Posts Tagged ‘je’

I know I don’t really pay attention to most of the happenings regarding Arashi (gotta admit, I kinda miss AMNOSnet being an Arashi site, otherwise I would have wrote this on the blog section. Anyway, moving on.), but when I got on my Twitter after arriving home from church choir practice, I see this piece of news in the Arashi ON LJ Community.

While a lot of the fans there are utterly shocked at the news, me being an old-timer fan wasn’t at all surprised. This is where I become very tempted to tell the JE fandom world that no matter what odds and ends things may end up, one way or the other from the most trivial to the more serious situation, NEVER mess with JE!

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• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Kombucha Drink (yum!)
• Currently Reading: Decoding the Lost Symbol by Simon Cox
• Mood: Contemplative

DUDES! DUDES! DUDES! This is for you all, yo~!

I was digging up old files from AMNOS.net when I viewed the content of one of my old mySQL databases that I downloaded for safekeeping and backup. The data that I viewed were content from my first few visitors who visited the first version of the site and left comments in a guestbook that I designed and installed (I even forgot the guestbook script too, but I remembered that it was also a Japanese-made guestbook script). There were two or three visitors who happen to be Japanese dudes (kinda weird, one of them wrote in not-too-fluent English but understandable enough, two of them wrote in Japanese) who actually asked me if I knew the process of becoming a Johnny’s idol. I was a total noob fan of Johnny’s back then, but I did some extensive research and asked a few friends who are general Johnny’s fans if they knew the process. I was able to actually aided those guys, though I’m not quite sure how old they really were.

So for those dudes who wishes for love of the female mass, here is a comprehensive guide that I was able to dig up. I don’t know if this process is still intact today, but keep in mind that the following process was effective back in 2002.

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PRECAUTION NOTE:

A friend suggested to me that I should write some kind of a pre-warning note before I start writing one of my (Male) J-Idol Fangirlism series entries for the sake of the ones who take fangirlism seriously and of course, for the sensitive types. I thought it was a stupid idea to write such notice but after being attacked by the said individuals thinking everything I write in my blog is aiming specifically towards them, I reconsidered putting one up before the actual entry. Sure, these entries may direct towards fangirls in general, but these people have to keep in mind that they are not the only fangirls of a particular fandom that exist in this world. Sadly (or rather somehow), they think the opposite. Oh well.

This particular entry (and yes, it’s another novel-length entry, so if you hate long blog entries, best leave now ) is another request from one of the users who stopped by my blog. It’s a pretty good subject too, to be honest, though I did mention a bit of this at my past entries. This particular entry will aim directly towards the said subject on the title.

In addition to being novel-length, this may even become in to a mini-series of the said subject. There is actually a lot to cover regarding fansubbing that all users and fans should be aware of. I don’t want to bore all you readers by putting all the information and such in one entry, so I’ll make it easier and break it down for you all. Sound fair?

Going back to the paragraph before the previous. In other words, if you come here and read this entry and then attack me and claim that you’re not interested in reading this entire entry (but you read it anyway, what the hell…), then seriously do yourself a favor and click the X button on the top right corner or next to your browser tab and get over yourself.

One of the benefits of being in a fandom of something coming from a foreign country online is being able to gain access to various sources presented by fellow fans to fellow fans. One of the most common sources that us fans are fortunate to gain access and enjoy more of our fandom is the ability to download and watch video clips of TV shows, drama series, movies, interviews, and even at times audio clips from radio shows that do not exist in our local TV sets or even at our local stores. Best of all, for a fan of something that exists outside of your own country, the biggest blessing that we are able to have is if these particular media clips have subtitles in them (most especially if they are subtitled in English, since most people around the world understand or have a good grasp of English in general).

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• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Coke Zero (ran out of iced tea T_T)
• Currently Reading: Narrative of the Life and Other Writings by Frederick Douglass
• Mood: Anxious (about her ext. HD problem)
• Quirky Sidenote: 10/14 is my birthday. Happy Birthday to Me! ^_^

Yeah, yeah. Another long-ass “novel-length” entry. Go figure.

But man, I seriously gotta love new fan girls— especially the ones who are seriously biased about their favorite group that they don’t even bother doing some research or ask around fellow JE (yes, I said JE, not just Arashi) fans about the history of their favorite group with the inspiring every-summer event known as the 24-Hour TV.

Now, before some of you start getting oversensitive and gang up on me for “acting oh-so-high and mighty” and picking on the newer fans again, I’ll repeat again like the last time. This has nothing to do with you, but if you keep on believing that I’m targeting you specifically no matter how many times must I re-explain and repeat myself over and over again about my intentions on my writings, then man, you must be very self-absorbed to even think of that, wouldn’t you say? But I do encourage you to read on because I think all fans should also be aware of this, not just Arashi, but all JE fans.

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• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Ito En Iced Jasmine Green Tea
• Currently Eating: Potato Leek Soup
• Currently Watching: Jeopardy!
• Mood: Exhausted

For those who live in the Western Hemisphere as well as Japan and Korea, all the kids head back to school (though some even go back to school at late August?).

But for some of us, I look forward to a Sweet September. It marks the the end of summer, literally, and in to the cooler, slightly gloomier season. It also marks somewhat a beginning for us as well. For one thing, my mother’s birthday is coming up on the 16th. Though it’s not that important to many of you, any person’s birthday regardless whether you know that person or not personally is still an important event. It just marks another year of that person living to this very earth.

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• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Ito En Oi Ocha iced tea, Ito En Tea Apple iced tea
• Currently Listening: Knock You Down by Keri Hilson (feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo)
• Currently Reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Mood: Inspired