[Singapore] Ayu in Bugis.

[a_kingdom21]

here in my town semarang....there's many ayu's t-shirt in traditional market....

[Qt Mashi]

lol, these stuff are selling all over China, my sister went to Shanghai and bought me 3 shirts!

[se7entheaven]

LOL One of my classmate also wear a tee with ayu on it ^^

[emi♡]

thats cool....but thats the ugliest shirt i've ever seen the picture used on...

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Oh is Ayu really popular in Singapore? I'd love a Days/GREEN shirt if I were a girl!!

[pommy48]

>_> why do they keep using that picture

at least i saw a pretty Mirrocle World and Secret one when I was in Taiwan~

[LacusClyne]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

Oh is Ayu really popular in Singapore? I'd love a Days/GREEN shirt if I were a girl!!

she is quite pouplar in Singapore, along with Hikki, Boa and Kuu.

but to be honest, i have a feeling that some people just bought these tees(with ayu's pics), not knowing that the one in picture is ayu.

the perfect example that i saw with my own eyes: (Read at your own risk)

When i saw them at Bugis, there was a group of 5 or 6 aunties hanging around the store and flipping through them, finding their prefer colors.

I happen to be on the phone, so when i saw the ayu tees, my normal reaction is to scream 'OH! Ayu!!!' to my sis on the other line. Then the sales assistant told me in chinese, 'ya, all these racks are Ayumi Hamasaki's tees'

the aunties heard that and one of them realise that this is a picture of a japanese, and she told her friends that. One of them actually put back the tee so fast as though it contains germs and exclaimed that no way is she wearing that, her father-in-law will kill her if she's wearing a Japanese girl tee. While 2 of them put the tees back as they don't want to look like a silly teenage fangirl, yeah...they were complaining about how lame they were look if they bought them home and how their kids will laugh at them. WTF??? (>_<)

The poor sales assitant even get scold for not informing them that the person in the picture is a japanese artist....LOL.....
seriously, they ALMOST bought them already, and even compliementing that the girl in the tee is quite pretty, but they just don't want to buy after realising it's an japanese artist's tee????

[kiseki89]

I think those who bought and didnt realise who she is, are most prob aunties?

Anyway I saw a few ayu shirts there too - one of them used her recent mag pictures.

My initial reaction is wow
2nd reaction : weird to see ayu on these tops

[Midori-chan]

This shirt is REALLY pretty, but I've seen others with the picture of Ayu and they looked really ugly! -.-''

But I would buy and wear this one! It also has her name all over, but somehow it says: "hamasakia mi"

But it's still a pretty shirt!

[Crystal_Ageha]

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

she is quite pouplar in Singapore, along with Hikki, Boa and Kuu.

but to be honest, i have a feeling that some people just bought these tees(with ayu's pics), not knowing that the one in picture is ayu.

the perfect example that i saw with my own eyes: (Read at your own risk)

When i saw them at Bugis, there was a group of 5 or 6 aunties hanging around the store and flipping through them, finding their prefer colors.

I happen to be on the phone, so when i saw the ayu tees, my normal reaction is to scream 'OH! Ayu!!!' to my sis on the other line. Then the sales assistant told me in chinese, 'ya, all these racks are Ayumi Hamasaki's tees'

the aunties heard that and one of them realise that this is a picture of a japanese, and she told her friends that. One of them actually put back the tee so fast as though it contains germs and exclaimed that no way is she wearing that, her father-in-law will kill her if she's wearing a Japanese girl tee. While 2 of them put the tees back as they don't want to look like a silly teenage fangirl, yeah...they were complaining about how lame they were look if they bought them home and how their kids will laugh at them. WTF??? (>_<)

The poor sales assitant even get scold for not informing them that the person in the picture is a japanese artist....LOL.....
seriously, they ALMOST bought them already, and even compliementing that the girl in the tee is quite pretty, but they just don't want to buy after realising it's an japanese artist's tee????

D:

[AyUta]

wow, very cheap as well D:

[alternarist]

the title is misleading!!! i was excited that ayu came to singapore. -_-

[Choyan]

soz, but....I find it a bit nasty XD

[ownsarai]

I think the shirt is cute, but why does it say mi hamasakia? >.> Anyway, I would totally wear it if I had one. Too bad they don't sell stuff like that here in the states, you have to go to LA, NYC or Dallas to find anything Ayu related.

[Kashoku]

Could you.....offer to buy these for fans....

[Kashoku]

Originally Posted by ownsarai

I think the shirt is cute, but why does it say mi hamasakia? >.> Anyway, I would totally wear it if I had one. Too bad they don't sell stuff like that here in the states, you have to go to LA, NYC or Dallas to find anything Ayu related.

Wait, where in Dallas? I live in Ft. Worth.

[Lady_Eowyn]

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

she is quite pouplar in Singapore, along with Hikki, Boa and Kuu.

but to be honest, i have a feeling that some people just bought these tees(with ayu's pics), not knowing that the one in picture is ayu.

the perfect example that i saw with my own eyes: (Read at your own risk)

When i saw them at Bugis, there was a group of 5 or 6 aunties hanging around the store and flipping through them, finding their prefer colors.

I happen to be on the phone, so when i saw the ayu tees, my normal reaction is to scream 'OH! Ayu!!!' to my sis on the other line. Then the sales assistant told me in chinese, 'ya, all these racks are Ayumi Hamasaki's tees'

the aunties heard that and one of them realise that this is a picture of a japanese, and she told her friends that. One of them actually put back the tee so fast as though it contains germs and exclaimed that no way is she wearing that, her father-in-law will kill her if she's wearing a Japanese girl tee. While 2 of them put the tees back as they don't want to look like a silly teenage fangirl, yeah...they were complaining about how lame they were look if they bought them home and how their kids will laugh at them. WTF??? (>_<)

The poor sales assitant even get scold for not informing them that the person in the picture is a japanese artist....LOL.....
seriously, they ALMOST bought them already, and even compliementing that the girl in the tee is quite pretty, but they just don't want to buy after realising it's an japanese artist's tee????

As much as i love Japan, japanese culture and ayu, i must say i (partially) understand their reaction. I saw you in one of the pics you posted at the pics thread, and you are a young girl, so it's perfectly normal your confusion.

I just finished reading a book from an amazing new writer, Tan Twang En, called the gift of Rain. I'm not making this long, because it may get too political, but the japanese army left huge marks on the lands they invaded last century. and they were not good at all. Of course it's extremely stupid to make prejudices about all japanese people , and from a young gal who had nothing to do with that, but it's clear (specially from old people who lived through that period) they still hold resentments about the crimes japanese army commited. I think that would explain their attitude towards the t-shirt.

[LacusClyne]

^i'm 23, but i understand their feeling, see my grandfather fought with the japanese in WW2, but i don't understand WHY they should scold the sales assistant and make her day like hell.
They were 'lecturing' her, or..you can say bashing. they make her sound like a cruel sales person who is SO intersted in sales, and making the aunties look like blood traiters or fools. which is untrue.....they won't know that that is a japanese girl, if i never open my mouth...(>_<)

but anyway, it is cool to see ayu's tee around, but the wrong name DOES annoy me much.

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

yeah... i found some of it in Surabaya, Indonesia too...LOL

[asmAyumi1992]

Yeah. At Malaysia also have those t-shirts too! Ayu is printed on it. I found it at Ipoh Parade for Malaysian information.