I'm coming home to the lights and buzz
Streets look the same, still nothing's as it was
This place is paradise I'm sure, here's my reservation
I've gotten lost here once before
Inside a good vibration


I'll be leaving for Boracay early on Christmas day (tomorrow) so I won't be able to greet you guys. I'm going to miss all of you terribly. Send me love and shiny ghei spam to come home to. I LOVE YOU! :D


(Speaking of love... *latches self onto current pissu!Uebo icon* That boy, really. So much ♥.)

Ionne is going on a holy retreat!
Where: Don Bosco Retreat House, Batulao
When: October 5 - 7, 2007


This'll be my official retreatlettersprz entry, so you guys be nice and give me some.OR ELSE. Write or post anything that you want: a line from a song, a novel-long letter, GHEI PICSPAMS, anything. Comments are screened to keep it... personal. LOL.

Please and thank you, lovelies! ♥


(To purebloodqueen, who'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon: HAPPY RETREAT! Tatsuya says he'll be able to forgive you for not being present on his birthday bash, as long as you give him fairy em0 treats. ILU. Have fun, k? ♥)

A rather spazzy account of what I've done with my life for the first half of September 2007.




15th of September
( Mini JE Fanmeet )



9th and 8th of September
( Two-Person Birthday Bash for MaruUchi&Yassu )



7th of September
( Akanishi the Phone was Born )



(No dates. I mean, it's me talking about Ueda.
I'd go on forever if time would allow it. Or, you know, whtvr.)
( +~*~*~Ueda Tatchewya~*~*~+ )



And now, I go on a dorama marathon. Goodbye, all! ♥
Damn, I should really start tagging properly.

Ohkura Tadayoshi >>>>> Jonathan Bennet and Brad Pitt combined

Isn't it amazing how I managed to squeeze Tacchon (and Jonathan and Brad, but they're not really important, so ignore) somewhere in the flash presentation about the life of St. Rose of Lima? Seriously. What the hell. Anyhoo. Of course it was natural for purebloodqueen and I to squee like morons when Tacchon's face came flashing on the huge screen but it was weird hearing our schoolmates squee along because I doubt any of them knew who Tacchon was. O_O But then again, Tacchon is all sorts of pretty. It would be hard not to squee in delight. *squishes Okra*


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Translation of Shige's Dislike essay in Myojo is out.

Disliking something without tasting it, disliking something without giving it a look, disliking something without trying to do it. Isn't this auto-suggestion, just based on an idea you have of something? There's the thing of eating something you used to dislike and now realizing you like it. This may have to do with growing up, too, but it might also be that from the beginning, you didn't dislike the thing as much as you thought you did.

Until now, I shaped the world to my idea of it, and then I realized I could only live in a small, small place.

I love reading Shige's essays. They're like some sort of portal to his mind. And they never fail to get me thinking. Oh, Shige, I love you so.


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I just saw NewS's Russ + K CMs and I think I speak for everyone when I say that Yamapi and Shige should never be put in the same box together. They are, to quote popupmagic, THE MOST AWKWARD THING EVER. Yamapi, Koyama and Massu, on the other hand, are OT3 material. I LOL'd majorly at the random YamaKoya moment. It was so adorable... in a reaaalllyyy odd sense.


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Is it normal of me to think that Fergie's Big Girls Don't Cry is actually nice or have I gone completely retarded? I heard it over the radio the other day while I was stuck in traffic and thought that it was actually decent. I haven't been able to stop listening to it since then. O_O


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AND HOLY SHITES I WROTE A JINDA FIC. This weekend has been very, very odd indeed.

(Photomanip made by yours truly. I will post a larger version some other time when I get enough bribes.)

Over the past three days of classes being suspended due to ridiculously heavy rain, I have done nothing but read Nishikido Ryo/Ueda Tatsuya fanfiction, universally known as RyoDa, the absolute zero pairing. And I’m not just exaggerating. I have truly done quite literally nothing but read RyoDa fanfiction. I ditched reading Harry Potter 7 and my weekly routine of a dorama marathon and whathaveyou for it. I don't even change out of my PJ's anymore! D: Anyway, I don’t know why, when or how it happened – and quite honestly, I never saw it coming either - but I have suddenly fallen so madly in love with this seemingly improbable pairing.

While I firmly believe that their on-cam feuds are just another one of Johnny's many weird profit strategies, I still am very amused at the thought of them having snarky verbal wars, complete with comments dripping of razor-sharp sarcasm from both parties and heavy tension hanging thickly in the air. However, that said, I still like the thought of them being friends and actually getting along.

In a line of contemplation, I realized that it can’t be helped if people question why we, RyoDa fans, choose to stay in the fandom when its foundations lie merely on the very limited number of moments caught on camera (that involve Ryo slinging an arm around Ueda and walking around the stage like he owned him or something ...and Ueda enjoying every single bit of it ♥ - Did anyone else notice how Ryo whispered 'meet me in the secluded dressing room after the show' oh-so-closely into Ueda's ear it almost looked like a kiss in the ending bits of that first clip? And how he couldn't pry his eyes off Ueda, his touch lingering a little longer than it should, in that second one? ~*~OH MY HEART EXPLODES WITH GLITTER AND JOY~*~ ^O^). Ahem. As I was saying, people would continue to question why we choose to support a pair that has publicly declared they have ‘zero percent’ of getting along when there are far better, more blatant, documented and ‘actually possible’ pairings out there. It got me thinking for a while but now I think I've finally grasped the answer.

The fanfiction.

I know it sounds really shallow but fanfiction in the RyoDa fandom blows my mind away. Come to think of it, the RyoDa authors are probably the most responsible for my going nuts over the pairing at present. I mean, what other fandom houses Jin giving out eggs that sprout human dragons who look an awful lot like Leah Dizon; Ueda getting stoned with the Greek Oracle’s daughter; Tegoshi going all Bruce Almighty; seekrit underground Mafia leader RescuemanUchi (with a big man in tux named Tyrone as his minion) and color-coded ‘get Ueda to fall for me’ schedules; Ryo whining about how he's not gay but somehow ends up getting kissed by a bunch of guys; Ueda interrupting Ryo in the middle of sex because of apparently voyeuristic faries, and a whole lot more crack than any human brain could handle? Nowhere else, but the awesomeness that is the RyoDa fandom. Now if those don't reel you in, I honestly don't know what will. O_O

Now that I think about it, RyoDa was probably created to challenge the imagination. To dare human intelligence to defy all logic and somehow bring these two together through impeccably-written fanfiction. The crack, the angst, the sex, everything. These fics and the brilliant authors behind them breathe life into RyoDa, no matter how extreme the instances are (and I tell you, RyoDa fics can be quite extreme). I am going to risk sounding incredibly shallow and cheesy here, but these fics are enough to keep me hoping that, behind the cameras, these two are actually really good friends and play weirdass kink games that involve a lot of lace and chains can get along just as well as everyone else.

So, please, take the time to read these brilliant works.
Just a fair warning, though: You might not be able to stop! So read with extreme caution! O:

And to the authors of these fics: I apologize if I don’t get to comment on your fics. It’s just that 99% of the time, they drain all coherence from my system and I am left gaping and/or fangirling infront of my screen and drooling all over my keyboard. I don’t think my retarded babbling would do your fics justice. ^^; So let this pimp post be an expression of my delayed, unspoken gratitude~ :D


( TO LOVE IS TO BICKER... )

I am temporarily breaking my hell week hiatus to announce to the world that I will be taking my very first ever college entrance exams tomorrow. *panicface of the century*

UPCAT
6.30 AM, Palma Hall

Who else will be there?


Oh, and deathcandisco! See you there! :D

( YEAH YEAH YEAH! )



HI, MY CLASS WON THIS YEAR'S LAMEASS NUTRIMONTH MUSICAL-SKIT COMPETITION WHAAAAAAATTT. AND OUR WINNING PIECE? KANJANI 8's ZUKKOKE OTOKOMICHI WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT. It was a silly suggestion I brought up when we were handed the competition details but it seemed to have grown on classpresident-sama. Before I knew it, it had become a major part of the skit. O_O Of course, purebloodqueen and I took the liberty of teaching the moves to our fellow performers as none of them had any idea what/who Zukkoke and K8 were. And we like to keep it that way. We are willing to share, but there are limits! DX


Anyhoo, it has been a very JE week for the both of us. We have been using the rehearsals practice schedules as an excuse to dress up in matching/color-coordinated/JE-fied/whathaveyou clothes and flail around (our music teacher even dubbed us 'disturbing' at some point *falls over laughing*). The best part would have to be us singing and dancing to Cherish and Yorokobi no Uta infront of our fangirls classmates. We were such dorks, but fuck that, it was awesome! LOL. We used to just perform Chirarizumu and a half-assed Zukkoke dance but now we can actually decently perform full singles!


So yeah. This week has been really fun. Next week is hell week so I guess I should enjoy the last remaining bits of this one. Rawr.