No clue how this happened... but I bought a MacBook today.  The Sony VAIO that I wanted had been discontinued and the guy that I had been talking to convinced me that a Mac would be much better.  

And THEN, the guy turned out to be one of my mom's former students.  THAT, people, is how small this island is.

It's pretty and white and basically a blank canvas for me to make mine.

QUESTION!  How many of you guys have Macs?

I love Dori's voice okay? So I was feeling all 'kyaaa~' in the beginning already when he was reading the health warnings about being too close to screen etc, even though you couldn't even see him yet XD

But yeah, many scaps again! First there was the billiards game of death, then after some talk birthday dokkiri for Dori, and then some more games with MAJOR failing, and to end it with an EPIC HUG between KenKen and Dori!!! XD <3



Damn that smile <3 Btw speaking of Dori's smile, didn't he mention before how he's bad at smiling with his teeth showing, but when he's with Shogo it just comes natural because Shogo is so cute <3 <3

( Scap spam of the prettiness!! )

PS. Completely unrelated but... Should I get the HSJ winter con penlight? Because I finally found a picture of it from the auctions, and it's so similar with the spring/summer con one... >>; Like THIS is my spring/summer con penlight, and THIS is the new winter con one. It's the same, but the colors are just in different order. And the little logo is different I think (it's such a small picture...) I know I want to get all the HSJ penlights, but with such a small difference... I don't know if there's any point there XP So maybe I should ask Kira to save the money to Kakumei goods instead... *ponders* Then again that IS one of my favorite penlights, so having another one that's a little different would be okay maybe... PLUS IT STILL HAS YA-YA-YAH COLORS!!!! So that's more reason to get the other one too... XD; But...

Okay so I haven't managed to do the other January mags translations for Mis Snow Man yet >.< Sorry, I'll try to get to those at some point if I just have the time, but for now I just did something little because it's 30th in Japan right now, meaning it's Nozawa's birthday!! =D So I decided to translate Nozawa's first appearance in Potato <3 ...And since it was quite short, I also translated Sanada's first appearance that of course was a bit earlier. (Nya, Nozawa's was easier to translate... ^^;) Revolving quite a bit around their drama/movie appearances... But yeah, here you go~

Potato 2005.12

Johnny’s Jr: Sanada Yuma
introduction



In the drama that is currently being broadcasted, “1 littre of tears”, showing the fresh acting skills in the role of the younger brother of the heroin, Sanada Yuma-kun who joined the juniors last year. Everyone certainly pay attention to him!

( Sanada's appearance )

Then the birthday boy!! =D

Potato 2006.02

Johnny’s Jr: Nozawa Yuki
Doki doki



In the movie starred by Miyake Ken-kun of V6, “Oyayubi Sagashi”, playing the childhood version of Ken-kun’s character is Nozawa-kun who only joined Juniors in 2005. This year he also seems to be taking an active part with a lot of spirit.

( Nozawa's appearance )

I really need to try going to sleep earlier... I wake up way too late!! XD; Sure, I don't have school for a little while still, but I don't know yet if I have work next week and then I'd have to wake up really early so need to get my inner clock back in order ^^;

My mags came today! One reason to drag myself from the bed before 11am... Although I think I still stayed in bed like an hour after they came because I was so dead XD; Um, I wasn't all the excited about the mags anyway, since from JE stuff it's only Myojo and Popolo and since neither has MSM *angry glare* and Kisumai only got concert pages, so there wasn't too much interesting... BUT the one I was very interested to see... KAMEN RIDER W CHARACTER BOOK!!! =D Yes, I ordered it, and am VERY happy I bought it because OMG AWESOME!!! <3 <3 (And also got Cast Prix...)



( Pictures and ranting this way! )

...Let's just have one last look of the "Heat" GaiaMemory version of Philip shall we?



Aah, seriously this kid... <3 Damn the year 1993!!! Although really, Masaki IS at least older than Hasshi or Yamada etc, since he's born in February already, but couple months doesn't really make a difference XD;

Anyway, I'll watch the Cast Prix DVD in a bit so will post pics of it then again!! (Although dunno if anyone else but zeya actually cares about that XD;)

So, today was the Johnny's fans meetup! I kind of showed up late, but at least, it didn't seem like I missed too much? XD; We played Intro Don! somewhat, but it was mainly Arashi and NewS songs, lol because of the people who offered their music players. I got quite a few, but if the songs were more spread out group wise, I could have gotten more! //whacked// I don't know Arashi B-sides or album-only songs well enough. =v=;; Know some, but not all. Then, for those who brought a present for Secret Santa (I didn't because I forgot), they played Johnnys Bingo! I was the one who did the calling out. //nods// Again, people, the limit was $10! I swear some of those presents were NOT under $10! XDD;;

After that (because the bingo took quite some time and some people almost got a full card before getting a line, lol), we headed straight to karaoke. The people there were very nice and we actually got 2 and a half hours for only the price of one hour! Paying below $6 for that amount of karaoke is awesome. Which actually meant I had enough in my wallet beforehand for karaoke and didn't have to put in extra money, but oh well, lol. Less coins to carry.

Sang quite a few songs, but again, quite a few NewS and Arashi songs. Lol. ...did we even sing any KAT-TUN songs other than Signal? o.o'' And like, Seishun Amigo doesn't count. Ooh, wait Kizuna, but it got stopped so we never really sang it. You people need to sing some more senpai songs! //whacked// Ooh, but I did sing way of life though! <3 I totally need to go to karaoke once where I can sing all the songs I want to sing that are not Johnnys because I do know a lot that I can sing! But again, singing in a small group at those rates aren't very fun. =( My wallet. ;~; And like, Johnny, go debut KisuMai so I can sing their songs at karaoke!

And like, there were a lot of sneaky photos, and you know, I completely forgot that I brought my camera so I could have taken some photos as well, but oh well. It's good. No one has to see my stupid old school digital camera. I seriously wonder when we'll actually spend money on a digital camera instead of getting one second-hand.

...getting off topic. Anyways, meetup was fun! That's the basic point, lol. ...I uh, didn't actually manage to catch everyone's names and LJ user names, so if anyone added me after today and went to meetup, tell me? Otherwise, I wouldn't know...

...so, why is Hasshi appearing in BiDAN? The rest of Ebi should totally appear with him =| but noooo, he's alone. And like, Yamada on cover, pfft, whatever >>''

Title: How Not to Confess to Someone (Probably)
Author: Shattered Tenshi
Rating: R
Fandom: JE
Genre: PWP/Smut
Pairing: Yokoo Wataru x Nikaido Takashi
Warnings: //points at rating and genre// Plus, some fail humour.
Notes: As requested by sweetmilano90, though it might not follow your prompt completely.

( Yokoo grunted as he was pushed back against the wall, lips crushed against his own. )

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Um, a clear sign you're stressing too much over your MOD duties? When you dream about being late from something important because you just have to go through the communities and delete posts and mark them and so on... I do NOT want to use my precious sleeping time for that 8D; I think that was closest to a nightmare I've had since I was like 8-years-old 8D;

My body is hurting so much right now there are no words. Workout shall continue tomorrow, I can't do anything right now, so I think I'll try finishing arranging files today... Or write. Because actually I got really inspired to write my old NabeSho x Fukka fic last night, so might just do that.

And speaking of fics, Camilla and I are writing our TakaHasshi again XD THANK THE HEAVENS FOR GLORIOUS TAKAHASSHI MOMENT DURING JE SPORTS DAY!!! <3 <3 I think TakaHasshi love love moments are something so special we only get them once a year now? XD I don't complain, with how inspired Camilla got from that <3 ...Or okay fine, same for me! I actually ended up having to add a little something to the earlier chapter. I still have to edit it too, but I was actually crying when writing this bit just now...

"Even though they weren’t in the same group anymore, it wasn’t like it was the end of something. Or actually, it was the end of something very important, but not something they shouldn’t get past too. But Hasshi had simply gotten so used to it, having Takaki always with him… So even though Hasshi did get to appear more when it was without J.J.Express, even though he tried his best to put up a smiling face in front of everyone, and especially on stage, it wasn’t as much fun without Takaki, and most of all he was scared. Then when he was suddenly put into the same group with A.B.C. at the end of previous summer, as unbelievable chance it was, and while Hasshi was really happy to get to chance to improve himself with his sempais, Hasshi had been so nervous he was sure he wouldn’t live through the new group announcement. Even though Hasshi maybe wasn’t the smartest of the boys, he knew the chances of being truly hated by A.B.C. fans by ‘breaking’ the group was really high, and being disliked by others was what Hasshi hated the most! So when they were supposed to introduce the new group at SUMMARY, Hasshi was sure he couldn’t do it. But then, out of nowhere Takaki had simply stepped next to him like it was the most normal thing to do even after not being in the same group anymore, giving Hasshi his own microphone without a word. Hasshi had been at a loss of words again, but now it wasn’t from feeling scared anymore, but just from how much he loved Takaki. It was probably that moment exactly from which on Hasshi no longer felt quite as bad about not being in the same group anymore, because he knew Takaki would be there for him, no matter if they were in different groups or anything else for that matter."

Because reality is so much better than fiction could ever be, okay? XD

Um, but yeah, I think I'll do some file sorting now, and then continue with the fics later... Or well TakaHasshi goes past anything else so depending on when Camilla has the time to write XDDDD

Mh, I think I should be making a post about Niagara Falls, but I don't feel like it, and honestly, it wasn't that interesting? And like, as usual, 95% of the time I was in the car, I was sleeping.

Anyways, I'll try to write about it briefly within the next few days and upload a few photos, I guess.

Tomorrow is Johnnys fangirl meetup! I have to remember to bring cash because I only have $6 in my wallet, and that's definitely not enough for karaoke.

Oh, and I went into the casino for the first time in my life today. XD

Kis-My-Ft2
Congratulations on finishing all 31 shows of your national concert tour!!!
Otsukaresamadeshita!!!

Because like, obviously that's the most important post I have to make after coming back from Niagara Falls.

I'm not reading about any epic annoucements, so I guess we have to wait a little longer for what we've been hoping for, but hopefully not too much longer! ><

Anyways, last show was at Nagoya, so Senga's family (because Senga is our Nagoya boy) gave KisuMai a few things (sashiire, but I don't have a good English term for this)! Chicken wings, hitsumabushi, green tea pasta and a cake with KisuMai's picture on it! XD

Hitsumabushi is basically unagi/eel rice, but the way it's eaten is what makes it Nagoya-style. It's grilled eel chopped up in bits, placed on top of rice and you get to eat it a few ways! Separated the rice into four sections. The first section you would eat it just like that, then the second section, put some condiments/spices like spring onions, wasabi, mitsuba, etc on it and eat like that. The third section, you would eat it by pouring tea/soup depending on the restaurant and eat it ochazuke style! The fourth section, you get to choose your favourite way among the first three and eat that way. ...the things I learn from watching Japanese variety shows. XDD;;

And like, Taisuke grabbing Hiro's hood and pulling him towards himself!? XDDDDDDDDDD

The pieces of heart paper that fell for the concert actually says final on it and stuff, and I want one for myself. >>''

Anyways, will leave this as is. Leaving in an hour for dinner.

Please ignore this, will edit later.
But in the meantime you can leave comments here if you want to add me.

Damn my muscles are hurting... Even though I had a short workout yesterday too, I guess 2h was a bit long for today, seeing how I haven't had any time for workouts otherwise for a long time X3 But workout makes me feel like not wanting to eat any sweets that are still around so for that I'll happily deal with it XD

Some random pics again, because snow at night + lights are pretty <3 This one is from yesterday when we were coming back from my grandparents' place (my younger sisters are there walking ahead of us X3)



And this is our house <3 Mom is very strict about what shade of color lights she wants there, and how they're put up and so on, so it's very pretty <3 There's some other lights near the play house, but you can't see that from this angle...



PS. I ended up staying up past 1am last night because MegaTen had 3xEXP/SP and NDP (no death penalty) XD; Oh well, I got my Demon Buster license~ I doubt I'll be playing much anytime soon again ^^; *goes to find something light to eat and then continues arranging comp stuff*