elyse: (la corda d'oro: desafinado :P)
2009-04-30 11:38 pm
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カラオケ★aficionado!

That's what I am! (^∇^)

It's been raining for an hour now and I'm listening to KAT-TUN's newest album, Break The Records. It feels good, the sound of rain combined with Jin's sugoi voice! (I purposely ignore the other 5 members! *lol*)

Before 2009, I always karaoke in the regular places (NAV, Happy Puppy, even Inul Vizta :P) with non J-music-aficionado friends. Of course, I mostly sang English songs, coz those places don't have J-songs! (And I wasn't really exposed to Jpop much before)

So after the discovery of Doremido with [livejournal.com profile] caramichi last Dec 2008, I have since become a regular there that the staff knows me by name! xD Since March, [livejournal.com profile] nefretiriii and I had done it every so often (like twice a month). Until now, we haven't found a better place than Doremido, although they're missing J-songs from mid 2006 - mid 2008.

Last weekend, [livejournal.com profile] utaoutao was in town, so of course we had to have カラオケ night! Too bad the dinner at Manpuku wasn't as good as my first two visits. A friend of mine later did tell me that Manpuku could be a hit or a miss. Oh well. Better luck next time.

A memento from our Japanese night!
Myself, [livejournal.com profile] nefretiriii, [livejournal.com profile] utaoutao, and Vero at Manpuku, before heading to Doremido ^^

J-ladies xD (by elyse.)

As always, my peace sign is so faaaarrr from being Japanese style! >_< Not genki enough!!! ¬_¬ Must.... practice! *lol*
elyse: (bakanishi: bookworm?)
2009-04-01 05:45 am

april fool だよ☆

It's April Fool's day! ^ω^
March went by too fast, I almost didn't notice xD

My computer came back home last Saturday night after being repaired by my cousin (ありがとうございました m(._.)m). I spent the weekend night reinstalling all program files from scratch (because XP was reinstalled, so basically the C drive only had Windows XP SP 2 and Kaspersky... and nothing else -_-) until morning came. Chatted with a few friends while doing so. Reached 60% done when I went to sleep at 9a (on Sunday). Continued the reinstallations upon waking up. And when the weekend was over, I felt good because the whole process could reach 70% done in only one day ^^

By the way, this might sound unnecessary, but I'm tracking my sleep at Yawnlog since March 1st! xD My sleep cycle is totally messed up... as always! *lol*

I've been catching up with manga scanlations download after almost 1.5 years not doing so :P Countless manga to download! *_* I'm now dying to know the ending to Penguin Revolution. 1 more volume to go, please scanlate it asap *begs*

Last Monday I and [livejournal.com profile] caramichi had lunch at Pizza Marzano and computer session with tea at Starbucks, City Lofts. We picked that place because of the free wifi (well, obviously :P). It was our last hangout session before she moved to Singapore for college next week. がんばってね!

Tonight [info]nefretiriii and I are gonna have ramen dinner at Sing Sing Ramen, followed by karaoke session at Doremido ☆(^○^)☆
Can't waaiiiiitttt!
elyse: (bakanishi: hanako rainbow)
2009-03-24 03:25 am
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3rd week of march: japanese crave, seafood feast, virus attack

Time flies too fast! It's already past the third week of March O_O

21 March: Happy 3rd Birthday, Twitter!
22 March: Happy 3rd Anniversary, KAT-TUN! (therefore, a Jin avatar! xD)

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Before [livejournal.com profile] caramichi moved to Singapore for college, we wanted to enjoy ourselves with everything Japanese. Hence we had all you can eat lunch at Poke Sushi and 3-hour karaoke at Doremido.  In truth, we both were still recovering from the flu virus, so it was a pretty funny sight in which my brother laughed at: we both sang with coarse voice & blocked nose due to sinusitis, sneezed and coughed every once in a while, and flipped through the songbook in an attempt to read the dreadful kanji o_O All at the same time, just like twins! *lol*

I'm still craving for more karaoke, so I'm gonna drag another friend to Doremido next week or so ^^ And of course I will try the karaoke place [livejournal.com profile] hemisofia went to last weekend when I go to Singapore next month or so.

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I really love the all you can eat lunch at Samudra Shark's Fin, Mulia Hotel. For less than Rp. 70,000++, we can have so many selections of yummy appetizer, soup, dim sum, main course, dessert, drink..... and of course, as many crabs as I can take xD The deep fried crab with salt & pepper, the steamed garoupa fish, and the asparagus tofu with crab roe soup are to die for! :9 My mom, her 3 guests, and I just had a lunch feast last Friday. They didn't even charge us for the leftovers (and yet so many of them, coz we ordered too much :P).

Apparently not enough crabs, the next day my friends and I had seafood dinner at Pondok Latansa, Kelapa Gading. Cheap seafood, yummy taste, couldn't ask for more! As we are crab lovers, the seven of us ordered 4 portions of large crabs :9 I 'm really crab-fully satisfied this week! xD After the seafood feast, I tried the green tea shot at Cafe du Chocolat. Love it lots!

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Computer got virus attack last Sunday early morning! >_<
In truth, it was my fault. I wanted to search for mIRC keygen & I deliberately disabled Kaspersky when I downloaded the keygen. Turned out, it was a trojan and it's already too late when I activated Kaspersky in an attempt to clean it. The virus already spreaded and even disabled my Kaspersky & some other apps. I tried to restart, but it wouldn't enter Windows, wouldn't enter safe mode, and kept on restarting itself. Frantically, I called my good friend in the US. He told me I got boot sector virus! Eeeep >_<
I sent it to my cousin (who works in IT) that afternoon. I don't understand hardwares, so it's better if I don't try to fix it myself for it might get worse.

*sigh* 2 computer mishaps in less than 2 months! @_@ I just hope my cousin can save it without reinstalling XP *prays hard* I don't want to go through the pain of reinstalling all program files & restoring all the settings & data one by one all over again! A week of doing so had only taken me to 70% done. Before I could continue, I already had to have it fixed yet again.