What a weekend!

Phew. What a weekend it was. Finally caught up with most of the Arashi shows. Heck. No subbing last weekend. Hahaha! Bad news is that I didn't write any fanfic either. Ew.

At least I finished watching AnShi, VSA, ouroboros... Nino-san and Aiba manabu I've not watched yesterday's episode... only thing that I'm still three weeks behind is TSD. Watched Aiba's Tokyo Live too. Ahh not downloaded pikanchi either, but I think it'll only watch that far in the future next time.

Went out with my sis for pizza on Sat afternoon too. All in all... I finally had sort of a weekend to myself :) Loads of things on LJ and at work this week. And it seems like my LJ ranking is finally dropping. 67 yesterday, and 71 today. Oh wells. I took screenshots of the tweets last friday but never got around to translating them over the weekend... :P I'll try to translate them today... Since I won't have the time to do so tmr...

Let's see how much I can translate at work this week!

Hawaii BLAST Dvd is out... and I'm going crazy

CDJapan servers are dying... from the flood of Arashi fans trying to pre-order Arashi BLAST DVD. Ok. And I was one of the crazy ones. I pre-ordered my first ever Arashi item. And I think... that'll be the only Arashi good I'll buy this year. I've been spending like crazy and that's really no good. Not just on Arashi... but my books, on food... it's like... the pandora's box from being overly controlled last year still has not been closed. It's about time to stop huh? After buying Arashi waku waku goods last year... I still bought Digitalian... and recently I got some magazines and more Japanese storybooks. Gah.

But the pre-ordering. The site loaded slower and slower... I thought the pre-order won't go through! Or that it will run out of stock before I manage to get it. I didn't even see the final confirmation page after payment processing! It was only till I got the email notification that I knew my order went through! Crazy! Second time I'm ordering from CDJapan, but the first time the goods wasn't for myself :P So this is really just the first time!

Anyway, so screencaps from the English Jweb about the release!

[One Shot] Rejected Suggestion

Title: Rejected Suggestion
Length: One shot (1.6k words)
Rating: G
Pairing: General Arashi Friendship
Beta: jheili
Summary: Arashi rejected their managers' suggestion unanimously.

A/N: Inspired by Arashi's Sakura performance on the 20th of Feb 2015 music station, comments from the music station report by fans, from Ohno's jweb message about Sakura, and from Ohno's Arashi Discovery radio show that aired on the 25th of Feb 2015.


( They rejected the suggestion unanimously. )

Learn Japanese with Arashi - AnShi 31st Jan 2015 edition

Some vocab from the video! Woots it's been so long since I started on the review. And it's still half done! Anyway I finally compiled a list of vocabs from the episode... here goes!

( Japanese Vocab!!! )

Right, that's all for this very long post! Enjoy!

VSA Tweets! (10th Feb to 5th Mar)

Tweet update! VSA Tweets from 10th Feb to 5th Mar! Nothing much special about these regular tweets I guess? So I was able to translate them pretty fast. I didn't stick TOOO closely to the original text too, so pardon me for that.

vs嵐収録、一本目終わりました。ジャニーズWEST本当に勢いあって盛り上がりました〜来週の放送ご期待ください！五人組も笑顔&元気！
Filming for VS Arashi, the first one has ended. Johnnys' WEST is really full of energy, and the atmosphere was lively ~ please look forward to next week's airing! The five member group is also full of smiles & lively!

今夜のvs嵐はチーム高橋と対戦！名字チームは初めてかと。プラスワンにはカンニング竹山&パンクブーブー黒瀬の博多コンビが参戦…お楽しみに〜
The VS Arashi tonight is a battle against Team Takahashi! Though it's the first time having a team by name. The Plus One guests Cunning Takeyama & PUNK BOOBOO Kurosei forming a Hakata combination, will participate... please look forward to it~

皆さんお待たせしました！今夜のvs嵐はジャニーズWESTと対決。ノリが良く勢いのある彼らの挑戦を嵐は勝てるのか？プラスワンはアンガールズ田中&ハライチ澤部のお二人。お楽しみに〜
Everyone, sorry to keep you waiting! The VS Arashi tonight is a battle against Johnnys' WEST. Challenging Arashi with high spirits and full of vigor, will they be able to win? The Plus One guests are UNGIRLS Tanaka & Haraichi Sawabe. Please look forward to it~

今夜のvs嵐に映画「幕が上がる」チームと対戦。久しぶりにももクロが松崎しげるさん連れて来てくれました。プラスワンはFUJIWARA。松潤が頑張ってる回です！
The VS Arashi tonight is a battle against [Maku ga agaru*] Team. It's been a long time since Momokuro came, and they brought Matsuzaki Shigeru-san along. Plus One guests are FUJIWARA. This is an episode where MatsuJun worked hard!

*The Curtain Rises - A movie starring members of Momo iro Clover Z.

今夜のvs嵐は浅井企画チームと対戦！プラスワンゲストは福士蒼汰さん有村架純さんのお二人。コロコロバイキングに新しい要素が加わり嵐は大慌てです！ぜひご覧ください〜
The VS Arashi tonight is a battle against Asaikikaku Team! Plus One guests are Fukushi Sota-san and Arimura Kasumi-san. The new element added in Korokoro Viking causes a huge panic amongst Arashi! You definitely have to watch it~


Vocabs - just two words this time... because there really isn't much exciting vocab used :P

要素 (ようそ, youso)
1. component; factor; item (e.g. in list)
2. element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)

加わる (くわわる, kuwawaru)
1. to be added to; to be appended
2. to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate
3. to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence); to grow; to gather (speed)
4. to be applied (e.g. heat, pressure); to be exerted

Accomplished?

Well sort of. I didn't managed to write a short fic. And translate some tweets. But really. Nothing is coming up in terms of inspiration. My mind is just... Unable to come up with anything creative. Is it because I've been too busy? Too preoccupied with other things?

Tmr will be a busy day for me. Will be learning FISH from the rf. This week won't be all that slack... Feels like the rest of the year will be busy for me too... And now I'm standing here, waiting for the bus and typing this entry. Loads of people taking the bus today cos it's raining since. So I couldn't get on the earlier bus. Sigh. That means I've been waiting here for more than 20 minutes already. Such a waste of time. Wish my 5s didn't break sigh.

Apple watch announcement today. I won't be getting the first generation one for sure. I don't have any phone to go with it anyway. And it's expensive. As if having to buy a new phone and new computer later this year isn't enough. And I still bought the dvd lol.

Meh.