it’s like coming back home

everytime i listens to Nico Touches The Walls old albums. Like revisiting memories, tracing back all the sweat and tears to climb out of the high, high walls. it’s like im grasping back my old, little, frightened self.

im stronger now, finer now. more established version of myself. so looking back to my old self is like saying “thank you for all of your hardwork. we did it now. we’re flying high. and all of this because of you were never stop fighting.”

More, and More, and More

Had a family dinner today (well, since it’s already 2 AM, should I say yesterday?) and father let me drove the car in the way back!! Eventhough it already near the home, I was too excited! Heheheh..

PS: It’s funny that sometimes little cute things can brighten you day, eh?

PS again: The day before yesterday I accompanied mother went to fabric shopping and tell me what to do with this….

PS AGAIN!!: For the second time, I just can’t resist their charm and temptation, like “aaarrggh…it dazzled my eyes!!” So I gave up (you hear that, Mr. Mitsumura? I.GAVE.UP.UPON.YOU) and I WILL BUY THE LIMITED VERSION! APOSTROPHE!

Tenchi Gaeshi Single

I’m such a weak girl towards them…. TTT__TTT

来た !!!!!!!

I’ve just gone through the most terrible-hardest-mentaltesting practical exam, Chromatography!!! This is basically the hardest practical exam in this semester, even, in my lifetime of college by now. So many frustrating-and-sleepless nights I went through that feels like I have no time to think about other things! But the worst is, I don’t know whether I passed it or not because the announcement will be on tuesday and it means sooooo long time waiting!! Oh my…

Now I know why majors such like chemical, medical, pharmacy, nurse, and something similars is so so so so soooo HARD! Why? Because we NOT JUST have to face stressfull week(s) of written exams like any other majors! Instead, we have to face BOTH written and practical exams, which is the practical exam basically mooooooore harder and frustrating than written exams. We’re not just study and memorizing the theory and write it blah blah blah on the sheets, but AFTER THAT, we have to praticing what we have wrote, in the laboratorium. And I tell you, IT’S NOT EASY AT ALL.

Ah, just remember, I’m not blog to talk about it… (Now you know how frustrated I am, huh?)

Instead, I blog for this!!!!

My Nico Touches the Walls no Best Limited CD had arrived!!!! Yaaaaayyy!!!

My package had come three days ago, one day right before my chromatography exam (╥﹏╥). It such a huge temptation but I can control myself and keep it sealed before I open it after my practical exam is finish!!!

Kinda surprising me actually, that I thought my package will come on late february, but it had reached my home TWO DAYS after the releasing!! Impressing isn’t it?”

I bought it from CDJapan with EMS method shipping and I say I quite satisfied, although it’s officially the most expensive thing I’ve ever buy!! Aish, Indonesian Rupiah’s strenght is really low these years, huh?

Counting how much I want it, how far it imported from, how fast it arrived in my home, and how high the cost (of course [✖﹏✖]), should I crowned it as my best-buy of once-in-a-lifetime??

Now please just finish fast, you, hella’ exams! So I can open my treasure!!!

Really Made My Day

By the way…..

Be safe darling, mommy wait for you ♥♥♥

PS: Just realize, (I can, but) I don’t want to life without my blog. Simply, it just…completed me. Heheh

February Please Come Fast!

Released on February 5th, I can’t wait my CD arrived!!!
Oh yeah, still 2 to 3 more weeks for it shipping, but I can’t stop thinking about it these days!!

And YES, I’m just in love with Mitsumura Tatsuya AGAIN and AGAIN.

I’m going so helpless……..

Oh, and speaking about Tatsuya, I just got crazy over K-MOVIE “Going By The Book” !!!

It has really funny-but-clever story and unpredictable plot, thus the main actor, Jung Jae-yeong, is just look similar with Tatsuya!!!!! I’m going so hype that I downloaded it and watched it all over again this week!!!

Just agree with me that they just look similar, yes?! I think if Tatsuya have more ages he will be just look like Jung Jae-Yeong.

Anyway, can’t wait until the end of February!!

(My Sweet) Eden [Kanji + Translated]

Title: (My Sweet) Eden
Writter: Mitsumura Tatsuya
Composer: Mitsumura Tatsuya
Performed: NICO Touches the Walls

[KANJI]

さあ三つ数えたら手を離してよ ここから僕は旅立っていく
浪漫飛行船飛んでいけ 未来という草原の上

4割程度の降水確率じゃ ビニール傘なんて持たぬよう
曇りのち雨だって プラス思考でいようぜ もう

精一杯声を枯らして 目指してる未知の果て
呆れるほど GO GO 期待してみよう
そう 今ならReady Set Go

よく食べよく学べば誰だって 皆大人になれるようだけど
マニュアルなんていらない 風向き変えてしまえよ

目覚めろもういい加減 未来はもう目の前
そのイメージの向こうを描いていこう
そう Everybody Ready Set Go!

Let me say “go”

Everybody Sings
Everybody Sings
Ready Set Go

運命なんて 叫んだことはない
砂漠のような エデンになど興味ない
ただ僕らしくある術 このふざけた世界で
ずっと探している

精一杯声を枯らして 未来はもう目の前
呆れるほど GO GO 期待してみよう
そう 迷路でも歓迎しよう

GO GO 探しに行こう
そう 僕らしくある術
ただ君らしくある術
こんなふざけた世界で

[TRANSLATED]

In the count on three, I’ll release my hands.
Let’s begin our trip from now on.
Soaring high by the roman airship.
Above the savannah called “Future”

It’s probably 40% the rain will come but I don’t bring my plastic umbrella.
It start to cloudy and must be rain afterwards.
But, hey, just stay thinking positively.

With all your might, just let go of your voice.
The future is already in front of you.
Make them amazed with you. Go Go, beyond their expectations.
Then, right now Ready Set Go

By eat and learn well, everybody will grown up becoming adult someday, but no need any manual for that.
You’ll be able to change the wind direction by yourself

That’s enough! Just wake up!
The future is already in front of you.
Let’s paint the images that show up in front of you.
Then everybody Ready Set Go.

Let me say “go”

Everybody sings
Everybody sings
Ready Set Go

Don’t cry over your fate.
Just like you, there’s no one who want to live in the desserted Eden like this too.
We just have to keep searching with our own way how to make this world fun to be lived

With all your might, just let go of your voice.
The future is already in front of you.
Make them amazed with you. Go Go, beyond their expectations.

Go go, keep searching,
my own way,
your own way,
for this world to be joyful world to living.

Until now, the one and only perfect soundtrack of my life is this song. (My Sweet) Eden. I remember one and half years ago something bad happen for me, blurring the future I’ve drawn and rob all my hopes. I just walking with no direction, I’m lost my faith on everything.

But then I hear this song. Sobbing and wheeping with tons of tears and stupified when hear this song ordered me to wake up and go. I can’t forget every single moment until now on.

PS: Song translated by me. Take it with full credits, please!

You…What??!!

*DIE*

HAAAAAPPPYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, NICO Touches the Walls no Best Jacket album had been revealed!!!!!!!
I’m going soooooo hype!!!!!!!! XDXDXDXD

Limited Edition album’s jacket

Regular Edition album’s jacket

’till I have enough money to purchase you, just wait for me, baby!! Soon you’ll be mine ♥♥♥♥

JLPT Today

What? A test? In my rest-day-supposed-to-be?! Then what the hell I thought I’m currently doing these days when I fill the form back in September?! Lying around in bed and hear music?!

I woke up in a heavy heart this day. Well, my heart still broken and last night I have to woke up until very late to made up chem report and I still have to woke up early today?! But there I go, took a long shower after had a shubuh pray and I dressed up so well today to light up my mood again. I didn’t intend to study even a bit, so I just brought the book I borrow from college library yesterday (book about how to be an enterpreneur :P).

The train is not vacant, but there’s a good guy gave a seat for me 🙂 Then I just pressed the play button on my playlist (for you, broken-hearter, excellent playlist is A MUST). Skip until I reached the exam place in Universitas Darma Persada. It still so quiet. Gosh, I came up too early! Just sat in front of closed-class for two hours, with so many people around me noisy chit-chatting and studying and open up the exercise question booklet, I just: “OH MY GOD. They’re so prepared! Look at me! I don’t even tried to memorized even one piece of kanji!!”

Then the JLPT is started. FYI, I took N4 course of JLPT, I skiped N5 because I think that would be so easy that I couldn’t feel so challenged and it wouldn’t be so fun anymore (HALAH!) (Forgive my snob please :))

The first part is vocabulary. Surprisingly, it came up soooooooo easy TBH!! I have to checked up for so many times that my question booklet is N4, not N5! I’m not so pleased, I astonished instead! Is all N4 questions are so easy like this? Or I got the wrong questions? But it written “N4” for sure!

Then the second is Grammar and reading. Well, in every language, even for my own country language, I always so lack in grammar, so I found this part is possible to do but also so ambiguous. I’m in between the dillema =_=
But the reading part, well, finally! I know that is N4 for surely sure!! I’m totally lost. +______+
So the last part is listening section, which is I’m sure for half part and doubt the other part.

There’s not an interesting thing I met up after, nor in the way back home, so I decided to go home soon. What a “garing” day…….
Well, at least I’ve done one of my “One Hundred Hope” list and my “Resolusi 2013” today, so there’s nothing to regret for.

Somehow I think there’s no way I could passed the exam, but still curious for the result in March 2014!! 🙂

PS : My big brother finally got his first own salary and he treat me money!! Can’t remember when the last he’d so kind and lovely enough to give me a gift! Oh, yes, the last he so kind to me is when he gave me a cute t-shirt as gift from his trip to Yogyakarta last year! Thank you so much, brother! I’ll treasure this money to buy NICO Touches the Walls no BEST Limited Edition with DVD February next year! That would be so costly but also worth it!

NICO Touches the Walls no BEST Header

There he goes, after I forget him for a while, with a new guitar. Wait, is that Gretsch??

Check the DVD Teaser out!! Just a single glimpse of it, I’ve decided to buy the album right away! I’m so in loooove with him again….♥♥♥
DVD “Walls Is (re)Beginning” (Teaser)

PS 2: Feel like read Harry Potter of all the sudden 🙂

NICO Touches the Walls Profiles

 

           

            I’ve heard their song ‘Broken Youth’ that used as Naruto Shippuden Ending about three years ago, without knowing whose that song belong to, simply I felt that the song is good! I love the voice of the vocalist. So strong, energetic, and powerfull! Tapi hanya sebatas itu saja, enggak lebih. Kemudian saat dapet kiriman MV single mereka yang berjudul Diver dari seorang teman beberapa bulan yang lalu, WOAAA!!!! THEY’RE SO DAMN COOOOLLL!!!!!!! I straightly hooked with the vocalist because his fascinating voice (juga karena urat leher dan rahangnya yang selalu eksis saat dia nyanyi *collapsed*) and the guitarist because his amazing finger!!!! Tapi karena sang gitaris sudah ditag temen saya, it’s okay, vokalisnya pun enggak kalah kereeeenn!!!<3<3<3<3

 

History and Background

            NICO Touches the Walls is formed in 2004 (sudah lama dan saya baru tau sekarang, oke saya memang ketinggalan jaman). Mitsumura, Furumura, dan Tsushima adalah anggota di klub light musik yang sama di SMA yang sama. Sakakura berasal dari sekolah yang berbeda, tapi sebelumnya dia bergabung dengan band B+ bareng Mitsumura. Maybe they started played together as a four by it then…

            Di tahun yang sama, mereka menyabet Lotte Prize pada Yamaha Music Festival dan memulai hari-hari ini mereka di bawah naungan label Senha & Co dengan karir yang terus meroket sebelum pada akhirnya menandatangi kontrak dengan Ki/oon Records pada tahun 2007.

            First I recognized the band’s name, I was just like “What? Touches the Walls?” and reflectly touch the nearest wall right away… Quite unique name, isn’t it?

The name NICO taken from a girl name (Siapa dia?w*A*w *burning*) and ‘Walls’ is a word that presence the obstacles and challenges that the band faced, so word “Touches the Walls” can generally translated as how they want to overcome that obstacles to reach their ambitions.

 

Discography

EPs

• Walls Is Beginning (February 2006)
• Runova X Handover (October 2006)
• Eden (June 13, 2007)
• How Are You? (November 21, 2007)

Albums

	Date	Album	Oricon Chart
1st	September 24, 2008	Who Are You?	11
2nd	November 25, 2009	Aurora	17
3rd	April 5, 2011	Passenger	15
4th	December 11, 2011	Humania	10

Singles

	Date	Single	Oricon Chart Position
1st	February 20, 2008	Yoru no Hate (夜の果て)	61
2nd	June 4, 2008	The Bungy	49
3rd	August 13, 2008	Broken Youth	35
4th	May 13, 2009	Big Foot (ビッグフット)	24
5th	August 12, 2009	Hologram (ホログラム)	11
6th	November 4, 2009	Kakera subete no Omoitachi he- (かけら-総べての想いたちへ-)	26
7th	August 11, 2010	Sudden Death Game (サドンデスゲーム)	28
8th	January 12, 2011	Diver	7
9th	August 17, 2011	Te o Tatake (手をたたけ)	15
10th	May 16, 2012	Natsu no Daisankakkei (夏の大三角形)	16

Promotional songs

Number	Date	Song	Album
1	2007	(My Sweet) Eden	Who Are You?
2	2008	Image Training
3	2009	Fuujin (風人)	Aurora
4	2011	Mousou taiin A (妄想隊員A)	Passenger
5	2011	Matryoshka (マトリョーシカ)
6	2011	Endless Roll	Humania
7	2011	Baishikuru (バイシクル)

They’re songs are great! Make sure you listen! XD

 

Member Profiles

Birthname: Mitsumura Tatsuya

Nickname : Mitsumura, Tatsu, Micchan (ngga ikhlas akang Tatsuya dipanggil begini. Micchan kan nama pacarnya Doraemoooonnnnnnn =3=)

Birthday : 8 September 1985

Blood Type: AB

Instrument: Vocal, Guitar, Harmonica, Whistle, other.

Hometown: Nishinomiya, Hyogo

 

One thing that make me loves him is, he is the real musician!! Kemampuan vokalnya, otot lehernya, kemampuan dia nulis & compose lagu, kemampuan improvisasinya saat main live, kemampuan main alat musiknya, dan kesinkronan otaknya pas nyanyi sambil main gitar yang nadanya beda 180°! *ngemut bantal*

Bahkan vokalis flumpool mengaku pengen punya suara seperti Mitsumura Tatsuya (ehm, vokalis flumpool itu menurutku lebih cocok jadi member boyband dari pada personel band karena suaranya mendayu-dayu dan tampangnya Barbie=_= #eh, OOT)

 

Birthname: Furumura Daisuke

Nickname: Furukun, Furulun, Daichan

Birthday: 1 Maret 1985

Blood Type: B

Instrument: guitar

Hometown: Hakodate, Hokkaido

           

            Berasal dari Hokkaido dan pindah ke Chiba saat kelas 3 SD, ia punya ambisi besar dalam bidang musik, dan rela menghabiskan liburan musim semi dan musim panasnya saat SMA untuk beli telecaster yang ia inginkan (well I understand how it feels since I got hooked by some beautiful guitar too but don’t have enough money as well=.=).

Tapi jujur, aku masih engga ngerti sama orang ini. Kadang dia kawaii banget, perilakunya kayak anak kecil. Hobi ngelakuin hal aneh-aneh dan perkataannya selalu bikin personel lain ngakak. Tapi kadang juga dia bisa jadi orang cool yang jarang ngomong. Ah, demo nee, walaupun kawaii, kalo udah pegang gitar jarinya bisa jadi cadas \m/

Kalo cari foto keseharian Daisuke, tangannya nggak jauh dari gitar, minuman, dan makanan. Jadi bisa dibilang dialah Shikshin-nya NICO.

 

Birthname: Tsushima Shotaro

Nickname: Tsushima (kayaknya karena dia paling tua, personel lain nggak berani ngasih julukan aneh-aneh)

Birthday: 28 Januari 1985

Blood Type: B

Instrument: Drums, Percussion

            Walau sebelumnya tergabung di light music club yang sama dengan Mitsumura & Furumura, Tsushima adalah member yang terakhir bergabung dengan NICO Touches the Walls. Kare to Daichan wa osananajimi da!

About the personality, menurutku di antara yang lainnya yang sikapnya di publik sering berubah-ubah (sometimes cool, sometimes over serious, and sometimes crazy playful), Tsushima-lah yang paling konstan dengan kepribadiannya. Yang bikin aku salut sama orang ini karena dia bisa ngedrum sekalian ngeback vocal! #gigit jari

 

Birthname: Sakakura Shingo

Nickname: Sakkan, sakkakun, Sakakurakun, Ringo, Sensei, Shinchan

Birthday: 24 July 1985

Blood Type: AB

Instrument: Bass

 

            The only member from other school, sebelum NICO Touches the Walls dibentuk, ia dan Mitsumura sudah tergabung dalam band dan sering bermain bersama. Merupakan lulusan dari Waseda University (HOW AMAZING!! I mean, it’s Waseda seriously!!!XD). Punya kemampuan bicara yang bagus (iyalah, Waseda!) sehingga sering berbagi tugas dengan Tatsuya untuk bicara di depan publik.

Have a flaming cool, wise, and peace charisma onstage but warm and cheerful person offstage. Although till now I dunno who the leader of NICO Touches the Walls is (fangirl macam apa ini…), but somehow I have strong feeling that Sakkan senpai is the leader!

 

 

Take it with full credits!