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Arashi Discovery [2009.12.29] translations

 Today we present ~  Arashi Discovery  [2009.12.29]  translations ~!!! 

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ARASHI DISCOVERY 2009/12/29
Good morning! Ohno Satoshi’s ARASHI DISCOVERY~! Today’s question is about ichigo.
From January to February, there are a lot of shops that lines up ichigo. Then, what is ichigo in English?
Please choose from these next three:
1　ストロベリー(sutoroberii = strawberry)
2　ブルーベリー (buruuberii = blueberry)
3　ブルース・リー (buruusu rii = Bruce Lee)
（BGM：♪マイガール）
The answer is number 1 [strawberry].
Tsukuihama tourist plantation in Yokosuka City has started strawberry-picking. Until the previous season, it was open for business in January 1st, but because the climate becomes warm, the growth of the strawberry become faster, so it started 12 days earlier than the average year. Yeah. Strawberry-picking. That’s right. This year I ate a lot of strawberries. Because this year is Arashi’s 10th anniversary. Yeah. And a lot of people celebrated it for us. We received a lot of cakes. It’s something to be grateful for. This year is really wonderful… A~! Wait, wait! Wait, is this for real!? Ah, you got me~ Just now, I’m sorry, just now, The door was opened. And strawberries come!!! In a wooden box. It’s a wooden box!? Iyaa, they look so tasty. They’re big. Iya~ they’re cold. I’ll eat it. Itadakimasu! (the sound of him eating strawberries) Tasty! It’s tasty! Iyaa~ Morning of December 29th, Is closed with strawberry. E~ next year, let’s also work hard, everyone. Thank you! That’s all, it was Ohno Satoshi!

Arashi Discovery [2009.12.28] translations

 Today we present ~  Arashi Discovery  [2009.12.28]  translations ~!!! 

Enjoy the broadcast ~ feel free to join our group & leave your comments ..we love to hear from you!

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ARASHI DISCOVERY 2009/12/28
Good morning! Ohno Satoshi’s ARASHI DISCOVERY~! Today’s question is about food. Are you the raw egg type? Or the boiled egg type? Then, when making (eggs) in the hotspring water, the egg yolk in soft-boiled condition, And the egg white in the condition where it’s  just beginning to harden, what is it commonly called?
Please choose from these next three:
1　温泉卵 (Onsen tamago = Hotspring egg)
2　うずらの卵 (uzura no tamago = quail’s egg)
3　厚焼き卵 (atsuyaki tamago = thick omelet)
（BGM：♪マイガール）
The answer is number 1 [Hotspring egg].
Hakone Tourism Guide Association, from this month, is starting the [Yumoto Hotspring Aimless Walk] where they guide the tourist around the Hakone Yumoto hotspring city. This project is made because there were a lot of demands from the tourists to take a walk light-heartedly around Yumoto before and after the hotel check-in time. This will continue until January next year. If it earns good popularity, it is going to be made into a regular project. I see. Hotspring. Talking about hotspring, It’s surely Hakone. I’m really not good with hotspring (laughs) I’ll really feel dizzy. I wonder if it’s my inborn nature. Yeah. Should I challenge it once again? Yeah. Starting from next year, I’m thinking to be a challenger. Right? Because we’ve overcame a lot of things. For example, jet coaster. Dropping from a high place. Ah, I was not good with jet coaster. And I couldn’t consent to that, So I rode on it again and again, and overcame it. Yeah. Well, also, the green pepper that I used to hate. Also Eggplants. Yeah. Those. Well, those were adult’s taste, though. Yeah. I had terrible times eating it, but now I can eat it. Unexpectedly, I’ve overcame those. So the hotspring, too Well, this is in the context of my body, though. Yeah. If I’ll force myself to do it, I’ll feel bad and relapse. Yeah. Let’s stop this! Ne. I want to live treasuring my body. Next year (laughs) That’s all, it was Ohno Satoshi!

Awesome "Last promise" posters at Omedesanto station!

The official website has been uploaded too!
The website confirms that the Arashi's new single 空高く (Sky High) will be the main theme ^_^

http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/yakusoku/index.html

「嵐」メンバー緊縛された姿で駅ジャック

人気グループ「嵐」が２８日から東京メトロ表参道駅をジャックする。

　メンバー５人が総出演するフジテレビの新春スペシャルドラマ「最後の約束」（来年１月９日後９・００）のＰＲで、駅構内の柱に５人の特大ポスターを掲出。監禁されるドラマ内の設定にちなみ５人が捕らわれた姿で、柱にも縄が巻かれる斬新な広告になっており、松本潤（２６）は「決して縄を解かないで」と呼びかけている。

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2009/12/28/04.html

Pics thanks to Arashinino's vox.

Kya! It's tomorrow, the last day of the year!

Arashi will sing at Kouhaku a nice medley:

★A.RA.SHI
★Love So Sweet
★Happiness
★Believe

Arashi will sing at 10:45 and then, they will rush to Tokyo Dome for JE Countdown!

嵐　本番でのメドレーは４曲　紅白歌合戦リハーサル

デビュー１０周年で紅白歌合戦初出場となる人気グループ「嵐」。本番で披露する「嵐×紅白スペシャルメドレー」の曲目は、「Ａ・ＲＡ・ＳＨＩ」「Ｌｏｖｅ　ｓｏ　ｓｗｅｅｔ」「Ｈａｐｐｉｎｅｓｓ」「Ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ」の４曲と、この日判明。選曲は、本人たちの意向とＮＨＫの要望で決めたという。冒頭にはデビューからの軌跡をたどる映像が流れるもようだ。

　オリコン年間チャートで史上初のＣＤ・ＤＶＤ“４冠”を達成、今年の音楽シーンをけん引した。非公開のリハーサル後、取材に応じたメンバーにはカメラマンのフラッシュの“嵐”。松本潤（２６）は「こんなにフラッシュ浴びたことなかった」と驚いた様子だった。

　最近は街で会うお年寄りらに「紅白見るよ」と声をかけられるという櫻井翔（２７）は、「１０周年の締めに紅白に出られて、いい記念の年になった。（引き続きジャニーズ）カウントダウンコンサートで２０１０年に向けたいい流れができる」と語った。

　リハーサルでＮＨＫホールのステージに立ち、「『あ、本当にやるんだ』って実感しました」と、感激の様子なのは大野智（２９）。同じジャニーズ事務所のＮＹＣ　ｂｏｙｓの知念侑李（１６）が「嵐に負けないように頑張る」と、ライバル宣言したことを報道陣から聞かされて、「こっちも負けないように」と気合を入れたが、メンバーから「仲良くやろうよ」とたしなめられていた。

　嵐は午後１０時４５分ごろまで出演。その後、カウントダウンコンサートの開かれる東京ドームへ移動するという。

Source: http://www.chunichi.co.jp/chuspo/article/entertainment/news/CK2009123002000114.html

Arashi in today's newspapers (yesterday reporters' photo session)

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picture credit : yahoo auctions

hmmm... okay i'm just gonna try and make this as painless as possible.. haha i mean for me.. cause i dont wanna be transcribing word for word.. but still give you guys a very good idea of what's going on.. anyhows.. a happening that Nino talked about on Baystorm.. it's a bit harsh.. on some aspects.. but in general it's kind of cute.. if you try not to focus on the cause and just enjoy the effect..

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so by and by.. during Baystorm Nino was like as everyone knows.. i've been having some health issues.. he goes on saying that for the first time in his life.. he asked his sister to drive him to the hospital (because he was feeling under the weather).. but he was like.. you gotta realize my sister is one who gets sleepy whenever she gets in the car.. so here he was between a hard spot and a rock.. what should he do? should he go on his own? no.. he wasnt feeling that well.. so he still asked of his sister.. for the first time in his life.. to please take him..

while coming out into the drive way.. they were meant to make a right turn.. but in that moment.. that short moment even before his sister even put her foot to the acceleration .. she was already sleepy (lololols) soooo.. she had one of those 'spicy/extremely fresh' gum.. not one.. because she was like one is not enough.. but two.. and then she tells him that it's too much and it's hard to chew [because of it being too spicy] (lololols)

so yes.. because she got sleepy.. she decided to have gum.. but because one gum is not enough.. she had two.. but because she had two.. it's hard to chew.. XD he was like.. isn't she a weird person? .. i already said it's okay that i'd go on my own.. だから、もう代われって。自分で行きましたけど。おかしいんだ、あの人。 (lololols...)

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ah.. despite the whole reason why they were going out

i thought this was a really cute happening that Nino shared with us =]

awwwww.. family.. gotta love it 83

Hi minna!!

Only 1 day left of '09!
Hope you all have a very very happy new year~~!!!
Im going away to Piha from tomorrow till 1st or 2nd of 2010

Hope you all will have fun celebrating the new year.
Almost 2010 already, so hmm since im graduating high school will we call it class of '10 OR class of '010? I think 010 sounds better yes?? i dunno..such a difficult year haha.
ONLY 2 YEARS TILL RUGBY WORLD CUP HERE IN NZ!! WAAAH~!!!! -excited-
Can Sho-kun come for news zero please?! If he does, i might die hahahahhaha waaaaah i just got really excited ^-^ wait is rugby big in japan??? AH WHO CARES, I WANT HIM TO COME! Please god, let my wish come true!!!

Ah look at me, went off into my own little arashi fantasy again haha.
Arashi truly had an amaaaaazing year and i hope they have another one next year but since it'll be my final high school year, it may be hard for me to stay updated with them since it was already so hard this year.

For this new year, i want to enjoy everyday as much as possible and focus really hard on studies! (yes, that means less drama watching time and fangirling time..GAAAAAH NOOO!!!  0.0)

Wish you all luck for the new year and i will post again NEXT YEAR!!
with lots of love <3
x x x

doce (lisa)

Hi!!!

sooo as I said now I'm hooked into BBC radio shows, right now I'm listening to a drama adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles :D

ok, now  for something completely different and to add yet another *I was listening to a podcast* series

this time I was listening to one about how art has been linked to humanity since long ago between other stuff... and how much we value to possess original art *when possible obviously* rather than reproductions, and this is because we feel as if we can connect with the artist mind at some level

this made me think about another podcast about webcomics and there's a guy who sent a question to the show asking how they manage with reader mail and hate mail, if they have some sort of *answer ready to send* or something like that, since he spends so much time answering to his

so the guys were talking about how much they prefer short and sweet mails with something like  *thanks for your hard work, I love your strip* rather than long messages and how they usually ignore the hate mail

but they also were talking about how... weird is when they get messages that are something like *I have been reading your strip for a long time and I'm not satisfied at how things have been going lately, so unless you change this I'm not gonna read it anymore*  "not exactly the words but that's the idea"

and they were saying things along the lines of *who do you think you are to tell me what I can or can't do with my strip?!* but let's put that aside and something that really got me *I didn't know you even existed*

which brought back to my mind yet another podcast hosted by a couple, and I was thinking when they were telling his experience of meeting/interviewing some of the cast of MST3K *if you don't know what that is, google is your friend* and how weird it was at first for them cuz they didn't know how to conduct themselves, specially the woman cuz she said she was there expecting some sort of super friendly almost family welcoming and how she was thinking *c'mon guys, it's us!!* because she's been watching them for so long, that it felt as if those ppl were family

so I was thinking about all that *I know it's too much...* and the strips, because now and then I get some comments from you telling me that the strip of that day made your day better... or how you've been reading those for months and how much you like them

and this is nice and a little strange for me, cuz sometimes that's the only message I get from some of you like, ever

so it makes me feel good and perhaps a little guilty because it's like *wow this girl has been following my silly strips for so long and I didn't know she existed!! oO* and at some level I feel guilty for not knowing that, I know it's impossible to know who's reading, but still...

however, is nice to know that even when you don't say a word, you're still there; laughing with me...

*or at me, but I prefer to think is with me*

so I just want to say:

and now I believe what will be the very last strip of the year

Arashiworld74

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is good to know it's just a *little* advice

*as usual locked in 2 days*

See ya!!!