Reports from the Hovel

Hello everyone.  This is a very important post so please pay attention.  

About a week ago my mother informed me that my favorite little ninja of 10yrs old was diagnosed with leukemia.   In response to this I went into action.  I started setting up facebook groups and sending emails for hlping to raise money for the hospital bills and for gas money for his guardians as the hospital is an hour and half away from where they live.  This family has been going through so much already even before Justin's diagnosis so I ask that we all help them out and donate.   I have set them up a paypal account specifically for this purpose.  If you just send the donation through paypal to;

starlight.twinkle@gmail.com

That would be much obliged and appreciated.    You may also send Justin a cheer card through this website: 

http://www.thechildrenshospital.org/visit/gifts/CheerCards.aspx

Just send the card to Justin Campbell and it will be delivered directly to his room at no cost. 

To hear updates and information about Justin's progress you can join the facebook group:   Help Save A Ninja Foundation.  It's open to anyone and we appreciate receiving the well wishes for Justin's recovery.  Thank you all so much for your care.  

Also if you happen to live in Colorado, and have or know someone with O negative blood, please think of donating the blood to Justin as that is the type he needs. 


Again thank you all so much!

So they're dangerous.  I never thought an inanimate object could be so dangerous.  So every hour on the hour we did the maypole dance for the Pagan Alliance Mayday thing and we were in the process of unweaving it in order to do the dance again.  However...during this unweaving process I decided to be a gigantic klutz and trip on the crack on the sidewalk and sprain my ankle.  Not only did this slightly hurt (it actually doesn't hurt all that bad) but somehow from hurting my ankle my ears decided to stop working, i got dizzy and felt like I was going to vomit.  Then I turned into a newt.

I got better.


Just an FYI on this one ladies and gents, dorks, geeks, and nerds alike.  

Maypoles are dangerous. 

Things are not going at all well for Japan Night.   First we get denied the samurai armor for the show, then we're not selling many tickets, now Aikido is not even going to show up for their performance.  WTF?!?!?!  They made a flippin' commitment to this and now they're not going to show.  Easter isn't until Sunday, go home then!   I'm so pissed off right now with everything and I feel like I'm the only one doing anything.  No one gives a crap about this except for me.  I know that sounds selfish, but I see no one around me doing anything to improve the situation. 


But to anyone who live in Minnesota, feel free to come to Japan Night, you can win a gold fish and free gift certificates to restaurants.  Sorry you won't get to see Aikido as promised but there is other stuff that should be equally entertaining if people suck a little less.

Tickets are $3.50 with an SCSU ID and $5 without.  it's at 6pm in the Atwood Ballroom this Saturday.   Please come.

Steven Page has left BNL.

Oh my god.

www.9news.com/life/entertainment/article.aspx

Well, another year has gone by and my appendix has been out of me for six years now!    Six years ago today at very early in the morning my appendix tried to kill me by bursting inside of me.   Now, many people know of appendicitis but I have to tell you I did not have that.  Appendicitis is just when the appendix is infected, that I had a week before it burst, after it burst it is not longer appendicitis but is referred to as "HOLY DOIFJORUFNSDOIDJKFSDOILKJMS MY APPENDIX BURST AND IS GOING TO KILL ME IF I DON'T GET TO THE HOSPITAL SOON!! 

This is true.  In fact, because my awesome mother who actually believed my pain unlike my father who thought I just wanted to get out of math, if I had arrived two minutes later at the hospital I would have died the doctors told me.    Wonderful.  I'll just add another check mark on the list of ways I can get myself killed.  

In my family, I am known to get injuries and sicknesses, but lately that has been dying out of me and is being taken over by my elder sister, M.  But I have a feeling I'll be taking back that title any time now.  I'm due for a kidney stone or something.  

Anyways, in celebration of Happy Appendix Day I would like each and everyone on of you who reads this to go out, have a little fun, eat some French Silk Pie (as I shall be doing) and just have a great holiday.  

WARNING:   Those of you who still have appendixes may still be subject to bursting and near death experiences, if you have felt strange cramps on your right side lately when it's not that time of the month, go see your doctor to make sure you don't have appendicitis. 

Happy Appendix Day everyone!

This is a video I made that was actually requested that I make it on the youtube account. This is a montage about taking down my pictures when I was leaving Japan. The song is "friends" from the Binbo Danshi soundtrack. Anyways, laugh and cry with me.

Sorry for the longest wait in the history of me being really really late on this.  I have been soooooo busy with school, moving, changing rooms, people annoying me, and overall life.   So to make up for this I have done five, count them FIVE translations for you all of random artists in one of the many books.  I just want to translate all of these books and I'm getting there little by little.  So here we go.     First one's weird and depressing.  

( Suicide's Love Story Romaji )

( Suicide's Love Story English )

( Aoi Tori - Gospellers Romaji )
( Aoi Tori - English )

( Hanbunka - Onsoku Rain Romaji )

( Hanbunka - English )

( Fly - Jealkb Romaji )
 

( Fly - Jealkb English )

( Haru no yuki - KCO Romaji )

( Haru no Yuki - English )



There you are folks!
 

I'm currently putting up my mass of pictures in the time slot between classes and I have found a small dilemma.    One of the pictures I have has on one side, Nino and his guitar, on the other side is Sho looking fantastic with these large headphones around his neck.    

I do not know which side to display.  If I could hang it from my ceiling and have it rotating, that would be awesome but unfortunately impossible in this room.  

So I need your help to decide.     Nino and Sho both rotate frequently on my number 1 spot of a favorite Arashi member.   I have an equal amount of pictures of both of them on the walls currently.    One reason why I might put Nino is because in the slot where the picture was to go, there is another Sho picture only a foot away and a fan of Sho on the other side.  So it would just be this line of Sho...which may not be a bad thing.  

I await responses.

It's more like St. Cloud.   Tomorrow morning I'll be setting off hopefully at around 6AM and see how far I go without dying in a massive highway car crash.  I'm really really scared of doing this on my own.  I've always had my mum or my dad to switch off with but this time I'm all alone!  There's no one here beside meeeeeeeee!!!  Sorry, random breaking out into song moment.   *ahem*   So, yeah.  Really scared.  I hope no one decides to drive tomorrow.  That would be swell.   Could we send out that memo?   Thanks. 

So yeah.  I'm freakin' tired.  Hopefully I don't fall asleep at the wheel.  If I make it in one day then I'm heading to my Boppa and Mo's for a night and then I'll go up to St. Cloud.  Playing it by ear though, we'll see.  

Pray that I don't die!!

Just posting to let you know I have arrived at home safely with a very happy puppy to greet me.  I'll post more about my fun story of my flight later because I think it's funny.   But I'm soooooooo tired.  Still in Japan time.  

But yeah, alive.  Need food and need sleep.

I just heard that the Potter 6 movie has changed its release date from Nov. 21 to July 17, 2009.

This does not make me happy.

Bloodshed may follow. 

Hollywood FAILS.

Aniki requested that I upload the song "Popcorn" by Hot Butter to sendspace for everyone to download. So here you all go!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/iu111d

Ok. So I'm getting kind of annoyed with youtube.  I knew this stuff would happen when I created my accounts but I feel the need to speak about this because today for some reason it got under my skin.  Normally the comments about my size don't usually get to me because I'm fine with who I am and how large I am, I admit I'd like to lose weight but I don't have the willpower to keep it going for long periods of time.  If i ever was going to lose weight, I suspect I would need a buddy to do it with me just so they could keep me in check. 

Anyways this guy goes to about six of my videos and comments about how I am such a fat a** and many variances of the words.   Reason, those videos were about fast food in Japan.  Now here's what I don't get.   If a skinny girl posts a video about food they do not get any bad comments on their size.  However, when a larger person posts about food the fat comments start rolling in.   What the hell, people?   I understand that these people who do this stuff have no lives and probably are just as large as I am and just want to boost their own self-esteem.  However, do they realize that this kind of torment to people who do not have as strong of mindset tend to go out on a killing spree?    I would really like the bullies of the world to know that out of many cases of school shootings or random killings, the reasons are because that person was bullied.  Now I'm not saying that is a good solution, those people who do that were weak and didn't know how to let the comments go, but they need to know that there are such people who can't handle these kinds of attacks.  It's also one of the many reason people kill themselves.   So I hope the bullies finally grow up and stop the stupid comments and think about the effects it will have on people. 

Sorry for the rant but I didn't like starting my day with these messages in my inbox. 

Otherwise I'm fine and dandy, passed pretty nicely on one of my finals today and rewrote some of an old story. Go me!

So I was searching for pictures of large bugs in Japan to try and find out what this really huge bug I found is called, and what did I find instead? 

So I have to write this essay about how I felt about my experience in Japan for my scholarship and I thought I would share it with all of you.  I have to write it in Japanese but this is the English version of my sappy thoughts on being here. This is probably the most emotional and sappy thing I have ever written for myself so take a look if you'd like.  It's a bit long but I think the people who read it here might be a little moved by it...because that's the kind of people they are.  After this I don't have any more essays to write!!!!!  WOOHOO! Then it's just two more finals and I am done with my another year of school!  YES!!!

Anyways, here's the essay.

 

So Japan got hit again. Well we always get hit with earthquakes, we're known for it.  Apparently on average we get about 10 little ones a day.  However, for the past four days or so I have been feeling those little ones, my windchime and hanging closet also agree as I check them to make sure it's not my imagination.  I had been telling that to my mum the other day and she thought that the earth was just settling from the last one but I said that I thought it was building up...I was right. 

It wasn't as big as the last one, the last one was a 7.2, this one was a 6.8 in the Aomori are I think, Sendai got it and Morioka did as well and when it got to Akita it was about a 4 on the Japanese scale.  So it was roughly the same feel as the last one and I even filmed, the video will be up later this week.  It did last pretty long though and the boys next door were more frightened than I was.  I think I've gotten used to the earthquakes now.  

Yeah so that was fun.  Why do they always hit when I'm trying to sleep?  I had just gotten to sleep when it it and the last time was when I wanted to sleep in.   The earth does not want me to sleep. 

But yeah...earthquakes...FUN.

Which member of Arashi are you most compatible with? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Sakurai Sho You're most compatible with Sho! You have a good head on your shoulders and have a broad outlook on life. Sho seems to prefer someone who is able to perceive the world and take it in stride - with him, you get a traveling companion. Results based on a 2006 translated interview about ideal marriages - therefore, you may want to take everything with a grain of salt. ;) Sakurai Sho 85% Ohno Satoshi 78% Matsumoto Jun 75% Ninomiya Kazunari 70% Aiba Masaki 70%

It's been a while since I've even posted on lj, sorry for that people but here's a new song translation in celebration of finishing another project for D-Royal!  This is ET-King's "Sayonara Mata na"









Sorry it took so long for one but there you go! More to come soon!...maybe

Ok...so I had my concert, but I don't really feel like writing about that. I will only say a couple things about it and that is, my voice really hurt while doing it, the cd wouldn't play "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" but otherwise it went very well and pictures can be seen her: http://www.rnac.ne.jp/~kodama54/today_new.htm

A brief video of it all will be up soon when I get the motivation.

But in other news I was very productive today without being productive.

Meaning I did not do any school work but I completely finished translating my project for D-Royal fansubs (I just need to type it up and send it) and I finished making my first ever AMV. The AMV is set to Ouran High School Host Club and to the song "All For The Best" from Godspell. Because I am a nerd. I'm really proud of it and it took a lot of time to do, it's not perfect, but it's good enough for me. Enjoy!




In other news, I should probably do some homework or something but maybe I'll just go to bed as the people are coming to get rid of the last of my mold on my ceiling tomorrow morning and are kicking me out of my room during that time. So yeah. I think I'll go to bed.

Sorry about this, I completely forgot that I had done this translation a while back so I'm posting it now.  This is Yamazaki Masayoshi's "Mayonaka no Boon Boon"  Enjoy.

Mayonaka no Boon Boon - Yamazaki Masayoshi

yami wo koete kimi ni todoite
yoake made ni ma ni aeba ii
aru teido no koto nara
hito toori konashitekita
sebiro no shiwa no kazu dake
atama mo sagete kita
aokusai yume ni bura sagaru karada ha
isasaka WAIT OVER kimi
konya mo mada nemurenai no sa

*Boon boon yami no naka de
Furikire BAT
koe ni naranai
omoi wo nosete

Junbuu manpan ni umaku
ikanaikeredo
tesaguri demo ashitate susume

**Boon Boon
yami wo koete kimi ni todoite
BIRU no tanima no tsuki wo mezase

hanate mote hayasareta
jidai ha tou ni sugite
kawarenai shoubun de
tasogare ni tachi tsukusu
jyouzu ni hito wo dashi nukeru doukyou mo
kiyou samo nai kedo
sono mama ja  owarenai no sa

*repeat

Toubun tedetae nante
kanji nakute mo
karada kishimasete tonikaku susume

*repeat

bunbu ryoudou nante
MANE dekinai kara
nariburi kamawazu ni susume


**repeat twice




Boon Boon in the Middle of the Night

Across the darkness, you arrive
until dawn, within that time its good if we can meet
If its at that level
But generaly handled.
It's about equal to the number of wrinkles on my suit
My head drops down
Dangling from the body is that unripe dream.
The wait is slightly over for you
Tonight I still won't be able to sleep.

*Boon boon inside the darkness
Shake off the bat
If there is no voice
Ride the thought

Set out with the wind on your sails, tactfully
I'm not going but
Feel your way, go forth to tomorrow!

**Boon boon
Across the darkness, you arrive
In a valley of buildings, head for the moon

You became popular with the flowers
Time is passing by and by
The nature isn't changing
Make an effort to stand in the twilight
A person who does well is suddenly in the same town
I'm unskilled but
It'll never end like this
For a while, this kind of response
has no feeling

*repeat

For a while, it's been that kind of response
With no feeling at all
let your body feel it, anyways go forth!

*repeat

You're skilled in litereate and the military
But I can't mimic that
Regardless of how I look, I'll go forth

**repeat twice


Ok, going back to homework and other translations. Ja!