Tag: japan

  • When Aoi Was Natsui

    My gosh! Look what I found on Weibo~

    At the time, Yu was only 1.50m xD

    By the way, she’s turning 26 in two days. Yu is now closer to her 30s than her 20s. O_O

  • Yu Aoi: Today’s Kakigoori

    I am pretty (99,9%) sure that this used to be called Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu Kakigoori (春夏秋冬かき氷), which I translated as Kakigoori for All Seasons or Shaved-Ice for All Seasons. But now it’s called Kyou mo Kakigoori (今日もかき氷). I don’t know when that happened. But look!

    We know how much Yu lovessssssssssss shaved ice, she’s like… super passionate about it. Some people love animals from shelters, melt for abandoned puppies and other assorted pets — Yu-chan loves herself some Kakigoori. She loves Taiwan for it, and my Mandarin teacher who’s from Taiwan tells me shaved-ice in Taiwan is off the hook out of this world.

    I have no illuminating knowledge about shaved ice, because apparently Peruvian raspadilla has NOTHING on Taiwanese shaved ice. But there you go! Now you know how to say shaved ice in Peruvian Spanish~ I’ll put it in katakana: ラスパディーヤ // RASUPADI~YA. LOL The root of the word comes from “raspar” which means “shave” – and while in English, there’s also what we call “snow cones,” raspadillas aren’t really served in a cone.

    Another common name for shaved ice in Spanish is granizado, in katakana: グラニザード // GURANIZA~DO, which comes from the word “granizo” as in “hail” ~~~ and also the term nieve raspada (shaved snow) or in katakana: ニエーベ　ラスパーダ // NIE~BE RASUPA~DA, which in itself is a wonk term because you can’t shave snow… can you?

    Are you bored by now with my Kakigoori knowledge? Well, in any case Yu is willing to travel the world for the perfect Kakigoori… I guess she’s going to need to know how to call it in different names. But if my teacher is telling me the truth, then Taiwan is all Yu needs.

    Here are some more photos!

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  • More Takeshi Kaneshiro for GQ China~

    Baby, why you so hot. xD I can’t take all the hotness that is you, especially in these high contrast and moody elegant photos of you.

    If you want bigger pics, you’re gonna have to drop by Aiya They Didn’t.

  • Ten Hot Multiracial Entertainers

    We can be sooooooooooooooo superficial from time to time ;D

    Read it and pimp it~

    In this case… WHY AREN’T YOU SUBSCRIBED TO THE YAM MAGAZINE RSS FEED?

  • Yu Aoi in India, GINZA Mag, and Minami he on WOWOW

    It seems like I haven’t blogged about Yu Aoi for a while. I certainly haven’t checked her website, so I’m a little out of the loop.

    The title on this post may be a little misleading. I don’t know whether Yu is in India, but the cover for GINZA Magazine for the July edition seems to indicate something similar… or maybe it will just be “India style”. Who knows~

    See the bottom title on the left?

    Aoi Yu, something about color no INDO he.

    While checking Yu’s website, I also found out that WOWOW will be showing a broadcast of Minami he~ it would be super awesome if someone took the time to record that and upload it so we could watch — even without subs. LOL

    Minami he – WOWOW
    July 8th, 11:30pm

    Yup, that’s it.

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    what have you guys been up to lately?

  • Meisa Kuroki – One More Drama

    Needle heels should be banned from choreographed music videos.

    Having said that, damn. You know, say what you say KKK-ers — but when races mix correctly, it turns out hot. Meisa Kuroki is one hot mixed-race lady… but she can’t dance to save her life. I’ve never seen Meisa with normal shoes dancing, so I can’t say how she dances normally… but I remember her stint with Flamenco, and she got no swing.

    But she’s got a good vibe…

    I want to root for her.

    But as with LOL, I keep bursting out laughing with this. Even though I kinda liked her Spanish-y guitar intro. I also liked how they did the one eye with different color thing.

    [iframe src=”https://www.yinyuetai.com/video/player/156558/v_5501040.swf” width=”480″ height=”334″]

    I still think she needs to get together with Hyori for a collab ;D

  • 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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  • Ten Actresses that Should Move to Cable

    Re-pimping this old list~ xD

    It’s always been tough to be a working actress on the big screen, as you turn a little older, offers often seem to be linked to “being someone else’s mother,” but cable television seems to be becoming more and more attractive to not only writers – because they get to write more challenging stories and skip censors – but also to women who were movie actresses and have found new complex roles to take on.

    you can read the whole thing on YAM Magazine~

  • Wow, 10 years of All About Lily Chou Chou Already?

    Oh hoh… teasing photo for those who wanted Shunji Iwai + Yu Aoi back together. xD

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