ash and NEWS

it's 7 in the morning and i'm awake. ohaio gozaimasu.

i just got home from the mass. it's Ash Wednesday today. for Catholics, like me, it marks the beginning of Lent. imposition of ashes, in a form of a cross, reminds us that from ashes we came and to ashes we will go. since my mom and sister won't be able to hear mass in the evening, we attended the early morning mass, with my youngest brother, who's lazier than me in waking up early in the morning. it's quite refreshing to be up in the morning, but i'm really, really sleepy. will just wait for an hour before going back to bed. or i might fall asleep while driving my mom and sister to work. 


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the following i typed before going to bed 3 hours ago.


just when i thought my laptop's going back to its old shape, it restarted once again. it's been ok for 2 days. working as it should be; getting a few hours of rest 'coz no one's home and it's frickin' hot nowadays during the day. i knew i should've told my youngest brother to stay away from it until it functions normally. demmit! it errored and i needed to restart it; and after a few hours of being on, it restarted on its own. demmit! i'm actually like observing it.

nways, thanks to Cami for finally directing me where to d/l con mp3s of NEWS. (since KAT-TUN's MIA, NEWS is keeping me company.) i'm listening with the solos now. just finished Ryo's. what can i say... i'm actually surprised. i'm used in listening to screamo songs, or the likes, but i totally didn't expect Ryo to do some screaming, sort of, in any of the solo songs he would sing. ah-ah! not that i don't want him to sing songs of the like. it's just that, totally unexpected. guess i really i don't know him after all. well, not that i really know him. i know he listens to Nirvana and i do listen to their songs as well. so yeah, there's a part of him that is rockish! totally love it. :D i just hope he won't lose his voice like he did with the KANJANI8 tour last December. Ryo-chan, ganbatte ne. you rock, Sexy Osaka Man. 

ETA: Cami also mentioned that Ryo played the guitar while singing his solo. ok! like a real rockstar! i wanna see!

Pi's solo just finished. ah! love the slow, short version of Seishun Amigo and Daite Senorita. it's always good to listen to re-arranged songs. his new solo isn't bad at all. actually, it's really nice. i wish there's some fancam. i'm really a new NEWS fan so i'm pretty much amateur with how they usually do their solos. 

ETA: new solo intro reminds me of Akaku.

it's now Tego's turn. wow! this guy's really pwning me even more. his voice is really powerful, ne. i don't know the 'old' lyrics of his song so i can't really tell much about how good or bad the lyrics is now. all i know is that Tego sung it in such that i can somehow feel the 'pain' that his song is conveying. i just don't like one part of it. i think he went kinda off the tune. but then again, i'm no NEWS authority. don't hate me, ok? i really, honestly, love Tego. he's like in my hotlist now. forget about age! lol

Shige's. why am i getting the impression that it's like for old people. lol maybe i'm expecting something like rock from Shige. i don't know. i don't really know much about him, except that his j-web entries are really amusing and entertaining. but just by the way he looks, i was expecting something like a rock song. ohwell... maybe i'm not really just a fan of the kind of song he sung. nevertheless, his voice is really good. i think all of the NEWS members have nice voice.

Massu's just ended. just like that. really! i'm like, it ended already?! lol i say it's more like JE-pop. i mean, those pop songs that JE boys would sung solo. singing while dancing to the beat. just like Tego, this little boy's got some powerful voice as well. he and Tego are like really good. i mean, i've watched old clips of them, when they're younger, and their voices really stand out. i mean, like only little voice training is needed.

Koyama's. OMG! i can't believe i missed out downloading his solo. me bad! and my internet's having trouble now. will download it later in the morning. ETA: there's no Koyama solo link. guess i'll listen to the whole con later.

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i'll restart my laptop again later, when it's done burning the HYD2 clips and converting Tokyo Tower - 06. it has no sound. damn! nways, i can hear, loud and clear, Takuya. my mom has her player on while in the kitchen early in the morning. later then. ja ne!