School's starting again...and it sucks.

School will start again on 20 April 2009.

On the day of my birthday.

Such bad luck isn't it?

I am not looking forward it.

Yes, I know that it's a blessing to actually be able to study when tons of kids are not able to afford to do so.

Still, I can't help being in a bad mood about it.

Just let me rant, will you?

BoA I Did It For Love MV

After much long wait and several delays, BoA's I Did It For Love MV Full Version is finally up! Check it out below.

BoA - I Did It For Love (featuring Sean Garrett)


BoA - I Did It For Love (featuring Sean Garrett)Sing Along


According to boajjang.com, the reason of the delay is as below.

BoA's long awaited music video of her 2nd single "I Did It For Love" has finally been released! The music video has been delayed again and again. Rumors had it that the reason why it was taking so long was because the video was going through editing to make sure it came out great. But was the long wait worth it for BoA fans? Hell yes!

The theme of the music video is water, mystique, and black. Whereas the teaser gave us "mystique" and "black", we can finally understand the water concept! BoA and co. disappears and reappears into water before our very eyes. There's so much to say about this music video, but we'll let you see for yourself.

In my opinion, this I Did It For Love MV is certainly tons better than the Eat You Up MV directed by Diane Martel. The water and the fan is the coolest part of the MV.

Just check out the different MV for Eat You Up by Diane Martel and Cha Eun Taek respectively. I prefer the Cha Eun Taek version.

BoA - Eat You Up Directed by Diane Martel


BoA - Eat You Up Directed by Cha Eun Taek


They have also released a exclusive version which is the Eat You Up Directed by Cha Eun Taek without the special effects I think...I think that the main motive of that was to for people to focus on her dancing.

BoA - Eat You Up (Exclusive Ver.)


Eat You Up by BoA Sing Along


What do you think of it? =D

BoA album songs with lyrics in videos.

That's right!

Since it's such a bore searching for lyrics, and posting the lyrics directly here will take up a lot of space, I have found videos with songs and lyrics in the videos itself so you can just sing along with it.

The songs below are all from the album BoA, by Korean singer BoA. All the songs are in order to the tracks in the album.

1) I Did It For Love by BoA


2) Energetic by BoA


3) Did Ya by BoA


4) Look Who's Talking by BoA
No videos with lyrics in it yet.

5) Eat You Up by BoA


6) Obsessed by BoA


7) Touched by BoA


8) Scream by BoA
No videos with lyrics in it yet.

9) Girls On Top by BoA, English


10) Dress Off by BoA, English
No videos with lyrics in it yet.

11) Hypnotic Dancefloor by BoA, English


Enjoy! =D

P.S I will update on this post when there's new videos with lyrics in it for those missing songs!

New blog skin!

Hi ya everyone!

I am sure that you should have notice it the moment you came into this little blog of mine. If you didn't you should really go and see a doctor to get your eyes checked!

I have finally changed my blog skin. That's right! After using that Gaara blog skin for more than a year, it's getting as little deary here so I have decided to search for my new blog skin.

Initially, I had wanted to get an Inuyasha blog skin but I couldn't find one that I love. I remembered that there used be pages and pages of Inuyasha blog skin so imagined my surprise when I saw that there were only four or five pages of Inuyasha blog skins!

I couldn't find any Doraemon blog skins that I really love either.

Oh well...

Thus, when I saw this really cute Tsubasa Chronicle skin, I just had to get it! The image is Sakura and Syaoran when they were young. aren't they cute?

I have changed the song of the blog from Hero by Mariah Carey to Bittersweet by Within Temptation. Bittersweet is a really beautiful song and I hope that you people will agree with me after you have listened to it! =D

As compared to my last blog skin, this is a more cheerful and colourful one. What do you think about it? Please do tag at my tag board and tell me what you think!

=^0^=

Tadas~

BoA's songs are perfect for Twilight?

When I first heard BoA's songs "Eat You Up" and "Scream", I didn't give much thoughts to it. Especially the song "Eat You Up" since I didn't really like it the moment I heard it. I have to admit that it's catchy though and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

However, while I was scrolling through the videos of BoA's "Eat You Up", trying to find one with lyrics, I noticed the comments saying that it was perfect song for Twilight and that it should earn a place in the soundtrack for New Moon or something. That goes for the same thing when I read the comments for BoA's song "Scream".

I was like, "That's right! Why didn't I notice it before?", I guess I could blame it on me not being a Twilight fan. I am not saying that I hate twilight. It's just that I had never ever had the urge to want to read the series.

Well, let's get back to topic.

With that in mind, I searched YouTube for fan made videos for Twilight using BoA's song "Eat You Up" and not surprisingly, I had found quite a few. I watched through several videos using clips from the movies and below is the fan made video I like best. The lyrics for Eat You Up is also posted for reference. Besides that, I had also found a "Eat You Up" cover by one of the Youtubers, Natalie White, and I think that she's really good at it. (Maybe due some credit to her professional equipment.) She was also on the Korean program Star King. See below for videos as such!

Eat You Up Twilight fan Made video by Embracelet*NOT ME*


"Eat You Up" - Boa (pumashock's "twilight" remix)

Eat You Up by BoA Lyrics
When I first saw you I knew nothing's like it used to be
Boy you have got to be the finest thing in history
The way I feel inside is just so hard to understand
You feed my appetite in ways I can't explain

*Chorus*
I'll eat you up
(Your love, your love~)
I'll eat you up
(Your love, your love~)
(Woah)
I'll eat you up
(Woah)
So yum yum
(Woah)
Can't get enough
(Woah oh oh)
I think I'm in love

If you move any closer boy there is no guarantee
What I will do to you I fear it and it's scaring me
Like I've become some kind of demon in the night
You look so tasty I could eat you up alive

*Chorus* X2

Can't stop thinking 'bout the things I wanna do to you
If you move any closer you'd be asking for it too
I want your love
I need your touch
So much I think I'm in love

(oooh woah)
I'll eat you up
(Your love, your love~)
(Woah)
I'll eat you up
(Woah)
So yum yum
(Woah)
Can't get enough
(Woah oh oh)
I think I'm in love

I wanna take you to my room
(I'll eat you up)
Wanna take you to my room
(I'll eat you up)

(Woah)
I'll eat you up
(Woah)
So yum yum
(Woah)
Can't get enough
(Woah oh oh)
I think I'm in love

(I'll eat you up) X8

Pumashock(Natalie White) @ Star King


Not to forget BoA's another song, "Scream" is an more obvious choice for vampire related movies. Just check out the lyrics below and you will understand why.

BoA - Scream


Original Song by Monrose


Scream Lyrics

Underneath a setting sun
Something wicked your way comes
Who am I? Just a dream
Sent to take you, shake you, make you scream

Try to see - there - behind my eyes
Be in me - ah - you're hypnotized
Such a moon - rare - we shouldn't waste
Very soon - ah - I'll have a taste

Should I let you awaken?
I can't resist!
Look around you
You're forsaken

*Chrous*
You scream
But there's nobody to hear
It doesn't matter
It's only you and me and all of your fears
So scream
A Halloween serenade
Illusions shattered
Wait 'til you're really afraid
You're gunna - ah - ah!

Run and hide - please - from my embrace
In the night - ah - I love a chase
Tell me no - tease - before we kiss
Nice and slow - ah - I live for this

Should I let you remember?
I can't resist!
Gunna haunt you forever

*Chrous*

Underneath the setting sun
Something wicked your way comes
Who am I? Just a dream
Sent to take you, shake you, make you scream

Try to see - deep - behind my eyes
Destiny - ah - won't be denied
Don't you know - sweet - you're what I need
Flesh and bone - ah - you're gunna bleed

Should I let you awaken?
I can't resist!
Look around you
You're forsaken

*Chrous* X2

P.S If everything goes smoothly, by rights, I am going out with a friend tomorrow...it's shopping time! =D

Upcoming books release from Scott Westerfeld

Anyone who knows me well enough will know that Scott Westerfeld is my favourite author. I was browsing through his blog today and was delighted to find a new post. It's been a week since he had last posted.

The new post features information on what he will be doing for this year and I saw the release date for Leviathan, a new series from Scott Westerfeld himself . I had read the sneak preview from Bogus to Bubbly and it certainly looks promising. It's going to be released on 6 October 2009.

Plus, not to forget that he revealed that on 28 October 2009, The Collector's Set, which is a collection of all the books in the UGLIES Series, will be released! UGLIES is my all time favourite series so this is a great news for me! To be able to own all in a box! Check out the cover below:


Some time ago, he also release the UGLIES Boxed Set(see below) containing the books UGLIES, PRETTIES and SPECIALS. Frankly speaking, as a fan, I would like to collect it as well for the cover and also the exclusive content inside.



Since my birthday is coming in a few weeks, here's an appeal to my dear friends.

Hi all!

If you are planning to get me a birthday present, how about considering Kinokuniya book vouchers? After all, you wouldn't have to wonder about which specific items to get me and I am able to get the books I want. It's a win win situation! LOL!

=D

Many thanks in advance! =P

+-+ miko kagome+-+

While I was at Popular today, I accidentally topple over a boxed sushi recipe book that contains free chopsticks, sauce plate and rolling mat as well. In an attempt to save it, I accidentally pushed my thumb against it and my nail broke. Argh. There was a little blood and luckily for me, the part where it broke wasn't too deep in and at least the sushi recipe set wasn't harmed or I will have to pay for it. >.<

I wanted to start making those felt cookies yesterday but I couldn't find my serrated shears. Where has it gone to? I remember getting one when I was in Secondary One for Home Economics...but I search for it where I had remembered storing it, at least I thought I had, I couldn't find it. Perhaps it's tucked away some where in the pile of books in the book shelf...oh well...I will find it (hopefully) when I do my "Spring Cleaning". If not, I will have to get another one...*sigh*

Tampines 1 Website is UP!

The usual website only held previews of the tenants, facilities etc. However, when I went into the website today, it's up and running with all the directory and stuff.

Check it out here!

Where's my sound???

It's incredibly frustrating for me, to turn on the computer, launch Windows Media Player, happily playing the sounds that I love to listen to, then when I visit any websites that includes flash videos,e.g. YouTube, the videos are working fine but there's no audio at all.

From the comments, I deduced that it's to be my computer at fault as nobody else had complained on the lack of audio.

That was perplexing indeed. After all, all the music programs were playing out the audio without any problem. The problem only occur when flash videos are at work.

I checked my computer for mute, tinkering around with the volume control and speaker. I even pulled out the speaker and re-install everything. The problem was not solved.

That aggravate me. I decided to consult the help the of the mighty Internet. With a search, I found a website with instructions. I followed it and after that, I restarted my internet browser.

Thank goodness for that website! It works! The sound starts to flowing out of my speaker again.

The problem reoccur today. I decided to try the same thing again. It does solve the problem. However, I don't know what I will do if it doesn't work anymore...*sigh*

Ever since this problem occur, I started to be grateful whenever audio starts playing the moment I enters somebody's website. Although the music might not be my liking, at least I still have sound coming out of my speakers...

The website can be found here.

BoA to be released soon after it's release in U.S/BEST&USA release

I was sick with waiting around so I decided to find out the release dates with the help of Google. I was not entirely happy with what I had found but it was better than nothing.

Technically, the BEST & USA Japan edition is already out at HMV but with a expensive price, that's expected for Japan products. The BEST & USA 2CD+2DVD edition, at ¥5,300, it coverts to around Singapore $80. 0.0|||

It's best waiting for the overseas edition as it will be much cheaper than the Japan edition.

According to several websites, there's no exact date for BoA to be released in Asia but it's expected to be soon.

The self-titled album will also be released in Korea and Japan Wednesday and in China, Malaysia, India, Singapore and Thailand later.

Source: The Korea Times

宝儿进军美国的首张专辑《BoA》将在中国、泰国、新加坡、印尼等10多个国家发行销售，同时还将通过亚洲、北美、欧洲、大洋洲等30多个国家和地区的300多个网站依次提供服务。

[Translated version: BoA's debut album, "BoA", as an attempt to enter the United States markets, will be released in more than 10 countries such as China, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia. It will also simultaneously be available via more than 300 websites in 30 countries and regions, such as Asia, North America, Europe, Oceania.]

Source: GBoAfans

BoA is likely to have a concert tour in America in June too.

South Korea's top pop star BoA has unveiled a plan to make a concert tour of the United States in June.

In a recent interview with MTV Iggy in the U.S., BoA has selected Miami as her favorite destination for concerts.

BoA was quoted as saying, ``I like New York but I really want to go to Miami. Miami looked nice in the movie, like a paradise.''

In mid-March, BoA released her first U.S. album amid high expectations that she will be able to reenact her success story in Japan in the world's largest album market.

The album contains 11 songs including flagship song "I Did It For Love," and dance tracks "Energetic," "Eat You Up," and "Look Who's Talking." The flagship song was written by Sean Garrett, the famous American producer, and its video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who has made promos for Britney Spears, Chris Brown and Eminem and won the Best Video of the Year and Best Direction in the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.

BoA's album ranked 127th in the Billboard 200 Album Charts announced on March 26. It was the first time that a Korean singer had entered the Billboard chart.

Source: BoA's House

Plus, BoA's ranking of #127 in the Billboard 200 Album Charts was even better than Utada's best ranking of #160! That was quite surprising indeed.

Thus, unlike what many thought that BoA will not be released as an individual unit in Singapore, it will be, only that we will have to wait for a little while more.

However, frankly speaking, to get BEST & USA 2CD+2DVD will be a better choice if you want all the hits as well as the latest single songs and also her USA album.

After doing a search via the trusty Google, I had found some information on the exact release date for BEST & USA. That's better since as compared to BoA which has no definite date for release, BEST & USA is stated to be release on Thursday, 9 April 2009.

That's right!

BEST & USA is stated to be release on Thursday, 9 April 2009.

I had found this piece of delightful information from Avex Asia Website.

Refer to picture below as prove. Look at the upcoming release section and you will see BoA-BEST&USA.

Click to enlarge.


According to the others, unlike Avex Taiwan which only took care of its market, Avex Asia will distribute it all over Asia. I certainly hope so! If that's so, then I can expect BEST&USA 2CD+2DVD in stores on Thursday, 9 April 2009!

What a coincidence by the way, that I happen to go out on that day. All the better to get it the moment it arrives! =D

HOT!!!!!!!

I popped into the CD-RAMA today and just as I had guessed, there's no sight of BoA even though it was already released in Taiwan. Expected but yet, I was disappointed. After all, if BoA does come to shores, it does means that BEST & USA 2CD+2DVD edition will be following it's tracks soon. I shall wait until Tuesday, April 7, 2009, which is the date for the physical album release in Canada. Sure, Canada is so far away but still, if BoA doesn't reaches the shore soon, it means trouble for us fans. I hope that BEST & USA isn't exclusive for sales in Japan only. After all, the Best of Soul was available in Singapore.

...

The scorching heat is almost unbearable! My house feels like an oven and I can't do anything about it since with air-condition means rising electricity bills. It was even worse outside. You can't do without an umbrella these days with the blisterig heat from the Sun. I had just ate a ice-cream but it doesn't actually quench my thirst as I had hoped for. Perhaps a cold drink would be better but except for milk, there's none other choices to choose from. I do drink milk but sadly, the milk carton doesn't belong to me and if I do finish it, I would have to replace it. With my current state, I wouldn't want to spend more money on stuff since I am almost broke.

So it's back to plain, warm water for now.

I didn't sleep well this past few nights either. With the heat (I sleep with only the fan on) and the too thick blanket, it's hard to fall into a peaceful sleep. I get awoken easily, and now, even before my mother's alarm clock ring at 5.30am, I lay there, awake, waiting for the time to pass, until my brother had left for school which is around an hour later. That's when finally I will get a little sleepy and slowly drift back into sleep for another three hours before I get up and start my day.

My mother commented that if the day goes on with this unbearable heat, she will on the air-condition in the night. I do hope so.

I don't want another restless night again...

AH!

The comforts of the cooling air-condition!

Yes, I know that it's not earth friendly but still, it's better than losing sleep over it.

I am sorry, Mother Earth.

Tampines 1 OPENING! ~UNLEASH SHOPPING MADDNESS!~

I had just been to CD-RAMA again this morning. In the staff's eyes, I must look like some suspicious person to them, walking in and out, in and out of the store. While in reality, I am actually waiting for a chance when the staff is free so that I could ask he/she when the stock for BEST & USA is coming in.

Finally, after more than half an hour of walking aimlessly around the mall and checking on the shelves to see if BEST & USA is on the shelves, I saw my opportunity.

The female staff at the counter of CD-RAMA was free after the customer, who had bought lots of things, had left. Finally.

Upon hearing my question, she was stumped. It turns up that she was only standing in for a CD-RAMA staff that had left for lunch. Thus, she was not familiar with the items in CD-RAMA. She did try to help me though, after I had written down the name of the album and the singer on a piece of paper.

That started a session on rummaging through the shelves for the album even though I knew that it wouldn't be there. After all, I had done the same thing before, and the album certainly didn't appear right before my eyes.

After five minutes, she gave up and asked if I could come back when the staff has return from lunch. Since I have tons of free time on my hands, I agreed.

I took my time to return. After around ten minutes, that's five minutes more than the said time, I returned.

The actual staff for the CD-RAMA store has returned. It was another female. That suits me. After repeating the same question, she gave me the same answer that I had been hearing for so many times. No. When I questioned if she did know when will the stock arrive, she checked the "memo" (that was actually a pile of shrink down black and white slideshow featuring each album cover, singer and arrive date), and failed to find BEST & USA or even the debut eponymous English studio album, BoA. According to her, the "memo" was the latest one. Thus, by rights, if there were any news on BEST & USA. It would be in the future "memo". With that, she proceeded on taking out the list of contact numbers and details and asked me if I would like to put by name down. She promised that when the album arrive in store, she will call to inform me. When I told her I already had, she flipped through the contact list as an attempt to find me. Interestingly, I noted that there were much more names on the contact list, waiting for information on BEST & USA then before. After all, I was the first of that outlet to inquire about the album and to put my name down.

It's good to see that BoA does have fans like me, who wanted to get their hands on BEST & USA as fast as possible.

Tomorrow is the day of release for the album BoA in Taiwan. Since BoA was not found in the "memo", I supposed that when I proceed to the store tomorrow, I wouldn't be seeing it on the shelves.

How long I wonder, will I have to wait for BEST & USA? I supposed that if I had ordered it online, I would have gotten it by now.

My mother suggested me keeping a look out for it while shopping with a friend at Tampines 1. I was actually hoping that I could get it earlier so I could let her listen it as well. I had seen the list of some of the store that would be in Tampines 1 but I didn't notice any music stores on the list.

Oh well, I will see when I get there.

Speaking of Tampines 1, for those who are still in the dark, Tampines 1 is a new shopping mall currently under construction located between the Tampines MRT Station and Tampines Bus Interchange. The mall is slated to open in early 2009. For more information, read it up at Wikipedia and Tampines 1 Official Website.

Since there isn't any actual date for the opening of Tampines 1, I plan to visit the mall when UNIQLO opens. That is Thursday,9 April, 2009.

What's UNIQLO? UNIQLO is Japan’s leading clothing retail chain in terms of both sales and profits. The company also operates in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. The clothes they offer are mostly casual style. UNIQLO was labeled as Japan's version of Giordano. For more information, prices of some clothes they are selling, visit UNIQLO Singapore. So far, I think that the prices are extremely reasonable considering that they are a Japanese brand. As we know, Japan is famous for their high living standards, especially Tokyo. The prices are around the Giordano and Bossini range. Quite affordable though I do hope that they will hold a opening sale for better bargains!

No. Scratch that. I hope that all the stores in Tampines 1 will hold opening sales! I need all the bargains I am going to get.

Check out the UNIQLO Women's Jeans 2009 Spring/Summer New Collection "Colored Skinny" below. It's so cute! The pink color is nice...but hard to match...I am planning to get a pair of skinny jeans anyway...looks like I will have tons of fun trying it on.

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I had asked a friend along for this shopping trip although I am not sure if she will back out at the last minute, since she is notorious for doing so. I do hope that she will not do so ever again for that matter, even though it's too much to hope for that. My patience is stretching thin this days.

Gosh, I am getting sidetracked.

This shopping trip is required since, well, I am curious about the new mall and UNIQLO, and also due to the reason I am seriously lacking clothes for school after gaining four kilograms from slacking at home. I can't fit in almost all the bottoms. ARGH! Imagine my horror when I realized that. At least I am still underweight...I hate to admit but I am getting seriously unfit though. I can't afford to lose my walking speed. I got to exercise more now. >.<

Thus, this is seriously going to be a hardcore shopping trip. All hail! Fear the shopping demon within me!

Where does the money come from? My mother of course. Thankfully, she had enough wisdom to set aside some money for me to spend on new clothes. I hope that I will have enough money to get all the items I require.

So far, here's my shopping list for school:

-In no particular order-

1)MORE CLOTHES!
2)A new pair of white Loli-able ballet flats/mary janes(that's low-heeled)
3)New bag for school
4)Laptop sleeve
5)Boots

Looks easy but difficult to get the items that I totally heart.

I didn't have a chance to totally splurge out on tons of new clothes and shoes before. This is going to be fun.

I had borrowed UGLIES and Bogus to Bubbly again since I need ideas for the Fan made UGLIES movie poster. I had already submitted some ideas yesterday but I think that the ideas are not original enough. Thus, this led it to the need to read it again for ideas. How will it turn out I wonder?

I had also borrowed Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils(天龙八部) DVD from my uncle. After all, I could always watch Inuyasha since I own it but to have a chance to watch Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils(天龙八部) is rare.

Hmm...that's all for today. Let's hope that the shopping trip will go on successfully without a hitch and please let BEST & USA be released soon!

BEST & USA 2CD+2DVD...still is missing in action.

It's officially two weeks after BEST & USA release and I still can't find it in CD-RAMA. I heard that it's due to Avex not confirming with them. I wish that they would just hurry up! I can't wait to get my hands on the album! I wonder if I would have gotten it before my outing on Thursday,9 April, 2009, to Tampines 1*. Sources has it that it will be released on Friday, 3 April, 2009.

*To be said in another upcoming post.

Anyway, I am bored so I am going to post all the tracks of the English album, BoA, here, in order. I will not post the lyrics here as it will take up a lot of space. Double click the video itself and the lyrics can be found on the comment box at your right hand side. Just click "More info" to see the lyrics. I didn't post or create any of the videos. Enjoy listening!

By the way, the lyrics to Look Who's Talking was co-written by Britney Spears along with others. That's why the song sounds a little like Britney Spears kind of song.

01.I Did It For Love(featuring Sean Garrett)


02. Energetic


03. Did Ya


04. Look Who's Talking


05. Eat You Up


06. Obsessed


07. Touched


08. Scream


09. Girls On Top


10. Dress Off


11. Hypnotic Dancefloor


Which song(s) do you like best? Post in tag board and let me know! =D