Balloon Head ともだち

Taylor's Asaban Fest 2010, organised by the Taylor's Anime Society, located at Taylor's Lakeside College. A day to remember like any other day, no, scratch that, a day to remember like any other anime convention that is almost as good as Comic Fiesta but wait, I did not have as much fun as those other anime conventions because my hearing and sight sight and almost all of my awareness of my surroundings were cut in half as I was cosplaying Tomodachi. From this I decided not to cosplay Tomodachi unless I'm really out of options.

My dad dropped me at Taylor's Lakeside College Campus around 9:45 in the morning. There I met up with Melvin, Priscilla, Abby and Tecky. We had to wait outside for a while for the doors to open and outside at the Cosplay Cafe was where I saw Cheryl and Emanuel. Abby is again Squalo Superbi. I'm not familiar with Cheryl's cosplay but Emanuel was an awesome Ulquiorra. It took him about an hour to put on all the makeup though. Their friend Yumi was there as well.

As mentioned above, I cosplayed Tomodachi and I regretted it. There was so many thing happening around me but I couldn't see and so I missed out a lot of things. Well, I got fed up with cosplaying as Tomodachi because I really got annoying thinking about all the awesome things happening around me and I can't see them clearly. This is different from at GAMP because GAMP was small and didn't really have a big awesome response. TAF here, is big and there was a huge number of cosplayers around! I had to get out of my blinding mask and take photos! Here I learnt a lesson. Never cosplay characters that will half blind you at big events, you will regret it, big time.

Anyhow, I cosplayed for about three hours and stopped. I took this chance to take photos of other cosplayers and joined Yati in the RPG game the Taylor's Anime Society members made. Without my mask, I got to eat. Yes! EAT! And I got to talk to Jun Ee properly. He said he said 'Hi.' to me while I was cosplaying but did not get a reply from me. Yes, the reason is that I was half deaf!

Asaban had two sessions. One was the day session and the other is the night session. The name, Asaban (朝晩) basically mean 'day and night' with 'asa' (朝) meaning 'day' and 'ban' (晩) meaning 'night'. As the day session came close to an end, I put on my mask again just to satisfy the cosplay side of me. Little did I know that the whole time I was cosplaying, I looked like a balloon head. After the day session came to an end, Kuui and Yati got their hands on free food because the people selling them got desperate to give them away. Kuui was a member of the TAS and he helped out that day, he took a lot takoyaki and chicken burgers and made them his dinner. There was this stall selling Japanese traditional stall food like yakisoba, okonomiyaki, tori katsu and sort. Around this time, they were giving away a buy one free one offer. I got some tori katsu and yakiudon.

After that, the three of us left for Ikano by bus. The rest of the night is a different story now. A stressful but enjoyable story. Hahaha.