Re: DNA

So this is it. Us Mafias have decided to go underground. Well mafias normally operate shadily already anyway… perhaps we should have done that from the start? But oh wells. No matter.

With this incident I truly feel it, quality over quantity.

And yup, it’s causing a huge ripple all over LJ. Mod posts have sprung up in comms left and right. Naturally, that includes DNA. I want to keep the community going in spite of all this, hence the rule changes. It is unfair to penalise the whole community for one person’s mistakes, but because of the way the Internet is, penalising everyone is the only way… beside preventing it from happening altogether of course. So that’s the route I am taking now. Minimising the risks of having rule breakers in the comm, minimising exposure and minimising the number of members…. I’m glad for those who understand why we are doing this. Being so secretive and all. IF JE was as open as… say… kpop(?), and didn’t care for people subbing their shows (? just my assumption here, I don’t know enough about kpop, just take this as a hypothetical example ok?), sure, why not? But that’s not the way it is. Japan, JE, they are very strict on their copyright laws. Yes we all know what we are doing is illegal. But that doesn’t give you the right to advertise these illegal work everywhere! It is precisely because we know that it is illegal, that’s why we are so secretive about things, that’s why we have rules, that’s why we don’t have open membership (some still do, but most don’t have open membership anymore). We god damn well know we are doing illegal things that’s why we want to be hush hush about it! And it’s just for the benefit of the fans that we are doing this! We don’t earn any money for doing this! All we get is your comments and friendship.

That said, I'm glad to see so many comments to the mod post already. I wonder how many active members we have... as much as I hope to see no one kicked out, I think there'll still be quite a number of people who will be... of course some may just be really busy in rl and have no logged on at all... but I bet there are those who just don't give a damn about replying to anything no matter what. Either way, I am not banning any kicked members so they are welcome to re-apply.

Anyways. No new releases coming up on DNA till the period for replying to the mod post has lapsed AND the membership has been sorted out. Well I don’t have anything on the file to release anyway. The current project will take *quite* long to finish… I was supposed to have started it last week, but us Mafias got distracted and decided to do that ninja AnS post. Yes, i’ll call them ninja projects from now on!

Meanwhile… let me finish up another post about not on serious, DNA stuff… and then I’m off to watch the latest VSA (and then I’ll be up to date till tonight’s AnS comes out), and then finally, finally, finally. LOVE! It’s been half a month already hahaha!

Food and more!

Finally. It’s here. The post that ya all have been waiting for the whole week. So Monday was holiday in lieu of National day, and I went to watch Conan movie with my sis… and then we found out that they are airing Kenshin movie in sg toooooo! And I’ve been super hyped up about the Kenshin movie even though I’ve not watched the 1st movie yet, thanks to all their promotions on VSA and AnS… But yup, I’ve downloaded the 1st movie to my comm already! That’s one more item to my To-Watch list, together with episode two of Sherlock (plus the manga to read too). Luckily I already watched last week’s AM and NS. Just got Thursday’s VSA to watch! And of course, LOVE DVD. I’m watching those today FOR SURE. Octavia’s gone to Manila to meet up with the other girls and attend the LOVE DVD screening there, so there’s no one to bug me about doing random videos today hahaha. Great! XD I’ll be watching to my heart’s content! XD

And oh about the Conan movie... I enjoyed myself tons even though that was the first Conan movie I watched! Yes, add that to my to-watch list as well. Finish up kenshin anime and watch conan anime and movies from start to finish. I was really glad too, I understood pretty much everything w/o having to read the subs. In fact, I spotted a few instances when the subs were wrong. Nothing major but, the sentence was spoken as a question, but the sub changed it into a statement of fact. Happened like twice I think...

What I’ve found amusing is that… as a two men team (well its either me and Mafia red, or me and Mafia J), we are working and releasing faster than the group made by the girl I clashed with last time. So much so for her and her translators. Even both of her translators working together last time, they could not finish an episode of AnS as fast as I could alone… tch! And I could have finished it faster if I didn’t go out… but well… I enjoyed myself on Monday loads! Ah yes your long awaited pictures… here they come!

( Pictures, and more rumblings )

Hmm finally. Japanese words. Been wanting to post this for a while now. Remember my previous post where I talked about the word 零れ? Well. I was thinking about the one and only Arashi song that I made flashcards of the vocab on quiz let (more on that in a while), and I felt like shooting myself. It’s there. The very same word. In the lyrics, at the beginning. Pifft. And I have, obviously, forgotten that word. Well not really. I guessed the meaning when I heard it in AM but I wanted to be sure. But there and then I certainly didn’t remember that this word came from Fly.

Just gonna introduce two words for now...
石鹸 (せっけん, Sekken) - Soap

女々しい (めめしい, memeshi) - Effeminate.
Now this is a word that I can guess the Japanese meaning, but need to search up the definition of the translation to check that I guessed right.  Yes, my vocab is pretty sucky. So well, here’s the definition of effeminate: (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly.

Finally. Last thing of the post! Quizlet. I’ve been using it for some time, and I’ve decided to share some of the lists with you girls. Just two lists for now. Random Japanese words over here. And words from the song Fly, over here. Nope, there is no romanji in the cards. If you are trying to learn Japanese you really should start by learning Hiragana and Katagana anyway, and there’s a million sites to learn those (I’m sure a million youtube videos teaching them too) so there is no need for me to post that here.