This Just In- Maimi cut her hair!!

D: omg she did something that I could only conceive in my worst nightmares. I knew a day like this would come, the day that my favorite idol, who’s amazing beauty fits my idealist view of what I like in a girl’s looks, changes her image. I always thought it would be worst if she dyed her hair brown or something, but I also didn’t want the cut to happen. Nevertheless, she did it and I was pleasantly surprised.

 

Here are some pics of her with her awesome amazing long hair:

 

Ahh she just makes me melt…. <3

So how does she look with her shorter hair?

This is why I was pleasantly surprised. OMG SHE LOOKS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGG!! I love her new do!! I was thinking about it and it hit me: I still love her no matter what she does <3

A review of a regular phone from a ex smartphone user

Nearly two years ago I switched from being a long time Movistar/Open Mobile customer to a Centennial Wireless one because they were giving away the Blackberry Pearl. When my Blackberry Pearl, the first phone I was ever truly happy with, died, I had to get a replacement for it so that I could continue my social life as well as business related things. Since Centennial has terrible prices for new phones and give little incentive for you to stay by not helping you at all to get a new phone. This, of course, is the biggest downside to being in a provider that uses CDMA technology instead of GSM. Anyway, the only phone in my price range that sort of looked ok was the LG Rumor 2. So coming from a phone that met all my needs for on the go communication, how would LG Rumor 2 stand up to the Blackberry Pearl, or other phones? Let’s find out.

 

First we should start by finding out what made the Blackberry Pearl so great for me. Despite having inferior hardware to other Blackberries currently available, it did have the functionality I wanted to have with my other phones. The main one was the more comfortable Suretype keyboard, and the ability to send and receive email. I also had a ton of applications that were worthwhile, such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, jIRC, Opera Mini, and a good media player. The Camera was very nice and took great night shots, and the screen was huge. The Calendar, being synched with Google calendar, made my being organized an easy task. Ringtones were also extremely easy to download straight from the phone and applications were now made easier to get via the Blackberry App World.  All in all I had a great experience with this phone, but the inferior hardware got to me.

 

The LG Rumor 2 right off the bat looks cool. I has a full QWERTY keyboard and a regular multitap keyboard so that dialing is easier and I don’t have to slide open the phone. When it comes to functions, the phone does what every other regular phone does: it sends and receives SMS, MMS, has clear call quality, and, thankfully, can store multiple numbers and emails per contacts(something that seems to me like a no brainer). The problem is that I lost a valuable function: the emails. With the full QWERTY keyboard it would’ve been amazing, but alas there’s not email support. Applications can’t be installed, and at least with Centennial there’s no support for BREW applications in the foreseeable future. This means no social networking applications, no better browser, no Google Calendar Synch. While we’re on the subject, the WAP browser is very bad and at least with Centennial it hardly works. The BB had no problems with the connection and it was always fast but I can’t even seem to connect to the internet half the time. Anyway, the calendar is a lot less useless than my old Kyocera’s calendar, but at least it’s good to use for reminders. The applications(or tools) it does bring are useful at least. MP3 Ringtones are easy to set up, but you need to download them on the PC first or have someone MMS it to you because the WAP browser says that .mp3 is an invalid file type. The hardware and software can’t multitask which makes texting, browsing, or doing anything on the phone while listening to music impossible. The media player has a long way to go too. It’s ok, but it’s nothing marvelous. There’s no video play back which is extremely disappointing too. The camera is ok, but still behind the current trends of cell phones. If I’m not mistaken it’s even VGA, no Megapixels.

 

All in all, what makes this phone good? The full QWERTY keyboard and sliding action makes texting fun. Does it make it a good phone? Well, while texting is fun it doesn’t make up for the lack of functions and the functions it does have be lacking. Is it worth it? Well if you don’t need or particularly care for the stuff I mentioned in the second paragraph and like texting then this phone is for you. If not, save money and get a good smartphone. So in conclusion, I leave you with two cute asian girls that have the phone. Enjoy!

Technologically Impared

I wanted to write the next post(which I will soon) about a new cellphone I have. It’s the LG Rumor 2 from Centennial Wireless of Puerto Rico. Thing is that I have like 4 jobs and I study, and last night I suffered through the worst technology meltdown at one of my jobs I have ever heard anyone go through. You see we fix radios there. In order to program radios we need PCs. We have 5 PCs there, all of which, not to my surprise, broke down at the same time, which happens to be the time that a client asked us to fix the entire inventory. So in attempting to fix them, I end up borking my own PC. Thankfully I was able to fix it using my Desktop, which I use my Samsung LCD TV as the monitor. However when I turn on my LCD TV, there’s a FREAKING BLUE LINE GOING DOWN THE SCREEN. So technology doesn’t like me, and my car breaks down yada yada. The only thing that didn’t happen was my cellphone melting down and my PSP’s Memory Stick auto formats or something. I’ll write my review in a bit!

Things could get a little interesting…

So I never recovered from my PC loss. Well I have now, I have a laptop and I have this newfangled Windows Live Writer that promises to make my blogging life a lot easier. Rubi and me not only have had our PC woes, we’ve also been leading a busy life which meant less time to see stuff or play games, and meant less time to blog. I, however, wish to keep the blog going and hopefully I can start a trend that will lead Rubi to keep going with me. So with my connection and my laptop I will try to keep a train going for as long as I can.

And what will separate Rubuska from other blogs you ask? What will keep you readers reading and us writing? Well, that’s something I’ve thought of. I can say this: I will keep my writing as interesting as I can. I will have certain sections that will pop up every once in awhile, and try to keep a rhythm of 2 posts per week or more. These sections will be as follows:

Random Thoughts – These are going to be random thoughts I have on new stuff that I’m watching be it CDTV, Heroes, Fullmetal Alchemist, or what have you.

Pic Wars – I will posts pics that will be win, and sometimes fail.

Tech Reviews – Technology reviews, but will mostly be on Cellphones and Cellphone Carriers(limited to Puerto Rico), but will include other things tech.

PV Reviews – I try to watch PVs as often as I can, and I will try to review them here! They won’t this time necessarily be limited to Japanese music, but they will mostly be of that.

Music Reviews – Reviews of new singles and albums will go in this section. Again, not necessarily limited to Jp music, but most be that.

Japanese Entertainment – Reviews, thoughts, ideas, criticism for shows, artists, anime, dramas, everything will be thrown into here that has to do with Japanese entertainment.

Rants – Me ranting on something I feel needs to be ranted on. While rants usually offer a lot of reading but little entertainment, my rants will actually probably be the most entertaining of the posts I will make.

Misc – These will pop up a lot most likely, but they will be on something specific that doesn’t go anywhere in those sections, which I think covers everything I want.

 

Anyway the first post will be pretty soon. So stay tuned!

Random Notes

I have a PC, but it's not mine so I haven't gotten comfortable enough in it to write reviews and all that other stuff. So rather than that I'm gonna recommend you stuff that I'm watching.

Gundam 00 Season 2 is around episode 7 or 8(if I'm not mistaken). Double O is Double Win :D

Countdown to Q.E.D. Shomei Shuryo countdown started. It airs January 8 to March 12, which means 10 episodes of Takahashi drama goodness!

Where'd the Blog Go?

Well, life hit me and Rubi pretty hard. I also wanted to write more but my drive crashed and along with it anything I could have written about. right now I'm on a 18gb hard drive, and have about 1GB left after the necessary programs I have installed. I need to write though, because without this blog I have suffered a horrible lapse, I had writer's block. I am possibly getting either a bigger hard drive soon enough, or a a sexy iMac with a 24" display and a 1TB hdd. That way, I will have no excuses. That aside, I am expecting a lot to come soon. First and foremost, the ending of Code Geass R2(which I'm sure will leave me thoroughly emo), and the beginning of Gundam 00 season 2. I think if Season 1 was pretty good, Season 2 will thoroughly own. Although, if the assholes that made the official site gave me any indication, I already know some stuff that will go down. For one, nobody really died that you saw at the end of the last episode. Setsuna is obviously not dead, and is now a 21 year old angry boy. Lockon and Alleluyah are perfectly intact, the Smirnoff guy has a son apparently, in fact almost the entire crew is alive. Saji I am just waiting to get in a Gundam and fight Exia. Otherwise he's kind of a wasted character. Hilarious as it may seem, they apparently think that some people won't know that this "Kamen no Otoko" guy they have in the official site's list of characters is in fact Graham Acre. I guess it might be entirely plausible that some new fans won't get that, but unlikely. Sumeragi seems to have gotten a breast reduction in the four year lapse, perhaps to hide herself because she's known mostly for her humongous boobs. Oh, remember at the end of Season 1 where we saw Tieria with longer hair and he was with Louise Halevy? Well apparently it's Tieria's twin sister. That's right, when you first saw Tieria and thought he was a woman till he grounded you with his manly speech, this was the bitch you were waiting for. Speaking of Louise, apparently now she has a hand. THANK YOU FOR SHARING OFFICIAL SITE! Either way these are slightly minor spoilers for what's to come soon.

In other news, since Dramas take up the most time and disk space to save, I have no idea what's going on in the drama world. I don't know what's upcoming and I don't want to until I get a bigger drive. There is ONE that I am looking forward to. I've been saying(I think even in this blog) that H!P needs to put their girls in PRIME TIME dramas, not these silly 3 part webisodes they put online. They finally did. According to Hello! Online, "It was announced on the Hello Project website that Morning Musume's leader Takahashi Ai will have her first starring role in a serial drama when "Q.E.D. Shoumei Shuuryou" (Q.E.D. Case Closed) begins on NHK in January 2009. It will be the first time a Morning Musume member has starred in a primetime serial drama." Hello! Project, I tip my hat to you and wish you the best of luck. Pepper Keibu sucked, and the last BerryZ single did you no good either. I heard Maki's newest stuff and you let go another million buy hit maker, just because you didn't want to adapt. Perhaps we're going in the right direction this time? I hope so, as much as I criticize H!P, they're still etched in my heart, so i don't wanna see them fold.

That's it for now. I hope to have something more to write about soon!

I'm high on C-ute

Lately, I've been getting back into my wota boots. Hello! Project has some things going on these days that are getting me excited. Let me explain myself. To me, decline happened a long time ago. Back in 04 when Rubi and me were first getting into Momusu, things were going great. Then things started going downhill. The songs weren't that good, Rika left, scandals left and right with Yaguchi and whatnot. W disbanding. Maki not singing as much. Aya Matsuura being her usual Aya self. BerryZ sucking. What really hit the nail in the coffin for me was the 8th Generation auditions. Now, I was really pissed with 7th auditions too. Hello! Morning was doing great, and then they made us wait like 3 weeks to tell us the results, which was Tsunku basically telling us he's made of fail and couldn't pick someone, which was good cause if he felt forced he could've picked that I Love Africa girl. Anyway, it pissed me off more that in the second part of the audition, not only does Tsunku have the audacity to let I Love Africa comeback, but he picks this Koharu Kusumi girl over the girl me and rubi were cheering for. Well, I guess it worked out cause now I LOVE KOHARU. I'll tell you what I don't love though. Mitsui Aika. Miss 8th Gen. I couldn't have been more disappointed. With so many good girls in those auditions, Tsunku picked Aika. This was the single biggest disappointment in anything I've ever been a fan of. She's even pretty wasted imo. Koharu was labled the "Miracle Girl" while not being that good, just they're milking her for all she's worth(and it's working great!). Aika's pretty much just there... Then after that, a really good single came out, Kanashimi Twilight, which featured the Momusu girls dressed all rocker like. Sexay, especially Mikitty and Ai. Mmm...anyway, GAM was also born. Things were looking up. RIGHT after that, Miki had to quit cause she got a bf(double ouch), GAM died, and Ai cut her hair. H!P was now dead to me. Then, all hope came back. I saw the Meguru Koi no Kisetsu PV. I loved C-ute, I got used to Ai's new hair cut, and Maimi is my new lurve.

Meguru koi no Kisetsu, what saved H!P for me.

C-ute to me has been, in some ways, what's now keeping H!P afloat. Don't get me wrong, the other groups aren't without merit. Onna ni Sachi Are debuted at #2 in the oricon charts if I'm not mistaken, and BerryZ along with ViYuDen have been selling moderately well. And if we talk about the girls individually, the Morning Musume girls and Rika are popular enough to sell PBs extremely well. Where it counts to me, though, is in performance ability, songs being good, and song sales. In their first week, C-ute scored a #5 in the Oricon charts, and a #3 with Tokaikko Junjou. Staying power in the charts wouldn't be fair to compare them since no other group in H!P has real staying power in the charts.

Performances count, and perform they can!

What I think is best about C-ute is that the girls seem to all have a good future in the business. The Meguru Koi no Kisetsu PV to me was refresing, because it wasn't general usual H!P PV. It had layers, the song was good, and in general it felt fun. The C-ute girls are also good at performing, from the few live performances I've seen from them, they really shine. It seems to me their popularity is also really growing with the fans, and people in general. This post is meant to be about praises, but they have their defects. Front girls are Airi and Maimi, and while I totally agree with Maimi(lol), they need to make them talk a little more. In the interviews and videos I've seen, Maimi seems to be pretty quiet and shy-ish, which to me is not good. On the last music station I saw, they had Mai speaking, and she did great. Anyway, I see a really bright future ahead for these girls, so people, pay attention!