NEWS-Smile Maker

Dedicating this song to Pancy....

Smile Maker by NEWS

A song whose lyrics really suits us at this point of time!

Yay~ to friendship! *cheers*



English Lyrics

Sometimes things just go wrong, and even if you blame someone
Some things are hard to get over, I understand, its rough
No matter what reason you give, no one is satisfied you know
But surely there is someone looking out for you, someone special, who can genuinely laugh with you

*Smile! Even if things are hard, the more painful things are, the more you should smile
Lets shout! WOW! Laugh it away, [life] GOES ON
Even if not for yourself, smile for someone else
You’ll gain strength from those smiling faces

If you start worrying ENDLESSLY, it doesn’t really matter but
Its not like you like worrying, right?, just you’re frustrated because you’re worrying anyway.
You don’t have anywhere to run, and you want to shield your heart,
And while people are passing by you without noticing, time ticks on.

Even if the waves swallow you, and even if you get swept up in time, I understand that it really isn’t anyone’s fault.
Looking down [at your feet on a] CLOUDY DAY, being honest with yourself is a bit scary,
That’s when, what was it that MY FRIEND always used to say?, “It’ll be alright!”

*REPEAT

This relationship is humanity’s way of connecting, there are no lies in a held out hand,
In this time we’ve spent together and in the future to come, the trust between us is beginning to grow more and more.
YOU AND I [are together], I’m not alone; when I think about that I feel like my life has doubled, yeah
Strong but kind, because we’re supporting each other I feel this gratitude in my heart, TRY

On the separate roads that we’re walking now, there is no one who doesn’t fall at least once.
“This barrier is here so that I can overcome it!,” If I think of it like that I feel like I can get closer to my dreams

*REPEAT

Everyone is weak, obviously. But everyone is scared, even if they hide it.
Just no matter what happens I’m not giving in; the bond that we protected should be your support.
I’ll always be on your side, so with that support below you look to tomorrow
I don’t want to see your depressed face, so chin up and smile! YOUR LIFE

*REPEAT

Will be all right Put a smile on your face



Japanese Lyrics (for my own learning)

上手くいかない事 誰かのせいにしても
どこか許せない事 解るよそれじゃ辛いだろう
何を理由にしても 誰も喜んでないだろう
でも見てくれてるよ そっと 本音で笑い合える大事な人

笑え 苦しい時こそ 辛い数だけ笑顔見せてよ
さぁ声上げて Wow いっそ笑い飛ばして Goes on
自分のためじゃなくても 誰かのために笑おう
喜んでくれた顔が 与えてくれる力を

悩みだしたら Endlessly どうでもいいならいいんだ 別に
好きで悩んだ訳じゃないし ただ それがイラ立ってる原因
逃げ場所もなく 心ふさぎたくなる
誰も気付かず通り過ぎる でも時計は回る

波に飲まれても 時に流されても それは誰のせいでもない事 解ってはいても
うつむいてしまう Cloudy day 素直じゃ少しこわくて
そんな時に My friend いつも言ってくれたっけ 大丈夫だって

笑え 苦しい時こそ 辛い数だけ笑顔見せてよ
さぁ声上げて Wow いっそ笑い飛ばして Goes on
自分のためじゃなくても 誰かのために笑おう
喜んでくれた顔が 与えてくれる力を

この関係は人生の繋がり 差し出す手に嘘はない
共に費やした時間と この先の未来 更に増していく信頼
You ＆ I 一人じゃない そう思える事で人生って倍 そう
強く優しく支え合えるから この感謝を胸に Try

今 歩いてる個々の道で 一度もつまずかない人はいない
「これは乗り越える為の壁なんだ」そう思えば夢に近づける気がして

笑え 苦しい時こそ 辛い数だけ笑顔見せてよ
さぁ声上げて Wow いっそ笑い飛ばして Goes on
自分のためじゃなくても 誰かのために笑おう
喜んでくれた顔が 与えてくれる力を

弱くて当たり前 本当はビビってる誰だって
ただ どんな時も意地を張って 守った絆が君の支え
いつも君の味方 その確かな足で向かえ 明日
暗い顔は見たくない だから 顔上げて笑えYour life

笑え 苦しい時こそ 辛い数だけ笑顔見せてよ
さぁ声上げて Wow いっそ笑い飛ばして Goes on
自分のためじゃなくても 誰かのために笑おう
喜んでくれた顔が 与えてくれる力を

笑え 苦しい時こそ 辛い数だけ笑顔見せてよ
さぁ声上げて Wow いっそ笑い飛ばして Goes on
自分のためじゃなくても 誰かのために笑おう
喜んでくれた顔が 与えてくれる力を

Will be all right Put a smile on your face

Buzzer Beat

I finally had the chance to watch this drama before the end of CNY....all because I bought the DVD.

Sooo happy!!!!

I was deciding between this and Mei-chan no shitsuji at the DVD store. I couldn't get both because I didn't have enough cash with me.....

I was thinking Pi..Buzzer Beat or Hiro...Mei-chan no shitsuji. In the end I picked Buzzer Beat!! heehe.....well it's cuz of slight biasedness, the drama has won so many awards!!!! Plus, I love basketball.....and also because I had already watched 5 episodes of the latter drama online. :P

Pi's drama + basketball theme.....whee~~~ = Mel loves!!!



Love Pi and Keiko together! I like how their relationship which started out as something mutual to something special. It seems they've brought their on-screen romance off-screen....but I approve!! They make a lovely couple!!!

I really like Pi's character, Naoki, in this drama compared to his other roles. "Yasashii otoko" = gentle guy. He's soft spoken, has a goal in life, gentle, serious, atheletic, a great friend and someone whom you can just talk anything with, without worrying that he might make fun of you. He is sweet, caring, does the housework, supports his partner and chase their dreams together! haaha....yea, the type of guy that I like. *sigh* too good to be true.

It's nice to have someone like Naoki who knows nothing about music, be interested in it, when Riko talks about it. At the same time, Riko knows peanuts about basketball, but they were able to support each other through their challenges. Though I thought that the break-up in the middle to allow Riko to chase after her dreams of becoming a violinist was totally unnecessary.



I like Maya Miki, the lady who acted as Naoki's mum. I think it's because of her voice and smile.....I enjoyed watching her in Zettai Kareshi too.

Aibu Saki plays an antagonist in this drama...quite shocking for me, as all these while I've only seen her play good girl roles. Not bad....

Omasa Aya, who plays Naoki's sister, acted in Mei chan no shitsuji and Yamato nadeshiko shichi henge. I'm yet to finish both dramas~

Apparently, a sensei from my language school likes this drama too! hehe~ plus everyone who finds out that I'm a Pi fan has been introducing this drama to me. So I'm glad that I finally got the chance to finish it!

Double thumbs up!!!

1st waacking battle

Last Sat was an amazing experience for me because it was my first ever waacking battle! Well....it's my first battle! haaha....went there totally unprepared as so many things have happened prior to that. It's a bit too late to prepare for it.

First, it was preparation for a dance perf. Then the date for the battle session has been brought forward a day earlier....to the same day as the perf. Plus, me finding out that some of the common steps which I normally do in my freestyles are not actually waacking moves!!! aahhh~~~

Yea....plus I don't have any waacking songs with me and I only got them from J the day before the battle!!! ahhhh~~~ I haven't even had time to listen to them yet!

Oooo~~~ but it was an event that would be hard to miss because a pro waacker AN from the IHOW was there to be the judge. (As usual, I don't include full names in my blog entries) Ahhh....one of the very few who actually trained under TP!!

Yea....so I went for the battle!!! I chickened out on the freestyle because I was afraid that I would be doing some "weird-hop" and also because my musicality is bad. Overall....I'm unable to let go of all the things that are restricting me and just enjoy myself because I care about what other ppl would think. That is another level which I need to achieve in order to become better!

First battle was with Ah K. Guys have guy styles and girls have girl styles of doing the dance. It was interesting. Only guys can do man poses. I hope more guys would join in future. After 2 rounds, I was lucky enough to move on to the next round.

Second battle was with my waacking instructor!!! Ahhh~~~ I think I defeated myself before the battle even started because I was so convinved that I would lose. Yea, I lost after 2 rounds anyways. My instructor was a lot better than me in terms on musicality, fierceness, moves and techniques. I still have a lot more to improve on.

As for the other dance styles such as Freestyle, House, Poppin and Lockin....it was CRAZY!!!! Everyone's super talented....i could hardly keep my mouth close the entire time!!! It was super interesting as instructors all joined the the battles too. They all did amazingly well winning all the battles!! It was totally crazy because some had to go up to 5/6 rounds before the winner could be decided.

The event ended only at 3am but no complains from me because it was a great eye-opener as it was the first time I've attended an event like this. I missed the last one due to food poisoning and also because I thought I wanted to accompany Pancy.

Oooo~ It was so fun, I can't wait for the next one. I hope I'd be able to perform better next time. Plus I can't wait to see what the other dancers could bring to the battle floor! It's great to see everything live and upclose rather that from videos!

Oh, as for AN? His waacking was "jaw-dropping". Just seeing him pose.......is already so nice!!! and the way he moves his arms....."ahhh~ I wish I could be able to dance like him". Plus when he's showing, he's not really using much energy, imagine seeing him battle!! It's gonna be superb man.

We did get a change to see him vogue and it was soooooo nice! 1st time seeing a pro waack and vogue in front of me!!! I wonder what would it be like to see pros battle. Ahhh~~~~

Even though, time is too short for a workshop from him, I hope that he'll come back for one in future and meanwhile, I can't wait for this Sat's workshop by K! Oh, he did have a poppin' workshop last night though, which I missed because I was sick since Sunday........

MC on monday then took a medication that causes drowsiness and dizziness on tuesday without knowing and drove all the way to work feeling dizzy with light headache the entire journey. Then I had meeting that morning....I tried so hard to keep mayself awake the entire time!!!

Anyways, I'm still coughing badly now eventhough there's no more flu. The weather's pretty lately....hope everyone takes good caare of themselves and stay healthy!!!!

Chap Goh Mei

whee~


Yesterday was the last day of cny...also known as chap goh mei or chinese valentine.


Anyone threw any mandarin oranges into any river/ sea?


I didn't!! :(


This year was really special as I had the chance to perf a chinese dance at P kl. My first time at the mall actually....hehe...so huge and grand~!!!


It was really last minute as we were only informed 2 days before the perf day.......ahhhh.......


I got a shock when I found out that we'd be doing a chinese dance. haha, we were all wondering how would d dance be like and what do we do about costumes.....

But in the end, everything went smoothly and we all had a lot of fun during the performance..... hehe.....

Us!!! In studio right after our rehersal, with our make up artist! Thank you!!!! and also thansk to our instructor who fixed our hair!!! So beautiful right?
This is us outside of the famous xiao long bao shop during our break......
It was nice that many ppl wanted to take pics with us last night. After the first perf we got so high that we started dancing to hiphop songs in our costumes and white socks. hehee...
It was a great experience and I don't mind doing it again.....in future, I hope to be able to try out other dance styles too.

Lunch at Cone Pizza

There's this new italian pizza restaurant around my office so a colleague and I decided to try it today.....

ITALIAN CONE PIZZA!!!

hehe...well even though they are famous for their cone pizza, we decided to try their pastas instead.

This spaghetti bolognese is what my collegue ordered. Looks great...but too little sauce and that taste was quite bland. Not suitable for ppl who prefer strong flavours. Oh...but it was quite aromatic as you can really smell the herbs.

And this is my Italian prawn pasta. Doesn't look too appetizing but I enjoyed it! Yummy. The sauces taste just right but the prawns were mushy.....not fresh!!!

Just like other italian restaurants, you can pick ur pasta of choice and the sauce to go along with it.

This restaurant does have service charge or tax....hehe..plus points!!!

I will be back again to try their cone pizza, which according to the staff is 6 inches long!

Lol....there's gonna be a whole lot of posts on chocolates from now on.....

Why?

Well because I realised that people always like to give me chocolates, candies or cookies as gift! And I'm not complaining either cuz I love them!

I must have the words "Buy me chocolates~" written over my forehead! haahah.....

Yup, and this post is on Arnott's TimTam!!

Yea, the first time I tried it was.....when I was in Brunei. I think Pancy bought it as a gift when she visited my house together with a bunch of fruits. But those were in tiny little packs and not one who big packs like these. I think there were 24 pieces and well.....I ate them all!

Ooo....leave them in normal room temperature, take the pieces out, hold them between your fingers and let your body heat melt the chocolate! haa....yummy~

Chocolates are best enjoyed at room temperature. I don't like keeping chocs in the fridge because I believe that chocs tastes best when you put them in your mouth...and it just MELTS!

Well if you keep TimTams in the fridge, they tend to stick together and is difficult to separate into individual pieces later on. Or does that happen only to me? Oh, and the chocolate cream hardens too......

But in order to maintain it's freshness, I put it in the fridge once it's opened anyways.

Ok, back to TimTam. There are now many flavours. e.g cookies & cream. My cuzzie YL bought me 1 from melb last year. It was nice and I love the cookie bits but this flavour is just a little too sweet for my liking.

Then there's honeycomb! I love honeycombs! nyomnyom~you know, those kind of feeling?? No?? Anyways. I first saw that in Sibu and I was like super excited. An instructor bought one and we all had a piece and it was super delicious even thought all the choc had melted and everything stuck together. After that I quickly bought a pack when we went back to the store.

hmm..now that I think about it. I haven't seen it since I came back. I wonder where did it go......

Yea, well there are lots more flacours which I hope to try too in future and not now....I just gained 2 kg, this cny!!!

Tronky

Pancy bought me a box of this form Brunei when I met her here in KL last year.

I was shocked to see that it was a product under Ferrero, as I've never seen it before.......

...but I should've guessed so, since it consists of hazelnuts and chocolate!

yummy~ I LOVE the combination!

Tronky is basically just plain wafer cookie, surrounding a rich creamy chocolate centre with crushed hazelnuts as filling.

Ahh~ heavenly! The greedy me ate the whole box myself!!

and that's all because I couldn't find it anywhere.

Lol, thank you Pietro Ferrero for inventing the lovely hazelnut plus cocoa cream which produces products like Nutella, Ferrero Rocher...oh, and Tic Tac too.....

Muar's famous otak-otak

Otak-otak was one of the first things I ate after I arrived at Muar......yummylicious~ together with a plate of chicken satay!!!
See those lovely babies being heated? You know it's ready when you see burned marks on the leaves and when you smell something tasty!!!

cute bento

hehe.....cute??

This was my lunch on Tuesday.

lol...I always pack lunch, but this is the first time I actually took a pic because I thought it looked cute! haaha....

Mel's smashed potatoes + eggs + salad leaves (whatever u all 'em) + thousand island sauce

:D

Johnny's Countdown 2009-2010

As with every year around this time, I will be watching the Johnny's concert countdown. I love their countdowns....I feel very happy everytime I watch them. Happy sunshine boys singing and dancing on stage. Well...they're not all young little boys, there are many senpai's performing on stage every year. So it is a show suitable for people of all ages as long as you like japanese music.

This year there are several medleys, starting with the debut single medley followed by the smash hit medley and lastly the shuffle unit medley. As with last year, the concerts were held in several halls: Tokyo Dome, Kyocera Dome Osaka and Tokyo Imperial Theatre. Same show in 3 halls simultaneously?? Yes.....Johnny's very good at that.

Tackey, A.B.C and Kis-my-ft2 were in the imperial hall. Kanjani8 and the kansai juniors were based in Osaka and therefor Ryo-chan's there too. And the rest of the Johnny's at Tokyo Dome. It's sad that Ryo-chan had to be separated from the rest of NEWS but one cannot be too greedy. Ryo-chan has been spending a lot of time with NEWS and he was after all placed in Kanjani8 first.

Arashi was the host again this year..... *wheee* and everyone's wearing kira-kira outfits.








I knew that Kinki Kids have been having 29 consecutive no. 1 hits since their debut in 1997, but I never knew that it was a Guiness World Record. After watching the vid, I searched the net and it seems it's true!!! Omedetou~ Kinki Kids!

*happy* Uchi's there, Toma-kun's there too with Pi!!!

I love the shuffle medley!!! but it feels weird to have Kattun singing NEW's Kibou...hehe, totally different vibe.



Ryo-chan's record of being the only Johnny's member to be in 2 groups has been broken by *ahem* my 2 lovely sons: Yamada Ryosuke and Chinen Yuuri. These 2 little ones together with cutie Nakayama Yuma and the B.I.Shadow boys form NYC Boys. N for Nayayuma, Y for Yamada (it's bolded as he's the leader), C for Chinen and the B.I.Shadow boys...well, boys = New York City Boys.

I find it quite unfair to the other senpai JJ and also for B.I.Shadow. I've been waiting for ABC and Kis-my-ft2 to debut for SOOOO long! Not very good looking but they are some amazing talents in there! Instead all the chibis get to debut first!!! Yes, I love Yamada and Chinen but kesian the B.I.Shadow boys who sings only a few lines!!

As with NEWS, NYC Boys were also supposed to be only a temporary group formed to sing for some volleyball competition. But I guess due to the good response, they were made permanent. Also, they're both now the only groups with members from Tokyo and Kansai region.

Here's their PV- NYC. Nakayama is starting to grow on me, I think I'll give his dorama a try.


Yea, my sons look great in the PV. Chinen has grown so much taller and his voice is a lot deeper now. His back flip is absolutely beautiful. Can you see this kid jump from like 3-4 metres high in the PV? I'm interested to see what his gymnast background will bring to his dance in the future. :D

JE Rocks~!!!