Sunday 17 July 2011

テミン - 誕生日おめでとう!♥

今日はSHINeeのテミンの誕生日です。今日彼は十八才ですよ!誕生日おめでとう~

Today is Taemin from SHINee's 18th birthday. Happy birthday Taemin! I think some celebratory Taemin picture spam is most definitely in order...





















Wednesday 13 July 2011

新しいドラマ!やった!

まだ、更新しませんでしたから、ごめんね!
Okay, I’m sorry I haven’t updated in so long! (>人<)



イギリスで、今午前一時半ので、短い更新を書いたほうがいいですね。 来年私は友達と五日間チッチェスターへ行きますから、よく書けないとおもっています。でも、今週私はよく書くつもりです!がんばります!

Okay right now in England it’s like half one in the morning, so this is only going to be a short blog post to make sure people know I’m still alive~ . Next week I’m actually going on a trip to Chichester for five days with two of my friends, so I don’t think I’ll be able to write much, but I’ll try to do a few before I go! (Hey I like writing it in Japanese/English alternately, it makes translating so much more manageable!)



最近、夏休みので、私はドラマを見る時間がよくあります!うれしいですよ!(^*)⌒☆そして、インターネットで、たくさん新しいドラマについて読んでいました。例えば、「花君」という有名なドラマの韓国のバージョンです。名前は「Beautiful You」です。そして、SHINeeのミンホは主人公です。ワクワクしています!


私が見たい今年の他のドラマは「桜蘭(おうらん)高校ホスト部」ライブバージョンや、「怪物君」の映画や、「源氏物語」の映画や、「Many A Little Romance」という韓国の映画です。今年は楽しそうですね~

So recently, because it’s the holidays, I’ve been finding lots of time to watch dramas, which is always a good thing hahaa. Also, I’ve been reading up on some new dramas coming out this year which is very exciting. One of which is the Korean version of the popular Japanese drama ‘Hana Kimi’, with Minho from SHINee playing the lead role (along with SNSD’s Yoona 
and Super Junior’s Heechul). So I can’t wait for that one!

Other dramas we’ve got coming up that I’m looking forward to are: Ouran high school host club live version, ‘Kaibutsu kun the movie’, the film of ‘The tale of Genji’and a Korean film starring Song Joong Ki called ‘Many a little romance!’

(by the way, I don't know why the font has gone funny, this is what happens when I play about with languages on my computer...)

じゃあ、今私は本当にねむいです!またね!

Okay, really tired now, I’ll write again soon~







Thursday 30 June 2011

Girls Generation - Mr Taxi

Sorry I haven't written in a while~ my life has been completely overtaken by the korean drama 'Sungkyunkwan Scandal' right now hahaaa. I'll probably right about it when I'm finished. ITS SO GOOD!

Fortunately the old ginger has been doing some more translating, so I'll post one of them up~

This time we've got Mr. Taxi by Girls Generation (or SNSD)



KANJI
Tokyo, Seoul, London, New York
気ままに世界をdrive tonight
各地でひろうするnew style
見たことない物だけ見せてあげる
ほら、こっちを見て、少し警戒せよ
あの左ハンドルより何倍も
I'm so fast

CHORUS:
Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi 相当 즉시 즉시 즉시
追い付けないスピードでついて来れるの?
Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi 相当 즉시 즉시 즉시
光り輝く 
けど触れられないの
まさに supersonic and hypertonic
うばって欲しいの You take me 今すぐ
Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi 相当 즉시 즉시 즉시
けど簡単に はいけないのよ

街の灯がまるでshooting star
次の目的地までnon stop
エンジン音だけ残して
다시 보자 後ろ手で say goodbye
ほらよそ見しないで冒険せよ
あの右ハンドルよりも確かよ
I'm so sure

{CHORUS}

1, 2, 3, here we go… wao!
どこへでも(anywhere) 自由自在よ(anywhere)
そう宇宙の(anywhere) 果てでさえも(anywhere)
願いどおりなのよ 
どうして不安なの?
And I don't know why, and I don't know why (don't know why)
ついて来てよね
I don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye) goodbye
I don't wanna say goodbye

{CHORUS}

ROMAJI
Tokyo, Seoul, London, New York
Kimama ni sekai o Drive tonight
Kakuchi de hirou suru New style
Mita koto nai mono dake misete ageru
Hora, kocchi wo mite, sukoshi keikai se yo
Ano hidari handoru yori nan bai mo
I'm so fast

CHORUS:
Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi,    soutou,     jeugsi jeugsi jeugsi
Oitsukenai supiido de tsuite koreru no?
 Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi,    soutou,     jeugsi jeugsi jeugsi
Hikari kagayaku                                           
Kedo furerarenai no
Masa ni supersonic and hypertonic
Ubatte hoshii no You take me imasugu
Mr. Taxi, Taxi, Taxi,    soutou,     jeugsi jeugsi jeugsi
Kedo kantan ni wa ikenai no yo

Machi no hi ga maru de Shooting star
Tsugi no mokutekichi made Non stop
Enjin on dake nokoshite
Dashi boja Ushirode de Say goodbye
Hora yosomi shinaide bouken se yo
Ano migi handoru yori mo tashika yo
I'm so sure

{CHORUS}

1, 2, 3, here we go… wao!
Doko e demo (anywhere) jiyuujizai yo (anywhere)
Sou uchuu no (anywhere) Hate de sae mo (anywhere)
Negai doori nano yo
Doshite fuan nano?
And I don't know why, and I don't know why (Don't know why)
Tsuite kite yo ne
I don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye) goodbye
I don't wanna say goodbye

{CHORUS}

ENGLISH
Tokyo, Seoul, London, New York
Drive me as you wish all over the world tonight
In our new style just waiting to be announced to everywhere
I’ll show you only the things that you’ve never seen before
Hey, look at that – we need to be a little cautious
Because I’m so much faster than those cars to the left of us.

CHORUS:
Mr. Taxi Taxi Taxi, my perfect match, right now, right now, right now
Will you be able to take me at a speed that no one can catch up with?
Mr. Taxi Taxi Taxi, my perfect match, right now, right now, right now
The light is shining, but you can’t touch!
Things are about to get supertonic and hypertonic
I want you to take it – you take me right now!
Mr. Taxi Taxi Taxi, my perfect match, right now, right now, right now
But it mustn’t happen easily.

The street lamps sweep past us like shooting stars
We won’t stop until the next destination
Leaving only the noise of our engine behind
“See ya” Waving behind to say goodbye
Hey, don’t look away – take me on an adventure!
I’m so much sturdier than those cars on our right.
I’m so sure

{CHORUS}

1, 2, 3, here we go… wao!
Anywhere (anywhere) We can go freely (anywhere)
Yes, even to the ends of the universe. (anywhere)
Wherever we wish…
So why am I feeling anxious?
And I don't know why, and I don't know why (Don't know why)
Take me with you
I don't wanna say goodbye (goodbye) goodbye
I don't wanna say goodbye

{CHORUS}


Friday 24 June 2011

M&D - 'Close Ur Mouth' (English Only)

Okay, so today we have some more SM News (actually this has been going around on the Facebook for a few days now, but I thought I’d wait until they released some more information until I wrote anything about it).

Anyway, so it was released on the 21st June that SMTOWN were going to release a new ‘project group’ called ‘M&D’, which is basically Super Junior’s Kim Heechul writing and singing the lyrics, and TRAX’s Jungmo Kim composing and arranging the music, along with playing the guitar, bass and electric drum.


Now I don’t know anything about TRAX unfortunately, but according to Wikipedia they’re another of SM Entertainment’s creations – a four piece rock band, where the name,  unfortunately comes from the initials of each members ‘name’ (by the looks of things, SM Ent. Once again got carried away with giving the band members ridiculous names. I mean, I love this agency, but c’mon – Typhoon, Rose, Attack and Xmas, surely that’s crossing a line). So yeah, Jungmo Kim (or ‘Xmas’) is apparently some kind of ‘guitar genius’, so it sounds pretty promising so far.


Reading on in the article, it says that the two are going for something pretty different from the styles of both TRAX and Super Junior, in fact, they’re going for something fresh and unique altogether.  So although I do love SM Entertainment’s music, I was pretty interested and excited to see how this was going to turn out.

The song that they released is called ‘Close Ur Mouth’ and is apparently about some popular guy who lets his woman go.  Not exactly giving us anything to go off, but needless to say, it got thousands of ‘likes’ on Facebook, so, as usual, SM Ent. definitely know what they’re doing.

ANYWAY, so this is the point that I was up to until yesterday, when I was checking the SMTOWN Facebook page, having not looked at it for a while, and it turned out that M&D had released their new music video for ‘Close Ur Mouth’! So of course, I clicked on that instantly.

So I’ve got to say, I was impressed (as I seem to be with most music videos I write about on this blog), but yeah, it was definitely different from the kind of stuff I’ve learnt to expect from SM Ent. (also, according to the Facebook page, it was directed by Heechul Kim himself)  The actual concept for the video was very refreshing; it was basically Heechul walking around this building being followed by one almost continuous tracking shot, which could easily have been boring, but I think with Heechul’s personality and the intermittent Korean celebrities appearing in the halls it was carried off very well. It seemed they opted for simplicity rather than the brightly lit, fabulously designed productions with big dance routines and slick camera movements that we’ve all grown to know and love.  But you know, it works!

My first thought, being an utter fangirl, was ‘wow, Heechul looks different’.  At first I wasn’t sure if this was a good thing, but I think it’s grown on me now – he’s still very much a flower boy, but he seemed to have this air of cool around him this time, almost Brit Rock esque. 


The poor TRAX guy didn’t get very much of an appearance in the video, but the bits that he was in was again, very different; it was really interesting seeing him playing all his different instruments – he’s a talented guy!

As for the music itself, I found it very likeable from the offset, its catchy enough to get stuck in my head a lot, but not to the point where it’s really cheesy (having said this, I don’t actually know what the lyrics are, but hey). And yeah, it was just really cool and refreshing!

So yeah, M&D are looking pretty promising, time will tell if it stays as something that I’ll really like, but it’s certainly refreshing.  It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere, and if now that SMTOWM is starting to get its European status, it will start branching out into new areas like this.

(Just for the record, I’m fairly new to the Korean music industry world, so if I’m completely wrong about there never being anything along this line, please let me know).

Right, I’m a tad conscious that this post has become VERY long; I guess I had a lot to say on this! And I fear if I translate into Japanese it will be like WORDS OVERLOAD, so I’m going to post this today and do a Japanese version tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll post the video below, so enjoy~


 (Since writing this post, SMTOWN have released some more articles on M&D and their music video which I haven't had a chance to read yet, but if you want to check them out you can find them on the SMTOWN Facebook page here, or check the page in my linkage)

Thursday 23 June 2011

日本に手紙を書くこと

今日私は学校へ日本語で手紙を書きに行きました。

日本の最近地震と津波ので、私と私の日本語のクラスはとても心配しました。だから、今日私の日本語先生は私のクラスは日本の避難民に手紙を書くクラスに招待したので、今日かわいい後輩達を手伝いに行きました

三月前、私の学校で、日本なら、大きいチャリティーエベントをしました。私達が集めたお金は日本にあげました。だから、私達は手紙にそれについて書きました。あなた達は私の日本のクラスのブログでそのエベントについて読むことができます。

そして、今日、学校へ行くの前に、私と友達、シャリーン、は私達の古い高校へ行きました。なつかしかったです!高校はとても小さいみたいでした!

だから、「私はもう高校と私のカレッジを卒業しました!私は古くなっています!」と思っています。



Today I went back to my old college to help out my Japanese teacher – because of the recent disaster in Japan, she wanted the old class to come and write a letter in Japanese to some of the victims, so that they know that we’re thinking of them. 

Also, because we’d finished the AS course, she asked us to help out the first years with their Japanese, and so everyone worked really hard to send a lot! I hope they like it~

Three months ago, we also did a big charity event in college for the Japanese appeal. Our Japanese class sold cakes, origami, homemade cards, we had a clothes sale. It was really successful and we managed to make loads of money to send to Japan! It was such a relief to know that we could do SOMETHING to help, because it was so horrible!

Also, before going into college, me and my friend Chereen decided to go to our old high school to visit some of our old teachers. It was so strange going back! It seemed so tiny after college! But it was lovely seeing everyone again, I might go back again sometime now that I have so much time on my hands!

But after that I was thinking, I’ve left high school, I’ve left college, oh my god I’m so OLD! I can’t believe I’m leaving home soon!  It’s so bizarre!

Sunday 19 June 2011

Lake District の写真

こんばんは皆さん~
昨日の更新で、私は英語だけ書きましたね。だから、今日、日本語だけ書くつもりです。もしかしたら、日本人はイギリスの山野について読みたいと思いましたから、私がイギリスのLake districtで取った写真を更新します!
最近、家族とLake district へ行きました。それは有名で、本当にきれいな所です。そこで、たくさん大きい湖水があります。









そして、たくさん山や森がありますから、Lake districtでハイキングはとても人気です。きれいなですね!









私はLake districtへ行った時、春ので、たくさん子羊がいました。かわいかったですよ!



これは私の家族です。エリーと言う妹と父と母とおじです。


これは私とエリー。日没はすてきでした。もう一度行きたいです。


Saturday 18 June 2011

BB Cream! ♥

I love it when the post comes and I get something exciting :D
I actually had to trek into the next town to me to get this, but it was definitely worth it.


I got this little beauty from an eBay seller in Korea! I decided the document the exciting moment when I unwrapped it, because I knew it was going to be good…

As you can see, it’s a type of ‘cosmetics’ I wonder what it will be…


So inside we have something wrapped up in bubble wrap (I will probably play with this later)

Also, you can see a super cute little note inside! This made my day~


Okay, lets start with the small thing inside – a free sample of BB Cream (kind of gives it away whats inside) and a little note about her facebook page! From what I see so far, I would definitely recomment this eBay seller!


And then! The revealing! A beautiful box of BB Cream, with Korean writing on the back, oh this is so exciting!




Wow, inside we have this amazing tube! It's massive! This is going to last me ages! Yay! I’m so happy!


Okay, I’m going to try it on now, to see if it makes any difference on my hands! Let’s hope you can see (The lighting on these pictures are a bit different, but I assure you, there’s no editing)


So yeah, this is my new treasure from eBay! I love it; it makes my skin look so good! Yay!


(By the way, for anyone who’s not in the know, BB Cream is a magic foundation like cream from Korea which gives you even, smooth skin tone and supposedly gives you ‘flawless’ skin, which from what I’ve experienced, does the job.  I’m going to assume that the Japanese already know about this, or have their own awesome equivalent, plus I want to watch a drama tonight and I’m too excited to tell the world about this to translate, so this is going to just be in English.)