Okay, so not actually doom. Really, the plane ride from Edmonton to Vancouver was pretty nice. And we didn't die, so not death either. So, the title should just be "planes" I guess...

Anywho, sitting in Vancouver Airport, which is pretty nice, actually. Maybe it's just the Asian section, 'cause I seem to remember it not being this nice in the other areas XD. Managed to get my bag through security and under the seat on the plane (something I was worried about, actually).

Will update more later =)

Rondo, the latest single by ON/OFF is good, but tries way too hard to be "unique", and really only succeeds in upsetting natural musical flow.

...

What the heck were they thinking switching from 3/4 time to 4/4 time and back -_-'.

I could understand having it in 3/4 time - it gives it a very unique feel and sounds "minuet"-like, which is in keeping with the style they're going for. But to "hiccup" into 4/4 time and then "hiccup" back into 3/4 - and then do it back and forth again a couple more times.

Moral of the story - Pop songs should not try to change time signature; leave it to the professional orchestral or symphonic music.

Plzthxbai.

Edit - Also, finally got a new avatar. No new layout yet, but I still like this anyway. I got tired of sometimes looking at the other one and thinking "Is he picking his nose?"

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*explodes*

it's just too hilarious. She's so fierce, our Ayu <3

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This is another one of those long rants, so enjoy~ (or don't, as the case may be)

"On the 1st of February, 2008, Koda Kumi commented on a question about "whether she would like to have children or not". Her answer was something along the lines of "Yes, but before I am 35 years old. I think that the amniotic fluid from pregnant women about 35 years old is rotten", and ended the comment with a laugh.


The answer was so offensive that many radio shows and newspapers had a lot complaints from women around the country. Avex Trax decided that all promotion of her new album Kingdom will be canceled, her official website has been shut down, and so was her Kose Visee web page. A week later, Koda Kumi appeared in an exclusive interview on Fuji TV's "FNN Super News" to apologize for the remark she made. Even though she tearfully apologized for the harm she caused, reactions to Koda's apology were mostly negative. An informal poll taken after the broadcast through Sankei Sports' website indicated that 81% of the viewers felt the apology was insufficient, while only 9% said it was enough. " - Wiki.theppn's Koda Kumi page


Basically, I'd like to be totally amazed at how long the media has held on to this, dare I say it, absolutely stupid concentration on the unfortunate mistake of a misinformed woman. When I first heard that Koda Kumi had made a misinformed comment in the media, I was not terribly concerned: it is a fairly honest mistake to make when you are neither pregnant nor looking to become pregnant. Granted, to me the logic behind this particular urban myth seems rather silly, but how many rumours about pregnancy did you hear growing up from others who really have no idea? It's unfortunate that she has held on to this erroneous belief, but a truly honest mistake all the same. And really, if someone you worked with had made the same comment and you happened to be offended by it, would you blow up at her not speak with her for the next month? Or would you, perhaps testily, inform her of her mistake and ask that she apologize?


Mistakes are made by everyone. Granted, it is unfortunate that this one was made directly to the media by someone with as much to lose as Koda Kumi, but a mistake nonetheless. What is truly unfortunate is the public reaction. Though some outcry is to be expected, after a month you would think it would have settled down. I thought after she apologized that things would go back to relative normalcy, but that seems not the case. Really, what more do they want her to do? It was an innocent mistake which has now been corrected and she's apologized - does it really matter if she's apologizing for being wrong or that she said it live? It's so silly, and I'm really angry at all the women who are "outraged" at Koda Kumi's "ignorance". It's an urban myth - I'm sure we've all believed them at one point in our life, it is merely unfortunate that she was never corrected.


These outraged women should also be accused for their error: for believing someone famous is not subject to the faults of human nature. Is she a doll? Famous people must already look perfect on the outside, must their thoughts be perfect now too? Can they not have beliefs and make errors? Indeed, it seems that this is the case. These women should be less outraged at Koda Kumi's mistake, and more ashamed of their own reaction.


Perhaps what the public should really be mad about in this situation is how under informed some people are about pregnancy. It's obvious that it is not a widely discussed topic, or Koda Kumi's faulty belief would have been discovered, either by someone she knew or by herself through discovery of the truths about pregnancy.


In short, though Koda Kumi should have known this, it is mostly not her fault. How could she have expected to be asked about pregnancy when going to an interview about a marriage? Granted, it is a related subject, but not too closely. Society has blown this out of proportion completely, and should be ashamed for the amount of blame they are placing on Koda Kumi's shoulders.


/rant


What brought this on? Anger that I can't find anything about Koda's new Best album because her website is shut down -_-'


In other news: Iago is the epitome of evil. I swear.


In more other news: I'm going to Japan in a few weeks *squee moment.... /squee moment*


Wow that was rather long. Not as long as my letter to Japanfiles, but still @_@;


If you read all of that, please voice your comments on the subject. Even if you have no idea who Koda Kumi is, imagine her as a celebrity here.


Bye bye~

Mostly a post for the various comms I'm part of to say "Hi! I'm alive!"

But also to complain about my ITunes woes.

So, I have all my music on an external hard drive, but I want to have music on my mac too. Unfortunatly, when I plugged it back into my computer, ITunes spontaneously couldn't find a lot of my music. Now, if I go into the thing the music is there, right where it always way, but the stupid ITunes can't find it. RAWR.

Anyway. RAWR.

I'm not sure if anyone outside of the music livejournal community is really experiencing the actions of japanfiles, but we know it is hitting us hard. It's not that many places have been deleted, but rather that we are in a state of alarm that the communities we frequent/run will be deleted, causing the hard work of many individuals to go down the drain. After some consideration, I decided not to mention any specific communities in either this post or the 'letter' I have written.

( Dear Japanfiles )

Please read and provide feedback on this letter. I'm only considering emailing it to them at this time, as I don't want it to be too offensive or too submissive. If anyone wishes me to change the tone to be more broad (as it is in a few points in this letter), please let me know. If you also have other points to add, feel free to let them be know. The only thing I will not be including are offensive language (not because I am opposed to it personally, but because I believe it would undermine the professionalism of the letter) or remarks about japanfiles personally. We are trying to prove that we are people of good character who simply wish to enjoy Japanese music, and shots at japanfiles on an individual level may take away from that message. Feel free to argue any points that have been made in this letter, or point out any spelling or punctuation errors. I don't believe there are any of this nature, but please bare in mind that if something has an extra "u" in it, it may be because I am from Canada and spell things the British way (ie. colour, not color), not the American way.

Thank you for your assistance.

Okay, so the whole "Strikeout '07" thing was kind of a big boob up on LJ's part. You can read the apology and information here.

Hopefully most of the deleted LJ's that were actually good will come back again. And hey, they were a little hasty in their deletion, but they might yet get rid of some legitimatly bad people/communities.

I'll keep the icon, just 'cause it's nice ^^ (someone did a reall good job on it o_O;)

Weirdness.

A friend of mine that i haven't seen in... forever visited today. And he's so different. What with the died hair and taller and stuff. It was crazy. Anyway, just thought I'd ramble.

I saw POTC3 yeaterday. It was fantastic! I don't care if anyone says the ending was bad, it was fantastic. And the little epilogue thing after the credits was so sweet. Although i think they used the same actor for the boy at the beginning and the boy at the end, which is weird o_O;.

Anywho.

Stuff.

My head feels like a fluff ball right now. I'm trying to do a social thing, and I couldn't even realize that the sheet said "Canada" instead of "Israel." *death*. I also used Wikipedia, which is great, but it's not as up to date as everything else.

Anyway, I'm leaving now, because I know I won't be able to understand anything in math class. *sigh*

The Red Dragon hath come upon me again. I despair.

Planes = death.

This keyboard kind of sucks. Everything's all in different places and my hands are cold....

but europe is still fun ^^;.

in saint malo right now, and dispite the keyboard, I seriously want to stay here for the rest of my life. Like, really.

That is all.

Okay. Few things:

1 - I'm thinking of suing my dancing teacher. She says on tuesday "lets to these really hard thigh excersizes, yay!" and I did them, but it is now thursday and I still can't go up and down stairs without experiancing massive pain. *death*

2 - I'm in europe/britain/london as of this morning ^^. It was fun, but jet-lag and the above mentioned problem kind of killed me. Joy. But it's still fantastic, and I can't wait until tommorow ^^

That's all.

Cherry Girl has GOT to be the best song I've ever heard.

Well, maybe not, but right now it really seems like it *has it on repeat*

( Albums & Singles )

( Soundtracks )
*IN PROGRESS*

woah. I haven't updated in forever. It's not that I'm not here, but I just... haven't updated XD.

Had medal tests this year, did really good (=^_^=) and I'm posting some ayumi hamasaki icons that I made!

All made using screens of "GAME" from SEASONS.

Teaser:


( Real Cut )

Umm.... bye XD

Yes, hello all the... non-people that read this... which nobody does XD.

I am... mostly alive. My brain feels a little fried right now, when is probably why I send an e-mail to a teacher that sounds like I'm talking to one of my friends over MSN *raises eyebrow* it was horribly informal is basically what I'm trying to communicate.

Why is my brain fried? Well, it's an awful combination of a number of things. First, school of life; second, life at school. For the first, I'm afraid I've been rather busy for about the past two weeks - with little break. Part of the business comes from the fact the my mother thought it would be a great family experiance to get a group paper route. I convinced her to quit a week ago, but I still have to do this week. Now, this week isn't too bad temperature-wise, but I remember now why I never leave the house anymore - the hour-outside-at-night delivering papers reminded me rather well. I think part of what help convince my mother to give it up was the fact that she fell on the ice, and her knee is still bothering her. I'm sure it's an unwelcome reminder that she is getting older and can't fall and get back up again as easily as she used to - and certainly not without a little lasting damage. Regardless, in a week I won't have to deal with it anymore.

Life has also crashed on the dancing front. November brings the pre-Christmas season, and with it, concerts. Combine creating and learning a completly new choreography in under a month with a competition and the usual winter sicknesses and emotional exhaustion, and you get very hecktic dancers and teacher and an all around aggrivating experiance. As well, one of the major performances we did (also being the second time we'd ever performed the dance) one of the people in our dance got sick and called us about ten minutes before we went on that she wasn't coming. Now, with more notice we can teach someone else, but we simply had to scramble to change our formations and hope it worked out. It did, but the stress before we went up was enough to make my legs shake and I felt like my very big, very fake smile was the only thing holding me up.

As another convergence of activity, my violin recital was just this past Sunday, and if I hadn't been practicing my piece obsessivly on my own time simply because I liked it so much, I would have died at the short notice I got. As it was, it turned out very well, and I got a fantastic CD of Big Band music as a "thank you" for also dancing a little diddy to spice the show up. But how nerve racking! To perform a dance on Thursday with six people and then work it out to dance with only one for Sunday, and play a rather difficult slow piece on the same day.

Life at school, too, has suddenly become crazy. I don't know what it is about the impending Christmas holidays that cause teachers to pile the homework and test on, but it happens. English, especially has been assignment after assignment after test as we just finished a novel and must use the story for something now. The English test today ont he novel is part of the reason my brain feels fried - it took me all of the English period and and lunch, and I'm still going back afterschool to make sure I don't want to say anything else. I'm still not sure if I have a Japanese test today - impending substitute says we don't but I'm not sure if she just forgot to check or she's lying. Regardless, if there is a test today, I am not ready for it.

Well, I think I've ranted at no one in particular long enough, my language today is very strange, and I'm hoping a good bout of mindless TV tonight will help cure it.

Good Day,

Saeadame

Yes. New computer, I guess is the first thing. It's very... shiny and great. And really fast.

Oh, and it's my Birthday! ^_^.

... Actually I think that's all... -_-'

YAY! So I finally got an S2 layout. Obviously, I got most of the coding from premade_ljs; but I did change a lot and the header is mine. Yes, it is part of those banners and stuff that I keep meaning to finish....

Anyway.

As smile-y as I am right now, I am rather sick. And I had a Physics test today, and my head was all stuffed up for it. It's like trying to see numbers a mile away through thick fog. *sighs*

I fail.

On a brighter note, I spent time today uploading some new userpics (you can see one on this entry) - they're part of that icon/banner project too.

I am going to leave now, Sayonara!