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happy birthday masaki aiba-by! celebrated last night with fellow fangirls... its a small but intimate celebration.... post celebration for oh-chan and pre-celebration for masaki baby!!!! gee to think ohno just turned 6 and aiba  just 24 when i became arashi fan wow.... time flies really....  again happy bday masaki baby! and to my fellow aiba wifeys and arashi fans, cheers to more fangirling years!

advance merry christmas to all

its been almost a month since i last posted (last post was to greet aiba papa a happy2 birthday)...

its december already,,, christmas month... somehow i dont feel like its christmas.. a lot of things happened that makes me have mixed emotions about celebrating christmas... but then again i guess thats just how life is... we all experience ups and downs... but life must go on...

also, december is aiba's birth month :) he's turning 27 yay! when i discovered arashi masaki was just turning 24! gee time flies!

2009 will come to an end in a few days (i better make the most out of this post since i might not be able to post again before the year ends)... arashi celebrated their 10th year with a bang... starting with a 3-day concert in kokuritsu and ending their concert tour early next year at nagoya... wasnt lucky enough like my friends jen and she who were able to watch the 2 nights' con at sapporo, but im super hoping theyd go on their 3rd AAA next year! i wanna see them again!!!!

i gave into temptation of buying magazines with arashi in it (okei not all i dont have that money for it lols)... i just started last year and... i started computing how much ive spent on them... i was shocked lol i stopped computing when i reached a certain amount already (i could just imagine how much more money my more addicted friends have spent on them and other fandoms ehem ehem you guys know who you are)...

i didnt buy 5x10 cd and 5x10 dvd... im not really into buying cds and dvds... so i just go for other stuff... i was hoping theyd release an official photobook for their 10th year but looks like they wont tch3...

overall 2009 has been a great year... made new fan-friends whom i think id still be friends with even after our fangirling days are over... unfortunately i think i severed ties with some of them... if you get to read this post,,, you know who you are... im saddened by what happened... and i hope time will come when we're both able to forgive each other and forget what happened... i still consider you a friend...

this year i attended arashi parties like last year... i started with matsujun's last year as 1/2 of ohmiya, then aibakaland party (wearing yukatta)... missed riida's.. but was able to go to sakuraiba party as mirrorman yeah! missed nino's :( and for the first time i joined in organising a party... to celebrate matsujun's 26th birthday and arashi's 10th year... this time i didnt wear any costume... need to rest it becomes korny if i always go in costume har3... then there was ohno's bday celebration as well :)

i dont think il be able to share pix of ohno and arashi/jun party this year... for those who are connected with me thru fb, ohno bash pix are up already since last week... arashi/jun's will be uploaded probably early next year hahaha...

il be ending this post with the video cathy and i made for the opening of arashi/jun party... we do not own the vids used for this fanvid credit goes to the uploaders... my apologies i couldnt remember the uploaders (but if you recognise a vid uploaded by you please pm me so i can credit you), we were so in a rush we had to search and download everything and finish the video in just 2-3 weeks... so we could well relate with sho's friend who barely slept for 2 weeks to come up with the video shown for the party thrown for him by his buddies :).... we are not pros so there are some glitches, but please do not claim the vid as your own... feel free to download or share the vid just please give proper credits

we ended the video presentation with poppers lols

dl it thru mf

watch it thru vimeo

While waiting for my luggage last night...

I lay in bed wide awake, glancing at the time every now and then.

Then there's a loud scrape on the floor above me. Like someone was moving the table across the room.

I was so tired, angry and frustrated I could not shed tears anymore. I was trying to sleep and there was this sound coming from above. At past midnight. Who would be happy?

I had called the airport earlier and was told that my luggage had been dispatched at 11pm.

Then why the hell has it not arrived yet at 1am?

Another loud scrape. Is it a table? Or a chair? Or the bed?

It was nearing 2am already.

Jesus, what's he/she doing over there? One more time... and I'm going to call that bloody room.

LOUD SCRAPE.

That's it!

I dialed the room number and a soft male voice answers, I could hear music in the background.

"Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm staying in the room below you. I'm just wondering... are you moving things around your room?"

"...not really." I could sense from his voice that he was puzzled over this call.

"But I can hear the floor scraping."

"People screaming?"

"No... just some loud scraping on the floor. Nevermind, sorry to bother you."

At least after that call, the sound ceased. Maybe he got the message finally.

But my luggage has not arrived yet (it arrived at bloody 3am).

Anyway, fast forward to lunch today.

I was seated across German AH. We met in Beijing last year, which he also coordinated and he was even nice enough to fetch me from the airport then since I was arriving a day earlier than the others.

We started talking about my lost luggage and I was telling him I barely had sleep. All of a sudden, he asked: "(Yupki), which floor are you on?"

I told him my floor and we looked at each other and burst out laughing.

I didn't know whether to be embarrassed or what. "Oh my god, you were the one who got that call last night?"

"I knew it was you... I thought the voice sounded familiar," he said.

"Sorry but I was really annoyed with the luggage and all last night."

"I know... I was moving around on my chair a lot while chatting on MSN and I realised it does really make a loud sound."

"So now you know who stays below you, can you keep quiet?" Nope, I didn't say that. It was just a thought bubble.

I don't know what the moral of this story is aside from not staying in an Indonesian hotel where the walls and floors are apparently thinner (the argument is it has lesser chances of being bombed if we stay in a local hotel than at a Western one).

I badly need sleep.

With all due respect to my Malaysian friends... your flag carrier sucks BIG TIME.
Okay, it's not entirely their fault that instead of going to Jakarta direct from Bangkok, I had to pass through KL.
That is the doing of this very stingy foundation that's sending me here in Jakarta.
But MH owes me a three other passengers big time.
First, the flight was delayed for three hours. At check-in, we were informed it would be delayed for 45 minutes. Minutes have passed since the re-scheduled take-off and there was no one, not a single soul from MH, at the gate to inform the passengers there were new changes.
This time, the flight would be delayed for another two hours +, or a total of three hours.
Sure, they provided lunch vouchers and immediately moved my connecting flight to the next available one.
I had to change time zones twice since leaving Bangkok and by the time I was en route to Jakarta, I was confused. I barely had five minutes to transfer to the gate for Jakarta and by the time the plane was taking off, I was still in the loo (I have to include this detail to show it was really a trip from hell) thanks to two glasses of water I downed. It barely even registered to me if I was on the right flight, worrying I might end up in Bali, instead of Jakarta.
And just as I was being rushed through the gate for my Jakarta flight, I asked the MH staff if my luggage was transferred.
"It's no problem ma'am since the planes are just next to each other."
A businessman from Germany with the same predicament as me said he just hoped we won't have a problem with the luggage by the time we reach Jakarta.
He could not have been further from the truth.
Finally, arriving in Jakarta 10 hours later, I stand at the carousel waiting for my luggage to pop out. And then here comes this ominous sign that says "LAST LUGGAGE". My luggage, as well as those of three other connecting passengers including the German businessman, was nowhere in sight.
We were ushered into the lost and found office and the staff located our luggage.
"It's still in Kuala Lumpur... it will be coming in on the 10pm flight," the staff said.
By this time, I was drained of energy I couldn't even get angry. It was a good thing the Indonesian staff were patient and really helpful (it remains to be seen though if they're effective as I still await my luggage).
They filled the forms and took out addresses so they can deliver it to our hotels once the luggage arrives.
I am still waiting for the arrival of my beloved luggage. The plane from KL was scheduled to arrive half an hour ago--that is, if MH was not bloody delayed again--and is expected to be delivered by midnight.
I am tired and I couldn't even do anything, much more bathe, since my stuff are in the luggage.
And to top it all, the service at this hotel was so slow and they were fully booked I got to have a shower stall room instead of a bath. The last thing I needed when I was really looking forward to soak all my troubles in a warm bath.
But no, not gonna happen.
I wanted to trash the room just to vent out all my frustration and anger at MH.
But then I'm no rock star to do that.

This is how this month looks like for me:

06 Dec Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta
12 Dec Jakarta-Kuala Lumpur-Bangkok
13 Dec Bangkok-Singapore
16 Dec Singapore-Bangkok
17 Dec Bangkok-Manila
29 Dec Manila-Bangkok

And in between, a yearender story on regional politics and studying the Asean economic community on top of the regular load. But I'm loving it!!!

for thailand : 

concert date : 11/28 and 11/29   19:00

venue : Impact Arena, Bangkok

press con : 11/27  18:00-20:30  @ Parc Paragon, Bangkok

method : online ticket sale @https://www.weloveshopping.com/booking/sj2009/sj2009.html  from 10/26 10am.;  

tix price :  THB5000, 4500, 4000, 3000, 1500, 800

for taiwan:

concert date : 2/20  19:30

venue: Taipei Arena

ticketing method : presale : 11/29  10AM via organizer's website. open only to registered member as of 11/27. 

only tickets for the arena will be sold here. cannot choose seating arrangement, the organizer going to be the one who will assign where to stand ( if there is no seat) and will only know on the date of the con itself. (phew!)

normal sale : starts at 12/XX  via the normal taiwan ticket site including convinient stores (excluding the arena area i supposed ).

tix price :  NTD4000, 3500, 1800, 800

taipei fanmeet  (sj-m only):

date: 12/5  19:30  & 12/6   14:00    

venue: Taipei International Convention Center

ticketing method: online tix sale starts tmr 11/14 12noon @http://www.ticket.com.tw/dm.asp?P1=0000010227 

tix price : NTD3800 (vip), 3400, 2900, 2500, 2000, 1400 AND 900  ( the convention center got 6 floors! )  

the plus : everyone who went for the fanmeet gonna take home 1 fan party poster of sj-m.

i post this up coz i find it funny how news got it that even 2nd floor seats gonna be on sale via pre-sale. they change the way tix are sold alots of time and the one above should be the confirmed one as of today. the organizer going to post up the confirmed seating arrangement and method of preorder by tomorrow (for the concert ). coz they still need approval from the sme. (laugh).  also mentioned is that if the tix sale for 2/20 is full, that is the only time they are going to add another date.... 2/21 ( economic crisis so they wont just go budging in trying their luck of something they not sure of  **stares at v6).

i was meant to post this pix a couple of weeks ago...

just that i forgot . XD  lol.... photo that i took along greenhills....

and they give free mini poster of suju for every sorry sorry cd purchase.. ( sorry.. only one edition available ) and seems only limited in that music shop. others no poster.

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two weeks more to go before my holiday .... yay! cant wait to go and hike if weather permits ( laugh)... this gonna be an adventure tour if ever... just hope not that exhausting....