Raya Holidays @ Cameron Highlands 6

Rose Centre’s entrance was still RM5 and we walked from the shops to the Rose Centre through the back roads. We were the only ones walking that road but I had put (barely) my trust on Golden, who claimed he had walked this road before.

Nodame Cantabile Live Action

It’s been… (checked back this blog) a few weeks since I updated this blog. There were so much things that I wanted to express but I couldn’t post them online. Lots of things happened in career life, friends and basically, once I’m at home, I’ll be in front of the pc or nb streaming songs or Jdorama. Finished Galileo | ガリレオ(2007), then watched Beauty & The Beast simply because Fukuyama was in it but still haven’t finished this.

Then I watched Nodame Cantabile (anime) and it was funny! Just that the characters are not as kawaii and gorgeous as the Nodame Cantabile Live Action!

If you love music, esp classical ones, humour & romance in anime-style acting, go for this!

From Lesson 7:

Chiaki confronting Nodame – 1 arm block

Chiaki confronting Nodame – 2 arms block

Got caught!

Love all the cast acting except for the poem sprouting writer (the actor in My Hero, My Boss – evil younger, weak but smart bro) but the poem’s quite “bright” :)

Nodame / Noda Megumi (piano) played by Ueno Juri won 51th Television Drama Academy Awards for this Nodame Cantabile and she definately deserved it! Of all the actors & actresses who acted in this Jdorama, she was the 1 who played the anime character to the dot! Her voice is sooo kawaii & sweet, not the annoying-you-wanna-slap-her type.

Of course, it helps that the lead actor Tamaki Hiroshi as Chiaki Shinichi (piano, violin, conducting) is also good looking with kissable lips. *smooch*

Another fav character is Mine, played by Eita (violin) who is passionate about rock music, then crossover to classic. That Takenaka Naoto as Franz Strezemann (Milch Holstein by Nodame) is a funny pervert chanting weird Japanese hehe.

Koide Keisuke as Okuyama Masumi (timpani) is not as funny as the anime character but he’s great at being a timpanist. His expressions are expressive, just not as gay as some gay guys I know. Plus, his side moustache makes him look like a pervert than gay haha. Mizukawa Asami as Miki Kiyora (violin) is gorgeous, classy and so confident.

I am watching it at Crunchyroll :D

Official site: Fuji TV – Nodame

Wikipedia – Nodame Cantabile (のだめカンタービレ, Nodame Kantābire)
DramaWiki – Nodame Cantabile

MSNShell

Download it from:

www.msnshell.com [the website is in Mandarin but the program is in English]

Bear’s MSN/Windows Live Messenger has slide pictures of himself – topless showing off his muscles and places he had been – he said it was from MSNShell. I had tried to download it previously but the installer wasn’t complete and finally managed to install it just now :D

For simplicity, MSN/WL Messenger is referred as WL in this post. MSNShell is an addon to WL, like Messenger Plus! Live.

The features (refer Review ratings for colour explaination) :

• Options
  • change the language – in this age, this option is a must
  • position of shell menu
• UI (User interface) Enhancement
  • auto hide WLM main window
  • Dash Board mode
  • weather (only in Mandarin)
• Individual Enhancement
  • slide display picture. Cool! You can use it like Imagini – DNA to visualize your dreams or tell something about yourself! :D
    
  • individual messages behind nickname. Current WL allow 1 msg only. Good for those who have long winding msg.
  • background picture which WL also has
  • skins (the flowery skins available from MSNShell are too distracting for me and especially if you are using it at work unless your work is to distract others)
• MSN Enhancement
  • multi-account login. Meebo and other online web messaging allow this but WL doesn’t.
  • hide ad banner. Cool!
  • individual chat logs beautified
  • add/delete emoticons in batches. Cool! WL allows adding/deleting emoticons 1 by 1.