2009/12/27

BIG BANG LIVE JAPAN 2009 1225 music station

Look at the guy with cap wearing black jacket. His dance is something else. Much different than the rest. He can Dance indeed!!

2009/11/09

BIGBANG - Let Me hear Your Voice 「声をきかせて」 COUNT DOWN TV JP

Korean Boy-band is getting popular in Japanese music industry.

2009/10/31

Amuro Namie VIDAL CM 30sec

This is 30sec version of Vidal Sassoon CM with Amuro Namie in Japan.

Picture Perfect with MONKEY MAJIK+m-flo

Monkey Majik is Canadian band based in Japan and release songs in Japanese. They initially came to Japan as English teacher but end up being a singer in Japan.

m-flo is one of the most famous hip-hop unit in Japan.
Picture Perfect is their collaborated song.
This MV is very interesting and creative.

Superfly - Dancing On The Fire

9th Single by "Superfly" will be released on Nov 18th 2009.
Superfly debuted in April 2007.
Their 2nd album "Box Emotion" released Sep 2 2009 has been already sold 650,000!!

2009/10/24

Korean boys band - Super Junior "Sorry Sorry"

This both song and performance is very catchy and something very difficult to get out of your head.

2009/06/08

Tsukune Ichigo 一期 - Japanese Food - Singapore


I was very happy cus I finally found Japanese Restaurant where Japanese people think this is real Japanese food in Singapore!!






















I ate Yakitori (sate) & Chikin Nanban Soba & Onigiri (rice bowl) & Japanese style Ceser salad.

Everything nice and I want to try many other at my next visit.
I am sure even Non-Japanese people would love Japanese style Ceser salad which I never found in Singapore so far and also they may feel Chikin Nnban soba soup bit saulty though I Love it. :D

Address:399 River Valley Road
Tel: 6736 1340
Operating Hours:Daily: 6.00pm - 11.30pm

2009/06/07

Casa Roma - Italian Food



I went to Casa Roma on Buki Timah.
It was on a Japanese free paper published in Singapore.

Normally I trust the food Japanese say it is good so I went there.
The food was as good as I expected but may be bit out of price range?

Pizza aroud S$20
Gnnocci around S$20
Pasta around S$ 15 - 20



However dessert is disappointing..

Caramel Creme S$7

But I like this restaurant.
Now this become one of my favorit restaurant.

2009/04/08

Ken Hirai - Japanese male Pop singer

Ken Hirai is one of most poplare male pop singer in Japan.
He also compose some of his songs.

He looks not typical Japanese but half with European... I would say.
He has rumor if he may be homosexual.. what would you think?

He has many many hit songs.
One of his song I like is "Ring"

He has not been successful for long time.
But after the song called "Rakuen" He start to be known by many people.

He is known as R&B singer in Japan but to me he is rather Pop singer comparing to International music industory.

2009/04/05

Queen of Asia - Namie Amuro vol.3

2008 - CM Song [What a feeling] for Vidal Sassoon, JP.
Watch out her cool move.

2009 - [Get Wild] CM song for Coca-Cola Zero, JP

2009/04/03

Queen of Asia - Namie Amuro vol.2

2006 - Arena Tour 220,000 participants
2007 - Tour 145,000 participants

2008 - Image model of Vidal Sassoon

Queen of Asia - Namie Amuro

Namie Amuro 安室奈美恵 (born in 1977)
is a real Pop of queen in Japan, even Asia which is not too exagaraing.

1992 - She start her career in mainstream music scene.
1997 - She got married with her dancer when she was 20-year-old.

She made 20 million single/album sold in 1997 already!

2002 - She got divorced
2004 - Asia Tour - Korea, Taiwan (36,000 partipants)

2005 - Collaboration with Movie "PinkPanther"

2009/04/02

Yu Shirota - 城田優


Yu Shirota (born in 1985) is one of nowadays popular actor in Japan.
He is half Spanish. His mother is Spanish.

He show up in TV drama called "Hanazakari no kimitachi e"
He kiss a guy in the drama as his roll.

2009/04/01

Ichiro - MLB baseball player




IHCIRO (born in 1973) - Japanese MLB baseballer.
He continue to renew his record and the most well-know is

Over 200 hits 8 successive year 2001 - 2008.
He leads Samurai Japan team Win No.1 on WBC

More Ichiro for Ichiro official website

2009/03/31

Utada live on CBS (US TV show)


Utada still keep top 8 @ iTunes US for top 10 pop album.
This video is her live on TV.

She sang 2 song, "Come back to me" & "Merry Christmas"
You will see her interview too.

2009/03/29

Satoshi Tsumabuki - 妻夫木聡

He is one of the hottest actor in Japan.

Satoshi Tsumabuki (born in 1980)

His break through movie is "Waterboys" = male synchronized swimming! :D

You will enjoy watching their acting at Youtube :)

2009/03/28

Utada still Top 4 iTunes US

The great thing is not just she wrote all the song but also the producers.
She use 2x producers, one is "Stargate" and another is called "Tricky"

Stargate = Rihanna "Don't stop the music"
Tricky = the producer of Mariah Carry "Touch my body"

Another song from "This is the One" of my favorit is this song.
"On and On" produced by Tricky

2009/03/27

Who is Utada?

Utada is a 26-year-old female "singer song writer" we called in Japan.
She made over 50 million sales of total her released songs & albums.

Wiki (English) to find out more about her.

According Yahoo! Japn, "Come back to me" from resent US released album "This is the One" is listened to by Mariah Carry :)
I am sure she listened because the song reminds me one of Mariah's song, very similar to her music!!

Utada Official HP To listen "Come back to me"

Utada Top 2 iTunes US

The one of the most famous female singer "Hikaru Utada" released Album called "This is the One" got Top 2 at iTunes US for pop album.

A great song from the album "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI"

2009/03/26

Perfume

let me introduce one of the most popular pop group nowadays in Japan.
the group called "Perfume" which is fromed with 3 members.

they play electro pop and robotic dance.
the producer called Yasutaka Tanaka, I think his sense of music grately contribute their big hits!
In other words, they would never be popluar without him though their ordinary cutie look.

This video is for their latest song called "One Room Disco"
If you like it please watch other their video too.
Their music is briliant and I am sure they would be more suitable in EU market.

2009/03/24

How to download mp3 file from Youtube?

I want to introduce a brilliant web tool called "TUBEFIRE" today for you.
You can now download mp3 file of your favorite clip clip from Youtube.
Actually not only mp3 but you can download iPod mp4 as well as some other format!!
Isn't that great? :) Yes of course it is :)
and the good thing is very easy, you don't need any software for that!
Btw, this is invented by Japanese :)

1) type "fire" between youtube and .com in the URL you want to download.

for example if the URL is "www.youtube.com/abcdefg"
all you need to do is "www.youtubefire.com/abcdefg" that's it!! :D

2) then you are guided to "TUBEFIRE" to download it with whatever format you like.

Have a good day!!