KoreaJapanFreak: July 2006

KoreaJapanFreak

KoreaJapan fan. Mainly blabs about kmovie&drama, jmovie&drama, kpop,jpop, jrock and even hip hop!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Today's a short post. Just wanna upload all of the DBSK Banjun English subs, cuz I read the comments about the links not working. I've zipped all 4 subs of Banjun that I uploaded into .rar files and upload in MU ----} here's the LINK :) Thanks y'all for the comments an reminders . Din kno what happen to my webhost.... why the link din work..

By the way I just know that FujiTV did a special on HERO drama this year. FYI Hero is FujiTV's drama in 2001 starring my fave on-screen couple: TAKUYA KIMURA and MATSU TAKAKO [refer my avvy]. They have the greatest chemistry ever. EVER. The screen just fiery when both of them on screen. Love Generation is my all-time fave J-Dorama...it's SSSSSSuperB!! Midoyo.. OK, signing off *^-^*

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Hiya all! It seems I only manage to update the blog on weekends nowadays...*blush blush* However this week my goodies is from the Dong Bang Shin Ki 1st Asia Tour in Malaysia!!! Ok, so gonna story about the fabolous concert and my experience. It was held on 14 July 2006 at Putra Indoor Stadium , Bukit Jalil, Selangor. Me and a friend arrived at the stadium at 5 pm. There's already a verrry long line infront of the stadium, for the Arena area [the standing zone, very near to the stage, first come first serve basis] I went to que for my tickets, which I hadnt collected yet... Then go on with the goodies prepared for us. The goodies are a poster, then a paperbag filled with goodies from LGMobile, the sponsor of the concert. Stuffs included mouse pad, sticky note, drink pad, stickers and book marks. After that me and my friend just roaming around the stadium to wait for gate to be opened.

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^the poster

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^the ticket

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^the goodies

While waiting for the gate, the fans are increasing and reds can be seen almost everywhere. The line for standing zone also stretched to several kilometeres [i think??...]. The crowd also suddenly gets excited and cheering. I tried to look who appeared? Be it SuJu or Dong Bang boys? But didnt see anyone *frust*. Finally at 7.30 pm, the gate finally opened. Me and my friend rushed to our seats, even tho our seats are numbered heh heh.... The stadium starts to fill with people..... and at 8.45 pm, we got interviewed (!!) by a reporter! Finally at 8.50 pm, the lights went out and the music starts!!! People are cheering so LOUD and we can see 5 containers descend from above onto the stage.... IT'S THE DONG BANG BOYS!!!!! Ok, so they kick off with TONIGHT, such a beautiful song, and the concert continues with the songlist sequence I listed in the previous post. The audio for Tonight seems unparallel to the actual song melody, so the boys were singing incoherent to the audio. Jaejoong was really worried, and it shows on his face [the camera happens to focus on his face!]. 2 songs has trouble like this, Tonight and Whatever they say, i think...


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^seats filled


SuperJunior made their appearance halfway thru Dong Bang performance. Umm, since I've listened to their songs now, from what i remembered, they performed Twins (Knock out), Miracle, U, Way for love, and 1 slow song which I dunno the title [they sang total of 5 songs, excluding Show me Your Love, from what I remebered]. SuJu are interactive, and their dance sequence IS a real KNOCK OUT. The stage is filled with em yet I didnt see any haywire or mess with all 13 of them dancing. They are really coordinated, so everytime they dance, it's very in-place and neat! They love to tease the fans, and HanGaeng (am I correct???) speaks Chinese cuz he is Chinese. So the fans are screeeaming like crazy when he's on [me not included, I dun understand Chinese nor Korean]. Um, ShiWon speaks Japanese (!!), um, SuJu oso spoke lil bit of Thai, and they say "aku cinta kamu" which made the fans screamed with delight [malay phrase which means I LOVE YOU]. All 13 of them are really nice boys! All 13 looks good, all 13 can dance, can sing, interactive, and Hee Chul is really cute! :D Ok enuff SuJu.

By the way, some ppl mention the concert is owned by SuJu, well, it's basically cuz the boys are interactive. Well, there are 13 boys, and they're not so tired compared to Dong Bang boys.... I guess it's not right to say that, cuz thanks to Dong Bang concert SuJu also can expose themselves here in Malaysia. So I CANT AGREE with those ppl. The concert belongs to Dong Bang boys, definitely. SuJu do spice up the con, making it super HAWT. So, I guess some irresponsible Dong Bang fans who converted to SuJu are just plain... irrational? That's just my opinion by the way. Both SuJu and Dong Bang are great that night....

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^beautiful consol & stage sets


OK, back to Dong Bang [i love calling em Dong Bang now..hehe, dunno why?] My personal opinion and faves about the concert. The stage is great with set ups and all and the consols are REALLY great!!! Pyro and confettis make the con awesome too!~ Now to their prerformance. They sang all ballads live and all dance songs lipsynch. The best perf for me that night is Tri-angle, it's really power-pack! Rising Sun comes in second [i love this song so much, I was biased at first... so now i think tri-angle was better!]. While for the ballad, I choose....My little princess? maybe? cuz all are soooo good, cant make my mind :) On the boys' perf: Jaejoong: He's a beautiful guy! And his voice, OMG, it's really perfect. I never found him out of tune, out of breath.... His voice range is incredible [second to Changmin] And he has a really good body! :D. Yunho: The DANCE KING! He's in par with Woo Hyuk, Min Woo to name a few.... When he spazzes his body during Rising Sun, I nearly spaz myself! He's DANG SEKUSHI!!!!!! I cant believe he's only 20!!! He appears to be a good leader, always taking lead during MC and interact with the fans. Hmm, since all dance song they lipsync, I cant get to hear him rap, so that's a loss... but girls, honestly, this boy is REALLY DEUGO! Yoochun: No wonder all Korea girls love him the most. He's like smiling ALL THE TIME. Such a dearie! He sported this fuzzy curly hair, and yet it looked really good on him! His voice sounded the same like in albums and live performances. He also love to do cute things on the stage, loves to interact with the fans by body language [smiling, waving etcs...]. He surely love his fans, he shows it. And thank God for Micky can speak English, at least we all know how Dong Bang feels for the con *smiles..*


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^Dong Bang boys walking...

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^Dong bang wiz SuJu [can see Micky's back..]

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^Dong Bang boys in action!

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^nearest to us!!

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^with name labels ^^

Junsu my LOVE: God has given the sexy voice to him, and he uses it really well. He's nearly in par with HyeSung, who I think has the sexiest voice on Earth. and Taebin. Everytime he sings, he pours all of his heart into it, making the song soooo lovely! I cant describe any other word for him except for his sexy voice. And he never runs out of breath! Cool dude! Dance wise, he's good too, all perfect, but just not agile as Yunho. Aaahh, Junsu, noona sarange yo! :) Final Changmin: He's like Junsu, sorta shy on stage except when belting out songs :) Superb voice range, he can shout really high, but sometimes his voice broke hehe.... similar like in their live performances. Really tall kid, and somehow the cameraman at the concert just love him haha, next to Micky. Both of them are always plastered on the big screen. And he loves to do this movement with his hand when he's really feeling the song, y'know, like those R&B singer, like Usher... There's no doubt about Changmin's voice, in terms of killer and beautiful voice, Changmin and Jaejoong own it. My Junsu has the sekushi voice, Micky has this unique voice that's really cowa to listen too and Yunho - the masta of dance and rap!

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^Jaejoong

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^Micky with frizzy hair

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^Baby Changmin

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^Junsu sarang :)

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^Yunho super deugo, with beeeg hair ^^

Finally when the concert wraps up with Dong Bang and SuJu perf of Show me your love, what I can say is the concert was a TOTAL BLAST! DBSK is definitely a VERY TALENTED bunch of boys and Lee Soo Man should be thankful for that. And they deserve to be no 1 boyband in Korea now [Shinhwa can become no 1 manband! :)] SuJu can go further, I bet LSM got some ideas for them later... um, altho on singing part, some of the SuJu boys are only so-so... but they do have the star-presence! My conclusion: I WANT THEM TO COME AGAIN & PERFORM!! Worth every cent and sweat from standing under the sun! By the way i even manage to steal the concert banner, and it's hanging on my room's door now *blissssss*!!

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^the banner

Ok, my blabbing is waaay too long now, so I guess I hafta stop!~ My only complain abt the con is there's no solo perf of Dong Bang boys,unlike the Korea con... but since SuJu's also here nvm then... Thanks Kpopkingdom, LG Mobile, SM Ent for bringing Dong Bang to Malaysia's shore... hope to see more kpopsters here!! Btw, here I'm sharing a low quality of their My Little Princess which I recorded, it's the best I got....CLICK MY LITTLE PRINCESS File is in .avi format. Another one is 3 short clips of Magic Castle in .mov format [use Quicktime player!] I've compiled it into .rar so use Winrar to unzip. My friend recorded the 3 clips back to back, and she got better quality than mine :) CLICK MAGIC CASTLE. Have fun reading! and watching :D

Sunday, July 16, 2006

As promised, I uploaded the [ONE] Summercon DVD from Arashic album! Yay! The songs listed in the DVD are Yes?No? [my fave!!], Sakura sake, La Tormenta 2004 [the most stylish way to introduce yerselves :D], A.RA.SHI, and Subarashii sekai. WOWEEE!! All the songs listed are gooooood!!!!! The files are ripped into .mpg, so the quality is so-so only [sorry guys, I dunno what better rippers available, and my comp just wont rip it into .avi...any suggestion?]I ripped it into 5 individual perfs, but compressed it into .rar so plz use Winrar to unzip it. Please please enjoy! Arashi saikou da!!!!! Hontou ga sukiiiiiii :D Click HERE to get the file :)

I also got comments about my ARASHIC album that I've uploaded. SO I'm uploading a new one by tomorrow, and you can click the old link or the new link which will be provided here. I think the problem that makes the songs unplayable is that the characters used to describe the songs. Since my comp supports Chineses character, it automatically writes the song title in Kanji. And some comp cant display that, thus making it unplayable. Maybe my assumption is wrong :) But I'll still upload a new one :D. OK here 's the new link: CLICK HERE!. This time I encoded at 128kbps in .mp3 format :)

Here are some caps from the song Subarashii sekai:

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^The stage
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^The moving platform
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^Sho-kun
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^Matsujun
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^Nino
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^Os-san *^^*
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^Aiba-chan
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^Song ends
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^We are ARASHI!

I believe y'all definitely gonna love all perfs ESPECIALLY Latormenta[haha, riida kawaii!! 'OSSAN!'] and A.RA.SHI [butt tickling (literally) incident available hahaha!!]. The song sequence are:
1) Yes?No?
2) Sakura sake
3) La Tormenta 2004 [should be 6, i suppose?]
4) A.RA.SHI
5) Subarashii sekai

By the way, I went to the Dong Bang Shin Ki concert, 1st Asia Tour, Live in Malaysia.......IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!! OMG, just Awesome man!!! If they ever coming again, I'm definitely buying the standing ticket. SO I can touch em hahaha! DBSK are the bomb! And mind you, their dancing are even better LIVE!! Yunho is FABULOUS!!! I nearly fainted seeing him perf in RISING SUN, y'all know, the climatic last part when he spazz his body!!! HOTNESS!!He's definitely one of the best dancers in Korea, together with the likes of Woo Hyuk and Min Woo, to name a few... Junsu has the bestest voice AWWWWW so sexy!!! Jaejoong oso has the beautifullest voice [mind my english ;)] WOW he can do falsetto so well. Reach highest pitch but never break his voice... Micky... HE IS SUCH A DEAR!! I dun think he never smile throughout the con. He's like smiling all the time!!!! Such a dearie... Changmin is soo tall and sooo cute. Typical Changmin, his voice always broke hehe.... But perf-wise, DBSK is GREAT!!!! I wanna see them mooooooreee!!!!!

I'm still sorting out pictures and clips [i did manage to do that while enjoying the concert]So in this post, I'm not posting pics yet. But here's the song sequence performed by the boys,but mind you, since I'm not a fan of SuJu, I din know the songs the sang [Mian, my baaaddd,cuz now I reaaalllly like Hee Chul with his Son Goku hairdo!]. SOng sequence:
1) Tonight
2) Will you be my girlfriend
3) [Sorry I dunno this song title...]
4) Whatever they say
5) MC - they introduced themselves
6) Miduhyo
7) Tri-angle [excellent!! if only Boa and the-Trax was here too....]
8) Free Your Mind
9) Dangerous Mind
10) Intermission - plays Rising Sun album photo session
11) Jigum Chorom
12) I never let go
13) Always there
14) [sorry again... dunno this song too...]
15) Magic castle

-SUJU PERFORMS 5 songs... all BOMBASTIC!! [now a SuJu convert ;)] but mianhe... dont know the songs!

-DBSK's back-
16) Neon onjaena
17) The Way you are
18) RISING SUN [I'M STILL SPEECHLESS.....]
19) Millionaire 1st Love OST.. Insa? [not One, for sure]
20) One
21) My Little Princess

-DBSK & SuJu climatic ending - SHOW ME YOUR LOVE-
-concert ends ........-

Next post: pics of my first ever concert!! Preview:
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

eh Hello *^^* Aouwwww...... it's been soooome time since I blogged, yes? Gomennasai, I've been so busy with work I havent manage to log in. But things subsided now, so I can get back to the blog, but cant do much tho'.... I've been receiving messages about DBSK banjun "MostUnforgettable Girl" but really sorry. I tried recovering it from the CD but still, the video gone choppy and the sub files losts a lot of data. I shouldve checked first afetr burning the video in to the CD.... Sad oh sad...

Demo, what I can summarize about the episode is: Yunho got the White Valentine blind date, leaving the other four all grumpy.Junsu suggested they share their stories of first love. So first goes is Junsu. His first love is Heebon, who at first is soooo nice turned out into a manic stalker. Next goes Jaejoong, who got to know a fortune teller girl named Seulgi [i think...] Their love is funny cuz she can foresee everything Jaejoong wants... ie joining DBSK, lotto number etc. But she got struck by lightning when performing a ritual :D. Micky's love is the boxing girl.Aigoo I forgot her name already... and the story! Sorry.... Really forgot :( .Changmin's is Bomi, and the storyline follows the movie Sekai no Chuushin de, ai ni Sakebou - the girl died in the end. Actually Changmin did copy the movie, dumb boy. So guess Yunho's date: a girl that's a combination of all the girls in the 4 boys life *haha* So the boys goes like"Good luck hyung!" :) Kyopta!

I'm freaking excited, DBSK arrived in Malaysia today. Sad that I didnt manage to go to the airport today since got some stuffs to do. And the fact that the airport is far from my house is a little turn off factor for me.. Demo, nevermind, still gonna see them LIVE right in front of my eyes this coming Friday!!! Shriek Shriek!!!! Heh heh.... Hope I'll manage to capture the best pic, so I can post them all here :)

One more piece of good news.... My Arashic CD got here yesterday!!! Yayyyyayayay!! SHOUT!And for the first time, the postal got good and send the CD to the right place and in such short time, I totally didnt expect it! :) Oh yeah, I did mention I wanna introduce ARASHI rite? OK, Lessee... Arashi means STORM in Japanese, the Kanji consists of the word Yama [mountain] and Kaze [wind]. The group of 5 boys is formed in 1999, I believe in September[if I'm wrong gomen....] They boys are: Satoshi Ohno [riida], Sho Sakurai [sho], Masaki Aiba [aiba-chan], Ninomiya Kazunari [nino-kun] and the youngest and my lovey, Matsumoto Jun[matsujun]. Average age is.. 24 years old? Oldest 26 and youngest 23. They have 6 studio albums, 1 original soundtrack, 2 best of collection, and many-many singles I lost count.ARASHIC is the sixth album, and if you wanna listen to it, please click HERE. Please buy the original CD ya, this is just for preview :) It's in .rar, so use Winrar to unzip it.

The album is FUN to listen! And since I bought the limited edition, it comes with a DVD that contains the footage of [ONE] summercon last year, which is NOT AVAILABLE in any dvd in anycountries! Cool! But only got 5 songs footage, but since all are my fave, then SUPER COOL. I'm gonna rip the DVD since, heck, it's not available anywhere, so I gues it's sorta OK to share then. But I insist please buy the original and support the artist!!:)
By the way, the only Arashi pic that I have in my comp is this:

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Hehe, for an ardent fan, I dont have much of their pics, but during my younger heydays, my comp is bursting with their pics :) Gonna dig old2 CDs to check the pics. Ok, so from left to right: [Aiba Masaki, Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho]. Good looking boys arent they? Well they are from the renowned Johnny's Jimusho, where looks comes first, then talent. OK, here's my say about Arashi: I love these boys to death, they are my 1st Asian boyband I love [my all-time fave is Brit boyband Take That] and I always wanted Matsujun to become my husband :D But, if you are a music worshipper and only listens to singers with superb voices etc etc, please stop here. As I say before, the boys are from Johnny's, where how you look like will ensure a spot for you to train there. JJ is sorta like SM Entertainment in Korea. But talent is oso important, but as they say, talent we can grow in yourself. But good looks cannot happen when you're not beautiful.... [unless you do plastic surgery.. or tonnes make up!]

What I would say is, the boys CAN sing, but..moderately. I mean plz listen to SMAP, KAT-TUN,NEWS, heck, KINKIKIDS, they all are listenable, yet there's something missing right? The strategy however, is to put at least ONE who can sing well, one who can RAP well, and then dancers and one who knows how to talk effectively. And real good looking ones too. So in Arashi, the ones who REALLY can sing is Ohno and Nino, rapper is Sho, while Matsujun and Aiba is so-so. But Aiba has this wacky attitude, that just makes you fall in love with him. Matsujun is the bishounen, no girls can escape this guy's hot gaze...dang! OK, if you look at their younger pics, Matsujun is NOT THAT hot, but he's really cute!! I used to have a crush on Sho whenI first fell in love with them, but then Sho became tooooo sekushi, I got a lil bit shy with him hehe... I shift my love to my ototo Matsujun, who now is EVEN SEKUSHIER than Sho. Gosh. Everytime I like someone they gonna turn into Greek god???

So when listening to Arashi you hafta give credits to the effort they give in. But genre wise, the boys do know what sound that's invoke great feelings to the listener. I'm sorta Euro-groove music lover, and Arashi love infusing their music that way. But, ah, please excuse their ballads, unless it's solely sang by Nino :) or Ohno. Rap songs - SHO is simply marvellous. This guy definitely can make his own solo rap album!! Dancing wise, all 5 are great dancers, but the best is Ohno, who is perfect in every move. Sho comes in second, but as you follow his style from early till now, actually, he doesnt change at all. Same moves same style. But with that great bod, any moves turns me on *blush* Aiba loves to jump! So when he dances, it's like he's really energetic :D Nino dances like a lazy boy. Really. Matsujun's moves are fluidy and soft. Em, some might say he's like a girl, looks-wise and style-wise AND attitude-wise. I guess he's caught in the bishounen thingy hahaha... He's just sorta girl-like, but he's man enuff lorr. No worries...

I guess I wrap it up for today :) Next up is the DVD rip and my comments on the album. And hopefully better pictures of the boys *smile* Jya ne, oyasumi *^^*