| Oikaze
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Jul 23 2011 05:01 PM
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1. I congratulate her on the honor.
2. I pity her over what she is getting the honor for... "Assistant Front Office Manager"?! D@mn it she's a great idol... you don't put a great idol into a boring, run-of-the-mill white-collar job like that!
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| Damaramu
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Jul 23 2011 05:08 PM
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If I read correctly, the Standard is some kind of upscale Hollywood hotel. I really hope she gets back into performing! IMO, she had the best vocals in Minimoni. Oh, and in case it matters to anyone, I noticed that she smokes too.
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| TommyVD
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Jul 23 2011 05:25 PM
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Oh Mika, why did you ever decide to leave Japan?
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| 2greenlimes
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Jul 23 2011 05:28 PM
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Yeah, the standard is a very fancy, upscale hotel. The lowest starting price for a room is $225 dollars! And from their website/blog/entertainment page, it seems like they're a hotel that is frequented by celebs.
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| Aly B
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Jul 23 2011 06:04 PM
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The way I see it, at a hotel of that standard, and with a title (Assistant Front Office Manager), Mika's salary probably isn't anything to sneeze on. And if she's making money there, she can use it toward putting out an album (independant artists have to pay for those things themselves). I don't feel sorry for her. If she's that good at it, she must like it.
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| gx240
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Jul 23 2011 06:09 PM
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I think this is the hotel website:
http://www.standardh....com/hollywood/
You can find the hotel address on their page, and look it up on Google street view through Google Maps. From the outside it doesn't necessarily look upscale, but you might know something I don't. Where did you hear about this hotel?
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| Erix
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Jul 24 2011 02:35 AM
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Wow, well the standard is not a normal hotel. I haven't been to the the one in CA but the one in Manhattan is awesome. There's always celebrities at the rooftop lounge. Everybody that works there is beautiful and makes a lot of money, I mean, a glass of the cheapest wine is $30. As a manager she must really be making a lot of money.
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 04:44 AM
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It's not the money... it's that it's such a dull job... I mean, if she is happy, then I am happy for her, but to the extent that a fat white guy can do so, putting myself in her place...
I was one of the original Minimoni, a wildly successful idol group, I was one third of Coconuts Musume's lineup for its last single and finally (and this is what I'd be most proud of), I was the only foreign-born idol of any prominence to leave Hello! Project on my own terms... and now I'm the assistant manager... of a hotel... WTF?!
Well, that's how I'd see it... there are probably people who would prefer the hotel business to idolhood.
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| Glasseyelashes
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Jul 24 2011 07:03 AM
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^ i'm sure she could get back into singing any time she wants. but if she's been working there for the last 5 years, then she must obviously enjoy it. i doubt she's doing it because she needs the cashola.
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| zam
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Jul 24 2011 09:21 AM
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@Oikaze:
Mika is luckier than most Japanese idols who have left the business. We should be glad of that. At the moment I'm worried what my Berryz will do after they retire. Its not like they have any other skill to fall back on. Its not like they are Sayu or Koha.
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| Picky
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Jul 24 2011 12:21 PM
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Isn't Okada Yui a hairdresser or something since she left Biyuuden? :s My memory is foggy (doll)
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| Berryz Kamen
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Jul 24 2011 02:34 PM
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on the contrary I don't find that working in a hotel would be a boring career at all, and she's probably making comparatively what she did as a member of mini moni ...
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| Damaramu
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Jul 24 2011 05:17 PM
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If you follow her on Twitter (you should, if you're not; she replies to comments or questions!), you'll see that she has posted a few photos of her in a recording studio. On top of that, she has made mention (several times in fact) that she's working on projects. I'm just disappointed that she smokes. Yeah, yeah, I know....but it'll ruin that wonderful voice of hers
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 05:25 PM
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^ Smoking must appear in the contract of Hello! Project members as something they are required to do after their official employment ends (Kago, Gottsuan, Mika Todd, possibly others we don't know about...).
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| Chimai
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Jul 24 2011 05:49 PM
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She smokes? Oh god. That's really terrible, especially if she ever wants to start her singing career up again. >_>
^ Gottsan smokes?! o.o I didn't know this.
I'm sorry girls, but that's completely foolish if you want to continue singing as well as you used to. >.>
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 05:59 PM
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^ I know Gottsuan smokes because I've seen the photo with my own eyes... Mika Todd I just found out about.
As for their voices... well, they'll end up sounding like men, unfortunately, but that's their decision.
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| TommyVD
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Jul 24 2011 06:11 PM
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^Either that or they'll sound like sultry bar singers (just trying to see a silver lining here folks)
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| Damaramu
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Jul 24 2011 06:24 PM
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Here's a recent pic she posted; notice what she's holding. I admit though, she looks great! I love that new hair style she's sporting!
http://goo.gl/uwN03
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 06:39 PM
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^ I'm less surprised by the cigarette than by her choice of companions. Sweet, shy little Mika is taking a walk on the wild side. XD
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| Glasseyelashes
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Jul 24 2011 07:10 PM
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oikaze: do you have the pic of maki? and wow, i never knew mika smoked! i wonder how long she's been smoking?
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| Aly B
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Jul 24 2011 07:47 PM
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^ here.
http://img205.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-2616/loc218/02895_467300_122_218lo.jpg
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 07:59 PM
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^
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http://myfirstgossip...inko1.jpg?w=500
Ick... why would anyone inhale that stuff? Oh well, she's an adult. She was also at some sort of gambling establishment, which is also her right, but clearly, she ditched the whole "idol" thing long ago, albeit not entirely voluntarily.
Mika Todd is more surprising... Gottsuan was always a bit of a rebel, but Mika Todd was always the shy, serious one in Minimoni.
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| Glasseyelashes
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Jul 24 2011 08:09 PM
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aly b,oikaze: thanks! ^^ although, aly b, your link didn't work. ^^''
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| Oikaze
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Jul 24 2011 08:17 PM
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^ Combine being obsessive-compulsive with having no life and I have time to double check all my own links. XD
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| Aly B
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Jul 24 2011 11:32 PM
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Oops! Sorry. At least oikaze had my back. ^_-
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| Oikaze
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Jul 25 2011 01:21 AM
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^ Shhh... you weren't supposed to tell anyone about that. =P ;-)
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| stany
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Jul 25 2011 01:46 PM
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^ "why would anyone inhale that stuff?" I guess you have never smoked before. It's quite hard to answer though, I'll go out for one and think about it there. :D
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| Oikaze
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Jul 25 2011 07:52 PM
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^ I've never used any alcohol, drugs or tobacco products in my entire life... not a boast... I just never had any interest... as for tobacco smoke, I've gotten enough of a whiff second-hand to want NEVER to try it first hand.
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| Aly B
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Jul 25 2011 08:47 PM
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^ Good for you, honestly. That stuff's bad for you.
As for me, if it werent for my newports, my boss and about half of my customers would probably have been strangled to death by now.
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| stany
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Jul 25 2011 09:05 PM
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^
^ Is that even possible? :O So you like never woke up at Slovakia/Austria border and you didn't know a shit about how you ended there, you never tried to break into your high school homeroom's teacher room at a schooltrip, you never took a pee into unknown people's wardrobe, you never tried to open a vending machine at the main train station thinking it's a WC and then felt asleep at the real one for 4 hours, you never said to your teacher at the university to shut the fu*k up, and other basic stuff like that?
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| Jun Wolf
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Jul 25 2011 09:18 PM
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^LOL it's definitely possible. Just like Oikaze, I didn't touch any alcohol or whatnot--that is until i turned 26. lol I was clean and innocent until age 26. Then vodka became a close friend. and for like 6 months i was an alcoholic. then i quit all that. lol. I'm easily addicted to things that make me feel good. women, alcohol, H!P. lol ahhhhh life. But now im a health enthusiast so I dont touch that crap anymore.
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| Oikaze
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Jul 25 2011 09:33 PM
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^
^ I figure I'm crazy enough as it is... I don't need any extra help. XD Considering that, among other things, I once punched a board because I hit my head on it and I was angry (perfectly logical, right? =P) and got banned for a month from the local library for repeatedly looking up naughty stuff on the computers there- and did such things without any chemical assistance, I hate to think what I'd be like if I HAD said chemical assistance.
Given the company she has been keeping in some of these pics, though, it seems that Mika Todd may likewise be livin' la vida loca. XD
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| tattoo fish
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Jul 25 2011 09:43 PM
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Please please tell me all of those stories are true, stany. XDD
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| KameiDreams
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Jul 25 2011 09:48 PM
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Oikaze and stany rule XDD
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| stany
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Jul 25 2011 09:50 PM
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^
^ Well, yes, they're true. Why? :D
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| tattoo fish
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Jul 25 2011 10:16 PM
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^ Because they are beautiful. XD
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| stany
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Jul 25 2011 10:31 PM
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^ Thanks XD But not all of them were very pleasing, especially the last one, considering it was my Business Etiquette teacher. It took me a lot of effort to coerce that **** to let me pass that damned subject after that. :D
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