Saturday, October 13, 2007

First Live DVD - Thank you My Teens

I'm not a member of YUI Fanclub so cannot put larger picture.



LINK

According to dear YUI in her latest diary entry, this concert DVD (with cool looking jacket) will be released on next month (Nov 14). Finally, confirmed by YUI. Yay!! Why Thank you My teens? Not Spring & Jump?? I think I have to reserve RM 200 for this T.T Can't wait!!

EDIT: Based on the link above, the DVD cost around RM 100, surprisingly cheap, maybe I never buy any concert DVDs before. There will be off shots included (primarily on the addition live of 2nd tour, I think) too, I lurve off shots xD Maybe we can catch a glimpse on dear YUI playing around with drums and bass?! Just hope that they will not edit the concert too much, I wanna see dear YUI doing Billy's exercises.

Speaking of Thank you My teens, remember this documentary?



YUI Lover vivi has translated the whole thing (find it at YL). THANKS!! Now we just have to wait for some kind soul to do the timing for soft/ hardsubs. I'll check it after the final thing is done, me will FOCUS on 'factual' parts lol, grammar part not for me >.<

In that diary entry YUI said that she performed Driving today in Friday's SCHOOL OF LOCK! LIVE TOUR 『YOUNG FLAG』for the first time, in her home town (Zepp Fukuoka to be exact). Me wanna 'hear' it too =.=

Till then.

PS: Selamat Hari Raya to fellow Malaysian out there!! Lontong and rendang sangat best =x

Thursday, October 11, 2007

SCN Pickups, Sunburst, Maple Neck, Telecaster

Album: QUEEN - JEWELS

This post is dedicated to someone who owns a overheat easily computer and some other person who left me offline message the other day.


I guess most of you people have noticed, dear YUI got herself another electric guitar again.

American Series American Telecaster : 2-Color Sunburst/ Maple Neck



According to Fender Japan, dear YUI picked this as the sub-electric guitar in her 2007 Spring & Jump tour.

Direct Translation:



This model has mounted with Samarium Cobalt Noiseless Pickups. Even though there are other pickups such as Vintage Noiseless (on Eric Clapton model) which produces distinguishable edgy tone using Alvino (magnet), or Hot Noiseless (on Jeff Beck model) which produces this vibe middle range tone using Ceramic (magnet), dear YUI seems more interested in Samarium Cobalt's (magnet) classical devilish tone.

For Strat, YUI will use Super-Sonic amp, and for Tele, she'll make it sound using Twin Amp '01 (at home will be G-DEC). Right now instead of humbucker's distorted rough tone, perhaps she's more into single coil's overdrived bright tone? As expected, able to tell the difference (girl!). But it's the sound of classic rock which YUI likes.

The last part me don't really get it. I have updated YUI's Electric Guitars post too.

PS: My holiday starts today. Technically. Must fully 'utilise' it.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Time for a change

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This marks my 100th post. Which means on average, I update every 4 days. Not very often I suppose.

Today I had a presentation for one of my elective class (English for Business Communication), guess what my topic was?

"What I have earned through blogging"


LOL!!

That's why I think blogging is beneficial. In a sense that I will always have something to talk about (or link) when it comes to presentations.

Besides, isn't it great that someone, from the other side of the world, is actually reading the crap you have been writing? If they are nice enough, they will even spend 1 minute of their lives (or more) to drop you a comment (either good or bad).

Such satisfaction, this sense of belonging, you can get it through blogging.



Of course you can get it through YUI-ing as well xD

As a linguistic student, through blogging my language ability has improved tremendously (still have to work hard on it). I can convey my thoughts in English better, and thanks to you guys, I got 9.5/10 in a Japanese-English translation test *cough*ROCKIN'ONJAPAN*cough*

When it comes to YUI, in order to prove that I'm the number 1 stalker in Malaysia, I have to be constantly updating myself on dear YUI. Even though I don't mention it, doesn't mean that I don't know. Just lazy to write/ explain everything *Runs away* And I have to clearly state out the sources, where did I find that, this has made me more resourceful. Especially on getting *ahem* stuff. That's really beneficial.

Oh yea my obsession on YUI's guitars has introduced me to the world of pick-ups, pedals, hollowbodies, tremolo...(I still have trouble on these terms) and made friends with a couple of guitar geeks (and pros). Even though my guitar skill still pretty much sucked (too paiseh to show around), at least I can rant with them with all these guitar terminologies, 'pretending' that I actually know a lot, lol.

Me started this blog on July 2006, out of curiosity. Then somehow it became a YUI fanblog, which has nothing to do with half-banana nor how to save a life. So I was thinking of having a makeover...(if I win).

Then announce some big news.

Till then.

PS: What should I name my new website then? How to stalk YUI?!

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Moderator

Album: Kiss - Gold

Kinda skimmed through this program called Gene Simmons Family Jewels on TV, 'discovered' that he's from KISS after did some wiki-ing lol. YUI listens to them too, according to some Fender staff.

Anyway, I have been 'selected' as moderator of News, General Talk and Pictures section in YUI Lover, finally. I actually wanted to be part of YL since...I joined YL, which was on 15 January 2006. It's been a long time, I guess. Thank you for choosing me to be part of the team. I think it's fascinating that us YLovers, from different background, possessing different skills, met here, and contribute whatever knowledge we have. Hopefully someday I have the chance to meet you guys at the other side of world.

When I first joined YL, there were only 50+ of us. I still haven't started any 'formal' Japanese classes, and pretty much ignorant (not that I am really 'enlightened' now anyway). It's amazing how much we can learned in such a short period of time, and how much have changed. Dear YUI is one of the top female singer now, and me, *coughs* can finally understand a little bit of Japanese, and do a little bit of guitaring. Still have a long way to go though. A very...long...way.

Since I'm a first timer (moderator thing), so if I made any mistakes, do inform me. So far, pretty cool I suppose. Maybe I should celebrate it by flashing a picture of mine, lol.

I might be more 'sarcastic' than ever from now on. LOL. Don't try to spread fake news of YUI you people. I beg you guys, please read and use abit of your brain before posting.

If you guys wanna check how bad my Japanese is, feel free to visit my friendster blog. For friendster, my definition of 'friends' is people I've met face to face before (there are some exceptions though). It's not that I chose to ignore those who tried to add me, maybe I'm more cautious?! Speaking of friendster, my face is 'circulating' around in some people's profiles >.<

Tomorrow will be Music Station (and Rock In Japan Fes), ooo~

Till then.