Running a business was not easy, especially when your four
employees were also your brothers. Not blood brothers, no, but brothers in
union, who rebel all the time *roll eyes*
My name is Lee Jinki, more widely known by my pen name Onew.
And I was the owner of the SHINee Detective Co.
Before starting up the company, I worked for the Daily
Prophet as a reporter for a couple of years after graduating from Hogwarts
School of Witch Craft and Wizardry. Not trying to brag, but my grades were only
second to the legendary witch, Hermione Granger sunbaenim.
Anyway, through this job, I was getting a lot of field
experience in gathering clues in
fishy situations and figuring out the big picture from the detailed notes I take from the investigations.
Articles that I published had attracted attentions, particularly the one on the
female poltergeist nick named “pretty noona”. Pretty noona was a master in the replay jinx, which curses wands to only
recast the spell that was casted right before it was jinxed. She went into
Olivander’s in Diagon Alley that summer night and ruined every single wand in
the shop (they could only perform the quality check spell Mr. Olivander did
with all his productions), causing a sudden shortage of wand in London and
black market wand price soaring sky high.
Well, long story short, my investigation eventually lead to
the arrest of pretty noona and I became sort of a celebrity reporter after
that. However, it wasn’t all me who’d solved the mysteries I published
throughout my reporter life. My SHINee brothers who were still attending
Hogwarts then had lent me their special abilities, and together, we made an
elite detective team.
Jjong who was only one year younger than myself had started
to help with my work full time since graduating from Hogwarts. When Key and
Minho also graduated the year after, the idea of starting a detective company
with the boys took shape, with baby Taemin, who were still in his sixth year,
getting special permission from Professor McGonagall to be off school every now
and then to help.
We left a good impression with the RingDingDong case,
defeating Lady Butterfly. I had to concoct up the milky white angel wing potion
to give us pairs of wings so that we wouldn’t need to fight Lady Butterfly on
broom sticks. None of us were any good in Quidditch except the sports maniac
Minho.
Because of the dramatic nature of the case, my ex-colleagues
in Daily Prophet decided to call us the “shining SHINee” in the news reports,
and the name stuck with the public.
Anyway, two years had passed since, and it’s good to have
Taemin joining us full time now :)
Among our team, only Jjong had got experience dealing with
the Immortals, but he was away with Key on another mission when the mission
came in. I sent Taemin on his first ever solo mission to deal with the
difficult immortals. Not because I’m inconsiderate, but because I knew he is
good enough, and that he will grow even faster with the challenge.
From what I heard from Minho earlier today, it seemed like I
was right ^_^
A visit to Taeminnie’s place was always delightful.
Especially after a long day like this one.
The high ceilings and the candle lit chambers with old
architectures always reminded me of the days in Hogwarts, the only difference
was that the candles were not floating. Father Joseph was always travelling but
when he happened to be around town during my visits, he had never been stingy
with his warm welcome and temperate conversations. Not to mention that Mrs.
Jenkins took care to make sure that our bellies were always filled up with
banana milk.
I was sipping from my serve of banana milk, trying to relax
on the cosy coach when Taemin walked in.
“Omo Taemin ah, it had only been three month since we last
met and you've already grown prettier! Are you sure you havn't got any Veela blood
in you? I can do a blood test for you you know” I joked. This boy, he seemed to
grow so well for the last two years. He’d only been away for three months on this
Immortals mission, and he’d already seem broader at the shoulders. And he did
look pretty with this new long straight brown hair.
Oh, I shall mention the thing that was going on with our
hair. Since we got the hair colour changing potion formula from Mrs. Tonks-Lupin,
our contact point with the aurors in the Ministry, Key-goon who had always loved
his fashion got all excited and managed to modify the formula to change hair
styles at the same time. Ever since then, the five of us, especially Key and
Taemin had been having fun with funky hairstyle changes. So please don’t be
alarmed if we change our hairstyles too much~
“Not again! Is it the hair? I dun mind you guys making fun
of me while I was still growing up but Hyung, I’m a man already T.T” Taemin
complained, as expected ^^ I laughed while watching him empty a potion vial he
carried in his inner pocket into his banana milk and drank.
“Dully noted.” And then I continued. “Hey, young man, not
many can complete what you just did with the Immortals. They were all praises
for you!” I went over to pat his back while his hair started to slowly become
shorter and tousled, maintaining the same colour.
“Oh, jinja? They really think I did alright?” Taemin
straightened his back in his seat.
“Ye, they called the office earlier to send their thanks. You
know how snobbish they are towards us mere mortals right? They must be really
impressed with your work to have done that. Minho was the one who picked up the
phone. He was so happy for you :) ” He was suddenly beaming. Even though by age
he’s already a full adult, he is still so cute most of the time.
“Really?! I was worried sick! What if they didn’t like my
work? What if they think I was interfering with their ways too much? Kyaaaaah!!
I’m so excited hyung!” The lights started to become dim with the magic Taemin
let out through his excitement. And he started to walk up and down the room with
a big grin on his face, shaking his hands and feet like a hyper child.
“LOL~ Calm down a little Taemin.”
“Ne. Poker face...” With that, he stopped the pacing and straightened
his lips which were curling up into a grin with his fingers, trying to make a
poker face.
“Aigoo, not your poker face again…” It made me LOLed again.
“You should still enjoy this moment. Just stop jumping around and get the
lights back up.” Taemin was conscientious of himself getting excited easily and
always trying to compensate by making a poker face.
“Oops, I didn’t even realize that. Hehe, I need more banana
milk.” The lights went to their usual brightness again in an instant and he
helped himself with more banana milk from the jar.
“Hey Taeminah, I’m not only here to congratulate you.
There’s another mission that we just received this morning. It’s a request from
the Solar Nine.”
“Waah!!! The SNSD noonas?!” Taemin spilled his drink. His artificial poker face lit up again before his second wave of excitement made the lights go totally out.
Boys...
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links to clue (pretty much a detective song) and note, two yummy songs that made up the title song "sherlock" in SHINee's newest album.
not sure why were they drinking milk in RingDingDong MV... really trying to appeal to pedophiles?
taemin trying to make poker face after immortal song win:
sorry for the late update again... i was suddenly summoned to Shanghai ="=
anyway, although very tiring, it was a good trip :) so, will be posting pictures from SH too~
but for now, lets have our belated first chapter of de promised fanfic~~~ ^^
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Chapter 1: Our duet
I could always remember the day when Harry Potter sunbaenim sent Voldemort away, forever! Yes, for 8 years now, we no longer live under the shadow of the name which were once feared and not spoken of.
VOLDEMORT! !
See, I could shout his name out loud ^^
When Father Maneija broke the news to us after our evening prayers that day, IU hugged me so hard I thought she was going to break my bones. We were both 11 then. The fall of Voldemort meant that we would be able to attend Hogwards School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the coming autumn :D
Father Maneija found me when he was travelling 18 winters ago. I was wrapped in rags and placed between two massive roots of an old willow at the edge of a village. In the fifth autumn after that, we found IU where the Morning Creek meets the edge of the woods, the place where we used to gather mushrooms.
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"Taemin ah, that sounded good. But you weren't paying attention. I caught you staring into space~" IU shifted the weight of her guitar to her right and ruffled my hair with her freed hand.
Illuminated by the candle light, I thought she looked like a porcelain doll. I stood up from the organ bench and smiled back. "Well, just remembering the day when Father Maneija told us Voldermort was gone. It was in this very room wasn't it?"
We always enjoyed our little duet sessions, with IU playing the 6 strings, and me at the black and white keys of the church organ. Father Maneija was a squib from the well respected Fudge family. Although not blessed with magic, he was a man of skills and wisdom. He left the magic folks at a young age and became a Christian in the muggle world. He learned things feverously, finding them suiting him as a non-magical person much better. He taught us some of these muggle skills, along with common knowledge of the magical world. Father Maneija made sure that we would not be at a disadvantage when we were to live among the magical folks again.
"Mm hmm, we were so exited we couldn't sleep that whole night~~~~" IU joined me at the memory we shared.
"And got degnoming for detention because we were dozing off in the basic runes class the next morning ^^ "
"And then continued to doze off while we were getting rid of the garden gnomes~"
"I still remember one of them sneaked up to you and bit you in the ear." We both LOLed at that.
Then there was a light knock at the door which was already ajar. It was the caretaker Mrs. Jenkins, a middle aged muggle widow who came to the church after her wizard husband was killed by a Death Eater.
"Taeminnie, Onew-ssi wants to see you. He's in the tea room."
This late? I wondered. "OK, thanks for getting me. Hey IU, suppose we'll have to stop here."
"Ne. Wonder why is Onew-oppa visiting this late. Could it be about your last mission?"
I shrugged. I just came back from the mission the night before and was still uncertain if our clients were happy with my service. And they were scary clients who made me nervous all the time T.T
"OK, I know you don't want to talk about it yet." IU gave me a comforting smile and ruffled my hair again. "You will be fine! Anyway, I'll go back to my room then. You two have fun~"
With that, IU set her guitar back onto the stand and we left the music room together. Watson who had been sitting quietly at the couch by the fireplace leaped down nimbly and joined us. IU gave him a good rub at the back of his ears before parting with us at the stairs. Watson and I went down to the hall and then to the east wing where the tea room is. Onew-hyung was having a sip of banana milk from his cup as I walked in. He looked up and set his cup down.
"Omo Taemin ah, it had only been three month since we last met and you've already grown prettier! Are you sure you havn't got any Veela blood in you? I can do a blood test for you you know?"
This again =_= They always did it to me... Don't like!
Because I don't agree well with the polyjuice potion (expensive, loooong brewing time, the pain during transformation, and most of all the disgusting taste, eww! everytime I drink them I just puke them right out again), I started to disguise as women in some of our missions since a few years back. Since then, the boys had never let a chance to tease me about my feminine look goes by.
"Not again! Is it the hair? I dun mind you guys making fun of me while I was still growing up
but Hyung, I’m a man already T.T" Don't think my protest would work either T.T Well, at least being teased wasn't as bad as drinking polyjuice potion...
I poured myself some banana milk (yum~ if only all potions taste like it...) and observed Onew-hyung while emptying a vial of hair styling potion into it. He looked tired with circles around his eyes, but at least he's still spirited enough to tease me. I waited for him to bring up the talk, drinking my precious banana milk ^^
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omo... not even sure wot kind of tone i'm going to write this in yet, just making things up as i write, haha...
let me know wot u think so far, if anything at all... ^_^
last few days had been so cold even my thick quilt wasn't enough at night.
when i'm actually awake and cold and the jacket wasn't enough, i'll just go through the "sherlock" routine once to warm things up. by the end of it, the jacket is usually off instead ^_^
power~~
introduced my colleagues to 24 seasons drum in today's company lunch, u might heard me calling it pizza lunch.
this clip is chonghwa KL's performance during 2010 national competition.
the piece, "catching dreams" won the silver medal, best formation and best percussion prizes.
lets have fun watching this too. my heart still beats stronger and faster with the rhythm after all these years :)
do i have enough material to make up one post already?
Because you’ve always been there to protect me
Because you’ve taken the criticism that I should receive
You have shielded me without a word and now
I will reflect you like a mirror
When it becomes tiring and I want to give up
When I am weak and I want to run away
Your small hand becomes my biggest strength
For the rest of my life, I’ll sing a song for you
You have always been there
Believing in me and protecting me
I’ll convey this song of appreciation
At the end of this very long connection
At the end of this train stop, unaware of where it’ll reach
We learn as we go on and feel many things
I’m always late at expressing my emotions
You won’t be forgotten in my heart, right?
You’ll remain in my eyes as you smile, right?
If my joy can become your happiness
I'll be grateful
:)
[SHINee - Honesty]
a beautiful song for my beautiful mama...
Friday, May 11, 2012
啊，又想你们了呀。。。
初步的内幕消息，6月过后会被续聘 ^_^
(update: yeah~ it's official! boss said, "don't just stop showing up after your contract ends". wee~~~)
y so stupid? do things like child's play....
deceiving rakyat like we are idiots >.<
not happy that it's a peaceful demonstration and have to somehow fabricate violence?!!!
kyaaaaah, geramnye!
Negaraku,
tanah tumpahnye darahku,
Rakyat Hidup, Bersatu dan maju!
rahmat bahagia, tuhan kurniakan,
raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
fans all over the world stayed up late for the mv release at 12.00am Korea Standard Time this morning (me excluded, Shawol, yes, but not a crazy one just yet). but no sherlock mv yet?
SMTown released a cover picture of the boys modelling for Ceci fashion magazine instead. the post ended up flooding with comments demanding for the sherlock mv XD
maybe they decided to do it later in de day this time... *patience*
it's going to be better than lucifer~~~ the songs from the new album are great! but it did feel like something is lacking listening to their dance songs without having the choreo playing infront of my eyes or in the back of my mind ^_^
报告上头后，老板和机械工程老板都兴奋得跑来lab里插一脚，监督我继续给TS2作first aid。。。等温度降到大约50摄氏度后，把temperature controller的电线拔掉，然后开始给TS2抽真空（因为里面是可怕的氢气），再罩上argon（像是人类的氧气罩吧）。说起来，和人类CPR的程序还真得很像。。。DRSABCD: check for Danger check for Response Send for help check Airways check for Breath perform CPR apply Defibrillator
只是因为毕竟是专业material scientist，所以就一直做到能够保住性命的阶段后才send for help了。
恢复到大家都满意的状况后，决定先用午餐，等他冷却到室温了再来开刀。
开刀过程才叫好玩，防火衣+full face mask，因为是自燃性material，虽然只有1gram。过程中出了点小状况，也被顺利解决。铝制的crucible已爆裂，也有部分熔化后再次凝固的痕迹，亮晶晶的dendritic structure啊~ 里面的material也是类似状况。crucible和TS2熔合在一起了，好不容易把熔合的部分一起取出，老板在试图分开两者时，无可避免地把熔合部分破坏了。是我可就没办法下决心把它破坏掉。。。取出的material如常装在充满argon的sample jar里保存。
抄一个quote来： “Setelah fans dibuat melongo terkejut saat melihat teaser imej comeback SHINee dengan foto pertama Minho, kini SM Entertainment kembali membuat Shawol penasaran. Di foto kedua untuk promo mini album "Sherlock" itu, penampilan Taemin juga tidak kalah hebohnya. ”
