[2007] [News] Ayu - Technology + Shoes freak
 

Brief summary from MyPaper:

Ayumi is a total tech and shoes freak - during an interview with a Japanese magazine, she said "I have soo many pairs of shoes, I feel happy just by looking at them. I know, I'm an idiot right? Haha!"

She also has a big room dedicated to her shoes - and there are special storage and lightings for her shoes. "My shoe room is big enough to be a museum!"

Ayu also added that she once saw a very comfy pair of house shoes (about USD$70), and bought over 5 pairs at one go in different colours.

She also likes big TV screens and other tech gadgets - she even has a DVD viewing facility in her bathroom. "Sometimes I give them to my friends, but they always complain that my appliances are way too big for them to put in their house!"

Luckily for Ayu, she lives in a 5-storeys bungalow, the first floor is her own management agency, the other 4 floors are her living area.

Another news (forgot the source):

Ayumi is a lover of humidifiers. According to her staff, she has so many at home that her ceilings and expensive leather furniture always leak or grow moldy.

^I think this might be true as Tamori-san made fun of Ayu recently on MS saying 'Your Asia Tour..er..how many humidifiers are you gonna bring?' And Ayu laughed embarrassingly saying they are very important to her and she's gonna bring more than 20. :D

mypaper + pinky magazine

Omg, Ayu's household information overload o.O

How exactly does a bungalow look like? Cuz wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungalow] says it's usually one storey high...

wow..ayu's really richhhh!!!

and what's humidifier???

whoa i wish i had as much shoes as she did lol :P

LOL XD

What happened to the apartment in Shibuya?

Thanks for the info!

Must be a pretty room. :)

wow, i wonder if all the info is true!

5 storey's high!!!!! and she gives away her TV to her friends?

why does anyone need that many humidifiers?!

I would like to know to!

what's a humidifier

a humidifier is this thing used to take moisture out of the air, their really useful for basements where it's cold, or when you're sick. All you do is plug it into the wall xD

Anyways...I wish I was Ayu Rich! XD
I loveee shoes. I can just never find them in my size. T_T *big feet desu* XD

Also, maybe Bungalows are different in japan? o.o


[EDIT]

Now that I've read some of the wiki article...

5 storey bungalow????? wth!
that's....soo.. HUGE & TALL!
she's blissed

Ah ah, she's so cute =)

And they do good to your throat, that's why she uses them, so her throat is in good condition... I've read about Madonna being always against her husband using air conditioning in hotels, becouse it doesn't do well to her vocal cords. Since conditioned air is usually cold air, I suppose air humidifier humids the air so it has a more throat-friendly temperature, as well as making it well-moisted, so that your throat doesn't go dry.

Yeah, I also thought it might be different in Japan than it is in USA...

whoa,,
she's really cute, huh,,
and RICH,,,

wowow,, Ayu, please share just a $1000 for me,,,
I'm broke right now,,,

^^ woaahhh... that is super huge.. including all those HUUUGE TVs..
a museum for shoes by ayu... lol... she sure is rich..
thanks to us? heheee... nvrm that..
she sing, we love, her albums, we buy, her songs, we listen, her news, we post on AHS.. ^^

Wow... :)

She has probably more shoes than I see on people each day.

I think they mean like her apartment has 5 floors. I remember hearing it's located in Roppongi, but I don't think anyone knows for sure.

thanks for that interesting article.

Mariah Carey also claims to have more than 20 at her house because she's afraid about her voice. A rumour says (or maybe she said that by herself? I'm kinda into MTV recently :D) she has a dome-like roof so that the water won't leak on her face but it streams down the walls. Those stars :)

i also read in local magazines that ayu has too many humidifiers in her house such that her furnitures turn mouldy. thats TERRIBLE!! and i wonder why ayu needs a 5 storey bungalow. i will find it a hassle climbing up all the way to the top jus to take a pen or whatsoever.. haha..

and for all we noe, the 5th storey has turned completely mouldy. :P

Wait a sec, what's her 1st floor for? Her own management agency.. does that mean that its like her place where she writes her songs? I know lots of musicians have in-home recording studios and such so they can work and make demo recordings and then just go do the final recording in a real recording studio, so maybe Ayu does that too?

wow..thanks for the article
first time to now that she live at 5 storeys bungalow
looks like she will be have her own museum when she retired...like elvis presley..haha
do you any source for this?

Well she's rich - I mean people like me, poor student, are already fans of tech so it's not puzzling to know she's one too.
As for shoes... well that explains why she buys so many in TW, HK
5-storeys bungalow - i think that should be called penhouse or something... The title bungalow sounds so small.

She mentioned in MS that humidifiers help to maintain her voice, that's why she needs tons of them in her house. She even requested for 10 or 20 more humidifiers in one of the hotels during her Asia Tour

LMAO WHAT A xD Wow, she's such a goof :D

How can a bungalow be 5 storeys?

It's probably a mistranslation

^ Yeah I guess so. Anyhow since she has a commercial endorsement with Panasonic it's pretty probable that she'd end up loving technological items

with the moisture, wouldn't you get joint pains or whatever when you get old? (fung sup pains) Like how those old people get pains everywhere on their bodies when it rains and stuff.

^ I get that sometimes and I'm 20.. XD

geeez..
ayu's really one of the most influence person in the world...

i would LOVE to live in ayu's place for one weekend.

One weekend would probably only cover one or two of her floors! XD

hope ayu doesnt waste her money too much (66;

how frivolous, I love it :D

Oh Ayu...I love it! :laugh If I had that much money I'd probably do the same thing.


These humidifiers are three hundred ****ing dollars.

Let's get 'em!

awww she is so rich.. doesnt surprise mi at all.. since u're loaded spent it..

WHOA O_O


Technology freak....I wonder if she's an internet-goer as well. :laugh

If she was, wouldn't she discover all the forums about her? :D (and if she is, she should make her own MySpace :D)

I think it's just a big house/apartment building/mansion with 5 stories. But I didn't know she would live in the middle of Tokyo, I thought maybe somewhere more remote, a bit more quiet. (although she might have that as well, besides this 5-story house) :D. But I love it that she has such a room full of shoes, and she likes to just look at them :D

And yeah, she should make it like a museum when she retires :)
And now I'm going to watch [A Museum], which I just bought here in Tokyo.
And if there is any clue on the location of that mansion, I'd like to have a look, while I'm here in Tokyo :D

^ I think her life is already too busy to spend it posting on a journal/myspace

I bet if they filmed MTV Cribs in her house, it would be the most watched/most replayed episode ever on MTV Japan - just like Mariah's episode on US MTV.

hahaha, so many humidifiers that her couches are going mouldy. thats funny!

i think they shdnt use bungalow... they shd use mantion...

So jealous lol

lmao I love Ayu but sometimes she's too much she cracks me up, mold on her couch lol.

Ayu's video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tYnn51C3X_w

Four living floors and a management agency...maybe she should make her own corporation under her name and be part as a subsidiary of avex...

Thanks for sharing the article.

Nah, the article's direct quote is 'a bungalow of 5 storeys'. I don't know what it's called in the US, but in Asia it's definitely okay to call them bungalows.

Pinky magazine + mypaper SG

OMG!

oo...i think it's such a waste... :P

I think they will soon. For hitomi's ten years within avex, they gave her a sub-label under avex.

^ Yup that's true. Plus Ayu is already a big name so she'll probably get a sub-label for herself. Depends on her choice in the end.

does anyone have the pic of ayu's 5 storeys bungalow,
or at least an apartment or house that ayu ever lived on?
anyway, thanks for the news, Surreal

Everything but the thing about her bungalow is something that Ayumi has said on air. I haven't heard her say anything about her housing situation in that great of detail (unless I glossed over it).
Wouldn't be surprised if she lived in Roppongi, though. There is a very well-known community there for celebrities.

wow Ayu's so lucky!! ^^

wow 5 storeys!!! that's a big place!

Ok I dont get it if there are soooOOOOOOOooOOOO many humidifiers in her house AND shes a techy wouldnt the mister become to much for the ELECTRIC circuits and short them out possibly causing a FIRE!!!! Also if you burn some molds since she OBVIOUSLY HAS SOME!! It makes poisounous fumes!!!!! and Im just talkin regular house mold!!!! F'--DAT HOME SLICE!!! if Ayu asked me RIGHT NOW!!! to live with her i'd be like ******* NOOOOO Bia*ch your place is a *insert Samuel L. Jackson voice and bad words here*---DEATH TRAP!!!!!!

it would be cool to ahve her own label under avex. her A symbol pretty much says it all

Okay thanks!!

I also wish I was Ayumish rich!!!!! And I also love shoes (I have like 10 pair of shoes :innocent )

EDIT: oh-oh!!!! And I love dogs!!! Ayu's dogs are soooo KAWAII!!!!!

hahaha... everyone loves to be RICH!

O_O.. well, she's got the money, why not :laugh

She has to have a house like that.. to fit THAT much clothes and shoes she owns :laugh

A DVD player in the bathroom!??!!? That's too much information :laugh

It means bungalow as in the width and length of it. That would be relatively wide and far back.

That's really cool!
She is soo awesome!
Thanks for sharing!

^ That sounds like a clear explanation. Thanks :yes and I wonder how much space she has reserved for clothes and shoes...

I was thinking the same thing. After reading this and the news about her shopping in Hong Kong, I was really dissapointed in her wastefulness. It would be so easy for her to donate just HALF of what she spends on shoes to charity; to give back to this dying world just a little. I don't know, that's just me. I feel she could be a real idol for the millions of people she reaches if she did something like that.

Maybe you guys are right, since I also admire people who donate amounts to charity. Like when Namie donated so much money once.. I believe it was to the Tsunami tragedy. But she also contributes in charity cases such as the song+nation initiative for the September 11, 2001 attacks, where she sang "a song is born". And Leslie Kee's Superstar photobook was another charity initiative too. According to him, all proceeds will go to the the victims of the Tsunami and various charities.

Finally (I think it was last year) when Ayu auctioned a pair of jeans with her signature. According to wikipedia sold at 76 million yen. The money was sent to charity. So it's not like she's completely ignoring charity cases.

I find it funny when people slate Ayu for NOT giving money to charity.

Who says she doesn't?

Just because she doesn't shout her mouth off about it, doesn't mean she's not doing it.

Yeah that's true too. We cannot say for sure what she does unless she or avex make it public and I doubt it happens unless it's something huge. P.S nice set ayu-cake :heart

Thanks for the information Surreal

ahahaha.. she is jt sooo cute... so generous to give away appliances too....hehe... can give away as charity tho

She probably lives in a house my Ms. Carey

lol, i like looking at shoes x]
this is soo mariah carey-ish!
mariah kinda has a shoe museum, AND she got "dvd viewing facility" in her bathroom
she uses alota humidifiers too
what a coincidence? ayu & mc are more alike than i thought they would be O_O

Dang it. I spend my days and nights trolling this forum, always checking the news section and this pops up and I'm thinking ... "Cool, a new article" and then I see it has 4 pages already and instantly new it was a bump... Lol. Hotzy.

why do i see so many bumps?

haha shoes freak!! i know that!! i saw in 1 issue of VIVI where she bought the same CHANEL shoes but different colours!! i really want to see her shoe museum!! :love
0.0 wooow 5 storey bungalow!! no wonder she can simply walk into a room and lye down on the floor to sleep!!
if her bedroom is at the top floor, she will never make it there if she is exhausted!!
humidifiers are quite important for her vocal chords too i think

so old but i never saw this..
if i had as much money as her i'd do the same thing probably!!

OMG! If i had so much shoes I would rent them xD Looool
and 4 floors??? FOR HER HOME?? I mean, i have 3 rooms, i live with my mom, and we get lost, how would it be there? xD

It's so weird for her to talk about her house that way.
I mean, there's only one main area around tokyo where those kinds of houses could be,
And she rarely, if ever, says where she lives.
And I've never seen her put price tags on the things she owns.. o_o)
ahahaha, oh well.

I'll be really happy if I can work at her agency company......even only 1 day

never seen this before...so wait ayu owns 5 stories of a building?

Who keeps bumping threads from way long ago?

Yeah and could they stop doing it. I keep looking at these thinking it might be new, but it is just like 2 or 3 year old posts. :thud

I want a shoe room!

she is one rich little fellow

Ayu is very rich!!!!

5 storey bungalow... OMG LOL!!!!!!

I would like to see her shoe collection.... I would take a couple LOL!!!!!!:P:P:P:P

Must be nice being so rich. If I had her money, I'd probably buy a ton of books and have my own book room. :)

Wow. I have a fetish for shoes too, especially heels! But I doubt I'll ever have the money to own a shoe "museum". If only I can visit ayu's house! ... I may get a heart attack! lol.

thanks for the old news anyway. I didn't know ayu is such a shoe lover. no wonder she can afford to give her staff Christian Louboutin heels..

LMAO I never knew that about Ayu and the humidifiers. It must help her skin not to dry out and keep her voice/throat moist?

WOW O_O 5 Floors !!

It's amazing! A room for her shoes!

As all richest people...a little bit exxxxagerate... :-(

WOW! What a BIG bungalow Ayu has. Ow~ Ayu is so rich! I love shoes and tech too~♪