Long Overdue Trip Post! - Day 4

The 14th was a really exciting day ^^ - we had agreed to go line up for goods with the four Arashians we met at our hostel, so we left very early in the morning for Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome. The thing was, we thought we were super early; there were literally no one in the streets when we walked out and it was still very dark out, and even the bus only had one or two other passengers in it. But almost every stop had more and more Arashians coming in - people with Arashi totes, phone straps, etc., people dressed up in their ichiban's colours, and all that. We ran up the stairs to the Dome, stopping only to take a picture of it, and noticed that the queue for goods already went halfway around the Dome.

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Long Overdue Trip Post! - Days 0-3

The last time I went to Japan, I used an iPhone, which had a Typepad app. Last January I was using (and still am!) Sony's Xperia Arc, and there's no Typepad app on Android that I could find, so I kind of got lazy about updating. Now it's May... and I think I should post these before the year is over ^^;

The first day isn't really a "day"; Salwa and I arrived very late at night, and even managed to miss the last train to our hostel. The next couple of days were spent meeting friends and randomly walking about, so it wasn't really Arashi-oriented at all, but we did manage to spot some stuff :D

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #035

Aired On: June 4th, 2007

OMG, I just realised that the last time I did my Shukudai-kun re-watch was in February last year. Since I still kept to my promise of not watching Shukudai-kun out of sequence until I'm done, this means that I haven't actually watched Shukudai-kun since then! (*_*) So I think it's about time I continue (^^;;

The guest for episode #35 is singer/actress Katase Nana. She came to promote her film Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai, which is about a couple who could communicate telepathically. Since it's a slow love story, the conversation started along that theme, but as usual, the subject soon turned into food - as her homework for the audience is to find delicious and unusual yam dishes.

Sho-kun wanted to know what slow love meant, and Aiba helped ^^;

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Oh yay more magazines

(A quick note while waiting for painkillers to kick in >.<)

Well I bought these at least a couple of weeks ago, (these pics were taken around that time, too, but never had the time to post them) but I have yet to buy the Aiba anan that's been on my desk at my office since it first arrived at the store, and I have really been too busy to do much else Arashi-related these days. I wasn't supposed to spend on magazines this year, but television guides are a lot cheaper, so I think of them as an exception when Arashi/members are on the cover.  Although Aiba's anan is another exception (too adorable, okay) and, uhm, I've ordered April's H magazine because the cover looked shiny.

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もう誘拐なんてしない

I really wasn't planning to watch Oh-chan's drama, because I prefer to wait and download rather than stream. But I just happened to check freshverse and it was on, and I ended up watching it until the end. It's really funny, and I haven't been checking on the news relating the drama (I only knew about Ohno and Aragaki Yui, and ShoJun cameo-ing), so I was pleasantly surprised by the casting.

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TV Pia (3/3-3/16) & Weekly the Television (3/3-3/9)

Well, actually the main reason I'm posting here is because it's been awhile. I'll try to remember to post things from my last trip to Japan here, and, um, watch more Arashi TV ^^;

Basically this year I'm trying to cut down on my magazine buying, but I guess TV guides are okay, as they don't strain my budget too much. And I only get them when they're really worthwhile. Like these:

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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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