mi tomodachi no otanjoubi

Last night we celebrated in advance Armi's birthday which is actually on the 27th. I met Armi when i worked for Mega Publications 4-5 years ago. It was the hype of MG back then and we were the F4-crazed girls who would exchange clips and pictures of our fave Jerry Yan (but later on she shifted to Vic Zhou) No wonder we bonded over ooooohhh-ing and aaaaahhhh-ing while watching 'Love Scar', 'Magic Kitchen', 'Poor Prince', 'Sky of Love', 'God Mars' and all the other F4-related stuff produced then. Together, we busted our salaries on getting best seats on every F4 concert and even eskapo-ed one lunch time to reserve seats for a New Year's concert at Makati (up 'til now, i could never imagine to be that fangirl-crazy again until this TAKIZAWA HIDEAKI came along ^___^). We also scrimp ourselves for those $$$ fotoalbums (i think i have 4 or 5 on my collection kept under a sacred place in my closet hehehe). Lately, we're not able to see each other as often as before coz i've moved to another company hehe but we still remain good friends and we update each other on our personal happenings. We have dinners if our time permit and i even spend some doramarathons over at their place. Her parents think im alien or something for being able to stay up all night and yet, the first to come down for breakfast ^_^ actually, i dun really get proper sleep elsewhere other than my bed, my room. Filipinos call it 'namamahay'. Now, eventhough Tackey is her favorite nihonjin as she knows too well that he is my ichiban, Daniel Wu seem to be keeping her preoccupied these days.

As a good tomodachi, i wanted to give her something i'm sure she'd be happy to have on her special day. So i did a little research. I heard from her sister Candy (who is also a good friend) that she's been looking for this one particular Daniel Wu-starrer movie titled 'Bishounen' (i was quick to know that this is actually a yaoi-movie with Daniel playing a gay cop who falls for Stephen Fung, another cop) since she just saw that film at the recent Cinemanila. It even won an award, i just forgot which one *lol* Well, the scarcity of Hongkong DVDs in Manila is not as bad as Japanese DVDs which is zero (><) demo for something along that genre, hmm... definitely a challenge. Good thing Mari happens to have the very same DVD which she got from HK. It comes with the photobook and an original soundtrack CD---YEEEY!!!! She was an angel to sell it to me at a relatively friendly price so i took a jump at it right away before she changes her mind. You know she's a very big fan of Daniel Wu herself. Even Armi and Candy (later on) kept asking me how I was able to convince her to sell it to me. Would the great Houdini tell the tricks of his trade?! Of course not so i just left them guessing *lol*

I was happy to hear about this movie while we're dining. Armi's eyes filled with enthusiasm and she was giddy when she talked about those *ahem* showering parts hehehe. Funny thing is she doesn't know what's in that customized DITHER's wrapped envelope is yet hehehe. So, i just went along the whole Bishounen talk while trying to look so innocent yes, im good at pretend acting *lol*. Then when dinner is through, Armi started opening our gifts. Mel gave her a red bag with a cat cross-stitched in the middle which she herself did (MEL, watch out for carpal tunnel yo!) and Armi was telling me that she wouldn't want to tear off my wrapper because (either) i poured effort into making it OR because all our fave boys are printed on it *lol* Well, she just *snip* *cut* on the scotch tapes and stopped in the middle when she saw the envelope. She said she doesn't want to open it anymore just to tease me but she was like O___O *jaw dropped* when she opened the envelope and i was laughing the whole time. There she was chatting away about how Daniel is like with Stephen Fung in the movie, how more ladies came to watch it, how she wanted to closed the movie curtains coz she's too selfish to share Daniel to the rest of the viewers and now she's holding onto the DVD. Ooooh, its just priceless to see her like that. I know she liked it a lot and im truly happy.

What made me happier was that Mel gave us gifts too coz she said it was for the birthday that she missed last year. Look what she got for me (NOTE: the background is part of the wrapper i made for Armi's gift. How many Tackeys and Tsubas can you spot?! haha) >>>

On your left is the 2nd vol of 'Hana Yori Dango' (which springs interest in me again as I've seen the clip of the NEW 'Hana Yori Dango' where MatsuJun plays Domyouji and Oguri Shun as Rui). On the right is the armband made again by Mel herself. I wasn't joking when I warned her of carpal tunnel you know ^^ but nevertheless, i love 'em. Oh all these gift-giving and its not Christmas yet XD

Speaking of which, i had a quick stop at Nere-chan's and read about what Tsuba got from Tackey on his birthday.... it was a 21" LCD TV! *whistles* WOW! But you know Tackey, like what Armi said to me on keitai, your presence would be more than enough. I guess more than the TV, you would HAVE to make up for it in some other *ahem* means I hope ^___^