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Just because. =p Tried to pick out 30 of my favourite songs ever


wasn't easy （;´▽｀A``


So um, starting countdown!


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(Note: I've linked YT vids for reference XD Just click the song title)



30. FIRE! - Last Dracul Saishuu Show ~ Death Vulcan no Fuuin [Sailormoon Musical]

Kanbe Miyuki's final performance as Sailormoon. RIP Miyuki, you were and always will be my fav Moon! 。・ﾟﾟ･(≧д≦)･ﾟﾟ･｡


29. Kimi ga Ita Monogatari - See-Saw [.hack//LIMINALITY ending song]

.hack series = epic win xD Throw in Kajiura's music and Chiaki's voice and we've goone beyond epic. Ahh..I miss those days when it was only See-Saw around. (￣▽+￣*)


28. Kagami no Kuni no Alice - Ogata Megumi

Used to be my fav seiyuu at one point =\ Sniff..


27. Elegy - Hirai Ken

Beautiful. And sad.


26. Ai wa Towa ni - Sakura Taisen Kayou Show ~Benitokage~ [Kanna, Sumire song]

Ah, Benitokage. My fav ST stage show <3 Tragic love story between the good guy and the bad guy. To quote Mocchi: Iyaa..subarashii! XD Tanaka Mayumi and Tomizawa Michie were so frickin awesome in this! If only Tomizawa didn't retire early T_T (But she came back in the end for Shin Ai Yueni so all's good :D) [Random seiyuu fact: Tanaka voices Monkey D. Luffy in the One Piece anime XD]


25. Raison D'Etre - Nightmare [Claymore ending song]

Yomiiiiiiii!! <3 (Maybe it's just me but I always thought he looked like a male version of Koda Kumi xDDDD)


24. Retsu no Matataki - JapahariNET [Airmaster op song]

Anime was pretty meh..fighting was decent..but this song is KICK ASS!


23. First Love - Ono Erena

Bet you were thinking Utada Hikaru =p Erepyon~!! Don't gooooooo~ *emo*


22. 1000 no Kotoba - Koda Kumi [Final Fantasy X-2]

So pweeetty... *_*


21. Stargazer - Masuda Yuka [Ikkitousen XX op]

Go go go takoyaki powaaaa!! ^____^ Yuka pwns j00


20. Korogaru Ishi ni Nare - AKB48 Team K

~We are the Team K!!~


19. Eraser-Memoire d'une fleur- - Alice Nine.

So.... white! omg, don't you just wanna huggle Shou!? No? Then I'll just grab him for myself :D Shou-kun <3 So.damn.cute. And his voice...*melts*


18. Danzai no Hana ~Guilty Sky~ - Kosaka Riyu [Claymore ending song]

Awesome song. Nuff said.


17. Sasae - AKB48 Team K

*starts bawling* T_T My Team K.... This song always brings a tear to my eye. =\


16. Rinbu Revolution - Okui Masami [Shoujo Kakumei Utena opening song]

Utena was sheer genius and a classic in anime history. If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it NAO. The Rose Bride awaits in her Castle of Eternity. :3


15. End Roll - AKB48 K5 Unit Song

Yeah~ yeah~ end-do rooru~ Love this song. It took about 2-3 sittings to finish K5 lol. But the more I listened to the audio rips it started to grow on me. Now K5 is one of my fav stages to listen to (still pretty tedious to watch though =p) My ideal K stage would have K4's group songs and K5's unit songs. Perfect XD


14. Calling - Oda Kaori [Baccano! Ending song]

So peaceful~


13. Kimi wa Pegasus - AKB48 K3 Unit Song

Kyaaaaaa~! Sae-man kakkoi!!! *dies* Yeah, I don't care how overplayed this song is at concerts. =p It's got Sae and that's enough.


12. Fake Face - Zwei

Seriously, this band is so underloved. They have a ton of awesome songs too. >.<


11. Forest - Emily Bindiger/Kajiura Yuki [El Cazador de la Bruja OST]

One of my favourite Kajiura tracks. So mystical~ xD Bee Train produces the anime, Kajiura produces the music for it, perfect combo.


10. RIVER - AKB48

LIVER! LIVER! LIVER! XDDDD Gotta love the fireworks effects :3


9. Tobenai Agehachou - AKB48 Undergirls

Tobenai >>>>>> Iiwake :3


8. Lovers Again EXILE

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3


7. Keibetsu Shiteita Aijou - AKB48

My favouritest AKB song ever! Has been right from the start when I seriously starting getting into them. Also the song that made me notice Sae and her kickass hairdo. XD When I was watching this PV way back then, I just knew she was gonna be my oshimen lol. Sadly they don't really perform this song in concerts anymore T_T Damn you Aki-P...


6. Prisoner of Love - Utada Hikaru [Last Friends theme]

T^T So heartbreaking. I watched the whole series in one sitting while bawling at every other episode. Also, the album this song is on is pretty awesome too. Just goes to show that Hikki should just stick to Japanese albums *fp* Ofc, now she's going on hiatus. Boo...


5. Jewels - Alice Nine

First ever Alice Nine song I ever heard and I was hooked immediately. Shou-samaaaaa <3


4. Kimi ga Iru Kara - Sugawara Sayuri [Final Fantasy XIII Theme]

I had this song on repeat for days when it first came out. Love the lyrics, the music everything. Also, FANGUUUUUUU!!! XD Fang x Vanille will pwn your OTP!


3. Atashi no Subete ~Die for you~ - savage genius [Simoun Insert song]

I LOVE this song. LOVELOVELOVE. It's so sad and bittersweet, just like the ending scene it played in. Shit, now I feel like rewatching the whole damn series. T_T Simoun's definitely one of my top 10 animes ever.


2. Chiisana Hoshi ga Oriru Toki - Kuribayashi Minami [Mai Hime insert song]

<3 Cheesy but I love it. So? XD



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1. Toki ni Ai wa - Okui Masami [Shoujo Kakumei Utena movie insert song]

THIS. It's been what, 7? 8? years since I heard it and I can still listen to this on repeat for hours on end. Seriously, nothing beats the dancing scene in the movie, it's just so surreal, a masterpiece for its time. (Yeah, I'm overexagerrating, so sue me =p) With that...

*cues the Egg Speech*

Sekai wo kakumei suru tame ni!!

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Continuing from where I left off in the last post...

We had lunch, got on the bus and off we went to the airport! ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ If only we knew what was to come..

Our flight was at 5.10pm and everything was alright, we even bought some yummy Panna Cotta while waiting in the boarding area (Pics to come!)

It was snowing pretty heavily so they delayed the flight by half an hour. But they still boarded us, and by then the snow had to be at least 2 inches? (＾＾ゞ

So we boarded, but couldn't take off as planned cause of the snow. We sat in that plane for more than TWO.BLOODY.HOURS. And in the end they said that they couldn't take off in that condition and sent us back to the terminal.

Well, whaddya know.. they CANCELLED the flight!! ＼(*｀∧´)／ asdfghjkjhgfdsasdfghjk

And, not just ours, but basically the whole airport was effectively shut down.





Soooo... we had to go out and re-book our flight for the next day. We went to queue.

Guess what?

Only ONE counter was open. And EVERY.FRICKIN.FLIGHT was cancelled.

Can you imagine the number of people? (・∀・)

No? Well, let me give you an idea






Guess how long we stood in line? (　 ﾟ ▽ ﾟ ;) 3 HOURS!! (￣□￣；)
And we still weren't anywhere close. Also, people who were behind us earlier was now waaay in front.
I wonder why... (￣へ ￣ 凸

Luckily, they had opened some new counters and some of us waited in line while the rest went to queue at the new counters.

FINALLY! We changed our flight, the next day to Bristol at 10am. （‐＾▽＾‐）

BUT!

Because of the snowstorm there was no buses/taxis running AT ALL. And, because by the time we managed to change our flight it was already 1am, we decided to just camp in the airport.

Oh mai..

A scene from the airport:




It was like this everywhere, I even saw people bunking down in the toilets where it was warm. (Don't worry, they were on tables and lucky for them it didn't stink)

Mai mai.. this is one experience I'll never forget.
And to think we used to gawk at those rows of sleeping people in the Dubai airport.
When you think about it, at least they had nice soft carpets.
We had a hard, freezing linoleum floor and the area stank of cigarette smoke. (We were near the exits)

Around maybe 5am the airport staff came back to work and started giving out those military-ish blankets. Well, thanks a lot guys. Why not wait until we've turned into icicles before arriving? ((o(-゛-；)

We were supposed to check in at 8am so we were checking every now and again.

Around 7-ish (I think) they updated the flight status. Guess what? ^___________________________________^


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F.L.I.G.H.T.C.A.N.C.E.L.L.E.D

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(°Д°；≡°Д°；)

Oh FUCK.
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To be continued

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Happy New Year everyone!! o(〃＾▽＾〃)o

Long overdue post about Milan, heh. Still waiting on some pics, that'll hafta wait for part 2 then =3

*NOTE*: I was gonna do them day by day originally, but since all the pics are jumbled up, oh well.

*cracks knuckles* Here we go


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Okay, obligatory sightseeing pics,


Duomo Cathedral

Awesome architecture here, the whole thing is carved out of marble. (ﾉﾟοﾟ)ﾉ




Piano steps, it made sounds whenever ppl stepped on it. This was cute, but ofc, don't expect the 5th Symphony from this. =p




Plaza Vittorio Emmanuele II

Not much inside actually, there's a Prada, Gucci, LV and a couple more shops inside but not exactly the main ones. I like the structure is all. (-^□^-)




Random snowy park.
Who knew Milan snowed so much? (*￣Oﾉ￣*)
Srsly, I thought I was in Russia for a while there.




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And now, on to the FOOD!!

~2nd Day~

LUNCH

It's sorta like beef patty, with cheese and spinach wrapped in ham in the center. A little dry, but it was ok.




Grilled Chicken with spinach (Italians really love their spinacchi eh? (^▽^;) )
Had a bite of this, it was good, not as dry as it may look.



DINNER

For some reason, Milan seems to be devoid of restaurants... seriously. We took almost an hour just to look for an affordable place. It's either all dessert cafes or gelato shops. (￣_￣ i)

So, because we were starving, freezing and tired, we decided to just go back to our hotel and ask reception for a place to eat again. (The night before we had asked him and he recommended this great place. Pics en route =3) The day before it was, 'Take the 2nd left'. Tonite he said, "First left" So on we went!
And this is how they prepared it xD

Moe? (￣▽+￣*)




~3rd Day~

Dinner

Tonite, not the 3rd left, but the 1st right! (￣▽+￣*) Ahh.. gotta love the receptionist guy. www

On a side note, this place is run by some Chinese people (IBC? (＾ε＾)), but there were still communication errors lol (When we started speaking Mandarin to them they were like O_o). They also seem to be highly amused by us Malaysians ( ￣っ￣) Is it so wrong to converse in 4 different languages/dialects at a time? (￣□￣;)!!

Mmm, after drooling over my friend's steak the previous night, we decided to order our own

Steak w/mushroom sauce. Mmm.. I LOVE steak. raburaburaburabu

Who knew Italian steaks were so good?




Seafood linguini.

It's so.frickin.fresh!! Oh mai.. and they don't stinge on the seafood too.

Pasta here is really different from the ones back home. They're pretty minimalistic over here, especially on the sauce. Doesn't stop them from having tasty, delicious pasta though. (*゜▽゜ノノ゛☆





~4th Day~

What was supposed to be our last day. Little did we know....... 。・ﾟﾟ･(≧д≦)･ﾟﾟ･｡

But that's for another post. For now, MOAR food!!

We went back to the restaurant on the '2nd left' for a quick lunch before heading to the airport.


Carbonara

Not as creamy as the ones you find back home. You can actually finish the whole thing without feeling 'zai'
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Linguini Vongole

Basically just clams lol. It's like olio based, so not much sauce. Mmm.. Oh, and I ordered a cappucino, just to try. For someone who doesn't drink coffee, I think Italian coffee is pretty good. o(^▽^)o Not too strong, not too milky/sweet.



Seafood tagliatelle.

Also, tomato based pasta in Italy is actually delicious. Normally I don't order any tomato-based pasta, but the ones here are goooood. (°∀°)b You can hardly tell it's there. Doesn't kill the whole pasta, not like at home where they just pour in the sauce like they're feeding 10 people.




(TBC)

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