Nodame Cantabille

I'd like to say tenkiu so much to 21 for making me cross out one of the list of anime that I wanna watch. Alhamdulillah I finished watching Nodame Cantabile in just a few days.  Before this I only managed to watch bits and pieces of it at Animax. Now I've finished watching it from A to Z. Yeay~! I LOVE it so damn much!! >.<

the sugar and spice of the anime

I don't know much about music but I've read a comment from someone who does study music. She said that she can recognise when they are not playing it right and also when they are doing it superbly. What good ears huh? I cudn't recognise any! =p I also read somewhere that they actually really play the instruments for the anime. That's where the cost of the anime goes. It doesn't go much at the anime. They only use pastel colours for the anime.

Anyway, Nodame Cantabile is about pursuing your dreams. Chiaki is a piano major student but dreams to be a conductor. Due to his past experience in plane crash, he has a phobia and can no longer ride in a plane nor a ship. His dreams seemed impossible to be achieved since he could not go out of Japan. Music started from Europe (as they say but I heard it actually started from German) and so in order to be someone they have to bring their name there, internationally. However, Chiaki is very talented. Although he is a piano major, he can conduct an orchestra. 

The heroine of the story, Noda Megumi or known as Nodame is a junior of Chiaki. She lives next door from Chiaki's apartment and is also a piano major student. Nodame fell in love with Chiaki from the first moment they met but Chiaki, on the other hand could not stand with Nodame. However, despite hating the fact that he had to play piano with Nodame, he was very impressed with Nodame's skill in playing piano. Nodame doesn't read music notes. She listens to it and practice using her fingers. Then, she'll play at the piano. Although she only heard the song once, she can play the whole song back without even practicing. Funny thing is, Nodame is not very hygiene. Let's look at her room eh?

See how bad it is? Hehe... Chiaki took the effort to clean the apartment and in just 3 days it became like that again. Haha!! Who would ever want a girl like that? And how could someone ever live in that condition? I wonder... So you can guess aite how irritated Chiaki is with Nodame. He even has to cook for her every night. I was puzzled really to why Chiaki did all that and I only got the answer at the final episode. How sweet! ^^

I can't stop laughing watching those two. Chiaki is so cool and charismatic while Nodame is so clown-like and clumsy. I guess that's why they're attached. Chiaki completes Nodame. She's the first girl ever that he cooked for and let her hug him while walking. She was a pain in Chiaki's ass but he just can't do anything cause even when he pushed her away, hit her and everything, she doesn't get tired. Haha!!

Well, one thing for sure there is one obvious thing that connects them both. It's piano and music.

When they combine and play a piano duet, the song will be magnificent. Seriously, to those who are in love with music, you watch this anime! I got a lot of new information while watching the anime. You should see how much effort they put in doing this anime. It's a perfect anime for someone who's studying music.

As for me, I'm very surprised with the ending of the story. To me it was unexpected. And I love it. =) Hey, guess what? I know this anime was out like years ago. (in 2007 if I'm not mistaken) but I dunno the second season is out! LOL! I gotta download the second season. If I have the time, that is. K-ON was th first anime that I download on my own and I'm very happy with the effort. Maybe I'll download this in return of 21's kindness. Huhu~

2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards

As I've stated in my fb status, I'm very happy with this year's award. Well I've always been happy with the results but this year is different cause I've started to follow 2ne1 as well. Here are the list of winners, taken from allkpop.com

Daesang Award (Grand Prize)

▲ Song of the Year

2AM – “Won’t Let You Go Even If I Die”
2NE1 – “Can’t Nobody”
2PM – “I’ll Be Back”
DJ Doc – “I’m This Kind of Person”
miss A – “Bad Girl Good Girl”

▲ Album of the Year

2AM – Won’t Let You Go Even If I Die
2NE1 – To Anyone
BoA – Hurricane Venus
Super Junior – BONAMANA
Taeyang – SOLAR

▲ Artist of the Year

2AM
2NE1
2PM
miss A
SNSD

- – -

Singer Category

▲ Best New Male Artist Award (not shown during broadcast)

CNBlue
Infinite
Teen Top
Seo In Kook
ZE:A

▲ Best New Female Artist Award

G.NA
miss A
Nine Muses
Rainbow
SISTAR

▲ Male Group Award

2AM
2PM
B2ST
MBLAQ
Super Junior

▲ Female Group Award

2NE1
4minute
KARA
T-ara
SNSD

▲ Male Singer Award

PSY
Se7en
Rain
Taeyang
Wheesung

▲ Female Singer Award (not shown during broadcast)

BoA
Gummy
Seo In Young
Son Dambi
Lee Hyori

- – -

Genre Category

▲ Best Dance Performance – Solo

Narsha – “Bbiri Bbabba”
Rain – “Love Song”
Lee Hyori – “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”
Taeyang – “I’ll be There”
Hyuna – “Change”

▲ Best Dance Performance – Male Group

2PM – “I’ll Be Back”

B2ST – “SHOCK”
MBLAQ – “Y”
SHINee – “Lucifer”
Super Junior – “Bonamana”

▲ Best Dance Performance – Female Group

2NE1 – “Can’t Nobody”
4minute – “HUH!”
miss A – “Bad Girl Good Girl”
Secret – “Magic”
T-ara – “Bo Peep Bo Peep”

▲ Best Vocal Performance – Solo

K. Will – “Miss Miss Miss”
Gummy – “Because You’re A Man”
Seo In Young – “You Write It As Love and Call It Pain”
Jung In – “Hate”
Wheesung – “I Thought of Marriage”

▲ Best Vocal Performance – Group (not shown during broadcast)

2AM – “Can’t Send You Even if I Die”
4men – “Can’t”
8Eight – “Break Up Is Coming”
Vibe – “Come Back”
Davichi – “Time Please Stop”

▲ Best Band Performance

CNBlue – “Love”
FT Island – “Love Love Love”
Hot Potato – “Confession”
Boohwal – “Love Is”
TransFixion – “The Shouts of Reds”

▲ Best Rap Performance

DJ Doc – “I’m This Kind of Person”
Epik High – “Run”
Outsider – “Acquaintance”
UV – “Sorry I’m Not Cool”
Supreme Team – “Dang Dang Dang”

▲ Best Collaboration (not shown during broadcast)

Homme – “Eating Well”
Ga-In/Jo Kwon – “We Fell In Love”
Seo Young Eun/Jung Yeob – “This Pitiful Word”
IU/Seulong – “Nagging”
Sung Shi Kyung/IU – “It’s You”

▲ Best Digital Single
MC Mong – “Hurt to Death”
Monday Kiz – “Spread Away”
Park Bom – “You and I”
Supreme Team – “Then Then THen”
Jung Yeob – “Without You”

- – -

Music Video

▲ Best Music Video
2NE1 – “Can’t Nobody”
Epik High – “Run”
UV – “Sorry I Can’t Be Cool”
Ga-In – “Irreversible”
Taeyang – “I’ll Be There”

- – -

Others

▲ Best International Artist

- Far East Movement

▲ Best Asian Pop Artist

- Perfume

▲ Best Asian Male Group

- Chemistry

▲ Best Asian Artist

- Zhang Jie

▲ Best Asia New Artist 

- iMe

▲ Producer Award (not shown during broadcast)

- PSY (for Seo In Young’s Cinderella)

▲ Music Video Director Award (not shown during broadcast)

- Seo Hyun Seung(2NE1’s “Can’t Nobody” and “Clap Your Hands”)

▲ Choregraphy Award (not shown during broadcast)

- Kim Hwa Young (JYPE)

▲ Stylist Award (not shown during broadcast)

- Yang Seung Ho (2NE1)

 ▲ Performance Award (not shown during broadcast)

- 2010 Jisan Valley Rock Festival

▲ This year’s Discovery Award (not shown during broadcast)

- 10cm

▲ Adult Music Award (not shown during broadcast)

- Tae Jin Ah

▲ The Shilla Duty Free Asian Wave Award

2PM
4minute
CNBlue
KARA
SNSD

Congratulations to all the winners.. I've been reading the comments for the result and as expected some girl group fans complain and said that some other girl group should have won. Well, no use arguing with them. If that girl group is the best for you, then they are the winner in your hearts aite? So what's the big deal? As for me...I've always supported JYP and YG so I'm very happy that they conquer most of the awards. I'm so proud to see Wonder Girls perform. Believe me, it was totally awesome! You should check it out at YouTube. Ok folks gotta go. Am gonna dream of attending the award tonight. ZzZ.... 

Interview tomorrow

I have an interview with kumon tomorrow. I hope everything turns out well and I will be able to start work next week. I still have two documents to prepare though. I haven't printed my resume, and I haven't photocopied my identity card. Insya Allah I'll be able to do it before the interview tomorrow. The interview's at 3.30pm. Right now...I'm feeling a little nervous. Hehe.. 

Just now was even worse. I totally lost my mood because of the two unsettled documents. I could've already have my resume printed if it weren't for the internet problem. If I'd email the resume to my sister she could have printed the document for me. Oh well, what to do.. I'll have to do it tomorrow then.

I've been browsing kumon's website to prepare for the interview. I can't come empty-handed and without knowing anything bout kumon aite? So I read their articles. It's interesting to know the history of kumon. My mom sort of regretted that she didn't send me there when I was in primary school. o.O and I was like, "I already have 2 tutions to go..If you made me go to kumon I dunno how I'd turn out. Huhu~" Anyway, there's nothing to regret. I just hope I'd pass the interview and be able to work with them. If I get the job, I'll be teaching twice a week! Wee~that's a good practicte for me before next sem. We have methodology already  next sem. Which means there'll be macro-teaching in class.

Uguu~before I lost my holiday mood I think I'd better stop. Wish me luck ya peeps? Wanna go have my dinner now. Adios~ ^^

Which are you?

After living life for 19 years, I come to realise that people can be grouped into a few categories. They are the loners, family-oriented, boyfriend-oriented and friend-oriented. I first realised this when I was in form three. I had a senior who was a family-oriented kind of person and because of that she was not much affected by her friends. It was kinda obvious that to her friends are just part of life, but not everything in life. So here are the few categories that I've known. Let's see if you fit into one of the categories yeah?

The lone rangers.

Lone rangers are the ones that are not friend-oriented or boyfriend-oriented. They may be family-oriented but it will be hard for people to notice because they rarely communicate with their friends. Lone rangers prefer to eat alone, go to the mall alone and are not dependent on people. You can always recognize them easily because they will always be alone. In fact, if they are walking with someone you'd feel shocked! Haha. If you interview a lone ranger, they will all give the same answer: They don't mind being alone. I do not know how lone rangers can survive because I am friend-oriented and I can never survive being alone. Ok, next are the family-oriented ones.

Family-oriented person.

You are a family-oriented person if family means everything to you. Everyone seems to claim that family meant everything to them but it is not portrayed on their behaviour and way of thinking. You see, those who are family-oriented can't lie that they are one. You can sense this kind of person by just observing. They way the make their decisions, they way they think and they way they react will all tell. Sometimes they don't even realise that it was very obvious that they are family-oriented. One striking evidence of a family-oriented person is they tend to feel sad/happy because of their family. Usually family-oriented person can survive without friends because they do not appreciate friends as much as they appreciate their family. 

Boyfriend-oriented person.

This category is very common among girls. This is another kind of person that is easy to recognise. Usually bf-oriented person will spend almost 24 hours with their bf. And I mean literally. They will be actively texting their bf if their bf is not with them. If not, their bf will always be with them. Anywhere this person goes, she will either be with her bf literally or she will be texting or calling their bf. When this kind of person have problems with their bf, their life will be a wreck. They will be like a kid who just lost their mother. One good criteria about this kind of person is they are very committed to relationships. Next we'll see how a friend-oriented person is.

 

Friend-oriented person.

Friend-oriented kind of person will be very much affected by friends. Life will be miserable for them if they have problems with their friends. Not necessarily all friend-oriented person will have lots of friends. Sometimes they only have one best friend and they will stick to that friend all the time. Usually friend-oriented kind of person will put friends as their number one priority in life. Family will come second because they are not so close with their family.

 

okay...so those are the descriptions. Can you recognise which are you? There's one thing that I would like to highlight. There is no one better category than the other. I'm not saying that you are bad if you are bf oriented. Or you are lame if you are a lone ranger. No. Everyone has their own qualities in them. Why we are oriented in such a way has much to do with our upbringing and environment. We become who we are today because of several reasons, not merely we are born that way. However, there is one category that if you fall into it, I totally respect you. The balanced person.

Balanced person will put family, friends and bf at the same priority. If not the same, at least they know how to balance between the three. They do not show any tendency that their bf is more important or that they cannot live without their friends. They are very balanced and they spend time with all three categories equally. I have friends from all the categories, including the balanced kind of person. It is impressive how a person can be very balanced. Like me, I am totally not a balanced person because I am friend and family oriented. I have not perceived a bf as one of the most important person in my life. Maybe it's bcause I'm used to be surrounded by friends rather than bf. Well, people can change. All I know is today I may be this kind of person. Who knows in the future I might be bf-oriented? Not that I ask for it, obviously. I want to be a balanced person. Think I can do it? Maybe. Who knows? ^_~

 

Contest Mimik Muka Menarik

This contest was organized by cik cikin. I knew about this competition from my cousin, Syaza. Actually she tagged me after entering the competition. So yeah, I'm interested. To be honest, I've lost a lot of my pictures. Especially the ones with expression. But I managed to find a few pictures of me and my cousin. What I see from the pictures are genuine warmth and love. I can be myself when I'm with her and vice versa. So these pictures shows our joy of being together and how much we love cam-whoring. I'm sure many other contestants would display a much better picture but I'll go for what I have now. Anyway, here's our picture together:

You guys can join the competition too! As for me, I'd like to tag these people to join the competition. Muaha3x~

*seyha*21anis*ainatul*wanie*mon2nom2*amri*

tarikh tutup : 25 DISEMBER 2010

1st Award

Alhamdulillah.. This is the first time I'm receivimg an award as a blogger. Thanx a lot to Syaza for giving me the honour of getting the award.

Weird thing is, after getting the award I have to describe 7 things about myself. Haha, baiklah..

1. I'm very into k-pop but I dislike hearing it at our local radio. Hey, our own songs couldn't get through the radio. Why tune up someone else's?

2. I love anime and was once given the tittle otaku. Though I gotta admit, there's not much that I know bout manga world actually. sob sob.

3. I support Malaysian film. But not films like 2 Alam keyh? I do not feel lame watching Malay movies at the cinema coz I support our film industry. Yeay!

4. I miss hearing nasheed songs like the ones during 'Raihan' time. The slow, soothing music and deep lyric. Well, Maher Zain is great but he's international. I miss hearing nasheed from our locals. Don't really like the contemporary type of nasheed. It spoils the beauty of it.

5. I am currently very in-to Virtual Families. (4 profiles!) Very addicted to it but not up to the point that I keep thinking bout it. 

6. Ooh I love watching theaters! Used to love working in a drama production but recently I lost the passion. Huhu. There'll always be a real drama in a drama.

7. I'm a karaoke freak. Haha, that's just an exaggeration. I karaoke to lessen my stress. Love it and luckily my family and friends love it too!

So, the conclusion is I only share the parts of myself under entertainment tab. Haha!! Well, no probs if you wanna know more about me you can just ask me directly. Or you can just keep reading my blog. Somehow it'll show. Right? Okay..Thanks again to Syaza for giving me this award. 

I'd like to dedicate the award to these people:

1. Seyha

2. 21 anis

3. Ainatul

4. Wanie

Feeling Hungry?

I'm dedicating all these biscuits 2 my beloved friends. May your lives be as sweet and beautiful as they are! =)

this one's 4 Mon2. She'll love d monkey!

this one's 4 Siha, since she's always with medicines. :P

this one's 4 Reen. our beloved mom in d house.

this is 4 Siha!! ~always fashionable~

this one's 4 my sister..coz her bday's coming up! =)

I'll give dis 2 Farah bcoz of d funky look.

dis one I'll give Najah sbb slalu bersiap lama pagi2. Haha!!

handbags...erm...bagi tikah la! 

4 u tuan..hope u like it! 

This one's for Aina. Eat 'em like u eat ice-cream ya! XD

kak long, I know you love fruits! Especially banana!! ^^

No doubt, this is for him. =)

I love these biscuits. They're so nicely done that I don't have the heart 2 eat it. Hehe!!

Those tears flowed again

Today I stared at my laptop again. As I listen to this sad song words just came smoothly through my fingers. I've seen you cry many times before and yet this one was the one I can't bear. Why did those tears flow again after the happy moments you've had before? For once I thought you've found someone who could catch you every time you fall. Someone who could treat you like how you deserved to be treated. Someone who would wipe away your tears and replace them with happiness. I really thought you would finally be happy. But why did those tears flow again? It's painful to watch you cry. Even more painful that it's that person that's making you cry. 

I might feel hurt seeing you cry but God knows how YOU feel. I don't know what I'd do if I were in your shoes. Maybe I won't be as strong as you. If it was me I think I would have given up and stopped believing in all this ***** about love. But you were strong. You are still standing and moving on. Maybe that's why I didn't get the same test from God. He would've known I couldn't bear it. Although you're strong, it's still not easy to face it. I wish I could do something to bring that sadness away. That pain, that agony that's killing you inside. But I'm just a normal human being aite? It takes time to heal and I don't know how long will it take for this scar to heal. But just so you know, I'm here if you need someone to talk to. I'm here to listen to you. I'm here if you wanna do wacky things to let it out. Don't ever forget that you have all of us with you. We will always support you no matter what.

I know there's not much that we can do to help. But at least let us be there for you when you're sad. Don't cry by yourself. It'll hurt even more. All we can do now is pray for you. Maybe one day things will get better for all of us. Don't lose that faith..

Terbang tinggi

buat seketika terasa diri ini kecil berbanding kamu semua.

buat seketika, terasa seperti kita bagai langit dan bumi.

buat seketika, rasa cemburu menguasai diri ini.

kita pernah berpijak pada bumi yg sama,

bermimpi pada paksi yg sama,

tetapi hari ini kita berada di jalan berbeza.

aku melihat kamu semakin jauh..

terbang tinggi meninggalkan kami.

dan kamu sudah berubah..

sekarang,

kita bercakap pada laras yang berbeza,

melihat dunia dari pandangan yg berbeza,

dan kita berjalan juga pada langkah yg berbeza.

hari ini, aku masih tersenyum di sini

aku masih bisa ketawa

aku bisa menangis dan berlagu sepi.

tetapi hatiku bahagia

kerana aku redha dengan jalan ini

biarpun ia berbeza dari kemahuanku dulu

aku bangga

kerana utk berada di sini juga bukan mudah

walau kita punya takdir yg berbeza,

kita masih punya tanggungjawab yg sama

pergilah kamu ke sana

pergi melihat dunia orang,

dan pulanglah dengan kejayaan.

aku akan mendoakan kalian dari tempatku berdiri.

dan aku, aku masih bersujud syukur

kerana aku juga sedang terbang tinggi~

A letter from my heart

To you, my beloved friend.

Do you believe in fate? I do, cause I believe that we met each other because we're destined to. I think we've gone into dis conversation many times b4. It's hard to believe how we, from strangers can become best friends. I used to see you only from afar but now it's impossible not to see you when your bed is just above mine ;). We've learned to know each other's hearts and we've accepted who we are now. It's beautiful how we can't hide things from each other. I may lie to you and you may act like you believed my lie but in the end I'll find out that you knew I was lying. I dunno why I even try to lie to you when you know me too well. Hehe.. I love the fact that I can't lie to you. Funny thing is, every time I want to lie to you I will always forget that you'd knew if it was a lie. Then I end up saying the same thing, "I memang x blh tipu u kan?". Well, it's no fun when you can't lie but to be honest...I feel so grateful to have someone who knows me that well. Back in high school I remember keeping things to myself from my best friend and until the moment I opened my mouth she wouldn't know what happened. I kept the secret for a year and when I finally blurted it out both of us were crying. You see...that won't happen between us. When something is wrong with me, I don't even have to say anything! Y0u'd already know why I'm sad or not okay. Do you know how lucky I am to have you?

Some people say when a person is not expressive, you can't really tell what's going on in their mind. You won't know until they say it. But then again, since they're not expressive how can you expect them to say anything? Well, I have a friend who is not expressive and I do not find it hard to realise how much she loves me. Sometimes it's not words that tell how much one person loves us. It's d small things that they do. Like when you kept quiet every time I'm asleep. You were crying, needed a hug but bcoz I'm sleeping you stayed silent. Or when you were mad at me, you could have screamed to my face but you stayed silent bcoz you didn't wanna hurt me. Or the fact that you tried so hard to make my birthday wish come true although it's not easy.. These small things are the words that you utter silently to me although you didn't realise it. So don't ever think that I don't know how much you care about me.

I had this dream when I was sleeping next to you. You were walking, eyes fixed on the floors and you looked so sad at that time. Yet, you tried to show that you're strong. I dunno why everything was so emotional in my dream. I ran to you and hugged you. I told you that I love you and you hugged me back. I was crying and saying sorry. I knew I didn't do anything wrong to you at that time but I was saying sorry because I couldn't do anything to make you happy. I knew you were sad and I felt bad that I couldn't do anything to help ease your heart. Those tears felt real and I couldn't forget the feeling that I had at that time. I feel so sad and I wish I could bring your pain away but I couldn't. Then you said, "babe, you buat mcm ni mcm kite gaduh pulak". So I stopped hugging you. When I woke up, my heart was beating so fast. I saw your face and that's when I realised that I really love you so much. I syg gilak kat you babe..!

We've been through thick and thin. We've shared our tears, laughter and darkest secrets. After all that we've been ventured I just wanna thank you for always being there. I know in love and friendship we don't have to say sorry or thank you but I kinda disagree with that statement. I think that it is not wrong to want to appreciate your friend and say thank you. It's not wrong to feel bad that you did something wrong and say sorry. So here's a thank you from me for being a true friend to me. I've never thought I could be blessed with such beautiful friendship. And also an apology for the times when I hurt you or made you cry. I hate the fact that we always hurt the ones we love the most. I'm sorry for hurting you without even realising and cause you to cry. Just remember this one thing, I do not want anything else from you...I only want this friendship to blossom till the end of time. I love you babe =)