so today, i finally sat down and watched Kobe shimbun no nanakan. a movie/documentary that aired in 2010 in remembrance of the more than 6,400 lives lost in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. it’s hard to explain the whole plot, but the characters are mainly people at a newspaper company. photojournalists and reporters, and how they struggle to keep the newspapers going and published through the crisis.

it shows the pains journalist and photojournalists go through. how the photographers couldn’t even bear to pick up and aim the camera. how a photojournalist thought that she’d take a picture of a heroic act of rescue, which resorted in after the photo was taken, the bodies uncovered were cold and dead.

btw, the magnitude of this earthquake was 7. my heart aches to wonder how japan is doing with a 8.9 now.

but i was totally bawling at this scene. (click for bigger version)

i don’t know how many times i’ve cried in this film.

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now i’m just waiting for newsZERO on NTV (japan) to come on. it has been nothing but news and no programs are on air. people are even finding relief when they started to air 10% of the commercials. it’s still news all the way though. but at least i’ll be able to see a familiar face. sho’s doing some live coverage on the earthquake. so i think many people will be tuning in just to see him live and safe. he’s the first johnny’s to appear on tv after the whole incident.

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btw, that enviromental piece of a japanese street i did that i posted on facebook? it’s got a pretty deep meaning to it. the hiragana/kanji at the bottom says “boku no furusato”. which means, “my hometown”. the MY isn’t mine. it’s for all the japanese that are still lost or can’t find their way.

i added arashi not because i liked them, but because they are japan’s ambassadors, and almost everyone is a fan of them in japan, because they cheer you up.

i edited the picture after i posted it on FB but was too lazy to change it.

i added a frog.

frogs in japan are good luck. they are pronounced as “kaeru” which sounds exactly like, “to return” in japanese.

i’m hoping that the people still missing would return soon.

BUY THE PIRATES, KILL THE MUSIC.

ever since i got to know callie, and some other youtubers, i realised how musicians really do need people to buy their albums to support them and how they absolutely hate pirates. i recently bought arashi’s tour dvd, and when i found out they were top at the oricon charts and had record breaking sales, i felt really good XD like “omg, i’m one of the 203 302029339 people that bought it!”

now i’m waiting to receive their new lotus single.

IT’S SO DIFFICULT TO NOT DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO IT ): i’ve been desperately waiting. i downloaded 2 out of 3 of their songs. (because i bought the limited edition and it only has 2 songs plus PV, the regular edition has 3 songs) so i downloaded the other song and lotus, because i’ve been watching their live performances and i couldn’t stand not hearing the full song ): i still haven’t seen the pv or heared the other song yet though (: resisting the temptation.

makes me think how it’s actually not that bad to buy music. D: it’s a heck of a lot cheaper then buying my cosplay things thats for sure.

i think my cosplay funding will now be funding for my music. XD

): i’m slowly starting to get disinterested in cosplay alreadyyyyyy.

quite depressed after a phone call.

BUT THAT WON’T GET ME DOWN. HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE. (: WHY MUST I BE BEAT DOWN JUST BECAUSE OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

i love myself too much to let myself be down. 8D

i have a few great concepts in mind. but i’m too lazy to pick up the pencil D:

oh well.

*rolls pencil around desk*

LOTUS

OMGHJHWEDNSABWHQKJHUQWHDU2

IPHONE 4

:[ my dad raised my hopes and dashed it when he brought in this today.

no, it wasn't for someone else or whatever. i still have it. but it was just something cheap from him friend. it was china made :[

so yea, the box was totally exactly the same. even the branding and casing. but when i first held it, i knew it wasn't real. ]: it was light. it was definately acrylic and not glass that they used. 2nd thing was when i turned it on, the screen wasn’t HD. it was actually more of the 3rd gen iphone then the 4 gen. but it’s still fake anyways. oh and the camera sucks balls too. my old nokia phones are probably better then the camera in here. at most 2 megapixels. don’t even mention recording. it doesn’t record at all.

and the reason why i won’t be using it for playing games? like i said, i think they used acrylic to replace glass, so i have to press down harder then usual just so it could read my touches.

oh china. you so funny.

now what am i going to do with this? ._.

:D i love my mom.

i’ve done it.

D:

i’ve finally jumped and done it.

and i have no regrets. (:

finally finished the newsarticle for art and film. >_> in the end i did that last missing article myself. oh well. group projects.

now i have to worry about storyboarding. how can i do it when i don’t even know what the character looks like? =_=;

arashi at kouhaku! :D

no disappearing costumes and magic this year, but still so much fun XDD and jun’s hair is awesome. 8D

HANDHELD PYROTECHNICS FTW. ROFL.

wanted to say this on my facebook, but there would definately be haters rofl.

but i was just helping my mom record her hana yori dango korean version. (boys over flowers)

so i turn it on, hit record and i see the makino tsukushi (korean version) playing the piano and singing at a domyouji (korean style).

WHAT. ]:

they’re currently showing the episode where it’s domyouji’s birthday and they announce his fiance.

i still think hana yori dango is much nicer. :\ the actors are so much nicer. makino didn’t play the piano. she smashed the keys and owned the crowd. >

 

panty and stocking season 2 confirmed in their ost.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

i totally want a brief transformation scene now. theres a song in the ost called “cherryboy riot”.

i inner nosebleed if i think of brief’s transformation scene to that music. OMG DO WANT D: