Rewatching the Kisumai on MSte again last night, I realised something about Yokoo's recent ability to actually look at the correct camera (unlike on most Shokuras!) - he seems to have re-found the confidence he had during KKKity. Seriously, he's all smiling and looking at the camera and actually paying some attention to what's going on around him, which is something he hasn't really done for a while. No idea why it's taken him this long to get it back but it's great to see!

Quick recap of the week now:
- Work was terrible (Monday), horrible (Tue), just about bearable (Wed & Thur), and Friday good - since I'd booked it as holiday ages ago :)
- Health was average (Mon), non-stop coughing (Tue-Fri). Eventually went to the doctors on Friday and now have antibiotics, so I'm beginning to feel a little more human
- Desktop comp was 'fixed' on Monday - but it doesn't run as efficiently as it did before and it's much, much noiser than it used to be so I'm not impressed. Suspect it has something to do with them unnecessarily replacing the motherboard when the problem was the PSU...

I hate to admit it but my geekiness hit a new level today ^^; I've never really got into RPGs before, but after reading about Dragon Age Origins I've spent the afternoon playing the flash game Dragon Age Journeys and absolutely loving it *headdesk* Origins is out next Friday and I'm really tempted to preorder it - Game promise to have it delivered on the release date so I wouldn't even have to wait long for it... Oh god, I really am a total geek now!

I've spent the week stressing over my ideas for NaNoWriMo and finally decided to stick with the fanfiction version rather than original characters. I admit that most of this decision is because there's a chance people will actually read it if it's fanfiction, whereas I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to post it as original work. Of course, this is all dependent on it actually getting written in the first place ^^

Oh, I'm finally getting to use my new QMi♥ icon too :) I'd made it the night before the computer died, so of course it hadn't been backed up or anything and I've only been able to get at it again this week. Still not sure it's quite finished but it'll do for now ^^;

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I am probably definitely going to hell for this but wow... (thanks to fxamberaday for sharing ♥)

Have seen a couple of clips from today's MuBank: Beast's debut stage showed some potential but mostly they just seem to be attempting to replace 2PM - not surprising but so far I much prefer 2PM as they're stupid, funny, excessively fail and basically just perfect, with the added bonus of optional JoKwon and Seulong bringing even more laughs XD. Truthfully, we only really watched it because all the existing K-boybands seem to be dropping like flies, so we thought we'd better give some of the new ones a chance! As for SHINee... I still haven't figured if I actually like the song, and some of the clothing choices were a little questionable, but hairstyle-wise they're looking stunning - except for Jonghyun's colour of course - and their performance was pretty slick. Weirdly enough, this is the first SHINee song my mum actually likes, whereas I've liked their previous singles but am not so impressed by this song yet o.o What we do agree on though is that Key, Onew and Minho are rocking their hairstyles this time round :D

As for Kisumai on MSte: whilst their opening costumes weren't great, they were much better than what they wore to perform in *headdesk* Really, what was that thing Tama had on his head?? And unfortunately Mitsu slipped (twice?) during the performance :( I thought the song was rather Hikaru Genji-like - not their best song, but catchy anyway, even if their slower stuff is where they excel (Ame, Smile, Inori & Brand New Season are some of their best songs IMO) - and on the plus side, they got a sit-down talk, everyone got decent close-ups (and amazingly they all managed to look at that camera at the right time - something Yokoo seems incapable of doing on Shokura!), their performance was really high tension and impressive with the ramps and skating acrobatics - especially the YoSuke + Nika part ;) - and overall they did actually pull it off in a rather already-debuted fashion. And if that sentence makes no sense due to it being ridiculously long and run-on, I'll claim it's entirely due to the fact I'm posting at 3am ^^;

Also, important note: I hate stupid people very much today. Whilst this obviously applies to Kangin right now, it also very much covers certain ignorant co-workers who would happily try to argue that black is white (and then get killed on the next zebra crossing... sorry, obligatory Hitchhiker's Guide quote ^^) despite all evidence to the contrary. I'm very glad to have next week booked off as holiday time, and it might also be a good oportunity to start looking for another job since this one has me so burned out right now >.<

Oh, important note #2: evil Kyu is evil and it's a good job poor Mimi loves him and knows the feeling is mutual :D

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Only watched half of it so far but think I've seen all the important parts:

Kisumai's new song 雨 is ♥ but not as ♥ as Kei calling Yokoo "渉" during the Kisumai talk - I love that Kei, Yokoo & most likely Shige at least are all still friends from the KKKity days... actually, I love all KKKity member-ai, as you might be able to tell from my new icon!

Yara is totally S, Bun is from another planet and YamaRyo is so genki it makes even Mimi look miserable in comparison - and this is why I love Butoukan :D

Chibi-ABC is adorable and Goseki-sama does love laughing at Fumi, doesn't he :)


As an aside, much as I want the Kisumai to debut just as the seven of them, I still feel Johnny is wasting an opportunity to debut EbiKisuTokan (ie ABC-Z + Kis-My-Ft2 + Butoukan) and create a bigger boyband than even Super Junior, especially now that SuJu are down to 12(+2) - but that has even less chance of happening than a Kisumai debut.........

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The atmosphere at work is so thick you could practically cut it with a knife. Everyone's in a bad mood with everyone else for one reason or another >.<

Personally, I just want some good news because this week seems to be getting worse by the day T__T Today we have:
- the Dream Concert poster has had Jay photoshopped out of the 2PM pic already
- my least favourite (to put it politely) Soshi member seems to be appearing in the new SJ-M PV
- they've announced Tackey's butai for January '10 will have Kisumai appearing again, so any chance of a debut announcement before Febuary seems impossible (not that I have a whole lot of hope for one anyway...) despite Playzone and a zenkoku tour for them. And ABC are going to be performing in 3 different butai that month, depending on what day it is - that's overwork on an SME level at least!

The only nice thing today has been the new SJ-M promo pic with Mimi looking absolutely stunning - oh, and Yossi's new official profile pic too :D But if this week continues like this, I'm going to be too scared to even switch the computer on by the weekend!

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....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... )