mabo_tofu

They're probably the only people I'd greet "Happy Anniversary!"  twice in a year...

Wow.

They really are special. ^_^

And the feelings did not change.

 We will once again reunite! 

If you are an Arashi fan that happens to be in the Philippines, join the celebration!!!

For those interested to join Ohno's Birthday/10th Anniversary Party, you have less than a month left to confirm your attendance!

Clicky the poster for more info! See you there!

                                                                             

 As I mentioned in my post about my very first attempt in translation (VS Arashi #47)...well, I'll say it again:

“If there would be ZERO chance for me and Aiba-chan, I would go on and support one girl for him: BECKY!“

But after watching this VIP Room, now...

                                              
                                    I like her for SHO!                                                            I like her for OHNO!


                                            

                                     I like her for JUN!                                                         (Then someone interrupted!)

    

                                                                     But she and NINO will forever be arguing...

Gotta say, I never got tired of watching this as I try to comprehend what they were saying. In fact, I was smiling all throughout.

Fine. Giggling, actually.

But! Don't just Aiba-chan and Becky look good together!? 
Enjoy! ^_^

Translated by: mabo_tofu
Subbed by: 

jstwnts2posts
Raw video provided by chaix2 (arashixdream.com)

Special thanks to K-sensei, my Japanese teacher and fellow Arashi fangirl for clarifying some stuff...^_^ (and because of her I have my 5x10 pamphlet! She watched the concert twice, Aug. 29 and 30! I envy her! She got me a mini Aiba uchiwa as a souvenir! ^^)

 

MU: full file

MF:  .001 .002 .003 .004 .005 (still uploading, sorry!) yey! finished! and for those who got problems with .002, please try again...i                                                                                    linked it again, i hope it works this time..^^ please tell me if there are still problems...;D



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And here's our another release: VS Arashi #70! download here

 

 

 I know there's already a subbed version of this episode but since we worked on it too, might as well share it...^_^

and sho-kun and ohno-kun especially shone brightest because of their one of a kind expressions... Well, actually...


That's TWO from Sho... 

 

Here is a short clip of HnA promotion in Ousama no Brunch when Himitsu no Arashi-chan just revamped to its current format...

With just 4 simple questions we can get a clue of these guys' ideal first date...^^

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think.

The green font kinda didn't contrast well against my background, sorry if it's hard to read, but anyhoo...^^

 ( Read more... )

This IS hard! But it's a nice challenge...And it's fun finding out song titles that could answer to these casual questions!
*By the way what does "meme" mean? haha, i just answered this because it's interesting, but had no idea what's really going on! sorry for the newbie question...


I tagged:
arashiheartie 
uzistar 
jstwnts2posts 
myrtlemist 
kwitch13 
epunx99 
toinkydoink 
trece_13 
so_gracefull 
matsumania 
addictine 
angellybeanzz 
dianil5272 
redbutterfly_09 
amampotita 

Sorry if ever the ones I tagged has already answered this! ^^

 
A Wet Look Aiba.




That's all it took me to bravely (and painstakingly ^^) attempt translating my first Arashi video subbed by jstwnts2posts . Raw provided by Chaix2.

I cannot assure full accuracy with my translation but I tried to capture most of the stuff they said.

Please pardon mistranslations and a few unsubbed lines. Brain still got lots to learn. Ears need more practice. ^__^

Comments are very welcome.
Hope you'll enjoy our first Arashi video release! Thank you! ;D

MU Link: to follow (sorry, upload is taking longer than expected..) I am really sorry to those who are waiting for the MU Link, i was already ULing it but it stopped, i thought MU can resume interrupted uploading but then it restarted! I was waiting it to finish for 9 hrs then that! I'm sorry but I can only try it again next week, since I don't have a faster connection at my dorm..

(thanks to syarinzz  ^^) .001 .002 .003 .004 .005 .006

Sendspace Links (thanks to saragnayan ^^) .001 .002

MF Links (by jstwnts2posts )

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This photo is taken from a 1980 Filipino movie Si Malakas, Si Maganda at Si Mahinhin. It starred Dindo Fernando, Elizabeth Oropesa and Alma Moreno.

 

The man on the right is the actor Augusto Victa. 
Beside him is my father, playing the role of a doctor.
 

Well, he IS a doctor. It just so happened that a location shoot was being done in the hospital he was working at and a scene required a doctor and there he was! My good-looking father to the rescue!

 

This was released in 1980, 29 years ago. When my brother found out the title of the movie he searched it on torrent and was able to download it. You should have heard us siblings screaming like crazy when we saw our dad enter the screen:

“Si Daddy! Si Daddy!”

And you should have heard my dad sigh:


“Hindi ko inakalang makikita ko pa 'to...” (I never thought I'd ever see this again...)

 

This is the best 15 second-video clip I ever watched in my entire life.

 

To our Dad, Happy Father's Day.

 

It is a pleasure to be the kid of someone who once “starred” in a movie.

 

Your 29-year-old look is now immortalized.

A nice overdue Gift for myself. An Eita guesting exactly on my birthday! Yey! ;D

Anyhoo, I did a translation, but I'm still struggling to understand subbing videos, if I try it with this episode, the expected time of release would be till infinity...*weak!*  I got the raw from tokioteatime (thank you for the pointers..;D)

                               

 

( 05.07 5LDK )


Hope you enjoy this!

Reserved Eita+Crazy TOKIO=Laughter ;D

 Before the summer break started, I was already DLing D no Arashi.

Then I planned to finish all episodes by the time summer ends.

Because of the OJT and other DLing plans, I forgot until what episode I have already downloaded. I lost my track.

Now, school's about to start again. I wasn't able to add more DnA episodes.

Guess now I have to DL it just every weekends, huh. 

 It was just a simple, quite boring day more than a year ago when my dormmate gave me copy of Nodame Cantabile live action to watch...She wasn't really a huge fan of JDramas, so she didn't give me any uplifting remarks about  nodame as she handed me the cd...Well, i got nothing else to do that morning, or the whole day, rather, so i started my day watching it. And i didn't expect to be so hooked on it, that at lunch when my roommate returned, i was still glued on the screen (of HER laptop, by the way)...she was in disbelief, "So when I left this morning till now, you still haven't done anything besides that?! Your cup of coffee is just lying around!". Yup, she was right. I ate my breakfast on the bed while watching and the moment I finished munching, I just laid it anywhere where it woudn't block my view of the screen...


anyhoo, I finished the whole series that afternoon, with me not leaving the bed except for  a few inevitable breaks..

( I like Ueno Juri, I love her Nodame.. )



( And I come to like Eita... )

I still haven't finished Voice but since I got nothing else to do for the whole day,  I'll watch just it on my bed. I just had my lunch, so there wouldn't be any plates left lying around...

 In a few minutes, my birthday's about to end, with a STORM coming to the city...


(well, it's Bagyong Emong, tsk!)

wouldn't complain if it's 嵐。。。

what a cold night to end my celebration...at least it's gonna be a good night sleep...


cheers to a new year ahead...

WISH? to stop aging like nino...

or better yet, reverse aging like ohno...that would be cool...



Konaiba, minna...

 I just got up this morning and suddenly had the rush of wanting to listen again to F4's music...Now I'm DLing songs that I remember, though I'm having a hard time recognizing the titles because they're in Chinese! But I think I'm lucky, I just try to sing the lyrics from what I remember then try to match my syllables to the list...Note that when I was an F4 fan I memorized their lyrics without really knowing what they meant!

So far I've DLed abou 4 songs, first on my list is Jerry Yan's Xiang Yao Ai ni...

After a quite tiring end of semester plates, then just a week of rest, and now undergoing ojt (and in a week, is about to end), I am so excited to start my vacation...

but seems like everyone's starting to get busy again! it's just the start of may, right?

suddenly i realized that i won't be feeling much relaxed after the ojt..I mean I still have the paper to write, interview with co-workers and the boss...apparently vacation IS almost over huh. If i minus the days i would do these stuff, plus preparing for next school year's enrollment, my whole month would not be all about lazing around the house!

though i was looking forward to be a couch potato once again...

and just watch arashi videos all night long...they've been really piling up!


*just watched BOLT, very funny and cute..very touching, almost cried...if you have a dog, this movie is perfect...

My instinct was right. There WILL be a part 3 of my endless and very emotionally draining battle with technology...

Let's have a quick recap:
DANG IT! (Part 1): Drained all the songs in my iPod
DANG IT!! (Part 2): Wrecked my laptop's hard drive

and now...

( DANG IT!!! (Part 3) )

*wow! latest update about the state of my ipod HINT: there would be a PART 4 of these series so....anyhoo, will report it later....*

( Continuation of DANG IT!!! (Part 3) )


( DANG IT!!!! (Part 4) )

With my destructive hands of mine, which technological gadget will stand the test of time?! 　まずい　なあ、これ。。。

First of all, thank you to sableheart for providing the raws of the Kokuritsu concert...Watching even just the behind the scenes made me think more of Arashi...

It was just overwhelming, it made me see the hard work of these 5 guys and how serious they are with their work.  And if anyone would dare to belittle Arashi because they are idols, this video would make them think otherwise.

It's understandably a difficult job, what they have. Looking cool when in fact you're too damn tired from all the practices, day and night. When you have other jobs to attend to, but you still have to get up early to do recordings. When you're voiceless and can't seem to reach the right pitch just as when you need to. But in the end, because you owe it to the people who appreciates your work, you are able to keep that high level of energy. 

Seeing those tired, behind-the-scenes faces and comparing it to their genki characters we see on their tv shows is enough to see how intense they are towards their work. 

If there would be one word that would best describe these five, strongly-bonded idols, that would be:

PROFESSIONAL. And damn, they really are.

 Yey! My school year has just ended yesterday! And it t ended up pretty well, remember that thesis files I screwed up last time? Yeah. I made it on time! *Hurrah for me!*

Anyhoo, I have a week of relaxation ahead of me. For by next week, summer class is about to start. I still don't have a company to work for (for my OJT) so...oh. Umm, okay. I still have to worry about that.  Apparently I have something to do this week..It's not a full week of relaxation after all...Man.

 After my all-songs-in-ipod-were-deleted incident (please refer to the previous entry entitled DANG IT!  which from now on, to be referred to as Part 1, for after this, there may be other happenings to follow), my power to freeze the great performance of a technological gadget were taken to a higher level...


I wrecked my laptop's hard drive.

3 days before my defense for my design thesis.

with no back-up files whatsoever in my flash drive and external HD.

think about the irony! I got lots of disk space to spare but i didn't even think of making back-ups...

now i had to start all over again. hope to make it on time for saturday.

i actually thought the most important thing in that hd are my thesis files, thinking that i don't have the energy to start again from scratch...but as I was told by my brother to take note the programs I would need to install again, that the pictures in the Photo booth are gone (those were the hilarious, treasured ones!!!)and when I realized that there were family pictures that only I have, damn! If there is a good strike of luck, I would rather lose the thesis files and redo all over again than lose the others. (But if there would be that strike of good luck, I'd wish that nothing is lost. Yah. I wish.)

Oh well, crazy me. I still don't understand what really happened but I am pretty sure and I admit, that it was my fault.

(Plus there's no one else to blame. I was alone with my laptop when that happened)


Anyhoo, two straight days of staring at the glare of a monitor wouldn't be that hard, right?

Right?

oh yeah, it's april fool's day, did that anything had to do with what happened? What a sly laptop! Okay, you win. Now I'm scared.


~~making straight lines, curves, planes, color it..Ctrl+S...Save as--to 2 flash drives...making straight lines, curves, planes, color it..Ctrl+S...Save as--to 2 flash drives...~~

 Well, for some, this is not a big deal though, people may have been listening to aiba-chan's recomen all along...

anyhoo, my euphoria for figuring this all out won't go down just because of that!

i was trying to figure out how to listen online with the help of winkychan  (thank you again!) for almost an hour!!! i was rushing up because recomen was next...i tried all my media players, but still i cannot hear anything...i was getting more desperate...till 11:00 came (local time)...and still nothing...

just then...i was leaning so much towards my laptop, trying to detect even a hint of radio, nothing..then i looked up, and saw....

VLC Volume: 0

Great. So it was playing all along, i was just kept closing the program everytime i was not able to hear a thing...

I hurriedly turned the volume up and then I heard it: the last notes of Believe....

I think i clicked another station because i was hearing another set of voices (if simultaneous playing is possible, i don't know) so i did what a beginner would initially do...close all applications and start all over again...and then...


AIBA-CHAN's voice!

can't help but smile...by myself...a bit creepy i know, but still...right?

till next week, recomen, here i come!...