zaizaiaddict wrote:

OK...i'm not familiar...gomen but where is moana shopping center? arashi going to hawaii makes me confused whether they're still in hawaii or have come back already...gomen Bonk

Ala Moana Shopping Center the largest [i think] open mall in the United States. ["open mall" meaning that its not enclosed] It's located in Honolulu, HI, [sorta] close by to Waikiki Beach, and Ala Moana Beach. ALOT of Japanese tourists go there to shop. It has so many stores @_@ like over 1,000 i think? i dunno, but it just keeps getting bigger. One time i had to run from one end to the other to buy something. Geez, took me forever! I was so tired!

There have been many Arashi sitings at Ala Moana. I admit that i went there in hopes of bumping in to them... but no luck for me

@pinkdragon Thanks for all the cute videos!! Omg that MatsuJun one is soooo cute!! thanks a bunch for sharing~

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ahhhh so lucky...I need to move to Hawaii. I visited my grandma in Honolulu a few years ago, but that's the last time I've been there.

dreamraine wrote:

Is this true? Because I'm getting my fren to bid for me for the Ohno's solocon...and I'm gonna fly there....issit true they are banning internet sales already?

its your choice.
they're not banning the internet sales, obisously because u can still buy tickets online.
but there is a huge possibility that the jimusho is going to catch you if u buy that ticket.
im not sure about 3104 con, but for shock (domoto koichi's musical), they ask you for ur ID card (with photo) before u go in the theater to check if u are the correct holder of the ticket.
if u dont match with the name computerized, then they'll most definetly kick you out.


but then again, 3104 concert is all standing and theres no seats....so must be more difficult for them to find out.

i mean, u could pay this person whos seeling the ticket a lot and enjoy the con, but why would you pay such a person?
they're abusing the their fc membership and trying to make some profit out of it.........


besides, it can end up like...
u go all the way to japan for the solocon, u dunt get in......ur moneys not going to come back

sob sobs...

i wonder if johnny jimusho is not that strict, maybe they can hold more concerts n more oseas fans will go~! n in e end they make more $$ plus no black mkt

ShanghaiGal wrote:

its your choice. they're not banning the internet sales, obisously because u can still buy tickets online. but there is a huge possibility that the jimusho is going to catch you if u buy that ticket. im not sure about 3104 con, but for shock (domoto koichi's musical), they ask you for ur ID card (with photo) before u go in the theater to check if u are the correct holder of the ticket. if u dont match with the name computerized, then they'll most definetly kick you out. but then again, 3104 concert is all standing and theres no seats....so must be more difficult for them to find out. i mean, u could pay this person whos seeling the ticket a lot and enjoy the con, but why would you pay such a person? they're abusing the their fc membership and trying to make some profit out of it......... besides, it can end up like... u go all the way to japan for the solocon, u dunt get in......ur moneys not going to come back

Thanks alot for your info...I really appreciate it...better than going there completely cluless....I need to ponder about this....

jadorexjulius , OMG HONTOU NI!?!?!?! and??? what happened? when, where??? gosh...

hi minna-san hisashi buri! ive been MIA for a lil whiles... but ive been lurking in here... miss the action here

as for all of the seeing arashi in person stories... WOW. im so jealous! hehe. i went to hawaii a few summers ago but no arashi experiences... i really wanna go back!!! hahaha. actually i really wanna go to japan... concert..... online sales.. yeah, its a bit fishy... especially since those people are being real sneaky as it is, u never know if they're gonna just disappear and not have ur tix... eek, a scary feeling....

anyway, ill be back more often from now on... i hope.
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ShanghaiGal wrote:

im not sure about 3104 con, but for shock (domoto koichi's musical), they ask you for ur ID card (with photo) before u go in the theater to check if u are the correct holder of the ticket. if u dont match with the name computerized, then they'll most definetly kick you out.

My gosh, i really didn't know JE is that harsh on the fans!

It's only through arashi that I get to know more about how JE operates.....I was already surprised that you gotta be a member to attend their concert (and there is no guarantee that you will get to go for sure)...and I was even more surprised that you also need the membership to attend their butai as well!

Isn't that kind of limiting their artistes from the general public (I mean besides the channels from drama and movie)? If a non-fc member was interested in a butai by a JE artiste, there is really no way for that person to attend unless he/she would go through all the trouble to join fan club and etc.

OH well, I guess from JE's perspectives, all the profits from the pure fans are already enough to keep them happy; so they don't need to consider the interest from general public.

fyi, it's goddamn hard to get tickets...
i got tickets for ohno's butai out of sheer luck in the lottery system actually...
so no promise that you'll get to watch it even if you are in japan... lol!

and i would goddamn love to see jun CLOSEUP!!!! i'm so damn envious!!
you can even tell that he's the best looking of the lot...
i went for the summer con, but from my lousy seat, they just look like... ants... er... ok... very BIG ants... hahahahaha...
ya, jun, when the hell am i gonna see you like, in my face... sheesh...

but even without seeing him live, i think he's the best looking of the lot... heehee...

for those that knows how to operate the-ever-so-confusing clubbox......

I found this clubbox search engine: http://goclubbox.co.kr/

put in a search of 'arashi' and there are actually quite a lot of arashi stuff like "D no Arashi" from gold status box members (meaning the files won't expire unless the owner delete them, right?)

I put in a search for pika nchi and I found the pika-nchi + the pika-nchi double files too!! but since I am still catching up on some old files I haven't had a chance to try these files yet.

clubbox is just so slow even i try to buy the super speed with my mileage points

i totally understand what you mean about cb... if you know what cb means in hokkien heehee...^^

actually pdbox also has a sometimes useful search box... but nowadays, seems like fans keep stuff locked or to friends' only... more and more of them use passwords and add logos to their files... sheesh...

tokki2005 wrote:

I found this clubbox search engine: http://goclubbox.co.kr/

OH MY FUCKING (oops) GOD! lol
thank you so much tokki, for this, i will love you forever lol


neways, ppl, i was just watching "all or nothing dvd" to fufill my arashi-deprived soul (lol)

and i was wondering.......wats your favorite solo (throught out all arashi concerts from first con to one con) for each arashi member

i will pick.........

sho: konya wa buggi-back (join the storm con) i really wish he will do this again with some improved singing
or touch me now (how's it going)

jun: super star (first con) baby face jun......

nino: himitsu (one con) ofcourse....BY FAR the best solo ever

aiba: happy sunny days (here we go con) very "aiba-chan"

ohno: cool / bite the love (first con) (join the storm con) i really liked this years too.....but i will never forget when he sang cool at first con.... bite the love, u can see how much his dance progressed since then compared to now. but still my fav.


long post ~
minasan yattemitene ~

I really like the latest MagoMago epi as well!! I actually did cry a little at the end because it was just so touching~ Reminds me of my grandma too caz I live so far away from her ne

This is a must watch episode!

@sawadasmile: welcome back!! yeah, it sounds a bit risky to me too to purchase these tix online, especially if you purchase from overseas....there are to many factors that are out of control. And after reading that they might check your ID/FC number at the venue, seems like it's difficult to get around the fc ballot system. that really sucks for us

@fybabe: I didn't know exactly what "cb" stands for in hokkien but remember reading this discussion on your blog...ha ha...so I got an idea that it's not good for sure!! thus, I never use the short form since then!! hee hee.

@ShanghaiGal: you are welcome, i hope most of the files in the gold status box would work! I haven't tried it myself yet but I read from other forums that this one is suppose to be better than the other pupular clubbox search engine (forgot the site).

I haven't had a chance to watch much of the boys' concert solo...the only ones i have seen is jun singing Super Star (2000) and La Familia (2004) + Nino's Natsu (Suppin Concert).

Jun looks really cute in Super Star, especially when he had the mask off, he had this big big cute smile!!! And that was like the first concert clip i've seen by JE artistes, so when jun is in the sky, i was like "OMG he is flying!!!" Wasn't really used to seeing "Cirque du solie" stunts in a concert!

I also love the boys 'jamming' at Nino's solo, i've watched that clip so many times ne!!!

tokki2005- thanks! and i completely agree... but i guess johnny makes so much money doing what hes doing anyway, completely draining all of his boys, that it doesnt matter. it is unfair tho that they do limit it like that. perhaps it is more secure in some ways... but eh, i dunno if thats what they're going for. i guess its pure luck... so if i ever get to go to japan, ill def keep my fingers crossed!!

i havent seen many solo perfs of the boys, cant really find them... ive seen la familia, heard (but havent seen!) super star (but from the description, wow i def wanna see it!), and the ONE conc perfs... so i shan't vote on solo perfs just yet

but i was going back and reading a lot of posts that i missed, and that ex-gf of aiba really is evil. i wonder how much she got paid for doing that, and for ruining aiba's image.... did she enjoy it?! grrrr... makes me so mad.

and MissMonika, OMG where have i been?!?!?!?! OMEDETOU!!! omg they called you cute!!! ahhhhh!!! thats soooo... to die for!!! u should see if theres any way for you to transfer yourvoice mails to ur comp just in case!! i have verizon and on my phone i cant, but i know that some people have phones that let them save voice mails somehow on the comp... or something like that!!! ahhh!!! im soooo jealous!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... goshhh if i got a voice mail like that i think i'd faint!!!!!

ive been missing out a lot since ive been gone huh... lol....
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and MissMonika, OMG where have i been?!?!?!?! OMEDETOU!!! omg they called you cute!!! ahhhhh!!! thats soooo... to die for!!! u should see if theres any way for you to transfer yourvoice mails to ur comp just in case!! i have verizon and on my phone i cant, but i know that some people have phones that let them save voice mails somehow on the comp... or something like that!!! ahhh!!! im soooo jealous!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... goshhh if i got a voice mail like that i think i'd faint!!!!!

lol. i'm still kind of in shock that it happened to me. i listen to that voicemail so many times. i've been working on finding a way to transfer it to my laptop so i can share it with u all. i have T-Mobile and my phone is so low tech so i dunno if it's going to work. still trying.

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i havent seen many solo perfs of the boys, cant really find them... ive seen la familia, heard (but havent seen!) super star (but from the description, wow i def wanna see it!), and the ONE conc perfs... so i shan't vote on solo perfs just yet

http://www.youtube.com/?v=LqRm2MYCcfA - here is MatsuJun's La Familia performance. This is my favorite performance by him. The Superstar one just scared me out of my pants because I HATE clowns. Hehehe

Like many of you, I was crying so much during the latest episode of MagoMago. It was so sweet!!
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@sawadasmile: I found the clip of jun singing Super Star > http://www.youtube.com/?v=haJrImKgu0w

And while I was surfing at youtube, I also found this clip which I think is so adorable. Jun's voice went high pitch in the begining, just like how Tsukushi's little brother in HYD talks when he is excited!!

Jun and Aiba learn wakeboarding: http://www.youtube.com/?v=4oJfXSwPx_M

MissMonika wrote:

lol. i'm still kind of in shock that it happened to me. i listen to that voicemail so many times. i've been working on finding a way to transfer it to my laptop so i can share it with u all. i have T-Mobile and my phone is so low tech so i dunno if it's going to work. still trying.

wow!! ganbatte!!! im sure we'd all love to hear it... as jealous as many of us are ahhhh!!! thats still so awesome tho, i think i'm still in shock too just from hearing about it and imagining what it must be like! hahaha!! i doooo love la familia very very much...

and it seems i really need to get my hands on the last mago mago, huh... sounds very good from everybodys reactions...

tokki2005, thanks for sending me the link!!! ahh i watched it!!! omg he was the clown hahaha, man, im kinda scared of clowns lol (missmonika, now i understand what u mean)... but wow i LOVE the flying thru the air part! now that is cooooooool. even tho w/todays technology u can do so much thats even crazier, its still very cool i think. jun's so young, its soo kawaii!

haha, omg, his voice does kinda sound like tsukushi's younger bro! hahahaha thats hilarious. i watched that clip so long ago, i had almost forgotten about it... and i had def forgotten about that voice squeak, lol!

saorilisa321, i love the icons!!! especially the leafy one.... sigh, his smile... kills me every time.
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ShanghaiGal wrote:

OH MY FUCKING (oops) GOD! lol thank you so much tokki, for this, i will love you forever lol neways, ppl, i was just watching "all or nothing dvd" to fufill my arashi-deprived soul (lol) and i was wondering.......wats your favorite solo (throught out all arashi concerts from first con to one con) for each arashi member i will pick......... sho: konya wa buggi-back (join the storm con) i really wish he will do this again with some improved singing or touch me now (how's it going) jun: super star (first con) baby face jun...... nino: himitsu (one con) ofcourse....BY FAR the best solo ever aiba: happy sunny days (here we go con) very "aiba-chan" ohno: cool / bite the love (first con) (join the storm con) i really liked this years too.....but i will never forget when he sang cool at first con.... bite the love, u can see how much his dance progressed since then compared to now. but still my fav. long post ~ minasan yattemitene ~

hi ShanghaiGal
btw, thanks for your very informative posts... Johnny's really should find a way to accommodate their foreign fans request for con seats.
I wish that i'll be able to see arashi concert someday..

Join the Storm Con? I haven't seen it. Actually I don't even know it exist! is it their second concert? I know there's Suppin, How's It Going, All or Nothing, Izaa now & ONE. Are there more cons available for viewing?

I've seen Izaa, One (fancam),AON &HIG so this are my favs solo (for now):

Sho: Touch Me Now(HIG) = i melted watching that performance... HOT! kept replaying it over, & over, & over, & over, & over, & over.....


Nino: Konseki(izaa) = beautiful & Himitsu(One) = I WANT ONE DVD B'COZ OF THAT PRFORMANCE! honto ni KAWAII!

Ohno: Top Secret(izaa) & Rain(One) = KAKKOII!!!

Jun: La familia(Izaa) = pretty & cool

Aiba: Itsuka no Summer (ONE) = sexy+kawaii