a month has passed. another month has passed. a full month has passed. a damn long month has passed.
so what did I do in the past month? lots I can tell, but not much interesting.

Twilight
I think that's where I left from my last entry. yeah, since I watch this news about Twilight the movie on San Diego's comic-con report, somehow I'm very intrigued by the base storyline : vampire, and young romance *smirk* yeah, I'm actually that cinderella-tales-lover girl. of course I prefer the modern version, though I would love to ride a horse to my party (not the pumpkin carriage). ha. ha. ha.
and then I remembered of seeing the Indonesian version of the novel, so I rushed to the nearest bookstore and bought it and drowned in it for the next 3 days. not that I'm not capable of finishing it in a day (it's 'just' 500 pages! huh.), but lots going on around that day. like my father's memorial service for one.
and after I finished the 1st book (ignoring my mom's protest coz it looks like I have no other life than the book at that time), I'm starting to crave for the next one. and since I can't find myself rushed to the bookstore that time, I found what I want in the internet (long life those soldiers who invented it!). all 4 at once, from the beginning 'till the end. hah. wish I found that sooner so I won't waste 60 thou rupiahs (around 7 bucks) for the 1st book. but I guess it's still worth it.
so I spend the next week staring at my computer's screen every night and day (and it's not like I never done it before. hah.), and managed to finish the whole series in 2 weeks. let's just say, the scrolling part delayed me a little. hahaha. and even until now, I'm still amazed by the magic it tells and can't wait for the release of 'Midnight Sun' which is the coupling book for 'Twilight', and of course the movie premiere which will be screened 3 weeks earlier! watch out Harry, there's a new boy in town. lol.

Thesis
yes, as much as I'm reluctant to admit it, I have to start to finish it sometime soon. my team leader already gave me an assignment, and somehow I'm getting cold feet again. dunno what the hell is exactly wrong with my head, coz the idea of being able to say goodbye to that orange building (but it's gray in the outside now) should be more than enough to encourage me and to speed things up. but maybe graduation isn't as easy as I thought. not to mention that I have to be back into that building, regularly, in just 2 weeks from now. crap.

Dance
laugh at me people, for ever trying to put my balance problem on test. huh. but watching Step Up (both) again (and again), really makes my body wants to move. literally. but for all we know, it will be a better world if I keep my feet on the ground, permanent.

Scholarships
not that I owned an over-sized brain, I'm just trying to push my luck here. and not that I don't have great respect for the land where I was born, but I'm really desperate to get out of here. not permanently of course. I still have my mother and brother here. but maybe for a good one year or two, no harm will be done. I just really need to get out. really.
and as my first choice is, and always will be Japan, but I'm starting to consider UK. England, to be exact. Durham University, to be precise. coz there's no heaven or even hell on earth that will allow me to enter Oxbridge. hah.
so I was thinking that I will spend a summer school in Japan, studying the language and the history and the Johnnys (lol). then I will take a History major in Durham for a year or two. I'm not really looking for the degree actually. I just want to learn something. and I'm definitely not going anywhere near IT anymore. have enough with it for 4 years. my choices are either History or Literature and anything that goes with it.
but again, realizing a plan is never as easy as planning it. my biggest obstacle is the finance problem of course. and to solve it, comes another problem, my brain. I'm not gonna say I'm the most stupid person on earth (or in my campus to shorten the list), but I'm not genius either. just average. below it a little maybe. I'm not gonna impressed anyone with my grades, let alone my resume. so I really have no idea how to get through this one thing. but I'm trying, y'know. not all my best yet, I'm still trying on it too. and I'm thinking to change my motto of life to "money isn't everything, but everything needs money." *sigh*

so that's it. my life, my boring life, for the past month. there's the part where my lovely virus is back in action coz I let myself exhausted for 3 days in a row, which is the most stupid act of me, and it left me with a very cute 'scar' on my lips. thank god it's gone now. but not the sick part. just 2 days of playing out and I'm already catching a cold now. god, I really need to work my body out. before it got worn out anymore than it already is. geez.

huff I don't know how long I've been gone (last time I check, I haven't updated this journal in 40 weeks, which is like 10 months @.@) or even where the hell I've been gone. well, one simple line might expalins it all : real life drama. yeah, lots happened in the past 10 months. love, death, and tragedy. I mean it.
so, I'm trying to get a fresh start now. and as usual, first thing I would do is find a new layout :P but too bad I didn't find anything that makes me think "this is perfect", so I'm gonna keep this one for a while until my sense of artistic which is so far from the definition of 'artistic', comes back ^^
c u around~~

yeah! so I changed my layout! again! XD still another ikemen, this time is the ghost boy Yamamoto Yusuke. actually, he's too cute to have such a strange power -.- doesn't he even looks yummier that the foods?? ^o^b
and it looks like this boy also debut as one of the Kamen Riders. maybe I have to start searching for those who played the riders, coz they're all really a bunch of hotties! I think they have as many 'stocks' as JE does ^.~

so yesterday I bumped into some Yukan Club thread, and saw some scans from the shooting location. and I still think something is wrong with the cast -.- only half of them fits the image (from my pov). Junno as Bido and the girls that played Karen and Noriko are really fits the image now. Jin is too..well let's say 'sexy' to played Miroku. and somehow, I always laugh whenever I saw Yokoyama's face. there's something on his expressions that looks so cute and funny to me, and that's definitely not the image of Seishiro. and for the girl that played Yuri, well her hair already fits, but her expressions is somewhat too 'expression-less'. Yuri is a very energetic and lively girl, and she (the one that played Yuri) didn't look that 'lively' to me.
well, maybe I'm just too much thinking and comparing. but since I really love the manga, I hope I can enjoy the dorama too. I just hope that even if they change the storyline or the characters, they still have the pure spirit of the manga, which is hilarious =))
oh, and Yuri's father, Kenbishi Mansaku, along with Miroku's father, Shochikubai Jishu, is also a very important characters. they are the center of lots of craziness XD somehow, I got the feeling because Miroku's father is a supporting role here, that's why Miroku is being the main character, not Seishiro, coz Seishiro's father never shown up in manga either (or so far I know). so yeah, I think they will change a lots of things from the manga. but anyway, I'll still watch it for the sake of Jin XD XD XD

so 3 of my fave Johnnys' group will released their new CDs in October and November.

Kanjani 8
It's My Soul
> 7th Single
> Released : October 17th, 2007
> Tracklist (Limited Edition)
        1. It's My Soul
        2. Ano Kotoba ni
        3. Yorimichi
        4. It's My Soul (Original Karaoke)
> Tracklist (Regular Edition)
        1. It's My Soul
        2. Ano Kotoba ni
        3. It's My Soul (Original Karaoke)

NEWS
weeeek
> 8th Single
> Released : November 7th, 2007
> Tracklist (Limited Edition)
       1. weeeek
       2. with me
       3. Why
       4. weeeek (Original Karaoke)
> Tracklist (Regular Edition)
       1. weeeek
       2. with me
       3. Rainbow

pacific
> 2nd Album
> Released : November 7th, 2007
> Limited Edition includes bonus 32-page photobook.
> Regular Edition includes 16-page booklet and bonus tracks "Mafuyu no Nagareboshi"
   and "Sono Egao Boku ni Misete (Acapella ver.)
> Both edition does not includes the single "weeeek".

KinKi Kids
φ [phi]
> 10th Album
> Released : November 14th, 2007
> SPECIAl lOVE includes DVD with 100 minutes of footage from the Tokyo Dome 10th Anniversary show.
> UNIVERSAl lOVE includes 1 bonus track.
> Both edition includes 24-page booklet.

I've ordered KK's album and now I'm broke. so maybe I'll just download the other 3 when it's out ^^ but maybe I'll buy NEWS's album if I can find a way to order it. I would love to see the photobook <3

EDIT : I decided to order NEWS's album too. now I'm completely broke -.-

October 16th is less than 2 weeks now, and I've been curious bout this drama ever since the announcement (and I hope someone will release the softsub, coz waiting for the hardsubbed could be a pain -.-). I knew that this drama was based on the same title manga, and I knew it's been published in my country, so I searched for it. finally I got to rent it a few days ago (I'm too broke to buy ;P). and then I compared it to the cast list, and my first thought was, "what the heck?! are they trying to cross-casting or what??". when I first read the manga, and since I forgot which character Jin will be playing, I thought he might get the role of Bido, the son of Sweden ambassador for Japan. Bido is a very elegant and charming guy, or in a short-word : a playboy. he can even passed out just by looking at an ugly fat girl. and it turns out that Junno got the role. well, I think it fit enough, since Junno has more 'delicate' look than Jin, but then again, Jin as Miroku? maybe because of his role in Gokusen 2, so he got that Miroku role. but Jin has this some 'elegant' and 'leadership' aura on him, and I don't think it will fit the brat Miroku, who is not the leader either. the leader is the smartest guy, Seishiro. again, I can never really imagine Yokoyama as him. I mean, I always seen Yokoyama in very funny way with K8, and Seishiro is kinda 180 degrees different  from what he used to show. oh well, let's just see how they act. I personally never watch any of their dramas (except Jin in Gokusen 2), so I shouldn't talk this much ;P oh, and for the girl roles, only from the one that played Yuri that I still don't get the image. and damn, she had lots of scene with Jin >.< that's if the script goes along exactly like the manga ^^

and about the manga itself, like it said in many reviews, the story was about a bunch of very rich kid that has nothing better to do than playing around. so they make this club called "Yukan Club" where they can do whatever they wanna do. like playing Go, dance Waltz, or even playing a live music. somehow, these kids are involved in lots of mysteries things, like a jewelry robbing, kidnapping, an unwanted political marriage, even to ghosts. and did I said that they had nothing better to do? coz there's this one moment where they're all went to Vegas for a month while it's still a school day, so when they came back, the principal gave them a 'present' which is the failure of their exams. so they had to sit back for another year. so crazy -.-;

these are some of the covers:



I've only read up to volume 3, and it's already been released up to volume 9 (in my country).

can't wait for October 16th! ^o^b