Malaysia no Arafes / Arashian Sleepover #3

To be honest, I was already dead tired before our "24/7" flailing fest started. And I had - and still have - a terrible cough. But I was still looking forward to it! After all, one of the best things about being in this fandom is meeting other fans and flailing together. And it's the first time seeing everyone in awhile, especially since I just came back from my very short Japan trip - it's time to unload and distribute the Arafes goods!

This time everything is even more laidback than usual; everyone brought food, which we all enjoyed while watching concert DVDs and having our own running commentaries about the boys. We started with Beautiful World, before changing to All the Best for the PVs, and I think the rest ran through Iza, Now!, Time, and AAA 2006 while I was dozing off from my meds. We even watched the Shiyagare SP live on my laptop.

In the morning we woke up to more DVD watching, before finally getting ready for lunch at Pavilion's Tokyo Street. Mui and Hana were with us on the first day but couldn't join on the second, while Isabelle joined us on the second day but wasn't around on the first.

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Kouhaku + Aiba's (Belated) Birthday Celebration

Since we have yet to celebrate Aiba's birthday (somehow Christmas ended up with us making other plans), and wanted to watch Kouhaku together anyway, we decided to combine the two this year :)

Syiena and Hana arrived around 4, and we watched Himitsu (the latest Mannequin Five SP) while we waited for the rest, and I finished up my year-end posts. Usually when it comes to gatherings of course life gets in the way and there would be last-minute cancellations, but this time everyone who said they were coming managed to make it!

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Arashian Eid Sleepover 2011

The second of what may be an annual sleepover? This year we're celebrating Arashi's 5x12 anniversary as well as MatsuJun's belated birthday, since his birthday happened on Eid (Hari Raya) and we couldn't celebrate back then. This year is a lot more laid back than last year, with minimal planning (since there wasn't enough time to plan) - we started off watching various variety shows and played a sugoroku game that my sister helped me prepare. It's kind of funny because we used my D&D miniatures for our tokens, and our batsu games were kind of silly. Also we had a very interesting answer from Fatin when she landed on the "if two members starred in a drama together, who would it be and what would the drama be about?" square. Her drama would be a love story, a tearjerker, and a comedy, if it ever became real. ^^

 

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Dome DVD Screening + Nino's Birthday!

Well, the celebration was actually done on the 18th, one day after his birthday. I was really impressed with such a huge turn out! There were slightly over 50 people, from what I heard. I was really nervous about not knowing anyone there, but thankfully Kak Syiena and Hana were around and some of the other girls were also very friendly. There were people I recognised from the Kokuritsu screening, but since they hadn't introduced themselves during that time I wasn't sure who they were ^^;;

But of course, once the screening started, everyone was happy to flail together! Since the DVD started out with the solo interviews there was a lot of kya-ing every time an ichiban appeared. Kind of funny; I found myself kya-ing over MatsuJun appearing on the big screen more than Sho-kun. But, the thing is, when it was Aiba, there was a (very brief) moment of silence, and then it's like everyone realised - hey, no one's screaming for Aiba! - and then everyone started to kya together while laughing a little. (Oh, Aiiba. You know we love you.)

I've watched the DVD before yesterday, but somehow there's something about watching it on the big screen with so many other fans - it's magic. The mood is somewhat like being in a concert, you know, you're with so many other people who may or may not be strangers but you understand each other perfectly and still lean towards each other giggling over stuff like, "god, did you see what Sho did back there? He's so dorky!" Rather than the concert, which is perfection in itself, of course, this other scenery that I was looking at made me so happy about this fandom. Especially when everyone's voices were raised together in song - it's like when we're all together Arashians are invincible. 

When we were done with the first disc we had a short break for food and Nino's birthday celebration. The cake was gorgeous. Everyone sang happy birthday and then rushed to take a picture of it. ^^

Then, it's on to the next disc, followed by another short break before the third. During the encore most of the people were jumping around and everyone was singing along. 

 

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