Just went to my very first J-pop concert and it was fantastic!!!

Well, it's hosted by the record company Avex Trax and it's called "a-nation" outdoor summer festa, at Kasai Park facing Tokyo Bay. ...saw Ayu, Do As Infinity, Day after tomorrow, BoA, Koda Kumi, dream, Exile, and Every Little Thing... it was pretty nice seeing lots of artists all at once and listening to all the songs that i like of them.

It all started with dream, a girl group... well to be honest, I've never heard of their songs, so I was only standing anxious for the next one up.

And it was awesome when Exile came out and when they sang "breezin' - Together," I was just screaming on top of my lungs and singing along with them. Ah... it was just too good :p They were fantastic in live!! so glad :)

next up, Koda Kumi...well, didn't know her that much either, so just kinda check out her dance and also what other people are doing...

Then Day after tomorrow! I was surprised that not many people were much interested in them... I thought DaT was pretty good and I really like the lead vocalist's voice, oh well...

BoA!!! she's really REALLY cute..hehehe but her japanese kinda slipped a bit and she looked somehow tired when she danced, but she had the best entrance of all the artists. just when we were wondering where she'd show up as the backup dancers were dancing, she just jumped out of the centre of the stage in an elevated platform! it was pretty cool.

aaah... Do As Infinity was the best! It was just too cool when the came out, the whole place went wild!! I was standing on my toes and screaming the lyrics. waving my a-nation fan extremely fast. I think I had tears in my eyes... oooh yeah, the fan, it lighted up and looked exceptionally good when it got dark. really great when 20 thousands of people are waving their fans..heheh

ELT...heheh Mocchi Kaori was on fire!! aaaaaaaaaaah~ I was trying to take some pictures and not get discovered by the staff around the place,.. well basically photography and videotaping was prohibitted, but...well, we all somehow snuck some shots here and there... Kaori's really cute in the big screen.. gotta take it...

the final artist was, of course, Hamasaki Ayumi. Ayu had the best visual effects on stage. all the lighting and backup dancers... I kinda took some short clips of her songs... hehehe sorry :p

over all it was just an awesome experience and I owed it all to my buddy Andrew~ If he didn't ask me if I wanted to come along, I wouldn't even know that such concert existed :p And it certainly helped ALOT when he let me stand on his stool...otherwise I would've just been able to look at backs of ppl's heads.

ooooh and the finale was fireworks..hehe the first of this year's summer~ that was a good surprise. ;)

bought some Ayupan goods for my dear sisters and had the interesting gyoza dog~ yum... then squeezing towards the station so we could finally go home after a 6 hours of standing and walking around... I was walking funny because of the long period of standing on the stool..heheh

SAIKOU DATTA!! Kanmuryou~~

dreams... been dreaming alot lately...

Well, these days I just dived into Harry Potter's world of all the magic, wizards and mysteries... I even dreamt about it...

On Friday night, I was reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (which is by far the best HP book that I've read), and I finished with a heart that was beating so fast that I couldn't bring my brain to rest. As a result, some of the details snuck into my dream and I dreamt that I was with my family and we were running away from the dementors before they gave us the dementor's kiss as we were only wrongfully accused for something that I couldn't remember... So we were running, and running... my mom told us to go ahead as she whipped out her wand... then I woke up with a fright. I looked around and stared into the space... told myself that I probably shouldn't have read HP so late at night...

Happens to me all the time, when I read books, I think about it so much that I'd dream about it.

When I was reading "Frankenstein" for my English 11 class essay, I stayed really late at night 'til 3am or so when everyone's asleep. Then i crawled into bed with my head full of all the "damnnation," "monstrosity"...etc those words from Mary Shelley. I then dreamt that I was sitting by a bonfire and listening to the monster created by Victor Frankenstein. He was telling me how he was so misunderstood by everybody around him when all he wanted was to fit in and be one of the people in the village. He wished so hard that everybody would just accept him for what he looks like. He also asked me why his master wouldn't come look for him. I was so sad so I sat next to him and sobbed with him.

Also...ok... this one is a bit stupid... One afternoon, I came home from school feeling exhausted as I had stayed up all night doing an English essay for E.M.Forster's "A Passage to India." I decided to take a nap before I had to fix dinner for my dad and my sisters. (My mom was still in Taiwan, managing the store) So, I was sleeping and sleeping...and apparently I had a dream about East Indians breaking into our houses and taking all our stuff in a riot to protest the arrest of Dr. Aziz who was wrongfully accused for rape of the English lady (in the novel...) then after I woke up, I walked to the kitchen and saw my dad standing there telling me that there's no salt in the house that we needed to get more. I suddenly yelled:"It's those East Indians! They stole our salt!" and adding to my nervous tone, I was jumping up and down and then running across the kitchen to find where the East Indians were... My dad then got a bit ticked off as he said:"What are you talking about? What East Indians?" I kept muttering the words like"god..we need to get our salt back..." After 2 minutes or so, my sister Angela came to me and told me to snap out of it. Then I realized where I was, and how ridiculous I had been... :p

oh well, lots of stupid stories about dreams...

to be continued...