Over S$100! Was saving up for prom but now that the new Arashi 5 x5 The Best Selection of 2002-2004 (Limited Ed) is coming out...I guess I don't really need new makeup for prom...in any case I'm going to be really broke. But I think the limited ed is worth it...just have to do it by money order. Don't know how much that will cost but definitely less than a bank draft...my parents don't trust online stores with their credit cards so I'll have to find my own way.
If only I could just borrow from my mum for this once...but over a CD (and DVD) she'll deem 'overpriced'? Fat hope. I have a feeling it'd cost more at Mise. If HMV brings it in...but because it has a DVD, I wouldn't count on that. But I intend to drop by HMV tomorrow to check. If the limited editions of Iza Now! and Hitomi no Naka no Galaxy/Hero are there, it means they'll probably bring in the limited ed of 5x5 too, albeit much delayed.
$110...rough estimate...gone... If only there was such a thing as pay-by-installments at yesAsia lol.
Feeling guilty...
still haven't collected the CD I asked Juliah to get for me...she said she'd get her sister to pass it to me but I don't have her sister's contacts either. I'm not bringing my cellphone tmr so...i don't know...maybe after the bio prac next week.
About the article about Arashi's 'blogs' in the New Paper: Actually, i kind of despise the Singaporean journalists who write about Jpop--most of them don't know their stuff at all and it's so irritating!! That article proves my point--does she think they even have the time to blog? And I think they (most of them anyway) would be more comfortable blogging in Japanese.
From misspelled names...to wrong info...to writing about a red herring as if it were real...oh man, those 'jpop reporters' are really ignorant. Even if they didn't really know much about an artiste or pop group, shouldn't they check their sources a little more thoroughly? To assume just like this...what a disgrace to journalists . If I ever became a reporter reporting on the Japanese entertainment scene I'd really make sure I get accurate info, not the tabloid stuff which you can't be sure are true or not.
Just typed a letter to the reporter who wrote the article. It probably is rather bold of me, but I sort of repeated a bit of what I just said in the above paragraph: Responsible journalists should not report any news without first checking and doublechecking on it for reliability and truthfulness. It's what I strongly believe--otherwise it'd be reporting rumours, and that's really unprofessional in my opinion.
Well, maybe it wouldn't be so bad if everyone knew when to doubt and when to believe, but the fact remains that some people remain extremely gullible and believe everything they read, even when there's no evidence that what they read is true. You can't believe everything, especially whatever appears in those tabloids. That's why I get so irritated when some people at the Idol Thoughts rumours forum go on and on about reports in tabloids, as if they were true, no matter how far fetched it seems. If you've really seen him do it in real life, fine; if you know him personally and know that he does that, fine, we believe you. But photos alone do not tell all...it's almost like picture conversation: Give me a photo and I can cook up any story about how it came to be. But sources can lie, especially if you don't know who the person who first gives the 'news' is. 'Fans' can lie so that other fans will look up to them for actually having firsthand new 'news' about their idol. While the image that an idol projects may not be his true self, get real, a public image is a public image. And i think that a person can never hide his/her true self completely. On top of that, a public personality deserves some respect too. That's why i hardly ever go to IT, and when I do, my posts usually doubt the rumour.
I really admire the Japanese magazines I read...they never probe too deep into an artiste's private life to make their readers feel, "okay, enough is enough". When an idol says, "I'm sorry, it's private", they leave it at that. Yet, the questions they ask and so on reveal enough about the idol to allow fans to feel as if they know him. The mags don't make everything sound so perfect that you get the feeling, "This is too good to be true." The idols reveal some of their private lives, but not too much, so that they retain some privacy for themselves and the people around them. That's fine with me. Everyone needs some privacy. Even the most attention-seeking stars will have something they don't want the public to know. As long as it's nothing criminal or illegal, I'm fine with them keeping it to themselves.
If i ever get to interview stars and idols, I'd try to understand them...to know when too deep is too deep, yet to get them to reveal as much as I can, within limits. I think it'll take a lot of skill...I wonder if I'll manage? But if I respect the person I interview, they'd respect me too; the reverse is also true.
Last words: Tabloids are interesting to read, but don't believe everything they say.