To be Free

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!





As you probably already know, since Japan celebrates it on the western new year, this year is the Year of the Monkey.

(And yes, Ohno is born in the Year of the Monkey, 36 years ago...)

Nothing much to say... Except that I somehow managed to clobber together some posts for Nihongo Manabu. I made a quiz. A comprehension quiz. Though the questions are really elementary. Can't be helped with that kind of easy passage I wrote. Then again I did wanted it to be basic.

Have to tidy up the site a little, and put things in the right places (a new master post for quizzes/practice questions maybe?)... But that will have to wait till... tmr or something.

That's all for now. Do visit NM if you're free. Nights!

To edit and put in all the links for this post.

September is going to be a busy month.

Elections... which is well... meh. Because my vote has been decided long ago... So I'll just need to get to the voting center and draw my X

Then of course, there's the Apple keynote and buying of a new comp... which will leave be broke.

And then... I'll have to get my new iPhone too. Which will leave me next to penniless.

At least I've moved my office table already. Oh have I told you? I'm no longer sitting by the door. Kinda quieter... except when people mass print stuff, cos the printer is right beside. Like now. The printer is one noisy bitch. It's near to the pantry again too... so it can get noisy with discussions and stuff. At least my computer screen is only visible to a small handful of people. Which, would unfortunately, include my unsup. When she gets back that is. Still waiting on her reply before I proceed with more experiments. So I'm free for now, which explains why I can afford to spend an entire day doing affiliate links.

Still, I'm pretty happy with the move, no less because I got back my monster computer. Ok. I don't think this is the same comp as what I used before. but the same specs nonetheless. Only a 12 GB ram, but it's still 3x more than my lappy... and a 8 core processor. Yes, 8 cores. You read that right. 2.40 GHz each. Well to be fair, it's a work station. An old one but still a work station nonetheless. With a neat 21.5 inch wide screen to boot. That's big enough to fit two 100% sized word doc pages side by side. Cool eh? Who knew I'd get a new comp at work first lol. Oh wells. iMac coming up next month! Just hope that I'll get to use this comp for a long time to come.

Alright. Do check out Nihongo Manabu when you are free (Yes, I'm forever pimping the site). Plenty of new updates since I'm free now! That's all for now folks!

It was a busy few days off...

Meeting up with my friend, writing entries and fixing up the new Nihongo Manabu...

I didn't even have time to watch any Arashi show, or write any review for the site....

At least I did manage to get a lot of stuff done.

Signed up for a bunch of affiliate programs for the site - yes, I'm trying to monetise the site, since we all are poor people. But no, I can't and won't sell my Arashi translations... so I'm trying to use another avenue to do so. The site will always remain free to use... but perhaps if you're going to buy something from Amazon next time (like this bittersweet CD maybe?), or some Arashi CD/DVD from cdjapan etc... you could click on one of my links? :P I'd appreciate that loads. We do need money to pay for the site domain and hosting after all. (And contests on DNA costs $$$ to run too!)

Spent the better part of the afternoon today making a webstore with my sis for her drawings. She's selling her drawings online as A6 sized prints. Do check it out here! Yes, there's only three designs as of now... hopefully there'll be more coming up! ;)

Sometimes I really wish I could draw like my sis. I mean, just look at this!



Apart from that though... I've not been in a really good mood lately. I just keep cursing at my hanging, misbehaving laptop. And now my mouse isn't working properly too. Sigh. Need to get a new one, and send the current one for repair/replacement since it's still under warranty. Sigh. I'm kinda hesitant because with the current state of my laptop, I can't tell if it's my laptop or the mouse anymore. Either way... I'll have to get a new mouse tmr to use in the meantime. I'll need a new mouse when the iMac comes anyway. I can't freaking wait for it to come any longer... but alas, wait I must. Grrrrrrr. Planning to get the trackpad instead of the mouse for the iMac...

Sigh. *deep breath*

Just... 3 more weeks...

*deep breath*

Oh yes. I've not sorted out the photos from the Ph vacay. aussiestorm thank you for the card and the book mark! That was just awesome! I took photos... but I'm too lazy to upload them now so... maybe next week :P Just love the fishing hook! XD

Where should I begin? There's so much stuff to do that I don't even know when to start.

I've not translated any tweets in a long time... I'd still like to translate them.

At there same time there's two and a half months of Arashi shows to watch... as well as bangumi reviews to write (for Nihongo Manabu)

There's stuff to sub too...

And then there's a webshop to make for my sis...

And then I need to prepare to move NM to our own domain... either now, or maybe when my new comp comes...

And that's not talking about the things to do at work. I've not even talked about proper work type of 'work' yet.

Oh, there's a ton of books to read too... and a ton of stuff that I need to write for NM. Yes. So many things I need to write for it...

Gah...

Time to get writing...

It's always like that. When I have time, I want to binge post to my sites. Rather then schedule them. But when I don't have time... if I don't schedule the entries... there'll be no new posts forthcoming. Bleah. That's the thing about making a proper site that you want people to follow. Consistency is the key. Unlike LJ... or my other personal blogs. I do spam you guys when I'm free to post more. I just post. And post. And post when I'm free.

Sorry about that yeah.

Rights. Time to get writing!

Whew!

It's been a busy few weeks for me at work!

I've not had the time to check out LJ properly, or been in the mood to read (or write) any fics...

Finally had the afternoon to myself and decided to be hardworking, and start on the site that I've been wanting to make for a long time. It's 'open'! Nihon Manabu. I would have picked Nihon Go Manabu, but it's taken so... We now have our own domain! Yay! It's open at http://nihongomanabu.com/!

It's still a work in progress, pages are half completed, and we need to add in masterposts... and I need to write more content to act as the base for the site... but well... it's 'open'. Added in a bunch of vocab posts and that'll do for now.

Let's hope this attempt will be a successful one.

This also means that... in the future, all my vocab posts will go to Nihongo Manabu! Any other learning Japanese related stuff too! So please, do check out the site! I decided on a word press blog because it's so much more flexible than an LJ account. It's not going to be just Arashi related Japanese words anymore. I'll be posting more general stuff too. Like hiragana, katakana, how to write kanjis... etc. It's a long term project, and I plan on updating the site for years to come. So do follow the site! :)


On another note... I won! Club Roppongi won! The Arashi fanfic awards! Yay! It's a tie but who cares hahaha! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my fics. Nominated them in the first place. Thank you very much! I'm definitely still keeping the idea of turning Club Roppongi into a series in my head. But I'm not in the mood to write anything these days... so it's gonna take me forever. There's still Spy Arashi too... I know. Sigh. Why can't I write like others can? It takes me forever to write out anything! I keep getting writers block! Oh wells.

That's all for now! I've got a bunch of food p0rn pictures to share... hopefully I'll get round to it soon!