Okay, was I BLIND when I clickety on the CDJapan's ONE DVD listing on December 5, or...
WAS THAT BUTTON TO CLAIM A 500 YEN CHRISTMAS COUPON NOT THERE YET!!!!!!

Seriously CDJAPAN HAS GOT TO STOP DOING THIS!!!!!! Why the heck do they ALWAYS give me coupons RIGHT AFTER I've placed my order??!?!?!!! This isn't even funny anymore, like WTF?????? And the only reason I discovered this so-called Christmas coupon was because they sent me yet another NewsMail, in which of course my eyes popped and my heart almost stopped when I saw ANOTHER NEWSMAIL IN MY INBOX?!?!?! It was like YAYYYY and NOOOOOOOOO at the same time but then I open it and saw it was a repeat NewsMail for ONE and was like... nyeh... But you know, being the Takki-OCD that I am, I just had to clickety on the listing again to see IF ANYTHING WAS DIFFERENT and well, YES, SOMETHING WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT WITH THE PAGE... THERE IS A CLICKY ON THE PAGE TO GET ANOTHER 500 YEN OFF THAT WASN'T THERE BEFORE!!!!!!!

Oooooh I feel sooooo MAD but am I suppose to what, cancel my order and pre-order again??? That's just like having to line up for a week and then getting out of your spot and lining up all over again from the end of the line!!! But why is it that Takitsuba's stuff ALWAYS get listed RIGHT BEFORE COUPONS ARE RELEASED??? I'm sure fans of whoever is releasing a CD that got listed TODAY aren't complaining... argh... I should've waited, but SERIOUSLY, with all the FIRST PRESS and LIMITED RELEASE phrases hanging all over the page, WOULD YOU WAIT???

LOL~ I didn't think so XD

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Posted on > 12/10/2007 21:14pm by Nefretiri
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So I opened my Gmail this morning and saw another e-mail from CDJapan in which the subject reads:

WHAT THE FRAK!!!!

In a general case, you'd think OH HOW GENEROUS OF THEM!!! But NOT when CDJapan offers me a 500 yen discount ONE WEEK AFTER I PLACED MY ORDER FOR SOME T&T SOMETHING!!! They do this almost every time!!!! I think they did this for Ho!Summer or one of the solo concert DVDs last year!!! HOW EVIL!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can't use this 500 yen coupon anymore unless I cancel my previous order and then re-order it again? Which is too much work and I don't feel like doing it coz then I'll be bumped to the end of the line in which I probably won't be getting First Press anymore or something... not that the First Press is anything important or anything but OK point being, I'm just lazy! So unless T&T lists their SAMURAI by July 31, that coupon is going to burn to ashes

Rawr CDJapan!!!!!!!! Zurueeeeeeeee~~~!!!!

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Posted on > 06/08/2007 11:23am by Nefretiri
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Tadaima~
This trip was sooooo damn tiring for me that I can't wait to go home. I think that I can never live in Japan. I'll die out of misery FATIGUE! But once in awhile for a trip is OK desu! It's kinda a contradicting feeling too... it's like, I can't wait to go home, but also not enough time because there are still bajillions of things I still haven't done in Tokyo, or BOUGHT!!! But the thing is that THERE ISN'T ENOUGH LUGGAGE SPACE!!! Seriously I had to restrain so much shopping on the last few days just because I wouldn't know HOW exactly to lug them to the shinkansen back to Osaka and then to Malaysia and then to Indonesia (God, I make so many stops LOL) But anyway, I'm glad to be home... and relieved that back at work my subordinates were all able to hold the fort while I'm gone hehe...

I haven't had the chance to actually talk about some of my thoughts after leaving the concert hall. I was chotto pissed, and now even MORE pissed at that psychotic nutball known as that crazy apple beeyotch that's been stalking Takki all around this tour!!! She was actually at our Osaka con too! WTF!!! I heard someone scream something weird and I couldn't catch what exactly she screamed, this was during the end of the 1st MC though, and then aki told me that it seemed to be the crazy apple chick because she screamed: "SHINIGAMI! SHINIGAMI!!!" It was PRETTY LOUD and distinct and I'm pretty sure Takki heard her but he didn't flinch a single bit. I really hope that the T&T fans her immediately jump her and stab her to death or something because hell, if she was next to me I'd probably do that, or at least reprimand her to just LEAVE OUR TAKKI ALONE!!!!!

Why exactly am I pissed at this crazy chick?! Because throughout the concerts I felt that despite Takki is genki and all that, I can SEE and feel that he has changed somewhat in his attitude towards the fans. He used to be the friendly one, always reaching out to fans, touching them, making eye contact, and Tsubasa would be the opposite. But now, it's the other way around OMG, Takki feels so distant even when he's walking by the fans on the hanamichi, I rarely see him make eye contact or even LOOK UP towards the fans. He would just wave while passing by WITHOUT making eye contact! The only people he would touch are like... BABIES and LITTLE KIDS!!! (which was good for me because during the nibu I was sitting smack right in the oyako block so he made A LOT OF STOPS on my block hahaha) XD Like the time when Takitsuba appeared in the middle of the center arena mini-stages, the minute a crane swings by, Takki didn't spend another second on his mini-stage but he immediately jumped on it like he couldn't wait to get out of there, while I saw eh Tsubasa was still like dancing and waving to the fans on his mini-stage with the crane waiting for him!!! This happened on both shows, like Tsubasa stayed longer among the fans in the arena while Takki quickly jumped on his crane to get the hell outta there!

I thought I was the only one who noticed those little things but when I talked to Aki and Jam about it, they felt the same way too. And we were just wondering why he changed and the only reason we could come up with was probably the madness of that crazy apple chick. I don't get why this chick isn't banned from all the concerts already?! First, she exhibits such a crazy obsession that I believe is an endangerment not only to the artist but TO THE OTHER FANS AS WELL!!! Like I wouldn't want to get stabbed (literally) from the back just because some unstable crazy chick decides to prove that I'm an immortal being or some crazy sh1t like that!!! And most of all, I am very angry if she really turns out to be the reason why Takki changed into such a distant person now. Plus, this crazy onna really give all the fans A FREAKIN' BAD NAME!!!! Now Takki's gonna think that all fans are rabid psychoes like her

Sigh... I don't know. I'm just very disturbed and bugged by this. I just really hope that this woman won't pose any sort of danger to Takki in the future. Knowing how unstable and coo-coo her head is. I feel like yelling at her on her stupid blog but the last URL I had of hers was moved and I don't know where she blogs now (I don't stalk stalkers LOL)!

Seriously, crazy apple chick needs to GET A FREAKIN' LIFE!!! I'll never forgive her if she really did "break" our happy Takki!!! God, fandom just isn't the way it used to, is it?

Categories > rant, takizawa hideaki / 843 words / Permalink
Posted on > 06/04/2007 17:00pm by Nefretiri

 
 
 
 

Wow, I've been running around here and there I didn't even have time to sit down and biiiiiiitch about my Spiderman fiasco on May 2. There goes being one of the first people among my friends to watch Spiderman 3 because I ended up watching ONLY HALF of the movie. Grrr. Maybe it's a good thing I didn't get to biiiiiitch about this yesterday because it wouldn't have came out pretty, and most probably full of obscene words. Now that I'm calmer, I'll probably just use lesser obscene words? XD

Just in case there are, again, people who take things too literally, the title is just a form of speech, K?

> READ MORE...

Categories > rant, film / 1090 words / Permalink
Posted on > 05/04/2007 10:23am by Nefretiri
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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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