I willingly crawled out of bed to catch Riida’s daily 5-minute segment from the morning radio show. Okay not that I woke up in the first place.. Couldn’t really sleep since 4.30 =p

Listening to: FM Yokohama ヨコハマ 84.7Mhz
Segment: Arashi Discovery by Ohno Satoshi
Time: 6.50-6.55am (JP time)

It definitely feels different from listening to the ones recorded and uploaded by other fans.. Today, a boy in grade 4 called in and he got to talk to Oh-chan (or rather, I suppose his recorded voice? lol!) :3 He likes strawberry shortcakes hahaha! And wants to be a dentist in the future I think. Oh-chan mentioned that soon it will be “Arashi matsuri 嵐祭り” at kokuritsu in late August!! Kick start of 5 x 10 ZOMG! There are many many songs that he wants to sing too, at their 10th anniversary concert tour. The funny high pitched voice in which Oh-chan speaks reminds me of Uta no Oniisan for some reason, not Kenta’s character but just his wacky IMAGE: stripey rainbow pants and all the weird stuff he dons XD

Following that, they played “Believe”! for about a minute before continuing with the show.. Minna san, do you think I can keep up with this everyday? Hahaha! I hope so! I wonder if Bunka hoso 文化放送 comes on only at this time of the day? It didn’t appear all day actually. Otherwise, I’ll be able to tune in to Aiba’s “Aiba Masaki のレコメン” and Kinki Kid’s “Kinki Kids どんなもんヤ！” on the same fm channel. Plus others like MatsuJun’s “Jun Style” on Nack5, Nino’s “Bay Storm” on Bayfm (which doesn’t show up at all! gah!) and Okada Junichi’s “Growing Reed” on J-wave (well I haven’t been following Junichi a lot other than his dramas and films, so him having a radio show makes me really curious!).

そう、僕らはずっと待ってる〜

I still cannot get over how funny this clip from Arashi no Shukudai is. Sho’s (plus Jun’s exclusive giggles which we hardly hear of recently.. so there you are Erfa, it’s sakumoto time!~) moments like this are like drugs.. I have a dose of them almost everyday, even if it means repeating and laughing over the same things over and over again. *beams*

Ok, silly.
Another Arashi fanart to end off a good day :3
Keep drawing!

Oh-chan and his love for fishes! The way he looks at them… <3
I really should do more of these silly unreferenced sketches yeah, hahaha.

” この瞬間あなたの瞳
繋がってるね Face to face
Nothing to say, but わかってるよ
今の気持ちは Feel alright!
いつも I ‘fish’ to be with you
ぼくのそばに “
〜 (Ohno Satoshi’s Top Secret hehehe XD)

Today I was browsing through some design books at Page One vivo before I caught the screening of Transformers II – which was pretty mind-blowing by the way – with my mother. The illustrations and designs made my head itch for inspirations and sort of motivated me to do new art. Creativity is never ending!

And so, late at night, I randomly began a quick spontaneous sketch of Sakurai Sho (referenced from the popolo pinup some time ago) which developed further into a wallpaper! I’ve been so obsessed with Sho’s “nyan nyan” game on Arashi no Shukudai but that’s not the only one at the moment ;) Anyway, here’s pretty boy Sho with his very famous drawing of the ear-less mouse. They can’t wait to be near nyan-nyan (sho-chan) hahaha <3 He has the cutest "nyan" ever!

one, two, three

3 versions (the mice are sketched in different colours) in 1024 x 768 resolution
Ah, yes you may use them as your wallpaper :D

After letting my drawing skills rust for a long while, I finally decided to pick up the pen/pencil again. It shouldn’t have been that way since the end of FYP, because it’s hard to regain a momentum after you’ve lost it. I kind of made up my mind to draw something every day, no matter how small or how complicated.

Right now my life is in a mess (not in that bad way like how it’s suppose to sound) and I would love to sort it out again by 1. finding time *oh it’s so hard* 2. blogging and revamping my entire domain (I miss it, the millions of things I want/wanted to blog about keep accumulating, and nothing ever gets done) 3. cleaning up my room (gahh) 4. getting all the freelance work done as soon as possible (in that way, I can then take my mind off it and finally do some other things) 5. completing the tasks on my long to-do list (so I can at long last strike them off one by one with satisfaction)

These are the little things that affect me and I currently feel very stuck; it’s very weird to move on in this manner. My life feels incomplete without getting these done 8| I’ve come to realise that I’m more of a passive kind of person, who does nothing productive unless stimulated by strong personal interests or driven by what someone else has initiated. I guess it would take a whole new level of determination and discipline, minus procrastination, to get things going.

Well, I could simply start with making drawing a habit. Cheer me on :3

0.05 black ink, quick sketches. Little resemblance, I know hahaha.
Pic1 – Sakurai Sho in Arashi’s new PV “Crazy Moon”
Pic2 – Sho doing the lie detector test
Will refrain from fangirling at the moment, hehe.