Showing posts with label Morning Musume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morning Musume. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Legendary Villians

Lunch today -> XO Noodle Cup
Instant noodle cup for lunch today.  XO flavour.  The Nissin brand I get is from Japan and has lots of noodles and toppings in it.  Very satisfying meal.
XO Noodle Cup

Useless Gaming News:
Picked up the new version of Marvel's Legendary game: Legendary Villains.  Similar to the original, but you play as the villians.

Useless Idol News:
Original Morning Musume member, Abe Natsumi, re-released a new version of "Furusato".  One of my old favorites.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Weekend Report: Wasted Vacation

I took Friday off the get some things done, but I didn't get anything done.  Why?  I got sick Friday.  I had a huge headache and my right leg and back was sore.  I slept in til 2pm.  I felt better Saturday night.  The only thing I got done was build a shelf I bought during the week from IKEA.
I did discover Channel 968: Galaxie - The Asian Flavour.  It plays random Jpop, Kpop, and Cpop music.  It's even got AKB48, Morning Musume, Girls Generation, Kara, etc.  "Sugar Rush" was on alot.  I was listening to it in the background when I was trying to sleep.

Food this weekend ->
Eventhough I was feeling sick, I still wanted to eat steak :)  First was Steak with Corn.
Steak and Corn.

Then Steak with Rice.
Steak and Rice.

I also made Seafood Ramen.  Used the instant Wild Clams in Red Thai Chili, some frozen shrimps, and chopped nappa.
Seafood Ramen.

Useless Transformers Info:
I got around to opening Masterpiece Ravage and Rumble.  They are really cool.  The only problem I'm finding is trying to eject the cassettes from Soundwave.  Ravage and Rumble seem to be slightly slimmer than Laserbeak.  Because of this, they won't let the door open when they are in the front 2 slots.  I have no problems with Laserbeak.
Soundwave and Cassettes.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Weekend Report: Toxic Gas

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!!!

Food this weekend ->
Our family celebrated Susanna's birthday early.  We went to dinner at Little Sheep.  We got reservations at 5:30pm on Saturday and the place was packed with tons of standing people by 6!  I got the regular broth and I ate a ton of meat and shitake/straw mushrooms.
Toxic Gas Inducing Little Sheep Food.
FYI: Whatever was in that broth, it gave me massive amounts of toxic gas all evening... both ends! :)

Also made steak this weekend with red potatoes, Chinese greens, grape tomatoes, and straw mushrooms.
Steak Plate.

Useless Gaming Info:
5 player gaming at Ben's on Friday night.  We started with a few rounds of "Rumble in the House".
Then we moved on to "Last Night on Earth".  It's a zombie survival game that has different scenarios to play.  I find it really fun, even when the heroes have the scenario in the bag, the zombies can come back and win.
Last Night on Earth.

Then we played "Space Alert".  A quick co-operative game that takes alot of communication between the players.  The basic idea is to defend the space station for attacking waves of alien ships, but you only have 10 minutes to co-ordinate it.
Space Alert.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume's Tanaka Reina will be graduating from the group in the spring.  She will be concentrating on her rock band.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Forgot My Phone

I forgot my iPhone with all my music at home today. I needed to drown out "Mr.Loud". Lucky for me I found a bunch of mp3s on my computer. I thought I lost these folders the last time I switched computers.
I found an old 2006 Morning Musume Rainbow 7 concert rip. I also found some folders with Julie's mp3s from when she worked at CMC. I listened to some of her anime songs too (ie Sailor Moon, Ranma, Gundam).


^ Sailor Mercury.

Dinner today -> Crab Legs
Today was the last day of the Crab Legs sale at Loblaws. It was $9 off. I got a bag for dinner.


^ Crab Legs.
I think the Walmart brand crab legs is better. I think you get more with better quality legs for the price.

Useless Gaming News:
Will and I are playing the "Draw Something" app for iPhone and Android. It's like Pictionary. One person picks 1 of 3 words, draws it, and the drawing is sent to the other player. That player watches as the drawing is made and needs to guess the word to win coins. Then Vice Versa.
It's abit difficult to draw details with my finger. Maybe I will find a iPhone pen to use.
If anyone wants to play, email me and I'll tell you my User Name.
BTW Will: A "Padlock" uses a dial for a lock, not a key :)

Useless Idol News:
This weekend AKB48 is performing at Saitama Super Arena. Friday is the 1st day and it will be streamed live on Google+ at 18:00 JST (Friday 5am EST). Link here.
I guess I'll be up really early on Friday. I should probably sleep early too.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

499 Bux Elevator

The 1st day back to work was tough. My body was used to staying up til 4am and waking up around 1pm. So waking up at 7:30am was rough, especially when I kept the TV on all night, half watching the "Corner Gas" marathon and half sleeping :)

Dinner today -> Lasagna.
M&M Meats still has their Christmas Sale on until Thursday Jan 5th. There were 2 items I wanted: Wings and Lasagna.


^ M&M Sale.

I cooked the Lasagna for dinner. It was pretty good.


^ M&M Lasagna.

I also stocked up on some Louisiana Chicken Wings. These wings are really good. I may get a few more boxes tomorrow :)


^ M&M Louisiana Chicken Wing Boxes.

Useless Gaming News:
I finally collected the 499 Bux I needed to get the best elevator in Tiny Tower! It goes so fast (about 10 floors a second).


^ Tiny Tower Elevator.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume Leader, Niigaki Risa, will graduate from the group and Hello Project this spring.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

On Vacation Suckers :)

I'll be on vacation for awhile. I'm off to San Francisco/San Jose on Thursday. I'll try and do some blog entries if I can find a computer to use. Otherwise there might not be any entries til I get back next week.

Dinner today -> 3 Steaks with Chinese Greens.
I went to Sobey's to buy 1 steak as my pre-trip meal, but they only package them in packs of 2 or 3. So I got the smallest 3 pack they had, and for only $3.68 too!


^ 3 Steaks with Chinese Greens.
I wonder if I should have had such a big meal before a 5hr flight. I definitely don't want to use the tiny washroom on the plane...

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume's Leader Takahashi Ai will graduate from the group on Friday Sept 30th.


^ Takahashi Ai.

Useless Transformers News:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (aka Transformers 3) will be out on DVD this Friday! If you haven't seen it, you got to see it! It's all action and has a story line that caught me completely off guard.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Breakfast Sausage Meat Sauce

Dinner today -> Spaghetti with Breakfast Sausage Meat Sauce.
I removed the casing from some breakfast sausages and used the meat to make the meat sauce. Added some chopped garlic, caramelized onions, sliced mushrooms, and sour cream to the meat sauce too.


^ Spaghetti with Breakfast Sausage Meat Sauce.
Breakfast sausage meat sauce is pretty good. People should try it out.

Anthony is EVIL :) Ever since I ate one of the peaches he brought to Ben's party, I've been buy peaches every week and eating atleast a peach a day.


^ Ripe and Juicy Fuzzy Peaches.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume's Leader Takahashi Ai will be graduating from the group at the end of Sept during their "Ai Believe" Tour. It'll be an end of an era, with the group losing their best singer (IMO). Morning Musume's next single is on Sept 14, and will be Ai-chan's last. The B version includes a solo song from her called "Jishin Motte Yume Motte Tobitatsukara"


^ Takahashi Ai - Jishin Motte Yume Motte Tobitatsu Kara.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Blooming Plants

The plant infront of my house is blooming well. The whole front door smells like flowers.
I can't say the same about my strawberry plant :( There is hope, as a shoot coming up out of the soil.


^ Front Door Blooming Plants.

Useless Idol Info:
I got a package in the mail today. It included the 2 AKB48 Limited Edition "Everyday, Kachuusha" Singles with bonus photos, and Dream Morning Musume Limited Edition Album.


^ AKB48 and Dream Morning Musume CDs.
From the AKB CDs I got 2 more votes, which I put both towards Kasai again. I was thinking of using one on Yuko, but I want Kasai to make top 10.
Voting ends June 8 and Results event is on June 9.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Weekend Report - Teppan

Magic and some board games were played over the weekend. The new games we tried were BANG!, Citadels, and Formula D.
BANG! is a pretty good Western game. I think it'll be even more fun with more players.
I like Citadels too. Alot of strategy is involved in guess what other players will do.
Gordon and Ben ran away with 1st and 2nd in the Formula D racing game, but 3rd place came down to me and Jane. I rolled 1 space short of the finish line. Jane had to roll 18+ on a d20 to beat me, and she did!


^ Formula D 3rd Place Finisher: Jane.

This is only thing I took a food pic of this weekend:


^ Steak, Zuccini, and Artisan Bread.
I had plans to make other things to eat, but I was busy playing "AKB 1/48" on PSP (I finally got the Yuko ending ^_^).

Jane made some really good peanutbutter with M&M cookies and ginger with chocolate chip cookies this weekend, but I forgot to take a picture of them.
Jane, if your reading this, make some more cookies next time and remind me to take a pic :)

Useless Japan Info:
I sometimes watch this 15min drama on NHK called "Teppan". It's on every week night at 9:40pm. It's about the ups and downs of a girl trying to opening her own teppan yaki restaurant.
The main reason I watch this show is for the opening. I don't know why, but I like the opening theme song and the amusing dance associated with it :)


^ Teppan Opening.
Learn the dance moves here (I don't know who these guys teaching it are?).
Gavin/Emi get Yuto to learn this :) It would be cute and funny.

Useless Idol News:
The leader of Morning Musume, Takahashi Ai, announced she is graduating from the group this fall! This is huge news! I think she is the only one holding Morning Musume together and the only one in the group who can sing.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Steak Salad

Dinner today -> Steak Salad.
Salad includes: red onion, 3 types of grape tomatoes, cucumber, red pepper, lettuce, Caesar dressing, and 4 cheeses.
The steak was a bottom blade cut, which is kind of chewy, but that's the way I like my steaks. (The tender, "melt in your mouth" steaks are for wimps like Steve :P )


^ Steak Salad.

Useless Japan News:
This year's 2010 Kohaku Uta Gassen lineup is announced. It's the year end music show on NHK where the Red Team (female artist) compete against the White Team (male artist).
This year I'll need to watch : AKB48 (of course), Ikimonogakari, Perfume, Arashi, EXILE, SMAP, and FUNKY MONKEY BABYS.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume's new single "Onna To Otoko No Lullaby Game" debuted at #6. It's the first Morning Musume single I didn't pre-order in a long time as I don't think it's that good. I'm surprised it's at #6.
It's also the last single for Kamei Eri, JunJun, and LinLin.

New food product "AKB48 Wafer Choco" available exclusively at 7-11 in Japan. There are 3 wafer types, 1 by each team, and and each wafer comes with a collector card (54 to collect). Maybe one of my Japan sources can get me some... :)
I just noticed that there is an AKB travel mug at 7-11 too. Man, I would be so broke buying all this stuff if in I lived in Japan... :)
(Link credit to IXA Ready Fist On! and 7-11 Japan)

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Round 3

Dinner today -> Steak and Veggies... Round 3. FIGHT! Shoryuken!
Cooked the last of the steak from the 3-pack I got from Farmboy. Veggies were simple tomatoes and mushrooms.


^ Steak and Veggies Round 3.
It looks good, and tastes even better :)

Useless Idol News:
3 members of Morning Musume are going to graduate from the group this fall: Kamei Eri, JunJun, and LinLin. Announced a few days ago, and I'm only finding out about this now. Gees..., I must have really converted to AKB48 fandom, because this news didn't really shock me that much (Well... Kamei was a shock, but the other 2 weren't so much).
3 gone in 1 shot is pretty dramatic for Morning Musume, since there are only 8 members in the group. But also announced was a 9th Generation audition to take place, to replace the members leaving.
It's too bad Eri has to graduate. She's one of my favorites.


^ Kamei Eri.
Story here.
(Credit to Hello Online!)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Sushi

Took vacation today and slept in.
After I finally got up (around 11am :) ), I went shopping at Costco for salmon and Canadian Tire for some wood chips/mulch.
After I got home, I mowed the lawn and did some yard work before it rained.

Dinner today -> Sushi
Made some maki rolls with the salmon I got. Made a salmon, cucumber, and egg roll. I wanted to add avocado too, but they weren't ripe yet.


^ Sushi

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume is in Paris, France right now, for the 2010 Japan Expo. Info here. Looks like they will be performing a full concert, not just a few of songs like AKB48 did last year.

While some members of AKB48 are in LA right now, for the Anime Expo.
I was thinking about going to this when I first heard about it, but after reading about the mess it was last year when Morning Musume was there, and that you have to buy VIP Anime Expo tickets, and you have to stay at a certain hotel to get concert tickets, and the "meet and greet" was a $100 (this recently got changed to be free for 32 random people from a draw of 500; which to me is worse than paying $100); I decided not to go as it got too expensive.

Emi tried to help me order the AKB48 cards, but after filling out the order form we found out that the delivery of the cards was COD. My Japan Delivery Service doesn't accept COD, so I can't get them :( Maybe Yuko and Kasai card boxes will show up on ebay. Thanks for the help Emi.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Crazy Horse

Went to "Crazy Horse" steak house for James' Birthday Lunch. On the way out of CMC we saw that "The Works" had setup a mini-BBQ in the CMC parking lot. They were getting ready to give out FREE The Works Burgers for CMC employees!!! But we still went ahead as planned to Crazy Horse... I can't believe we passed up Free Works Burgers.


^ The Works at CMC.

At Crazy Horse, the rumour is that there are hot waitress working at the steak house; and there are... but as luck would have it, we got a male waiter! We blame Steve.
I ordered "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Burger". It was pretty good. Almost as good as a Works burger, but not quite there. I should have ordered a Stone Grilled Steak, and cooked it myself at the table. The stone grilling is their special feature. That looked really good.


^ "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" Burger.

Useless Japan News:
Japan beat Denmark in the World Cup match today, 3-1. Japan now qualifies for the final 16.

Useless Idol News:
Got a package from "CD Japan" today. It contained my AKB48 Sheet Music, and my Morning Musume CDs and Single V from their latest single, "Seishun Collection".


^ AKB48 Sheet Music and Morning Musume CDs.

Found this clip on YouTube: AKB48's version of SDN48's song "Yuuwako no Garter". SDN48 is AKB48's older sister group, who performs more adultish songs. This version has Yuko, Mariko, and Kojima performing. I'm sure the garter belt they throw out at the end to the crowd, is worth tons of $$$.


^ "Yuuwako no Garter" - Yuko, Mariko, Kojima version.
NOTE: You can now expand the video to full screen...
(ripped from YouTube)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Yuko is #1

Dinner today -> Steak and Rice.
Went to T&T with Ben and Susanna. I picked up a bunch of food, but I had to cook the steak in my fridge first, as it was going to go bad tomorrow.


^ Steak and Rice.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume's 43rd Single "Seishun Collection" is out today, and is the Daily #1. The song is pretty good, but nothing special. They really need a big hit song soon, if they want to challenge AKB48. I may post the video later.

The big news today, and on almost every morning news channel in Japan, is the AKB48 Election. It ended today and Oshima Yuko was voted #1 by the fans ^_^ This is huge, because she beat out the "Face" of AKB48: Maeda Atsuko (who got #2).

The election results and # of votes:
(data from Stage48)
40 Ishiguro Atsuki - 1603
39 Matsubara Natsumi - 1854
38 Yagami Kumi (S) - 1909
37 Katayama Haruka - 1935
36 Yamauchi Suzuran (RS) - 1945
35 Takayanagi Akane (KII) - 2030
34 Yonezawa Rumi - 2171
33 Fujie Reina - 2460
32 Umeda Ayaka - 2499
31 Satou Sumire - 2591
30 Komori Mika - 2613
29 Nitou Moeno - 2693
28 Shimazaki Haruka (RS) -3076
27 Ishida Haruka - 3235
26 Hirajima Natsumi - 4106
25 Masuda Yuuka - 4137
24 Oya Masana (S) - 4634
23 Kuramochi Asuka - 5355
22 Oota Aika - 6145
(#22 to #40 are the "Undergirls", and will be featured on the B-Side of the next single. #41+ are "Theatre Girls".)

21 Miyazaki Miho - 6371
20 Nakagawa Haruka - 6567
19 Sashihara Rino - 6704
18 Sato Amina - 6921
17 Akimoto Sayaka - 8049
16 Kitahara Rie - 8836
15 Ono Erena - 9468
14 Minegishi Minami - 9692
13 Takajyou Aki - 11062
12 Kasai Tomomi - 11080
11 Matsui Rena - 12082
10 Matsui Jurina - 12168
09 Miyazawa Sae - 12560
08 Kashiwagi Yuki - 15466
07 Kojima Haruna - 16231
06 Takahashi Minami - 17787
05 Watanabe Mayu - 20088
04 Itano Tomomi - 20513
03 Shinoda Mariko - 23139
02 Maeda Atsuko - 30851
01 Oshima Yuko - 31448
(#1 to #21 will be featured in the next single, and Yuko will be in the center position; aka gets the most screen time.)


^ Oshima Yuko is #1.


^ Election News Clip.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Weekend Report

Friday:
Skipped work today by using another vacation day. I think I'm down to 4 weeks and 3 days now? Went shopping and got a couple of shirts and some groceries.

Lunch today -> Roast Beef Sandwiches and Lemonade.
I got a jug of Lemonade from Farmboy that was made by Orange Maison. After I ate, I immediately went back and got 2 more jugs of lemonade. It's that good. It tastes like lemon-lime aide, but with a perfectly balanced sweet to sourness ratio.


^ Roast Beef Sandwiches and Lemonade.

Dinner today -> Beef and Chinese Greens.
I had some chinese greens sitting the fridge for the past week and I needed to use them before they go bad.


^ Beef and Chinese Greens.

Saturday:

Got some more "Weed-B-Gone" today. This stuff is awesome. I shot it on a whole bunch of dandelions on my lawn, and a few hours later, the whole plant turns black!

Dinner today -> Beef Stew.
I used 4 marrow-filled beef bones to make it. Made with stewing beef, organic carrots, white mushrooms, and red potatoes. The key this time was to add a pack of dashi to flavour the broth when boiling the beef. The dashi adds alot of flavour. Also stirring in a couple of eggs at the end, thickens the stew.


^ Beef Stew on Rice.

Sunday:
Not much going on today. I planned to wake up early to do a few things so I set my iphone alarm for 7am. I got up at 7am, did some farming on "Farm Story" app, banked some money in all the Storm 8 games, drank a cup of tea, and then went straight back to sleep :)
I got up again at 11:30am because I had to pee :) Totally wasted 1/2 the day.

I then wasted the rest of the afternoon on YouTube, watching all the TV shows that AKB48 appeared on during the weekend. I think they were on about 7 TV shows, and performed "Ponytail to ShuShu" on most of them.


^ Here's the ending to "Hexagon Quiz II", where they lost and had to do the punishment. LOL
(ripped from YouTube)

Useless Baseball News:
I now have a 10 game streak in Beat the Streak. 46 more hits til I get $3,000,000US.
I also now lead Team Bacon with the longest streak. My rank in #1053 in the world :)


^ Beat the Streak Leader and Fongpay Ranking.
Looks like Will and one other need to remember to make their daily picks. James is not far behind me with a current streak of 6 too.

Useless Idol News:
Got a package on Friday from HMV Japan. It was my "Ponytail to ShuShu" CDs (version A and B), HMV Bonus (Yuko and Mariko Photo), and AKB48 Election Guide Book.
The CDs come with election tickets to vote for your favorite member to appear in the next single's video. I used 1 ticket to vote for Yuko. I wanted to vote for Kasai with the 2nd, but I couldn't remember what her name looks like in Japanese. I'll have to look it up and do it later.
The CDs also come with Handshake tickets with cool holograms on them. Apparently there were alot of counterfeit tickets for the last CD's Handshake event, so I guess they had to add the holograms.


^ My AKB48 Stuff from HMV Japan.

If you have Roger's Japan TV: Monday's Music Japan is the All Idol Special (on at 12:10am). Idol groups include Morning Musume, Idoling!!!, and AKB48 will be performing.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Finally!

Ben wanted to go to T&T tonight, so Susanna and I went to T&T with him. See what I scored :)


^ 6 Portuguese Egg Tarts.

That's not all...


^ 12 Portuguese Egg Tarts!

Yummmm... they are so good.
I got 6 for myself and 6 for an evil, crazy lady at work who likes to send out inappropriate emails about Kurt :) Thats right, they are for Sandra. Kidding about the evil part :)

T&T now also stocks Black Sesame Ice Cream. In my opinion, one of the best ice cream flavours available.


^ Black Sesame Ice Cream.

Useless Idol Info:
I got my Morning Musume CD in the mail today. I got the collectors edition with the DVD.


^ Morning Musume Album "10 My Me".

Majisuka Gakuen Episode 11 Subbed, now available here.
It's the climatic battle between Maeda and Sado, with Maeda using all her ally's super moves in the battle. Last episode airs this Friday..., will Yuko live or die?
(credit to AKB-48.COM)

Speaking about Oshima Yuko. She now has her own Official Online Store. (Bookmark it people.) The store opens March 26.
BTW, my Birthday is in a few months...

Update:
I can't believe what just happened in the MTL vs BUF game!!! MTL was winning 2-0 with 3 mins left, and they take a penalty, and they totally blew the lead, and lost in the shootout, and, and, and argh!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

10 My Me

Went shopping with Susanna at St.Laurent Shopping Mall, Best Buy, and T&T tonight. Wasn't planning on buying much stuff, but I ended up buying $40 in toys and $40 in cooked food. I'm set for meals for the next few days.

Useless Idol News:
Morning Musume released their new album today called "10 My Me". The setlist on the album is pretty good.
I'm waiting for my copy to ship to me, but I got it from the Torrent here.


^ Morning Musume "10 My Me" Cover.

Listened to it a couple times through at work. Nothing else to talk about today so here is my little review:
01. Moonlight night ~Tsukiyo no ban da yo~
Meh, not that great of a song.

02. Kimagure Princess
Single song. It's also "meh". Not a song I liked when it was first released.

03. Genki Pikappika!
This one is OK.

04. Namidacchi
Another OK song, until they start rapping. The girls can't rap, and it ruins the song.

05. Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai
Single song. It's growing on me.

06. Ooki Hitomi
Sounds like an anime-type song. Good song. Lots of Reina singing in it.

07. Ano hi ni modoritai
Pretty good ballad song between Takahashi Ai and Niigaki Risa.

08. Nanchatte Renai
Single song. Good single.

09. Osaka Oishiinen
Worst song on the album....

10. Loving you forever
...Followed by the best song on the album. A group ballad.

11. Shou ga nai Yume Oibito
Another Single song. I like this one too.

12. Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou? (Chinese Ver.)
A good older song remade. Still good in Mandarin Chinese.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Meat Sauce Transformer!

The meat sauce I made on Monday became a transformer today. It transformed into Chili! :)


^ Meat Sauce Transformer.
Alt Mode 1 = Meat Sauce.
Alt Mode 2 = Chili.

I added corn, quail eggs, zucchini squash, onions, kidney beans, and brown beans. Then added Tabasco sauce, chili oil, red pepper flakes, and red sauce. Nice and spicy.
I also bought some fresh Italian Bread to go with it.


^ Chili with Italian Bread.

Actually, not only is the meat sauce a transformer, it's really a triple-changer too. In a few hours it'll transform again and I'll have to "dropping it off at the pool" :)


^ Alt Mode 3 = Mr.Hanky.

Got another package in the mail today. It wasn't my Yuko cards, but it was my Morning Musume CDs.
This took 3 weeks from YesAsia. Normally my YesAsia orders only take 1 week, at most. This is very unlike them, and I'm very disappointed.
Yesterday's AKB48 CDs were from CDJapan. I only order through them because they guarantee the 1st press bonus stuff, but their shipping cost is killer. YesAsia is free shipping, but no guarantees on 1st press stuff.


^ Morning Musume's 42nd Single: "Onna ga Medatte Naze Ikenai", Version A, B, C, and Normal.

Useless Japan Info:
Today is "Girls Day" (March 3) in Japan. It's also called "Hinamatsuri" (Japanese Doll Festival).


^ Hina Dolls.
Some people think these dolls are cute. Some believe that if you touch them, they take away pain and cure illnesses. To me, they just look freaky... always staring out at you... ready to strike when you don't expect it...

Useless Idol Info:
The AKB48 girls are overseas somewhere. Here's a pic of Maeda reporting from her blog.


^ Maeda Atsuko = Acchan.

Here's a pic of Maeda's hotel room neighbour, Kasai. She's eating snacks and ramen.


^ Kasai Tomomi = Chiyuu.

Maeda says they are about to take a bath, together!!!... *_*
I'm not making it up. See translated blog here.
(Credit to AKB48 Journal)