Arashi's Fans Overwhelm CDJapan Site Again and Again!

copied & pasted from an e-mail message sent by CDJapan. some parts are enlarged & put in bold for emphasis reason.

for some reason, feel proud as an Arashi's fan. :')

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Hello!

I'm sending you this email because you are subscribed to Arashi New
Release Mail.

Yesterday, we sent you an email about "Dear Snow" the new single from
Arashi, and I would like to let you know how we processed the
information this time.

Normally, we would open preorders for new releases right away, as soon
as we receive details.

We would inform people about it on our website and then by New Release
Mail.

However, with the past few Arashi releases, CDJapan website always
went down temporarily, because our server was overwhelmed each time as
so many people worldwide as well as in Japan rushed over to CDJapan
and our Japanese website in order to preorder the Limited Edition.

Upgrading the server could not meaningfully improve the situation,
because it was just too overwhelming.

Most people were kind enough to understand the situation, but it was
nevertheless a very inconvenient situation for everyone involved.

In order to effectively prevent our website from going down, we needed
to think of priorities in how we are to inform people about the new
Arashi release.

So, what we did yesterday was to send the New Release Mail before we
informed people about the release in any other way, including our
website.

Our decision is based on our wish and desire to recognize and treat
customers who are subscribed first.

I know that this might not seem fair for people who are not
subscribed, but the purpose was to make our website withstand the
preorder so that at least people are not inconvenienced by our website
going down.

Also, you might have experienced confusion when you visited the page
from the link we included in the New Release Mail yesterday, as there
was no way to get to the page other than from that link.

By the way, there are greater number of people subscribed than the
number of the Limited Edition that the record company is able to provide.

So, you may continue to have the same difficulties trying to preorder
Limited Editions from Arashi, but I hope that you will find the
situation somewhat better from now on.

Please note that Arashi is the only artist that we would handle this way.

Also, the regular edition is still available.

Sincerely,

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/

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Conversation with Cleverbot

just for the fun of it. you can try it too. have a conversation with Cleverbot/ AI.

it can get a little annoying sometimes.

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My On-Hold-for-Too-Long Fandom Update ^^

in one of my previous posts, i mentioned that i have a new fandom & it's a K-pop group. for those who know me well enough, i'm an avid J-pop fan & not so much a fan when it comes to K-pop. however, one new group came into the picture. as usual, i give it some time when i hear about a group for the first time. i don't right away become a fan officially 'cos i need to be sure that i REALLY like the group/ idol. of course, there may be a "love-at-first-sight" sense to it but as i said, i give it some time, short or long.

so the K-pop group that i'm now officially a fan of is..........

SO BEEEEAAAASST~~~~

yeah it's Beast, formerly known as B2st, a group that debuted under Cube Entertainment in October last year. "Beast" stands for "boys of the East standing tall" & "B2st" stands for "boys to search for the top".

i knew about them from MTV B2st Debut Story. the first song by them that i fell in love with is Oasis. their debut song (& MV) entitled Bad Girl is great too. the title of their first mini album is Beast is the B2st ("B2st" is pronounced & regarded to as "Best", FYI.). their second mini album was released in March this year. and their third mini album will be officially released this coming September. yay! *\(^o^)/*

my favourite member is none other than Jang Hyun-seung. #.# he's an amazingly remarkable dancer & his voice is mesmerising to me. the other five members are also great. they're all so talented in singing & dancing (perhaps even acting). i salute Cube for having really good songwriters, choreographers, managers, & other staff. if you read more about the members of Beast, you'll find out that these six cuties-also-hotties hadn't had it easy in the past. they faced rejections, downfalls, & hardships before they became Cube's trainees & finally debuted. so, they're my source of inspiration too.

Yoon Doo-joon, the leader

Jang Hyun-seung

Yong Jun-hyung

Yang Yo-seob

Lee Gi-kwang

Son Dong-woon

till next time..."sooo Beast! kamsahamnida~" :D

助けて!!

i need to make a decision.

i PO-ed Arashi's Scene t-shirt a few weeks ago. PO stands for pre-order, FYI. i made the payment, so, now just waiting for it to arrive in September. since it's an online-shopping, it is pretty convenient to make an order. oh, i'm buying from this LJ seller. check her out. she's great; efficient, friendly, & reliable. her base is in Singapore but she has a place in Johor too, i think. anyway, back to the point of this post, i just browsed through the preview pictures of the official goods. O...M...God..~ the goods are all so tempting! of course, if i had all the money in the world, i would buy all of them. at least one set for each good.

so i narrowed my options to two goods. one of them shall be the add-on item i will (most likely) buy. the two goods are MINI UCHIWA (GROUP) and CLEARFILE (GROUP).

since i couldn't decide right away, i listed down the pros and cons of buying each of them.

hm...decision..decision..

Update on My K no Arashi's Postcard(s) Project

so, i've reprinted my postcards after making a few changes to them. i needed to edit some parts, like the spacing & size, so that the postcards would be accepted by the post office near my place.

if you've forgotten or haven't checked out on the fans project, do so by reading this livejournal link. *click on the hyperlink*

and the postcards have been stamped and put inside the postbox at the post office nearby. now, i just hope that they'll arrive at their respective destinations safely.

Selling my Medical Books

so, i've gathered the books that i have. i'm selling them to students of FMHS, UNIMAS.

check them out at my Multiply site.

you can contact me by sending an e-mail at priscilla1310@yahoo.com.

thank you!


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p/s: i'll tell you all about my K-pop fandom in the upcoming post. ;) been too busy to update weeks ago.