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I keep bitching about out Japanese textbook, how it has way too many complicated kanji and stuff and yet here I am translation this article Shou wrote based on Nietzsche's quote. *sigh*

@темы: 勉強

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Looks like today some of my efforts finally paid off. I did a clean uninstall of the nVidia drivers and set the brand new ones. Apparently it fixed some issues I was having, like the 3D acceleration. Well, now I'm giving myself a treat playing my beloved Drakensang. Sims is still being a bitch but I'll have to look into it properly later. Ah, yesterday I also figured out how to get rig of that annoying start-up menu. In other words, I'm cool.

@темы: PC, Games

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Tora the tsundere ikemen

@темы: Tora, A9 Channel

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My formatting Hard Drive operation was supposed to end tomorrow but it was cut short by the blackout which lasted several hours. So anyway in the end I decided that my approach was flawed. I deleted the partitions on the HD and did Quick Format. Now it doesn't give error messages any more. But clearly it still is not ready for use so I started the error checking utility. Hopefully that will help. It's not as slow as the formatting went but also quite slow and thus I contemplate another night on the sofa.

@темы: PC

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Futatsu no Spica

Writing on this laptop is really annoying but I can't wait some 3 days until my PC finished its thing.


I did come across this one before but I rejected it for being too obvious a choice. But lately I stumbled upon it once agian so I decided to give it a go.

Frankly I was a little weary of all the school comedy dramas but this one has very little comedy and quite a bit of drama. Actually I didn't expect I'd be crying a river but it was impossible not to. But I quite enjoyed it and the timing felt right. First of all I like specialized dramas and then of course you can't deny the appeal of all the ikemen in the cast. Daito Shunsuke as a lovable geek was refreshing. Nakamura Yuichi as Suzuki Shu the boy genious was not very convincing though, I really felt like he was way behind on the acting skills but you can't really hold it against him especially in the end.

As for Asumi at first I didn't like her but gradually I did develop some affection for her. All in all the drama is somewhat sentimental but not sappy and it's also quite engaging and unpredictable.

@темы: dorama

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So I finally came to the point of formatting this damaged hard drive and I was hoping to do it today but it's been 7 hours and it's only 8 % done. And that is just the small drive, the big one is 8 times larger. Not cool.

@темы: PC

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Had a nice chat with Florpotter. It's good to talk to someone who works hard for the fandom. She seems nice and adequate so far. So anyway, we agreed that she'll sent me some scans from the top secret Fanclub magazine which I'll try to translate.
Apart from that we talked about learning Japanese and she said she'd been learning it for 6 years and they are still at MnN II. And here I thought I'm too slow. So it was kind of encouraging.

@темы: 勉強, fandom, people

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Little Treasures

今日本に行くことは、宇宙に行くことみたい。。。

@темы: little treasures, snapshot

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Everyone talks about unrequited love but nobody ever talks about unrequited friendship.

When your friend begins to spend more time with another friend, when you plan to hang out and wait for a call that never comes, when they forget your birthday, when you want to get closer to someone but get rejected time after time and you realize they probably just don't like you enough. Doesn't that hurt just as much?

What makes it worse is that you are never officially rejected, like if you confess your love and get your heart broken you at least know you need to move on but with friends you can only get excuses and keep wondering, it can go on for years, the dying of friendship is slow and painful.

@темы: musings

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Mummy Shou

Mummy Shou makes my day better...

@темы: Shou, A9 Channel, Alice Nine

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I was convinced nothing would make this morning worse so I though I'd watch JJ's MV preview. Yeah, right. Looks like my fears were fully justified. Why did it have to happen? The pictures were really nice and I had hope but from the preview you can already tell that the MV is gonna be super-pretentious and dramatic. Maybe even as big as Junsu's. It's got this freak Gothic/BDSM concept. The ravens? The fangs? The chains?
Oh, please... Whatever happened to modesty...

The only thing that wasn't in it is the huge-asses dancers in fishnets but then that was just preview... I am so disappointed, Jae. I'm not even sure I want Yoochin's solo now.

@темы: JYJ, Jaejoong

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I needed a new drama. Tried Puzzle first but it turned out lame and creepy so I ended up watching Futatsu no Spica.

This part made me lol so hard:

- Now you.

(Why do you want to become an astronaut?)

- Because I like Russian girls.

- (in Russian) It's very hard to win a Russian girl's heart.

- First I need to master Russian.

Haha. Yeah, right.

@темы: dorama

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The holidays sort of make December worthwhile, but then you find yourself stuck in the middle of Winter. It's about -10 C outside and you have places to go to. Yadda! And even your favourite band doesn't have any releases until March. Can't I just hibernate? Please?

@темы: musings

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Continuing with last night's train of thought... Why the hell is Tora even in Visual Kei? I mean he said he doesn't really have interest in clothes and fashion and everyone knows off-stage he goes for a casual gangsta style. He could just play metal and stuff. He also claims he has no taste. Which brings me to the question of how come most of his stage outfits look so good? I mean there were some ridiculous ones and he likes those shapeless ugly pants but some outfits were really cool. I'd like to think that Shou has something to do with this.

@музыка: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow

@темы: musings, Tora, Alice Nine

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It is only now that I realized Japanese magazined have some articles written right to left vertically and some left to right horizontally. It appears they use whatever fits best. I like that.

After seeing the latest Pati Pati I like seriously went and looked up at the online stores that sell them, you know just to make sure it costs 20$ so I promised myself to buy one when Alice Nine is actually on the cover, not 2 pages of them.

I already have an UVERworld poster and some cards that I can’t throw away and can’t give away because I doubt there’s one person in this country who knows them. No need to accumulate more guilt.

@темы: musings, Alice Nine

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January 17 - Jaejoong's "Mine"

January 18 - Alice9 Channel

@темы: post-it note

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Wink Up, January 2013

I just finished translating this. I got this magazine from a friend, straight from Japan so I felt obliged to translate the article. It's also pretty interesting. This is the longest translation I made so far but I tried my best and I think I did a really good job.

languid-trans.livejournal.com/10246.html

Already translated into Spanish (as expected!) and getting translated into Russian. I feel cool.

@темы: Translations

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Alice Nine Macros

When I want to get something done but don't feel like doing all the work I convince someone to help me out. Because I'm cool like that. This is what happened with the latest Tumblr blog - Alice Nine Macros! Finally I have a place to dump all my silly and not so silly stuff.

aliceninemacros.tumblr.com/

@темы: projects, Alice Nine