I was originally going to write an entry about how, with the recent announcements that Yesung and now Sungmin are both going to have regular TV appearances, I'm rather looking forward to getting to see both halves of sung² (and - at least in Yesung's case - the resultant fail) on TV a little more...

And then I was sorting through my emails in Thunderbird and discovered that instead of moving a pile of comment notification emails to my 'deal with' folder - to be, you know, dealt with - I instead managed to move them to the 'drafts' folder underneath it ^^; Which would probably explain why I thought I was up to date with comment replies, when clearly I have some going back weeks that I've missed ::headdesk::

So really, instead of writing an entry about Yesung's fail, I've managed to demonstrate equal fail of my own ^^; Oh well, at least I know what I'll be doing when I get home from work tonight XD

I suspect this is one of those occasions where a Yesung!fail icon would be particularly useful, but since I haven't yet got one I'll have to settle for a slightly confused-looking Sungmin :)


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I admit I've been a little MIA recently, but it wasn't really by choice. I can now personally confirm that a 2-week headache seriously impacts both real life and internet time :( Not to mention the part where I ended up taking a nap in the staffroom at work one afternoon whilst waiting for the painkillers to kick in because I couldn't even see straight by that point. Anyway, the good news is that it finally cleared up at the end of last week (even if I never actually found out what caused it...) and now that the Bank Holiday weekend is over I'm back! I also now appear - against my better judgement - to have a twitter account o.O But the less said about that the better for now ^^;

So this entry does actually have a point too - I know, makes a change ^^ I come bearing a Super Junior Happy related gift ( under the cut... )

am ded. need moar sleep. admit that possibly 3.5 hours is not sufficient to get through day. c. might have to poke me on drive home to keep me awake - assuming i don't just fall asleep in work first...

Okay, so am completely ignoring May Shokura filming reports since it seems to be yet another month where Watta & three quarters of Ft2 might as well have not bothered turning up, along with unnecessary guests taking up time that should belong to Jrs (HS7 last month, Tackey & NEWs this month) - I used to love this programme so much and now I'm barely bothered that it doesn't turn up for download... /end rant.

On to more amusing things - at least to me ^^; Just occasionally my family all end up on totally the same wavelength, and it's a little scary when they do. Yesterday, for example, one of our cats was whining to go out all evening and eventually my mum said to him (yes, we do all talk to the cats thankyouverymuch) "Have you got a boyfriend out there? Or a girlfriend?" I just started laughing - must be the sparkly boyband effect that had my mum ask if our male cat has a boyfriend before asking if he has a girlfriend 8D

I've also recently had the following two conversations:

First of all, again with my mum. We were discussing SuJu and concluded that, really, Donghae was pretty much the only member that you could actually take home to meet your parents safely. How bad could the rest be? How about:

Ayame: Can you imagine taking Heechul home to meet your parents? "Hi mum, this is my boyfriend Heechul..."
Aya-Mama: "And this is his boyfriend Hannie. And this is *his* boyfriend Siwon..."

ShiHanChul: so obvious that even parents ship it!

And yes that is a sparkly new shihanchul icon I have over there :)


And then there was my sister. She'd gone to Cardiff overnight to visit friends, and since Torchwood is filmed/set there, we'd been joking all week about her keeping an eye out for Captain Jack. Yesterday, after she'd arrived and checked into the hotel and everything, she sent me a photo of the "hub" and we ended up texting re Captain Jack:

Sis: Where is he? Torchwood needs defending!
Ayame: He's probably busy somewhere... with Ianto... Busy ;-)
Sis: I'm going down to the hub. With a camera. I may be some time... don't send a rescue party!

I think there's the slightest chance my family is all mad....

.... getting so excited about the first preview pics for the new Suju album that you stay up 'til 2.45am making a crappy HanChul icon the night before you have a training course for work and have to be out of the house at 8am...

Not that I'd ever do anything like that, of course. Just don't look at my new icon and you might actually believe me ^^; But ohmygodwow liking the new pics very much!

Also ohmygodwow Tamachan in Gokusen 3 special & movie! ohmygodohmygodohmygodwow!!!! As the 2D leader?! Can't wait to see this!!!!!!


In other news: I'm not dead! But my computer Gaya is - he's now been replaced with my snazzy new Gocchi - which is part of the reason I haven't posted in weeks...

Also, completely randomly, HanChul and ShiHyuk completely rule my world right now 8D Must attempt to make icon of Siwon wiping Hyukkie's tears away - the biggest problem there would probably be choosing which of the many times he's done this to icon!

And now I'm going to bed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz................



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I had a few minutes spare this afternoon and decided to watch the flashback of the first Jack-Ianto meeting in Torchwood, because it's so heartbreaking and sexually charged all at the same time ;-) And of course, my twisted mind suddenly went "what if Suju were Torchwood?" and I ended up with a cast like this:

Torchwood: Seoul

Captain Jack Harkness = Captain Kim Heechul. Slutty and irresistable to either sex, who else could it be :D

Ianto Jones = Han Geng. Joined the Seoul office after the destruction of Torchwood: Beijing. Flirts constantly with Captain Heechul, lots of UST there, but actually hiding his half-cyberman boyfriend Siwon in the basement - for some reason I feel that after the discovery of this Heechul is more likely to keep him around for lots of kinky sex with the pair of them, rather than killing him like Jack did with Lisa...

Gwen Cooper = Lee Sungmin. Ex-policeman who discovers Torchwood's existence and ends up joining them to save the world. As friendly as a puppy, but can be as cold as ice when necessary, and able to fight to defend himself. More than a little attracted to Heechul despite already having a fiancee - has been known to share the occasional kiss with him too (totally inspired by recent Nanjing Super Show events o.O)

Rhys, Gwen's fiancee = Lee Hyukjae/Eunhyuk, Sungmin's fiancee. Not half as stupid as people make him out to be, but frequently lied to in Sungmin's attempts to keep his new job secret. Proves his worth when he finds out the truth about Torchwood - and promptly sets out to help them in their latest job

I just need to think a little more about who would be Tosh and Owen - and of course Captain John and Martha too! This is a very dangerous path I've set off on.....


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I remembered today something that should have been another of my New Year's resolutions - not to be so late anymore. Unfortunately, I've managed to be late to work every day so far in 2009 (even if that's only 3 days!), and quite spectacularly overslept by the best part of an hour this morning ^^; Then having to de-ice the car doesn't help - though mostly it's just me being useless and easily distracted at home rather than leaving as early as I should ^^; Oh well, let's see how I do tomorrow - though with the fact it's nearly half two now and I should well be in bed already but instead I'm sat here writing this, I'm not being too optimistic :D

I did want a new icon to go with this post, but my stupid animation software crashes everytime I try to import the video for it. Obviously, said icon would be the stunning Heechul x Jungmo kiss from last weekend's Super Show - something I have probably watched more times than is healthy ;-) I have to admire his nerve, and the fact that 90% of the responses I've seen have been positive is also great. I'm very much of the opinion that it was totally hot, I hope he emulates it with both Hankyung and Siwon sometime in the near future (and someone also manages to film that - preferably in HD!), that if it were an indication of his orientation that that would be a perfectly good thing, and that if certain other SuJu members wished to do the same then that would also be all to the good of humanity XD Oh, and if that was the show when Siwon's grandmother was in the audience then I hope she wasn't too shocked, and that if it was the show when SHINee were there then they should learn from their hyung's the best way to behave on stage, though possibly not until certain members are at least a little older... By the way, did I mention the hot? ::smirk:: Anyway, will carry on battling with animation shop tomorrow - I will not let it beat me!

Speaking of the kiss, I showed the video of it to a friend at work today. She knows I like BL & yuri type stuff, and JPop & KPop, even though she's not interested in any of that herself, so I was interested to see her reaction. She was all "but that's another boy" when Heenim was approaching Sungmin, and was stunned into silence at the kiss! This might not sound so impressive, but I've known her nearly 2 years now and I don't think she's stopped talking once in that time, so that's quite a big deal!! She didn't have any problems with it when she did remember how to speak - she was mostly concerned with whether Heechul is likely to get in trouble for doing it!

As for the fic that ate my soul, luckily it's slowed down a little since I haven't had much time to write over the past few days. Unfortunately a plot bunny for another AU started nibbling, so now I'm working on two AUs at once - and have a vague urge to write something in a third one too... I feel this will most likely end up with a thoroughly confused Ayame o.o

Think it's nearly time for bed now, but first mini Shokura 2009-01-04 review:
Yay! for Tama pimping, Watta-Miya pairing during Hatsu Uta, soooooo much YoSuke love during Hatsu Uta, Taipi & Watta being the only Kisumai to sing separately twice (again during Hatsu Uta!), Butokan's new song being really pretty with plenty of Bun vocals, and Crazy Accel's gorgeous new introduction with Hasshi's heavenly voice!

Oh, and slightly disturbing: not only does Tsukachan really look like SuJu's Eunhyuk, but it turns out he raps in a similar way to him too... I can't help but feel this is slightly deliberate since Johnny's will have been watching Toho & now SuJu moving towards Japan, and have taken steps towards Korea themselves - and it can't be a coincidence that the groups they've sent to Korea so far are the Johnny's groups with the closest to an SM mentality: Arashi = OT5 and much, much skinship, and sending Ebikisu as backdancers was deliberate too with 11/12 members vs SuJu's 13/15, skinship, OT3, YoSuke, HiroSuke (even if I can't say I've ever really noticed that one!), FumixGocchi love, group baby/magnae with an amazing voice & looking years older than their actual age (Changmin vs Kyuhyun/Ryeowook [not so much looking older but just voice for Wookie] vs Hasshi) etc - the similarities are endless! But back to my main point - someone in the groups or their management has noticed the similarities, so maybe Tsukachan's Eunhyuk-like rapping was also deliberate... ooh, conspiracy theories abound ;-)


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Warning - severe fangirliness and exclamation mark abuse featured under the following cut!

( cut to save friendspages & those who want to stay spoiler-free: johnny's countdown 2008-2009 )

Ohmygodjustkillmenowplease! I've just written another 960 words on a fourth story over the past two hours - and it's not even finished yet! I haven't been this prolific in years ^^;

Also, message to brain: the intention was to write drabbles. And by that I meant 200-300 words each, not nearly 1000 with more to go. Please learn to count. Yours sincerely, Aya xoxo

I'm off to bed now, or else I've got no chance on that no oversleeping thing. And tomorrow night I'm going to find a nice SuJu pic and start working on a header for my new, inevitable fanfic journal - the thought of which will probably be enough to keep my brain from ever letting me write anything ever again...

....is something I'm very good at. One of the best even. It's a skill I've always had but it's gotten a lot worse as I've gotten older, and at the moment I'm managing to accomplish... absolutely nothing. I think half my problem is my tendency to take on too much - even when I've got 15 things to do already, it always seems to be a great idea to add something else to the list. And then I get irrationally stressed out and unable to prioritise the list and end up not actually doing anything at all ^^; Prime example: I still haven't written a proper trip report from Japan despite being home for two months, and haven't even taken my photos in to work to show everyone...

And why am I pondering this right now? Two reasons really, and I'll explain them backwards ( under this cut... )

Also in happier news: they left the Kisumai & ABC songs in the KAT-TUN con DVD!!!!! Watta & his guitar!!!!!!!! Koki picking on Miyacchi! Ayame = so so happy!!!!! SOPOPOGMPRONMUGEFUANCFKLASNGFTLOGIV;W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so I'm not dead, despite it having been about 3 months since my last entry! I am, however, in Japan!!!!! Thanks to the wonders of jetlag I am actually up before 6am and so I thought I'd post these pictures.

I arrived here early yesterday morning and spent the afternoon trying to find Yokohama Arena (got hopelessly lost and am vv happy to have tried this out the day before I actually have concert tickets!). Anyway, did find it eventually and spent a couple of hours queueing up for goods so that I wouldn't have to spend as long today.

( Spent a horrendous amount of money - here's what I bought... )