Mou~ recently I've learned something new: the process of getting addicted to Arashi's music is surprisingly simple and fast-paced. Say there's this certain Arashi song, the 1st time I listen to it, it was okay, nothing too special. Then I listen to it twice more, and suddenly feel that its melody sounds great, and so somehow start to like it a little. Playing once more, I realize that the lyric is uber meaningful (bless me and my crappy Japanese, it takes four times of listening for me to understand the lyric, ZOMG). This lyrical discovery makes me fall head over heels for the song, completely. And so starts the period when I'm so addicted to the song I can't live without playing it 5 times a day at minimum...

*sigh* For some reason the other day I suddenly came to the violent realization that these days Nino's voice is to me what drugs is to junkies (T__T) I totally do not want to be addicted *wail*

I need $49.87 to buy the All the BEST! CLIPS DVD. Who agrees I should go rob a bank? Isn't it one heck of a frustration seeing, in less than a week, more than 400,000 people already own it while all you can do is staring blankly at the booklet scans? On the other hand though, considering the DVD is that much of a best-seller, maybe Arashi will forgive me for being stingy and unethical and not showing them my full support? Being a fangirl is harsh, being a broke fangirl is even harsher - these words of wisdom are copyright 2009 X Monster.

That complained, I'll post here today my latest Arashi-related addiction *sigh*

LIFE　
Artist: Arashi
Track no.: 13
Album: Time
Lyrics: Miura Tomokazu
Rap Lyrics: Sakurai Shou
Music: Ohno Kazunari (can't help laughing so damn hard every time I see this name. Ah, in case you don't know, this person co-wrote the lyric for Jin's "care")

The song

( The lyrics )

Okay, I'll now get back to the DUET translation... I'm currently stuck with trying to blow some sense into Koki's words *sigh* Really, would anyone be interested in this interview anyway? The noteworthy fashion items BEST 3 - The words that make you happy BEST 3 - Girls’ behaviors that completely attract you BEST 3 - The things that make you smile whenever you see them BEST 3 - The points about yourself that you are proud of BEST 3 - Your all time favorite places BEST 3. It's just KAT-TUN giving random, completely random answers to these questions. Who cares if the thing that makes Jin proud is his liver ROFL

A request from tenten1104.
Wow, don't you guys agree that I'm much more efficient at fulfilling translation request compared to graphic request? LOL The last graphic request took me, what, 1 month?

I DON’T MISS U 　
Artist: Tanaka Koki
Lyrics: Axel-G (I kinda want to kill this guy for his crappy English, every time...)
from Shounen Club Premium 2008/12/28

( The lyrics )

Somehow made it in time for November 3rd XD XD XD Omedetou, Arashi no minna san!

The second part of the Seventeen article. I suggest you read part 1 first, or you risk being partly or totally confused by what the guys discussed.

Btw, the emphasis is not added by me, it's from the article. The red lines, as you will see, are from the interviewer.

Warning: Arashi will crack you up badly.

( The talk )

( Messages from Arashi to the readers )

Formatting this entry is about as time-consuming as translating the article *sigh*
Please ignore my comments if you find them annoying - which I bet you will LOL
The members' talk will come up later

Enjoy Seventeen's readers' unique & weird ideas

Celebrating this year’s November the 3rd! Using the occasion of Arashi’s 10th year, we carried out an urgent survey among 100 people. Please carefully consider our collection of everyone’s voices, then go on to Arashi’s super long conference, relayed right from the spot~!

To the 5 people that we love the most ~~~♥♥♥

We asked 100 female high school students ★

Do you know Arashi?
YES 100%

This year is Arashi’s 10 year anniversary since their CD debut!
( By the way, 10 years ago, how old were you? )

( What is the image you have about Arashi? )

( The song you like the most is? )

( Arashi’s charm is? )

( If you go on a date with a member of Arashi, where would you want to go? )

( The Arashi song that you want to listen to when you’re feeling down is? )

( The song that you want to listen to when you’re in love is? )

( The song that is popular at karaoke is? )

( The fashionable person is? )

( The person who is likely to live a long life is? )

( If you could become an Arashi member for one day, who would it be? )

( The sexy person is? )

( The one who seems to be a closet pervert is? )

( The person you would want as your boyfriend? )

( The different good points of each member are? )

( How did you get to know Arashi? )

( What expectation do you have for Arashi from now on? )

( Criticism full of love for Arashi! )

( If the Arashi members are a family? )

Everyone, shall we try to answer these questions with our own opinions?

Last week in the Vietnamese Society in Transition class, we studied about the experience of exclusion (<- this is an alternative to the word "poor" - to indicate that people are not only disadvantaged in the economic sense, but also in the view that they're not allowed/not able to fully participate in the society/the development of the society where they live. If you're by any chance interested in a less ambiguous explanation, I suggest you read my textbook - Southeast Asia: the human landscape of modernization and development by Jonathan Rigg). And then, surprisingly, our homework was to interview one of these excluded individuals and try to find the answers to some certain questions:

1. In what ways do they experience exclusion?
2. In what ways do they experience inclusion?
3. Do they want some different "development" or just a different path to the same development?
4. What sort of government policy/program might increase their inclusion?
5. What sort of community/NGO policy/program might increase their inclusion?

( Some first reflections )

(to be continued [when I'm somewhat less sleepy... waking up at 5am and going one straight full day without any sleep is too much, gomen])