I think it's more like shorts but with a 'w'...

shworts.

^ It's SH-WAHR-Z.
Hope it helps. XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJmyM0DEZU
At 00:10 she says his name, maybe this helps :)

Yeah, that's right.

-is taking German class-

I think in English pronounciation it would be SH-VAHR-TSS. :)

^
That's very accurate. Edit: Sorry, didn't see you were in fact from germany. Of course it would be accurate then, you know better than the rest of us, lol.
Damn, most of my family is fluent in german, expect for me and a few of my sisters :laugh I should brush up.

There was one short article that got tweeted to her from Yahoo! Australia: http://twitter.com/#!/ayu_19980408/s...97501225631744

I laughed so much when I read the tweet, which is basically "@ayu (link) AUS" :yes it's just the barest bones tweet ever! xD

I keep checking news.com.au for a story on it :( Maybe I'll email them and stop my irregular spamming of their other articles dropping Ayu's name all over the place! :rolleyes

i tweeted Ayu saying we at AHS congratulating her..can't get on twitter because of an error found on page:( anybody know how to get that off?

would be cool to see if she would reply to that

I think Ayu takes some well-deserved rest from twitter around these days. She's only answered to a few tweets so... Tweets from Jan 1'st is still on her front page and she have probably been hammered with congratulation tweets.

Wow. So Ayu didn't invite ANYONE to her ceremony except her staff? Who gave her away, Stan?? xDD

could band members be considered staff? i'd think Yo-chan would give her away, but Stan is sort of a fatherly figure too, i guess.

ooo.. i guess no one gave her away????i really wonder what will happen next ...

Well...Ayu doesn't really have any family...

her friends are her family :)

^ how about her biological mom, the one who owns Crea Hanabi?
that's her mom rite?

but its kind of funny if she never invite her mom (mariko hamasaki)

^ yeaaa i wonder where is her mom..where her only daughter has tied a knot..
i always so curious about her mom's look!
ayu is really good in hiding her mom's real identity haha ~

maybe they just register their marriage without any kind of ceremony? just to the chapel and say i love you and exchange rings hahahahha

^
^ she appear on premium countdown live 08-09,doesn't she?

That happens a lot, people don't have a ceremony at all, they just go to the justice office and register themselves as bride and groom. I think its a little old fashioned to assume one has to have a ceremony to be married?

heh? really? i think i ever saw one pic but ppl said she's not~

yeap..marriage doesn't always need ceremony to prove that you're married :)