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calmDay Four were spent on having lunch with Iman, Laura, Emalee & Ema eating all the waffle you want to eat at one of the restaurants in Namba Parks. It was my first meeting with Laura and Emalee, as they are also going to WEAVER concert in the evening together. We talked from one topic to another and I was really having fun talking about lots of fandom with them. They told me about how they traded a best arena seat of Arashi's 5x10 concert for WEAVER, and I was like wow I should have known you guys back then, so that I can go for the concert ^^; Laura and Em were planning of doing fan project book for WEAVER and I ended up joining in as well and this was how our picture looks like XD
seafood spaghetti with waffle as our side dish ^^ it cost me 1050yen ^^

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After lunch, we separated as Laura and Em have to continue finishing up the fan project book and Iman, Ema and I wonder around Namba streets, getting omiyages for our friends until 4.30pm before heading out to Quottaro Umeda Club for WEAVER concert.
It was funny how I get to see WEAVER twice in a year, one in Singapore and one in Japan, and I even wrote to them I'm from Malaysia but I've been attending your concerts in two different countries, guess I'm really a huge fan huh XD
The concert was awesome. The guys were friendlier compare to their time in Singapore, which I assumed because of language barrier. Oh-kun was indeed kakoii and he such as bully toward Sugi-kun and Toru-chan. They talked about each other secrets during the MC. During the concert, they even acknowledged us Malaysian fans and Sugi-kun said, Oh Malaysia, Thank You in English XDXD They performed most of their singles except for Hard to Say I Love You. Line 66 was a brilliant performance. During the performance, I love how sometimes Sugi-kun tried to make eyes contact with us and Oh-kun you was such a teaser during your solo guitar part ^^ After the concert they allowed us to take their picture and managed to snap lots of them from my side XD
The concert ended early and after saying goodbye to Iman, I managed to get back early for Mikineko No Holmes Suri & Arashi Ni Shiyagare since TSD was not airing that date. 

I happened to be in Japan when they said Jun had a new hairstyle and yes he indeed look 17 with this hair XD I really loved the feeling of getting to watch their shows on the original air date and missing it badly since now I'm back in Malaysia *sigh*
Basically I was not in my hotel until this morning and it was indeed were spent awesomely by sleeping as I spent the last night overnight at Fukui...
Went to Kanazawa from Saitama, for Bump Of Chicken concert in Ishikawa. The concert was really really DAMN AWESOME!! they perform most of the songs from their Good Luck, Cosmonaut, Smile and also Sharin no Uta was the best among the best!
The best of the concert would be when the four of them went down from the main stage to perform two songs at the small platform near my standing gate and to be able to Fuji-kun and Hiro-chan near the plain sight makes me go kyaa ^^; I was actually suprised that Fuji-kun actually talks a lot and Hiro-chan was a bit shy. Chama was hilarious and his story about how Bump Parka and how Stitch were included in this year goodies list was hilarious too. Hideo-san was cho-kakoii!
( Bump Of Chicken Gold Glider Tour 2012 )
Day 3 were spent on catching up sleeping and at night walked around my place road until Namba ( whenever I look at this name, Mizushima Hiro always come to my mind...huhu...) and the night there were so lively and I ended up loving it!~
( Kagiheya and Mikeneko! )
and I dunno why, but Sho was everywhere in Osaka ^^;

even inside the vending machine XD

last but not least, when we were wondering around Namba street, we came across this XD

Mario-san and the gang at the street XD and Mario-san even recognised us when we met again at another street and waved at us ^^v
So far it was good, and when I reunited again with Family Mart,ended up buying 2 Ohchan & Aiba's cover xD
The hotel was good, I still have funny Japanese, and peoples around are really friendly xD
Saw lots of shop selling stuffs like Book Off and I'm going crazy just by looking at it...
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Thank you notes from my colleagues...darn I'm sure gonna miss them..
Done packing for my trip and somehow I'm kinda of feeling nervous...
I'll have internet access from there and tomorrow I'll be able to get one of Aiba cover magazine (release on 2nd) first thing once I arrived XD
My room is in a mess at the moment...gah so lazy to do anything at the moment...
Last but not least my one month holiday officially starts today ^^v

So today will be my last day in BookXcess, after two years of working...
I'm not sure how am I feeling at the moment, as tomorrow I will be on my flight to Osaka. I guess the feeling is kind of a mix up of sadness and excitement of my trip. I'm not a person who show my true emotions and most of my colleagues thought that I'm really looking forward of leaving, which might be true in a way but when you work in one place for two years, you'll ended up getting attached to it. It was a place I can stay longer if things stayed the same. But usually happy and good things hardly stay forever.
I'm throwing a huge settle down by today. When I start my new place, it will be new feeling of a stranger all over again but I know I can take it.
I'm sad..but am happy too...which in the end I rather not thinking about it...

to follow Mikineko until the end...indeed the simple story lines interests me the most...
I still think Yoshitarou really need to build up his character more but Aiba did improved his acting skill, if to compare from the first episode's act.

This is the second drama of Ohno, after Maou that I think Riida is an amazing actor.
Enomoto Kei, a geeky, nerdy but a genius who is obsessed with keys and locks is really an interesting character. I loved the fact that Enomoto talks alot compare to real life Ohno Satoshi, with his scientific jargon about keys, locks and computer, on how they do it and how to solve it kind of situation.
Kagiheya is a How They Do It kind of mystery genre, which you have to think along with the main character on how the mystery can be solved instead of who did it. I love the way the mystery being projected out by Enomoto, who took the initiative by creating a miniature crime scene in such details and began his deductions about the case by using it, the fact that he main focus is the lock and how detailed he visualized out his miniature shows how obsessive he is.
Enomoto, in my opinion is a mystery character as I wonder when his obsessive toward locks and keys starts, what causes it and what's with the earphone being his only companion and what kind of music he did listened to? Funny how in this drama, I'm not interested in the cases, but I'm more interested in Enomoto's history and how his character will develop from the first episode onward.
As for Aoto Junko and Serizawa, I'm not so sure whether I like them or not yet, but I kind of feel annoyed with Junko at times and Serizawa half asses attitude irks me but these opinion will definitely going to change after few episodes I think.
The mystery was nice and deep, and I love the layout of how the mystery being projected out but this drama I can only watch whenever it being subbed sadly as the language Enomoto used, I can barely understand half of what he uttered through out the whole drama.
Compare to Mikineko, this is a serious drama in my opinion and it had been a while Ohno's acting had been put a waste to be frank. After Naruse, I really hope Enomoto can leave an impact as much as Naruse on me.
I also loved Kagiheya background music. Because the drama revolves around locks and keys, it seems the auto tunes sound kind of work well with the drama setting and even Face Down sound awesome on the drama itself (I'm not a fan of Face Down,sadly).
Compare to Mikineko, Kagiheya is my second favorite but Enomoto is my favorite character compare to Yoshitarou, character and expression wise but this might change as the drama progressed further which I hope by the end of the drama season, these two drama will not let me down.

Yes, Aiba is my ichiban but when it comes to acting Nino and Ohno's acting are my favorite. But this time around the drama plot of Mikineko interest me, and maybe because the rest of the casts were awesome in their own way and I love the chemistry between Katayama family, Holmes cat, Matsuko Deluxe's and even Ishizu not so sure whether I want to be a bad or good cop companion.
Mikineko drama focused on Who Did It kind of mystery and the main character is not the usual cool, hot and intelligent kind of character. I loved the fact that Katayama Yoshitarou is not a perfect character and have a lot of weaknesses and instead of focusing on surface of the character, they focused on the inside of the character's judgement. He is slow but he can still think by his own, have a good instinct and the fact that he want to believe instead of being a judgmental made his character strong without being influence by those around him. But his emotion is going to be a hindrance for him in the coming episode if he do not know how to control of it, for me.
The calico cat, Holmes is cute and when it changes to his alternate ego, Matsuko Deluxe's, was hilarious for me. There are part of the story that made no sense to me as how Hiroshi and Harumi can barged in the crime scene and police station as they pleased and the fact that the Captain kept refusing Yoshitarou's resignation letter, but somehow the drama was nice as it is.
I also loved the background music used. Is it me or the sound used is the same as the one used in BBC's Sherlock Holmes? or is it the sound itself is the official Sherlock Holmes theme? I really love the music transitions between the scenes from when Holmes made the appearance, when Yoshitarou kind of solve the case and among others.
Last but not least, Your Eyes by Arashi for Mikineko's theme song, I really loved the song and it kind of suited the drama, since besides mystery, it also focuses on families, friendship , hardship and togetherness needed in order to solve a case.
Overall for this drama, I need to wait for second episode in order to give out better judgement. Aiba is not a strong actor for me but the flaw kind of being covered by other strong casts in my opinion, which I'll still give it a chance until further impression impact.