I just realised that this other computer in the hotel is compatible with my control panel lol. Since I have some time before Ogosho!Japan, thought I’d post up the links for the “恋詩-KOIUTA/Progress” single, Takitsuba’s first single release in 2008. There are 3 versions and the release date is 4th June 2008. All editions contain the songs “Koi Uta” (ending theme of TV series “Osen”) and “Progress” (used in a commercial for Waseda Academy).

Jacket A (Koi Edition)
Price: 1,680yen (incl. tax)
This limited edition also includes a bonus DVD with a TV drama-style music video for the song “Koiuta”, based around the theme of love plus love letter-style lyrics sheet (subject to change).
Pre-order @ CDJapan | Amazon | HMV

Jacket B (Uta edition)
Price: 1,680yen (incl. tax)
This limited edition also includes a bonus DVD with a music video for the song “Koiuta”, based around the theme of song plus original sheet music (subject to change).
Pre-order @ CDJapan | Amazon | HMV

Jacket C (Regular edition)
Price: 1260yen (incl. tax)
This regular edition also includes bonus tracks “Glory Days”(used in T&T’s Wii family CMs) and “Yakusoku -Last-” (performed during the Best Tour) plus karaoke versions of “Koiuta” and “Progress.”
Pre-order @ CDJapan | Amazon | HMV

Ganbatte ne, to all of us and our wallets *pats pats*

[EDIT 5/2: Added Amazon & HMV links]

Zubari & Gallery
Sorry I am so busy lately with work and everything else that I couldn’t really update the site. I just re-uploaded a Zubari clip here, and the gallery has been re-opened :)

Yukichan
Irene lent me her Yukinojo Henge DVD (coz I was impatient~) and O.M.G. the packaging is superb!! The booklet is so professionally done, and even the menu of the DVD is beautiful. The box is really professionally designed, nice and beautiful~ I don’t know what else to say, but “BRAVO, NHK!!!” Erm, the peeps at Avex reeeaaally ought to learn from NHK!! And the “Making of” and interview is so good! I love that entire makeup thing, the dance lessons, Tono laughing uncontrollably during the filming of one of the scenes, the dog shadow thingie, the last scene of Yamikun, nado nado… I’ll do a proper review with pics when I get back, after I get my DVD!

Enbujo’08
The 4th (and final perhaps) batch of 26 Enbujo’08 live photos went on sale starting from today’s shows. The total no. of photos now stands at 106. Each photo costs 500yen.

Ogosho!Japan
Missed most of it just now. When I tuned in, they were all laughing lol, then it was the will-reading part. That guest was funny haha… But the other guest who sang at the end has a good voice ne… and I recognised from his VTR the song “Subaru”!! OMG I love that song, both cantonese and japanese versions~~~

「恋詩-コイウタ-」
I waited for the last part of the NTV drama “Osen” just for the new T&T song “Koi Uta”. The song is sooooooo nice!! It starts off with Takki singing, followed by Tsu, then both voices combined~~ Really beautiful, no noisy trumpets hehe, but not too slow either~~ really a mid-tempo ballad :) Can’t wait for the single to be released in June! I recorded the audio so there’s loads of voiceover – coz the drama was playing in the background, but still the song is quite clear.
Here’s the sample (mp3, 1.43mb).

Ja~ back to my packing~ then ittekimaaaaaaaaasu!!!!

I really love the graphics of the opening video… that thing at the top right reminds me of the Enbujo shopping bag last year. And some of the music used too. Actually there was a track from Satomi Hakkenden OST that was being played during one of the VTRs. Takki looked really kakkoii when announcing the “will” section (after the commercial break) ^^

And the ending song was T&T’s Glory Days :)

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Just in case you didn’t know, the site was hacked for the second time yesterday, and the problem came from the Coppermine gallery. My host support cleaned all my files for the 2nd time, and I’ve upgraded the gallery to the latest version, which was just released yesterday to fix the security problem, but I’ll continue to keep it offline for a week. Just in case.

Watched Ogosho!Japan last night, and recognised 2 of the guests from Yoshitsune (and Yukinojo) – I think *lol* but I’m still not used to seeing Tono in straight black hair. But I love all the moments where he spoke (the bio of the guest, intro to various segments, etc) and laughed of coz ^^. Actually I wasn’t really paying attention to what the guests were talking about lol. The most interesting part of the show to me was the “will” that one of the guests read out to his wife and daughter. I think the show will only continue to improve, since there wasn’t much time to put this one together. I love the set’s wallpaper though haha…

Oh, and HP/COMPAQ has called me. They’ll be sending back my laptop today!!! I don’t think they managed to save anything but I hope they managed to fix the problem at least!

I think the site was hacked on Friday night, but as I was out for the whole of Saturday at Sentosa, I didn’t realise it until Sunday morning. Apparently, some hacker attacked through the gallery, and attached some script to every page of this site that screwed everything up! I’ve disabled user registration at the gallery for now, just in case. Also followed the security measures as advised by the hosting company. I hope it doesn’t happen again ne. The support team is actually really fast in solving the problem. Thank you.

I’m having a bad time with computers recently ne… First, laptop crashed. Then, site got hacked. Lol. Maybe it’s just something to keep me busy with, so that I won’t even have the chance to “chance” upon more spoilers? Maybe it’s what I have to go through to see Tono again haha~~ :D Anyway, I had Takki dreams over the past week, it is weird coz I hardly dream of him. Last night, it was a T&T dream, and I spoke to Tsubasa in English! He was really sweet~~ and as with all my Takki dreams so far, I didn’t dare to speak to Tono. Last week’s weird dream — I was watching Enbujou in the lecture theatre of NJC (National Junior College)! With my bf and colleaugues! Hahahaha… Maybe all these are happening because I can’t wait to get to Shimbashi? ^o^

Now my colleagues are sorting out the Sentosa photos. We had sooooo much fun that day. It was the first time I really went all out and played like a siao cha bo (crazy woman)!!!! Haha, photos coming soon I hope hehe….

Meanwhile, some T&T news. T&T will have a new single in June, called 「恋詩-コイウタ-」(Koi Uta), which will be the ending theme for the upcoming NTV drama “Osen”.