Soredemo Suki!
09 May 2012
For some reason I've recently become a big fan of Sashihara Rino from AKB48. It may have something to do with her '300 Google+ updates in 24-hours' challenge that she completed last week. Previously, in 2010 and 2011 she had undertaken and successfully completed similar challenges of 100 and 200 updates respectively to her Ameba blog in 24-hours, but this year's challenge seemed to be nigh on impossible. After all, you have to average a rate of one update every five minutes (without breaks) for 24-hours. But somehow, perhaps through Sashihara's well-known determination, she managed to complete the endeavour with an hour to spare. I followed her updates on Google+ for the whole day, trying to '+1' all of her updates and give her some fan support. I wasn't the only one who had the same idea though. Pretty much within a minute of an update being posted the 500 comments maximum threshold would be reached.
It was really heart-warming to see all the messages of support for Sashihara. I was slightly irritated with all the idiots who just post stupid comments containing a single letter or number, but you get those attention-seeking morons wherever you go so it can't be helped. This challenge was a rather pointless activity in the grand scheme of things but it really does show how much of a hard worker Sashihara is. From everything I've seen of her in the past, she'll always put 100% in everything she does. I really admire her spirit. I just wish she wouldn't always be so negative about herself. Although that extreme humbleness is also one of the attributes that attracts people to her, so I don't think she should try to change too much. I'll be cheering her on what ever she does.
PS. I really loved her first solo single それでも好きだよ (Soredemo suki da yo). Just a shame that she didn't manage to beat Nogizaka46's single in the Oricon weekly ranking.Posted byHocchan at 12:36 am
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