Intro post update!
Jun. 11th, 2014 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coolohohSo I decided that it was time for my intro post to get an update... added a few new chunks to all the previous wall of text that I already had... also added links to all the 'resources' I have in LJ... since LJ can make it so hard to find old posts sometimes. Here's the bulk of the new changes :P
I am taking the N3 JLPT exam next month, but I've not studied much yet. I guess I'm pretty much only studying what I can from Arashi shows. My wanting to do subs in part of my effort to learn Japanese is a more... fun way. 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 random weekdays, 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 :). So far I've only been at broadcasting for less than 2 weeks, but I'm really having loads of fun, and I'm proud to say that I'm not nervous when talking during my broadcasts anymore. Haha, I'm not a public speaker by nature and I've hardly had chance to do presentations since my secondary school days, so I was really a nervous wreck during my first broadcast. It also really made me very happy to meet Arashi fans who loved my fics during the broadcast. I really didn't know that so many people have read and love my fics - because many people don't comment after reading. So I'm really glad to know that my works have actually been read, and loved!
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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. I don't know if my style of translating is good for subs though. I don't translate word for word, but rather the meaning as a whole, and then I try and find a sentence with a decent equivalent meaning, that makes decent grammatical sense and use that. In a way you can say my translations sound better in English, but might not be as precise? Like I do take more liberties with my translation...? Is it that way? Maybe some experienced translator can give me some comments on my subs next time. Constructive criticism is always welcome! Just try to be nice when pointing out my mistakes ok? :P Bad thing about subbing: I'll have to rewatch quite a bit to catch every single sentence said, and I have no choice but to translate everything. No skipping and skimping off like I can do with reviews. I'd still like to do reviews... though I'm not sure if I'll have the time. With reviews I can comment and talk about random stuff and all... Ok that's about all for now!
I am taking the N3 JLPT exam next month, but I've not studied much yet. I guess I'm pretty much only studying what I can from Arashi shows. My wanting to do subs in part of my effort to learn Japanese is a more... fun way. 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 random weekdays, 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 :). So far I've only been at broadcasting for less than 2 weeks, but I'm really having loads of fun, and I'm proud to say that I'm not nervous when talking during my broadcasts anymore. Haha, I'm not a public speaker by nature and I've hardly had chance to do presentations since my secondary school days, so I was really a nervous wreck during my first broadcast. It also really made me very happy to meet Arashi fans who loved my fics during the broadcast. I really didn't know that so many people have read and love my fics - because many people don't comment after reading. So I'm really glad to know that my works have actually been read, and loved!
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. I don't know if my style of translating is good for subs though. I don't translate word for word, but rather the meaning as a whole, and then I try and find a sentence with a decent equivalent meaning, that makes decent grammatical sense and use that. In a way you can say my translations sound better in English, but might not be as precise? Like I do take more liberties with my translation...? Is it that way? Maybe some experienced translator can give me some comments on my subs next time. Constructive criticism is always welcome! Just try to be nice when pointing out my mistakes ok? :P Bad thing about subbing: I'll have to rewatch quite a bit to catch every single sentence said, and I have no choice but to translate everything. No skipping and skimping off like I can do with reviews. I'd still like to do reviews... though I'm not sure if I'll have the time. With reviews I can comment and talk about random stuff and all... Ok that's about all for now!
