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I forgot to add this in my previous post so here I am posting again....

Well, if you (think) you can't make money from side business of a drama series, such as overseas rights, advertisements, OST ver 2/2/4s, due to SUPPOSED low interest from viewers, what do you do?

Why, follow the wishes of the small, but manaic following of the drama. Sell drama merchandises! And apparently, this is what will happen. I hope it does materialise, because these are really cute, even without the support of the underlying plot. I'm a MNIKSS fan, but I didn't really like the pig from the drama. This, however, is absolutely adorable!

The pig-rabbit soft toy!
I wonder if the hair pin comes with it.

ANJELL pogs/stickers!

Super duper cute!

I had wanted to just talk about the hair, after seeing the latest BTS photos...but as I browsed through my folders for hair, I decided I might as well do one on clothes too. So here you go, hair and clothes, the two most important items for guys.

As the drama progressed, the stylists decided to support the screenwriters' attempt to position Jeremy as THE comic factor of the drama. How so? Since they have no control over the character development, they'll do what they are best at! So here we go, be prepared.

From this pretty boy hair befitting a boyband,

To slightly dorky, but still acceptable if you see it as "leading fashion trends",

To outright strange mushroomy hair, which seems to me was a result of them putting a bowl over his head and snipping the beautiful godlen locks off while eyeing another eye candy two seats down the row
(clue: the one whose hairstyle seemed to be invertly related to Jeremy's hairstyle),

And finally, the one that led to this post, mushroomy hair + rubber band around the mushroom.

And just one different from normal hairstyle which I liked

Don't get me wrong. Hong Ki (Or Hong Gi?) is absolutely cute, hot even. Here, I uploaded an extra picture just to emphasis this point. Here you go, EXTRA large.

But really, his hairstyles are getting weirder and weirder. And the weird thing is, as I watched on, the weird hairstyles start to grow ok...Grow cute even, I guess the stylists' plan worked! Their creation matched and accentuated Jeremy's character in the drama. But still, I want the pretty boy back!!

And while I'm at it, here's how the fashion coordinator coordinated with the stylists' efforts as well.

There were normal clothes that normal people, or not-so-normal showbiz people would wear. But in between, we had

this which reminded me of cartoon rodents

and something from the Taiwan yeshi

and, which at least was a little pretty boy/manga prince-y

and

and, this which I can at least imagine someone in Harajuku wearing

And the most recent

Oh well....He's still cute no matter what!

To prove it, here's a gif

And to end off, gifs of this extremely hilarious scene that got me bursting into laughter in the middle of the night

Enjoying the senerity of the countryside, without irksome press media and fake fairies.

Here, even strangers greet and wave to each other! Wave back!

But it turns out to be.........
PIG ALERT!

And here, another proof of JGS's dorkiness in the drama

Nah, it's not sour. In fact, I like eating lime....not!

As for character dorkiness, here's a list of allergies Hwang Taekyung suffers from,
and I bet you anything the list will grow longer and longer

Credits
All gifs by miyavimc at baidu
Last gif by by tainee at lj
Screencaps by maxiechan at lj
BTS shoots from SBS website

Ok I take back my previous words of My Girl being Arashi's usual fare. No wait. I'm perfectly fine with Arashi's usual fare. I'm in love with Arashi's usual fare. Their attempts at different styles ae good too but no matter what, Arashi's defined by their usual fare of warmth and sense of thanks.

I finally watched the PV! Had wanted to download it but my HD's almost full and don't have space to spare! =( It's strange but my heart soured while watching the PV....when Aiba discovered the letter from their mom saying she will continue to look over them from that house. And then the boys decided not to move out and to stay with their mom...Touching! Add the melody to it and you get a potent mix of Arashi goodness! But I felt that Aiba's role there should be taken over by maybe Nino or Jun...Aiba should be the excited one! lol

I refused to be spoilt by boys our via radioshows this time round.

And I'm glad I decided so.

Just listened to the cd and....my gosh. I shuffled the songs and the first one that came up was

スーパーフレッシュ Super fresh.
Super fresh, just like them, who's always fresh and brings us new feelings and ideas.
The song itself is superfresh! I love love love the melody. It didn't catch me right away, but there were bits of it that made the song different from others...it's not the type which you can roughly guess how the melody for a particular line will end, as is possible with many pop songs. It's so addictive! And such a light, happy feeling....in fact, when I shut my eyes I can imagine us on a boundless grassland, with flowers and butterflies all around. Everyone's smiling, just smiling. Is this supposed to be a fuyu song? It feels spring to me. And surprisingly, it felt like a korean pop to me...

The next song that caught me was the instrumental of

時計じかけのアンブレラ.
LOL I can imagine them bull-fighting in this.....latin-y piece. I really love the instrumental for this! I listened to the actual song later and while I liked it as well, somehow I just prefer the instru more.

And next up was the title track

マイガール
Surprisingly, it didn't really stick. It's all very Arashi...the usual style. Btw, I've only watched ep of My Girl....I'm wondering if I should continue...hmmmm

I'm a happy girl. Arashi brought me luck XP

#16 TOPIK exams 성적확인

년도	회차	구분	수험번호	영문성명	총점	평균	합격/불합격
2009	16회	일반(초급(2급))	19011XXXXX	KARENED	385	96.25	합격
어휘 및 문법 : 97 / 쓰기 : 91 / 듣기 : 97 / 읽기 : 100

PASSED!!!!!

Now I can go back to Japanese and try JLPT 2 again next year. The lack of time, oh the lack of time...and I expect that to be resolved next year, after I graduate (and enter the cruel audit line)?! I'm naive.

...I'm amazed by the power of korean fans.

This time, in a good way.

While waiting impatiently for my copy of  the Arashi PV dvd, I've finally gotten myself to download SS501's new mini album, released 1 yr and 7 mths since their last album. I shouldn't have because now I am really tempted to order a copy of it. No, make it two. One Kor version with 2 posters and a 100 pg photo diary, and one Tw version with 1 clear file and a dvd including the PV, making off and trailers. Really! I've got the window opened since last night! Had previously intended to buy it when I go to Korea next yr, but now I'm super tempted...

I did a translation of the song I loved most in the mini album. I liked all the songs, really, surprisingly, on first listening. No wonder SS501 said that this is as perfect as they can get. But, this last song on the album, is a light piece, and I felt really happy after listening....it's a soothing piece. And after I googled abit about it, I realised that it's written for fans by SS501! It's called "green peas" - SS501 fans are also called green peas, a pun on the korean word for peas. The melody is light, the tune easy to sing along to, and with the injection of random phrases, it felt 'live' and is easy to connect to. Compared to Arashi's 5x10 song of thanks to fans, it's a totally different style.

So here I bring you the translation

(Didn't like the change in image for the cover at first, but now they're starting to get to me!)

And here are YT clips for the song. I can't seem to upload the mp3. =S

Here's the live ver

I like how Kyu Jong said "San Ni Ichi Go!" instead of "Set Dul Hana Go!" (both means the same) as recorded in the album. I guess the fancam was taken at the Japan leg of the tour since I hear "Arigatou" later in the clip. I wonder what they will say in Singapore..."Three Two One Go!"? XP

Because the clip isn't very clear due to the lighting, and because they've changed their hairstyle quite abit, I didn't recognise one or two of them at first...but I've gotten them sort out and from left to right: Young Saeng, Hyung Jun, Hyun Joong, Kyu Jong and Jung Min.

Another song I totally love is "Love Like This". The PV adds to the excitement

I had problems watching the PV because I didn't know where to look: at the dangerously beautiful guys, at the beautifully dangerous cars, or at the storyline (which till now I have no idea of, except it's about assassins).

I should have known!!! YAPPARI!

Our Taekyung isn't that weak!!! Though he does care for Minam, it's not a deep love yet, and it's not like him to give in.

OMG I so love the screenwriters. Many were complaining about the kiss (see cap below) last ep, and though I saw it as Taekyung's sacrifice for Minam, I was sorely pained too.

But just 1 min into ep 7 and redemption descended!!!

HAHA! This is going into my big list of 'You're Beautiful turn-around cliches'.

It's faked!! An angle problem!! And I guess this once again depicted just about how much we should get heated up or excited over what appears in tabloids, even those backed by photos. And the funny thing is, everyone's mind kind of affected by typical drama plots such that no one really stopped to think "Hey but we didn't see their lips touch!". We just filled in the gaps with what we expected things to be. The human brain works in amazing ways. Either that or we're just too poisoned by drama plots.

Ok, I'm gonna go continue the ep before sleeping! Oh gosh, I've gotta wake up in 6 hours time!! =S