I'm not really -back- back, but I'm a uni with another 3 hours to kill so I thought I may as well post. ...Hmm, I guess you can take this as me coming back? Even though this is waaaaaay earlier than I thought it'd be. (I mean, come on, who officially announces hiatus and then posts 3 days later?). We'll just take this as a boredom post, while still on semi-hiatus or something ok.

I've been at uni since 8.30am. I do not have class till 1pm. All for free parking, how screwed up is that? I should be doing some Jap catch up work, but I'm barely awake and functioning so yeah.

RL has been mediocre or sucky with some spazzy days thrown in between thanks to fandom, not really much to talk about. I'm failing a Chinese subject again. I failed last year and I really don't know what I'm gonna do if I fail it again. Will I lose my place in the course? My exchange change? I don't even know. I don't want to think about it though. I'll just fall deeper into depression.

But thankfully, fandom has been absolutely awesome these past few weeks to make up for my sucky RL. Since most of it old news, I'll just put a little list of the things that have made me squealed/happy in fandom:
{&} Summer Time PV & Performance. The smiles and the dorkiness has been putting smiles on my face for the past weeks.
{&} Queen of Pirates. 'Nuff said. This is probably what broke my main hiatus. I am just dying for this album to come out. SIX SENSES!
{&} Don't U Ever Stop PV preview. lveaddkt called me at 8.30am in the morning to spazz about it. I was still sleeping. xD Can't wait for the full thing. Anyone know when it's due to air? I can't find any info on it from Johnnys.net. I will slot my love for the solo's in here too. I dun even know why. ♥ xD
{&} Shige's April Fool joke on Koyama. xDD
{&} Ohkura on the latest Janiben. So adorb. ♥
{&} The Spring drama season. Unexpected love: Osen. I love it. So frikken gorgeous. I love Uchi and Aoi is so good in her role. I've tried everything I said I'd watch, except Hokaben (and Change but that's cuz it hasn't aired yet). Shige looks hot in those specs but I haven't got the space to download it yet. I'm liking Miura in Gokusen 3 too. Rookies was much better than I anticipated. I bawled watching the first ep. I was watching it on the kitchen table. Grams was cooking and looking at me like "WTF is wrong with you!?". xD I love Last Friends too. I have bawled my eyes out in every ep except the 1st, which I think is due to all the previews I watched more than anything. I managed to catch the last 15 or so minutes of last night's ep and I was crying and my door was open and mum could hear my all the way down the hall in the living room. Also another "WTH are you doing?!" moment. I seem to have a lot of those at home.

Ok, and probably a million other little things which have slipped my mind.

( And because I'm a sheep, a meme before I go )

ETA: Happy belated birthday to lveaddkt and Koyama! xD I've got lveaddkt's 21st to go to tonight. :D

After lvaddkt exclaimed to me that I hadn't posted in a long time, I thought I'd post a short note to say that yes, I am alive and I am sorry for going on such a long and totally unannounced hiatus. ;_; How is everyone? I've missed you guys. This is just a short note, but I hope to go back to my normal posting very soon, maybe in a couple of weeks. Things have been a bit unsettled with me, not to mention uni, so I sorta fell out of the blogging loop.

Huge hugs to 4_03_am, acchikocchi, ashkt, mainichi_muri, winterspel, hitomito, and yamaperfection for the wonderful birthday wishes. They were unexpected and totally made my day. Thank you. (I hope I haven't forgotten anyone, forgive me!)

Happy note: I have well and truly converted lvaddkt into being a JE fangirl. She, who used to laugh at me and look at me like I'm a nut when I fangirled and spazzed, is now even crazier than I am. I think I made her into a nutcase. But its okay, when she's calmed down a little, its another addition to the KAT-TUN & K8 fandom. (I'm working on NewS & Arashi.) ^_^

I really am sorry for not posting for so long, I swear I'll be back soon! I still try to read my flist, but my comments are scarcer than scarce, sorry. Take care, guys and thanks for sticking with me. <3 ♥

P.s I can be contacted at autumnjaide@gmail.com if anyone wants to drop me a line. I have my email on more often than MSN so that's the way to go. ^^

Talk to you guys soon! *giant hugs*

( Happy Birthday guys! And as usual from me, some not so great banners xD )

I'm near dead from the heat here, so I haven't been bothered to do anything. Thank you to everyone who wished me well with uni, it's the start of 3rd week tomorrow and I'm doing okay. I'm sorry I haven't been replying to comments. Laziness is not something I have been able to cure myself of yet.

Really tired, hopefully try to post again tomorrow. Oh, note: I am almost done uploading all my trip photos. They should be ready by the end of the week. More antics from me in the next post, including karaoke last weekend, the fail that is my spending addiction and approximately 7 parcels. Love you all. <33 ♥

..again? *sigh* Will it help?

I've been really out of it lately. How come wallowing at home is so easy to fall back into? I felt so good coming home from my holiday and now, not even one month later I've fallen back into the pit that I was in beforehand. Uni starts tomorrow and I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I am determined to make this year a better year to make up for the dismal failure 2007 was for me, so hopefully being occupied and establishing a routine again will help me pick it up.

And I feel like I should give it my all. I feel like I'll need awhile to adjust and see how things go. But you never know, if things go well I may be back tomorrow with a bubbly happy post... maybe. If not.. then I may seriously take a break. Even though I know I can't stay away from fandom. I just need some serious pulling-myself-together action going on I think. In any case, I'll leave any drastic decisions till I at least see how first week goes. I'm a little at a lost right now, so thoughts may be a bit of a jumble. Hopefully my next entry can be a happy-this-will-be-an-awesome-semester sorta rant instead of a omg-kill-me-now-so-i-don't-have-to-do-that-again sorta rant.

My timetable doesn't look too bad, and you can't even tell I'm doing an extra unit. Only thing that sucks is the Thursday class. >.<; If it weren't Jap, you can bet on me wanting to skip it.. a lot.
( Timetable )
Yosh! Ganbarimasu~

Fandom note: I watched a couple of minutes of Hey!x3 streaming a little earlier. Just.. WTF are those lyrics Tegoshi? xD I only watched a couple of minutes since I'm running low on bandwidth but it looked hilarious, there were smiles all around. But some of those lyrics.. xD Tegoshi's all grown up.. and apparently do-M to boot. :D

Alright I'm off to bed now to get up at 6am tomorrow. ♥ everyone.

{♥} So I decided to do this last minute and I doubt I'd get many replies but if you have the time to leave me a note, that would be awesome. I could do with a pick-me-up. :)

{♥} Just came home from Crown's CNY celebrations. It wasn't too bad. Although there really wasn't much to do and we had to keep track of all the kids in case we lost them in the throngs of people.

{♥} Somebody shoot me. I caved the other day and called kanga and ordered..eight magazines. That's right, eight. WTF, Sarah?! There goes all my New Year's money. I have like.. ZERO self-control. I'm so surprised I came home from my trip with money left over.

{♥}( The Handwritten Meme )

{♥} Also, this new thing with LJ putting a giant tag button table wherever there's typing space is starting to annoy me. That's it.

{★} Just dying to see the Taiyou no Namida PV. The Zoomin Preview is driving my nuts. I wanna squeel at the rain and the clothes and the dancing and dorky!Pi in glasses, with the papercups again. Can't wait. Am stalking CB now. (I will ignore the fact that yamaperfection posted caps from the PV. If I ignore it, it will stop taunting me. Y/y?)
ETA: OMG OMG I -SWEAR- I'm waiting patiently for the full PV. I SWEAR. No one can see me fuss and fidget and go-nearly-insane from refreshing. So yeah, totally waiting patiently. asdfjkla;!

{★} I'm loving Kame right now. 1Pound and all his recent promos has made me love him so much more than I did. He was so cute in the Making of Lips. I loved his and Koki's little acapella jam session with Nakamaru. I uploaded it (streaming) for anyone who's interested.

{★} The thought of a KAT-TUNxKanjani8 Cards Tournament makes me super happy. By this I mean, Nakamaru said on Hey!x3 that before Countdown, Jin, Junno, Yoko, Hina, Subaru and Toma all hung out at his place and played cards for like 6 hours between rehearsals and the real thing. Anyone wanna write me fic? *innocent smile*

{★} I received a package from ihearyourtears today! Thank you! Totally unexpected, and totally made my day. I absolutely love getting mail, you should see me when I get mail. Much love to everyone who sent me something! And lots of love to everyone else, I hope you all received my cards properly. Knowing me, I could've put the wrong address or something.
Thank you to acchikocchi, who not only sent me a card, the card contained Pin ficlet. Totally awesome. Thank you to nozomi_chan, who sent an awesome metal beaded Chrissie deco with her card. Thank you so much also to chibi_news, mainichi_muri, surealistic_des who sent me hand-made cards. Totally beats my hastily store-bought ones. I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. If I have, please to kick me.

{★} I finally got my hands onto all my holiday photos! Fi came by with her laptop after work and transferred them all over to me. Guess what? One month = 4500+ photos = ~3.8Gigs. I think it'll take me awhile to organise it out enough for me to start posting. I mean, over four THOUSAND. Just.. I had no idea. Plus a couple hundred were deleted both on the trip and when we came back. Well, I swear I will get to it as soon as I have time after Chinese New Year.

{★} Having said that, Happy Chinese New Year~! to all those on my flist who celebrate it!

{★} Oh, also: Had dinner and a beach trip with the uni friends the other night. Hadn't seen everyone in a month! lvaddkt, surealistic_des, maiaki, melbhghsku: I'm uploading all the photos in a zip and posting a post on my photos blog (tsuiokunokoto). It should be up by tonight or the lastest tomorrow morning.

Got back to Oz this afternoon after 3 train and 2 plane rides from yesterday in Japan. Sooo tired. Was meant to come home and conk out but the kids kept me entertained so I've made it this far.

It's so hot here at home! I went from 3deg in Osaka last night to arriving back amidst 28deg Melbourne weather. Still adjusting. Kicked my giant jacket into the corners of my wardrobe.

Okay so I have heaps to do like unpack and slowly get back into the whole home routine but I will be updating my photojournal with pics and info of my trip (as soon as I can collect up all the photos scattered over 2 cameras and 4 SD cards) so look forward to that, and a waaaaay overdue layout.

Gonna leave some downloads running to start chipping at the iceberg of all the stuff I've missed. Then going to bed. It's 11.30pm and I think I need to sleep for a couple of days. >.<;

Hope everyone is well! Lotsa hugs to you guys, thanks for the lovely comments~ <33

+ Oh! There's also a pile of post waiting for me too! I can see a few cards, I'll properly thank you guys when I sort through them~ ♥

Just a quick hello to everyone! I've missed you guys all so much, no time to even check friends list, checked my email and now theres a stack of people waiting to use this hotels TWO computers so gotta go very soon! I promise I will be back sometime during the week for a proper post and further more, pictures!

I just arrived in Japan a earlier this evening from Hong Kong and the sightseeing should start tomorrow! Look forward to posts again people! <33 ♥ ♥ ♥

Hope everyone is well! <33 Talk soooon!

『★』 Haven't been able to update since I have no bandwidth and it's just a pain in the butt trying to load everything. I only looked at my flist once in the last couple of days since it takes so long. This will be the last entry I make in Australia for the next month. One more day! :D

『★』 Also, Merry Christmas~ I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. I sent out about 30 Christmas cards a couple of days ago, 17 of which were for my flist who left their addys. I'm really sorry for the international people since their cards won't arrive till after Christmas cuz I left it a little late. So sorry. D: I've received surealistic_des & chibi_news' cards. Thank you guys so much! They're so gorgeous. I wish I had time to make everyone handmade cards too~ Mine are so plain and rushed. ;_; I'll make up it next year.

『★』 Notice to everyone: Livejournal is unaccessible in China so I won't be able to check flist etc for 3 weeks. In the meantime, I will update photos and notes when I can on my Facebook. So feel free to add me and leave me a note. I will most likely jump back on LJ when I'm in Hong Kong/Japan. So yeah, add me on Facebook or you can also email me. I will check it when I can.

『★』 I finally received my Yesasia package! The shiny that is 47 and the photobook and cartoon KAT-TUN II you managed to cheer me up after one really horrible day. I was rushing around in the city all day in the horrible humidity, got a parking fine because stupid me paid the meter for the wrong frikken parking bay, got attitude and abused by a lady for something that I couldn't do anything about, got lost and then got stuck in the pouring rain. Twice. Yeah, not a good day. But JE shiny managed to make it so I didn't go to bed pissed.

『★』 Leaving on this note, everyone take care of yourselves and enjoy your Christmas and New Year. Keep in contact with me so I don't feel so lost and lonely without my flist for so long. xD
Will miss you guys! ♥ ♥ ♥

『★』 ASDKJGKDJHAG;GDFJKGHDGA!1!! KUROSAGI TRAILER! (scroll down) OMFG!! I'M GONNA DIE WAITING TO SEE THIS!! I can't even think straight right now. It's just so.. aljhdkghdkaj!!! HOW CAN A ONE POINT FIVE MINUTE CLIP MANAGE TO AFFECT ME SO FRIKKEN MUCH! I lol-ed at his wigs and stuff but just omfg, Yamapi.. and that Jack Sparrow shot nearly killed me from laughter.



Just.. I -need- to see this. I- jadkha;g;agaeklrkgaelrg. /keysmashing

{↓ I wrote this first then slotted that ↑ in, so the tone is different xD}

『★』 Gyaa been so bloody restless these days. I need to do something instead of just waiting. Only ten.more.frikken.days. *__*

『★』 Enrolment went okay. Got everything done in an hour. Luckily I didn't have any trouble with my subjects. I'll be doing ten units next year, instead of the usual eight. Five units per semester. Geezus, I hope I can handle it. But I am seriously prepared to work reeeeeeaaally hard next year. I -need- to, for Japan in 2009. I will get through it.

『★』 Fiona's back from her China study tour. Hearing her stories make me want to go on one. My exchange will be so different. She went with like 20-30 people from her course and they did lectures and sightseeing together in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. So cool.

『★』 I was reading back through some of my older entries the other day. (Excuse the jumping between topics.) I realised that I used to do a lot more fandom related entries and lately have only been doing RL entries. I always want to do fandom entries but they take so much effort. I may pick up on that.. well probably not now but once I come back from my trip. Having said that, I am working on a scans post at the moment. Scanned/scanning CanCam 2008-01 (theres an Ikemen section), Fine Boys (Ryo cover), and a new Oricon Style (Gakki cover). Will have that up in a day or so.

『★』 I don't usually do these but thought what the heck this time. I doubt I'll get many (if any) replies. But here's me at JE Epilogue Meme and JE Stalker Meme.

Now, have a wonderful morning/day/night everyone~! ♥

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, asinful & maiaki!

I have a million things swimming through my head at the moment that I want to say but I'm too restless to sit down and properly write up an entry. I can't seem to organise my thinking. My head feels like cotton wool. It's not like I'm sick or anything... just.. apathetic. Currently anyway.

I really need things to pick up. I'm basically wallowing at home everyday. Not healthy. And I'm missing Fiona like crazy. Never realised how big a part she plays in my life usually. Or maybe its the random nonsensical 3-5 hour chats on the phone when the both of us are bored (which is almost nearly every night). Chatted with her on MSN last night till 4am, with her telling me of her adventures in Beijing. She climbed the Great Wall and saw the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, and I am way jealous. Those things are on my To-do/see-before-I-die list.

I had a super emo post written up but I just had an hr or so chat with mum about Japan and traveling and preparation etc, and I sorta feel better after that. I'm back to being bored again now though. I have nearly no bandwidth and it's only the 11th and there's Yukan and Best Artist awards tonight. *sighs*

Ok, I'm off to do those Chrissie cards I promised everyone. It's still not too late to leave me your address if you haven't already! In fact, please do so~ ♥

Re-enrolment for uni tomorrow. Hope things go smoothly. *fingers crossed* More troubles with VU is the frikken last thing I need.

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Voice posts are fun, right? You get to hear funny accents if your friends are from far, far away. All we really want is to hear your voice, we don't care what you're saying. So here's a list of typical meme questions that would otherwise be boring, but when communicated aloud - well, it's entertaining. Answer these questions in your post, and encourage others with voice-posting abilities to do the same.

Snagged from ashkt.

1) What's your name?
2) How old are you?
3) Where are you from? Are you living there right now?
4) Is it cold where you are?
5) What's the time?
6) What are you wearing?
7) What was the last thing you listened to?
8) What was the last thing you ate?
9) What was the last thing you watched on tv?
10) What's your favorite tv show? Why?
11) Quick! Find a book, or something with text on it! Flip to a random page and read some of it! GO!
12) What was the last movie you saw? How was it?
13) Do YOU think you have an accent? Talk about that.

Omg, that was totally embarrassing. I'm horrible at speaking. The post is a LOT louder than the replay function when I was recording so I'm sorry for inflicting my voice on you guys at that level, I didn't expect it. I'm also a little sniffly too so apologies for that.

◆ I really need to get out and do something, but going out usually involves spending money and I really can't afford to go anymore of that. I think I may start to run under budget. But retail therapy sure works wonders (at least for awhile). I bought a 500gig external drive yesterday. It's my new baby. The one I wanted was in the brochure for $186 but they didn't have any left so the guy gave me the only other 500gig drive they had for that price. It was worth $250. I was so happy, new hard drive AND a bargain to boot. I really ought to stop though. I'm a little scared, I'm taking the kids shopping tonight 'cause they have a wedding coming up and I just -know- that I'm gonna end up buying something. ;_;

◆ Mum left for Thailand on Wednesday! I'm next~ 25 days and counting! I'm really excited. Hit a hitch yesterday though. I had honestly thought we had everything booked and paid for. Turns out I had forgotten to purchase travel insurance for me and my grandparents. Crap! This was meant to be done weeks ago! My credit card has not arrived in the mail yet so I have to borrow my stepdad's credit card since mum's not home. Will do that tomorrow once my bandwidth resets (I don't trust doing any sort of transaction with my dodgy bandwidth atm).

◆ So, not having bandwidth for nearly 2 weeks is a real killer. All the stuff that everyone on my flist is talking about, I haven't watched yet. KAT-TUN's Con DVD, ctKT, Yukan Club, Utaban (lol all Kat-tun related), and Muchaburi/Janiben etc. I haven't been able to download any of it. You watch, Imma gonna go on a download spree tonight when it hits midnight. Then I'm gonna disappear for a week while I watch everything. >.<; I swear, it happens nearly every month.

◆ NEWS TOKYO DOME CON! I don't care if this is old news. I'm a little conflicted with this news (no pun intended). On one hand, I'm estactic for them to finally get a Dome Con, but on the other hand. The day they slipped the con in is exactly one week BEFORE I get to Tokyo. *0* And I can't change any of my itinerary to accommodate it cuz well, we'll be -somewhere- in China (I don't even know where) with the family, and everything is booked and paid for. We can't even change flight dates cuz all our flights are internet-booked. SO unhappy. I've been looking into going to the Tokushima con (cause that coincides with our dates) but it's FIVE hours by shinkansen from Tokyo and no guarantee that we'll be able to get tickets. ;A; What to do? What to do?

ETA: Who hasn't left me their address yet? (scroll down) Pleeeeeease?

I just asked mum to thin out my fringe for me cuz it had grown out a lot thicker and was starting to annoy me. I have an uneven fringe which runs short from my left eyebrow down to about my right ear. I really liked it. What mum did was cut it short and straight above my eyebrows (!). And it's not even fully, the straight cut stops halfway over my right eye and then slopes to my ear. Which is just plain weird. Plus there's no way to fix it without making my fringe even shorter still.

I'm so upset. I know it's a stupid thing to kick up a fuss about but I've never hated a cut she's given me so much. It looks horrible on me and I want to cry when I look at it. I've put on a hat and will continue to wear one until it grows back out again. *sighs*

Nothing fandom related from me cuz I've had no bandwidth for the last couple of days and will continue to have none until the 1st. Running on an average of 10k/s is very painful. No downloads is very painful. I think I'm a download addict.

I'm hoping to spend the next week graphic-ing. Oh, and I've decided to send you guys Christmas cards for now! You'll hopefully receive Chrissie cards from me now and then something else late Jan/early Feb when I come back from my trip. Anyone who hasn't left me their address, please do so?

Right, off to babysitting again.
Lotsa love to everyone reading this! ♥

Just finished downloading Yukan Club Ep 05 and was browsing through it after joining (to make sure it works) and I skipped to the Ep 06 preview and saw Koyama! xD It was a weird but cool feeling to see him alongside Jin, even for a moment. I was so unexplainably happy. (This might be starting to scare me a bit.) Can't wait til next week. (Haha and I haven't watched this weeks, but it looks pretty promising.)

Haha quick random post, off to bed now. It's 2.15am and I have a 10am counselling session tomorrow. Oh! I'm gonna be going to pick up my mags too~

&hearts

"...But we still have to go through those days
It's fine if you take it slowly, just don't give up
Because in time we'll definitely be able to get through this!!"
[♪] NEWS - weeeek. Translation thanks to solitair.

◆ This somehow describes my attitude so spot on right now. Trying to adopt a cheerier outlook on things. It's been a little easier with the help of the beautiful weather that we've been having. Today's weather was absolutely amazing. 26°C, crystal blue skies, cool breeze. Nice change from the crazy one day hotter than summer/the next raining bucket days from a couple of weeks ago.

◆ Trip update: We got our China visas back the other day. The guy looked at us funny when we gave him the pick-up slips and asked us how many we were picking up. Lol, he probably doesn't get batches of 10 very often. When we answered 10, he replied, "Correct" as if it were some quiz. I dunno, it amused me. Also, we finally managed to book our Hong Kong - Tokyo flight, after putting it off for... weeks now. We got all our flights and hotels out of the way ages ago except for that one, cuz we ran into trouble with the whole "booking to fly out of Hong Kong but we're in Australia with an Australian credit card, and no we don't wanna pay double for a travel agency to handle the admin" sorta thing. We were close to getting family in Hong Kong to buy it for us, but we ended up buying it through Zuji. I still have to buy travel insurance for me and my grandparents, I keep forgetting to. Should really get to that asap. >.<;

( It got longer than I expected so I threw most of it under a cut )

Long entry.

( ✦ Real life ✦ )

( ✦ Fandom ✦ )

❤ Screw lockdown. Must buy Nov Duet. I mean GORGEOUS MUCH PI?!


I love his hair. He looks gorgeous. Vendy has my undying love. Go to her for the original (and more) scans.
( Few more under cut )

❤ NewS Weeeek single covers.
I'm glad they used the Russ-K shoot for one of the covers cuz I think they look gorgeous. But the RE is soo frikken cute~ *giggles* And they're in business suits which is a major plus. xD

❤ BaruxRyo kiss. Last Okinawa con. *0* I wanna see a fancam clearer pic!

❤ Aunty called her brother in Taipei and asked him to try and get me and Jen con goods. *fingers crossed* He told us that there is definitely going to be a typhoon thats hitting Taiwan this weekend though. I hope that there aren't any accidents or anything. I wish the boys and all the fans luck and hope no one gets injured/sick. Ganbatte minna~!

Sorry for spamming so much, but I couldn't NOT post those pics. *_* -stares- ...Forgive me? ^^;

Ok, so today turned out very different to what I expected.
Warning: long personal rant of my day. Really, no need to read.

( today was really rant worthy.. again, no need to read )

♥ squeeeee ♥
Yamapi's kurosagi hair~! He looks so adorable~! And so young! Dude, Shige looks older than him.
Just so kawaiiii~! yamaperfection posted a pic here if you want to see. ^_^ (Err.. there's also a nekkid Okada pic in that post so be careful if you're scrolling in public place? xD Just a word of warning.)

► NewS Taiwan Con goods.
I think that my lockdown is absolutely and completely useless in the face of Johnny's.

※ Random: I realised that I don't know a lot of people on my flist's names. Please leave me a comment with your name/what you preferred to be called? I'm Sarah for those who don't know already. Yoropiku~ ♥

This makes me REALLY happy:

new NEWS single AND album!!

*insert keyboard smash* I am soooo happy! The songs listed so far are making me giggle like a madwoman. I got my wish! They are releasing "Weeeek"! I ♥♥♥ that song.

DAMMIT I GO INTO LOCKDOWN FOR MY TRIPS AND THEY GO AND DO THIS!! I AM GONNA BE GOING ON HOLIDAY SHORT A LOT OF MONEY!

OMG I'm soooo happy I can't think of anything else to say. Well I had another post I wanted to write but I gotta go out now, I will come back later and edit this one.

ETA: I ordered the limited editions for both. I will most likely pick up the regular editions when I'm over there. ^^; Too tired to write up a proper entry.