HALCALI Diary Translation: 2009/05/05

2009-05-05 22:40 by YUCALI

“At the height of Golden Week.”

“How are you all doing?”
“The weather for Golden Week is kind of bad so it’s a bit of a shame…”
Yesterday, Yucali re-potted her beloved decorative plant.

“…huh? Is it too plain!? lol”

On her 20th birthday she received this Indian Laurel from a friend who told her it was a “Happiness Plant”, so in order to keep the beauty of the plant, she’s taking care of it in her room.
By the time it was Saturday the soil was dry because she didn’t give it any water, so she gave it water and she said it make a sound like “zubiiii~” like it was getting energy with the moisture.
It grew up considerably quickly and the bowl seemed confining, so she wanted to re-pot it but she heard that it’s not so good to re-pot in the winter.
So it was the reason she waited for Spring to come. “Finally★”
“I bought a cute bowl, then moved the plant. I’m so satisfied with it♪”

“…Huh? Maybe I really am plain??? lol”

Her plant is newly joining the group along with a Gerbera plant and a plant of the ?Della (Harlequin)? variety.

↑Gerbera. This is her favorite amongst flowers.
It’s one of her favorite things along with her Eiffel Tower plushie and her cow piggy-bank.
Although she puts it on the shelving in the area next to her bed,
“Like, yeah~ I wake up in the morning and it’s really lovely that flowers are blooming in my room.”

“It’s so nice, isn’t it~♪”

HALCALI Diary Translation: 2009/04/29

2009-04-29 19:21 by YUCALI
A little bit…”


Yucali came back from Korea. It was a 2 day one night trip.
They were filming on location for the 8th year anniversary of “Domoto Kyoudai”

She went with the two Kinki Kids, Tom-san, Takamizawa-san, Fukada Kyoko-chan, Enari-kun, Furuta Ken-san.
And she also met with SunMin, whom she hadn’t seen for a very long time.



The picture is of Kyoko-chan & SunMin.
The first day she was at a recording of a Korean version THE ALFEE’s “Mary-ann”
Furuta Ken-san as the band leader received a lot of praise for taking part in the chorus.
And all in all it was really spectacular with a great atmosphere★


The second day they were on location at various places.





At a store where you can grab and eat octopus.
It’s the first time she’s had contact with an octopus in her life.
And unexpectedly octopus have become cute to her.

Heh, I… look like I’m having fun~ lol”


From the moment they reached Gimpo International Airport until the moment they left it, whilst being overwhelmed by the power of young female Korean fans of Domoto Kyoudai, she was really happy from hearing them call out “YUCALI-chaaan~” to her in cute Korean-Japanese accents.
She thought it was so cool that even in Korea there are people that know of her, even though it is the neighboring country.

Yaa~, at any rate, it was a powerful feeling… lol”


Compared to the time that she traveled to Korea in January, this time had completely different fun times & precious experiences.
The episode will be on TV on May 10th~ Please watch it~”

TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET x HALCALI remix for Nissan Cube CM

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HALCALI recently collaborated with hip-hop band TOKYO No.1 SOUL SET to create an electronic remix of Scha Dara Parr’s 1994 hit “Konya wa Boogie Back”. This song is featured in a CM promoting the new Nissan Cube automobile. The one-minute CM features lively animations from graphic artist Ukawa Naohiro. You can check out the CM and one-minute song snippet right now at the official Cube promo site. However, the release date of the full song is not yet known.

Halcali Channel on itunes

Well this isn’t really news, but since we were a little slow right now I figured I would post this anyway. I was playing around in the itunes store and decided to type in ‘HALCALI’ just for fun and low and behold… All of their ‘HALCALI CHANNEL’ Japanese podcast is available for download through itunes! Huzzah! Best part of all? It’s absolutely free! Now you guys have no reason to not be watching that hilarious podcast. Now this might not be as exciting as music for download in itunes, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.

I know that itunes differs on what it offers country to country. I’m a fan based in the US, so this is what was available in our itunes. I apologize to all our international readers if they can’t also get ‘HALCALI CHANNEL’ for free.

Now get on itunes and download that podcast now! Show them that HALCALI has international appeal and that we want MORE!

HALCALI Diary Translation: 2009/04/26

2009-04-26 16:06 by YUCALI
“AX~~~~★”

Yesterday at SHIBUYA-AX

rockin’on presents JAPAN CIRCUIT-vol.45-

HALCALI had a performance!

She says “SANKYU” to all of the people that came for them in the pouring rain.

They were the opening artists to perform.
She was kinda nervous & very tense about it, but…

But it was ABSOLUTELY FUN and she laughed a bunch.

And there were tons of people there that were singing along to their songs.

When she was singing the rap verses, she was looking for people that were singing along with the rap- that made her get even more excited & high-spirited.

…And there were lots of people that came to listen to them.

“Thank you★”
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The day of the live, the girls both wore HOT COCO clothing by Dr.Martens.

Dr.Martens designs are easy to move in so they are perfect for performing lives.

She’s hoping that all of the people that went to rockin’ on will come for them again this summer (ROCK IN JAPAN FES).

All the details are in “info” (on HALCALI site).

Yucali says it’s too much to wait for summer to come!

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2009-04-26 21:57 by HALCA
“Since becoming 21″

She thanks everyone for writing to them on their BBS.
She’s really really happy.
And really thankful.

and,
rockin’on presents JAPAN CIRCUIT-vol.45-
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Halca thanks everybody that came for them while it was raining out.
She said there were lots of people there that loved music, and while she was performing she could totally feel that by looking at all of our faces.

Happy & blessed.