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~!!!

I-Dance Competition Penang

I'll be going to Genting tomorrow night for New Year's Eve.....hopefully the trip will be as fun as the last one. Oooo...I hope that it wun be very cold~~~~ bbrrrrr!!!

Ooo....remember the dance competition? The video is out!

For the preliminary round, we were the 1st group and then when the top 5 have to perform their routine again, we were the last one. Yea, so this is the second one.....
Urban Angels Winning Routine in I-Dance
Joel MySpace Video




Yea, the quality's pretty low....

Can you spot me? No? I'm the one in grey on the right in the beginning......

Sibu Trip

Blogging again~~~

The Sibu trip has been amazing. I really enjoyed it. For such a small place, it’s been really fun and most of all……a really great experience, esp for the dance part.

I had initially thought that we would be there for ONE performance on xmas eve only…..but no….we were dancing nearly every single day!!!

Let’s see…..( If I’m not mistaken….hehe…due to the lack of sleep, I might have mixed up several events and dates)

Day 1
Arrived at 9.00+ am: We were all worn out as we didn’t really get much sleep the night before as we need to arrive at LCCT by 5am! Omg~ Thought that we would be able to go home and sleep….but no….we were treated to a full 8 course meal at some Chinese restaurant facing sungei rejang (the longest river in sarawak). Finally got to sleep for a while after lunch before heading to church for prac….

Day 2
Press conference for the instructors and at night…..xmas caroling. This was soo cool man….I’ve never joined a xmas carol before and had never seen one as big as this before too….There were……thousands of ppl caroling?? It’s more like a marching parade actually…..with with huge flower trucks, marching bands, people and more people!!

What did we do? The prepared a jeep with speakers at the back for us….so that we can dance as we paraded around town! What an experience! The best part……was that it was RAINING!! I think we finished in about 1 hr+ but the parade lasted longer than that. That’s what you call street dancing man~~~

Then we went to Pintu Gerbang Sibu to watch the local bboys do their thing. They are really hardworking! You can see them practicing there every single night for hours!!! And I heard that they have to travel there by boat or something. Respect man~

Day 3
Minishows!! 1 was at a hotel and 2 more at a local mall. For the last show, we had to do freestyle and mine is like…..non-existence!!! Somehow I managed to do something which turned out to be part of choreography for some dance. It just somehow came naturally. Must be muscle memory~~~

Day 4 & 5
Instructor’s workshop!! The response there was good. And I go to join free workshops ….haha….
Oh, we also visited the local night market…which sells really good muachi. For someone like me who doesn’t like muachi, I think it tastes good too….

Day 6
Rehearsal….rehearsal…..then Movie night! Hehee…..visited this old school cinema there which still sells snacks like sour plum or old fashioned biscuits….and whose paper tickets have seat numbers written at the back with pencil!

Day 7
Xmas Eve and Performance Day! We performed on a state-of-the-art stage...well at least to me it is~ with all the lightings, huge screen on both sides and at the back, in the middle. There were camera crews who would shoot the dancers and project the image onto the huge screens for the audience....live~

Day 8
Mini perf at the church then..... Back to kl~ huhu......*sad*...and worst of all, the plane delayed for more than 2 hours.

Overall the trip was great, though tiring. There were trainings till late night, sleeping at 2/3 am. It’s nice that I got the chance to try out local delicacies such as kam puah, kom piah, chao bai guo gan, peppermint tea, mixed fruits ice…etc. It’s also unfortunate that I missed the chance to try the famous Foochow delicacy- ding bian hu. I missed the opportunity to go for an extra hour of beauty sleep…hehe….Oh and I didn’t get to eat Sugar Bun~…..it’s been like….more than 7 years since I had their fried chicken.

I felt as if I’ve gained extra pounds from the trip due to all the snacks and supper!!! It’s like a fat gain camp. When it’s time, meals will be provided to us by the locals and the serving is always huge. Plus I always carry snacks around with me and there’s always food in the kitchen. One good thing about eathing out there is that you will always be given a cup of hot water to rinse our cutleries.

I’m thankful that I’ve been given the opportunity to go on this trip and also thanks to everyone else who have made it fun.


hm....that's all for now till I can remember what else I've missed out~ hehe....

Bday Lunch

Lunch with family at Daorae...

muahaha......pork belly~ yum yum!

As usual there were a lot of side dishes but I like this plain salad the most because of the corn salad dressing and I kept asking for more!

I've always wondered what's this jelly like thing and I finally found out from the staff- Korean tofu!

Bibimbap! Looks nice like this right?

After you've mixed everything, it looks like this......not very presentable, but it tastes great with the red pepper paste.

Steamed egg.......hmm, super 'rough' steamed egg!! haaha....

Chicken marinated in sesame oil~

This is actuallly grillled pork ribs....no bones, only meat! Super convenient! I like it as it's less fatty compared to the pork belly but mummy n daddy prefers the pork belly as it's jucier.

The free korean pancake! I think my dad is the only person who wraps this with a lettuce together a piece of meat.....he said it tastes nice when eaten that way.

Yummy~ I just love korean bbq!

10/10/09

If not mistaken, this is Pi's poster at Shibuya now.....
Congrats to Pi who will be holding his first solo concert!!!! おめでとうございます！！！

Found few great fanvids of Pi,lol a must watch if you haven't fallen for him yet!

"Totally Pi"

More of little things on Pi....

Lastly, clips from his latest J-dorama, Buzzer Beaat!!! hmm...looks like there's a love rectangle...haaha....I haven't got time to watch the drama yet :(

credits: nanookane, whitekurosu, Gryzek5, youtube

whee~~ Piiiiiii~~~~

More food....

Met up with the gals last week at Ikea....

Mine!!!

This famous meatball is what everyone else had, except me, because I don't take beef.....heehe

Salmon~~~

<3>

After shopping around...I got hungry again. So Sora and I went for pancakes!!!

Rue, Wayne, Sora and I

14.09.09

Was supposed to go for a farewell party for XueQin last Sat, but then the since the main star couldn't make it that day and some others too due to various reasons...... d' remaining 3 of us decided to still meet up.

Seawitch, ChorYin and I headed to Pasta Zanmai. (You must be thinking "AGAIN!!???" haaha...yes, again! cuz CY never tried it before.)

Tada~ D 1st dish! Unagi no Spicy pasta!!!! (hahaa...when CY read it, she tot it was "not spicy". LOL~)

This pasta is just nice with a little sauce from the grilled unagi and some chilli flakes. Initially, I was thinking that this dish wodn't be spicy because there's only a feww TINY flakes...but I was wrong, it's quite flavourul actually. The more you eat, the more heat you'll get! It might be due to the sauce too....But yummy~ and as usual, their pastas always Al Dente~~
This pizza here is one of their specials for the month of September. It's curry mochi pizza with minced meat. Weird right?? Mochi??? and curry??? on pizza??? As weird as it sounds, it's not bad. I guess you can never go wrong with japanese curry as even a non-cook like myself can make japanese curry.

The curry meat sauce smells great! Just the fragrant alone will make you salivate! Plus the stringy mozzarella cheese on top!! *yummy* The mochi is just a thinly sliced rectangular piece on top of each slice. It's actually tasteless...I think they added it just for it's texture. The chewy and springy texture. Q-Q?

Next is the ebi potato gratin!!! I tot it was only ebi, but it came with hotate too!!!! See....3 hotate and 3 ebi!!! Well, wasn't expecting too much from this dish initially as I thought it would just be another normal potato dish with the potato all smashed up with some cream sauce. But no~no~, this one has a great texture!!!!

Heavenly, the 3 of us love this dish!!!! My eyes went like O_O at the 1st taste! Because it was just too gooood~~~ You can feels the lumps of potato as supposed to just a soft smash. The cream sauce was lovely and not too thick. There's some mushrooms at the bottom too....Ah, this is definitely a dish that's meant to be shared! It'd be too filling to eat it all alone.

Lastly, but not least....desserts!!! Ichigo ice cream served on a thin slice of crepe with fruit pieces and chocolate drizzled on top. This dessert was average in my opinion. The crepe just didn't wow me!

We decided to plan a bigger meeting with our ex-coursemates who are currently residing in KL. It's been a month since we've seen everyone. So hopefully next time more ppl can join us!! Or else you're gonna miss out on all the great food!!!!

02/09/09

*EDIT*

Ok....Both of them caught influenza A but not the H1N1 subtype!

Scared me~~~

がんばれ！to the 2 guys who are still filming Buzzer Beat and Orthros no Inu respectively!

I'm looking forward to watching Pi in his pink + black basketball jersey! hehe....

～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～～

Ahhh~~~~ true or not one!!!!

Noooo.......my Pi and Ryo-chan caught H1N1???

ｲﾔ!! ｾﾞｯﾀｲﾀﾞﾒ!!! ﾀﾞﾒです！！！

Pi と錦チャン、早く元気になって！！！

Eeeeeyadaaa~~ Why my Pi? Ryo? NEWS?

One of them might have caught it and spread it to the other.....I hope other JE boys are ok!

Seriously hope they recover soon!!! JE pls let the boys rest~~~

気をつけてください～～

Dance...

All about dance....

Last wk at class, most ppl said that their favourite dance style is newstyle, except for a new guy who said locking. As for me, I like girl style and hiphop.

When I first started hiphop, I really like poppin and locking even though I can’t do them. Luckily, I had 2 girlfriends from hiphop- PM and SM, who also liked poppin, take poppin class with me. When we first joined, we had dancing gorilla who wasn’t very good. Most of the time, we were just mimicking his movements. I seriously didn’t know how to pop or do certain movements. Worse of all, I don’t even know the name of some of the movements.

Even so, I still liked poppin. Luckily, we had a better instructor later on. But now, all 3 of us have stopped poppin. I wonder if guys make better poppers than girls because many of the great poppers out there are guys……or it’s because not many girls take up poppin. Well, there are some great female poppers too!

When we first started hiphop class with Z, it was funny and torturing!!! He would make us do horrible warm ups! I still remember that a girl actually told me that she’s never returning after the first lesson….and she really never came back!

Then some new girls came and joined the class to make it merrier and more fun! Z would always make us do the dance pair by pair. I normally partnered with PM and it soon became very easy to dance with her.

It was not long before his class was changed to newstyle. It was around that time that I was quite busy and couldn’t really attend class. Even till now, newstyle remains as the dance style which I join the least compared to hiphop, poppin and girlstyle.

Newstyle is nice but I still find it a bit hard to get the feel and to follow the music. I’m not good at the slowwwwww……and then *pop* fast! I feel like I’m always in doubt when I’m dancing newstyle.

I still remember my first girlstyle class. My poor neck and back! I couldn’t balance at all! I can’t flip my head! Funny~ because it’s nothing like latin! Well, my latin is not good either! Every time after I turn and flip my head together, I’ll lose balance and forget the steps! Haaha…..but now, I enjoy girlstyle because I feel like you can really feel the song when you’re dancing it.

I like hiphop because I feel that it’s more carefree! Anyone can do it and make it look nice in their own ways! I’m still working on my hiphop because instructors say it’s a bit girly. I’ll work on it! I esp. enjoy routines with a bit poppin in it. Not the tough ones though…..but those with small, simple poppin moves!

Poppin is seriously one dance that you really, really, really need to practice, practice and practice every day….like every single small move!!! One of the reasons why, I will not be a good popper….

It’s sad that, even though I’ve liked locking for so long, I’ve never attended the class even once. I chose poppin or locking last time and now, I really want to try locking. I’m waiting for the right foundation class at the right time….but then no, it clashes with my other classes!

Got SP and AhKit to teach me some top rock moves recently and they’re sooo cruel! They were laughing while I was doing it~~~because according to them, my top rock has a hiphop feel to it!

I first saw New Jack Swing performance 2 months ago and liked it. I recently got the chance to try out the class. PM, they finally have NJS on Saturday! It’s sad that you won’t be able to join us! I’m still very new to it and can’t comment much except that it feels a bit like old school hiphop because of the big movements.

I’ve attended Krump lessons twice. I thought it would be easier to put the feel into krump due to all the stress and unhappy events at work…..but no, I can’t seem to put them together. I can’t think of some stupid people who make me feel like punching their face when I’m dancing. It’s hard to even just put an angry face. I’m going to practice it in a mirror….the “provoke me and I’ll krump face”!

As for reggae, I’ve stopped going for classes after 3 lessons. I love the reggae performance for the concert! But yea, reggae class…..is super tiring!!! Truly admire anyone who can do reggae well!!!

Well….that’s it! Haaha….

Makan Sessions with YLing

Makan Sessions with YLing!!!

We usually go for japanese or japanese fusion stlye food...and here are the yummylicious food~

Japanese seafood curry spaghetti!

Cream sauced spaghetti with japanese mushrooms!
Unagi pizza!

Hotate pizza!

Soft shell crab inari sushi!
Green tea tiramisu!
Grilled hotate!

Chicken gyoza!

Tempura style fried unagi wrapped in sushi rice and topped with black sesame seed plus mayo and japanese pickles!

Some weird space-ship shaved ice dessert at some ice desset stall...