Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Hi everyone,

It's been too long since I last updated my blog, but I've been really busy with school and I only finished my exams a few days ago. ^_^" I've been recuperating from lack of sleep since then and this year, I wanted to make sure that I posted a Christmas video for Christmas and not after like I did last year.

So here is my Christmas video/present to you all. Please enjoy!

What's up this Week?

Hi hi!

So it's my first full week of school. Five days is just too long. >.< I'm also starting to suffer from my usual "dozing off in class" syndrome after the 3rd week of school. I also start to get really hungry early in day, despite eating breakfast. I end up going through all my snacks, but my stomach continues to grumble. ^_^" It's embarrassing to try and hold your stomach to stop people from hearing it, but it usually doesn't help the situation. >.>

I also haven't had the time to practice any new songs and record them lately. @.@ I have a huge list just staring at me, but I just don't have the time and I'm slightly demotivated for the ones I've already started. I just need to get my morale up to get through these dances. Gambarimasu!

Here are my outfits for this week:

Outfit #1

I really like the different purples in this outfit. 

Fashionable?

Hello~

So school has started again. I'm not worried yet about studying for my classes, but more about what will I be wearing everyday. @.@

True, it's been several years since I've had to wear a uniform, but my options were limited then so it was simple to get dressed in the mornings. After high school, I always had the same formula when it came to what to wear everyday: shirt, jeans, hoodie, socks and running shoes (yes, running shoes). Very rarely did I accessorize with necklaces or earrings, but I always had a watch on me (although not particularly appealing, but it was in my favourite colour).

Since I'm in my last year of being an undergrad, I might as well make an effort to take the time to dress nicely for school. It did help that I finally did some intense clothes shopping after like... 4 years. ^_^" I did get new shirts every once in awhile, but from Costco and Old Navy primarily. >.>

Here are the outfits that I wore for school using clothes I bought recently:

I also bought "real shoes" (as one of my friends would say), so no chunky running shoes for me (I miss the comfort though >.<).

Revamp

After a few months of my snowy layout, I decided to change things up a bit to make this blog a lot more personal than it has been. I tried to make all the colours match what you'd see at night and my banner title has a lot of personal meaning to me.

This blog first started out to try and get people to like my fanpage for Jump Start Idol. Of course, this was my first time ever blogging, so I'm pretty sure things were just uninteresting and dry for the most part. Also, I didn't make it in the top 5 for JSI, so that leaves this blog with almost no purpose.

Otakuthon 2011

O~ ha~ (10 points if you got this reference)

It's been over a month, since my last anything on my blog. >.<

Otakuthon happened 2 weekends ago and it was a crazy 3 days. I performed "Sousei no Aquarion" at Opening Ceremonies as part of the duo BuriKuri. It was a lot of fun and I heard that Halko Momoi and her manager were really into the performance. *excited blush*

On Saturday, my wonderful trio, Urichu, performed an awesome rendition of Cutie Honey at J-Music in Motion. Earlier that day, they gave me a thank-you card and I was immediately in tears. They are 3 amazing girls and they are definitely going to bring the big bang, just you wait and see. I can't wait to work with them for next year's show.

JUICY HE@RT~

Hello hello~

It's been way too long since my last cover. @.@ I've been busy with work, coaching, and Otakuthon stuff in general. Also, I have a really bad habit of jumping from song to song and I now have a super long list of songs to cover. ^_^"

My cover of JUICY HE@RT by Buono! Enjoy! :)

# of takes it took: 9

Shoujo Manga of the Month: Tokyo Crazy Paradise

In the past couple of days, I read from start to finish the manga "Tokyo Crazy Paradise". Overall, I give it a 4.8/5. Sounds that I made while reading it: Dum dum dum!!

WARNING: THIS MANGA CONTAINS VIOLENCE AND NUDITY. YOU MUST BE MATURE TO READ IT. (I am very serious.)

Make a night flight~

Hey hey~

I've finally recorded myself doing a Perfume song. Yay! It's about time. ^_^" This is not the first Perfume dance I've done, but it's the only one I've recorded myself.
I did "Love the World" for Otakuthon Idol 2009 with the dance and everything. However that year, the mic was not wireless, so it was extremely difficult to perform it and hence I didn't make it in.
I learned "Dream Fighter" in reverse in order to coach Urichu the dance. Maybe I'll get around to recording myself doing those 2 songs in the future.

For this dance, I've recorded myself doing it over 30 times. Last weekend, I did it 20 times, but when I looked at all the footage, I seemed to be off and nothing looked good. So I then spent all of this week refining and adding in as much detail as possible. It's not Perfume-perfect, but I think I did a really good job on it. ;D Enjoy.



***There is an alternate outfit version that I did. It was initially my outfit of choice, but then I thought about trying on a different outfit to see which one would be better and the second one (which you see in the video) was obviously better. XD

Ichigo Channel~

Hey~ :D

It's been awhile since I've read manga, so I decided to read all of a shoujo manga that I haven't finished reading before called "Ichigo Channel".

The first time I read it (many many years ago ^_^"), I was only around chapter 11. This time, I read from chapter 1 to 49 in a few hours. It was really good, but I'm only going to give it 4 stars out of 5.

Majide suka ska! + New fanpage

Hey everyone!

I've finally done a new video after all these months. >.< It's my first Momusu cover and I hope to do more covers from other H!P groups. Enjoy!

What I uploaded was my 10th and last take. I had only done the dance completely 3 times before and the rest of the time, I messed up somewhere in the middle.

As you can tell from the pic, I was so sweaty from doing this dance so many times that I had to get a towel to wipe myself off. ^_^"

Video Games Live!

Last Saturday (April 30th), I went to Video Games Live! This is the 2nd time they've come to Montreal after about 2-3 years. Tommy Tallarico said: "What took us so long to come back here?!" (that's what everyone's thinking). He also mentions that "in every interview about VGL, I say that Montreal is the loudest crowd in North America". Tommy knows how to make us feel special. :3

This is my 2nd time going to VGL and it was in a much larger venue this time. I was on the ground floor in row L near the middle of my row. Despite being the 12th row from the front, I had a great view and enjoyed the show a lot.

The first time they came to Montreal, Tommy was on stage in a cardboard box (MGS anyone?). This time, he just walked out on stage with his awesome guitar. They started out with the old school games medley. My favourite part is the bleeps and bloops of Pong. XD Tommy also mentions that the orchestra playing was Medici McGill. I felt so special because I go to McGill and I've heard them play before (well, in the medical building's cafeteria while I was busy writing a midterm in the auditorium next door ^_^"). Tommy also mentioned that the choir was a bunch of "local" people. I'm local! *pout*

(*Note: The following list of things I mention are not in the order they were performed unless clearly indicated.)

Starting over with a revamp!

Hey everyone!

I just finished my exams yesterday and it's about time that I do some updating. As you can see, I changed up my blog a bit, but it's still missing some things.

So here's a question for you:
What would you like to see on my blog? (a.k.a. What would make you come back and check out my blog again and again?)

I'm also planning to do an introduction + starting over video. So if there are any questions you would like me to answer, please post a comment below.

I'm also creating a new fanpage for myself because I can't change the title of my current fanpage due to having over 100 likes. ^_^" If you have a request, feel free to post a comment about it below. :D

~Rinbu Revolution~

Hi hi~

After a good month, I have finally posted a new video! Yay!



I had lots of fun with this one. I loved singing all funky (not sure how to describe it any other way ^_^") with the music. I had some difficulty at some points where the rhythm was really fast or had slow accentuations, so I had to redo those parts a couple of times. Just because I've listened to this song 100s of times, doesn't mean my mouth knew how to sing it perfectly. @.@

Anime Song Cover Time~

Hello~

School has already started and my audition for JSI is in less than a week. So I decided to do anime song covers for 2 reasons:
1) It's faster to get one done versus my singing and dancing videos
2) There are a lot of songs that I like and would have loved to do for my audition. Since I've already chosen my audition song, I might as well cover the others for your enjoyment and for my satisfaction that I have not left these behind.

The first one is "Scarlet" from the anime, Ayashi no Ceres. I have not read the manga, so if you have and think that it's worth a read, leave a comment.



I hope you enjoy listening to it. :D

Vocaloid~

I'm finally back with a new video! Yay! :D

So this time I sang Fake or Fate by Megurine Luka. I thought the song was cool and mysterious, which is pretty much what I think of Luka. However, I don't think my vocal range suits Luka though, since her voice is a lot lower (although the original of this song was definitely not like that). I'll probably try a Hatsune Miku song in the future. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know.



As you can see from the video, I asked a friend to draw the illustration. I really like the look of it. It's much lighter and airy versus the original PV, but you still have that dirty dusty effect. I requested that Luka be crying because the PV made no sense when she was smiling and her dress is ripped everywhere. @.@ So please check out Duofan's deviantart and Youtube channel (links are in the description box of my Youtube video).

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