The first time I saw/heard Ayu was in 2002. My friend showed me this music clip (it was Fly High PV) and we both got stuck. Reaaally stuck. Since that clip I started to dowload some of Ayus music that I keept listening too all the time. Naturally, it was Fly High and evolution that warmed my heart the most in the begining. Then it was like that for a bunch of years. I just listened without taking more intrerest in her, then just by listening to her music.
While I already got many many songs at my computer with her (but the same problem as Deli wrote about, I had no idea how the albums looked and all mp3 was kind of a mess), MY STORY was the first album I got after copied it from my friend who bought it. That copied CD is totally lost now since I listened to it soooo much, kind of obsessive. Lol. But I was pretty naive back then. I really didnt think farther then just to my local CD store, I thought I would never get an Ayu album if I didnt find it in the local CD store (my wish
) or by ebay. But I was reaaaally scared of ebay for some reason. Lol. Didnt trust it at all. But around here I started to take more intrest in Ayu as a person too. I looked at YouTube ALOT. Many many PVs, some documentrarys etc etc. But here once again, I was pretty naive, I couldnt imagine that there was any forums about her. But I was really green in that area by then since I had never heard about forums almost. Lol.
Anywho, in 2007 my friend showed me this ebay auction with Ayus A BEST 2 black and white in it. It was a preeorder auction kind of, cuz the albums itselves wasnt out on release yet. But we decided to buy on pair of each album fron the auction. Then our CD's came home we watched the DVDs nonstop. Like a spell or something. It was amazing really. Haha. XD After here I stared to reaaally obsesse about Ayu. Me and my friend also saw these concert tickets for AT07 in Hong Kong that we dreamed for so long to go to. It was kind of crazy. I wanted to talk about Ayu so much, my friends got a bit tired.
So I googled after forums and found JPM right away. I was sooo happy to find a forum to talk Ayu in and get so much info about her too. And now I got tips abut this internet store called YesAsia and my ordening time (and less money time) got started!
After some time I started to plan to go to Japan (since the Hong Kong trip didnt work out) for real. I started saving up money like crazy, made a very exact excell project where I wrote up everything that I bought! As a student you dont have much money in the beginning but I really saved up for this, is there a will, noone can stop you! ^__^ My parents got really supriced and cheered me on about this cuz I have never been that good with my economy like during that time. Then finally I took a plane to Tokyo in december and went to see Ayu on CDL07-08. After all this time, since my first discover of Ayu back in 2002, I was so happy to see her. I cried for like 7 songs. XD Here I also started to by everything, starting up my Ayu collection.
Then in the spring 2008 I went to AHS and here I am now. At AHS I found not only more Ayu news and stuff but also friends that likes Ayu just as much as I! Now Im living in Tokyo and have already seen Ayu 3 more times since CDL and I will see her more times. I cant help it, but I love to be one of her fans!
And I tend to stay like this for so long I want to, cuz this makes me happy. ^__^
Sorry for not making it short. >.< Didnt know I had so much to write about really. XD