Missed Ayumi's happy box sale!

Today I forgot about Ayumi's happy box sale from mu-mo.net! And it is already sold out when i checked 5min ago... Haiz next time must put alarm clock. Now wait for new album to come out next year! :) Ja ne!

Singing BOA's メリクリ Meri Kuri

BOA's merry christmas song!



Wish all happy Christmas!



Kanji:

ふたりの距離がすごく　縮まった　気持ちがした
自然に腕が組めて　冷えた空　見あげた時に

コンビニでお茶選んで　当たり前に分けあって
きみの胸にくるまれている

ずっと　ずっと　そばにいて
大好きなきみを　見つめてたい
Snowflakes きみの暖もりは
冬の贈り物　ほら　雪だよ

どこかで辛いことや　淋しさに　ぶつかっても
きみ想うこの気持ちに　正直でいると誓うよ

メゲるとこれ聴けよって　貸してくれたCDは
きみがくれた　歌のラヴレター

ずっと　ずっと　言いたくて
付きあってくれて　ねぇ　ありがとう
もっと　好きなヒト強く
抱きしめなさいと　雪は降るの

贈り物を探しながら　結ぶはずのない気持ちが
結びあえたことの不思議　感じてた

ずっと　ずっと　そばにいて
同じ夢さがす　旅をしたい
Snowflakes 空が　街角に
白い息を吐く　ほら　雪だよ

The white white snow's coming tonight
Make a wish upon your kiss

Romanji:

Futari no kyori ga sugoku chijimatta kimochi ga shita
Shizen ni ude ga kumete mieta sora miageta toki ni

KONBINI de ocha erande atari mae ni wake atte
Kimi no mune ni kurumarete iru

Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Daisuki na kimi wo mitsumetetai
Snowflakes kimi no nukumori wa
Fuyu no okurimono hora yuki dayo

Doko ka de tsurai koto ya sabishisa ni butsukatte mo
Kimi omou kono kimochi ni shoujiki de iru to chikau yo

MEGEru to kore kike yotte kashite kureta CD wa
Kimi ga kureta uta no RABU RETAA

Zutto zutto iitekute
Tsuki atte kurete nee arigatou
Motto suki na HITO tsuyoku
Dakishime nasai to yuki wa furu no

Okuri mono wo sagashi nagara musubu hazu no nai kimochi ga
Musubi aeta koto no fushigi kanjiteta

Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Onaji yume sagasu tabi wo shitai
Snowflakes sora ga machikado ni
Shiroi iki wo haku hora yuki dayo

The white white snow’s coming tonight
Make a wish upon your kiss.

English:

I felt as if the distance between us had gotten a lot smaller
As we looked up at the chilly sky, arms linking unconsciously

At the convenience store we choose a tea and share it as usual
With me wrapped in your chest

Stay by my side forever, forever
I want to keep gazing at my beloved you
Snowflakes, your warmth
Is winter’s gift; look, it’s snowing

Even if I run into pain and loneliness somewhere
I swear I’ll always make my love for you known

The CD you lent me, saying “Listen to this whenever you’re down”
Is a musical love letter you’ve given me

I’ve always, always wanted to say
Thank you for getting together with me
The snow falls, saying
“Hold the person you love even more”

Looking for a present, I had a mysterious feeling
That even though I hadn’t expected to, I felt even closer to you

Be by my side forever, forever
I want to go on a journey towards the dream we share
Snowflakes, the sky is drawing white breaths
On the street corner; look, it’s snowing

The white, white snow's coming tonight
Make a wish upon your kiss

New Mic Recording

Here's the first mic recording for Ayumi Hamasaki new song "You Were..." Using the new Sony mic :)





Lyrics:

Surechigau koibito tachi ga kata o yoseai aruite ku
Tsumetasa ga mi ni shimiru no wa kimi ga inai kara
Kisetsu sae wasureru kurai hoka ni nani mo ira nai kurai
Sou muchuu de kagayaita no wa koi o shite ita kara

* Kimi ga saigo no hito da to omotta
Kimi to saigo no koi o shi takatta
Konna hiroi yozora no shita hitori
Ittai nani o omoe ba ii no

Ima dare no tonari de egao misete iru no ka da nante
Nee dore hodo no jikan ga tatta ra kurushimi wa owaru no kana

** Itsuka hanashite ta yume no tsuzuki mo
Itsumo itte ita ano kuchiguse mo
Subete wasure rare tara raku da ne
Dakedo hitotsu mo wasure taku nai

Seijaku ni tsutsumare ta shunkan ni osotte kuru
Yasashiku te atataka sugiru omoide ga

* (repeat)
** (repeat)

Dakedo hitotsu mo wasure taku nai

English Translation:

The lovers I pass are walking shoulder to shoulder
I feel it's biting cold, because you are not here
I was shining, because I was in love
I was so carried away that I even forgot the seasons and needed nothing else but you

* I thought you were my last person
I wanted my love for you to be my last one
What on earth should I think of
All alone under such a vast night sky ?

I'm thinking again by whose side you are smiling now
I wonder how much time will pass until my suffering ends

** The thread of the dream you were talking about sometime
That line you always said
It's easier for me to forget them all, isn't it?
But I don’t want to forget a single one

The moment I'm surrounded by silence
I'm hit by the memories, too tender and warm

* (repeat)
** (repeat)

Finally got time to update!

Whew this is a long break from the last post. Too busy with Uni. This is definitely the toughest semester in my 16 years of studies.

Exam is over but FYP continues right after exam!!! But I manage to pamper myself with a influx of 4 japanese fashion magazines. Ya I know they are for girls lol but reading them just makes me happy and fashion is what I like. It is really interesting seeing how the combinations of colours and designs portray the uncountable number of styles. I love winter fashion because I think it is quite hard to be fashionable with the thick clothings. It needs skills haha...



The one on top left has a free pink pouch that attracted me to buy. really a lovely pouch to put my keitai(handphone) and camera. Both Vivi mag contains ayumi's blog.



Then came my Sony microphone which I waited 1+ month for this mic to arrive from Japan! The sound quality is so much better that I feel I am in a studio haha... Now I know how I truly sounded. I always wonder how come I sounded so bad using my old mic. Now I know mic makes a difference. But it cost me 500bucks, my bank is sliced again.





Wednesday I decided to go to buy the bag after going to the Jap theme store "Miya Hayashi" in Orchard Central for the 3rd time. I like the bag too much lolz...

It is the lucky bag season so there is 2 pieces of clothing in the bags. It will be lucky to get a dress cos dresses are costly! And in the end I cheated and ask the salesgirl which one has a dress and she pointed out one. She say the experienced buyers just need to weight the bag to know if there is a dress cos dresses are heavier.

When I got home I open the bag and saw a kawaii dress haha... so happy maybe I can hang it on my wall.

It cost 200bucks so need about 300 to get membership. Jialat need to buy somemore!! She showed me several items like belts.... finally I got the jacket to compliment my plain t-shirts at home.

Now is time to save money again. Hope Chinese new year can get more money!

Toughest week of my uni life

This past week was the most stressful of my uni life. I had 3 reports and 3 presentations... One of the report and 2 presentations is related to the infamous HRM course of EEE of NTU. Moreover, I am the class IC which makes my job even tougher. The other is a DSP design report on digital filters and the last one is my Applying IT report and presentation. Finally this crazy week is over. Now I can enjoy and relax by looking at my Ayumi collection! Most are imported from Japan :)

Here is my whole collection!


Here is the magazines,photobook and even songbook with piano notes!


Albums! One is even an album in a thumbdrive!


Ship and Musical box that turns...


My Docomo F-01a phone and Ayu phone strap and swarovski logo pasted by myself


Lastly my lucky figurine that is always on my exam desk!

What a busy but fulfilling week!

This 2 weeks was a busy but fulfilling week until I even forgot about AYU's Birthday....
Haiz... Her birthday was on the 2nd OCT and I only realised it just now.

I bought a new formal shirt for my presentations because my mum says why I always wear the same old shirt for presentation which makes me looks too poor to buy new shirt haha...

So Monday I went to buy the shirt tada! Here it is...



I went to Istean scotts to buy both the shirt and a present(bag charm) for my friend from Agnes b. Then went to Takashimaya to buy her birthday card. haha the card has some Jap phrases which I think is meaningful. As rarely ppl in singapore receive japanese bithday card.

Wednesday was when I suddenly planned to celebrate her birthday although it was on 11th Oct. Cos I was thinking that I wont be able to meet her during weekend as she may not acccept a meetup. So I decided to surprise her after her class on wednesday. As I had time before her class end I went to Jurong Point to buy a self designed cake. This is my first time design a cake using my own hands! I was like errr how to use the coloured "ink" (dunno the right word to use) to decorate... I tested on the tray the shop provided and find that releasing the ink near to the surface of the cake will not make the words wriggle. so using that knowledge I gained I designed the whole cake.

So I started with the words "HAPPY BDAY" in chocolate ink. Then her name in blue ink as she resembles the sky. some stars in pink and yellow. She didnt like flowers so I didn draw flowers. Then a pink heart shape to resemble the care for her.

Then I put in the fruits which was quite a tough job as I must not drop the fruits on the words and decorations. Finally I found the side of the cake very dull and added a bottom wave of chocolate to represent the friendship warmth that will embrace her. And the chinese 4 bithday words as she is very chinese inclined haha...

She came out of the class and I quickly lighted up the candles. As the cake is very small, I placed 2 big candles(twenty) and 1 small candle(five). Then she saw me and I waved to her. She looked surprised why I was standing there. I signalled her to come nearer and she find it strange with a frowning look. I was standing in front of the cake to hide it from her. Then when she is near, I sidestepped and revbealed the cake to her and started singing brithday song. Right after the song she blew the candles without me signalling her to do that. I was like wow haha...

Next I passed her a small box. At first her eyes were those normal eyes happy to receive gifts then her eyes opened up really big when she sees her favourite brand ~ Agnes b.~ She opened the present and saw the bag charm and was quite happy. I know she was expecting something else but I didnt buy that.

Then I passed her the birthday card and a small card attached with the present. Hope she had a great surprise celebration.

Reuion with old JC friends

Sat night went out with my JC close friends... 3 guys 1 gal

We went to karaoke. what was interesting is that I didnt know my high notes improved from last time we went there which was like 1 year ago haha...

So I started singing male songs like 男人不该让女人留泪, 张学友 and 刘德华. but was disappointed with my pitching. not sure wat was wrong... maybe I listen to too much female songs.

After that my female friend start to sing Ah mei, liang jing ru and FIR songs but she cant reach some high notes. As I practice sometimes at home, I decided to try and help hehe...

To my surprise, I realised that I can sing them easily. And my pitch and tone sounded not like me at all haha... My friends looked at me like I came from another planet... I was so elated for this sudden change that I sang all the female parts for the songs my friends chose.

I guess there is something to do with the new way I hold the mic that I picked up at home. I follow how professional singers hold their mic which is to hold the mic perpendicular to your face instead of the usual slightly pointing downwards. and also the lips close to the mic almost touching it. this way you dont need to sing loudly and also sound better. :) hope this can help you sing better in your next karaoke session...

Now time to practice more...

Drive for Life ~ 1st blog of my life ~

Wow... after requested to do a blog by my good friend, I finally started this new hobby. haha... hmm wat should I start with...

Well start with the driving force of my life, I love listening and watching Ayumi perform on stage cos she really capture my emotions. She laughs, have fun, cries, frowns and brings these feelings deep in me.

People kept asking me why I love Ayu... I guessed is cos she gives me the drive to live and endure thru all hardships. She is my lucky star too. After I started to go on an Ayu craze, my uni grades starts to improve. My grade is in the warning zone for 1 sem until she arrived in my life.

Luckily now my grades are manageable and I wish to graduate next year. And then I can finally fly to Japan to watch Ayu concerts live!

Ayu was born with a bad left ear. She always had intermittent left ear deafness. When I imagined myself with that, I will feel so frustrated that I want to end my life. Now she is totally deaf in the left making her profession as a singer even harder. This insight of her life push me to live forward even if there are hardships that make me wan to end my life...

Another attraction for her is because she tries to perform in every concerts even of the situation is extremely hard for her to do so. Several times she fractured her leg or arms just the day before the real concert, she continued with the performances. She endured the pain to bring happiness to the audiences which is a remarkable feat that I couldn't have done so even when I am a man.

Thus I am usually attracted to people who can endure tough hardships...

On to the next post...
Ja mata!