Here we go

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Off to the shooting of "UTABAN"

" . . . "

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"Maybe   it's just me"

*rolls over*

"Huh?"

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"Did u call me?"

TV taping, first one

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Wuzzup folks.

I taped HEY!HEY!HEY! yesterday!

I put on these private chic socks of black NEBUTA.

Singing for a TV show for the first time in a long while, and singing Beautiful World for the first time in front of people - I was tense a little bit at rehearsal, but quite enjoyed singing in the actual taping probably because I had audience people


Finished singing, changed my clothes, then as I went out of the dressing room to go to the talk-part taping, Monkey Majik san called to me when they passed me on the corridor, which surprised me a lot. Normally, how can I say, it makes you surprised so much when someone you don't know talks to you all of a sudden, at extreme point-blank range! Or I might be more timid than the normal level(lol) I may be able to have a chat more casually in English, when I'm in such a situation.

MM "Hey, how ya doin?"

Me "!? (Oh, it's M, Monkey Majik san! Aw awww) . . . F, fine, thank you . . ."


Am I a junior high student who's poor at English - - - ! ! (lol)

After that I exchanged a word or two with them just casually, but I found myself, who replied them embarrassed at first, quite interesting. I think I kinda got to understand the feeling of Japanese who got embarrassed when being talked to by foreign people.

My heart never stops pounding in TV stations! I have a feeling I wanna get used to it, as well as I should not get used to it.

Well whatever, I enjoyed tapings of both singing part and talk part pretty much.

The moment that thrilled me most was . . . After the song part was taped, while the staff was checking the VTR I was having a chitchat with the audience people as usual, then I came to sing one chorus of "Boku wa Kuma" in the course of nature, and then came this KUMA call in an excitement state ! ! !

KU.MA!!!
KU.MA!!!
KU.MA!!!
KU.MA!!!
KU.MA!!!

Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh ! ! ! KUMA - - - ! ! ! !

Everyone thank you very much for staying with me that way(all excited more than I imagined(lol)). I'm so impressed.

Thanks for coming!

Tokuji Shimaji, Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Pref.

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Before I write further, there's one thing I wanna tell you . . .

I've been having a slight cramp in a part of my left side ass since yesterday, which bugs me so much even right now when I'm sitting here in front of the computer and typing ! ! ! You know sometimes you have a little cramp in your eyelids, right? That's what's been happening in my ass(left side) right now! For more than 24 hours now! Just when will it stop~!?

Gahhh!


Well, back to this booklet "徳地(Tokuji)", Tokuji . . .

. . . is of Tokuji, of Saba District, of Yamaguchi City~!

And in the chapter called "Bustle of 島地(Shimaji)" found the name of "Utada" . . . !

(Shimaji is the area located in Tokuji)

It says "There lived a 大庄屋(dai-shouya) family called Utada family in Shimaji, and they were possessed a large piece of property."

大庄屋? . . . "Is it a big barbar(床屋, tokoya)?" was what I thought, which was completely wrong! (Too silly!)

Dai-shouya means those officer type of people in charge of collecting renders from farmer people. They were the town leader, as well as officer.

. . .

Ehhhhhhh------! ! The officer to collect renders~?! Does it mean, the officer who is so infamous for taking farm crops from farmer people without mercy, often in samurai dramas~!?


Oh, I see . . .


Well, seems like that's about it, Utada san.

Oh well, this has got to be like an inside talk that anyone without Utada surname won't care about. Sorry for that.

Utada sa~n

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Utada san! Hello~. I'm Utada~.

It's kinda complicated isn't it!

Lately I've got emails from 2 Utada sans! I feel a big bond with them especially because this is a rare type of surname. Or we could be linked somewhere at some point if we traced the family tree.

Both of them told me that they're interested in their family tree, or rather history these days, but have few clues about it.

Currently there exist twenty-some families with Utada surname across Japan.

Just like those other rare surnames, ours will follow a course of decline and eventually disappear . . . Will it suffer the fate like that . . . ?

My dad says, when he was a little kid his grandma showed him a looooong scroll type of family tree and he was told things like "Make us proud, you are the scion of a high respectable family with a long history."


. . . Hey Zanecchi, where is that family tree~!


It should be somewhere, but seems like he's not sure where it is. I was talking with him like we've gotta find it someday.

Then the other day, dad gave me a mysterious booklet.

Jeez this looks tough ! ! !

徳地(Tokuji) . . . ? I think I've heard of this place name . . .

To be continued

Pigment

Hm-hum I see

So you're prone to have red-eye in photos if your eyes pigment is pale!

I got emails from the people who also tend to have red-eye. They say their eyes are brown-ish.

So that's why white people or animals(dogs, cats) tend to get red-eye.

Oh wow.

Anyway, it's a strange thing that when you get old your hair goes white, isn't it? I wonder why the pigments of hair and body hair get decolorized. Has the mechanism of white hair already been figured out? I guess maybe it would be because the protein in charge of creating pigments loses its strength or decreases in number and becomes unable to put out pigments, due to some gene-related matters and such.

Do other pigments get pale as well when you get old? Like eyes' one. Does it remain the same?

Say, when I was around 6 or 7 years old, one part - or rather should I say one wisp - of my hair turned into a color that was some mixture of blonde and white, which made me think "What the heck is this---! It's been two years since I started to go to the school full of white people . . . Does this mean I'm turning white people---??" and put me into a flutter, but it was just I partly got white hair from stress. (- __ - ; )

I got black hair again in the meantime, but I'd look cook just like Black Jack if a wisp of my hair remained white~. That's unfortunate . . . !

But come to think of it, it's a strange phenomenon too that you get white hair from stress. Does it happen because you get out of shape and the protein gets screwed up? Why does the sole specific protein to control pigments, out of all proteins, get influenced . . . ? Or, would it be like white hair is well known because it can be seen? I wonder if too much stress or sense of fear hurts also other parts of the body too bad!

Probably. In many ways, though you can't tell them immediately.

You gotta watch out for the signs from your own body!

I was lucky, as I didn't have alopecia areata(lol)

Closeup

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For God's sake, please take a closer look at this guy!

Take his hot energy!

"HIIIIIYAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

These socks are . . .

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MY GAWWWWWD !!!


This has a huge impact on everyone!

NE. BU. TA!


Even I stepped back from this for a moment (lol)

I got this through Zanecchi's acquaintance. Thank you very much for giving me such unbelievable socks. This will be my most fave ever. Tops the list in "stiflingness" category.

And on top of that, this is an "available for a limited time only" kind of thing! I appreciate it, I appreciate it so much. This NEBUTA thins has a different type of fighting power that my other collections never had . . .

Yesterday when I went to the beauty shop to dye my hair, actually I was putting these socks on inside the shoes.

"Right now I'm wearing such geeky socks though nobody can tell it . . . ! Oh my, I can feel my heart is pounding . . . " I was thrilled in such a strange way. I'm such a weird girl.

Dyed my hair again

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I dyed my hair again, for the upcoming series of my TV-related works---.

Can you see the difference? I chose the color one tone lighter than before. This will look light as well on the TV, which is nice.

Seems like the ke-tai camera cannot fully portray the color~. Does it look darker than it really is? (Or is it just my home is dark?)

I see I've got a little red eyes. It might be because I got a series of DVDs lately and been watching them in a sitting, for a little too long time . . .


Say, I've got one thing I've always wondered for a long time - most of the time when I take a photo with my friends, I get really red eyes, gleaming, while others look just normal. Even if I get reprints with red-eye correction, only my eyes are gleaming red, like an owl.

How come this happens ? ?

Does it mean my pupils are always enlarged? (Er, am I dead . . . ?)

Or am I always in an excited state? (lol)

Or do my pupils take long to get small against the flashing ? ?

I'm fairly a night-bird type of person, and I really look like an owl with gleaming eyes alone in the photo . . .

Owls . . . I don't remember what an owl chirp is like . . .