Ayu's concert tickets not selling well? + Ayu GemCEREY Shoot by RYAN CHAN

Saw this little Ayu news on Tuesday that her concert tickets at Aomori is not selling sell, so they are saying Ayu's popularity has dropped. =/

And why did they used an old Ayu photo that's like 10 years ago? [I'm pretty sure this one is from RAINBOW era]. Okay, purposely to indicate that Ayu is just not as popular as she was in the past right? I hate when I see this kind of news. Which singer's tickets sales are always forever selling well? And it's only that particular region, maybe there just happens that there isn't much Ayu fans there. The fact that Ayu has such a strong fan base be it TA or us overseas fans is already a big deal. She's still doing good. She's still our Jpop Queen. And why u reporters didn't mention that? Ha!

Anyway there's just too many negative news around lately. Besides the one above, came across news of death comes to her stylist Ushiko and the actor Masaki Koh who appeared on her how beautiful you are pv. Double sadness. And Ayu got a little accident during her concert with heavy blow on her knee due to machinery problems. I'm so scared when I see the words 'heavy blow'. I just go 'Ouch!' But she said she is okay so I supposed she is since she's getting around well and continuing her concerts. That's really worrying cos I remembered she once got a little accident with a needle piercing her in her dress back in 2008?? That was really hurtful to hear that!!


Okay, something nice for now. I see Ayu all pretty for her photoshoot!! oh my, why Ryan chan's photography is so good?? Ayu is always pretty looking with him as the photographer!! =)

I love her smile~~ ^-^

I love this elegant look too. But the necklace with the cross sideways... is that right? lol.

I've seen comments of people saying how dry her hair is here. I supposed it was intentionally done? I think it's really beautiful. I didn't think that was really dry. I think my hair is even drier!! I have got more hair problems than ever! hahaa.

Please, more good Ayu news after this!! ^o^

Ayu [Love again] album

I haven't do my review on Love again so here's it!

Ayu's album seem to be more and more expensive over these years. I remember her past album prices are like around $22 but now her album [Love again] is selling at $26.90 at CD stores. urgh. I miss the time where album price are cheaper! And now is usually importing HK press in which I guess is ok so long as there's a little Chinese translation sheet booklet. I wonder how's the TW press like? I don't remember getting any TW press for Ayu albums so far..

Tracklist
01. *Wake me up
02. *Song 4 u
03. *Missing
04. SAKURA
05. *Melody
06. task’n'bass
07. Bye-bye darling
08. *snowy kiss
09. *Sweet scar
10. petal
11. glasses
12. untitled for her… story 2
13. Gloria
14. Ivy
15. *You & Me

This time I shall write my Top 5 favourite songs!
1. snowy kiss
2. Wake me up
3. Sweet scar
4. Ivy
5. Song 4 u

I love snowy kiss so much now cos the lyrics made me feel for Ayu. It's such a sad breakup song. The whole song is exactly how I feel about relationships too. (T_T)  The last 2 stanza is what I loved the most.:

Just looking at your eyes, I know that you can’t speak
So I kiss your cheek as you sleep
After that, I will leave without leaving even footprints
And when this snow melts, forget everything about us

The you who loved me, the you I loved
The me whom you loved, the me who loved you
Snow, don’t stop, just continue to fall and pile up
Until the path we’ve walked together can’t be seen anymore

That's why it's called snowy kiss. And it can make me so sad after listening to it. I love the background vocals too. It's really a great Ayu song in this album.

Maybe I suddenly just love upbeat songs more? haha. Wake me up is certainly a good one. I wonder is it so hard to compose cos there are 3 composers for this song. It's really cool anyway. Is this song about waking up from relationships? It seems so...but maybe also a good one as an alarm in the morning. Imasugu wake up wake up♪

I love Sweet scar cos it's a quite a slow ballad. And no wonder I love it cos is DAI's work. haha. And not to mention how much I love the pv of just Ayu alone. Simple and nice.

Ivy is more about Ayu's thoughts. I really really feel the same as her when I see the lyrics of this song. There are so many times where I keep thinking about what I'm doing and my life. So much of those questions. Especially:

Ahh, unable to achieve happiness myself
Just who can I bring happiness to?

Ahh, in this short span we call life
Just how much can we really smile from the bottom of our hearts?

I've always been feeling the same too, Ayu. It seems really hard to smile sometimes... :(

Song 4 u is about self-doubt, and so is quite a few questions type of lyrics. Whenever I see Ayu's lyrics like this, I feel like writing the same too. I used to do that. But I'm not sure would it sound nice as a song. haha. But Ayu's songs are indeed great inspirations to begin with. (ˆ_ˆ) Anyway, Song 4 u has got the best pv in this album!! The whole concept is the best ever! I totally love it! Be it the effects or Ayu's costume. I think Ayu should do something deep in her pvs for every album, with some meaning behind it that we fans can discover. haha.


Now come to my first impression of the other songs [besides the ones with pvs]. The 3 ones I liked are  SAKURA, petal and glasses.
But now I don't think I like SAKURA. I think the bridge part is nice but not the rest. I know it's a sad song written for someone. But I don't feel much for it either so I don't like it now.
petal lyrics are so cool!! I thought exactly the same when I first saw this song name, the thing about peeling off the petals of a flower saying 'he loves me, he loves me not'!! This song is totally like talking about the flower, but is about a relationship, probably not being confident of. If not, why bother to peel off  petals to see if it landed on 'he loves me' or 'he loves me not'?? Why so called leave this to fate?? That is kinda a bad idea...
glasses is a cool interlude. It's so much like a remix with a little Ayu voice. I wonder if she's singing any Japanese words actually? Sounds like it but I don't know wat is it. lol. Compared to task’n'bass, I think task’n'bass is better. :) Tasuku's work is always this good.


I wrote about Missing and Melody before. I think I like Melody more now. It's more touching song to me and the pv flimed in Kaleidoscope concept is so amazing to me. Missing seems harder to sing. It's a sad song but a sad song that can't make me like it maybe cos of the lyrics.. O_O

I don't like Bye-bye darling. It's like an anime song. But the lyrics is pretty good. A sad breakup song song again. This whole Ayu album is so much into love-breakup relationships songs. 

untitled for her… story 2 is like another song after 5 years, in which Ayu sang tat too. It's a sad sad song and I think I hear Te wo tsunaide in this song too! I don't feel for this song but we can see that her friend's death has impacted her a lot and that she'll never forget.

I find Gloria okay. The lyrics is really long. I don't know what to say for this song. It's an encouraging one I guess, since Ayu is saying Don't give up!

You & Me is my least favourite song now. haha. It's supposed to be a happy love song, but this reminds me of the irritating Maro in this pv, so I hated it. When I see this line: "We were in a dream, in love. And there, we really loved I wanted to believe that it was fate" I felt the same in the past. But it seems like things happened not the way u expected it. Especially with horrid guys like him making everything like a unreal dream to u and that smashed it. Can't believe that it was fate anymore..
 

All in all, I love the songs and the pictures in the lyrics booklet. The photoshoots are so much like Love songs. lol. I love such pretty concepts so this is my favourite..Worth the buy, minus the ugly Maro in the pvs. hahaha.

Lyrics translation @ Divine AYU 

My purchases over the weeks ~April

A little, not much and I just figured that I've been buying things every month. lol.

✿ Dr. Morita masks! I love it cos it is full of essence. I wonder is it called Dr Morita or Dr. Jou actually? Anyway it's the most awesome mask I've used this far. I think is better than LoveMore. haha.
✿ Pure Beauty brightening mask - not so good. There's very little essence, sort of dry masks. Not that happy after using it so....I don't like it. haha.
✿ Silky girl BB white foundation! I think I'm loving it now. I think after all the pressed powder that I've used, this one suits me the best? One good thing is that it has no smell. The rest like Maybelline and Revlon have those foundation smell. urgh.
✿ SANA loose powder! The best one I've used so far? I didn't buy much loose powder I think this is the 3rd one I bought throughout my life. lol. It is really fragrant and is really good! haha.
✿ Revlon BB cream - I think I kinda regret now buying it cos there was a sale. Although it smells kinda good but it's kinda thick and does not spread easily. And it's really oily~!! Why am I so happy after buying it then. lol. But this one doesn't make the skin look grey. Okay so is good in some sense.
✿ Nivea lip conditioner pink guava - I suppose is a very different flavour out there. I think it's the first time I use such a creamy/oily type that makes me feel my lips are moisturised. Kinda happy. But at the end of the day my lips start to dry out again. I don't know why are all lip products doing this to me. urgh.. But I still like this. Shiny and a nice colour for me too. =)
✿ Daiso eyebrow pencil - The first ever eyebrow pencil that I've bought! I'm actually trying to test it out cos I've been watching makeup tutorials and I wondered how brows should really be drawn. I have kinda thick eyebrows so I tend to ignore it all the time in my makeup. I didn't do anything to it. I tried that eyebrow pencil and it's kinda nice to use with a brush at the other end. But the colour is dark brown which doesn't suits me but I take it cos it's the only colour there. At least now I have an idea of how to draw my brows..I think. haha. 

That's all. I'm usually satisfied with my purchase. Maybe it's just me tat so long as I buy something back home I'm happy. hahaa.

Ayu news on Numacchi's death + Tell All photobook scans

Wonder where mypaper got the news from. [on April 23] This is like another time I see not-good news about Ayu again and again.

Okay, it says that according to the Japanese media, Ayu's driver Numacchi posted farewell to Ayu on twitter before he died, and ayu retweeted to express her feelings. But there are people who suspect that she did that so as to gain attention. -_-

What the heck. Why is it that whatever Ayu does is for the sake for creating news?? Whoever those people are who bashed Ayu like that. How else do u think Ayu can express her feelings besides posting at twitter? In which Numacchi tweeted there in the first place. Ayu is pitiful enough. She has lost quite a few people around her. And to get cheated by Maro before this. I'm sure she's feeling really sad deep inside her. But she's a really strong person, she won't cry easily unless in her live performance certain sad songs reminds her of something she's start tearing. And also, she already has a strong fan base be it TA or overseas fans like us. She need not create news out of nothing. We will always be checking her out ourselves. And especially the Maro case, Ayu didn't even announced it so obviously to the media over her broken relationship with him. Obviously Ayu isn't that kind of person seeking to create news ok! urgh..


I've seen a those pictures of the Tell All photobook scans but it loads pretty slow for me. There are some Ayu sexy photos!! haha. There also another one with scans and translations.  The photobook style really reminds me of (miss)understood in which is exactly what Ayu wanted to do for this Tell All too. And I love this line that Ayu wrote: “If I wanted to live for myself, I wouldn’t have chosen this life. That’s the conclusion I’ve reached”. I love how Ayu photobook is not just totally pictures but also many lines written about Ayu's feelings, some lyrics style phrases and a little of her activity that has been going on.

After reading all the translations, it really seemed like Ayu has many thoughts. And what makes her happy would be being believed by people and never given up upon...I think she refers to her friends and staff and us Ayu fans right? haha. Ayu, U know we'll always be there supporting u!!! ^_^

Anyway this is some of my favourites:

That's all. Can't post any more pictures. It's loading too slow and it's too big for me. lol. The photobook looks really nice. But I'm still someone who likes to see Ayu alone in her booklets. Especially this one where she looks at the camera:

Looks kinda sad but yet so angelic and pretty. This totally captures my heart. But this line she said: "It’s always easy to cry, but I want to smile…" is so saddening...

Ayu should just do more more more photobooks!!! ^_^

Ayu closed her Fb account + Maro debut as a singer?

I just knew of this 2 news.. Don't think they are good news at all. lol.

Firstly, Ayu's Fb account was removed. I can't see it anymore. =( Although I'm not exactly sure if it's Ayu cos of the butt photo, but seems like everyone says it's really her. Cos those working with Ayu are friends with Ayu in that Fb account. Wat a pity. It's just gone like that. Why so happens to be like me, where my Fb account just got removed out of nothing too. (T_T)

✿ This photo was uploaded at Ayu's personal Fb account before it got removed. I didn't even get to see it! Yeah at least I know of it at AHS. haha. Ayu does seem to gain weight!! She looked really gorgeous!! She's with Timmy and his mum and sis I suppose?


A little shock where I came to know that Maro is gonna debut as a singer. He was talking about it at his youtube page. He dun really looked  like himself with such a neat hair. lol. I almost couldn't recognise him.

Anyway, I didn't watch the entire video of him talking. I can't be bothered with wat he is saying. Some part of me thinks that his purpose to get near to Ayu and have news of being Ayu's boyfriend made him a bit more well known so that he can become a singer on his own. Now that bad news of him surfacing cos of his past, and tat he can no longer be Ayu's dancer so he might as well be a singer and now that many people know who he is. He can try this out and be famous on him own. Is that right? But the thing is, even if he can't continue to be Ayu's dancer, he can jolly well join other troupes and still be a dancer isn't it? Why of all he chose to be a singer? Don't this shows that this is his ultimate motive of being close to Ayu in the first place?

I don't wish that it's true lah.. Just my thoughts. I don't even like him in the first place. I don't wana post about him at first. Yeah, so why am I posting his picture here. lol. But I'm not gonna link him. Nothing interesting about him. And don't even wanna support him at all. And seeing his tweets appearing in my timeline kinda irritates me. urgh. Should I unfollow him? I didn't even do that for Mannie cos I'm still a little curious about what's up with him. hahaa. But let's see. If there is anymore news of him gonna be out. Maybe when Maro has debuted, he's gonna be flamed at by Ayu fans. hahaha. That's what I hope. xD