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MonStAR [CD+DVD]

Release date: December 5th 2007.
Catalog no: LACM-4436
This is the third release in her three consecutive singles-release, which will have a happy sound.

Tracklisting:

1. MonStAR
2. HAPPY

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Hirano Aya - MonStAR [CD+DVD]

After consulting with the travel agency today, mainly about our problem with car rental and Niagara/Canada. It seems it's not possible to rent a car in Canada and drop it off in the US. So they gave another option and a small change and that might save some money.
Since we would be going to New York after Niagara, he advised to go to New York first and then take a flight to Bufallo, rent a car there and drive to Niagara Falls in Canada. This way we save on car rental because you don't need a car in New York and you'd have to park the car in a safe parking lot which also costs money. And the flight from NY to Bufallo can be combined in our main fight tickets so it actually costs nothing. Our fight tickets would cost 599eur per person, which is 4euros less than last time. Plus we save on 4 days of car rental+parking lot costs. And we can rent the car in the US and just drive it into Canada, no problem. As we stay 2 nights in Niagara, we can do a day trip to Toronto as well. After Niagara we drive straight to Philadelphia, which might be a bit less traffic than going to New York.

So, current schedule:
26/04 : 11h20 Departure Brussels, 13h35 Arrival NY JFK
27/04 : New York
28/04 : New York
29/04 : New York
30/04 : 9h20 Departure, 10h58 Arrival in Bufallo
_____ : Niagara Falls
01/05 : Toronto
02/05 : Philadelphia
03/05 : Philadelphia
04/05 : Washington D.C.
05/05 : Washington D.C.
06/05 : Shenandoah National Park
_____ : Arrival Gatlingburg, border of Smokey Mountains
07/05 : Smokey Mountains
08/05 : Smokey Mountains
09/05 : sidetrip to Mammoth Cave National Park
10/05 : to Atlanta, Martin Luther King memorial, Coca Cola
11/05 : to Orlando
12/05 : Seaworld
13/05 : Kennedy Space Center
14/05 : to Miami, Everglades
15/05 : Biscayne
16/05 : Keys?
17/05 : 14h35 Departure Miami, 10h30 Departure NY JFK
18/05 : 9h30 Arrival back in Brussels

Still changes possible of course ;p

Yeey, just turned 26 today, the 14th of November. Nothing special planned today, it's a (working) day like any day :).

A team from a Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has made a road surface that plays a song when you drive over it with a certain speed. Depending on the distance between the grooves the car will act as a tuning fork and play a "note" at a certain frequency. The song lasts about 30 seconds and you have to drive over it at a fixed speed of 28mph.

Source: The Guardian

Since there is probably not enough time between now and the release of the next album to release a single, Avex is releasing a digital single, Ayu's first. It will be called [Together When...] which will probably be a ballad as was rumoured because she performed a new song (a ballad) on the last recording of Hey!Hey!Hey!.
It will be released on December 12th 2007 and be available from all the usual digital download channels like music.jp, dwango.jp, mu-mo, mora & iTunes.
We can expect a preview by the end of November probably.

I'm calling it Ayumi's 1st digital single, as it is not announced as Ayumi's 43rd single.

Confirmed TV promotion:
02/12: Domoto Kyoudai
03/12: Hey!Hey!Hey!

Source: AHS & http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/071107.html

Updated: Nov 14th 2007: Cover added

It is now officially called "Countdown Live 2007-2008 Anniversary". So they are gonna start the celebrations of her 10th year as a singer with the start of the new year.
Good to be back in Yoyogi ;p

Dates:
December 30, 2007: Doors Open: 17:30 Show Time: 18:30
December 31, 2007: Doors Open: 22:00 Show Time: 23:00
Venue: Yoyogi National Stadium 1st Gymnasium
Ticket Price: 7,500 JPY (all reserved seating, tax incl.)

The last concert will be broadcast live on TBS television (as always).

There's lots of exciting Ayu news these days ^^

The Japan 2008 trip will probably be during the Easter vacation, 2 weeks in April, although I still need to wait for concert dates from Ayumi Hamasaki.
Also I have other hopes of concerts which I expect next year. The GazettE usually has some dates in spring.
And since Hirano Aya has seriously started her singing career with her current single releases, I think we can expect a tour (or album). Would be nice if it were in April ^^.
And also X-Japan is said to do a tour again in spring of next year.

If they were all to come together in those 2 weeks, that would be really wonderful! But that will probably be asking too much, but one can have hopes ;p But definitely Ayumi ^^;

Some possible things to visit in Osaka:
- Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
- Tennouji Park
- Shintennou-ji temple