Tomorrow is a national holiday (I forgot all about it!) so I decided to quickly translate it and get it over and done with! Phew *its4aminthemorning!!!* but i’ve finished it! Not my best work and probably scores of mistakes somewhere in there but it’ll have to do for the moment. As usual feel free to point out the spelling and grammar mistakes and I’ll post the zip file next time.

In the end I decided to edit over Room708’s copies. I only received Tyria’s comment about where the HQ raw scans are (they are on Dear Nana . The download link for the raws is here .). Sadly the scans are uploaded on megaupload, and megaupload hates me. I can’t download anything from there. Besides I was half-way through translating by the time I saw the comment Thanks for the pointer anyway. Maybe someone can upload it elsewhere (4shared, sendspace, rapidshare work for me) and when i’m really really free, i’ll use the raws to make a new set of scanlations. (someone’s offered to do it. thanks!)

Just for the record, when I was requesting for raws, I was referring to Japanese raws, not Chinese raws. There isn’t such a thing as ‘Chinese raws’ in Cookie magazine anyway, because manga raws are pages that have not been edited over.

Well I’m off to bed. Enjoy:

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As most of you would know, given the number of spoilers I’ve seen around the net, the latest issue of COOKIE magazine has been released in Japan, and that means NANA chapter 78 has been released too! Room708 hasn’t translated it into Chinese though, so I’ll have to wait for them (For the record, I only translate Chinese to English, not Japanese to English). I hope they get it done by today, cos’ if they don’t, it will be quite a long time before I can translate it. I have an extremely busy 2 weeks ahead, having to juggle BOTH SCHOOL AND WORK at the same time because my new module starts but I’m supposed to continue working. Gosh I can’t bear the thought of it. Sooo… if I there’s no NANA translation within these few days, please be understanding ^_^;

In the meantime, does anyone have High Quality manga raws for chapter 78 so I can use them when I do the translation?? I simply won’t have time to clean up any raw pages. If there aren’t any manga raws by the time I start the translation, I’ll just edit over the ones provided by room708 (they are smaller and have their logos plastered all over).

Have fun with these pretty wallpapers while you wait (they are all in different dimensions; 1152 x 870, 1024×768, 800×600 respectively): (more…)

OLIVIA’s much awaited mini album Trinka Trinka is finally out after much uncertainty and postponing! So much has cropped up that kept impeding the release of the album. This lady’s music career is simply fraught with issues and that’s unfair because her music is so much better than a lot of pop singers who sail through their careers with one album after another each year. It’s released on 17 September but I haven’t had time to listen to it until tonight.

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I just finished reading Murakami Haruki’s Sputnik Sweetheart in a record 8 hours (started from Monday, finished yesterday, spent 2 hours on each day during my journeys to and from work), and it was entirely in Chinese text! Murakami’s writing is just so captivating that although my eyes are exhausted and dry from staring at the computer at work, I pursued the plot relentlessly whenever I found time to.

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First, a plug for my favorite band:

Accompanying images for the single:

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