Choco and ichigo cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!

first off...HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my DEAR DEAR Massu-loving friend PIKA-CHAN!!!! (totsu )

Wishing you all the very best~Hope you had a GREAT DAY



And HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

This year, people in my suburb put up yellow balloons to indicate that we were in on the fun of giving out candy to kids xD it was a good idea!! that way, people who don't wanna be disturbed won't be and the kids know which houses has candy!

as usual, we put candy into a basket and set it outside our door, that way the kids can take the candy without waiting for us to open the door xD I drew up a note on A4 paper to say they were welcome to the candy but not the basket xD loL! i also drew a pumpkin (kabocha-chan >w<), ghost, candy and witches hat on it as decoration. the words HAPPY HALLOWEEN were written to resemble blood dripping xD

too bad some kids tore up the paper, i'm a lil annoyed at that...every year we've done it, no kids has torn up the paper and scattered it across our yard...they could've knocked on the door if it was because we ran outta candy in the basket....ah well...

all in all a good night.

APOLOGIES
I know there are some comments i havn't replied to yet...GOMEN! Uni has been mighty busy....the semester has just finished..now i have 1 week study break and then finals...

I will reply all ASAP!!! >_< gomen gomen! m(___ ____)m

Most of my assessments are over now!! finished 5 this week! 4 assessments yesterday alone O_O

thankfully i finished all in time!

was very nervous doing the presentation..i brought in a hachimaki (i'll take a photo of me wearing it if anyone wants to see xD drop me a request in the comment!) and then the teacher was like "are you going to wear it?"
me: "eh...no..?! do you want me to wear it?"
teacher:"eh..i don't WANT you to wear it......"
classmate" YESSSSS"
teacher:"ok, PUT IT ON!!! xD"

O_O so i put it on and left it for the whole presentation

part of the presentation i wrote about NEWS and Morning musume (nationalism in today's culture!)
 

we planned to play previews of the songs i mentioned (LOVE MACHINE - mm and akaku moyuru taiyou -news) but thought we won't have enough time to play it (even though i cut the songs to just phrases we mentioned)...so we didn't end up playing it...

after the presentation was finished...
lecturer suddenly: "are you gonna play the song?"
me:.......
lecturer: "play love machine! it's such a good song"

then came about 2min awkwardness where we were trying to locate the song...

*plays the short short 15sec preview of love machine *

lecturer *bobs head to music*


oh and my lecturer is MALE xD i didn't expect him to be morning musume fan O_O

i wasn't happy with my essay...since i only found one good article (on youth and nationalism!) the second essay was hard to relate....>_< i just hope for pass!!!

next coming up is Chemistry quiz next week and chemisty assessment 2! then i have one week break!! YAY


oh and excited news, found out from fan report (tegomass con) THERE WILL BE A TEGOMASS CON DVD RELEASED!!!!!

Yes....i'm very excited xDD

i shall be waiting :P

oh and about the title of this entry. i just ate a pudding flavoured ice cream xDD it was good :D

aaaaaa gomen gomen! I havn't even updated with SMASH DAY 2 D; (i hope i remember most of it when i have time to write up that day's "account")

Recently, University has been HELLA busy...so hence....no update D;

It's week 6 (coming week) and i have a Maths Quiz and the JPNS2660 in class test (weeks 1-5 lectures and readings will be tested >_<) i hope i can remember all the facts for that...i dun even remember all the time periods...i remember names....like Tokugawa Period, Meiji, Showa...but i only remember that Meiji began in 1868 and Heisei was 1989 ^_^; Meiji period was the ["westernisation" to become a modern country] period i believe...
ahhh i better go study all the things again...the test is on thursday @__@

i already did another maths and chemistry quiz last week. i passed the chemistry one :) so that was good...

Also have group presentation (for japanese, it's on Japanese Nationalism) due in week 8....my group hasn't replied my emails....ARGHHH>>>>>>

we also have to write an INDIVIDUAL essay... i think essay is worth more than the presentation....so that's good O_O i think...
i'm a bit lost as to what i should do and focus on for the topic though! (for the presentation, we'll probably find 1~2 points to talk about mainly...and it's cultural and historical significance...since we only have 8 min....essay is 1000words....and we have to analyse 2 "articles" (from an academic source) that is on the topic we are given....)

arghh...too many assessments coming up...too many things where i dunno what to do >3<

ON a happy note, i went to Wasabi's events again! it's really fun~~
Also NIF SUBBS is starting!~ ^__^ i'm excited about that, tho i'm not entirely sure if i'm capable of translating the videos well at this point in time O_O

Also there's a group called "Shoujo tenshi" i havn't sent in audition yet >_< gomen ne sara-chan! hopefully i'll find some time and send in audition soon! (closes in october doesn't it O_O)

xoxochic asked a question about the differences.....So i've gone to find my CDs and try to answer this question as well as i can 8D

For those who don't know

OS=Overseas version (basically, Taiwan and Hong Kong Version)
J=Japanese version
RE=Regular Edition
LE=Limited Edition

There's gonna be a LOT of photos and scans so please bear with me ^_^

Here's a list of the CDs i will be talking about
-NewS Summertime LE J version
-NewS Summertime RE OS version
-Tegomass Ai ai gasa LE OS version
-Tegomass Ai as gasa RE OS version
- Hey!Say!7 RE J version

I apologise that i couldn't compare properly between the OS and J versions by using the same editions! As some of you guys would know, part of the year i spend in Hong kong....and i actually always take all my CDs back to Hong Kong (or i buy it there!)...this time coming back to Sydney, i only brought back with me one of each CD version D; (though one of my summertime CDs i had left in sydney and forgot to take to hong kong previously xD) So yeah, my deepest apologies! Hopefully this will still be an alright comparison for those who debate with themselves which versions they should get. 

IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PHOTOS/SCANS IN HIGH QUALITY AND ORIGINAL SCANNED SIZE PLEASE DOWNLOAD IT (Right Click and save) I will appreciate it if you don't use the scans elsewhere without my permission (you can easily comment below and ask me for permission xD Just want to make sure where my scans will go)

SOME OF THE PHOTOS/SCANS ARE NOT HQ EVEN IF YOU DL IT!
THE LYRICS ONLY ONES WILL BE HQ. THE ONES WITH THE PHOTOS (THAT IS THE JACKET SCANS) ARE NOT VERY HQ!
YOU CAN COMMENT HERE AND REQUEST FOR HQ SCANS IF YOU WISH
(I SCANNED IT JUST TO A SUFFICIENT SIZE TO DO COMPARISION)

Hope you all enjoyed this post! And that it's useful :)
THANKS FOR READING!

*Thanks to hello_q for pointing out that not all OS versions have chinese subtitles with the DVDs!*

Tanabata (七夕, tanabata, meaning "Evening of the seventh") is a Japanese star festival, derived from the Chinese star festival, Qi Xi (七夕 "The Night of Sevens")．

It celebrates the meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair). The Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. Since the stars come out at night, the celebration is held at night.