No more lucky 7….

Sighz… having a headache now… :(
Somehow the car ride back home was terrible… bad traffic resulting in my dad having to keep slow down the car suddenly… which somehow didn’t quite agree with me. i get motion sickness rather readily… car sickness in particular… somehow that's even worst than sea sickness - i seem fine enough on the boats… but sometimes i can get a really bad headache in the car… like if i don't keep staring out of the window i'll get a bad headache… and sometimes if its bad i just keep feeling like wanting to throw up (but thankfully most of the time i DON'T), and the headache lasts for quite a while even after i get off the car -.-''' zzzzzz

somehow that makes me totally regret going out with my parents for dinner.

for once i finished early today. actually that's cos we split the experiment into two parts and left the 2nd part for tmr… so we left shortly after the 1st part of the experiment finished. worked in the lab from ard… 11am? till 4pm. yes… no lunch break in between. lunch at 4pm, bravo! no doubt my stomach died in the mean time.

got some safety briefing stuff tmr morning… afternoon we'll go experiment part 2. i guess we'll end late for sure tmr… since we are starting at 2pm… and than my mentor pretty much always comes late (like we were supposed to start at 10am, he shows up at 10:30++, than uses his comp till almost 11am before we start). if today's any indication… we are gonna take like 4-5 hours tmr… and that'll take us right to 7-8pm or even later….

Friday we wanted to start, but in the end we only prepared all the materials for the experiment… after which we had intro discussion and that went all the way to 8+pm…

gotta say that my mentor is pretty much a night owl like i am… he sleeps at like… i don't know… that day he was rushing work till 3-4am… and he often replies my emails at 12mn or 1am…

i actually like staying up in the office till quite late… that is if i am not sleepy and if i've not already gotten all distracted (if I'm distracted already, than i might as well go home and play all the same). Cos i can actually concentrate better in the office than at home… if i can have my way, I'd go have dinner in school and stay in the office till 9 or even 10pm… or something. there's something about the night that's really peaceful… no one walking and talking loudly in the corridors, no loud construction work going on… and no parents discussing stuff in the living room and no one watching the tv to distract me. no kitchen or me to walk around and get distracted either. so once i get started on my work i can really get things going.

anyway I'm totally going off the point here… i wanted this blog to be more about me and arashi than anything else… meh, pardon my rumblings, i guess it's something to do with me being really tired atm… so much so that I'm not even capitalizing my words properly.

Hmm no more lucky 7… i was still thinking to myself - ah monday… anything i can watch? than i realized lucky 7 has ended and i've gotta wait for ohno's drama to start. my sis desperately wants a season 2 (ok maybe not that desperate, but still.). of cos i wouldn’t mind a season 2… so long as they can still come up with a good plot I'm ok. maybe once again i was expecting too much to come from the last episode… it was good but the ending was… however i just wished, hoped that the ending would be really powerful. How? i really don't know. perhaps I'm just expecting too much… but really, i was hoping to see more to nita… he barely made an appearance :X

so aiba's drama is coming up on saturdays… and arashi will be doing the theme song - i.e. new single coming out again? YAY. Hmm how about leader's drama? arashi sing for that too? XD that'll be REALLY cool! Double A side or something? Either way that means in that same period of them when the 2 drama airs arashi will be EVERYWHERE! wait, they are already every where with aiba and ohno's dram AND the hana arashi thing… on top of their regular shows and all the SPs coming up etc etc… still… sing for ohno's drama too please? XD show some support for your dear leader (even tho u guys always bully him…) ok, maybe it's not up to arashi to decide? whatever, just sing for ohno's drama too ok?

I totally love ohno's image in the locked room drama. ohno with specs OMG… so CUTE! cool and SMART ohno haha. like seriously? that's so opposite from our sleepy leader… and far from that not-so-bright and super bratty kaibutsu-kun (which seems to have rubbed off a lot onto him). And it won't be dark like mauo so ppl like my sis can actually enjoy watching the entire drama (at least ohno's character won't be dark yeah?)

On the other hand aiba's drama can't be more different than from ohno's. Mystery/detective story all the same, but totally opposite characters. Aiba will still (sort of) be that silly aibaka that he always is, playing the role of a detective that's scared of blood, women etc and depending on a special cat to help him solve the crimes. Well aiba goes well with animals tho, so I'm looking forward to see how he works with the cat. we've all seen him in tensai shimura dobutsuen, but i wonder how it'll be like working with an animal for a drama…

ah… so now i have one less thing to watch… and no vs/hna last week (no vs for 2 weeks already!) made me really sad… can't wait for the vs SP this week though… and loads of SP coming up (that's why the programs stopped for a while i guess) so i can't wait for those!



and ah… i had my fill of fun yesterday too…! watched last last week's AnShi at last - the subs were even out already lol… than i watched last week's AnShi as well - the 2 hour SP episode. HA! The usually sharp nino actually made a mistake! That's like the 1st time ever that i've seen him make such an embarrassing mistake…! too bad his face didn’t turn all red else that would have been really cute, but you can tell that he's embarrassed all the same… the usually sharp tongue and quick witted nino making a mistake? totally unheard of! Maybe he didn’t get enough sleep or something :P. Anyway… they were saying that the aniki has bough a pair of shoes in 10 years or something. And nino started talking about how come the guest doesn’t buy them? like how they usually come in like sets of 3 or 5… like the same series but different color. Which got me totally clueless about what he's talking about… (at 1st i thought it was just because my japanese sucked….) than aiba suddenly said: wait, you're talking about socks? than it all made sense… maybe nino misheard earlier or something… (cos socks in japanese is literally shoes-underneath [you wear the socks like underneath your shoes that kind of meaning], so maybe he somehow misheard? i don't know!)

The short skit thing they did at the end was pure crap. As in… they were just saying whatever rubbish they could come up with on the spot and they would have gone off even further and probably crapped all the way to the moon if the aniki didn’t step in and abruptly admit to the murder. Super hilarious… and ohno's getup… and him lying in that weird position on the floor was totally LOL. Totally reminds me of that time when arm… what's the guy's name again…? the one who played the vampire in kaibutsu kun went on AnShi and they did the short skit… gosh that was totally epic as well (yeah, way more epic than last week's cos of the HILARIOUS roles they were given - but than the aniki planned that before hand, last week's was purely spontaneous). The storyline was supposed to say that one of arashi killed the guy, but wonderful arashi banded together and make aniki the killer instead. LOL. Totally EPIC i tell ya! that's why watching arashi shows is so fun… they are spontaneous and really funny.

But the show that had be erupting in squeals was the one about arashi having lunch together after the mannequin 5 speciel. So hilarious! Sakurai is like the perfect mother hen… buying hand cream and body lotion etc for all the rest of the members. He said if your house ran out of toilet paper or something, just say and he'll buy it for you (as in, referring to the rest of the members) if he has the time. I think he'll make the perfect house-husband…. well… except for the fact that he can't cook :X (30 mins to peel half an apple anyone?)

hmm some more of their talk… (pretty much every bit was funny, so you really have to watch it)
aiba complained that nino buys games for him that he doesn’t want… using HIS money. sounds just the like sneaky, bratty nino we all know much? XD

hmm apart from shellfish, sho-kun loves to eat pickled veggies too… aiba's mum gave a bunch to aiba and asked him to give to sakurai (since she knows sakurai loves it)… but it was a lot and aiba was wondering if sakurai managed to finish it himself. however… sho kun gave it to his piano teacher when he went for piano lessons last year (i guess its in preparation for his furusato performance). And the teacher + wife (an elderly couple i think) ate it and told him to pass the word to aiba that the pickles are really nice… but since sho didn’t tell aiba that he gave away the pickles, he didn’t think of passing on the message either… apparently he gave away all the pickles aiba gave to him… so he was apologizing to aiba for that. aiba was quite ok though, saying that it's good that the food either go to waste. Sho promised that he'll eat the pickles this year if aiba gives him though, since he doesn’t go for piano lessons anymore LOL!

Ohno was really epic during the whole lunch… somehow it just naturally became such that he sat at the head of the table - at the birthday seat they call it… and than he just… sat there. And watched the members debate about what to eat/drink. It was only till like… the 6th min of the video that he finally opened his golden mouth to order tamago soup (egg soup)… -.-'''? Haha…!

At the end too… they were told by the staff that they have to settle the bill themselves… so they played a guessing game to decide who should pay for the bill. The one who guessed the furthest will have to pay - J didn’t have to guess though, since he was the one who took the bill so he must have seen the price. He's the youngest anyway so they let him off the hook… Ohno was the last to guess and i think he purposely picked such a low number so that he'll pick up the tab. After all you can easily just squeeze your guess between two other numbers and you'd be safe for sure. I'm sure he's not that stupid… but just being the nice leader in a very subtle and un-leader-like way.

Turns out the meal cost like 52k yen… the food alone costs 42k yen, but they have to pay for things like the service charge as well as for the usage for the room. Woots really a high class restaurant indeed… that's like over $800 SGD for a meal! (food alone costs $600~!) Expensive! that's like more than the amount of money i have in my debit account… OUCH T.T

haha… so after it was revealed the ohno's paying, everyone happily files out, leaving ohno with the bill… so what did ohno do? he called for the waitress and asked… FOR DESERT HAHAHA! You're EPIC oh-chan… really EPIC! Like seriously!!! i was just bawling my guts out in laughter by than… i was wondering if he'll complain about having to foot the bill or something… but ask for green tea ice cream? LOL!!!!!!!!

bwahahahaha! ok… now I'm off to watch the NG segments… がんばった大賞 - NG parts of freeter, lucky 7 etc etc...

Introductions...

Random List of Things About Myself

Hi there!

First up, some resources:
My fanfic masterpost is here, and my TV review masterpost is here. I also have a list of some of my favourite fanfics here, though the list is not very updated.

Also, check out my crafts shop here.

Add me if:
You want to read my random updates.
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I won't add back unless we've chatted before or something.

Anyway... Here's the random list of things about myself, last updated on 29th Jan 2015. Anchors away!

I'm a crazy/weird person who just so happens to be a girl (I dress and think more like a boy most of the time so yeah) and an Arashi fan.

I'm from Singapore and I'm Chinese so... yeah I speak mandarin and it helps me understand some kanji.

I use twitter - feel free to follow darkillertg. I have tumblr, though I don't use it much. It's mainly just crossposts from my instagram. I just started using weibo. Add me if you want. I mostly post photos (same ones as instagram!), and say randm stuff in Chinese/Japanese. So far I've not posted anything there in English though.

I go by the alias darkiller online most of the time... otherwise its coolohoh or chemanic. Chemanic is the name of my very 1st character in maplestory, and the nickname chem stuck with me ever since (doesn’t help that I named all the rest of the characters ChemXXX).

I love playing games and doing what seems to be rather useless/pointless stuff. Games I play/played include MapleStory (MapleSEA, and KMS), dragon saga, pokemon etc. I also used to play on kongregate - userid coolohoh - add me if you play there too. Currently not playing on Maple and Kongregate due to work and Arashi. Whatever time during weekends/after work when I'm not KO-ed on my bed, I'm busy trying to catch up on watching Arashi shows, or translate stuff etc.

Apart from Arashi... there's no other singer/band that I'm such an avid fan of. I know the names of some singers and I know (maybe even love) probably a few of their songs but that's it. I most likely don't even know how they look like so... you can't count that as being a fan right? I do like a lot of other songs besides arashi, its just that... yeah i dont follow any band/singer.

I listen to (English) POP songs, JPOP (mainly Arashi), Chinese songs, Classical music... and a few other extras. Recently I'm loving songs by ONE OK ROCK and SEKAI NO OWARI.

I'm a science person. Logical, rational... Finished my biological sciences degree now and I'm working as a researcher.. I depend on logical reasoning, and even my instincts... but I hardly 'feel' anything. You can say that in real life I'm not an easily moved/touched person. I would even say that I'm (a bit? a lot?) cold hearted at times.

Related to my Chemanic statement earlier: Chemistry was my 1st love. It was the science that I loved the most in Secondary school... but later on in Junior College somehow I felt that my math was too horrid to survive me through a Uni chem course, so I picked my 2nd love - biology. Math was my no. 1 weakness... really weird for a science person no? I enjoy reading about all the sciences, but that doesn’t mean I'm good in all of them - I don't mind reading about physics stuff though I don't understand everything of quantum mechanics... (and well not TOO deeply into each of the subjects either, I'd just get lost and fall asleep) those long and complicated equations in particular... I wont even ATTEMPT to figure them out. I still like chemistry a lot though - organic chemistry in particular. Not really good at it but I just enjoy the subject. So basically I enjoy a mix of chem and bio...

I have a bad memory. Or rather, a memory that works differently. I can remember details of things that took place, things that interest me... place even... but nothing of what is needed in exams. I can remember the details of all the extra stuff (i.e. not tested in exams) that my bio teacher said in class (years ago), but I can't remember drugs and their effects to save my ass during my pharamco exam. I can remember places that I've been to, I can remember details of conversations/outings with my friends which everyone else at the outing have forgotten... I can remember what comes next in a movie... but memorize stuff for an exam? You kidding me? Hello I can't even remember my times table properly... (I remember a few, and then add etc to get what I want... or something. Now I've done the multiplications enough times for the numbers to be familiar in my head, but sometimes I'll still need to confirm. E.g.: 6 x 7 =? I remember 6 x 6 = 36 cos 3, 6, 9 are my favorite numbers... than 36 + 6 = 42... tada! answer!)

I'm weird. Some times I wonder if i have split personalities or something. I can adapt myself to 'feel' and think different in different circumstances. I also think differently from what other's normally think...

(In view of the above two points) Arashi taught me how to feel (or at least, express my feelings). The showed me how to laugh again. Along my journey growing up I've had a fair share of getting bullied... and added to the fact that I'm kind of a loner and how I think different in the 1st place, I tossed aside this thing called 'feeling' long ago. I've always suppressed my emotions. I don't know how much has changed now, but at least when I'm watching Arashi I enjoy myself and feel alive.

It seems to me that I'm a slow thinker. I'd consider and debate issues in my head for quite some time. Ok, slow thinker isn't the right phrase to use... it should be that I take longer to respond to things. Like if you ask me about some problem that I've never encountered before, I'll think and consider things carefully before giving an answer.

I can't spell! Thank goodness for spell check...

I procrastinate. A LOT. *looks at my pile of half written fanfics*

I'm a quiet person. Online though, I type a lot... so it's almost as if I've become a totally different person.

I'm very long winded - I think you found this out already.

Hmm if you've got this far, thank you for sticking with me. In short I: like science, like to play games, and like Arashi.

I have two other blogs as well... this one is dedicated to gaming stuff (though now I'm gaming lesser and lesser), and this one is for everything else. Except Arashi. That's what this LJ is mostly for. My random rumblings about Arashi and (occasionally) some other random stuff. EDIT: Currently I'm using LJ and pretty much LJ only. The other two blogs are mostly dead though I've vowed to myself that I ought to revive them. Everything goes onto my LJ now...

I'd love to add friends on LJ, especially Arashi friends. Leave a comment here or send me a PM and I'd love to add you back! Just something, anything will do. E.g. How did you actually come across my LJ or why you want to add me, just curious ya know? Since I'm just a random kid trying to... Ok. I don't even know what I'm trying to do. Oh wait... yes. I'm just trying to spread the Arashi love. I took so much from the community - translations, scans, photos, DVD rips, CD rips, show uploads... I just wish to do my little part to spread the Arashi love, hence the reason for my TV reviews and fanfics. Just yesterday I've finally made up my mind to help the subbing community, and hopefully from now on I'll do transcripts for subs on a regular basis.

Currently I'm am working. I've got my degree in biological sciences and am now doing research at an institute in my uni. So far so good, the people and nice and friendly, I'm doing science and learning stuff, work hours are pretty slack... I get to muck around with expensive, really expensive equipment like the TEM (my sis was like 'OMG this is the stuff you only see in textbooks')... Its been six months working here now and I'm happy. I messed up my uni grades pretty badly, so hopefully with some job experience under my belt I'll be able to enroll in a PhD program in the future... yup. That's my goal right now. Learn as much as possible at work, maybe get some kind of recognition like a paper or something if possible, and get my PhD. You need a PhD to move up the science ladder, and I WANT a PhD. Yeah, if only I'd realized that a little sooner and stopped fooling around during my undergrad so I can get slightly better grades and be able to enroll in a PhD program directly but... oh wells. I'll just have to take the longer route. I'm sure I'll get there someday :)

I have also started doing radio broadcasts on mixlr. Please join me during my live broadcasts if the timings suit you (I'm mainly broadcasting on Mondays, 10 pm to 1am JST), otherwise you can listen to a recording of my broadcasts on my mixlr showreel. It'll be great if you can join us live though! You can chat with other Arashi fans, request for songs, and join in our random talk :). You can follow me on mixlr, so you'll get an email notification when I start my broadcasts! I've met many lovely Arashi fans on the broadcast, so I'm glad I started doing it!

Cleared the JLPT N4 and N3. Missed the sign up deadline for last December's. My friend was encouraging me to take the N1 right away... dunnoe... *shrugs*

How did I get into all these Arashi fandom related activities?
I started off writing fanfics because... I'm a science person. I would say that I'm good at doing scientific writing. But scientific writing is scientific writing. Sentences are kept short, and concise. No bombastic words or flowery language. And you get to the point. You don't beat around the bush. And I'm good at that. I guess you can probably still see a lot of the influence in my fiction as well. You can say that it's part of my writing style already? So yeah, I started writing fics because I don't want to just be a good scientific writer. I'd like to write other stuff too. Like fiction. And so I did. I can't say that I'm the best writer, but I'm starting to 'loosen' my style in fiction writing now. No you know... sticking to having short sentences and only 1 idea per sentence sort of thing as you see in science. And I do love it when I have random, fun ideas to write about. At times like these is when writing is most enjoyable.

As for TV reviews, I started out when I saw the arashi_bangumi advert on arashi_on. I got an app called Marsedit and it handles all the screenshot uploading so I thought, hey, why not give it a try? And it just went on from there. And as I did reviews, more and more people asked me (some even in a very accusing tone :( ) to do subs. And I have always refused... eventually though, I liked the idea of doing subs more and more, and it helps that I do actually have a few hours free in the evenings (if I don't waste it playing on my phone) that I could do some transcripts with. It also helps that I've been doing so many reviews and I actually do transcribe quite a lot of their talk already. And it just goes on, like a natural progression kind of thing. First reviews. Then subs. Then translations...