お誕生日おめでとうございます, J

The youngest in Arashi turns 30 today. THIRTY.     When did chubby cheeks and bucktooth grow up? When I saw him in person seven years ago, I was literally taken aback by his beauty. Those eyes. Damn. And the moment he enters a crowded room, eyes are just riveted to him. He has grown…

wedding no Arashi

So a few days have passed since the supposed bombshell of Shuukan Josei was supposed to come out. Here’s the “most awaited” issue and here’s an update that should end the speculations. For now. It’s funny how the rumor took a life of its own and just morphed into a grapevine catastrophe. It reminds me…

confirmed! member of super popular idol group to marry

Okay, here’s the confirmed wedding news: a member of a super popular idol group has registered his marriage to his longtime girlfriend. Guess who?     Shuukan Josei… did you mean him? Oh. Wrong country? Oh. Wrong group? Oh. No longer super popular? But F4 was the super popular idol group of their time! I…

scandals in the idol world = fears of a fangirl

I wanted to write about this on Monday, when the “great reveal” is made; when we shall all know whether the extra wrinkles, sleepless nights and the paranoia were all for nothing or whether we should start preparing for our hiatus from the fandom world. But I had to get it out of my system.…

take that Kato, Lee Hom gets his own Hollywood debut

And not just one Hollywood movie, but two. Okay, I know it’s inevitable to compare Jay Chou and Wang Lee Hom. They’re both Taiwanese superstars, singers, songwriters, actors and directors. I like them both though I have to admit that I like Jay more as a singer/songwriter and Lee Hom as an actor. And yes,…

it’s murasaki month: Macchan turns 30

How time flies. The cute boy with the chubby cheeks and the bucktooth will turn 30 soon. Gone are the chubby cheeks and the bucktooth. In its place is a beautiful, elegant man (and somehow, the eyebrows didn’t go away too, so). Matsumoto Jun — Matsujun, Jun-kun, Matsumoto-kun, Jun-pon, Junnosuke, Nino’s “J” or… can I…