Ayu's best 10 PVs- 7.《Marionette》

《Marionette》, 2008.

Youtube version(Official, 1.5 minutes):

(」・ω・)」I have to state it again: 

I really like those creepy and eye catchy things for entertainment. 

Not horrible, no ghost or bloody hell....but creepy, to make me focus right on the plot.

Ayu played a brainless doll role for few times, such as Surreal, Alterna, Beautiful fighters.....and this one. Each time she is able to break through it(smile:) Most Ayu's songs talk about love and freedom, this one is about freedom.

As plain as its song title suggested, in this PV, Ayu acts as a marionette tied by a music box, and she is trying to break it through. I thought it was Rococo, but the setting is actually in "aristocratic European♥" style (information from Wikipedia). 

 

Together with another dancers wearing white contact lens, Ayu performs quite a number of uncontrolled, involuntary body movement like a cerebral palsy outbreak(sorry Ayu! this is what a science graduate can conclude...).....or should it be named a "spring- dance" (I invented this word, again), I find it quite fascinating all the way through. (๑・ิ⋖⋗・ิ๑)

 

The marionettes are set free from their restraints from the half way, and so as their contact lenses break(They look possessed in those lenses!). The mistress(another Ayu's role) looks at her dolls and walks away. 

 

The message of this song is simple too. Important messages are always cliché, simple as they are being. Try to be yourself, and keep being yourself. Choose what you love, and love what you have chosen. When you are pursuing your dream: you may get hurt, you may not even be able to see a beam of light, you may just want to give up...but this is you. If you just be true to yourself, you feel alive. 

 

That is what I always bear in mind when myself struggle through life, and cannot yet land on my feet. Six years from now, but I still remember the thrill when I first heard this song(The Japanese in this song is easy, just knew the word at the beginning).

Stay hungry, stay alive. You only get one shot. 

.....Must be a stunning one shot :)

I watched Ayu's tour at Hong Kong 2008 too!!

(flower)

It was her 10 anniversary(Tour of Guilty)...and the PV setting was re-visualized on the stage in the fabulous show. This one on Youtube was in Taipei. The same song list had been using during the Tour.

Credit: http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/videoclips/74.Marionette.htm

Patisserie Tony wong

As previously shown in my IG, a cup cake from

"Patisserie Tony Wong"!!!!

We got them with boss's cake, two diamond cakes-- White chocolate exterior with creamy inside. very very sweet. 

I may like it if I have a serious sweet tooth!  

But I don't really :P

The main chocolate cake is nice, 

smooth like tiramisu....

Nice choice and smart pick!

Just the decorative is really decorative.....>////<

2014/8/29 原美：接受自己獨有的美麗

接受自己獨有的美麗 2014/8/29 上午 10:17:49 網誌分類: 經濟

credit:頭條日報 原美發現         曾有女性拿范冰冰相片求診，希望能擁有她的美貌！現今人對美的觀感大概是尖下巴、大眼睛、筆直鼻子和白嫩皮膚。所謂美麗準則，根本沒標準，每人都有自己獨特性，不應盲目依靠醫學美容塑造「另一個自己」。         東方人可能覺得西方人有深邃雙眼皮、鼻樑挺直、輪廓突出，非常美麗。但東方人性格較為含蓄和傳統，面部輪廓較扁圓，未必配搭高挺的鼻子。         所謂「男剛女柔」，男女面相都有不同。男性下巴相對寬一些，看起來多點男人味和陽剛氣息。但近來韓風吹襲，大部份韓國男明星擁有白滑細嫩的小臉，少了一點陽剛之氣。女性下巴亦不能尖得「拮死人」，太不自然了。其實天生面寬者令人感覺和諧，容易相處，亦有其獨特美，未必有需要去磨骨削骨，令自己成為別人眼中的「女神」。因這種創傷性手術風險大，一旦失敗後果不堪設想，有需要者，可以先做簡單醫學美容，例如注射式療程去瘦面，視乎效果再作決定。         歲月不饒人，青春的五官總會隨年歲逝去。上了年紀，面上有皺紋，如虎紋，是正常不過的事。我們可透過醫學美容減少皺紋，但沒可能完全把皺紋擊退消失。每個年齡層都有其獨有氣質，隨著年紀，皮膚一定有所變化。我們要接受人是不可能是完美的，過度倚賴醫學美容塑造標準美的臉龐，只會出現「樣版面」，失去獨特性。         劉鈞澤醫生 Self-Reflection: (小聲問：原美改為星期五刊登了嗎？！) 劉醫生的經驗分享很有趣(話說我也好喜歡范冰冰的樣子! 她在圓方ELEMENT、那幅戴著名錶的大型海報好美好有氣質啊!!)。但各人臉型特徵不一樣，微型的修飾有時已經足夠令人眼前一亮[自己的心情也會變得好好♥～]，是否需100％複製實在有待商榷，父母基因帶來臉上的小小特色……也不能完全滅減吧。

Ayu's best 10 PVs- 6.《Part of Me》

《Part of Me》, 2007

Youtube version(Official, 1.5 minutes): 

That is my other retro favorite for the Japanese stylish ballad, referring to an interview of Ms. Hamasaki, she handed in this song “few days after the deadline(laugh)”. POM was produced in 2007 spring, the period when she released her album《A Best 2》.

For the 《A Best》 3.28 collection in 2001, it was not released under her own will, she was too much a superstar at that golden time, and Avex seriously had it need and control to bush up sales record. Finally came out as Ayu v.s. Utada Hikaru(Both topped an impeccable history, over 4 million copies are sold by each). 

(Year 2001)

Ayumi thought that an album should summarize a singer’s bests, and she was far from that at the moment (humble kid…). As rebellious as she was, that was why she had a tear-drop cover in her《A Best》, showing she was manipulated by the “A-factory”.

(For more, view her ”浜崎あゆみ: 光と影25岁の绝望と决断(Ayumi Hamasaki: Light and Shadow, 25 years old’s despair and determination)” interview)

 (Year 2007)

At the time 2007 Ayu was no longer controllable. The 《A Best 2》of course was released under her concepts and well arranged. She was more laid back at that time, and she well planed the things in the album. 《A Best 2》is divided into “white” and ”black” discs, “white” concludes the happy songs and the “black” have the darks songs from Ayu.《Part of Me》is the only new song for the whole album, allocated in the “black” disc.

The enchanting 《Part of Me》PV brings audience a retrospective story, which is very pleasant to watch the poetic graphics(sad love story though).

The whole story is about reincarnation and inter-crossing karma. (I think)Life is somehow like a flowing river, on the one hand somethings may flow merge into, and become 'part of you'; on the other hand, there are things that would leave eventually, and you can just let it go(let it go~ let it go~~).

 

Ayu acts as a kabuki or princess in the ancient time (Meiji?? Or Showa?? I don’t know much about Japanese History, I am an engineer graduate!:-) With the enormously gorgeous kimono, she was waiting under the sakura tree for her lover. A dramatic change in the era she is standing, and lonely she is abandoned. 

She takes put her hairpin and died from this (forget about the logic!). The fallen princess is like a butterfly in the narration, and this little insect is captured by a mantis (I hate this organism!!!! Just searched for the correct vocabulary of it and its images come out!!!!!! So ill I knew it is not grasshopper!!!!!!!!).

In Mandarin language, there is a phase ”use mantis to stop a carriage”, meaning that this move is useless, and telling one is too arrogant to doing something bold. In some ways it matches the concept that the doom is inevitable.

The killer mantis, under his(or 'its'?) karma, is later suffocated by a snake. The fallen Ayu is then decomposed and nourished into a big tree, new lives begin and continue.

[To comfort saddened audiences, Ayu is awake in another beautiful kimono. She meets Shuya(the male character) again in a dreamy place. ]

Other POM performance in 2011 Power of Music :

I watched Ayu singing this song in 2007 Hong Kong Coliseum too<Tour of Secret>. She sang this song with a 4kg kimono, had been a great 9-anniversary(She debuted for 16 years now btw...)!

(copied from online)

Credit: http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/videoclips/65.part_of_Me.htm

MRI(Eye mask)/ 丸一製品(眼部面膜)

這天到MAKE UP PRO的醫學美容中心，

參加一個由她們化妝總監Joyce小姐親自示範的保養講座。

除了打針和醫學美容方面的，

化妝保養煩類別的，我一向只是隻猩猩級。
(就是不斷模仿別人而已)

有機會參考一下別人的做法，

真的很好！

今天是關於ＭＡＲＵＩＣＨＩ（丸一）日本公司，

專做眼部方面的保養產品。

主創人叫小島一夫先生(？)

因為我好像聽到こじま かずお(？？)這個音

不知道，

我星期日總有點夢遊...聽錯的話就先對不起了！

 ((((((○゜ε゜○)ノ小筆記：

不說不知：

分子的大小均和搽抺的步驟有關，

１→２→３

精華(小分子)→EYE MASK→眼霜(大分子)

這樣先會易吸收啊。

小分子不應推的，眼霜的話從眼頭，眼肚到尾，

再上眉，輕印就好了。

(眼肚皮膚只有其他方區的三分之一，要呵護！)

喜歡它的眼精華很好摸，

咻咻咻就融在皮膚不見了。

但我SERUM有點多用不完，就沒買。

眼霜也很特別，是GEL OIL合一的科技，

現代的保養品真的很高technique，

抺上去很ＧＥＬ狀，

但捻兩捻是潤潤的油感覺。

這樣不會太膩。

我買了ＥＹＥ ＭＡＳＫ，

那片薄膜是小林製藥方面的產物，

可以讓帶精華的凝膠牢牢定實，

放上眼底時才可以一直迫一直迫那些精華到皮膚而不往上。

很好啊我正需要((○゜c_゜○)) 。

敷的時間也維持得不錯，

現在我(還撻在面上)有二十分鐘up了也沒有掉下來。

而且，我打算用膜裝回去。

平均一對六十ＨＫＤ左右。

據說可以reuse一兩次，蠻實慧的。

(́◕///◞౪◟///◕‵)/

分享完畢～

ＰＳ：丸一的化妝也很軟很好摸，我摸過！！（自豪）

當日也有分享到instagram：）

火鍋Hong Kong style hotpot

沒有什麼只是吃了個火鍋而已。

我們八點入場...

原來九點以後每碟平十塊（筆記）

不過還可以吧，很久沒有一家人去吃飯。

一邊是沙爹一邊清湯，

最後兩邊嚐起來都差不多。

很喜歡很喜歡香港那種亂撈的豉油醬。

我指定的是火鍋豉油/生蒜（大量）/紅辣椒碎/乾蒜片/葱（這個一定要）～

香港Ｓｔｙｌｅ才是最棒的！！

還有

稻香這家的自助記有點隨便，

每人＄１０一買全桌計之外，

飲品任斟（我喝豆漿，也有兩款沙冰和汽水們），

夏枯草酸梅湯

甜品也喝了一些，但普普通通的

不要緊反正款多就很開心。

（液體好多）

（我自己）大略有雞蛋腐竹[好稀！]，紅荳沙，綠荳海帶和杏仁茶。

只是試味般的一杯杯，要留位吃東西。雞ＯＫ，象拔蚌鮮，ｏｖｅｒａｌｌ就這兩樣吧。

環境不錯，但抬頭望見燈罩那裏有不少塵

（！好怕它掉下來）

天啊為什麼我要抬頭細看，

總之，香港中式的東西就是不要亂看、

猛吃就好了不應太有好奇心，否則胃口會減半

（完。

整晚下來吃得好累）

 

Ayu's best 10 PVs- 5.《Step You》

Here comes the fifth one of this series.

《Step You》, 2005.

Youtube version(Official, 2 minutes):

“Is this love?” is the other c/o song for this 35^th single by Ms Ayumi Hamasaki, both songs talk about being a secret admirer to a man. For the catchy main song “Step You”, the lyrics character shows up very girly and appealing, and keeps excited for the crush; 

whereas in the “ITL” PV, the whole atmosphere is rather depressed and pessimistic, Ayu was broken inside out and whispered in the chorus: ”Why the one you have chosen wasn’t me”, how devastating.

Let’s rewind back to “Step You”.

I recalled that it was a very weird song name to me,

Maybe I was in my Form 5 English level at that time 

(HKCEE huh? sad), I was thinking 

“What??! Step on somebody you ain’t no ant???!!!” 

Later it turns out the meaning when Ayu revealed more about it means is “following YOU”.

For the whole “Step You” promotional video,

It has a very very simple story line 

[compared to other Ayu’s videos],

which is all about how “transformative” a female can be.

At the power generation area or factory something, a man (an unimportant character anyway) comes near to a beacon, and a mini Ayu is there.

One line in the chorus is

”1,2,3,4…欲張りになってくあたしがいて”

(1-4, Being more greedy I am now)

[1st]

In the film it just look like the man is being greedy for more styles,

And Ayu is fulfilling his wish by giving him four kinds of look.

(She changed her looks each time the romanji roulette turns).

Apart from the first one elegant look,

The second is dark mysterious.

[2nd]

Another third look is soft and girly, 

[3rd]

and the forth style is the wild sexy type.

[Last]

Near the climax is that the unsatisfied man rotates it too much and sounds like a explosion comes off.

(I LOLed at first time watching here, 
clearly a freakout!!)… 

An all-in-one Ayu pops up and sings in the rain, and finally four Ayus disappeared. This is like the fairy tale of the “What’s in the lake? The gold one or the cheap one?”, a greedy doesn’t get a penny. Well....rip.

Full 《Step You》PV on:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU0NDc4NzI4_type_99.html?f=440921742#fr.yk.folder.11

P.S. Ayu publicly sang this song in her 2006 and 2010 tour, the (Miss)understood tour had made her in chains and it was a magic trick on the stage. 

And in the Rock’n’Roll circus(this video) she looked really nice in the cocktail glass too. I also put it here to enjoy. Like the whipping host and 2:30 the "whocares", girls are really complicated inside out!^^

Credit from: http://www.eneabba.net/ayu/video/videoclips/48.STEP_you.htm