SHIGE
The most relieving thing is taking a bath. In my bathroom there's a monitor that shows the same pictures of my living's TV. When I'm in the bathtub watching variety shows and laughing I'm very happy. Sometimes I put Lavander bath salts in the bathtub, I feel like bashing myself "Wah, am I an OL!" (lol). My parents' home is of course another place where I can calm down...I like to say this but in reality I can't stay long there. The house is regularly renovated so there's not trace anymore of the place where I lived before. In what was my room in the past now there's my mom's riding fitness machine and my dad's putter mat (lol). Outside of home, my relax place is the cinema. Some cinemas let you enter 10 minutes before the show, that's too little for me. I want to sit at my place at least 20 minutes before, search a little about the movie with the iPad, read the infos and go to the toilet just before the beginning of the movie. Once I was watching the movie drinking an icetea and I had to go to the toilet 3 times in 2 hours. It was extremely diuretic! Since then I abstain from tea before a movie and only take ginger ale with me...
Lately my life pattern has been: be alone during the day, stay with friends at night. During February and March there were a lot of friends' birthdays, I had a celebration quite every night. One time, we had a big fruits tart and the birthday boy's face was shoved into it. After that we ate the remaining of the tart to not waste it and we thought moved: "It's nice that we're even able to eat a cake where a friend put his face". Ah, I didn't eat that though (lol). But it wasn't because of my friend, it's that I don't like sweets!
Shige's OFF keywords
TSUKEMEN - I like the salted ones. When I'm out I'm used to search a near reastaurant with an app on the iPhone. I'm exploring new delicious shops!
COMPUTER - I look through blogs and fishing websites, I see if there are bands that I like and I but CDs online...It's an essential thing to me!
MAGS & BOOKS - Right now I'm reading "Tsuki to Kani". I buy around 5 fashion magazines every month, but I do that so that the magazines business won't sink (lol)
MASSU
When I come back home I immediately take off all my clothes. Ah, of course I keep on my undies (lol). After that I change into my home clothes. After that I'm finally into the domestic mood and I can relax. Right now, my home clothes are a T-shirt & parka above, a grey sweaters below. Originally I often used for home clothes those jearseys and sweater I bought for exercize of which I was tired. On the opposite, to make the fabric look a little worn-out I use the new things at home and go to exercize with the old ones.
Lately I went to do shopping with my male friends. That time I went to look through the children clothes, even if I had nothing to do there, and I felt healed. I mean, children clothes are so tiny and cute! Even though I haven't even a friend that is about to marry I end up to say: "If he'll marry and become a dad, I'll buy this one for him!". It was a complete fantasy though.
I cherish a lot the time spent with my childhood friends. We've always been together since kindergarten or elementary school, we know everything about each others, we have that kind of relationship in which you don't have to overdo yourself, you can just stay together. It's not like we're all excited like: "We're best friends, we're very very well together!", it's like a family atmosphere already. When somebody is worrying he can talk with one of us, when we want to just have fun we just do it. When I was a student we used to play outside together and come back home for dinner, when we turned 20 and we began to eat out too the atmosphere changed a little. We started to talk calmly during dinner, before that we quite never did that. Right, some time ago we were eating together as always and two of us had a fight. Nobody else noticed it and everybody was eating normally (lol). We're always like that.
Massu's OFF keywords
MUGS - I always prefer to drink from a mug cup than from a glass. I collected around 6 of them!
5-fingers SOCKS - My friends said they're disgusting but wearing them they became my favourite object. When you get used they feel as good as normal socks.
CLOTHES - They are my life! I have fun buying my own clothes but I also like to see what others wear. I always look forward to meet new clothes.
RYO
I come back home, I put on the lights and I fall sitting on my sofa. That's the most relieving moment. I always sit on the same spot on the sofa. When my friends come to my place and somebody sits there I can't allow it to the point I say: "Wait, move over". That's why my sofa is made of white leather but on that spot it's kinda dirty and softer. I don't know why, there I use my PC, I watch TV and I relax. Even if there are other people I don't move in any other place. Lately a friend came to my place but I was sitting there with my PC, he had his PC too and we stood like that, not talking to each other for around 4 hours (lol).
I had the filming for the drama for 3 days until yesterday. And today I have still work, other than the drama. Since yesterday night I didn't have to memorize my lines I went to drink with friends after many time. When I am so busy I feel healed by tasting what used to be my "everyday" before. Expecially when you're in a drama, since you're always worried thinking to the next day, you feel grateful for that "everyday" stuff. It's obvious, you can't be late for work. Anyway yesterday my manager told me "Tomorrow you have the interview with MYOJO" so I thought that I could do as late as I wanted...Joking, joking ♥ Well honestly, this morning I started working at 7am but I was drinking until 6:30. I didn't sleep at all! Really, I want to go home (lol). Anyway I wasn't late!!
When I want to take a break I go on a trip or I go to eat something good...something like this, I don't ask for special things. Going to drink Oolong tea highball to the usual pub with my friends and talk about everything and get in high spirits...those common days are my luxury. If I'm with my best friends no matter where we are, no matter what we do, it always funny, just like we're in Hawaii!
Ryo's OFF keywords
A LITTLE CALM TOMORROW - When my manager says: "Tomorrow you'll start working at 12" I feel better: "Yey! I can go to drink tonight!"
MONEY - When I want to go to drink or when I want to buy something, money are essential. The credit card is ok too. Anyway lately I didn't buy anything...
FRIENDS - Being able to talk with my friends it's the best. I think that you must cherish even the most stupid conversations.
YAMAPI
The place where I can relax is of course my home. I often spend my holidays at home. When you're in a drama you never have day-off, right now I have some of them so often I just stay home.I have nothing special to do there, I generally just sleep (lol). Anyway I can sleep peacefully only at home so it's ok, right? Then I watch movies and study English. People ask me why I'm studying it but I don't have a clear objective. I just want to be able to communicate with a lot of people. There are so many people in this world but I can talk only to people who speak Japanese, it seems like a waste.
The difficult in English is that you have to distinguish clearly between past and present tense. "Taberu" in English is "Eat" but the past tense is "Ate". If you don't pronounce well "eat" and "ate" you can't express if you said "taberu" or "tabeta". It's troubling if you say "Let's go to eat!" if you just have eaten. Right, eating is quite as important as communication. I'm simply happy when I can eat good food. To me good food is curry, yakitori and sushi. That's enough.
Being able to talk with people of other countries, it's obvious but you'll start noticing that there are many different ways of thinking in the world. You can easily understand the opinions of your classmates, but if the countries where you're born and raised are different the mentality is what makes people different. I don't deny other ways of thinking, I try to listen to them and I think if that makes sense to me or not. How much it's correct or wrong, for example. When I understood that there are so many different people and that there are many of these people who support me, I felt very happy, I confirmed it once again.
Yamapi's OFF keywords
ALBUM - Of course I mean MY album (lol). Anyway, I really like it, if somebody still didn't listen to it, please listen to it when you're OFF!
BATHROOM - I can take away tiredness entering the bathtub. I stay there 10 minutes...too little? I can't stay more, the maximum is 12 minutes.
WALKING - I love to walk in my neighborhood, just as always. I walk slowly and I discover many things like: "Oh they opened a bookstore!"
KOYAMA
The place where I can relax is my homeland Kanagawa. It's distant 1 hour of car from the city, I never thought it's annoying to go there though. Better, in that hour of travel I can think to many things. When I end a work and I go back home, in that hour I remove completely everything that makes me nervous. That distance between workplace and home is the best to me! That's why I never thought that I want to live somewhere else. The thing I love the most of my country is our ramen restaurant. It was already there when I'm born and there were many common customers since always. When I was little and entered the restaurant the customers always told me: "You grew up so much!" or "Are you really going to be a Johnny?". The restaurant has always been like my home, I ate dinner there, study there when the tables were free, I was always there. That's why still now I go there from time to time. When I meet my childhood friends we always meet there. Usually I invite them there: "Come to the restaurant, I'll be there!". That's no other place to me like it to relax!
Every night when I get sleepy I go to the bathroom, put on the pajamas and go to roll on the bed, I love that time! I always sleep using as pillow cover a towel, on that towel I spill 3 drops of my favourite aromatic oil. Inside that nice smell I can really relax. Right now I'm using the "Rosewood" one. I bought it after I sniffed all the oils in the store. I recommend it, it feels like you're in a forest. Other than the scent, a BGM is essential. Before sleeping I play music in my living, just listening to it I get sleepy. Thanks to this I can sleep perfectly well every night! The next day I feel relieved.
Koyama's OFF keywords
CAR - With a car you can move more freely. I can go out without noticing the time too much. I also love the coolness of it!
NEWSPAPER - Newspapers are the textbook of society. There are the answers to all things like: "Why the gasolin price is higher?". It's interesting to read them!
NOTES - I always take notes of things that interest me. For example, if I write down the name and address of a good restaurant I can go there immediately when I'm in its neighborhood!
TEGOSHI
Since Dekawanko ended I have more private time, so right now I'm trying to do all those things that I couldn't do during the filming. The first thing I did was dying my hair! I had to keep the same hairstyle for 4 months so I got tired of it. When I asked my hairdresser what color I could use this time, he told me that since I had dark hair all this time I could make them light like a foreigner and that's the result. I hate to fix my hair with wax and stuff, this hairstyle is very confortable because it's ok also if I don't do anything. After this, I went to play soccer as always, I went to eat out with friends...Ah, for the first time in 3 months I could go to drink until morning without thinking to the next morning! I played soccer also during the drama but finally after the match I could go to eat with friends just like that*. Only when I'm with my friends I can show everything of me. I can complain about work, talk about my worries, everything. The time spent with my family-like friends is the most relaxing one. Of course also the time with my real family is important. Recently I didn't see them so much, I also left my dog there, I can't wait to go to meet them! I want to eat my mom's cooking. Everything she cooks is good. Exactly, she's been my personal chef for 23 years.
To me it's also important the time spent by myself. Recently I saw "The tourist" at the movies. I went alone...well I always go alone to the cinema. Even if you go with others you can't talk during the movie so it's better to be alone and concentrate. I love to sit in the very middle seat. I feel confortable to watch the movie surrounded by people I don't know. The staff keep glaring at me like to say: "He's all alone once again?" (lol). Well, I just like it like that!
Tegoshi's OFF keywords
FRIENDS - For friends I always mean my soccer mates. The age range is wide, I'm the younger one, the oldest is 45 yrs old. Our common interest is that we love soccer of course!
VIDEOGAMES - Right now I'm hooked to "Winning eleven" and "Tales of Graces f". Once I start I go on playing for 3-4 hours!
HOT MEAL - Except celery and coliander I can eat everything but when I live eating bento I get moved when I get to eat a good meal.
