Category: Life

  • Do’s and Don’ts of a Good (movie) Blog

    This is a… let’s call it a long footnote on Japan Cinema’s guide of Do’s and Dont’s of a Good Movie Blog.

    I’ve blogged… for a while. My first blog was launched in 2004… it’s been a few years. The blogging has escalated into something I would like to do for a living, but I still love to have a space where I can just, you know, blog for my own sake.

    While Japan Cinema’s guide is an awesome start-up tool to make it more pro, it’s obvious many bloggers feel blogging is just their own medium to vent. If you happen to find someone that shares your same point of view, the better! But it’s not a necessity.

    I wanted to share a few tips to make a good (movie) blog. I know I haven’t been the best blogger for a while, but at the high of my activities here, I had months with an average of 2, 3 or 4 posts a day… whether I had comments or not. LOL

    Keyboard

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  • Yu is Depressed on Vampire

    Yesterday was a good day to be a Yu-chan fan.

    *cough* subs for Raiou are out.

    The YAM Magazine Weibo account was flooded of Hana & Alice talk – I still don’t know why, but I can’t complain.

    And Acerk messaged me with news of two stills from Shunji Iwai’s Vampire featuring Yu.

    I was really excited.

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  • (notes on) biology

    Who remembers those days when you were in class not paying attention, doodling on your notebook?

  • Dream Collaboration: Sa Dingding + Laure Shang

    I was just watching CCTV where Sa Dingding showed up. Her Harmony album was one of my faves last year, and revisiting Ha Li Li I thought she’d be perfect for a collaboration with Laure Shang with Love Warrior – which, at this moment, is one of my fave tracks of 2011.

    I made a poll on Weibo (first one ever!).

  • The Royal Wedding and you know… stuff.

    Okay, other than BBC (and every other channel) showing the Royal Wedding all freaking day long, it was pretty impossible not to know about it. Whether you love them or hate them.

    It was pretty horrible with even CNN, which made me wonder if they were going to talk about the flavor of the wedding cake.

    Here!

    I dunno what the flavor was, though.

    The Royal Wedding Cake

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  • Worldwide Anthems~

    This post took a really long time… it’s been on my to-do post-it for a while~ I even have a post-it with the songs that I wanted to include, and the ones I could ask people about.

    So check out the list on YAM Magazine ;D

  • Kou Shibasaki is a Rocking Lady Shogun

    Thoughts on Ooku?

    You know I really really love Kou Shibasaki’s acting (not so much her music), and she was easily the best part in that movie. And it’s not even that scene in which the chambers opened to a sight of pretty men bowing to her, and she tells them they’re a bunch of useless and pretty men. LOL

    Is not even that scene.

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  • Kuwazugirai: Yu Aoi vs. Okada Masaki

    The 40min. segment from FujiTV’s Tunnels Thanks to Everybody that aired the day before the opening of Raiou… is actually pretty fun. Plus, Yu Aoi talking about food.

    A popular segment in which Tunnels and guests take turns trying to guess the food the opponent hates the most.

    We need translation for this one xD

    Loads of interesting facts, it seems… like Yu owning a shaved-ice machine.

    And Yu tearing up when laughing. Does anyone get that when they laugh?

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  • Yu Aoi x GOING UNDER GROUND – Heart Beat

    How did I not know about this MV until today? LOL It was released in 2003!

    I was going through some of the posts that had lost its YouTube video links, and one of them was this Yu Aoi and MVs posts, and I ended up seeing this video on Tudou, which took forever to load. I wasn’t sure it was a real MV, so I looked it up, and voila! Seems legit~

    Song is okay too! LOL

  • How Jdrama Made me a Lazy TV Viewer

    I have been ruined by Jdrama xD

    Can you believe it’s been three years since?

    It’s probably the longest fictitious relationship I’ve ever had with anything. LOL

    You can read all about it on YAM Magazine.