D I've now moved all my mags to my sturdier cube unit case. :)

So just announcing, that I'm off to Hong Kong tomorrow and will be back at the end of the month. So I shall officially come off hiatus in February. I'll catch you guys then! Take care~ ♥

♥ ihearyourtears: Thank you for the cute Christmas graphic, Chung! It totally brightened up my day. :)
♥ kirei_kisetsu: Thank you for the profile header! It's gorgeous. I shall implement it when I get back. <33
♥ mparf & lveaddkt: Have a wonderful trip to Japan! I shall see you guys in March (you too, surealistic_des!). Bring me back a bishie. xD

LSHGKSJFHADAGLJ;AK;KLADLHHFLAKJ;DAG;A I LOVE Ryuusei no Kizuna. Just finished it all (caught up from ep 7) and omg I had no idea. What a twist. I totally freaked out and cried. But I really liked the ending. So sweet. ♥♥♥ So much love. I think it may have been my fav drama this year, or at least amongst the very top favourites. :)

Lol that's all. xD

& Finally recovering from the weekend away at Phillip Island for maiaki's birthday bash. Had tons of fun, but I was so tired from all the driving and then I got sick and yeah, not a pleasant aftermath of it. But I'm much better now.

& Watched Twilight with Fiona today. Wasn't planning on watching it, since vampires aren't my thing and well I don't really know (nor care for) the whole hype of Twilight. But Fi wanted to see it and well I didn't mind accompanying her to see it. I had no expectations and didn't know much back story except that it was something like a forbidden love between vampire and human or whatever.

Awkward. That is the word I would use to describe nearly every aspect of the movie. Is it meant to be like that? Or is it just the movie depiction? Now I find myself wanting to read the book, if only to see whether the movie is actually meant to be so awkward. I didn't hate it, nor did I love it. I think I'm just really amused with it. Also, what is everyone swooning over Edward Cullen for? I mean, okay I have nothing against him, but how is the super pale white with blood red lips and dark eyes appealing? It kinda freaks me out. I mean, I like Robert Pattinson, but the makeup job on him is kinda scary. He looks mighty fine in a tux though (or maybe that's just my weak point).

(This is just my take on the movie and I think I'm pretty neutral about it, please don't kill me if you're an avid fan/non-fan. Really.)

& Going to be out ALL day tomorrow for Fiona's graduation thingamajiggy. I don't understand why a graduation parade should start at 9.30am then have it run to morning tea til about 12-1, only to have the ceremony at 6.45. Really, why couldn't you do it directly before? What am I gonna do for 5ish hours? >.<; Well, Fi says we could go shopping. Lol which is totally like her.

& Apologies to everyone. I still haven't started finished my Christmas cards. I think the handmade thing just won't work out. I'll have to send out store bought ones, and at this rate, I seriously doubt they'd make it in time for X'mas. So sorry, they'll probably around a couple of days late. ;_; Gomen minna.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! ♥

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day.

♥ Snuggling up in bed reading book/fic with the constant sound of rain outside my window. All day.
♥ Receiving my first Christmas card for the year! Thank you so much asinful! <33
♥ Ito Yuna on Arashi no Shukudai-kun. :D
♥ Ohno in comedy! Looks to be hilarious. That makes how many JE drama's next season? Gonna make a list of my "to-watch dramas" soon.
♥ Commenting anon (and accidently not-so-anon) on the showering love meme.
♥ Making a little bit more progress in the whole cleaning up my room thing.
♥ Ryo's reactions on Canjani. "It's the first time I've said 'delicious' from the heart'. Lol, Ryo now we know you've lied in all other gourmet stuff. Waiting to see Ohkura fail in the latest Canjani. xD
♥ Ohkura fail on TFPII with the Utahime cast. Nice rebound. Cannot wait til RESCUE cast are on it. xD
♥ Going to see HSM3 with Fi in about an hour. :) It's cheapass Tuesday so I can actually afford to.

Last day of posting every day~ I think I'm gonna take a break from posting everyday but I'm gonna try to include a "Name something that made you happy today" section in every post I do. Cuz doing -that- makes me happy. :D Hope everyone has a good week.