User:JapaneseOPfan

About Me
Hey! I'm your average 17 year old college kid hanging around the wiki from time to time. I typically translate SBSs and stuff here, and my reason for that is because I want to spread the hilariousness that comes from the man that is Eiichiro Oda. As a Japanese-American fan, I can't help but feel obliged to contribute what I can to the world. Also, translating can be a real pain in the ass, but it can also be pretty fun and educational. My overall goal is to improve my language and translating skills in order to better convey concepts created by people like Oda, too good to be lost in translation.

If you're wondering which language I'm better at, English or Japanese, I'd have to go with speaking Japanese. Though I was born and raised in the States, I was delivered by Japanese doctors and grew up speaking nothing but Japanese with my parents at home, and when you add up all the Japanese books I've read and Japanese shows I've watched- you can see how I've just been exposed to a lot more Japanese than English throughout my lifetime thus far. That's only informal Japanese we're talking about, though- when it comes to formal Japanese, I feel pretty weirded out trying to talk all classy. Also, writing-wise, I'm probably a lot better with English letters, just because I have a lot more experience with those from school and the lot. I can sort of write really crappily in Hiragana and Katakana, but when it comes to Kanji- I'm out. Over 50,000 characters, each with several meanings, pronunciations, and a specific order you have to follow when writing out the lines? Ahaha, I think I'll just stick to typing on my computer, thanks.

If there's anything you want translated from Japanese to English or vice versa, feel free to ask on my talk page or find my on the chat- I'll be glad to help.

Appearance
Well, I'm hecka short (4'11...), especially compared to the people around me where I live. I have moderately large breasts (C) but pretty much no ass ( :, so it throws my off my balance. Literally, my back hurts every day, it's not even funny. I think I'm in desperate need of a good sports bra. I currently have long black hair, and my skin color is on the slightly tanner side.

For clothes, I wear some plain ass tshirts and jeans or sweats on a daily basis. Actually, I think a good portion of my wardrobe is filled with men's wear. At one point a few years back, I tried to go full tomboy (short hair, chest binding and all... oh god), but I realized that I couldn't really pull off the style quite right, so I gradually morphed into a pretty plain looking chick. I do have piercings in my earlobes, but I never ended up learning how to wear makeup (mostly too lazy...and expensive) so I try to wash my face every day to keep the damn evil zits away. Facewash is godsend, really. I do have contacts, but I usually just wear my tortoise-shell fat rimmed nerd glasses because I'm too lazy to stick my fingers into my eyeballs everyday.

More About Me
Let's see, other than being Japanese-American, I also play violin. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with that thing, but it's also a huge part of my life because I grew up with classical music my whole life. First of all, my mom plays the piano (professionally teaches and accompanies) and my dad plays guitar (he has a music graduate degree, but it's only a hobby- his real job is being a travel agent.. or something). I've been taking official violin lessons since I was 4, and go to some sort of music festival nearly every summer since aged 7. I also just graduated from an arts high school as a music major, where I met some pretty cool people. I absolutely hate practicing (such a pain!) and I definitely don't listen to classical music during my free time, but I've come to feel grateful for the experiences and people that being a violinist brought towards my way. I'm not really sure if I'll end up as an actual professional musician in the future, but I did end up deciding to major in violin performance for my undergrad, so... we'll see how things turn out, I guess. Currently, I'm working on the full Franck Sonata in a minor, second movement of the Bruch Concerto No. 1, and some other miscellaneous stuff. My main objective as of now is to polish my bow arm technique to get a better sound.

I have various hobbies, the main (most obvious) one being reading manga and watching anime. I don't really collect anime DVDs, but I do actually have a growing library of over 400 volumes of manga in my room. ...yeah, I might be slightly obsessed. I only actually spend my money on good series that are thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain funny though, so I don't feel bad. I'm really bummed that I'll have to leave my babies behind to go to college though. Thank god for holidays. If you're interested in finding out what kind of manga/anime I watch or finding out what volumes I own, you can click here. Other than manga and anime, I've recently gotten into collecting and solving various types of rubik's cubes. I used to collect pencils (what's with all the collecting?!), but I've grown kind of tired of that, so there's just this huge ziplock bag full of unsharpened pencils sitting in the corner of my room. I love traveling to new places, I love cute fluffy stuffed animals. Must squeeze.