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【キンコン西野、HYDE愛を語る】

今日は大切なお知らせが二つございます。

まず一つ目ですが、映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のオンラインムビチケの発売が開始しました。

コチラ→https://mvtk.jp/Film/070395

前売価格なので、若干お買い得になっていて、一般が１５００円。子供が８００円です。
でもって、オンラインムビチケ（前売券）の購入特典として、「特製スマホ壁紙」がプレゼントされます。

こちらは、初公開となる映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のメインビジュアルです。



個人的にメチャクチャお気に入りの一枚で、今日は、この絵のことを少しだけ説明させていただきます。

主人公のプペルとルビッチが煙突の上に座って、上を向いているのですが、「上を向く」というのが今作のテーマでもあるんですね。

劇中、高いところが苦手な煙突掃除屋の少年のルビッチ君が、ハシゴを登る時に下を見ちゃうシーンがあります。
下を見ると、体重が後ろにかかるもんですから、立てかけてあるハシゴが揺れるんですね。

それに対して、下で見守っていたルビッチ君のお父さんの「ブルーノ」さんが、「下を見るから揺れるんだ。上を見ろ」とアドバイスするわけですが、これはハシゴに引っ掛けた世の理で、僕らは上を向いている時は体力的に少々大変でも頑張れる。

それこそコロナなんて「来月終わります」と言ってもらえたら、その希望をオカズに１ヶ月ぐらいの貧乏は我慢できる。

だけど、コロナの場合は「いつ終わるか分からない」という、「希望が取り除かれた状態」だから、精神的にかなりグラついてしまう。ともすれば鬱っぽくなる。

そう考えると、「希望」というのは、僕らが生きていく上で必要なもので、「上を見る理由」を提供することは僕ら表現者の仕事の一つでもあるなぁと思いました。

　
映画『えんとつ町のプペル』は来年公開に延期する話も上がったのですが、「いやいや、今年公開しよう！」とワガママを言いました。
大変なのは百も承知で、だけど、だからこそ、皆と同じように大変な中で頑張って、頑張って頑張って結果を出す。

その姿を見せることができたら、「ああ、こんな中でも死ぬ気で努力すれば活路が見いだせるんだな」と思ってもらえて、誰かの規模になることができるなぁと思って、今年公開に踏み切りました。

　
メインビジュアルは、そういう気持ちを全部込めて、「煙に覆われて、なかなか星が見つからない町の中で、それでも上を見続ける主人公達の横顔」にして見ました。
この絵が頑張る人のお守りになると嬉しいです。
オンラインムビチケをご購入いただけると、特典で付いてきますので、是非！



https://mvtk.jp/Film/070395

んでもって、大切なお知らせの二つ目です。

昨夜、YouTubeの生配信で喋ったのですが、HYDEさん愛が爆発してしまって１時間近く喋っちゃったので、あたらめて短くまとめます。

映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のオープニング主題歌「ハロウィンパーティ プペルver.」の配信が開始されました。

コチラ→https://hyde.lnk.to/hppoupelleTP

HYDEさんが子供達と歌っているのですが、これ、本当にビックリするぐらいカッコイイので、一度聴いてください。
僕は昨夜から、かれこれ２０回ぐらい聴いています。



こちらの楽曲は、もともと２０１２年頃に発表されていたんです。

それが、もう、とっても素敵で……まもなく、日本にもハロウィンが一つの文化として根付いて、その後、様々なハロウィンソングが世に出てきたのですが、僕個人的には、この楽曲を超える「ハロウィンソング」には出会わなかったんですね。

やっぱりブッちぎりだったんです。



映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のオープニングシーンの脚本を書くときも、後ろにずっとこの曲を流していて、この曲に引っ張られるようにオープニングを書いたんですね。

で、いよいよ「オープニング曲の制作をしよう」という段階に差し掛かった時に、「いや、ちょっと待てよ」と。

２０１２年から、HYDEさんの「ハロウィンパーティ」を超える曲が出てこなくて、んでもって、そもそも「ハロウィンパーティー」を流しながら、この曲に合うように本を書いてしまっている。
この条件で、「ハロウィンパーティーを超える曲なんて作れるんだっけ？」と思ったんですね。

というわけで、「一旦、ダメ元で、HYDEさんに、この曲を使わせていただけるか、お願いしてみよう」と。で、「ダメだったら、頑張って作ろう」ということで、話がまとまったんです。



やっぱり、「イイものはイイ」ので。

変にエゴをこじらせて、何でもかんでも「自分でやる」とするのではなくて、素晴らしいものにあやかれるのなら、あやかった方がイイ。
それが製作総指揮の仕事だなぁと思ったんです。

で、ダメ元で、HYDEさんにお願いしたところ、これが本当に本当にありがたいことに、なんとHYDEさんが、そもそも『えんとつ町のプペル』のファンでいてくださって、快く「オッケー」をくださったんです。

こんなにありがたいことはありません。

そして、もっとありがたいのはここからです。
ここから僕のHYDE愛が爆発するのですが……映画館で流すとなると規格も変わりますし、さらには前後の音楽とのバランスもあって、今回、「ハロウィンパーティー」を映画用にアレンジする必要があったんですね。


そこからのHYDEさんが本当に最高すぎたのですが、HYDEさんったら、楽曲を提供して終わりじゃないんです。

「えんとつ町」には、こういう音は鳴らない」とか「煙の中から聴こえてくる音は、こっちだ」といった感じで、映画用のアレンジを本当にトコトン付き合ってくださったんです。

テレビのインタビューだと「オッケー、オッケー」といった軽い感じで受けて、サクッとやりました感が出ていますが、どっこい、皆さんが思われている「トコトン付き合う」の５倍ぐらいトコトン付き合ってくださった。

歌詞も若干変わってるんです。

もともと歌詞の中に、「月明かり」というワードがあったのですが、「えんとつ町」は煙に覆われて空を知らない町なので、月も知らないので、「月明かり」が「薄明かり」になっていたり、その他にも、えんとつ町にあるハズがないものは歌詞から省いて、えんとつ町仕様に変えてくださったんです。

んで、また、子供の声との相性が抜群！
ロックミュージシャンと子供が、メチャクチャイイ感じに融合している。

　
一言でいうと、「HYDEさんが好きだ」ということです。



学生時代、僕はアルバイトで、ラルク・アン・シエルさんのコンサートスタッフをさせていただいたんです。

スタッフはステージに背を向けて、お客さんの方を見なきゃいけないのですが、両耳は全部ステージの方を向いていて、実は、その時のライブに、まだ出会う前の梶原君も来ていて、僕はスタッフとして、梶原君はお客さんとして、ラルクさんのライブに参加させていただいたんです。

ときどき梶原君と、その話になるのですが、あの日、あのライブを観て、ステージ上のラルクさんを観て感じたことは、僕も梶原君も全く同じで、僕らが目指したのは「お笑い」だったのですが、もうちょっと大きな枠として捉えた時に、「いつか、あっち側に行ってみたいな」と思ったんです。

なんか、本当にキラキラしていた。

コンサートの撤収でパイプ椅子とかを片付けながら、「あっち側に行きたい」と、ずっと思っていました。



なので、今回、こういった形でご一緒させていただくことになったのは、あの日の自分の希望でしかなくて、もしタイムマシン的なものがあれば、あの日に戻って「お前、メチャクチャ頑張ったら、いけるぞ」と彼に言ってやりたいです。



まぁ、とにかく、HYDEさんが映画『えんとつ町のプペル』用に作り直してくださった「ハロウィンパーティー」が本当に、本当に最高なので、是非、聴いてみてください。

　
あと、とはいえ「いただきっぱなし」は気持ちが悪いので、今回、お力を貸してくださったHYDEさんに対して、また、HYDEさんをずっと支えてくださったファンの皆様、スタッフの皆様に対して、僕なりの恩返しはさせていただきます。

そちらは１１月上旬に発表します。

そのアクションでもって、「あの日の僕の胸を熱くさせてくれたHYDEさんって、こんなにカッコイイだぜ」ということを、あらためて、世の中にお伝えします。

お楽しみに。



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[Xin Nishino, Hyde talks about love]

We have two important news today.

It's the first one, but the movie ′′ a no-′′ online bangabandhu is now on sale.

Here → https://mvtk.jp/Film/070395

It's an early bird price, so it's a bit of a bargain, and the general is 1500 yen. The child is 800 yen.
′′ Special Smartphone Wallpaper ′′ will be present as a special gift for the purchase of online bangabandhu (early bird tickets).

This is the main visual of the first movie ′′ a in town ′′ (in Japanese)



One of my personal favorites, and today, I'm going to explain a little bit about this painting.

The protagonist," and Ruby are sitting on the chimney, and they are on their way up, but it is also the theme of the creation of the creation.

In the play, there is a scene where the chimney cleaner boy, who is not good at high, is looking down when climbing the ladder.
When you look down, the weight is behind, so the propped ladders are swaying.

On the other hand, Levitch's father, Bruno, who was watching downstairs," is swaying because he looks down. Look up I advise you, but this is the understanding of the world that hook up to the ladders, and when we are on the way, we can do our best to be a bit hard.

If you say corona is ′′ it will end next month you can resist the poor for about 1 months in the wank.

But in the case of Corona, ′′ I don't know when it's going to end," it's a state of hope removed," so it's mentally quite a bit of a I feel depressed.

If you think so, ′′ hope ′′ is what we need to live, so I thought that providing ′′ the reason to see above ′′ is also one of the work of our expressions. I'm sorry.

　
The movie ′′ a town ′′ has risen to the public next year, but," no, no, let's publish this year!" I was selfish.
I know it's hard, but that's why I'm going to do my best in the middle of the day, and I'm going to do my best, and I'm going to do my

If you can show the appearance," oh, if you try to die in this way, you'll find a find," and you'll be able to become someone's scale, and you'll be able to publish this year. I went to the crossing.

　
The main visual is all about that feeling," I saw it in a town where I can't find a star, and I still keep looking up,"
I would be happy if this painting would be the amulet of the person who works hard.
If you can buy online bangabandhu, you'll be able to follow it with special benefits, so come on!



https://mvtk.jp/Film/070395

And it's the second one of the important announcement.

Last night, I talked about a live broadcast on Youtube, but Hyde's love exploded, and I talked about it for almost 1 hours, so I'm going to have a short summary of it.

The opening theme song ′′ Halloween party persie ver." for the movie ′′ a ′′ has started.

Here → https://hyde.lnk.to/hppoupelleTP

Hyde is singing with the kids, but this is really cool to be surprised, so please listen to it once.
I've been listening to it about 20 times since last night.



This song was originally announced around 2012

It's already very nice...... soon, Halloween will be rooted as one culture in Japan, and after that, various Halloween songs came out in the world, but I personally, over this song ′′ You didn't meet the Halloween song.

I knew it was a prude.



Even when I wrote the script of the opening scene of the movie ′′ a in town ′′ I've been playing this song for a long time, and I wrote the opening to be pulled by this song.

So, when I finally got to the stage of ′′ Let's make an opening song," no, wait a minute,"

Since 2012, I didn't have a song over Hyde's ′′ Halloween party ′′ and I wrote a book to fit this song while playing ′′ Halloween party ′′ in the first place.
In this condition," I thought I could make a song over Halloween party?"

So," I'm going to ask Hyde to use this song once," So," if you don't do it, let's make it hard," the story was organised.



As expected," good things are good,"

It's better to be able to take a look at the ego, not to ′′ do it yourself ′′ but if you're going to be aya by something wonderful.
I thought it was the work of the production general command.

So, I asked Hyde for a bad time, and this is really a blessing, and Hyde was a fan of ′′ a town ′′ in the first place, and I was delighted to give you ′′ okay ′′

There's never been such a blessing.

And more thankful is from here.
My Hyde love is exploding from here, but...... when it comes to the movie theater, the standard changes, and even more, there is also a balance with the music before and after, and this time, I'm going to have a ′′ Halloween party ′′ for the movie You needed to arrange it.


Hyde from there was really the best, but Hyde-San, it's not the end of offering songs.

′′ a town ′′ doesn't sound like this or ′′ the sound of listening from the smoke is this way it's really a ton of place for the movie.

In a TV interview, I received a light feeling like ′′ okay, okay I feel like I'm going to have a quick time, but I'm going to have a good time, but I'm going to have a good time with the ′′ place dating ′′ that everyone is thinking about. Thank you for dating me.

The lyrics are slightly different.

There was originally a word ′′ Moonlight ′′ in the lyrics, but ′′ a town ′′ is a town that is covered in smoke and does not know the sky, so I don't even know the moon, so the ′′ Moonlight ′′ is ′′ thin ′′ It's been a light, and other things that are not in a town, I left it from the lyrics and changed it to a town specification.

And also great compatibility with children's voice!
Rock musician and kids are fused with a mess.

　
In One Word, it means ′′ I like Hyde,"



In my school days, I was a part-time job, and I was able to do a concert staff of ral ann.

The staff has to turn back on the stage and see the customer, but both ears are all looking for the stage, and actually, the live of the time, and the sugawara-kun before he still met. And I was a staff, and sugawara-kun was a customer, and I was able to participate in the live of Mr. Ral.

Sometimes it's going to be a story with sugawara-kun, but that day, I saw that live, and I saw Mr. Ral on stage, and I was also the same as sugawara-kun, and we aim for it ′′ It was a comedy, but when I captured it as a little bigger frame, I thought, ′′ someday, I'd like to go to the other side,"

It was really sparkling.

I've always thought that I want to go to the other side while cleaning up the pipe chair at the evacuation of the concert.



So, this time, I'm going to be with you in this form, and I'm going to have a good time with my hope that day, and if there's a time machine, I'll go back to that day ′′ you're so messed up I want to tell him that if you do your best, you'll be able to do it



Well, anyway, the ′′ Halloween party ′′ that Hyde recreated for the movie ′′ a no-in-town ′′ is really the best, so please listen to it.

　
Later, ′′ I'm left ′′ is disgusting, so I'm going to have a good time with Hyde, and I'm going to have a good time with Hyde, and I'm going to have a good time with all the fans who have been able to support Hyde for a long time, and I'm going to I will give back.

We will announce it in early November.

With the action, I will tell the world that Hyde, who made my chest hot that day, is so cool,"

Look forward to it.



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【プロとは「塩梅」である】

毎日、いろんな方とお仕事をさせていただくのですが、「この人、プロだなぁ」と思う瞬間がいくつかありまして…そのうちの一つに「自分の能力と役割を見極めている」があります。

チームプレーになった場合！プロは出るべきポイントで出て、控えるべきポイントで控える。

とりわけ、「今回は、取り扱う素材に対して、自分の能力をどこまで出せばいいか？」という答えを探るのが本当に上手で……たとえばダウンタウンの浜田さんなんて、ご自身でガーッと前に出ていかれる時もあれば、場合によっては手を叩いて笑っているだけの時もある。

後者の場合は、だいたいゲストがゾーンに入った瞬間で、こうなると、番組全体の面白さを見たときに、脂が乗っているゲストにシュートを打たせた方がよくて、手を叩いて笑っているだけの方が絶対に良い。

「仕事をする」とは、そういうことだと思います。

決して「いついかなる時も自我を出す」ということではない。
出る時は出て、引くときは引く。
この「塩梅」ですね。

そして、「引く」ということは、このターンではシュートは打てないわけですから、「今回はどうぞ」と譲れるだけの余裕を持っておかなくちゃいけない。

つまり、他で圧倒的な結果を出しておかなくちゃいけない。
他で結果を出せるから、引くべきポイントで引ける。

これ、普段から結果を出していない人だと、「ここで爪痕を残さねば！」というモードに入っちゃって、せっかくゴール前の良い場所に仲間がポジションを取れているのに、パスを出さずに、一人でボールを持ち込んでしまうので、アマチュアは、ここが厄介です。



今朝、映画『えんとつ町のプペル』の主題歌のダンスバージョンのMVがYouTubeで公開されました。


制作に至るまでの経緯を簡単にお話ししますと……映画というのは、いろんな会社がお金を出し合って作っていて、その中には「宣伝費」というものが確保されているんですね。

ただ、その「宣伝費」だって、皆から集めた限られたお金なわけで、もちろん乱暴な使い方はできない。

なので「あれに使おう」「これに使おう」と皆と話し合って、宣伝費の使い道を探っていくのですが、一方で、結果がどっちに転ぼうが、つまり宣伝効果がゼロであろうが、どうしてもやりたい表現が僕にはあります。

それって、自分のお金で勝手にやる分にはどこからも誰からも文句が出ないじゃないですか？


というわけで、オンラインサロンの売り上げをブチ込んで、映画『えんとつ町のプペル』のエンディング主題歌のダンスバージョンのレコーディングをして、そのミュージックビデオを超個人的に作ってみました。

「個人的に」といっても、たとえば今回は「ロザリーナ」というアーティストに歌ってもらっているので、キチンと事務所さんとの契約もして、大人の手続きは済ませています。「ただ、制作費は全額ボクが出します」と（笑）
　
そうすれば、どこにもお伺いを立てることなく、フルスイングできるので。


で、今回のダンスの振り付けをお願いしたのは「バブリーダンス」でお馴染みの登美丘高校のakaneさんです。

かなり早い段階でakaneさんにお伝えしたのは、テレビの歌番組に見られるカメラワークに対する違和感についてです。
ダンスって、基本は正面（客席）から見られることを想定して作られてるじゃないですか？

なので、やっぱり個人的には正面から見たいんですね。


ところが歌番組だと、「今、正面から見たいのに！」という時でも、クレーンカメラとか使って、ナナメ上から撮ったりするじゃないですか？

勿論、それが効果的な時もあります。
ただ、その一方で演出のエゴでしかない場合も確実にある。
僕は、その仕事を「プロ」とは呼びません。

本音を言うと、三浦大知さんのダンスとか、なんなら、正面の固定カメラで見たいです（笑）


振付師の方は、「このシーンのダンスは、この角度から見たら一番綺麗」という答えをお持ちだと思って、akaneさんと呑みに行った時に、「ぶっちゃけ、どうなんですか？」と聴いたら、「正直、『ああ、そこから撮っちゃうか〜（涙）』という時があります」とおっしゃっていたので、「それならば、今回はakaneさんが映像監督をしてください」とお願いしました。



んでもって、ダンスというのは「正面から見られること」を想定されて作られているので、撮影する場所も、「正面から見られることを想定して作られた空間にした方がいいだろう」という判断で、劇場の、さらにはステージ上で撮影することになりました。


そのあたりからかな。

今回のダンスMVのテーマが「お遊戯会」になってですね、そのテーマに合わせて、一線でバッチバチにやっているクリエイター達が、空間と映像を仕上げていくのですが……冒頭申し上げました通り、そこに集まったのは正真正銘プロなので、全員、その塩梅が絶妙なんです。

いつもは、「お前、ちょっと前に出過ぎ」とか「ここは、ゴリっと行け」とか言ったりするんですけど、今回に関しては本当に何も言ってなくて、「やっぱプロだなぁ」と思いました。

たとえば、完璧に踊りきってくれる子をキャスティングしようと思ったらできたんですが、
今回に関しては「寸分の狂いもない踊り」よりも「子供が頑張って練習して覚えた踊り」が前に出た方がいいので、その感じが出せる子に声をかけたり、

舞台美術にしても、いわゆる「かきわり」なのですが、まさか手を抜いているわけではなくて、プロが本気で手作り感を残した「かきわり」を作っているんですね。

　
あそこで、ゴリゴリの美術を建ててしまうと、目がそっちにいっちゃって、子供のダンスに光が当たらなくなる。

照明も衣装も演出もカメラワークも全て、塩梅がとれていて、見ていただくと分かると思うのですが、すっごい心地良いんです。

　
あと、ひたすら楽しいことをやっているハズなのに、なんか泣けてきちゃう。
もしかしたら、どこかで「２０２０年」の状況を重ねちゃって見ているのかもしれませんが。



今回は、「プロが本気でお遊戯会を作ったら、こうなる」という一つの正解です。

「この現場では何を見せるべきか？」、もっと言うと、「チームとして、自分がどれだけ前に出て、自分がどれだけ後ろに引けば、人の胸をうつことができるのか？」ということを表しているこの映像作品から学ぶことってメチャメチャ多いと思います。


是非、ご覧ください。

(※こちら→https://youtu.be/Rihe2JOyLQA)

　

　

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[Professional is ′′ Seasoning ′′

Every day, I'm going to work with all kinds of people, but there are a few moments that I think ′′ this person is a professional... one of them ′′ I'm seeing my ability and role ′′ There is.

If you become a team play! Pros go out at the point to get out and refrain from the point to refrain.

Especially," this time, I'm really good at exploring the answer that I can get my ability to the material I handle?" for example, Hamada-San in downtown is going to be in front of myself. Sometimes it's time to go, sometimes it's just a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a

In the latter case, it's almost the moment when the guest enters the zone, and this is how it's better to shoot a greasy guest when you see the funny of the whole program, and it's better to clap your hands. It's absolutely better to just laugh.

I think that's what it's like to ′′ work ′′

It never means ′′ always put out your ego
Get out when you get out, pull when you pull.
This ′′ Seasoning ′′ isn't it?

And," pulling ′′ can't hit the shoot in this turn, so you have to be able to afford a negotiable one.

In other words, you have to make other overwhelming results.
I can make other results, so I can draw it with a point to pull.

This is a person who doesn't usually make results," I have to leave a claw here!" I'm in the mode, and I'm going to have a good time with my friends in a good place before the goal, but I'm going to pass it out I'm going to bring the ball alone, so amateurs are messy here.



This morning, the music video for the dance version of the main theme song for the movie ′′ a no-Cho ′′ has been released on Youtube.


It's easy to talk about how to make it to the production...... the movie is that all kinds of companies are making money, and some of them are secured by ′′ publicity expenses ′′

It's just that ′′ publicity expenses ′′ is a limited money collected from everyone, and of course it can't be used rowdy.

So, ′′ Let's use it for that "" let's use it for this "" I'm going to talk to everyone, and I'm going to search for the use of the promotion expenses, but on the other hand, the result is which one is the one who is the one who is the one who But I have an expression that I really want to do.

Doesn't it complain about anyone from anywhere when you do it with your own money?


So, I tried to make the music video super personal with the recording of the dance version of the ending theme song of the movie ′′ a in town ′′ with the sales of the online salon.

′′ personally." for example, this time, I'm singing by an artist called ′′ b." so I'm going to have a contract with the office, and I'm going to have a good time with the adult procedure." just production The cost is full I will put it out lol
　
If so, you can do it without being able to visit anywhere.


So, this is Mr. Akane from tomigaoka high school, who is familiar with the ′′ ba dance ′′ that I asked for the choreography of this dance.

I told akane at a pretty early stage about the discomfort of the camera work that can be seen on the tv song program.
Dance is made to assume that the basics are seen from the front (audience)?

So, personally, I want to see it from the front.


But when it's a song program," I want to see it from the front now!" but I'm going to use a crane camera and take it from Nana Shark?

Of course, sometimes it's effective.
It's just that it's only the ego of the staging on the other hand.
I don't call the job ′′ professional

To say the truth, I want to see daichi miura's dance, or something, with a fixed camera in the front (lol)


The Choreographer is," the dance of this scene is the most beautiful if you see it from this angle," when you go to drink with akane," what do you think? ?" when I listened to it," honestly," oh, I'm going to take it from there ~ (tears)," so," if that's it, Akane will be a video director this time. Please



And the dance is made by assuming ′′ to be seen from the front," so the place to shoot is also," it's better to make it a space made by assuming to be seen from the front. I'm going to take a picture of the theater, and more on the stage.


I wonder if it's from around it.

The theme of the dance mv this time is ′′ Yugi-GI-Kai...... the creators who are doing the batch drumstick on the line are finishing the space and video...... opening As I did, it's a real professional that gathered there, so all of them are exquisite.

I always say, ′′ you're a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of Yes.

For example, I thought I was going to casting a child who is going to dance perfectly.
As for this time, it's better to go out before ′′ the dance that kids practice hard and remember ′′ rather than ′′ a dance without a crazy dance ′′ so I'm going to shout out to a child who can feel it.

Even if it's a stage art, it's the so-called ′′ and ′′ but it's not that I'm out of hand, but I'm making a ′′ and ′′ that the professional is seriously handmade.

　
When you build a grind art over there, your eyes go there, and the light won't hit the child's dance.

The Lighting, the costumes, the performance, and the camera work are all seasoning, and I think I'll know that I'm going to take a look at it, but it's really comfortable.

　
I'm going to cry even though I'm doing something fun.
Maybe I'm looking at the situation of ′′ 2020 ′′ somewhere.



This time, it's one correct answer to ′′ if the professional is seriously making a yugi party,"

′′ what should I show in this site?", to say more?" as a team, how much I get out of front and how much I pull behind, I can get a person's chest," I think it's totaled to learn from this video that represents it.


Please take a look.

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My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:

(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).

This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.

Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.

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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking

A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.

Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.

If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.

OUR 3% MIRACLE

All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:

Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent

...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".

He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...

3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.

Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.

We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...

So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.

Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.

And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"

Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.

I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.

At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.

(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)

I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...

It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.

It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."

After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).

And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...

This time however I was not disappointed.

With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.

It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,

"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."

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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY

On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.

In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.

Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.

With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...

That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.

It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).

I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...

I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...

Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...

In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.

I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.

Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'

My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".

The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.

I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"

SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.

Lara watched the scene, transfixed.

I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."

In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.

Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:

She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.

So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".

As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).

To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.

By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.

I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.

I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.

The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.

By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!

The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "

So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...

I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...

I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...

So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).

My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.

The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:

(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...

In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.

I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.

From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.

I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .

Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?

Overall? Yes.

Don't get me wrong.

I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).

I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...

The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.

When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...

I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.

Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.

For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).

I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.

I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".

Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.

To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.

Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...

And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️

Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)

Another intensive workout! Don't think you are fit enough to do this? Don't worry, just follow the top right corner in the video.

This workout can be done anywhere anytime, and it won't take much of your time (this will take about like 20-30mins of your day and it's like only 2% of your 24 hours!). No excuses!

Do 1 round and you'll starting sweating.
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If you do 4-5 rounds or more, that's really gonna hurt because your melting away that super glue alike stubborn fats that just don't go away!

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I have made this video of AI vs Vince Carter the Toronto Raptors in 2001 NBA Playoff. Every single points of Iverson is included from Game 1 to Game 7.

Vince Carter versus Allen Iverson is the kind of marquee matchup the NBA has been craving since the days of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.

As two of the NBA's most exciting young stars, they are dazzling spectators and TV viewers with limitless creativity and breathtaking moves in the Toronto Raptors-Philadelphia 76ers playoff series.

"This matchup is great, and people are getting turned on to it," said NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik, who was at Philadelphia's First Union Center on Wednesday night, when Iverson scored 54 points to Carter's 28 in the 76ers' 97-92 victory. "For better or worse, fans like it when you get superstars going against each other. People have been hearing about these guys for years now, but they haven't gotten this far before where they met each other at this level. That gets people interested."

With the NBA's overall popularity declining and new rules designed to make the game more appealing set to take effect next season, an Iverson-Carter matchup is what the league really needed.

"Watching these two kids, I don't think our league is in any trouble," 76ers coach Larry Brown said. "They really are exciting."

Toronto coach Lenny Wilkens feels much the same way.

"I think you are going to see more great individual matchups as the young kids we have in this league develop," he said. "We are always rushing to fix this and fix that, but maybe there is not always something wrong. The young guys have to be able to grow and make some mistakes. Let them grow up and then see what they can do. In this series, you are seeing two of the best going at each other."

It is looking increasingly likely that Michael Jordan will end a three-year retirement next season and return to the NBA as a player. Carter and Iverson will be right there, eagerly awaiting that matchup.

"You always want to test yourself against the best, and I would welcome the challenge," Iverson said.

Said Carter of Jordan: "He set the standard we are all trying to reach."

Jordan, of course, owns six championship rings and 10 scoring titles, while Carter, 24, has won nothing more than a rookie of the year award and a slam-dunk title. But Carter is one of the league's most popular players among fans, the leading vote-getter for the past two NBA All-Star Games. Iverson, 25, won his second scoring title this season and is favored to win this season's most valuable player award, as well.

And while Iverson and Carter are going head to head, other young stars such as Milwaukee's Ray Allen, the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, San Antonio's Tim Duncan, Dallas' Michael Finley and Dirk Nowitzki and Sacramento's Chris Webber and Peja Stojakovic also are still competing in the playoffs. In addition, the league's most improved player, Orlando's 21 year-old Tracy McGrady, was a major star of the first round even though his team lost.

"We try to promote the game and the teams and all the players," Granik said. "There are just certain players who capture people's imaginations. You can't deny that.

"We can't go out and create them. It just happens and they're doing it on the court. You can't make superstars, I don't care how good a promotion. It's what they do on the court, and here we have Iverson and Carter. They're doing it most nights on the floor. That's what people see and they love to watch it."

The personal similarities between Carter and Iverson are few other than both are mama's boys. Iverson's mother, Ann, attends almost all of her son's games while dressed in a 76ers jersey with "IVERSON'S MOM" emblazoned on it. Carter's mother, Michelle, prefers street clothes at games, but she publicly criticized Oakley when he dared to criticize her baby boy.

Though Iverson — with his corn-row hairstyle, multiple tattoos and rap albums — might appeal directly to the hip-hop generation, the more conservative Carter is Mr. Basketball in Canada. One of the Raptors' top priorities is keeping him with the franchise well beyond the 2001-02 season, when his contract expires. They have a window from Aug. 1 to Oct. 31 to re-sign him. If they don't, he will become a free agent after the 2001-02 season.

He and team officials prefer not to talk about the future just yet.

Meanwhile, he and Iverson downplay their personal rivalry.

Carter: "We try to do our thing as a team. I just try to fit in within the team concept and do what I need to do. I see what Allen is doing, but I'm not thinking about trying to outdo him personally."

Iverson: "I can't accomplish anything without my teammates. I know that, they know that and everybody knows that. Vince is a great player, but he needs his teammates just like I need mine. The things my teammates do to help us win are just as important as the things I do.