OK, that wedding in Bali was basically the first wedding I've ever been to where the bouquet actually FELL ON THE FLOOR... TWICE!!! WTF?! I know that bouquet tosses isn't exactly "popular" in Indonesian wedding culture, I remembered when I was younger none of the weddings I went to had a bouquet toss (Yes, I started going to weddings as young as 4 years old LOL, I could make a career out of attending weddings) and only in the last 5-6 years (or at least I think the 21st century) that bouquet tosses became more and more popularly adapted by people who've been brainwashed by many many Hollywood wedding-themed romantic comedies in the likes of Father of the Bride, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Wedding Planner, etc. And even then, the MC probably had to take AT LEAST 10-15 minutes just to gather the single women guests around to PARTICIPATE in the bouquet toss. Because it seems that apparently NOBODY wanted to be next in line for marriage? But ironically EVERYONE is getting married so young and getting knocked up instantly not long after the wedding!

So anyway, bouquet tosses in Indonesian weddings is so unpopular, the participants almost always ends up consisting of: children between the age of 3-10, dudes, aunties, uncles, grandmas, grandpas... and to remedy the situation, most weddings decided to throw in a little "prize" to encourage the SINGLE WOMEN to participate, such prizes may come in the form of something like a cheap outdated cellphone, to something quite hip/popular/sought after such as an iPod, or even to a real bling bling diamond (perhaps a 0.000001ct diamond with bad clarity LOL) and those things really work, you know? I've been to a wedding where the "prize" was an iPod, and I found myself standing in line for the bouquet with A BUNCH OF DUDES who literally went NFL on each other when the bouquet flew in the air!!!

Personally, I don't like to participate in bouquet tosses either, unless it's really someone I'm really close to, then the bouquet toss is just something fun I would definitely participate in as a favor to my bride friend without having to be pushed or pulled to the front by a bulldozer. And pretty much like what happened at the Bali wedding last weekend, the minute the bouquet started flying in the air, all the girls around me were like, OMG INCOMING BOUQUET! RETREEEEEATTTT!!!...(BUT SACRIFICE NERE IN THE PROCESS!!!) And I remember distinctly that someone *PUSHED* me, but I was on my way diving forward anyways because I was seriously just being a good maid of honor/best friend and I COULDN'T LET MY BEST FRIEND'S BOUQUET GO *SPLAT* ON THE FLOOR, COULD I??? I mean, if I was a bride and nobody wanted to catch my bouquet I'd be so bummed! But that's pretty much what goes on in the few (many) weddings I've attended. The one in Bali last weekend was HILARIOUS though. It was like that scene from Mean Girls, when all the girls were doing their confessions at the gym and throwing themselves into the crowd, but when Gretchen threw herself, everyone cleared and so she fell right onto Karen? Yeah it was like that with the bouquet, it was such a perfect toss, it flew in the air right to the center of the crowd of girls but...

*SPLAT!!!*

Everyone pretty much dodged and created this clearing for the bouquet to fell right onto the wooden dance floor!!! WTF?!?!?! Well, I didn't have to "dodge" because I've conveniently found a spot where I'm 110% sure the bouquet will never ever even remotely pass nearby. So 2nd try... bride tosses the bouquet, again, PERFECT TOSS, but again...

*SPLAT!!!*

OMGWTF!!! This bride has HORRIBLE GIRLFRIENDS!!! (I'm not included coz I'm not that close to her LOL) Why won't anyone catch the damn bouquet!!! By the third toss, the bouquet was already pretty much falling apart and to tell you the truth, the bouquet did not fall just twice but THRICE, except that in the commotion I actually saw a good Samaritan who quickly picked it off the floor and yelled "I GOT IT! I GOT IT!" XD

All in a fun night's game of BOUQUET DODGE... til the next game in another wedding I'm gonna have to attend, and I'm guessing... soon! XD

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Posted on > 04/30/2007 19:03pm by Nefretiri
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Going to Bali tomorrow for another WEDDING. By now, I think that's all you will remember me by. Nere who? The girl who goes to weddings all the time. Oh, THAT Nere. Yes, it will be written on my tombstone too. I don't know if I just know too many people, or if it's just the time and where everyone my age is getting married, or just because Indonesians invite waaaaay too many people to their weddings, but seriously, DO YOU KNOW ANYONE ELSE WHO GOES TO WEDDINGS AS MUCH AS ME??? *drops dead*

Well, at least for this one I'll get a 2-day vacation in Bali WOO-HOOOOOOO~ That's it man, I'm just going to check in and never step out of the hotel again until I have to board the plane on Sunday night. I will just camp by the pool and sleep allllll day Sunday.

Then, the dilemma: the wedding's DRESS CODE. Craptastic. I understand that dress codes are important but only if they are VAGUE and not in specific down to the darn colors! My friend's wedding theme is supposedly in the colors of turquoise/ocean blue and bright crimson red. So in her invitation she indicates the dress code is: ROMANTIC CHIC WITH A TOUCH OF RED / OCEAN BLUE. First of all, I understand FORMAL, SEMI-FORMAL, BLACK TIE, CASUAL, but what on earth is ROMANTIC CHIC and how do you "translate" that into a dress??? (Good luck to the guys) Secondly, since this is a Bali wedding, I'm just assuming it won't be as crazy-ass formal as weddings at Jakarta's Ritz-Carlton or Hotel Mulia (read: not the 5-kg-floor-length-sequin/swarovski-monster-puked-on-your-dress kind), so I have to find something that's not so formal, yet also not so casual. But as I ventured into my closet last night I found that the reds or ocean blues that I have are either too casual or too freakin' formal, and the ones that are just right are NOT in red or ocean blue! *pulls hair* Ahhh screw the dress code. I'm wearing dark blue. And just for the hell of it I'll throw on a red shawl. I do realize that I will look like a freakin' flag, but if anyone asks, I'll just tell them that I can't make up my mind on whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat XD

P.S.
Sakura, ARE YOU READY FOR MUSIC STATION TONIGHT???? Enough practice??? DAME DAME DAME DAME DAME DAME..... XD I am soooooo watching my download FRAME BY FRAME in 300% zoom just to look out for you mwahahaha~ have lots and lots of fun with T&T tonight!!!!

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Posted on > 04/27/2007 12:30pm by Nefretiri
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I just went over to aibo's and OMGWTFLOL HOLY CRAP, ME TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Exactly yesterday too WTF have we really synchronized every single aspect of our lives including our crimson wave schedules?!?!?! Even though there's a whole stretch of ocean in between us?!?! That's just too weird!!!

But that means... ARGH CRAP!!!! (I've been worried about this for the last few weeks, I'll sms you later)

*bats eyelashes at aibo*

Did you say HEROES 19????

*bats bats bats eyelashes*

==33

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Posted on > 04/26/2007 17:07pm by Nefretiri

 
 
 
 

OK this looks like it's going to turn into a MINI-SERIES, doesn't it? So my apartment's concierge called me to tell me that they got a CALL from the Post Office, saying that there's a package waiting for me and I have to go pick it up. I asked if there's a slip I need to bring to claim my package. Concierge-san said no slip, all they got was a PHONECALL. WTF the post office don't even send SLIPS anymore? Why the heck are they called THE POST OFFICE if all they do is call and ask people to pick up their own stuff instead of DELIVERING IT like what their job description implies???

Fine. No slip. I sent our office errand boy to GO FETCH! I wrote down on a piece of paper the address of the Post Office, which floor and which counter he has to go to, my name, the EMS tracking number, my ID, and some money to pay off some minor bogus "admin fees" ~_~ And within the next hour I keep getting these wild goose chase phonecalls every freakin 5 minutes from my errand boy who got LOST being bounced from counter to counter in the post office. Everytime he called, I would talk to the person who is behind the counter that he's at, and I already feel like repeating broken record:

Seriously I don't know if the Post Office is just so screwed up or my errand guy is stupid but seriously, my errand guy is pretty smart, well, smarter than average definitely (else we wouldn't have hired him) BUT I KEEP THINKING IT WOULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH EASIER IF HE WAS ACTUALLY HOLDING A SLIP!!! A SLIP THAT THE POST OFFICE NEGLECTED TO SEND BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO LAZY, A SLIP THAT WOULDN'T HAVE SENT MY GUY OFF IN SUCH WILD GOOSE CHASE!!!!

It's not even about being frustrated over NOT BEING ABLE TO GET MY CDs anymore, but it's all about being frustrated about HOW THINGS WORK IN THIS DAMN STUPID COUNTRY!!! And yes, I was enlightened at how much more screwed up they are when my phone started ringing with the 4TH CALL!!! GOOD LORD!!! WHAT THE HELL IS IT NOW?!?!

..... (translation: complete and utter speechlessness)

 
*looks at the clock*

BUT IT'S ONLY 3 PM!!!!

Or at least, if he called and notified at 12:30PM, he should've at least warned us to be there BEFORE 3 PM because it's common practice that people who work in the post office just goof off and knock off TWO HOURS EARLIER THAN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.

Unfuckingbelievable, this country is.

Now tell me how can we live in this dunghole they call a country and not have our cumulative lifespan shortened by possibly at least 30 YEARS!!!! RARRRR!!!

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Posted on > 04/24/2007 15:02pm by Nefretiri
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If there was a World Championship for "WHICH T&T FAN WILL GET HER CDs LAST" then I'll probably be WORLD CHAMPION almost every single time! What I don't get is WHAT THE FRACK IS TAKING SO DAMN LONG FOR THEM TO INSPECT HARMLESS JAPANESE IDOL CDs!?!?! I mean, if they're seriously gonna really put actual work into this whole "inspecting" job of theirs, shouldn't they not waste time on harmless T&T CDs and maybe focus more on the big shipments that could possibly be illegal smuggling of black market electronics, terrorist weapons, drugs and/or immigrant prostitutes?!?! Even if their money-faced undignified greed wants to score some "blackmail/fine" money from such items, it really would be nothing compared to the "blackmail/fine" they would score from a shipment of... cellphones & PDAs? And not only are they greedy, they're also VERY LAZY. A phonecall with the EMS officer 5 minutes ago gave me this information:

18 Apr - Item departed from Japan
19 Apr - Item received at port; into customs inspection
20 Apr - Item in customs inspection
21 Apr - Item in "customs inspection" (in which it's freakin' bogus coz I bet NOBODY CAME IN TO WORK ON SATURDAY EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO; hence the quotation marks)
23 Apr - Item [STILL] in customs inspection

DO THEY NEED AN ENTIRE MONTH TO INSPECT STUPID CDs???

Seriously!!!!!

Last I checked with Ami on Saturday night, she also haven't received her CDs, which was shipped from CDJapan only a day after they shipped her KAT-TUN CDs! If in a few days I open my mailbox and find a PIECE OF PAPER instead of a box (in which it means I have to "retrieve" the item at the post office and by "retrieve" I mean I'll have to PAY SOMETHING at the counter), I'm gonna be HELLA PISSED OFF. I've actually changed my CDJapan mailing address from my home to my apartment because I had this feeling that my home address had been red-flagged by some greedy pig in customs. Because everytime I get a shipment, all I get are notes asking to pay ridiculous fines before I can obtain my items. If my apartment address gets red-flagged AGAIN, I'll just reroute it to my office address. And if next year it gets red-flagged again, I'LL REROUTE IT AGAIN TO ANOTHER ADDRESS!!! HA! SUCK THAT YOU GREEDY PIGGY CUSTOMS!!! I HAVE LOTS OF ALTERNATIVE ADDRESSES TO BOUNCE AROUND TO!!! Erm... unless they red-flag my name?

I'm just so pissed off at how this country is. THE PEOPLE'S MENTALITY IS SO HOPELESS IT'S SUCH A SAD SAD CASE. Everyone is ignorant, selfish and corrupt. No matter how hard they try, sadly, I don't think that they'll ever be able to exterminate CORRUPTION from the Indonesian blood. It's been going on for so long I think all Indonesians now carry it as a GENETIC TRAIT. And you wonder why instead of moving forward, this country is going faster and faster in REVERSE compared to its neighboring countries.

I just can't believe that after FOUR YEARS of being a T&T fan, I'm still screaming and ranting over the same thing: THE PIGS IN INDONESIAN CUSTOMS. I guess there really are some things in life that will never change, you can always count that they will be just as sucky (if not suckier) 10 years later as they are now.

You know, actually it's the Indonesian Customs that sorta kinda trained me not to be as obsessive-compulsive as I once was. Should I write them a thank you note for being so sucky and slow it actually CURED my OCD? XD

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Posted on > 04/23/2007 14:37pm by Nefretiri
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Remind me again to THOROUGHLY RESEARCH a movie before going to see it, because whoa, this was totally unexpected! Basically, I've been wanting to see this movie ever since I read an article about it in a magazine, and there was only ONE reason I was intrigued to watch it:

Hiroyuki Sanada.

Like, WTF is Hiroyuki Sanada doing in an American SCI-FI movie about astronauts saving the sun? So then few days ago I found out that Ami was also interested in watching this movie for the exact same reason.

HIROYUKI SANADA.

And you know what sucks the most?

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Posted on > 04/21/2007 22:36pm by Nefretiri
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God, it's been way too long since I last tweaked b2evo! That would be when... that Theobro Cocoa CM came out, BECAUSE I USED AN IMAGE FROM THAT CM! Oh geez, didn't that CM air centuries ago? So yes, I've literally forgotten where to tweak and how to tweak a b2evo layout, and what's most baffling is that after weeks of going crazy on Dreamweaver and on FTP, what came out was virtually NO CHANGE in the positioning of my posts and the sidebar, so what the hell took so long?! I have no idea! It's probably like those taking hours and hours doing make-up and ended up looking like you're NOT WEARING MAKE-UP AT ALL!!!

Anyway, I am changing things. This blog WILL BECOME A NORMAL BLOG (God I make it sound like it was ABNORMAL previously LOL). Whatever Takki will just go to the front page of HT now, since I can't seem to find time to type as extensively about Takki as I used to. Which is very sad. Both aki and I are going exactly the same thing with being so caught up in our jobs, we can hardly even find time to catch each other on MSN, and even if we do, it's like we squee for 10 minutes then we have to roll into bed. Even when we do have time, it's just been TOO TIRING to do anything else than just plop yourself onto your bed or couch and mindlessly watch television or DVDs.

We're so busy we download clips, but we don't watch them until weeks later. On Wednesday, we just realized that they were on HEY!HEY!HEY! two days before, and NOT the following Monday. Then we also forgot that the same day was actually CD release day, until CDJapan mailed us saying "Yo, your CDs were shipped off today." (not verbatim, obviously) And the night we finally got the energy to actually browse around and check for what's going on with T&T, we found out that T&T are gonna be in a bunch of new magazines (our MAJOR weakness), and PLUS, they're starting a new essay on TV Guide.

That's just the way it is now. So it will just be my random musings too here like what aki is doing, writing whatever I feel like writing, whenever I feel like writing. Maybe sometime I'd still like to blog extensively for pages and pages about a certain 5 minute clip of T&T but don't expect much of it, as I still haven't been able to properly sit down and screech about ROMEO's ofuro photos XD I still love Takitsuba to death and they will always be my #1 beloved boys, but I just need this blog to change.

And no, aki-chan, you won't ever have to yell those immortalized "THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!! THIS IS MADNESS!!!" words here because there is no way in hell you will ever see Tom or Jensen or Jared plastered on a takizawa-hideaki.net domain because it really will be... blasphemy... and madness XD But thank you for that WireImage raiding session of Tom-Jensen-Jared fu fu fu fu... <3 Oiii uragirimomo, Jared shashin hoshii desu ka? ==3

P.S.
All my old Takki Thoughts posts are still all here including the Takirens. You can find them through the archives and the categories. Member-protected entries still apply.

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Posted on > 04/20/2007 15:34pm by Nefretiri
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OMGWTF what is it with this annoying glitchessss!!! I think I ACCIDENTALLY (I SWEAR!!!!) deleted an entire page of users as I was cleaning up the inactive registrations AT THE GALLERY!!!!!

I know that I accidentally checked the CHECK ALL box at the bottom when I was scrolling down the drop down action menu, but I realized the CHECK ALL box was checked so I did an UNCHECK ALL and redo my one by one boxchecking at the inactive usernames, and I rescrolled up and down the page because I didn't wanna delete anyone, and I clicked SUBMIT... and what made me notice that I deleted an entire page of users is that I only checked 3 usernames and the deletion result was A PAGE LONG and as I was going at the results I saw some familiar names AND ONE OF THEM IS YOU, DITHERS!!!

I'M SO SORRY!

Dude, seriously... you know I won't delete you on purpose right??? *puppy eyes* I can't remember the rest of the names because when I saw I deleted Dithers I panicked and closed the window!!! YEAH, LIKE THAT'S GONNA UNDO THE DELETION *PUNCHES KICKS COPPERMINE* So if y'all knew for sure you registered on the same day Dithers did, well... you got accidentally deleted (Oh yes Nere, we are all so in tune with Dithers' online daily activities that we know when exactly she registered on my gallery LOL I'M NOT BEING HELPFUL AM I???) XDDDD

Long story short, if you are an early registrant and you've been able to login fine all this time and suddenly you CAN'T today (because of some Coppermine freak accident---I SWEAR I REVIEWED THE CHECKBOXES BEFORE I CLICKED SUBMIT WTFFFF), just re-register again with the same particulars you used before you got freak-deleted by Coppermine... and it should be just fine. If Coppermine is being a pain to you, contact me because I am the Good Witch of the North and I have the magic wand to fix everything for you
Sorry for the inconvenience!!!

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Posted on > 04/12/2007 10:29am by Nefretiri
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I'm back, and I speedeth downloadeth Romeo & Juliet and I can only say one thing after watching it:

I FEEL CHEATED!!!!

XDDDDDDD

If you haven't watched and would like NOT to be spoiled it is best not to click the "Read More" button... but then again, has my spoilerific warnings ever stopped you from clicking anyway? Not really... LOL. Formalities...

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Posted on > 04/10/2007 00:48am by Nefretiri
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Awwww he's taking a break? Hiatus?? This isn't the last, is it??

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Posted on > 04/06/2007 01:39am by Nefretiri
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Sorry this came a bit late... I got lazy...

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Posted on > 04/04/2007 00:21am by Nefretiri
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