Lots of these tour trucks/buses next to the goods area.

Sorry for the bad grammar and/or childish writing skills btw. <_< I'm not really going to proofread as I haven't got that kind of time for a fangirlish report.

The tour started off with Nagoya on 4/14 and 4/15. I went to the Sunday live (4/15). The day before I went there just to buy goods. There were no glow sticks at all for sale and no one had any inside. I really wanted to buy the goods that ELLY made but his stuff sold out VERY early. I think his goods sold out first.

The stuff I bought~ The shirt was too big but oh well.

Usually, I’d insist on going to these big events early but since we all had seat numbers it didn’t matter. I hung out with a friend until opening time. Luckily, unlike Saturday, it was relatively nice outside. While shopping with my friend we saw all kinds of people dressed in 24karats or EXILE tour merch.. EVERYWHERE. Ages ranged from around 7 to around 60! There were more women than men but there was still a significant amount of men. I’d say it was 65:35. Out of the thousands of people I didn’t see another foreign fan… at least not one I could look at and tell. Believe me, I was looking LOL. I think that might be because the tickets are a nightmare to get a hold of.. or something like that?

When I was walking towards the dome I saw a crowd of people taking pictures of Atsushi lookalikes! It was hilarious but I didn’t have the energy to join the crowd to take a picture. There were some really sleazy and pretty comical looking guys trying to sell stuff too. I had a bit of time to kill so I went into the big mall next door. It was packed and all I could think about was how nightmarish and impossible getting home would be.

When I was finally entering Nagoya dome the people at the gate just bowed and took my ticket. They didn’t even really look at it or scan it or anything. They just took off the part they needed and asked if I know about the camera rules. I was like ‘yeah, I guess’ and I walked in… My seat was all the way in the back but at least it was on the first level.

Sneaky pic.. that tower was talking and zooming in on people.. it also changed personalities multiple times before the show started ^^;;

It would have been better if only my eyesight wasn’t bad. I regret not buying a pair of cheap binoculars. I was able to see everyone but couldn’t make out their facial details. I could tell who was who though. There was also a giant screen so it was all good.

FAST FOWARD TO THE START. The lights turned off and everyone came out on big float car things. They circled around the dome and it took a long time haha. Sandaime J Soul Brothers were in the front (5 of them) in green. OMG, ELLY LOOKED LIKE A PRINCE!!! It was really easy to spot Gun because of his hair haha. Next was EXILE… the first thing I saw was Nesmith’s hair.. Haha.

I have unbelievably terrible memory but the setlist was pretty much the same as 04/14.

I think anyone who is actually bothering to read this already has seen how EXILE performs. It was pure excellence.

Keiji… had a wonderful moment that involved being shirtless LOL. Naoto also had a similarly wonderful moment. You know how Naoto does his little ‘dances’ LOL <.<

Won't be long was pretty fun! The whole dome did the shimmy thing... flags waving up then waving down ^^; The outfits they wore at first were sooo nice. ATSUSHI’s solo stuff was 5 star level. His dancers.. OMG, at one point he was with one of them and the whole dome was like “NOOOOOOOO my hopes and dreams” *dies*

Nidaime was D: wow… I just can’t.. YOU ALREADY KNOW

Another song that was a ton of fun was Fighters… the crowd did the same movements with their flags throughout everything but at least with fighters we had the whole “Let me hear you say OH!” “OH!” part ^^; The vocals were on point for Fighters. Honestly, Imaichi and Tosaka had moments where their vocals were on par with Neskichi and Atsushi & Takahiro.. Some of the time it still felt like they were a bit nervous.. I don’t know why but to me Tosaka always looks the most nervous.

E-Girls sang One Two Three! They were so good. I wish I could have gone to the handshake event.. GENERATIONS also did some stuff.. Didn’t know they could dance so well. Mendy is so tall, he’s like Naoki but just bigger.

I could go on about every song and how great it is but I don’t want to ramble on. Victory and fireworks were so cool.

Anyway… to summarize.

Hiro – His usual boss self.
ATSUSHI – DAT VOICE.
Takahiro – crowd always goes crazy over him.
Shokichi – He was himself <3
Nesmith - Dat hair XD
Makidai - did his DJ thing ^^
Matsu - At the encore he came out to promote Matsubocchi
USA - Dance earth intermission
Akira - fans really go crazy for him too
Kenchi - didn't see much of him T^T
Tetsuya - same as Kenchi o_o
Keiji - Had one of the best dance moments.

Imaichi - He looked amazing.
Tosaka - He's such a sad puppy sometimes but I think he was stronger vocally than Imaichi.
Naoto - Dancing machine.
Naoki - So noticeable and full of energy! I liked his hair.
ELLY - There are no words for this piece of royalty.
Kenjiro - Honestly didn't see much of him, AT ALL. =(
GUN - HAIR bouncing everywhere!

ELLY and GUN had a face off at the start of fighters.. It was nice to put it simply.

At the end Atsushi & Takahiro sang the new song. It’s a ballad and sounds nice.. At this point I was about to freak out because in a couple minutes about 40,000 people were going to make a mad dash to the trains. I decided to leave half way into the song =( The trains were insanely packed and it seemed like everyone left the whole ‘line up’ mentality behind them. People just pushed in front of others. Anyway, everyone got squashed inside the train and I was lucky enough to find a seat.

I think most know about ACE OF SPADES, Matsu’s oneman event, the new song, and 3jsb’s nation wide tour.. those were all things announced during the encore.

So, that’s about it. It cost me about 3man altogether… ticket, transportation, and goods. That’s a lot. A very tiring and potentially expensive adventure awaits anyone wanting to see EXILE. Good thing it’s genuinely worth it.

A reward for today? … It’s too soon.

I don’t know why this picture is here but I bought way too many clothes.. I will most likely regret this later.

This skirt is so cute and really puffy. Wearing it is a battle though…

I was going to just leave this blog update to that but I should mention a bit about moving. I’d take a picture of my place to show you what a state it’s in but that would be too embarrassing. I’m like a pack rat or something. Either that or the total lack of storage makes everything seem worse. I’m thinking of just THROWING stuff into a garbage bag. Just being done with it *sigh*

I still haven’t completely decided on what to do for housing. Now I have about 3 choices.

1. Big apartment complex about an 8 min walk from Nagoya station.. many foreigners there and/but it’s kind of expensive.

2. Perfect location with one room left. The owner is a nice young man with a very young son. It’s in the middle of Nagoya station and my job D: … rent is cheap.

3. Amazing location in naka-ku, 3LDK housing 3 people but 2 are moving out soon. A little out of the way but close to Nagoya station. Rent is not as cheap as option 2 but still pretty dang good. Person there is female.

I didn’t bother with a before shot because the lighting is vastly different from picture to picture. Outside I can definitely see that my hair is indeed a shade lighter (whatever that means). My hair feels great and I’d definitely use Lucido-L hair color again. It received tons of positive reviews on cosme since it doesn’t damage hair a lot and always comes out safe for work lol. I think if I used it again my hair will be close to the color I want without having to use bleach. Really think the third time is the charm with this product.

This photo was brought to you by photoshop. Awww Yeah.

Do you see how much darker the back is? That was basically my original hair color. Unfortunately, since my hair is relaxed, I can’t just color it again without waiting a bit…

I used 1 box and half of the other. These two combined cost about 1000 yen.

I’m off for a few weeks right now D: Said bye to a ton of people… I have to now concentrate on cleaning out my apartment and getting ready to move.

I really like it. Wish it was a little lighter in color and I don’t like how they stuck small gems in the center of big gems there is a big pinkish pearl that I know is going to get the color scratched off D:.. I had some trouble getting the case on BUT that was because there was a small gem loose inside It smells funny but so far so good.

It looks pretty amazing in real life. Still, look at this shiny mess

Here it is compared to my 1 year old ipod case.

They did listen to my custom request and even included the little loop/hook I asked for on the bottom of the case!

So, besides that I’ve been thinking my site needs a face lift. I also need to post that giveaway I was thinking of doing. It always feels like I have no time even when I do. I think I have a habit of just doing monotonous mundane things on my computer that wastes time faster than I think it does.

I should be doing more productive things..
like researching the secrets to winning at UFO catchers

Me: Hey, I’m moving soon
Person: Oh really?!
Me: yeah, to a big city
Person: oh that’s great! Where?
Me: Nagoya
Person:

“My condolences”

I don’t know why I’m so sad lately. I cried twice today thinking about my dad. Not like I’m PMSing either. A friend hinted on facebook that I have senioritis. Going to be moving to a big city soon so the wait is definitely messing with me. I think I’ll tell everyone that I’m leaving this week.

I’ve also come to realize how few friends I have. I have like none. SAD PANDA.

There’s not a single person I can call up and go out somewhere without inconveniencing them or them being busy. I’m in Japan but can’t even enjoy karaoke. I’d have to commit to a 1200yen commuting fee just to be able to karaoke. I’m tired of making friends out of pure convenience. Going to try off-kai and just meet Japanese people who don’t care about taking the TOEIC/learning English/marrying a foreigner.

Yesterday me and a friend went to eat kakioko (Okonomiyaki with oysters!!). I could ALMOST KIND OF taste it After eating we went to hyakin. Not of the DAISO variety but one called Seria. I like this one a lot~ def houses a lot more cutesy things.

Especially surprised at the 2nd set of lashes. They look like Ardell 105

I almost forgot to drop this WC pic in here. I actually tried on a pair of leopard print creepers… couldn’t flipping believe that they fit. I was flabbergasted Anyway, DAT PRICE TAG.

As many of my friends know I’ve literally been sick with a cold(or colds) for all of 2012. The entire year sick. More than half of the time spent with this cold I haven’t been able to smell or taste stuff. Finally I went to the hospital and got some meds, which do seem to be helping since I’m not waking up at night w/ coughing fits.

I think there were probably many times that I was working with fevers and stuff. And even though I was still sick I went to a concert yesterday. I saw MAXIMUM THE HORMONE and ROTTENGRAFFTY. Everyone knows hormone but rotten seems to be not nearly as popular. Happy to have finally seen rotten.

As usual I was kind of clueless for half of the setlist since I’m more familiar with there older work It was amazing! Both bands play so well… the sound system was really clear which helps too.

I celebrated the coming of 2012 with a ton of people in Shibuya. Spent most of the day shopping at 109. It was a lot of fun but I’m just not built like Japanese girls *le sigh*. Usually when I fit into things but they’d just look wrong on me. I found this really cute dress but I needed to be 2 cups smaller to button the top.

Me and a friend went to Krispy Kreme to use their outlets haha. I had an original donut that was heated… HEAVEN IN MY MOUTH. HEAVEN. They gave us coupons for free donuts o.0 I will put them to good use.

SO THIS Was it

明けましておめでとうございます！！

I was actually busy this weekend. Me and some friends tried going to the new outlet mall at Kurashiki station but we totally failed… Started off at 3pm and didn’t get to the mall till about an hour before it closed.

There were still cute things we got to glance at before everything closed

Today I saw the latest Kamen Rider movie! OOO and Fourze I asked my friend what she thought about it after and she just said イケメンばっかり (Lots of good looking guys)

Here was my breakfast/lunch

So, onto something I’ve been trying to get for a while! More foundation. We stopped at Tenmaya and I rushed over to the RMK station. It was my first time getting my make up done at a fancy department store. I already KNEW I was going to buy the foundation so that’s why that happened. I needed to know what color was best as well.

I was surprised by how little the lady insisted I use even though my face is a spotted uneven combination mess… she made me up pretty dang good lovely blush and lip color… I ended up buying the cream foundation (shade 102) and finishing powder.

Unfortunately I couldn’t really buy anything else. I’ll spend on the base makeup but I can’t justify dropping 3000+ yen on a blush or a lipstick.. especially when drugstore brand blushes and lipsticks over here are more than good enough.

Oh gawd, I’ll try to catch on everyone’s blogs! I really want to but I have no time right now.

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I think I’m almost done playing Zelda: Skyward Sword! It’s fun and the controls are great! It’s just that… sometimes it’s a little scary. There is a certain boss monster I don’t like because it creeps me out.

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Also, check out that chrome extension I use called ‘rikaikun‘. It’s amazing and translates kanji/Japanese just by hovering your mouse over a word. If there’s a kanji you just don’t know it’s super helpful.

I still don’t want this blog to just rot.. so here’s some recent buys!

HURRRRRRRR WHAT’S THIS AND WHYYYY????

120 shimmer palette (4th ed) from BHCosmetics

88 matte palette

I’m still listening to DUM SPIRO SPERO everyday too. Songs are still amazing but I’m catching new parts of the songs less and less… yeah, maybe because I’ve listened to it so many times. ~_~

I still haven’t really been to any lives… I went to one but it wasn’t really the kind of music I like. I’m pretty much just waiting for lolita23q to have something outside of Tokyo.