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I’m really happy that this weekend we are going to play for the first time *-* Not just because of that, but because I’m going to see some of my friends =D I really miss them ¬¬ But I just ned to wait for two weeks to see everyone again.

I know this is not a very good post, but I need to go already. This weekend, I’ll edit this post and put some other things, and maybe tell you about our 2nd band met ^^ Otherwise! We think we chose a name for the band: Chi no Michi, wich means something like “The way of blood”.

See ya!

Yes, last Thursday I had an “accident” playing handball, and now I have a plaster on my foot! And I am very angry because I couldn’t go to VisualKK because of this cursed foot!!

But my sister (Eiri or Kro) went there and she told me it was very nice ^^ And she bought me some things ^_^

I really don’t enjoy having a plaster on my foot ¬¬ It’s really anoying, I can’t do anything!! I can’t even tidy my room!! It’s an absurd!! And I have to satay a month at home,without going out to Liberdade ¬¬ That means: I can’t see my friends =(

However, last week, we had our first band meeting!! We are now… “Ready” =D And next week we are starting ours assays (we can say like that?). We have already chose the songs, and for the 3rd September, we are going to play those ones:

Yumi Matsuzawa - Chikyuugi
Dir en grey - Red…[em]
BEAT CRUSADERS - HIT IN THE USA (the band’s name, and the song’s name are wroten like that, all-caps).

I’m the singer \o/ I hope we will have a good begining!

Back to class… I can’t see everyone like if I were on vacations =( But I think days are going quickly ^^ Time is going more quickly ^^ No idea why, but that’s good because weekend comes faster ^^ Last weekend I wanted to go to PlayBands on Sunday to see everyone, but I had some problems ¬¬ And I didn’t see many people… ¬¬

Next weekend, not this one, the other, Saturday 19, there will be another of these “parties”. This time it will be “VisualKK“:

The other “parties” were more directed to Anime (japanese draws), this time, the “subject” is Visual Kei, JRock (Japanese Rock and Visual Kei is a kind of “japanese music style”). That’s why I’m so happy and I really want to go. Aparently it will have some shops of japanese CDs and DVDs original, but I’m not sure.

Most of people will also have a “visual”, I mean, they will be wearing clothes like Japanese Rockers (JRockers). And I want to do that also, but I don’t know exactly waht I’m going to wear yet ^^” You can see pictures of JRockers here.

Many of these bands on this site follow the style “Visual Kei” or other styles that come close. Dir en grey was Visual Kei, but they “forgot” the style during their carrer.

This weekend we are going to the Karaoke, to sing JMusic. I hope we will have a Box for us because last time, it was full.

See ya next time to tell you how it was the Karaoke

My vacations were so incredible!! They were the best vacations I’ve ever had ^^ The first week wasn’t that nice. We went to Curitiba (a city in the south of Brazil) to see my mother. I love my mother, of course, but I didn’t have much fun xD

Coming back to São Paulo, that mean, the holydays’ second week, I went to “Liberdade” to see some friends that I have missed so much on that little first week. Those who appeared were: Hanndret, Pablo, Miriano-San, Hide (at the end of the day ¬¬) and Yatta.

But the better comes now xD On July 13 AnimeFriends (sorry, the site is in Portuguese, but is the official one =D), a kind of “anime” party was starting!! My sister and I were waiting for that for a long time!!

Normally, the doors should open at 10:00 but they never open at time XDDD Well, Kro (my sister) and I decided to arrive at 9:00 but the line were already too big O_O And we just entered at 12:15 XDD Never mind ^^”"” We got a lot of fun!!

And, who said Laura was in Portugal?? No!! She was with us, I can prove it!! Look Laura at the photo:

See?? We are together on that picture =D That photo was taken on Sunday =/ This was the best and the worst day, it was very crowded!!

All the four days we stayed near the stage, sitting in front of it (not to close, but…) ^^ AnimeFriends was very, very nice ^^ I’m going to put some pictures here:

Here, you can see a photo of a little bit of our group: my sister (who holds the white thing xD) and I, Laura XDD, Hanndret (the one who is with the black and white T-shirt) and Diogo. The others were out when we made this picture and when they came back there were too much people next to us, so it was impossible to come near us ¬¬

This photo was taken during the show of three Japanese singers: Hiroshi Kitadani (on this link, you can see him singing “We are”, on Sunday), Masaki Endo (you can see on this site some photos and you can hear some songs that he sang) and Yumi Matsuzawa (who sings “Chikyuugi” from Hades, Saint Seiya, that’s what you can see on the “Yumi Matsuzawa’s link” ^^ It was also on Sunday).

At the end, all the three sang “Pegasus Fantasy”, one of the openings of Saint Seiya =D It was really awesome! You can see it on this link   ^-~ (unfortunately the quality of it it’s not very good ¬¬ But it was the best I found =/)

And that was AnimeFriends ^^ After that, on the third week, we went to see IchiNi playing on Taira’s house ^^ They were playing very well!! The songs were just perfect… The only… “Bad thing” was that they were not going to play anymore at AnimeCon =/ First, they were going to, but then… Something happened with the organization of the “party” and they put IchiNi out ¬¬ Never mind =D Something really good happened =D

Then, on Friday we went to AnimeCon, the first day ^^ Around 16:30 a staff asked Hide (my friend, and IchiNi’s drummer) if his band could be with the instruments at 18:00 O_o Wow, give us a time! Just because an other band didn’t want to play anymore, IchiNi has to play? And at that moment, the only one who were there (from the band) were: Hide (drummer) and Hanndret (one of the vocals)…

And the others were doing other activities!! How could they be there?? How could they call everyone? Gui (guitar) and Ket (vocal) should be at the cinema, dating, Rika (vocal) should be helping his dad, so how could they? Hide didn’t accept, obviously.

At 18:00 Taira (guitar), Gui and Rika arrived. Then we told them this story and Taira got excited! He wanted to!! Then, they looked for Hide, looked for the people who can put them on stage. Taira asked to play on Saturday.

Saturday came, and finally they were going to play =D But they didn’t get to call Hanndret, so he wasn’t there for his first show =( But, it was very, very, very nice and awesome, cool!! We had a lot of fun!! ^____________^ But Hide didn’t pass me the videos yet ¬¬ And I have no pictures of the show xD Sorry!

Sunday was a very nice day too ^^ But the last week was the worst. I had the habit to see everyone almost everyday, and when Thursday arrived, I was missing everyone T__T And I only saw them on Sunday, the last day of the holidays, and I didn’t saw everyone!! Now that we are studying again, is worst =( I still miss them very much xDD

Well… I’m going to put some photos that we have taken on AnimeCon:

Here, you can see Arashi (the “blond” xDD) and I ^^ She is the one who invited me to enter her band =D

 
That’s Taira holding his Tarepandas and the new “Mupy”, “Mupy de caixinha” that means “Little box Mupy” xD Mupy (click on “Produtos” and you’ll see how Mupy was and still being before they do the box to put it T_T) is something we always drink on those kind of “party” ^^ It is so good!!

 

See??? Laura really was in São Paulo!! Who said she was in Portugal?? Hahahahaha xDD

 

Miriano-San, my sister holding her umbrella and Nati (you read “Natchee”) ^^ Wasn’t my sister so incredible? *-*

That’s my favorite picture *¬* If you think we are gothic you may forget, our style, I mean, the style we try to follow is called “Visual Kei”. The band who inspirited us first was Dir en grey At the beginning, they were Visual Kei, now, not more, but it stills being my favorite band *-* And I still enjoy Visual Kei very much, and trying to “follow” this style ^^ If you understand Portuguese, it’s a good idea to visit this site: Nanigoto.

I think this is the site who explains the best what is Visual Kei, and other styles near it =/ Well, coming back to the pictures…

Julio, Taira (Panda, his nickname =P) and I holding Doraemon =D It’s incredible, but it was created in inspiration of a CAT!! O.o

And I’m going to end this post with a picture of my sister with her super-awesome-visual in AnimeFriends (yes, it’s the same she used on AnimeCon ^^) and a photo were you can see the visual I wore on AnimeFriends:

My sister (Eiri or Kro) =D

And that’s me wearing my visual =D

Hope you all like it ^^ Ah! If you want to see all the photos larger, just click on them

Oh gosh, I need vacations!! I’m very tired those days, I can’t do anything anymore -.- So tired, I’m doing everything wrong, I can’t concentrate. 

I need a rest. Vacations!! I need them!! I’m already programming my vacations ^^ I’ll do my best to have very good vacations ^^ I’ll see my friends playing, I’ll go more to “Liberdade”, I’ll see my friends veeeeeery much!! I’ll have fun!! Well, I hope so ^^”””” 

We will go to “AnimeFriends” and “AnimeCon” and I hope these vacations will be the best I’ve ever had ^^ I just regret Laura won’t be with us =( You couldn’t go to Portugal!!! 

Hanndret and I will still you from your house!!! Prepare your bags!! Then, we will send a letter to your parents, during the vacations, saying: “We rescued your daughter!!”, then they will love us, and finally, you will live with us!! Good idea XDDD 

Apparently, IchiNi (the name of my friends’ band) will play at AnimeCon. It will be their first show \o/ And that’s very good!! Starting at the AnimeCon means very, very much ^^ 

And I’ll be there, just like that, imitating Laura, because her spirit will reincarnate on me (XDDDD): \o/ \\o o// Then, we will take pictures with a hole in the middle of us, and then we will put Laura on it, so we will say that she was with us =D

This weekend I met MY band. We started on Sunday, it was our first met =D It was very strange. We didn’t play much (normal, first met…), but it was funny, hope next time it will be better ^_^ But I need to know my songs, but I try to play them but I can’t!! I will do efforts!! Because it was a dream to have a band *-* But because of that, I want to see IchiNi playing =( I have to wait two weeks -.- Because I’ll travel in the first week ._.

Hey! This weekend we have the “Festa Junina” at our school ^_^ What’s the “Festa Junina”? Well, it’s a party that happens every June and people get dressed in a bizarre way ^^ It’s funny, my sister will dance this year and I’ll bring my best friends ^^ Maybe, I’ll present myself, if I do, I’ll sing and play Sajou no Uta, a Dir en grey’s song ^^ It will depend if I can play it today ten times without making only a mistake xD I don’t know what to say because, nothing really “wow” happened those days, hope after the party I will have something to tell. 

Well, sorry for have taken a long time to answer, but now, I’m going to explain why it was a bad weekend and tell you new things ^_^

First, I’ll let you know what a “good weekend” is for me. That’s a good weekend:

Saturday: I wake up very early and go with my sister to my mangá class, at “Liberdade”. After that, I join a friend (Pablo) at his magazine, when I get there, Panda (other friend) is already there and we wait for my sister. Later she’s arrived; there are two other friends (Hanndret and Hide) who come also.

And then we stay all the afternoon together ^^ And very later there is Pablo’s girlfriend (Débora) who appears ^^ And sometimes, there is another friend (Natalia, we have the same name, that’s why we’ve known all those friends at Liberdade) who is there too. At 17:00 or 17:30 we need to come back home because it’s starting to get black.

Sunday: We normally stay at home, studying, resting, or, if we can, we go back to Liberdade stay with our friends.
This weekend that I was talking about was “bad” because:

Hide arrived when we were leaving (no, I don’t like him), Panda and Natalia weren’t there and Pablo had a client who talked with him too much T_T  Then, we stood all the afternoon talking with Hanndret.

No! I like him very, very much, but it was strange without the others ._. And we were all a bit… Tired… So… Hope you understood ^^”"”"

BUT!!!! This weekend was very funny ^_________^ Laura (a very, very good friend at school) was coming with me. That was nice ^^ First that, one day before (that means, Friday), Laura, Hanndret and I talked so much, and we got a lot of fun.

I married Hanndret to Laura just to integrate Hanndret in our family and from that we created a new family.

You can see our family on that link:
http://static.flickr.com/69/162499700_09a8b3c422_o.jpg

And it’s funny because I can say that I married my mother to my father ^______________^ And my mother is younger than I XDDD
 
I’m also very happy because next week I’m going to see my “Liba” (“Leeba”) friends playing in their band ^^ I mean, not live, but in Panda’s studio, I don’t know the word in English for “ensaio”, I’ll ask my teacher tomorrow ^^

They are so amazing *-*  They play very well, I’ll try to record it XDD And put it here ^^”"”
                                            

This saturday was a bit… Strange. First, when I arrived at my friend’s shop, there was my other friend there who normally comes later. This was a good thing, but an other friend, who normally comed very early, only arrived when we were almost going home. And he looked a bit sad… I asked him if everything was ok, he said yes but… Don’t know. And our friend who work in the shop received a client who didn’t stop talking, so we couldn’t talk to him XD Well…

More, friday we were going to see IchiNi(our friends’ band) playing (at Panda’s house, our friend and one of the guitarrists of the band) and we couldn’t anymore because Panda’s grand-mothjer was sick… Hope she’s better now ^_^ Nothing more to say because, it was a strange weekend.

Well, first, I’m going to thanks for the comments. Hmm, what can I say… Here, in São Paulo, apparently, the attacks have stopped. But it stills being a dangerous place. Today I came back to my house by bus and subway. Nothing happened, but you still need to pay attention. 

Talking about other things, a month ago, the 22/04/2006, I started to organize a surprise party for my sister, and I’m going to talk about it (that’s why my post is called “My sister! XD”). 

Well, since March the 22nd, I noted down the persons I wanted to invite, the day it will be, and how it will happen. First, it should be for May the 14th, but I remembered that this day will be the “Mother’s day” here, so I couldn’t. 

Then I said that it will be May the 21st, and it stood like that. Then, the so awaited day arrived, and she wasn’t suspecting anything. I put her out of the house (she went to the beauty room, it was my gift to her) and I went to the subway wait for everyone. 

When I arrived, they were already there (I was late XDD). Brunet wasn’t there because she said she was not coming, and we realized that Panda wasn’t there also (Panda is one of our friend’s nickname). 

We started to wait for Panda, and we couldn’t contact him, it was impossible! Then, a certain time later, Brunet appeared!! She told us that finally she could come. And a little bit later… PANDA!! HE ARRIVED!! 

We waited for the bus and we went to my house. My sister wasn’t arrived yet and that was good. I have shown them the house and it was really exciting when they entered my studio, Hide played my father’s drums and Gui played mine guitar!! They are really awesome!! 

30 minutes later we were waiting for my sister. When she arrived and saw everyone, she was REALLY surprised! It worked!! She was laughing, and crying, we hugged her, she was soo happy!! 

We stood all the Sunday together and I enjoyed that my sister was happy with my “real” gift to her ^^ I love to do those things to her and see a big smile in her face ^^ I hope I’ll be able to do that again XD I enjoyed myself also, I really like to be with my real friends ^^ It was funny =D

Well, some days ago, here in São Paulo, we can say that “a bomb exploded”. I’ll accept, I don’t know very well how it started, and I can’t say that I know the reason very well. But, some gangsters started to attack the entire city. They burned lots of buses, killed lots of police men, they were almost destroying the city.

Apparently, all those “attacks” started on Friday, but it “exploded” on Saturday, and I really think I was a bit lucky because, on Saturday, anyone at home knew about what was going on. So, like every Saturday, my sister and I went out home, and, we walked on buses and on the subway, but nothing happened to us.

Yesterday, it was worst. The gangsters (they are part of the PCC*) got what they wanted. They stopped the city. Everyone stopped working at 16h (not everyone, but almost) and, our school is just in front of a subway. Everyone was scared, so everyone lived. My sister and I called my father, and he came to took us at school.

He arrived a bit “later”, and when we were coming back home, his girlfriend called saying that there, were she works (with my aunt and my grand-father), they “stopped” also, and she asked us to take her. But, the city was REALLY stopped, the streets were full of cars, we couldn’t even drive normally, everything was stop.

A few minutes later, she called again, asking if she could go with my aunt and my grand-father to their house and if we could join her there. Ok, it was fine. But we stood 4h on the traffic in São Paulo, some times, my father even turned off the car. It was horrible, when I arrived at home, I never felt so tired.

Later, at night, the streets were empty. No one wanted to get out. Everyone was scared. A friend of mine (Laura) called me when I was waiting on the car, and she said that at 8 PM anyone could be on the streets because some police men ridding horses were going to walk around, shooting the PCC men.

I don’t know if this happened because, I was out at 8 PM (in the car) and I saw nothing. So I don’t know if they did that or not. I just hope that this kind of “war” really stopped this morning, because I was really scared.

I think São Paulo is falling down, it’s everything going wrong. It’s very dangerous to walk here, you can’t be fine when you get out, or even if you are at school or at home. You must pay attention to anything!! It’s an absurd!! Things should change. Any place you go, you are in danger. “You can’t save yourself” (Dir en grey - CLEVER SLEAZOID).

I like São Paulo, but I’m almost every time thinking about what can happen to me when I get out, or even when I’m home. It’s… Kind of… Boring… We need to be worrying about everything, every time… Because things happen when you don’t think they’ll happen.