Dream more than Love

いまスピード上げて　Beat Together!　西へ東へ

ima SUPĪDO agete　Beat Together!  nishi e higashi e

劣等感　蹴散らして　ぶっ飛ばそうぜ New world!

rettoukan　kechirashite　buttobasou ze New World!

I've been planning to change my blog lay-out but I've been quite lazy *coughs* busy. But the other day, I had a sudden burst of creativity and patience. So now we get this blue thing up. It's not exactly what I had in mind, and I was originally planning on just sticking with the previous black and white lay-out. But I'm so illiterate when it comes to coding, and have no sense of which colors to use, so I guess one would just have to bear with me on this. But I must say, I think I kinda like it. （*´▽｀*）

This is the tenth version of my blog. Since the first three versions were default blogger templates with no banners, this here is still my seventh banner [see previous banners HERE]. The base image is a screenshot from the last episode of Uta no Prince-sama Maji Rabu 2000%. I chose the title Dream more than Love which is the first track from the Unit Drama CD featuring Ranmaru, Masato and Ren. I'd like to say that there is some sort of meaning or explanation on why I chose this title, but actually there's none. I just really like the song! ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪

The text "In my eyes, your're all eternally sparkling stars." was a line Haruka said to the boys in the same episode, when they were feeling so discouraged after watching the performance of HE★VENS. I decided to put that in as well because I totally agree with her on this! Ever since I've watched the Uta no Prince-sama anime last January 2012, I seem to have been caught up and trapped in the fandom! I'm so addicted to everything related to it to the point of being embarrassingly loud, fangirlcrazy, and creepy. In my mind I know it's ridiculous, but I can't explain it either! I just know I just love these 2D boys so much~ ♡(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)♡

And what's even more bizarre is that among all of them, the object of my most obsessive affections and rabid fangirling is none other than Hijirikawa Masato~♡ This is so weird, because I didn't even like him at first! I don't like these stiff and traditional characters, I don't like weird hairstyles and I don't like moles on anime faces! I seriously don't even remember when I started to like him! I was choosing between Tokiya and Otoya, then decided on Natsuki/Satsuki, but I don't remember how Masato got in the picture! (Oh Masa, you little sneak~♡) But now he's my sole reason for existence ... he's all I ever think about ... he's the only one I want! ... he's my most favorite among all the favorites!!! (less creepy, I hope? >_< )

So when my sister (who's not a fan but has been FORCED to know the franchise) alerted me as to the upcoming 1/8 PVC Figure of Masato by ALTER, I got so excited I immediately, without question, without hesitation, without any doubt, decided to pre-order!!! 

I mean, just look at this most lovely thing~ (♥ω♥ ) ~♪

The Masato Swag! ♡
Look at those detailed creases on his clothes! And he even has a POWER H Belt!

It stands at 230mm (so tall!!!) and is due out on April 2014, together with the Ren figure. (Otoya and Tokiya figures get released this month!). As much as I want to collect them all, they are kinda pricey. Masato figure alone costs 7800yen (roughly 4500php!). I think this is presently the most expensive PVC toy I've ever purchased! I will need to work my @$$ off for this baby~

BUT! Who could resist!?! He even comes with two expressions! Happy and Grumpy! LOL

Masa, my lovely prince~

I'm totally so excited for this!!! And even more psyched when they announced in last night's Uta no Prince-sama 3rd Stage live concert that there will be a THIRD SEASON for the anime on 2015!!! My goodness, if they start planning until that long then this may perhaps be the one of the most (if not THE MOST) successful otome game franchises ever! I know it's still so far off, but it just goes to show that the boys are indeed ETERNALLY SPARKLING!!! ☆ So until then, I will definitely continue to follow and love and support them! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

And until I get my MasaTOY, I'll just be fangirling with these...

Now let’s speed up!　Beat together! 　To the west, and to the east!

This inferiority complex,　 kick it about　and send it flying to the new world!

~ Dream more than Love ~

NOT-SO-MAJOR-MAJOR REVAMP TO BECOME LIKE A FLOWER

I was writing about something else, but I somehow ended up making a new banner for my blog. It needed to change anyway, since version 8.5 was supposedly just for the Christmas season. And so I tinkered around with stuffs, and now it's 5-ish am, and I didn't get to sleep! Oh well... ^__^;

Proudly presenting my brand new banner and blog title, Hana ni Nare!

This time we say hello to Komiyama Yoh and Nagashima Haruna, one of my most favorite couples from one of my most favorite mangas, Koukou Debut!♥ Even though I've read this over and over, but I still get major goosebumps whenever I see these two lovey-dovey together.♥ It took me a while to pick the pictures to use. I was initially planning on using one image only, but somehow ended up with so many, and finally decided to pick four. They don't totally match the words, but I'm too tired and excited to care anymore! =P

Hana ni Nare is the title from one of my most favorite songs from one of my most favorite bands, flumpool. The Japanese text reads: 笑って 泣いて 歌って 花になれ (Waratte Naite Utatte Hana ni Nare), and was taken from beautiful lyrics that went like this:

"Laugh, cry, sing, and become a flower. Blossom fully, then one day overflow your radiance."

I'll post the PV here and you can get complete lyrics from HERE.

(Yamamura Ryuta is oh-so-delicioso ~ ♥)

I put all of these together using MS Paint, because I live in a cave and has nada Photoshop skills. Maybe it's a little bland and boring, but it suits me just fine. ^___^

Why Yoh and Haruna, and why Hana ni Nare? Well, simply because in the manga you see Yoh and Haruna grow, develop and bloom to their fullest with each other's support. And since the start of this blog, it has been my aim to grow, develop, and bloom to my fullest piffle princess potentials as well. But of course that's just random explanation I made up. I just really wanted to make a Koukou Debut banner, and I just wanted to plug flumpool. =P

Now it's time to hit the sack. z___z

CHRISTMAS BANNER

Got myself a new Christmas banner. Or should I say, STAMP!? hehehe...

It's still Sawako and Kazehaya from KimiTodo. Too lazy to change lay-out and still loving this manga/anime. I heard the second season will start airing this January. *keeps fingers crossed* I still have yet to watch the live-action movie. I don't think it's available yet.

I'm actually quite fond of this black and white blog design cos it's clean and does not strain the eyes, so I think I'll keep it this way for now. I'm not good with HTML codes at all so the best I can do is change the banner every now and then with some random favorite images. But I'm also not good with Photoshop etc as all my images are simply edited with MS Paint (loser me~ XD).

Well, let's say good bye to version 8.0: Ephemerality and say hello to version 8.5: Snow-Capped Dreams! ^____^

NEW LOOK. SAME OLD ME.
ephemerality: a piffle princess story version 8.0

I finally decided to take the time to change my blog lay-out. I've been meaning to do this for quite some time but has always been procrastinating. I can't understand HTML at all so changing the lay-out has always been a painful task which pretty much involved a lot of guesswork. But this time I merely conformed to blogger's custom templates, took a nice pic and edited in text using MS Paint (I still don't know how to use Photoshop, fufufufu...T__T), and with a little bit of tweaking ended up with this.

TA-DAH!!! >___< I must admit, it's really nothing to be proud of, or worth complimenting. But you can be proud of one thing: that I've finally returned to my blog after bumming around for 6 months, and you can compliment for another: because I am simply the most beautiful creature on earth... Or perhaps the most senseless. XD So anyway, back to the lay-out... The banner features Kuronuma Sawako and Kazehaya "Love of My Life" Shota from the recently ended anime, Kimi ni Todoke (Reaching You). It's been a while since I've been fixated over an anime series, and KimiTodo simply knocked me silly and giddy with all the Kuronuma x Kazehaya Love *hearts* so I just simply had to feature them! I got this image from the first volume of the manga.

As for the title... I was searching for a word that would connote something that's only impermanent and fleeting, since I don't really intend to stick with this lay-out for so long (well, it really depends on my procrastination powers, so I don't want to raise your hopes up yet...). Found the word "EPHEMERAL" in Thesaurus.com and supposed that I liked the sound of it. I initially planned to combine it with other words and ended up with titles like, "Ephemeral Phase" and "Road to Ephemerality" but none of them sounded quite right. Eventually I decided to keep it short and simple, and so I just went with the word, Ephemerality.

This is apparently the 8th lay-out since the birth of this blog in 2003, but I honestly don't quite remember anymore. During the long hiatus, I actually did consider closing down this blog and maybe start anew somewhere else, or perhaps just simply stop blogging altogether. But every time I think about leaving this, it pains me. I may not have the best blog and may not make the most frequent updates, but I have somehow painstakingly maintained this site for SEVEN years, and I think that really speaks a lot. This blog and I... we've been through a lot, especially during the first few years when I was still spending long hours in internet cafes to maintain this site. I recorded a lot of my memories here, rambled about anything-under-the-sun, and most importantly, met a lot of new friends through my blog. I primarily created this blog as an outlet to channel and as a buffer to support my overflowing thoughts and emotions, but now, deep down in my heart, I somehow quite believe that there are also people who actually care enough to read this, and who enjoy what I write, and maybe were, in some way or another, touched by my thoughts. This gives me great pleasure and I am overwhelmed and simply filled with appreciation and gratitude for all these years of support. Thank you very much.

And as I close this entry, I just want to say that IT WAS NOT MY INTENTION TO MAKE THIS ACADEMY AWARD-LIKE SPEECH, LOLz! But what the heck, I have successfully ended up making my comeback entry extra-cheesy and emo, and I'm too lazy and sleepy to fix all that so we'll just leave it that way.

Bye for now!!! (^o^)/