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Sunday, 20 September 2009

[Video] Anime Festival 2 Riga 05.2005 Tokyo Dolls - Evolution (Ayumi Hamasaki cover)

Found this video of an Anime Festival, they sang Ayu's evolution, it's pretty cool!




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Saturday, 19 September 2009

[Ayu's Diary] 16.09.09 - 17.09.09

Jet lag ...
16-09-2009 11:28


... I fell squarely above. It is at its max, I did not sleep altogether!
Someone to help me? !
Anyway, here yesterday, we all returned safely to Japan
From Narita, we went directly to work, then transfer to another workplace ... I was quite surprised by the already tight schedule lol.
In Vegas, we saw lots of different shows, in fact we did a sort of training in "Entertainment" overall.
And this time, with regard to the dancers who accompanied me, I received many messages telling me "and Shu chan?" or "and Midoringu?". In fact, we decided that those who come are primarily responsible for the choreography. San Zin, Su san, chan & Maro Kayanocchi, it is of course the dancers, but from my point of view, they came to study with me as choreographers ♪
That is so. When my head is a little more back to the Japanese schedule, I will give you lots of things on this adventure in Las Vegas ☆
Here, I made my report! ! ! ! ! !

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From what day we were too demanding
While it would be enough of that either one side to the other ...


Voilààà,
17-09-2009 12:10


Jet lag is still there, Chon san is always reached.
I still can not sleep ... (sweat)
So, never mind, let's go to the "Journal of Vegas"! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Here's Part 1.
If it begins with the flight to San Francisco, that must be it ...

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Here, the memories come back to me!
Chon san fights with her memory!
Here I am in what I called ...

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"egg" ♡.
The poncho is a gift that gave me the boss Kashwere when he came to see me for the concert Yoyogi ♪
It goes well with many other colors, it is super convenient ♡
The computer is of course the masterpiece Satsuki chan ♡

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Arriving in San Francisco ... ♪

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A surprising encounter with a girl that we like to "Welcome to San Francisco ♡"

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Amazing also met with a Japanese man who never stops to play it!

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Amazing still meet with Japanese reassembled well!

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Here, following the latest ♪ ♪ ♪
Arf, I have to get up in less than 3 hours.
Should I get to sleep ...


Huhuhu
17-09-2009 15h06


I got up.
Maron, he went to the beauty parlor, he is cute ♡
That's all.
At tonight. (There's not a good thing on TV ?...)


Credit: Cy @ AyuAngel
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[Rumor] Ayumi Hamasaki bought a cemetery?

I got this piece of rumor from a China's forum
Please do not take this rumor seriously, since we have not known about the truth yet.

The original Japanese article:

歌手の浜崎あゆみ(30)がお墓を購入したと、
とある墓地周辺の住民の間で噂になっているという。「まだ若いのになぜ?」と話題になっているとか。
彼女がお墓を買った理由とは
発売中の「週刊文春」が報じたもので、同誌によると、購入したお墓の場所は南青山の一等地にある浄土宗の寺院だという。
都心にもかかわらず、3000坪の敷地に檀家も2000あり、常時10人の僧侶が在籍している。いわゆる高級ブランド墓地なのだ
夜になるとライトアップされ、24時間お参りできるというのが売りである。
浄土宗関係者いわく、浜崎が購入したのは3年ほど前で、本堂近くの立地のいい場所にあるという。洋風の墓石で、敷地いっぱいに広がるほど巨大らしい
正面に「浜崎家」とあり、中心には、英語で「Hamasaki Family」、オランダ語で「最後の庭」と刻まれ、 石だけで700~800万円、土地代は1000万円以上である。
しかしなぜ、お墓を買ったのか
芸能関係者によると、お墓には浜崎の祖母のお骨が納められているとのこと。幼い頃に両親が離婚し、浜崎にとって祖母は心の支えであり、彼女のことを歌詞にした「HANABI」という曲があるほど、彼女は祖母を大切にしていた。
そんな祖母の地元・福岡に埋葬されていたお骨を引き取って納めたという。ちなみに、愛犬のリンゴとメロンも一緒に埋葬されているとファンの間では知られているとか。
お墓は花に囲われているが、浜崎がお参りに来ることはほとんどないという。あまりにも都心すぎて、騒ぎになるからだとか。
おそらくいつでも祖母のお参りに行けるようにと、お骨を近くに持ってきたのだろうけど、人目に付くjから行けないとは・・・。
ゆっくり行けるようになる日はくるのだろうか。

Rough English Translation

"Singer Hamasaki Step (30) bought a cemetery", recently many residents around the cemetery have made up such rumor

"She is still young" and that inadvertently became the subject.
She bought the cemetery grounds?

The issuing of the "Weekly Man Spring" reports:

Hamasaki bought the cemetery which is located in Minami-Aoyama, first-class sections of the Pure Land Sect monasteries, though close to the city center, but the 3000 square-meter land more than 2,000 people buried there are a few of the 10 resident monks church can be described as the senior cemetery. Here, again, one to be switched on at night, 24 hours can be when you visit, so very popular.

According to Pure Land Buddhism stakeholders introduced Hamasaki was three years ago, near the main hall where a selection of feng shui treasure land, and the cornerstone for the Western style, covers an area of great.

The front read, "Hamasaki home" is the middle is the English "Hamasaki Family", then right now with the Dutch "lastの庭", the light of this rock has been 700-800 million yen, as the price of buying land is more than 1000 million yen.

But why buy a graveyard?

A person under the relevant arts, in fact buried here is Hamasaki's grandmother, Hamasaki parents divorced when young, for Hamasaki is one of the pillars of her grandmother, as described in grandmother's song "HANABI", can be seen She cherished her Grandmother's feeling, so in Fukuoka originally buried in the grandmother's bones to migrate to the present place.
In addition there was also buried with her dogs リゴ and メンンロ, this matter to her fans should be aware of this.

This cemetery surrounded with flowers all around, but Hamasaki has never gone to visit here, possibly because of too much rely on the city center, afraid of causing a disturbance. Perhaps she wanted to come here, but too compelling to abandon. I do not know what day the quiet of a person she can visit it here?


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[Photo] Ayumi Hamasaki went from Las Vegas to San Fransisco

It seems that Ayu is working on a new Photo shoot, hopefully, that means it will be a new single coming up.




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[Info] Ayumi Hamasaki will be featured in the next Oricon Style Magazine

It seems that Ayu will be featured in the next Oricon Style Magazine upcoming issue cover story, by that hopefully it means there will be a new single coming out :)



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Friday, 18 September 2009

[TA Magazine] Team Ayu Magazine vol. 33 Full Scans

Team Ayu Magazine vol. 33 Full Scans
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[Ranking] TSUTAYA Survey: Who is The Most Favorite Artist?

Through investigation!
2009 Fall Favorite Artist Ranking

CD sales charts, online download ranking…

There are a lot of music ranks in this world, now… who is your most “Favorite Artist?”
TSUTAYA online through PC and mobile website conducted a 18 days users surveys. The aggregate result is showing “Who is the most popular artist”, “What kind of artists that people will support”, and “What is the reason of liking an artist”, we tried to analyze them thoroughly!

■ Survey conducted Period: August 24 – September 10 2009
■ Number of respondents: 7609
■ Valid votes: 19,658 votes

- AGE-BASED RANKING -

Survey was spread through users in 10th/20th/30th/40th

*For 20th and 30th years old Ayu got rank no. 7 and 10


- GENDER-BASED RANKING -

*For the Gender-Based Ranking, Ayu got ranks no. 6 for Male chooser and no. 9 for Female chooser


- Comprehensive BEST10 -

The Reasons Why You Like Ayumi Hamasaki

● Works on her own songs and having a luxury performance. (24 years old / male)
● You can relate to the lyrics, where every effort is great. (19 years old / female)
● The lyrics are so good and you can imitate the make-up and Hair, super cute. (28 years old / female)

- Tsutaya Online: Most Search Artists Ranking -

1位EXILE
2位LOVERS
3位嵐
4位ユニコーン
5位東方神起
6位浜崎あゆみ
7位aiko
8位おくりびと
8位倖田來未
8位レミオロメン



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[Ayu's Diary] 14.09.09

Slowly,
14 September 2009 2:37 AM


shall I make my entrance?
Where are we? The correct answer to the riddle!
Before that, sharing photos on my diary.
First~, since coming here, the custom has been everyone going to study♪

Ah, by the way, this is from day before yesterday.

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Afterward, we went to the place we love to stay♪
That is, whenever we come here, we sit in the same spot.

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Because ...

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I just can't give up this nighttime view.
No, "Can't give up no matter what~"* is what it is.
Afterwards, I get closer so I can steadily soak up the night view.

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Let's see-----------

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Look closer-----------.
And...

Huh?

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The fountain!!!

Break time!
Most recently, when night falls, a rabbit frequently appears.
Or someone trying very hard to imitate one. ↓

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Subunny!(/pink)**
I guess he kinda looks like a store manager somewhere. lol
I guess he kinda looks out of place with the bunny ears. lol
Clever. ☆
Well, back to the journaling.
Here's me going to yesterday's study meeting~♪

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Afterward, we always go to a different restaurant.
We get this beautiful night view from where we stay☆
We can see nothing but this all the time, it's so incredibly cool~!!!!

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With Kayanocchi ♡

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With Boy-tachi*** and Yamamoto-kaicho who invited us to this place

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I said to Tou-san, "Somehow it's like a store, lol" but I meant it as a compliment.
Moving to the dinner table, everyone drank**** together.

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I'm digressing, but during the toast, Su-san was addressing us, but this time the speech was,

"To us, who sparkle more than this million dollar night view!☆"

Such a great MC. His speech was very different.

...Huh???

Oh yeah, where I am right now. I forgot to write that.

But I'm so busy packing now. The answer is at the dancers' and Sou's blogs, so you can check there~. (Depending on other people to do my work for me
Alrighty, I'll be back later!

*"Sokontoko yuzurenai." Lyrics from Rule. Ha ha ha.

**Subaru dressed as a bunny. Subaru plus Bunny equals Subunny. Ayu calls him "Usasuba" (Usagi + Subaru). I dunno why I decided to translate this. lol

***She says "Danshi-zu" here.... Japanese "Danshi" plus english "s" for the plural. So I switched the languages around and said "Boy-tachi".

****Kanpai! haha :)


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Thursday, 17 September 2009

[Oricon] Ayumi Hamasaki ranks. 7 as one of The celebrities that you want to dress like

Recently, Oricon has made the beauty ranking of celebrities whose fashion that you want to choose to dress like.
In the female celebrities, Ayumi Hamasaki got rank no. 7


Picture taken from Oricon


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[Ayu's Diary] 12.09.09

Hello!
12-09-2009 08h07


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And suddenly, the first thing you see is a photo of my face!
One at a time, right?
Gonna take photos like that~.

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And then maybe

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That sort of thing.
From yesterday's travels, I didn't mention the escalator being completely filled up with Ayu's staff & dancers.
Even though in front of the first person, it looks like they're one by one, it was a challenge.
It got like this, and somehow it got Chon-san very excited.↓

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Continuing on now!!!
Here's Chon-san with a huge smile, taking a photo, and a very happy Ohji is in back watching.

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I don't really know what the point of all this was.
Well, as I told you in passing, I successfully met up with Kayanocchi.
Messages saying "Upload Kayanocchi's photo~!!" came in large numbers, so Chonsan will try her best.
I'll make good use of this sudden enthusiasm.

Anyway, I took photos of an excessively pretty couple who look very rich and just lovely. If I do say so myself, the photos were surprising. lol

Yes, THIS!!!

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OOPS.
Let's try that again.
Alright, here we go! ♡

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Say it with me, folks...

PRETTYYYY----------- ♡

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Yes, Maro.
Some time ago when I was selecting the photos to upload to my blog, I saw alot of this sort of thing↓

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Someone's alone, strange, right? And the answer is,
Yes, Maro.
When I saw this photo, I exhaled. lol
Cutting out one casual moment in time, totally unconcerned with anything. lol
High level~.
Starting today, I'm competing with everyone one at a time, I think.
"Team One-At-A-Time" is formed! (what an announcement.
So yeah, lastly, a two-shot of Chonsan and Kanako Bancho Miura charmed by the nighttime view. ♡

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Right now, the sun is gradually sinking over here.
Simultaneously, as though wishing for everyone to have one glittering day, the sun is shining over there.
Surviving with strength. 9.11.
"douka douka wasurenai de."*


*"Please, please, don't forget." Lyrics from "A song is born," the song Ayu sang with Keiko for the 9-11 charity cd "song+nation."



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Wednesday, 16 September 2009

[Video] A German Guy Covers Dearest In A Hip Hop Style

Have you ever heard Dearest a Jpop ballad sung in the Hip Hop style?
So, here's the video of a German guy who covered the song~
Not sure if he's actually a singer or not..
It said that the lyric is about political issue




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[Photo] Ayumi Hamasaki Calender 2010 Cover Is Out!

The Cover of Ayumi Hamasaki Calender 2010 has been released!
What do you guys think?
Ayu is still beautiful but something is wrong with her mouth, she looks kind of different


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