A day at the supermarket with the chocoholic engineer-in-training and her Doraemon like father
One fine day on 16th July, 2009, Jenny went to the supermarket with her father. No sooner did she enter the doors to the store, she speedily went to no other than the sweets section where she found two housewives talking excitedly over some discounted chocolate.
Housewife A: this is good! i've tried it before!
Housewife B: really? which other ones are nice?
Housewife A points to 2 out of the 5 different varieties and goes on explaining vividly while Jenny, unable to bear with just overhearing the story decides to take the initiative and eagerly engage in the discussion of these chocolates.
Jenny: which ones? which ones?
Housewife A: this one - dark chocolate with dried pear and almonds
Jenny: OMG I LOVE dark chocolate and what an interesting combination - i havent seen it before. *grabs one* where is it from? Switzaland? *thinking Lindt chocolates*
Both Housewife A and Jenny flipped the chocolates over to find out the origins of its making.
Jenny: Austria, then it must be of quality. Ah~ it also comes with the orange and almond flavour *grabs one* what about these? *sees adjacent dark chocolates of another brand on shelf* is that Italian written on them?
Jenny's father: you can't buy that! look at your waist!
Jenny: go away already! *still busy checking out the chocolates*
Housewife A: look at your own waist!
Jenny's father who looks like a Doraemon retreats quietly...
In the end, Jenny bought 3 blocks of chocolate, one with dried pear and almonds, one with orange and almonds and lastly one with 55% cocoa.
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Jenny's father however was completely mesmerized at the discounted ski clothing on sale. You might find it strange that a supermarket sells these things and indeed this supermarket chain is unique as it orginated from Germany and it really looks like a small combined food supermarket and department store. He continued digging away happily at the large cage of ski coats and pants, trying them on. He even fussed like an old grandma by fitting her daughter with several ski coats in which Jenny thought she was at that instant more like a living and walking human doll than a daughter.
She does not intend to be unfilial but there are already more than 2 ski coats at home per person and buying more, she thought, would only result to waste. Jenny's father loved snow. Other than IT, photographs, physics, Hong Kong, Chinese patriotism, food, Doraemon, his wife and daughters, snow is his other interest. It is understandable since he was born and raised in the city of Hong Kong, where it lacked snow even in the coldest winter months. Yet it is NOT understandable that he always nags the entire family to go skiing or whatever every winter. Jenny's colleague from India, she remembered, also yearned hard to see snow, and the thought of them both going together, if that ever happened, may result in very amusing results.
In the end, after well over an hour of fitting, asking the price, checking for damages etc, Jenny's father to buy a 45% off ski coat for her daughter in which his daughter shyly expressed her thanks.
Jun: you should be more kind to your father!
Jenny: i did say thank you...
Sho: your father really loves you, you know.
Aiba: yea!
Jenny: but ...
Nino: no buts! there are no buts to these things!
Jenny: actually......
Arashi minus spacing out Ohno: hmmm?
Jenny: i heard from mother that he intends to be my neighbour when i get married so that he can overlook me...
Arashi minus Ohno: ... *speechless*
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-inserts uncomfortable pause-
Aiba: ah..ah..ah.. how were the chocolates?
Jenny: MECHA MECHA MAXIMUM OISHI *serious expression on*
Ohno: it's alright to eat chocolates but dont let the chocolates eat you!
Nino: must you recycle what you said this past valentine's on radio?
Jenny: sa~sa~, everyone have some~
Arashi: UMAI~~~
Sho: you look tired though...
Jenny: well, you are to blame for!
Sho: heh?!
Jenny: did you know how many times i had to replay your Pen no Sasu Houkou Ch II to translate it? one - two - three MOU! I've lost count already! if you made a DVD of your solo concert or even a CD of all your solos, a lot of fan translators and subbers will have a better life you know.
Sho *bits lower lip*:....
- inserts pause -
Jenny: demo yogatta. ^__^
Sho: heh?!
Jenny: it was worth it. Totally!
Sho *does Yattadance*: Yatta~ Yatta~Yatta-
Jenny: but the rapping still is a pain to translate for us.
Sho *in Sho fail position*:....
Jenny: but we love it so much we dont mind. Sho san, Arashi, ganbatte kudasai! Here are some photos i took that remind me of your songs
end of imaginative dialogue
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Jenny wishes to inform those who express interest in even the translation drafts of Christmas Song, Pen no Sasu Houkou Ch I and II, to
a)leave their email addresses in their comment of this post
b)not take the uneditted lyrics seriously as they are translated based on the audio and guided by the Chinese translated version
c)i)know that Jenny is tired from translating so much (1 NZ clip, 5 non-NZ clips, 3 songs) and wishes to have a 3 day break~ but will keep on doing her best to translate and give back to the fandom while having fun ^_____^
Edit: forget about the break! I'm just take breaks as i translate muhahahahahahahaha!
ii)Right now, she is happy about her exam results and would like to study and revise some engineering and maths before semester commences again 10 days later.
iii)Jenny would also like to express her endless gratitude to her zerocaster team and beg them pardon for always disturbing them, fecundeety for her work, and wish to say she misses Asra aka hybrid_hallow and Emkay aka amnosxmatsujun deeply but hope both of them are having fun ^___^ v Lastly, to those who spent time reading her posts and appreciating her translations. *hugs x 256720491675287*
Edit: added to the thanks list include also Juu aka harunomaru and An chan aka change417 for agreeing to edit my work! *hugs and brews tea for you both!*
Housewife A: this is good! i've tried it before!
Housewife B: really? which other ones are nice?
Housewife A points to 2 out of the 5 different varieties and goes on explaining vividly while Jenny, unable to bear with just overhearing the story decides to take the initiative and eagerly engage in the discussion of these chocolates.
Jenny: which ones? which ones?
Housewife A: this one - dark chocolate with dried pear and almonds
Jenny: OMG I LOVE dark chocolate and what an interesting combination - i havent seen it before. *grabs one* where is it from? Switzaland? *thinking Lindt chocolates*
Both Housewife A and Jenny flipped the chocolates over to find out the origins of its making.
Jenny: Austria, then it must be of quality. Ah~ it also comes with the orange and almond flavour *grabs one* what about these? *sees adjacent dark chocolates of another brand on shelf* is that Italian written on them?
Jenny's father: you can't buy that! look at your waist!
Jenny: go away already! *still busy checking out the chocolates*
Housewife A: look at your own waist!
Jenny's father who looks like a Doraemon retreats quietly...
In the end, Jenny bought 3 blocks of chocolate, one with dried pear and almonds, one with orange and almonds and lastly one with 55% cocoa.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jenny's father however was completely mesmerized at the discounted ski clothing on sale. You might find it strange that a supermarket sells these things and indeed this supermarket chain is unique as it orginated from Germany and it really looks like a small combined food supermarket and department store. He continued digging away happily at the large cage of ski coats and pants, trying them on. He even fussed like an old grandma by fitting her daughter with several ski coats in which Jenny thought she was at that instant more like a living and walking human doll than a daughter.
She does not intend to be unfilial but there are already more than 2 ski coats at home per person and buying more, she thought, would only result to waste. Jenny's father loved snow. Other than IT, photographs, physics, Hong Kong, Chinese patriotism, food, Doraemon, his wife and daughters, snow is his other interest. It is understandable since he was born and raised in the city of Hong Kong, where it lacked snow even in the coldest winter months. Yet it is NOT understandable that he always nags the entire family to go skiing or whatever every winter. Jenny's colleague from India, she remembered, also yearned hard to see snow, and the thought of them both going together, if that ever happened, may result in very amusing results.
In the end, after well over an hour of fitting, asking the price, checking for damages etc, Jenny's father to buy a 45% off ski coat for her daughter in which his daughter shyly expressed her thanks.
Jun: you should be more kind to your father!
Jenny: i did say thank you...
Sho: your father really loves you, you know.
Aiba: yea!
Jenny: but ...
Nino: no buts! there are no buts to these things!
Jenny: actually......
Arashi minus spacing out Ohno: hmmm?
Jenny: i heard from mother that he intends to be my neighbour when i get married so that he can overlook me...
Arashi minus Ohno: ... *speechless*
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-inserts uncomfortable pause-
Aiba: ah..ah..ah.. how were the chocolates?
Jenny: MECHA MECHA MAXIMUM OISHI *serious expression on*
Ohno: it's alright to eat chocolates but dont let the chocolates eat you!
Nino: must you recycle what you said this past valentine's on radio?
Jenny: sa~sa~, everyone have some~
Arashi: UMAI~~~
Sho: you look tired though...
Jenny: well, you are to blame for!
Sho: heh?!
Jenny: did you know how many times i had to replay your Pen no Sasu Houkou Ch II to translate it? one - two - three MOU! I've lost count already! if you made a DVD of your solo concert or even a CD of all your solos, a lot of fan translators and subbers will have a better life you know.
Sho *bits lower lip*:....
- inserts pause -
Jenny: demo yogatta. ^__^
Sho: heh?!
Jenny: it was worth it. Totally!
Sho *does Yattadance*: Yatta~ Yatta~Yatta-
Jenny: but the rapping still is a pain to translate for us.
Sho *in Sho fail position*:....
Jenny: but we love it so much we dont mind. Sho san, Arashi, ganbatte kudasai! Here are some photos i took that remind me of your songs
end of imaginative dialogue
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Jenny wishes to inform those who express interest in even the translation drafts of Christmas Song, Pen no Sasu Houkou Ch I and II, to
a)leave their email addresses in their comment of this post
b)not take the uneditted lyrics seriously as they are translated based on the audio and guided by the Chinese translated version
c)i)know that Jenny is tired from translating so much (1 NZ clip, 5 non-NZ clips, 3 songs) and wishes to have a 3 day break~ but will keep on doing her best to translate and give back to the fandom while having fun ^_____^
Edit: forget about the break! I'm just take breaks as i translate muhahahahahahahaha!
ii)Right now, she is happy about her exam results and would like to study and revise some engineering and maths before semester commences again 10 days later.
iii)Jenny would also like to express her endless gratitude to her zerocaster team and beg them pardon for always disturbing them, fecundeety for her work, and wish to say she misses Asra aka hybrid_hallow and Emkay aka amnosxmatsujun deeply but hope both of them are having fun ^___^ v Lastly, to those who spent time reading her posts and appreciating her translations. *hugs x 256720491675287*
Edit: added to the thanks list include also Juu aka harunomaru and An chan aka change417 for agreeing to edit my work! *hugs and brews tea for you both!*