ANNOUNCEMENT: I wanna be...will be aired on next YUI LOCKS!


Welcome to my room. Currently I'm reading that white book.

The name is Marimokkori (まりもっこり), marimo is some green algae from Hokkaido, as for mokkori....check the wiki entry above. Hence Marimokkori. I got it from Mari san. If you're a frequent reader of Mari's blog, she mentions this Mari-mokkori quite often. My friendship with Mari san started because of Marimokkori too.


I want to fry well~ Note: If you pull that rounded thing on its red underwear, Marimokkori will vibrate. LOL.

It all started when she was trying to figure out what's that thing hanging on YUI's backpack in YUI Radio #18, and she was going to buy the green version of Marimokkori (Scroll down to bottom, that poo-poo bear looks cute too LOL).

Me, being a super detail YUI observer, happened to notice that the Marimokkori on YUI's backpack, as shown in 23 October 2006 YUI Locks was blue instead.


See that green pervert in blue jersey?

For the first time, I posted a comment in Japanese blog. It was quite scary, maybe due to inferiority complex. Back then I was really a timid person, always think that I will be eaten by others because I lack of something. Lol.

Right now, we still cannot determine whether YUI's Marimokkori is wearing blue or green jersey. It depends on your own preference, Mari san told me that green one is sold out at the moment, so she couldn't send me both. Because of YUI?!


Green, or Blue??

Even Namie Amuro introduced Marimokkori to the 2 'evil' hosts in HEY HEY HEY. That shows how popular it really is.

If you think that YUI is innocent, think again. From Marimokkori to pro wrestling, to that Oppappi guy......

We are a bunch of obsessed YUI fan. Whatever YUI has, we'll make a big fuss over it haha. Every time I look at it, especially that pair of pervert-ish eyes, I just couldn't stop laughing lol. Besides Marimokkori, dear YUI mentioned in her diary before that she is collecting different sizes of Rirakkuma dolls after she read the Rirakkuma picture book. Since someone gave her Rirakkuma phone strap, she wanted to collect other merchandise such as cushion etc.

Rirakkuma = A bear who likes to relax, me likey lol. I would like to read the picture book too someday. Since the diary was written 2 years ago, I wonder how large YUI's collection of Rirakkuma is right now......

Maybe she has more Marimokkori stuff now, I think I saw her phone strap in Thank you My teens DVD was Marimokkori too, have to double check it first.

PS: I just realised how kakkoii dear YUI is in this poster. The poster is from March 2006 issue of B-Pass. If I'm not mistaken.



Till then~

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Misc YUI News:

My Generation is nominated Best Pop Video in SPACE SHOWER MVA 08.

That's quite a sexy picture of YUI. The eyes are, mesmerising lol.

I think Kobukuro's Tsubomi will win. Even though I never watch this PV from beginning till end. Too long.

The award show will be held on March 15. Me will be at Bangkok, shopping.

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Snippets of Namidairo PV can be found in YUI Movie Show website. You can access to the website directly from YUI-net by clicking the icon of STUDIOSEVEN Recordings, which is located below the homepage.

Umbrella live from 2nd tour will be included in the DVD of limited edition. Yay!! Video Clip of Namidairo too.

Do you guys think that it's such a waste of space that they only put two videos in one DVD?? Bad for environment, tsk tsk.

Joking.

And, I wanna be... lyrics is available at Uta-net.

First glance: It's something close to her everyday life, and it's not I wanna be a rock star nor I wanna be with you.

It's about I wanna be...ME.

Kinda skimmed through first episode of 4 Shimai Tantei Dan, I think Namidairo doesn't fit well as the theme song. Rating: 9.2%. The newer release, the lower ratings will get.

Hope this will not be a curse. No wonder some Japanese fans kinda complained that Stardust (YUI's management company) should stop tie-ing their artists together whenever they could.

YUI <-> Takeuchi Yuko (Fukigen na gene), Uchiyama Rina (Seito Shokun), Kaho (4 Shimai Tantei Dan).

I don't mind if they tie up YUI and Shibasaki Kou though. That'll be pretty interesting.

A quick update, from latest YUI Staff Diary,


Left: Limited Edition, Right: Normal Edition

Track list:

1. Namidairo
2. I wanna be...
3. LOVE&TRUTH～YUI Acoustic Version～
4. Namidairo～Instrumental～

I still think that normal edition looks awfully familiar, not Hikki's, some other female singer.

As CSDCSD said, I ordered limited edition from HMV, since they're having discount. YesAsia doesn't count into Oricon sales, so if you really wanna support YUI directly, buy from HMV, CD Japan or Amazon Japan.

Btw, Amazon Japan is freaking expensive (for oversea), I miss the old days T.T

What about normal edition? I'll by next time, since they are 'unlimited'. Saving up $$$ on something else. I'm not really fond of covers focusing on the artist's but I prefer limited edition.

Glad that they installed new fonts though.

I'm still waiting for Chinese subs of 4 Shimai Tantei Dan.

YUI tried to sing along some crazy fast song in YUI LOCKS. lol.

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Off topic: Any SEO/ HTML expert here?

Today I spent more than 2 hours trying to figure what the hell went wrong with my blog setting/html. It's bugging for quite some time why on earth my blog snippets/description disappeared in google.



And, all the links direct to my blog are feeds instead on html links!

Maybe that's the reason why not many of you guys found my blog through google. Only 4%. The rest are from some other places (YL, YF...). So difficult to look for me in google. Sad. Anybody has any clue on how to fix this?

Oh I've change my blog feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/half-banana/nvRN
Please resubscribe if your previous feed doesn't update any more, sorry for causing any inconveniences. Tell me if you want comment feeds.

If you're wondering what a feed is, check this video tutorial.

PS: Tuesday with Morrie (book) is so touching, Beat it's intro is fun to play.

This is supposed to be my next misc YUI gossip, but it got too long.

Seen this interview before?


Source: Behind the scenes of MC GOW's Live Talk blog

It was an interview for Yahoo Live Talk, around June 2006, to promote Good-bye days and Taiyou no Uta. Well, obviously.

I just read this from the host, MC GOW's blog.

Guess what YUI said when she first saw her?
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What's up?

LOL. The conversation went on like this,

(first meeting)

YUI: Wassup?
Gow: *surprised* What's up girl?
YUI: honmonoda~! (It's the real thing!!)

Note: This was just a meet up session before interview, not included in the video.

So cute. In the interview YUI tried to show her English vocabulary during interview such as 'Thank you', 'Good', haha.

According to Mc Gow, YUI was the one who first start the conversation. She's not that shy as people as tend to think, maybe because Gow is a non-Japanese? (Father Scottish, Mother Filipino) In the interview, YUI performed Good-bye days, and after that she showed her Alanis Morissette cover to Gow san (privately), Mc Gow was really surprised as YUI remembered all the lyrics perfectly. They even sang Time after Time together *envies*

Me wanna see it too T.T

I shall make an assumption that the easiest way to make friends with people who plays guitar is either be their vocalist or jam songs with them, it doesn't matter if your guitar skill sucked or can't really sing, main point is to have fun.

Provided that both of you have similar taste in music, or both know certain songs lol. Don't criticise or spread negative energy, if you know what I mean. Unless you wanna go pro such as participate in the Second YUI-Lover Collaboration.

My song list is pretty limited, I shall go and learn more party songs instead of YUI's. Sometimes people don't really care if you play exactly like the CD, as long as it sounds close enough, it'll be fine. Kinda sad though, especially when you've spent so much time on that particular song, yet the first comment you received was 'it sounds different'.

Well us humans like to receive compliments more than criticism, that's the nature. Don't worry, we'll recover after a while LOL.

This Yahoo Live Talk interview is one of my favourite, the atmosphere was almost same as YUI Radio, hence it was more relaxed, dear YUI even sat crossed leg on sofa (normally she sits very the straight, especially in Music Station). And as usual, YUI tried to avoid answering certain questions from fans, if my memory serves me correctly.

Check out the grey socks YUI was wearing =P

I shall rewatch this some other day.