my thoughts...

Rika is leading the poll. I voted for her too.
And I am wondering, who voted for who?


Edit: So Rika won the poll. Quite a margin there. ^^
Funny how those who speak up all voted for Rika.

Gatten Gatas 2008-09-29

According to Rika, the fake kissing scene was purely out of good fun and meant for photo shots only, therefore, she was quite shocked when it ended up in the PV too. When one listener asked who came up with the idea, she said that they just do it for fun. Maichin said if it were her and somebody else doing the kissing, she doubted the 'effect' would be that 'good'. Rika agreed, saying that it might be because Yossi looks boyish and Maichin said '(you two) look like a couple.' If you hear the clip, you can probably hear from Mai's tone that she was making fun of them.

When Rika somehow ended up with all the netas involving Yossi in 'Katte ni Melody', Maichin said Rika was 'in-charge' of Yossi today.

And I think I heard Maichin mention 'Ishiyoshi' ...

Hora~ the camera is rolling YO~

ON8 2008-09-25 (radio)

Host: What's your ideal type of guy?
Rika: A prince charming riding on a white horse.

Host: What words from him will melt your heart?
Rika: Sugoi yo ne~

Host: In real life, you can't really meet a prince on a white horse, you'll be surprised instead. It's more like you're projecting an image right?
Rika: Yes

Host: "Sugoi yo ne~" what about this?
Rika: This... well... it means when I hear it, whatever I am doing...

Host: It cheers you up greatly?
Rika: Yes, regardless of what I am doing... (good or bad) But when he sees it, he says "sugoi yo ne~". It will warm my heart.

Host: I see... (bla bla bla...)
Rika: They (members) often say it to me. "Ishikawa-san sugoi desu ne~" etc... Yossi and Mai-chan often say "sugoi ne" "you did well". And when I hear these, I feel loved.

Host: Like you've become positive?
Rika: Ya.




Hadn't Yossi known this long ago?
（０＾～＾）＜ Rika-chan ii yo~
（０＾～＾）＜ Rika-chan ii yo~

Do You Know?

Do you know that Rika has really really small hands and short fingers?

my thoughts...

"... now I can tolerate a bit more Ishiyoshi..."

This IS the funniest thing I've heard for today.
Might be because my day just starts...

ほら～カメラがいるよ～

Sometimes still pictures say alot more than motion pictures.
They looked like they were protesting about being secretly filmed, and Yossi trying to placate Rika later...

But when you've seen the real thing, you know it's so different.

If I have to choose one favourite scene from 'the making of', it has to be the part where Yossi tells Rika "Hora, camera ga iru yo~" (Look! there's a camera here) after both of them have finished their close-up shots that are filmed simultaneously (@8:12 of the clip).

I wonder why Yossi said that?
An admonition or merely because she knows Rika loves being in front of the camera?

hora~
hora~
hora~~

Do You Know?

Do you know that if you turned up the volume when you're watching GatasFanClubTourInHawaii2, you'd hear Rika telling somebody "okaeri" when the latter went backstage after her performance of "Rainbow Pink"?

Watch this space

Some guys in Japan have already seen 'the making of' of that pv. This is what they say...

-Although they didn't kiss, that didn't stop someone from looking red later.
-Others began making 'hyuu~ hyuu~' sounds - the same noise ishiyoshi wotas make whenever they hear/see their perfect couple interacting at gatas event and dinner shows.
-So it means that they (and those in the recording studio) know the existence of a certain group of wotas. ^^

what a LULL

Nothing's been heard of them recently.
Frankly speaking, besides the promo for the new single, Yossi and Rika are practically free of work. But being too free isn't a good thing as people will go fat and scandals will break loose, and fans will get restless. For people who aren't familiar with the wota scene in Japan, there's a flaming war going on right now. Yossi wotas are such an unpopular group. See, being too free isn't good.


side note: Oh yah, this ain't supposed to be here but I'm kinda intrigued by it so I'm mentioning it now. It seems that a certain Berryz lost her cell phone and pictures from it are starting to appear in the internet. If it is true, then there are more horrible things involved. Because the person who found the phone now has access to a lot of things - phone numbers of h!p members, explicit photos and videos (if there are any), many emails exchanges and private details. And in Japan, if you know the ID of a person, you could easily check his/her mobile number regardless the number of times s/he change it. As public figures, I hope the girls have common sense to use nicknames rather than full names of their family/friends in their phone directory, at least it won't make things easier for the person who suddenly have access to their phone.

2008-09-09 @fmyokohama-tre-san

my thoughts...

Sometimes I think the coupling says alot about the shippers they have.
Through the years I have been managing this blog, I realized 1444 shippers are - just one word - subtle.

Everywhere I go, 1444 fans are lurkers. They are everywhere but never/seldom heard or seen. And like them, the couple they like have pretty much shared the same characteristics and are never quite 'in-your-face', except well, for that one scene in a PV in which they kissed, but hey, even that was done subtly, that it was supposed to be a 'behind-the-scenes' kind of thinggie, you know, stuffs you aren't supposed to know but somehow did because they got 'caught'.

So what I'm trying to say here is that, in pertinence to our 'lurking' nature, we are 'rewarded' with a scene that is so subtle and questionable that even when we have seen it a thousand times, we all are still left thinking whether or not they did it? SUCH is the subtleness reserved for us.

And now, for fans who like 'in-your-face' stuff? What are your rewards? Well, I would say FRIDAY had done a pretty good job. Being loud, you just need something louder to shut you up.
See? That's why I think a coupling says alot about the shippers it has.

Da Di Du De Do Da Di

Many of you may have seen this thing going around depicting Yossi singing 'Da Di Du De Do Da Di'. Someone said it's a parody. Quite but more interesting. First you need to understand what she was singing to know why she did certain poses later. Here we go...

①　After singing あの子はつまらな～い which means 'That girl is uninteresting~'
②　Yossi did the 'HAPPI' pose (that made the audience laugh out so loud.)

③　then she quickly put a finger to her mouth telling the audience to keep it to themselves.

④　メールを送れって～も返りが～～
'Even when I sent an email there's ~~~'
⑤ ない！　'NO REPLY'
and Yossi did a usa-chan pose.

Because it's true that someone has been ignoring her 'prince-charming' (source: radio show)

As for 'That girl is uninteresting~'

Yah right... ^^

Unrivaled timing

本当に息ピッタリの二人　　(^_^)//

(This was right after Rika corrected Yossi that it was "Chaaaamy" and not "Charmee")

Rika @ANN 2008-09-05 / Yossi @STB 2008-09-06

Rika @Oriental Radio no ANN

A listener asked Rika about the kissing scene in the PV and she said they didn't kiss at all. They were only having fun posing backstage and somehow that ended up in the PV.

And...

Rika always sleep bra-less. @_@


Yossi @STB

Very irrelevantly, Yossi mentioned that she just received an email from Rika saying that she's with Konkon and Ogawa now, with the latter spotting a very weird hairdo.


Yossi is Rika-chan this and Rika-chan that again.. ^^

2008-08-31 @Sapporo

A tongue-in-cheek performance?

Was that what she's trying to tell us?