And yet another Japanese band breaks up.
My favourite Remioromen decided to break my heart by disbanding this year, but lead singer and song writer Fujimaki Ryota will be going solo soon.

And my all time favourite from them:

Got to know the movie through this song.
After I watched the movie, the song got stuck in my head even more.
On a side note, Mark Chao so shuai hehehe.

Library level 5 is an awesome place to be listening to Joe Hisaishi.
A friend of mine just posted a video performance of the theme song from Spirited Away which I saw a few years ago and that led me to have the urge to relive my Joe Hisaishi youtubeing days.

This is my favourite:



Very very touching piece from Princess Mononoke <3

I probably posted this same video a few years back since I always reuse things on my blog because once in a while I'll get the same urge to talk about the same things HAHA.

Kaseifu no mita was the best performing Japanese drama of 2011 and arguably one of the best dramas in history.
Averaged ratings of around 20% and ended with a record high of 40% during its finale (the last time ratings hit 40% was during Takuya Kimura's Beautiful Life)
It was the comeback drama of the original Japanese goddess (in my eyes) Matsushima Nanako and it falls under the 'Human drama' category of Japanese dramas.

Key issues it covers are deaths in the family, parental love and a little on shotgun weddings and how sometimes the couple are not prepared for marriage and children.
From episode 8 onwards you'll be crying every episode unless you're not human!!
Matsushima Nanako and the children's acting is FREAKING GOOD :'(

I kind of regret starting it cause I can't stop omg! <3
Ok back to my episode 10 hehehe and reading my damn Business Processes case :(

I finally got my hands on the 星空 iphone case I've been eyeing but didn't get cause I'm stingy.
Went one whole round and in the end it came in the form of a belated birthday gift (thank you <3)

星空 is seriously my all time favourite movie.
I actually like the movie more than the illustration book.
Definitely the illustrations were extremely beautiful but even 几米 agrees that 星空 had great potential to be expanded into a movie and I think a great great job was done of it.



几米 mentioned in the video that 星空 is about qing chun's cui ruo and kuang ye.
All through the growth and development of a 13 year old female protagonist, a very very touching movie *cries*.
Perhaps more so for me because of the similaritiess I can identify such as the family background and being an only child.



And it has a very touching song by May Day, similarly named 星空 (:

【會變「辣媽」的星座】

第一名：獅子座。

結婚前是公主，結婚後當然要當個皇后！獅子女生就算不是嫁到豪門，也會把自己當少奶奶看待，永遠打扮得明豔動人，絲毫看不出她已經當媽了！

HAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA :D

Just finished Shokuzai.
MINDFUCK.
Not in the bad way like Shutter Island but in a 'All hail Minato Kanae for the original story and Kiyoshi Kurosawa for the screenplay, how could anyone have written such an intelligent, thrilling and well-linked story'.

I still remember in secondary school, I had a teacher who showed us Zhang Yi Mou's Raise the Red Lantern and he told us that in Zhang Yi Mou's movies, if you were to pause at any scene, the scene would still look like a beautiful photograph.
Of course I take that statement with a pinch of salt but since then, I also used a similar criteria to observe every movie that I watch.

Shokuzai definitely fits the bill.
Additionally, there are also truckloads of good actors and actresses in every single episode.
All in all, I think it makes a very classy and intelligent short-drama which successfully explores many many ugly issues which are rarely brought to light.
Humans after all are very flawed creatures.

Ok now time to get some work done, I have fallen back into holiday mood after a cleared my presentation and mid term on Wednesday hehe!

The word 'Fuck' is most appropriately used in the following scenarios:

1. If you might be in the midst of sexual intercourse.

2. When you wanna listen to that new song you downloaded on the train but forgot to sync it to your phone.

3. When you wanna continue where you left off in your book but left it by your bed side.

4. When the raw version of the latest episode of that drama you are watching is out but the subbed one isn't so you dont understand what the fuck they are saying but you're dying to find out.

FUCK EPISODE 13 SUBBED VERSION HURRY COME OUT PLEASEEEEEEEE.

All my friends who have sat in my car over the past few months would realise that I have been listening to Chinese music channels.
Main reason is because I am currently addicted to singing karaoke and suffering from withdrawal symptoms so I listen to Chinese music channels hoping that they will play a karaoke-worthy song and I will sing along in the comfort of my car. (:

Unfortunately I feel like the more I listen to Chinese music on the radio stations, I discover other nice songs which I would try to find on youtube. As I search for songs on youtube, I get linked to other songs on the related bar on the right and the whole thing just snowballs and I find myself liking more and more Chinese songs and the urge to go karaoke only INTENSIFIES! :O

So once again I have been searching through songs on youtube and I think I am in love. 林宥嘉's voice is the kind that grows on you only after a while and for someone who can sing 你快樂所以我快樂 (another song from my childhood <3) with such individual flavour makes me fall in love with his voice. Doesn't help that I like his shirt hehe.



Ok back to my stupid Business Processes project research arghhhhhh. *pulls hair* I didn't even go on exchange or whatever but I have been having trouble getting back into school mode this term and still in a super holiday mood SIGH. :(

GIRL YOU GOTTA BUCK UP!!

Last night I randomly came across a tune and it sparked off the kind of feeling where you are like 'This song is so familiar, I have heard it before but I just cant recall what's the name of the song'. I knew I heard a friend sing this before in karaoke but the song didn't reach out to me that much back then so I failed to take note of the song title. So I embarked on desperate attempts to find out the name of the song, looked through the singer's videos on youtube and her discography and in the end finally found out the name of the song through a friend thanks (:

It's a lovely song about growing up.
Lyrics written by the wonderful Qing Feng <3
This is not the first time I have came across a random song and thought wow the lyrics are so nice and I research on the singer and song title then realise that the song lyrics were actually written by Qing Feng!!



在成長的過程中，我們都一度設定自己是一個怎麼樣的人，
但隨著我們經歷的事，碰到的人，遇到的難題
慢慢會發現我們離我們想像的自己越來越遠。
有時候也許也會讓自己感到很失望，也很討厭自己原來是這樣不完美，
也曾因此而倘淚。

但世界上的事情，就是如此，
成長，就是要學習從不完美，找出完美的角度，
我們都是Imperfectly perfect的。