Wednesday 29 December 2010

OH MY GOSH!! YES!!

So today, after a very torturing wait of a few months, the letter dropped through our mailbox: "You can pick up your goods at customs". So after finishing with the live streaming of Nana, I am sure you can guess where I eagerly made my way. >:D

It was rather funny at the till at customs, as I was standing there focusing on resisting grabbing the envelope and running away screaming of joy, the lady working there asked what's in the bag (Haha It's in the bag) and my dad replied "Concert discs, my daughter's into Japanese music". The lady then exclaimed "She should start learning Japanese then!" That snapped me out of my little Nana bubble and me and my dad, both at the same time, declared that I can already speak Japanese. The lady then was rather impressed and said: "You should go to Tokyo next then. You can make all the Japanese stand in awe when a pale blonde girl like you just starts talking away in Japanese!" So even the customs official thinks I need to go to Tokyo... I can wholly agree!

Tuesday 28 December 2010

Top 10 Obsessions

So of course right after I say that I'll do a top 10 list each week, things come up that make me a couple of weeks late. Thank you Heathrow and Christmas. :P But yes, now I am back on track! Hopefully..

So yeah, I decided I'd do a suggested list every other week and in between do one of my own. So, this week's list has been suggested by Chris, and the topic is obsessions. Basically things that make me go like this: 

Hiiiiiigh tension!
And like this:

Hauuu, omochikaeriiiii~!

So yeah, behold - the list!

Friday 24 December 2010

Christmas nearly cancelled.

So... I just spent a lovely few days being stuck in London. I mean, I definitely had nothing better to do this near Christmas or anything so thank you for that Heathrow. Saturday was like straight from a nightmare - everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. It was quite a battle already getting from Worcester to Heathrow with the taxis not operating and trains being delayed horribly and terminating ages before their actual final stop and then we got there just to be told that our flights were cancelled. It was all even more downhill from there... But I'm not writing this post to complain about it, I'm writing it to...

Thursday 16 December 2010

Animal City.

Well I am aware that I have done this quite many times already, but I haven't done it on here so ha! Plus, I'm running on such a short attention span yet again today that I could not write anything deep and meaningful today in any case.... so here goes!

RULES:
Put iTunes/media player/iPod/mp3 on shuffle.
For each question post the song name as the answer.
Don't skip any songs, no matter how stupid the answer seems.
Tag friends, including the person who tagged you,, when you've finished

Wednesday 15 December 2010

Naked Feels.

I am sorry, but I will have to disappoint you and tell you that I will not actually be talking about literal naked feels I have experienced. Instead the focus of this entry is about one of Nana's songs called Naked Feels.

So yeah, what's the first thing that comes to mind from a title such as Naked Feels? Yeah, I'm sure you thought the same as me, and if not, I take my hat off to you. It took me a while to actually focus on what the song was about - I mean, I always did register that it was a very beautiful and lovely song, but I couldn't help but to chuckle at the title and it took most of my attention. That aside, it is really obvious that what the Naked Feels actually means is bare pure feelings/emotions, which she has trouble expressing as she can't find the words. Awh. So yeah, really lovely song:





Now excuse me while I go have some Naked Feels with Nana-chan.



And with that I meant I am going to go watch her concert - you pervs!


Or did I? Dun dun duun.

Tuesday 14 December 2010

狐と狼 Tribute AMV - Goodbye

Enjoy~



Remember [This]? Well this AMV was what I was referring to over there. Why? Well purely for the fact that I have been working on the background images since last summer and that was the day I finally was done with them all and was able to move on to the actual video editing phase.

Sunday 12 December 2010

Distraction!


Don't you wish you were the World now? I know I do. Now let's imagine Nana could actually do that (I mean of course she can, but the "imagine" part is there for the people who aren't aware of her powers) - what would you do? I know I'd make my way to the roof of the tallest building nearby and fervently wish that the country I am in will be at the point of impact. Judging by where she's kissing the globe on that picture though, she won't be anywhere near to where I am. :/ Chris might have a chance, since Nana seems to be very near if not smack bang on the United States of America. Damn you Chris! *shakes fist* Oh but I guess she's more toward South America actually.. Oh well. :P *stops shaking fist*

Anyway, isn't it fun how similar the text on her shirt is to the Fazer logo (Finnish chocolate brand nom nom)? Her shirt actually says Frozen, but you gotta admit - it really is similar!

As you can see I am really trying to distract myself by whatever random thing I can just so I wouldn't have to work on this silly assignment... but now that I got this blog post out of the way I have no choice but to return to the report once again.... sigh.

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Top 10 Drinks

Okay so, I came up with this fun idea of doing a Top 10 list of something each week. So if you have any suggestions or desires on what I should make a list of, feel free to tell me and I'll probably get around to it eventually (well depends on what you suggest).

Also just to be clear, this has nothing to do with the previous blog post - you will eventually find out what that was about! Maybe. Hah.

Anyway, first list...

Thursday 2 December 2010

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st

The moment I have waited for a long time finally arrived today! I've so been itching to get my hands on the new Nanoha movie for a while now that towards the end of the long wait I was gonna cross the border to insanity and when I did finally get the movie, I looked like this:
He he, or maybe not... Oubaa reakushon desu nee?
Anyway, to the actual movie!

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st

Don't stand in my way, fool!
First off I will start with a warning - whatever you do, do NOT piss off 9-year-old girls! They are surprisingly powerful and will kick your ass to the next galaxy with their magical canes and probably fry you in the process. You have been warned.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Palace & Main - Translation


Araito! First lyric translation coming up. The fun thing is though, that it's neither a Finnish song nor a Japanese song - It's Swedish! Yeah, remember how I said about never complying with what I say in my introductory posts...? Yeah.

Anyway, to the point. Kent's Palace & Main as requested by a friend. Maija, if you happen to read this I hope you can approve of my translation, being the Swedish (and Kent) guru that you are. :)

Monday 29 November 2010

Epic find!

I came across probably the most epic thing ever today - videos of the smile-gang! I already thought the audio clips from them were hilarious, but these videos were totally nuts! I love them to bits and spent most of my day in their pleasurable company. I don't think I've ever laughed this much when I've just been sitting alone in my room. So even though I didn't get much done yet again today (I did get something done though, already better than yesterday haha), it was totally worth it since now I just feel extremely happy. The smile-gang is definitely called that for a reason!

For those of you who wanna see those videos as well - I could've shared them on here, but since I would rather watch them with you when you do, I won't. Let's have fun times with the smile-gang together, yes?! :)

Sunday 28 November 2010

RJ transforming into....

Well I didn't really get as much done today as I had hoped - in fact I didn't get anything done whoopie doo daa dei. But! At least I did get to go into English Teacher -mode.

This week I've been helping my friend with some fansubbing. Usually I just go through the lines alone, but today I did it together with him and that is what triggered my English Teacher -mode. That basically means that whenever I suggest a correction I have to go into a lengthy explanation of why, whether it is because of a certain grammar rule or because of even such a small thing as intonation. Ah, such enthusiasm.... I swear I looked like this when I was going on and on about the finesses of the English language:


Saturday 27 November 2010

Michael Jackson: The Experience

Okay, I'm going to keep this rather short as my eyes are about to pop out of my head as a result of over-usage.. 

I was going to write about something really random today, but alas, the game store had other plans for me. I was walking through town minding my own business, when I happened to pass the game store and it dared to lure me in by having a large stand full of Michael Jackson: The Experience right at at the entrance. There are just some things one can't resist, not even when virtually broke. So in I marched and without hesitation bought myself a copy.

I have to admit I wasn't expecting much out of this even though the idea seemed fun, but man did it rock! Playing it was just so much fun. Okay sure, the dances could never be as complex and great as what MJ really did, but they've done a good job of combining signature moves with some simple ones in between. It can also be counted as proper exercise - man we were sweating buckets!

I totally loved the difficulty level system (easy -> medium -> hard -> inhuman), though they should still add the ultimate level called MJ! Anyway - the curious thing about the levels was that I got my best result when I was playing on inhuman. Guess that just proves that I am..... not human?

Fun fact: Since our living room is rather small and the only free floor space is in front of the video projector, we played the game while standing on the sofa and armchairs. The sight was rather hilarious, but I guess it was all a plus since it gave us a chance to train our balance.

The verdict: Thriller had the best dance, definitely.

Now - Good night!

Friday 26 November 2010

Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol.2

This morning I was about to make toast in a half-asleep state of mind, when suddenly I felt like a toast myself - jumping out of my skin when someone knocked on the front door. My new Hikki album had arrived.

Single Collection Vol.2 is mainly just a collection of her singles (gasp, I bet you couldn't have guessed that yourself) with some added new material. Words aren't really capable of describing how amazing this album is, Hikki always seems to be topping herself with whatever she decides to do and has never brought me even slight disappointment. I'll look at some songs in detail here.

Thursday 25 November 2010

第61回NHK紅白歌合戦

I am so happy that Nana made it into this annual Japanese music show, Kōhaku Uta Gassen, that's shown on every New Year's Eve again this year! Last year was her first year on the show and she got picked again - how great is that? I can't imagine how happy she must be right now (She wrote in her blog that it came as a complete surprise to her and she cried of joy, aww <3). Also: Nana + celebration cake! :D

Admittedly I didn't even know such a show existed until today when I read this:

The concept seems quite interesting - two teams, Red Team and White Team, made up of popular Japanese artists go head to head in a song contest. I shall later on be educating myself by watching last year's show (since Nana was on it, how could I not watch it?) and then I can probably explain in more detail the flow of things. From what I've read today already though it does seem like a very fun idea.

Anyways, I hope Nana's team wins this year! :)

Hello World!

Well for some reason, every time I invade a new place like this, I have to explain what I am aiming to do there. Guess it gives me a sense of purpose. Mind you though, what I say I will use this for will probably not be all that accurate - like for example, when I joined DeviantArt and did a post like this... Alas! I have used it for nearly every other possible thing than what I said I would. Whoops. Anyway, here goes!

What I aim to write about here:
  • Pure randomness
  • Explain the deep ideas behind my AMVs (Every time I release a new one)
  • Translate lyrics, Finnish -> English mainly right now, hopefully Japanese -> English eventually
  • Obsessions - obsessions are important!
  • Myself and the crazy happenings of my life

And that's all I can think of now. I think I have pretty much all bases covered with "pure randomness" anyway (unless for some reason the randomness I write is impure? Hmm..). Oh yes, lyric translation requests are more than welcome!

But yes! I look forward to some great times with whoever decides to read this. :)