LJ duties - done

I finally got to doing the DNA applications... After sorting out some member applications for storm freaks, and updating the points and events...

Three of the applications have expired already so... I Pmed them to ask them to hit the join button again lol.

Met with J for dinner last night, she's in lego land over in Malaysia today but I promised to bring her and her cousins around tmr... Only thing is that I still don't have an itinerary. Hahaha! Oh wells.

Since my tmr will be gone... I should get busy today and study huh? Will post some sentence making later on... That I did the other night... writing it on a notebook with my lefthand, because I've been trying to train my lefthand for ages and writing with your dominate hand is too boring. Plus, I think my left hand has been handwriting... Maybe it's just cos I write slower... Hahaha.

Just a short update for now... More to come later!

GRE vocabs

I really should be focusing more on JLPT since it's coming in less than 2 months *gasp*

Yeah... I'll just leave these here and go on to study Japanese...

I made the first few sentences really long ago. Hence the present tense in the SMAP news...

Let's see if I got these right...

The Internet is inundated with news of SMAP having disbanded, however with no official press release from Johnny's, fans are unable to tell if the news is real.
inundated - overwhelm; flood; submerge

Depressing news appeared one after another, leaving Sho enervated after a day's news reporting.
enervate - to asp energy from

Working in the entertainment industry quickly changed Arashi from ingenuous young man into crafty and calculating adults, navigating the intricate politics associated with their job with ease.
ingenuous - to be naïve and innocent

Asa young junior, Jun was dogmatic in his beliefs. However as time wore on, he mellowed and became more amenable.
dogmatic - highly opinionated, not accepting that your belief may not be correct

Many Arashi fans are feel a strong antipathy towards Kanjani8, a boisterous group from Kansai and Arashi’s long time rival.
antipathy - habitual aversion; intense dislike; natural repugnance

Yokohama’s taunts rendered all past attempts to ameliorate relationships between Kanjani8 and Arashi futile.
ameliorate - make better or more bearable

Although the appeared to acquiesce to the truce, in reality, both groups are already plotting their next move.
acquiesce - agree with

White the formation of Arashi, Johnny amalgamated the top juniors into one powerful group.
amalgamate - unite in one body

Ever so enthusiastic to start the day’s work, Aiba bounced into the greenroom with alacrity.
alacrity - cheerful willingness

While Ohno despised the attention heaped upon him, his bandmate Jun relished in the adulation Arashi received from their fans.
adulation - excessive admiration

Nino manoeuvred his video game character with the adroitness of a veteran gamer.
adroit - having skill or resourcefulness in coping with situations

Sho admonished Ohno for falling asleep on the sofa again.
admonished - express disapproval, give a mild warning

Nino’s acumen and sharp wit made him an asset in the debate team.
acumen - mental keenness

Arashi’s success today did not accrue overnight; rather, it was due to the accretion of years of handwork.
accretion - gradual buildup or increase

[One Shot] Little Nino, Big Sweater

Title: Little Nino, Big Sweater
Length: One Shot (~860 words)
Rating: G
Pairing: Ninomiya Kazunari
Summary: Little Nino got a big sweater.

A/N: After reading this hilarious series of Tumblr posts, I decided to do my own rendition of the story.

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Fics

Ok... I didn't realise that I had fics that I had yet to cross post over here...

Well, I did keep having a nagging feeling that I'd something missing here... And I finally got round to checking it today and lo and behold! I didn't crosspost my Nino fic here! Gosh. That fic was written way back in October last year... It's been so long!

I've been writing a few of my dreams and trying to turn them into fics but...

It was a random discussion in LINE chat about seaweeds... Well actually I was eating seaweed and 'sharing' them with others... That inspired my two new fics. And I wrote and managed to finish the fic pretty darn fast. Two fics too. Same idea/opening, but different endings.

That brings my fic count to 79. Well, if you could the unfinished Spy Arashi. I know I know. I wanted to hit 100 fics last year. Obviously I didn't hit it... But maybe... just *maybe* I'd be able to hit the 3 digit mark this year. Well, if and when I finish that dream fic... That'll be 4 fics! It's the same dream concept, but four different versions! XD

We'll see how this goes haha! It's totally doable, as long as I have ideas/inspiration. After all a lot of my fics these days are pretty short. Less than 1k words. Even my longer ones tend to be just 1-3k words long. Pretty short yeah. I'm not aiming for length here... Well I kinda suck at finishing lengthy fics so yeah.

Oh yes.

I've been wanting to post about this for a while now.

The Arashi fanfic awards!!!

THREE of my fics got long listed. WOW. Like. 3! It's been like, half a year since I wrote a fic, since there's been ANY fics on RNA! And people still remembers us! Octavia got some fics nominated too! No we did not self nominate at all. I heard that a lot of authors did that. But nope, I have not bothered about nominating any fics at all because I've been too busy to read any fics.

So thank you people, whoever you are who nominated us. Thank you!

Oh yes, do check out RNA, if you've not already done so. My fics are all there, I'll only cross post them to my journal after 2 weeks. Or maybe way, way later, depending on whether I remember to cross post or not.

That's all for now I guess. Gosh. I need to do this week's post for NM! Since I will be out with J tmr...