Taylor Swift is Back with Lover!

I'm one of those fans out there celebrating this precious day wherein Taylor Swift releases her newest album and music video for Lover! This might be new to all of you but I do have this burning fangirl self when it comes to Taylor Swift's music. And it's been there from the beginning along with my madness for Japanese artists as well. Though let's all be honest here, Taylor is reaaallyyy talented and her music is priceless!

Somehow her songs nurture my imagination when it comes to 'love' for whatever reason. Maybe it's because her songs are way too idealistic. A lot of songs from different artists also cater this kind of style but for me it's always Taylor that's very consistent when it comes to this. Her lyrics, the melody of her songs, ah I just love her talent and music! This is giving me so much good vibes today.

So far, as of today, my favorite songs from her album are as follows:

Lover

Of course, this cannot be omitted from my favorites. Listening to this the first time the lyric video came out just makes me so excited for the whole album. It actually made me wonder if there would be a real person out there who could bring in this type of feeling or situation being described in her lyrics. The music itself is giving away how too idealistic this song really is. At first I thought that this song describes only the honeymoon stage of love, but as the music and the video progresses I was proven wrong. Since the couple had a happy ending. Very fairy tail-like idea and I like it a lot!

Official “Lover” Lyrics: Written by Taylor Swift

HAPPY 31st BIRTHDAY Haruna Ono!

Hello everyone, I am back after a while coz today is my favorite japanese band's frontman's birthday! And that's no other than, SCANDAL's Haruna. 🎉🎉🎉

Wow!! Just how many birthdays of her exactly that passed by without me knowing?! How many years has it been that I didn't greet her!? I commit a sin to this fandom, I confess. lol

Well let's all be honest here fellow fandom friends, birthdays of our favorite idols/band members/actors/actresses/etc have this kind of Christmas and New Year effect on us. We're one of those people doing countdown like crazy. Adjusting our time zone for them wherever they are and wait till it's 12:01am to greet them on facebook or wherever in social media. We're like competing who'll be the first one to greet them happy birthday. It's crazy I know that we're so into people who doesn't even know our existence in the world. lol

Anyways there are a lot of ways to celebrate this special day of the year, right? Some people I know have their own altar for their favorite idols/band members and putting cakes in front of them and started singing the happy birthday song. Putting cakes in front of their computer's desktop with that specific birthday celebrant's picture as the wallpaper is one thing also. Extreme right? But as for me, I didn't do those things at all. What I just did was just to put an all-nighter and create a fan video tribute for their birthday. Hahaha! You might have thought that I was a normal fan out there for a second right? No I was not. I was once an extreme fan out there also ready to dedicate my whole time for my favorites and not care about anything in the world but them. So to you fellow fandom friends, I know how you feel. Been there done that!

What It's Like To Run A Site + Studying new Language

Basically blogging isn't something that I am doing as a full time job. In fact, I only do this to release all the thoughts I have on a specific moment of time. If you'll browse thoroughly this site, you'll find variety of things I'm into or am thinking about.

The google ads that you are seeing now around this blog are just something that I was curious about so I applied for it. But that doesn't mean this blog is earning huge coz of those ads. That's not how it works my friends.

So I just thought that I'll write something that I am thinking in the past days. As you can see I've been working on making this site active again as much as possible. Just getting back on something that I genuinely enjoy. But the thing is, it ain't really easy because it's not like when we're younger that we all got the time we wanted. So as an adult I'm also working full time job as an Architect and by knowing how an architect works won't be that much easy to work on other things.

As much as I wanted to post new articles, stories or anything inside this blog everyday, I just can't! lol
Fandom takes too much time when it comes to research. It's during the weekends that I'm able to fully concentrate on stalking/studying japanese and writing. Damn so many things going on during my weekends, right? But since I really do love these things, I am ain't quitting this routine yet until I become successful.

During the weekdays, my world is only revolving around architecture. Because I am practicing the field. But to do not submerge myself into work stress, pressure and depression, I inserted studying Japanese every lunch time in the office. Somehow it soothes my mind and just stray away from becoming too serious. Japanese is quite fun I must say.

That's a short read for you. And I'll leave something for you guys to enjoy. Some dope music that I've been listening lately!

And here's some live!

Ahhh Billie Eilish is so fucking awesome!!! Love it!

Learning Japanese: Katakana/ カタカナ

So aside from the Hiragana which I have discussed previously in Learning Japanese: Hiragana/ひらがな we also have Katakana as part of the Kana system.

Basically it has the same phonetic sounds as Hiragana, it's just that the characters that represent them are all different. Katakana has sharp edges while Hiragana has rounded characters. Katakana is only used to represent words from a foreign language.

For example:

グラフ

gurafu

(graph)

ゴルフ

gorufu

(golf)

アメリカ

Amerika

(America)

Since Katakana characters are very limited, foreign words do not sound equally the same in Japanese. So katakana will surely be a challenge for us foreigners of the Japanese language. I sometimes cannot understand how those words ended up like that. lol

Let's go through first the Katakana characters:

TVXQ's U-KNOW Yunho's Comeback with Follow

This whole week, there were lots of new released music from different Kpop artist. But among all of these, my favorite has been U-KNOW Yunho's Follow which MV was launched only June 12 on youtube. Just the moment I listen to its beat and the moment Yunho started dancing I almost lost it. Yunho's charisma is still so powerful! I love it!

I don't know if it's just me but it kinda reminded me of TVXQ's mirotic. I cannot really pinpoint the exact reason, but maybe it has the same vibe for me. Coolness overload!

BTS Kim Nam-joon/RM (What's so special about him?)

We all know that BTS members has different types of charisma and charms, and it is up to us (fans or just viewers) how we see them individually. As for me there's this one guy that intrigues me how he manage to still get a huge following despite, well...you know, not having the typical IDOL looks. And it's non other than the leader Kim Nam-joon or most popularly known as RM (Real Me). So what's so special about him? Since I'm very much curious, let me list down here some facts for us to find out why!

SCANDAL MAGIC featuring Haruna Ono

Some of you maybe wondering why there is no sole blog entry published for SCANDAL's Haruna Ono and Rina Suzuki in here. Unlike what I did for Mami and Tomomi. Well in case you are not familiar with the beginnings of the Scandal magic Fb Fanpage and the history of my blogging, it was actually Haruna and Rina's article that were first published. But that was on a different blog site. And unfortunately that site can no longer be accessed due to some stupid actions I've accidentally did before. And basically I have lost all the data so I got frustrated and just continued with Mami and Tomomi.

Anyways, I'll end that longing of yours and will now start writing for Haruna's. I'll probably pull an all-nighter here to do some research. I honestly cannot recall a few information from way before since it has been a long time and the fact that I stopped with this fandom for a few years didn't help either. So this blog entry might become a recap and learning some more about them just like everyone else.

So let's deal first with the basic to start. This portion's info can be seen everywhere so nothing really surprising. I guess.

Name: Ono Haruna
Instruments: Guitar & Lead Vocals
Birthday: August 10, 1988
Birthplace: Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Blood type: A
Height: 153cm

New Jessica & Krystal Reality Show!

Impossible! That's what I thought it would be. SM Entertainment mentioning Jessica's name and yet even confirming to have a new reality show with their talent Krystal. We all know that Jessica and Krystal are sisters, but still we also know how strict SM Entertainment is when it comes to their ex-talents. Well come to think of it, it was SME who kicked Jessica out of the group so they shouldn't be all butt-hurt at all. But setting aside that sensitive issue, I still cannot believe this news from allkpop's  SM Entertainment confirms Jessica & f(x) Krystal's upcoming reality show. Still, I am very joyful to hear this wonderful news!!!

Finally! Some continuation from their first reality show together Onstyle Jessica & Krystal. How I wish it would be just like before where they looked really free. I remember myself watching this from way back 2014. We get to know more of this pair regarding their treatment to each other. They are so close that sometimes you wanted a sister like Jessica or a little sister like Krystal. Here are some of the things I've missed so much and am anticipating to finally see again on their new reality show.

Oshima Yuko Studying English

When I was MIA from writing, I've heard before that Oshima Yuko went on hiatus from her entertainment career around year 2017 as well. The reason behind was to strengthen her language skills. It was basically to study English. Now that's nice! I love idols/celebrities who are setting an inspiration in widening their knowledge. So now I know why some of Oshima's instagram captions were in English.

But of course just like any other language students out there, you just can't perfect the grammar yet in the beginning. It's a learning process so I'll give her 5 stars for the effort in posting in English. I hope she gets better day by day and won't be discouraged to keep on practicing. 

Oshima Yuko Instagram Account

I'll make her as an inspiration when it comes to studying Japanese. Come to think of it, I'm using that app to express whatever in mind in Japanese as well. Yes, I'm trying and practicing hard too.

Here are some of Oshima's posts with English captions:

Filipino Version of X Japan Songs

So recently I listen to X-Japan songs and suddenly my friend who's doing whatever behind me was able to hum the melody of "Forever Love" song. Basically it startled me for the reason that my friend doesn't know anything about Japanese music. So I paused the song and asked.

My friend told me that she thought it was a Filipino song she's familiar with which is Tanging Sa'yo by Jerome Abalos and didn't really heard that the lyrics I'm listening to is in japanese. So I searched it right away which shocked me because they are totally similar. I somehow knew this Tagalog song from way back but it didn't cross my mind to compare them. Wow just wow!

If you'll check carefully though, the translations of the title and the lyrics are not the same. Well maybe we cannot really literally translate word for word but all-in-all the I think the lyrics have the same thought which is about break-up? You be the judge.

On another note since time has gone by and the tagalog version is still out there,then I think the copyright issues are resolved. So let's not create an issue here alright. Still, this song of X Japan is a epic!

X Japan - Forever Love