Kansha Kangeki Amearashi

感謝カンゲキ雨嵐

Kansha Kangeki Amearashi...It's thanks to the RainStorm that I found myself again.

金曜日, 11月 28, 2003
  Aiya, December, stop rubbing it in lah :P U're gonna be one of the 1st ppl I call up when I dunno how to do a maths question :P

Me...I'm doing all my Maths hol hw, plus reading Hong Lou Meng...I'm gonna do history and SS next...Haven't decided what i should do for EL...maybe Sports School entry? Education definitely--I wanted to do the Ezlink thing but we can't :P One of my topics definitely has something to do with education. If we were asked to write one full argumentative essay on Education in Singapore, I'd jump at the chance!

A few days ago there was an article in the Straits Times about Singaporeans who bash their own country online. I'm deeply against that!! There's a lot of difference between one's country and one's government. It's the government which decides how the country turns out--the country itself has no say in anything. It's the people in the country which decide it's fate. A bad government will cause dissent among it's people, but a country by itself is innocent. A country is just a piece of land and natural resources, it's the people--more specifically, the government--which defines it, and make it alive. It wasn't the country that decided to hike the transport fares, or raise GST, etc...it isn't a country which is rude to people, which has a kiasu attitude, which are ugly Singaporeans. The Government decides how the country is run; the behavior of the people in the country define how people from other countries view us. I think those people who are as immature as to badmouth their own COUNTRY (instead of government) online should try to direct their arguments through a more conducive channel (uh-oh, why do I sound like certain teachers here?). If there's something you're unhappy about about the way the country is run, why not do something about it? Write in to the newspapers etc etc...it's useless to just sit there and complain, because nothing will be done about what you're unhappy about. Maybe the relevant authorities won't do anything about it, but you can be sure they'll keep the complaint in mind...

One may be unhappy about the way one's country is run, but a country is still your home...the place where you reside, and probably where your loved ones do too. Why else would there be coups and the overthrowing of governments? These, and some civil wars occur because a particular faction is unhappy with the government, and basically want to replace it by force. Whether the intention is for the good of the people or to attain one's selfish ambitions, usually it's our of discontent. The people who are justifiably unhappy with their governments could have migrated to another country, given up their citizenships, moved on. But why do they stay on to fight? Simple--a country is still worth fighting for...regardless of how bad a government is, a country is still a home we must defend.

Okay, enough, those are just my views...:P

I'm missing Japan a lot...I just want to go back, the sooner the better. Strange, I've never felt this way about any other country I've ever visited! If I could, I wouldn't mind going back to Japan (Tokyo in particular) every year. There are places which I want to go to, just to have a look around, but which my Mum wouldn't see the point in going. Tokyo Dome etc...I feel like going to Azabu Juuban to find the Johnny's office building too, crazy as it seems!! If I had the $, I wouldn't mind watching an Arashi concert there too... Tokyo isn't about sights and scenery like most other places, it's more about PEOPLE and that's one thing I like. I don't really pay that much attention to sights when I go somewhere, but I like to observe people, learn about new cultures.

The service ppl I met in Japan--the salesppl, waiters, etc I know they're just putting on a polite, 'outside' face for strangers, while inside they may really dislike us. It's one thing some people won't like, because it seems so fake. My uncle and parents have this impression that the Japanese look down on other Asians while respecting white-skinned foreigners, and I suppose that could be true. But it makes it more of a challenge to earn their respect, isn't it? The way ppl of other nationalities, including Singaporeans, behave when they're in a foreign country... I always believed that it's important to repect a country's customs and culture when you're there, regardless of whether you're just a tourist or there for business or studies. But others don't see it that way, and they act as if they're in their own country, showing utter disregard. Would you like it if I went to your home, and messed it up, acting as if I were in my own home? Like tourists with a cold...the Japanese ppl would wear face masks, but some tourists go on sneezing and blowing their noses in public. Would you expect the people there to respect you if you didn't respect them and remain ignorant of their culture and sensitivities?

Even as I say that, I'm still upset that Asians--not just those in Japan, but many asians in general--still look down on their own cultures, and worship the west. It's true that many Asian countries wouldn't have been able to modernise without help and inspiration from the west, and we need to keep up with the west in order to remain competitive and prevent ouselves from slipping backward, but Asian cultures, in my opinion, have a rich heritage that is unrivalled by many Western cultures. Long before the cultures in the west became civilized, people in the places that are now China, Indiam Southeast Asia and so on had already built up empires, started trade...the west was a late bloomer. Many inventions and discoveries were made in Asia and spread to the west : Paper, silk, mathematics, tea, etc. There's so much to be proud of!! perhaps Asian countires would still be the 'superpowers' now had it not been for the years of wars, communism, decadent governments and other factors that led to the fall of the east, and as a result, the rise of the west. So Asians, take pride! We must be in touch with the west, but this doesn't mean that we abandon our own cultures. Don't lose touch with your own culture!! 
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水曜日, 11月 26, 2003
  I don't even know if the person who said that is really talking abt me, so u can't say he/she is an 'admirer' yet!

Anyway, Happy Birthday to Arashi's Ohno Satoshi!!! Our beloved 'Leader' turns 23 today...!~ Omdetou Tanjoubi Ohno-kun!!

December, the last Arashi birthday this year, Aiba Masaki's, falls just 1 day after urs? Xmas Eve... :D 
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金曜日, 11月 21, 2003
  Tadaima!!!
Sorri i didn't blog for so long, there's so much I wanna tell all of u...:D
Mi: Are u sure u've got the right person? I've got much more ppl saying I'm ugly than ppl who say I'm pretty...where have u seen me arnd? Maybe I've seen ur arnd too.

Gwen: I've learnt that too, but it's this fear of rejection that's holding me back from being more forward. I don't want to appear over-friendly, or even worse, fake. Many ppl in our class are really quite nice, they aren't that mean, it's just that it's obvious they form tight cliques so I'm quite shy about apporaching the one or two in the clique who seem nice to me...It'd just feel weird if someone who hardly talked to you, whom you barely know, suddenly starts being nice to you and starts saying hi and writes letters, wouldn't it? That's what I think, which is why I'll only feel confident of being friendly with the person if she made the first move...

Riza Ikuta: I got the Johnny's fan letter address from sites on the net, and from some magazines which just happened to publish the address in a certain issue. It's been said that the Johnny's address is also on the artistes' CD covers, but somehow i can't find the address anywhere on my Arashi CDs... as for emails...I don't have any of the idols' personal addresses and emails!! Even if I did manage to get hold of them I'd keep it a secret, they need their privacy too...all I have is the Johnny's Jimusho address where fans can send their fan letters too. The letters get forwarded to the idols...usually, even if they do reply, the return to address they give would be the Jimusho's address, not their own. If they wrote their own addresses, i think fans would probably stake out their houses etc and even worse (you know the crazy things stalkers who stalk stars sometimes do)!

Yes, I did go to Fuji TV!! On a Friday! I should have gone on Sat cuz Arashi films Nama Arashi there on Saturdays...:( I don't know if we'd be able to look into the namaArashi studio though, there were 2 talkshows filming there and there was this window where ppl can look down and watch the presenters getting ready, cameras being set up etc...no going in though. Fuji TV's very nice! Din go up onto the observatory as u needed to pay, but the view from the normal observation deck is already quite lovely...saw the carpark where Jun and Ohno's photoshoot for September Duet took place...

And i spotted Arashi's signatures on this sculpture thing in a glass case--on it were the signatures of the guests who had come on Love x Love Aishiteru--I took a photo, dun know whether the flash reflection from the case would blind out the signature...:(

Went to harajuku and Shibuya too--didn't have much time to look around Shibuya although my mum and I went into 109 and Tokyu; but I went into the Johnny's shop at Harajuku!!! i loved Takeshita Doori too, but again, though I would have really loved to look into every single shop, time(and my mum) didn't allow...

And the highlight....

I SAW A MOVIE STAR!! Or TV star...Kisarazu cat's Eye Nihon Series was premiering near my hotel in Ikebukuro, and I SAW SATO RYUUTA!!!

OK, for those of you who are really blur abt what I'm talking about, Kisarazu Cat's Eye was originally a TV show which aired at the beginning of last year. It's about this guy, Bussan (played by V6's Okada Junichi) who finds out that he's dying of cancer and has only 6 months left. The story is mainly about how his old friends from his high school base ball team help him fulfill his wish, and their lives in those last 6 months. It stars Arashi's Sakurai Sho too!!! By day, they play baseball and form a band. By night, in order to fufill Bussan's dying wish, they're a cat burglary team (don't worry, it's sort of a Robin Hood like thing) called Cat's Eye.

Sato Ryuuta is one of the main cast members, plays one of the Cat's Eye members nicknamed Master. I didn't watch the TBS series (I hope ch8 or chU brings it on air soon) and the tickets for Nihon Series cost 1500yen: over S$20, which was kind of expensive in my mum's opinion :( I hope i manage to get hold of the VCD or DVD when it comes out...

Anyway, on the night the movie premiered, there was a fan-meeting session ('aisatsu kai') There was a huge crowd lining up at the cinema by 20 minutes b4 the aisatsu session, and I saw Sato Ryuuta ( abt 1 1/2 hours after that started!!!! He was in a taxi and he waved to all the girls who were screaming away, "Ryuu-chan!!!", while some took photos whith their cellphones. Everyone just stopped in the middle of the streets and moved in for a closer look.The bodyguards(?) who were there had to put up a rope barricade to keep the fans away from the taxi. At least one cast member left in a taxi before him, but I'm not sure who that was, got there too late. A few groups of girls stayed behind after he left, (I did too), probably waiting to see if anyone else would come out. The crowds didn't really clear until the guards packed the barricades and speakerphones and drove away in a van...

I don't think Sho was there though, the 'aisatsu' session began at around 5.20pm that saturday and Sho has his radio show 'Sho Beat' at exactly that time...unless his radio show was pre-recorded and I don't think it is.
I didn't miss that radio show--it's nice to hear Sho's voice on radio *smiles dreamily*, but I was wondering what was up with the Arashi guys and "A Day in Our Life" The song was playing all the time in the background during Nino's radio show, and Sho played it too at the end of his show. Then, I suddenly remembered that "A day in Our Life" was the theme song for the TV drama version of Cat's Eye...*sweatdrops* I got the creepy feeling it was some sort of strange message: "Kitto mata meguri au someday!" (We'll definitely meet again someday), as it's so often repeated in the song.

I didn't finish listening to Jun's show, missed Aiba's show (it was on at midnight and I fell asleep...) and I couldn't receive Ohno's show as I was in the Kansai region then and couldn't receive it :P But I'll be back someday!

I went to Mount Fuji before Tokyo, and the tour bus took us as high up as the 5th station (1/2 the way to the peak). It was already quite cold, and on our way to the mountain (or volcano more accurately), we could see it was quite cloudy, the peak was hidden. But miracle of miracles, just a while before we got up to the 5th station, the clouds shifted and we saw the peak!!! It was just like a diamond, glittering in the sun, snow capped...the tour guide said we were lucky, the peak can be seen only around 50-something days out of the whole year, and even then that's usually in summer. :D We really were lucky ne?

Went into an onsen at the hotel in the Mt Fuji area too. OK, Gwen, don't start thinking H-thoughts again!!! Kind of shy abt stripping and soaking arnd in the buff in front of other ppl, but it's really okay, everyone there were women, nothing to be shy about. The Japanese ppl themselves are used to it. Nothing to be really shy about...of course if there were guys about I wouldn't even dare to step in!! The older women in my tour group were really shy and nervous about doing so though...had more reservations than I did. It's only normal, our upbringing taught us to be ashamed of our bodies, and that our bodies had to be hidden as much as possible. I'm glad that the books I read taught me that my body was nothing I should be ashamed of, and to be comfortable with myself. After all, the japanese people have no qualms about soaking in the hot springs hadaka no mama de with their friends, so why should I?

Kyoto, Nara and Osaka were just beautiful, especially Heian Jingu...saw a few boys and girls there in full kimono/hakama, gi and haori attire, celebrating Shichi-Go-san. Japanese children are so cute!! I didn't go into the geisha district, so I didn't see any geisha :( Kiyomizu Temple was really crowded!! Full of students, it was the school trip season over there. But the view from the observation deck there is really amazing!!

In Shinsaibashi in Osaka, I had trouble finding the Johnny's shop :P Trying to find the block where it was, it suddenly started raining and we literally ended up "Walking In The Rain" as in the Arashi song :D Went into a 7-11 shop to ask for directions and I got my NEWS CD there too. But anyway, we still couldn't find it and gave up (albeit reluctantly in my case).

But it's where I got my CDs (2 of them). There's really an awful lot to see there, it's almost like Tokyo's Ginza, Shibuya and Harajuku combined! There's a Sony Building there too, but most of the time my mum and I were exploring the shops. The 2 hours we were given really wasn't enough to see everything. I'd want to go back again too.

There's so much more...Odaiba, everything, but somehow I'd feel better telling it than writing it! Gwen, watch out, the next time u see me u'll be in for an all listen-no talk session :D I really want to go back again, I wish i had more days in Tokyo, I didn't get to see a lot of the well-known sights. It's really easy to find you way around Tokyo, with a good map especially of train station areas. I didn't go to Shinjuku, Roppongi or the Tokyo Tower, but I'll definitely go back there! The train network in Tokyo seems more dense, it's a shorter walk to the sights and areas, while looking at maps of Kyoto and Nara...it isn't as convenient to just take a train and then walk. One thing that wasn't very convenient though, was that the JR stations have no escalators, all stairs; and as they have no one farecard/ezlink card like they do here, the ticket dispenser machines always have long queues forming behind them.

I like the fashions in Japan--high socks, loose socks :) It's so opposite from Singapore where those really short socks are in right now. There, though the girls wear really short skirts, their socks go up to their knees (high socks) or they bunch up their socks, making them look bulky, but this also makes their thighs look smaller (loose socks). I went around one day in a miniskirt and high socks, though the temperature as 10 degrees C it didn't feel cold. But high socks would look ugly with Singapore uniforms, any skirt with a hemline that touches the knees would look ugly with high socks. No wonder SG girls would rather wear low socks, it makes their legs look longer with those long school uniform skirts. I'd wear high socks with a miniskirt though. It looks more classy and sophisticated to me than wearing a miniskirt with low socks, which exposes too much. Just a personal preference. If my pinafore was just a little shorter, I wouldn't mind wearing high socks though i'd risk getting caught by the school! Although my classmates would wonder what I was doing, high socks here are most likely thought as too 'guai kia" and "unfashionable" etc by many ppl who like western styles, but for a japofreak like me it'd never go out. To each her own. :D




 
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日曜日, 11月 09, 2003
  Only Love

Only love ai wa kitto Utagawanai koto da yo
Only Love itsudemo kimi dake ga Kono boku no hikari sa
Only love, it’s what love definitely is It’s an undoubtable thing
Only love only you will be my light no matter when


Wakatta furishita ren ai tte iu nara shite kita tsumori sa
Konna ni kokoro ga midareru omoi wa ima made de deawanakatta
If it’s what they call a love where we pretend to know, we’ve gone and done it
My heart has never experienced thoughts so messed up until now


Sonna ni tsuyogaranaide
Kokoro no mama ireba ii
Boku ra wa hitotsu ni naru
Namida mo ima wakeaou
Don’t put up such a false front
As long as your heart’s here
Let’s become one
And now share our tears too


Only Love ai suru kimochi wa Boku tachi ni yuuki wo kureru yo
Only Love mitsumeru futari wa Never Ever want uchuu ga tsutsumu yo
Only love the feeling of being in love gives us strength
Only love The Never ever want universe envelopes the two of us gazing at each other


Ai no shirushi kono kisetsu e to ima nokoshi arukou
Furubita shashin ni bokura wa takusan no takaramono utsushiteyukou
As a sign of our love let’s walk towards this season and leave behind the present
And let the old photos show many of our precious things [memories]


Mayoi mo kimi ga iru dake de
Subete ga kiete shimau
Kokoro ga yasashiku naru yo
Yorokobi aeru kimochi sa
Even when I’m in doubt, as long as I have you
Everything vanishes
My heart becomes kind
It's the feeling of having met happiness


Only Love sekai ni hitotsu no taisetsu na ai ni deaeta
Only Love mirai wo miwataseba Never ever want futari ga iru hazu
Only Love I’ve met one important love in the world
Only love if we look into the future, Never ever want there ought to be us


Jibun yori taisetsu na mono wo so
Hajimete sa mitsuketa yo
Kokoro no naka made wo misetai na
Zenbu kimi sa
Baby come on, come on. Let’s get it on
So Baby come on. Come on Yea suki sa
Asa mo hiru mo yoru mo zutto zutto zutto Lovin’
It’s the first time I’ve discovered
Someone so much more important than myself
[The one whom] I want to show right into my heart
Is all you
Baby come on, come on Let’s get it on
So Baby come on. Come on Yea it’s like
In the morning and noon and at night as well we’ll always always always be Lovin’


Only you kokoro ni chikau yo Only you omoi wa eien ni
Only you sorasazu Only you Kimi dake miteiru
Only you I swear in my heart my thoughts will last forever for only you
Only you no elusion Only you I’m looking at only you


Only love ai suru kimochi wa bokutachi ni yuuki wo kureru yo
Only love mitsumeru futari wa Never ever want uchuu ga tsutsumu yo
Only love the feeling of being in love gives us strength
Only love The Never ever want universe envelopes the two of us gazing at each other


Only love sekai ni hitotsu no taisetsu na ai ni deaeta
Only love mirai wo miwataseba Never eever want futari ga iru hazu
Only Love I’ve met one important love in the world
Only love if we look into the future, Never ever want there ought to be us


I hope I manage to get either version of NEWS debut single "NEWS Nippon"! Will they start selling it in the 7-11 shops here too? Hmm....

~off to finish packing~ My flight's at 0015 tonite but as usual, it's check in 2 hours before. I don't know who else is in the tour grp, but betcha it's a lot of aunties :P School's not really over officially yet...but autumn (late autumn especially) is the best time to go to Japan or so i read.

Mum set down some rules. NO getting electronics there. NO clothes (unless they're really unique and impossible to fine here, and are reasonably priced).

From Myojo mag, a sweater can cost arnd the equivalent of S$50-60! Mind u, it's not some really branded brand either, but mags do feature more expensive stuff...

The leggings itch~(giggles) but that's what I get for wanting to wear a skirt over there. Hey, ppl do it k, juz need a good warm pair of woollen leggings to go with it! Will save it for Tokyo...

I wish i could spend one whole week in Tokyo...:P but nvm, 4 days this time should be enough. Then (Gwen and the rest, are u paying attn?) if it's possible, when we're older and earn our own income, the best thing would be to go there in spring to see the sakura with all my Japophile friends! Or we could go there on Jan 15th and celebrate Hatachi with them when we turn 20... But then, we'll still be only in U or Poly...

*juz realised that if we do go to Japan and celebrate Hatachi, we'll be doing it with Moriuchi Takahiro, Kusano Hironori etc etc--basically, the jrs who are our age!!*

If only school started in April, not January...sighz...but it's OK, autumn's a nice time to go too. Although today's weather report said that Tokyo and Osaka are rainy (reading that, I sneaked the umbrella back into my bag), all in all the weather's just okay. It won't start snowing yet! The last times I transited in Japan(OK, I only transitted there 4 times), it was snowing outside Narita Airport--around early December




 
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It's people like SSS who make the world less boring isn't it? I wonder if he/she just happened to be bored and decided to leave this nice little comment in there. If anyone has anything to criticise about me or this blog, please give a valid reason for it. Leaving one word comments kind of makes me curious.

At least there are some ppl who have the guts to leave their names after criticising comments :) It's only then that I'm able to take those comments seriously. If u have the guts to say something, why don't you have the guts to put your name to it, and admit that you're the one who said it? If you won't stand by your words, and admit that you made that comment, then why say it in the first place?

Rant over

December, my phone went out off battery and I didn't charge it cuz I wouldn't be using it for the whole week...but on seeing ur message in my guestbook I went and plugged the phone in at once. Sorry! I'll help u look for ur Ayumi Hamasaki cds but I can't guarantee that they won't be sold out there...U wanted the limited edition versions and the CDs were released over a year ago. The limited eds of the latest Arashi single is already sold out in HMV Japan, and they're less than 3 months old!! There's also a lot my mum wouldn't allow me to buy back--some stuff is difficult to carry back, like large posters etc...and we're not getting anything that will make the luggage extremely heavy, my dad isn't going so we dun have a strongman to help us carry all the stuff! Don't expect too much...

Gwen...will help u look for ur Ai no Kusabi...

I'll probably buy back the Eskimo Pino chocolates! :D The very one that Arashi endorses. I was hunting up and down for it in the supermarkets here but they don't sell it... 
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金曜日, 11月 07, 2003
  Myojo 12 2003 has the most swoonable Arashi pics!!!
(Ok, , these swoonable pics may be kinda hentai by some standards...everyone on that thread in the Iro forum got 'nosebleeds' when they say them :D)

And the CL O' level is finally over...I have this bad feeling I'm not going to do well... Let's not talk about that...

As a kind of 'celebration', I got Duet mag today...I'll get WinkUp and Potato in Japan IF they're not sold out by then...

Potato, Wink Up and Duet all had NEWS on the cover, as did Myojo...
More profiles...arrgh, have to compile all of them...
Duet 11, Duet 12, Myojo12, WinkUp :D

Moriuchi Takahiro somehow gives me the impression that he's this gawky guy, but that's just a first impression, I might be wrong.His younger brother Hiroki is cuter then him, though all the same the two of them really look alike just that the 10yr old Hiroki is just...cuter...takahiro-kun probably looked like him when he was 10 though.

the November issues of Duet and Winkup (if I'm not mistaken...in any case, 2 mags in the same month) featured Hiroki...can it be due to his older brother who's suddenly in the limelight? Before NEWS, Moriuchi Takahiro wasn't really popular--not as much as YamaP, K.K.Kity and the rest anyway :D
His singing is quite okay, but ppl on the forum have been saying that he can't dance. I haven't really seen him dance, so I don't know true that is.

Plucked my eyebrows--not too much though. Most ppl can't tell at first glance, but Gwen (on further inspection) said they looked drawn on, cuz they seemed darker then normal. Well, ppl not being able to tell that i did something to my eyebrows at first glance is gd news right? I hope it means that they look natural. I know i once said I try not to touch my eyebrows cuz one wrong step and you'll look terribly ugly...disfigured...aunty-like...but a little neatening of it can't hurt right? It can do wonders :D Just plucked ONLY the stray hairs at the sides...I didn't try to reshape them or anything, don't fancy the plucked chicken/ totally drawn on aunty look.

What do you think about guys shaping/trimming their eyebrows? It gives me a weird feeling--trimming eyebrows isn't a very manly thing in my opinion--but male media personalities do it (most of them anyway). SHO does it! (compare pictures of him when he was younger to current ones.) I guess they can be excused, though I still think they'd be more man if they left their eyebrows alone. As long as they don't overdo it...No offence here, but Domoto Tsuyoshi's current eyebrows scare me...they look too thin to be a man's...a year ago, he was JUST FINE!!! Hope his eyebrows grow back--and that he leaves them alone this time. and Koichi, Koichi...when I first saw a picture of Kinki Kids, I thought he was more handsome than Tsuyoshi, but now I'm not so sure...again, NO OFFENCE INTENDED, looking at pics of koichi in mags, he looks a little...transsexual? (Hey, I really don't mean any offence!!) I think it's the eyebrows again...:P

Who has the most manly eyebrows? Thick and dark--MatsuJun! His new hairstyle looks cool too, and all I can say is, "Yeah!!! He finally cut it!" It's a cross between Kindaichi hair and Gokusen...sorta spikey but longer than his hairstyle in Kindaichi. He looks so much better :D Love it! (Still Sho Only though!)

I'm still unused to seeing Aiba with really black hair, but I really admire him. He dyed his hair black on purpose to act as a teacher in his latest drama, "Yankee Boukou ni Kaeru"! A big sacrifice--apart from pictures of him as a Jr, I've never seen Aiba with black hair before this! In one article, he said, "My hair is probably blacker now than it was when I just entered Johnny's". :D

Do you notice than almost at any one time, there will be at least one member of Arashi with black hair? First MatsuJun, then when MatsuJun dyed his hair, Nino's hair became black...and now Aiba. So far, the only member whom I've really NEVER NEVER seen with black hair is Ohno!

Kz, gotta go now, I don't know when I'll blog next...until then, Arashi de, "Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono".

Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono
(Something More Precious than Words)

Kiri totta merodi kurikaeshita wasurenai you ni
Kotoba yori mo taisetsu na mono koko ni wa aru kara
The melody that was cut off repeats again, as if it were unable to be forgotten
Because something more precious than words exists here


Muri shite warau ni wa riyuu ga nasa sugite
Tsuyoi kaze no naka da
Hikisakareta mama rojou ni chirabatta
Ibitsu na yume no kakera
It?fs too unreasonable to laugh for reason
In the strong wind
The fragments of twisted dreams, while being torn into pieces
Scattered on the road


Tsutameta furi shitemo tsutawaru ai de
Donna uta wo uta n darou
Saa ikou Our Life
What song is being sung in this love
That is conveyed even when one pretends to be cold?
Come, let?fs go Our Life


Suki tootta merodi mune ni himeta nakusanai you ni
Kotoba yori mo taisetsu na mono koko ni wa aru kara
Wow wow wow wow?c
The soaked melody, hidden in the heart, never to be lost
Because something more precious than words lies here
.

Doushite mieru no ni sawaresou na no ni
Demo tooi risou to ka
Tsui kuchi ppoku natte yowasa ga itakute
Mirarenai you ni naita
Why is it that although it seems that I?fm able to see you and touch you,
It?fs still a distant dream?
Then I become dazed, and this weakness hurts
And I cried, as if I couldn?ft see you


Ima wa sore ga toushindai no sugao de
Donna ashita ni kaete miyou
Kibou to iu Our Life
Right now, with our real, life-sized forms,
Let?fs see how the future will turn out
?gHope?h is what they call Life


Haruka na sora ni yume wo nagete namida wo nugueba
Kotoba yori mo kokoro no hou ga kotae ni naru kara
If we flung our dreams to the distant sky and wiped our tears
Our hearts would give a better answer than words

Wow wow wow wow?c

(Rap) Tatoeba no hanashi senritsu kanadete
Ano toki no asahi shimatte futari wa hanarete
?gMata ne?h tte kotoba wo nokoshite wakarete ittemo tashika na
Kono natsu dake wa kimi to tomo ni
Let?fs say, the melody plays
And stops that morning, and the two of us leave
Although we parted leaving behind the words, ?gSee you again,?h the truth is
I?fll be with you for just this summer


Utagau koto naku tabi suru kumo ga subarashii kyou mo
Anata yori mo ooki na ai wa doko ni mo nai n da yo
There?fs nothing to doubt in the drifting clouds nor the fine today
(That) there?fs no bigger love than you anywhere else in the world


Kiri totta merodi kurikaeshita wasurenai you ni
Kotoba yori mo taisetsu dakara anata ni todoketa
Wow wow wow wow?c
The melody that was stopped repeats again, as if it were unable to be forgotten
It reached you because it?fs more precious than words


 
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On happy days, as cheerful as a rainbow Or on days that rage like a storm You'll always be there for me

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—’ Arashi/Tochuu Gesha “r’†‰ºŽÔ
From album Iza, Now!‚¢‚´‚ÁA‚m‚‚—I
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Release date 21 july2004
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途中下車

朝もや 旅立ちのホームに
内緒で駆けつけた 
見慣れた笑顔が待っていた
ジリリ 別れのベールが鳴り
大粒の涙が 真夏の風に消えた

外は晴れ 夢はどこ?巡り合うのは誰?
閉まりかけていたドアの向こう側に 見た!

*名前も忘れるほど遠くなってしまうなら
ネクタイを外し途中下車したまま

この街の思い出が 何気ない 一日が
守るべき何か そっと 包んでゆく

突き出す きれいなビルの影
くたびれた Yシャツ 
交差点の中立っている
時の流れに追い越され
落ち込んだ午後には あの夏に咲いてた True Song

人はなぜない物を探し続けてるの?
悩む事さえ忘れかけている My Life

#あの日乗り込んだ列車は 行き先もないままに
不器用な呼吸でまだ走ってゆく

信じることに疲れて 1人眠りたい夜
途中下車したまま ゆっくり 時が 止まる
全ての街に日が昇る
希望の鐘(ね)を打ち鳴らせ

今信じる勇気が 魂の輝きが
守るべき何か そっと 包んでゆく

(*印 くりかえし)
(#印 くりかえし)
走ってゆく

Tochuu Gesha

Asa moya Tabi tachi no homu ni
Naisho de kaketsuketa
Minareta egao ga matteita
Jiriri wakare no beru ga nari
Ootsubu no namida ga Manatsu no kaze ni kieta
(The morning haze At the starting point of my journey,
I set out in secret
As the familiar smile waits
"JIRIRI", the departing bell rings
And big drops of tears disappear in the winds of midsummer)


Soto wa hare yume wa doko? Meguriau no wa dare?
Shimarikaketeita doa no mukou gawa ni Mita!
(It's fine outside, where are my dreams? Who is it that I'll meet?
On the other side of the closing doors, I saw it!
)

*Namae mo wasureru hodo tooku natte shimau nara
Nekutai wo hazushi tochuu gesha shita mama
Kono machi no omoide ga nanigenai ichi nichi ga
Mamorubeki nani ga sotto tsutsunde yuku
(If I ever go so far away that I forget even [her] name
I'll take off my necktie, and as I get down from the car midjourney,
Gently embrace the memories of this street, the day I took for granted
And what I'm supposed to protect
)

Tsukidasu Kirei na biru no kage
Kutabireta Y shatsu 
Kousaten no naka tatteiru
Toki no nagare ni oikosare
Ochikonda koko ni wa
Ano natsu ni saiteta True Song
(The shadow of a clean building pops into sight
A worn out white shirt
Standing in the middle of the crossroads,
Having been caught up and surpassed by the flow of time,
Is the True Song that bloomed in the calm afternoon
Of that summer.
)

Hito wa naze nai mono wo sagashi tsuzuketeru no?
Nayamu koto sae wasurekaketeiru My Life
(Why do people keep looking for what they do not have?
My Life, where I forget even my troubles
)

#Ano hi norikonda resha wa iki saki mo nai mama ni
Bukiyou na kokyuu de mada hashitte yuku
(The train I boarded that day without any destination in mind
Still rushes on with its awkward breaths)


Shinjiru koto ni tsukarete hitori nemuritai yoru
Tochuu gesha shita mama yukkuri toki ga tomaru
Subete no machi ni hi ga noboru
Kibou no ne wo uchi narase
(Tired of believing, nights I want to sleep alone
As I alight from the car mid-journey, time slowly comes to a stop
The sun rises in every street
Striking the bell of hope
)

Ima shinjiru yuuki ga Tamashii no kagayaki ga
Mamoru beki nani ka sotto tsutsundeyuku
(Right now, I embrace gently
The courage to believe, the radiance of spirit
And what I should protect
)
(repeat *)
(repeat #)

Hashitte yuku
(Rushing on)

Translation by Celste(Evon)


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