This is the tale of a measly little shark,
Who's heart so tall but height of a lark.
It fell in love after an unexpected little spark,
But that love only lasted, it was put in the dark.
The measly little shark had a competition,
It's new friend, a young one, what a situation.
The measly little shark had kind intention,
But the words don't come out right, complication.
It struggled with itself in frustration,
The young one went ahead, like temptation.
Measly little shark felt like damnation,
It took it's love out and did a confession.
This is the tale of the measly little shark,
Who got rejected but it didn't get in the park.
Depression within itself, did the measly little shark,
It sought itself out and came out of the dark.
This is the tale of the measly little shark,
It didn't give up, it's heart didn't hark.
This the tale of the measly little shark,
It dug it's own grave, it became quite a nark.
Young one met his problematic situation,
He threatened the shark, it was a short commotion.
Measly little shark needed to end it's one-sided transaction,
It asked it's love to properly reject it to it's own devastation.
This is the tale of the measly little shark,
Who's heart so tall but height of a lark.
It fell in love after an unexpected little spark,
That love will still grow, while it's kept in the dark.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
In The Past Month of Utmost Busy
It's been almost a month since I last had plenty of free time. Why? I got myself a part-time job. And it's not some part-time job, it's a part-time job at Hamley's. The work environment is fun, exciting and tiring at the same time. There is almost no feelings of hierarchy here because of my humble superiors. My schedule is six days a week which means I work on weekends as well, this cut out a lot of personal time so I haven't been able to engage in my computer games, manga and anime recently. I also communicate less with Kai and the others which makes me feel a little lonely. Usually when I work in the afternoon shift, I would reach home at around 11pm feeling tired so I would just check my Facebook, watch maybe two YouTube videos or an anime episode and then go to sleep. Working at a retail outlet, naturally I would make friends with the other workers. Much to my surprise, my seniors (who are younger than me) are fresh graduates from my secondary school. They in turn knew about me because of my youngest sister who is apparently very popular at school as she's a cheerleader. Weekdays are pretty quiet because we don't get a lot of customers, these days are when we practice our demonstration products but it sometimes gets pretty boring because no customers means no activity in the shop. Weekends is what I would describe as 'Hell breaks loose' because children do not have classes and they will be EVERYWHERE. It gets very hectic and busy. However busy with work though, I give myself time for the scouts. Though, Rover activities are hard to attend because of the time constrains.
On the first week of April I had my convocation or graduation ceremony. My mom was there the whole time with me while my dad was there for a while. My sisters didn't come because they had other functions. At the graduation was also Kai, Wilson, KW, Wee, Cardin, VF and others for their award ceremony for the success of their short films in national and international competitions. If they weren't there, my graduation might have been a little lonely.
Just last weekend was 157th Petaling's Tenderfoot Training Course. This year round, because of a dengue problem in the school, the scouts were not allowed to stay overnight in school like previous years. It was the first time the course was literally a 'course' and not a camp. This year I volunteered to be the camp (course) chief after Mav asked. The course went pretty well despite a few mishaps, everything was pretty fulfilling. Hopefully the juniors who came for TTC will return for Skills Camp.
*If I wasn't so busy, there would be longer individual posts for each event that happened the past month. Welp.
On the first week of April I had my convocation or graduation ceremony. My mom was there the whole time with me while my dad was there for a while. My sisters didn't come because they had other functions. At the graduation was also Kai, Wilson, KW, Wee, Cardin, VF and others for their award ceremony for the success of their short films in national and international competitions. If they weren't there, my graduation might have been a little lonely.
Just last weekend was 157th Petaling's Tenderfoot Training Course. This year round, because of a dengue problem in the school, the scouts were not allowed to stay overnight in school like previous years. It was the first time the course was literally a 'course' and not a camp. This year I volunteered to be the camp (course) chief after Mav asked. The course went pretty well despite a few mishaps, everything was pretty fulfilling. Hopefully the juniors who came for TTC will return for Skills Camp.
*If I wasn't so busy, there would be longer individual posts for each event that happened the past month. Welp.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Coo Coo
About a week ago, out of the blue, while I was just doing my usual time wasting on the internet, a pigeon crashed into the little inaccessible totally pointless balcony thing that is supposed to be use for the aircond fan machine thing gosh the previous owner is absolutely stupid. Where was I? Oh yes, a pigeon crashed into the window beside me. I couldn't do anything because there's a grill over the window (hence inaccessible) so I just left the poor fella there. The pigeon just waddled around for quite some time before being recovering a bit to able to fly up to the (retarded) balcony thing (totally useless). I decided to close the window so that the pigeon wouldn't accidentally fly in. And so that pigeon just hanged around until it was able to fly away, after like two hours or something.
Following that incident, the pigeon keeps coming back to the balcony thing. It just hangs around and coos. A quick Google search tells me that pigeons recognises humans, whether the person is good or bad. Unlike the vengeful crows, pigeons avoid unfriendly humans and stick to friendly humans.
Every time it comes, I would close the window, leaving a little gap for air circulation (I need it, the area around my computer is hot). Soon, the visits become from afternoons to evenings to mornings to evenings. Sometimes I would be awaken by it's coos (I often sleep until 1pm now). Some times the pigeon would be at the neighbors' side (where it wasn't renovated into a shitty balcony shaped thing). It just spends the whole day just hanging around and cooing.
Yesterday was no exception. I woke up at 9am finding the pigeon by my window. I got used to it already so I just left the bird alone and played Battlefield 4. I was so focused on trying to snipe an enemy's head that when the pigeon suddenly flew into the window, I yelped in surprised (and shock). I remembered that I told my dad the night before about the pigeon and he said it was a good sign and that if it comes back I should give it some water or food. Yeah, I did that once but the pigeon totally ignored it. Well, I provided it water this time again anyway. Anyway, my dad got home and I quickly called him over to see it. He was impressed and told me a tale about he and his brothers taking care of a pigeon back when they were younger and it gave them good luck. He then went out to buy dinner.
So I continued playing my game when the pigeon bumped into the window again. Then it hit me that the pigeon looked like it was trying to come in, so I closed the window, leaving the small gap like usual. I thought that the pigeon won't be able to come in already so when it bumped in the window another time, I ignored it but then right when I paused the game to take a break the pigeon flew up and got stuck in the gap. I panicked and tried to figure out a way to get it out but not let it in but nothing came to mind. I let the window open a little hoping the pigeon would fall down maybe but not hurt itself. Instead, the pigeon immediately flew right in and landed on my table, right in front of my keyboard. I quickly called for my dad because I don't know how to deal with birds, but of course, my dad is out. My sister came up instead to see what was going on and was terrified of the pigeon, she quickly called my dad and told him the situation, then she promptly took pictures of the pigeon from far. Quickly, I turned off the ceiling fan because I was afraid that the pigeon might fly up and KO itself against the (killer death) blades of the fan. Not knowing what to do next, I just stood away from my table with my phone that I manage to snag before pigeon dude stepped on it (I took the chance to also take a photo).
The pigeon flew around for a bit, walking here and there. I pictured those children stories about taking care of birds and make a make shift "bed" with the box my ukulele came in and a floor rag but who am I kidding, what happens in children stories stay in children stories, the pigeon ignored the "bird bed" and finally landed on the floor. To which, it started following me around, more specifically waddle around, more specifically, it was fixated on my toes, to be precised, it was chasing my toes. I walked around and around, to and fro of my computer table and it kept chasing my toes. When I put both my hands on the computer table to try and Facebook about it, it flies up to my stool, when I walk away, it jumps back onto the floor and chases my toes again. When I decided to stand still and see what it does, it pecked at my toenail! It really hits a nerve and tingles so I tucked my toes until my feet but it still tries to peck at them, so it pecks at my toes. I wanted to try and pick it up but it earlier when it was on my computer table it was fixated on my hands so I was worried it might peck my fingers.
My dad finally got back and calmly he picked up the pigeon. Surprisingly the pigeon was not afraid of my dad and let him pick it up. My dad then took it out to the front and also got it some rice grains for it to eat (my sister quickly went to get my dogs into their cages in case Patches decides to attack the pigeon) but the pigeon got upset and tried to fly back into the house. Even after closing the front door, the pigeon tried to fly in, then it got quiet. Turned out the pigeon flew back to the back of my house, to my window and tried to come in. After knocking into the window a few times, it finally gave up and hanged around like usual. My dad took the rice grains and water from earlier and place them by my window (on the retarded balcony thing). The pigeon took some water, not sure if it ate the rice, and hang around like normal. Then like usual, it left as the sun set, back to where it came from.
My dad commented about how the pigeon is actually well fed (not skinny) and not afraid of us. We're thinking that the pigeon is originally owned by someone else or is still owned by someone else. My dad also said that the pigeon is probably attracted to me already since it kept following me around and tried to fly back into the house to find me. He also kept saying how I will be experiencing something lucky soon. Anyway, I don't know how to keep birds as a pet so it kinda scares me. I just hope the pigeon will stay healthy as it is, and not come in again. Pigeons poop a lot (that's what I heard).
Following that incident, the pigeon keeps coming back to the balcony thing. It just hangs around and coos. A quick Google search tells me that pigeons recognises humans, whether the person is good or bad. Unlike the vengeful crows, pigeons avoid unfriendly humans and stick to friendly humans.
Every time it comes, I would close the window, leaving a little gap for air circulation (I need it, the area around my computer is hot). Soon, the visits become from afternoons to evenings to mornings to evenings. Sometimes I would be awaken by it's coos (I often sleep until 1pm now). Some times the pigeon would be at the neighbors' side (where it wasn't renovated into a shitty balcony shaped thing). It just spends the whole day just hanging around and cooing.
Yesterday was no exception. I woke up at 9am finding the pigeon by my window. I got used to it already so I just left the bird alone and played Battlefield 4. I was so focused on trying to snipe an enemy's head that when the pigeon suddenly flew into the window, I yelped in surprised (and shock). I remembered that I told my dad the night before about the pigeon and he said it was a good sign and that if it comes back I should give it some water or food. Yeah, I did that once but the pigeon totally ignored it. Well, I provided it water this time again anyway. Anyway, my dad got home and I quickly called him over to see it. He was impressed and told me a tale about he and his brothers taking care of a pigeon back when they were younger and it gave them good luck. He then went out to buy dinner.
So I continued playing my game when the pigeon bumped into the window again. Then it hit me that the pigeon looked like it was trying to come in, so I closed the window, leaving the small gap like usual. I thought that the pigeon won't be able to come in already so when it bumped in the window another time, I ignored it but then right when I paused the game to take a break the pigeon flew up and got stuck in the gap. I panicked and tried to figure out a way to get it out but not let it in but nothing came to mind. I let the window open a little hoping the pigeon would fall down maybe but not hurt itself. Instead, the pigeon immediately flew right in and landed on my table, right in front of my keyboard. I quickly called for my dad because I don't know how to deal with birds, but of course, my dad is out. My sister came up instead to see what was going on and was terrified of the pigeon, she quickly called my dad and told him the situation, then she promptly took pictures of the pigeon from far. Quickly, I turned off the ceiling fan because I was afraid that the pigeon might fly up and KO itself against the (killer death) blades of the fan. Not knowing what to do next, I just stood away from my table with my phone that I manage to snag before pigeon dude stepped on it (I took the chance to also take a photo).
The pigeon flew around for a bit, walking here and there. I pictured those children stories about taking care of birds and make a make shift "bed" with the box my ukulele came in and a floor rag but who am I kidding, what happens in children stories stay in children stories, the pigeon ignored the "bird bed" and finally landed on the floor. To which, it started following me around, more specifically waddle around, more specifically, it was fixated on my toes, to be precised, it was chasing my toes. I walked around and around, to and fro of my computer table and it kept chasing my toes. When I put both my hands on the computer table to try and Facebook about it, it flies up to my stool, when I walk away, it jumps back onto the floor and chases my toes again. When I decided to stand still and see what it does, it pecked at my toenail! It really hits a nerve and tingles so I tucked my toes until my feet but it still tries to peck at them, so it pecks at my toes. I wanted to try and pick it up but it earlier when it was on my computer table it was fixated on my hands so I was worried it might peck my fingers.
My dad finally got back and calmly he picked up the pigeon. Surprisingly the pigeon was not afraid of my dad and let him pick it up. My dad then took it out to the front and also got it some rice grains for it to eat (my sister quickly went to get my dogs into their cages in case Patches decides to attack the pigeon) but the pigeon got upset and tried to fly back into the house. Even after closing the front door, the pigeon tried to fly in, then it got quiet. Turned out the pigeon flew back to the back of my house, to my window and tried to come in. After knocking into the window a few times, it finally gave up and hanged around like usual. My dad took the rice grains and water from earlier and place them by my window (on the retarded balcony thing). The pigeon took some water, not sure if it ate the rice, and hang around like normal. Then like usual, it left as the sun set, back to where it came from.
My dad commented about how the pigeon is actually well fed (not skinny) and not afraid of us. We're thinking that the pigeon is originally owned by someone else or is still owned by someone else. My dad also said that the pigeon is probably attracted to me already since it kept following me around and tried to fly back into the house to find me. He also kept saying how I will be experiencing something lucky soon. Anyway, I don't know how to keep birds as a pet so it kinda scares me. I just hope the pigeon will stay healthy as it is, and not come in again. Pigeons poop a lot (that's what I heard).
Monday, March 10, 2014
NEET
"Not in Education, Employment, or Training."
It's been a really long time now that I've been doing nothing. My mom's been bugging me to find a job but it's not that easy. So far I've haven't got any luck with the part-time jobs I've tried to apply for. Utterly jobless, everyday goes by a wasting.
Because everyone else is either already working or still studying, I've got nowhere to go, seeing as I've got no freedom of transport, and nothing to do.
I have a whole list of things to do (mostly read manga, watch anime, look at artworks), but I don't have to mood to start on them because it's the same routine everyday. I'm thinking of going out to do something but I don't know what.
With no car, I am stuck at home. What a waste of time.
It's been a really long time now that I've been doing nothing. My mom's been bugging me to find a job but it's not that easy. So far I've haven't got any luck with the part-time jobs I've tried to apply for. Utterly jobless, everyday goes by a wasting.
Because everyone else is either already working or still studying, I've got nowhere to go, seeing as I've got no freedom of transport, and nothing to do.
I have a whole list of things to do (mostly read manga, watch anime, look at artworks), but I don't have to mood to start on them because it's the same routine everyday. I'm thinking of going out to do something but I don't know what.
With no car, I am stuck at home. What a waste of time.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Series of Random Thoughts
First off, I applied for a part-time job but I haven't been got back at yet. I'm nervous. I hope I get hired. I need to get off my computer as I've been wasting time in front of it for a long time already.
My convocation (or graduation ceremony) is around the corner. I'm nervous. And anxious.
A few weeks ago I went back to college to attend a post-mortem session for our graduation short films along with this year's final year students (who are gonna and are in the process of making their graduation short). I was surprised to how well my group's film turned out. When I saw the final product my group leader showed us the week before I thought, "Damn, we're just so-so." but on that day there were a few more changes and it turned out better than I expected. It went from a "So-so." to a "We did it!". Out of all the other groups, my group's short film manage to get quite a lot of laughs compared to the other groups I deemed better than us. After screening each film, Mr. Mike L. Murphy gave us his final comments on what we can fix to make our film better and stuff.
At the end my group leader wanted to make some changes according to Mike's suggestions so the next week I went to re-render the water simulation. I wasn't there when it came out; It took two days, my group leader said that there wasn't any difference so he's gonna leave it as it was in the final. So that's our short film done. I don't know when we're gonna promote it, I guess I gotta ask him soon. Right now it's only my group leader and me, the others are already working (Shyariman is MIA).
Recently I've been seeing quite a number of weeaboo posts on anime Facebook pages. I try to ignore them but there's so many I can't take it. They're so retarded, it really gets on my nerves. Image posts like,
Or this image post I saw just now, "Return of 2 Great Anime" and there's an image of DragonBall and Fairy Tail next to each other. Fairy Tail? Great? Are you kidding me? Sure it's a long running manga series, but "great"? Please. DragonBall is not that poor to be compared to Fairy Tail. It's not poor at all! It's out of Fairy Tail's league!
At first the 'Did You Know Anime' page was pretty informative, but sometimes it sprouts stuff that is bluntly obvious. Like names of characters and how they are related to their abilities or skills (DUH!). Or images posts comparing differences of the manga and anime. Those are okay but the comments are full of anime fans who don't know better.
The problem with anime industry now starts with the production companies making anime. Anime nowadays are just girls, boobs, panty shots, more girls and suggestive scenes. What happened to the story? A major turn of events from 2010 and 2014. In just 4 years, anime companies turn towards novels or manga with 'ecchi' as the tag, they take the core story, throw away the content and replace it with fan service. Absolute bullshit. Even Miyazaki Hayao made a comment about the anime industry not making quality anime. A big salute to the master!
Recently an internet phenomenon spawned, Twitch Plays Pokemon (TPP) became such a big hit there's a culture around it. At first it was pretty fun, it was a major chaos of madness in the classic Pokemon Red. But then the players started the TPP culture. Stories started spawning from the random and chaos of the game. "Praise the Helix!", "Anarchy" and "Democracy", those were fun at first but it turned into a monster. The memes and culture that grew around TPP started to poison the normal Pokemon videos. When I saw a comment on Pimpnite's WiFi battle videos saying, "How dare you use the false prophet.". I knew that was going over the line, TPP memes stay in TPP. The world of Pokemon games are not related to the TPP culture, and it seems some idiots cannot differentiate. After TPP completed the game, I started to see how the TPP culture is really stupid. Now I've lost the interest to check out the new TPP on Crystal.
People are ignorant. When I saw a Babymetal music video posted on 9Gag, I was curious to how the oblivious would react to one of Japan's fresh creations. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of hate comments. Ignorance is such a pain in the ass.
There's a question that has been on my mind for a long time but I don't know how to put it in words. I've tried to word it but the responses I've gotten were just confusion. Time is such a convenient human perception but I am confused by it's beginning of each day and end of each night concept.
As we know, the Earth is round, keep that in mind. Thanks to time zones, we can tell the time of each country or city compared to one's own. Also, with time zones and the Earth's rotation, we know that the countries to the east is faster than countries to the west, with that, the east is sometimes a day ahead of the west. That all works with the 24 hour concept. Now recall that the Earth is round, east is faster than west and that we use a 24 hour concept. When the Earth is round, there must be a starting point of when the very first new day of a 'today' is, and that point is the end of the last 'yesterday'. Where is that point? And if you know where that point is, if you move back and forth within the boundaries of this point, does this mean you are technically traveling forward or backward in time (it's just technical, in terms of numbers, not physical)? Or you your brain just gave up on what I just said. I think I will try to word that properly in a different post.
My convocation (or graduation ceremony) is around the corner. I'm nervous. And anxious.
A few weeks ago I went back to college to attend a post-mortem session for our graduation short films along with this year's final year students (who are gonna and are in the process of making their graduation short). I was surprised to how well my group's film turned out. When I saw the final product my group leader showed us the week before I thought, "Damn, we're just so-so." but on that day there were a few more changes and it turned out better than I expected. It went from a "So-so." to a "We did it!". Out of all the other groups, my group's short film manage to get quite a lot of laughs compared to the other groups I deemed better than us. After screening each film, Mr. Mike L. Murphy gave us his final comments on what we can fix to make our film better and stuff.
At the end my group leader wanted to make some changes according to Mike's suggestions so the next week I went to re-render the water simulation. I wasn't there when it came out; It took two days, my group leader said that there wasn't any difference so he's gonna leave it as it was in the final. So that's our short film done. I don't know when we're gonna promote it, I guess I gotta ask him soon. Right now it's only my group leader and me, the others are already working (Shyariman is MIA).
Recently I've been seeing quite a number of weeaboo posts on anime Facebook pages. I try to ignore them but there's so many I can't take it. They're so retarded, it really gets on my nerves. Image posts like,
"When people tell you to stop watching anime."
[Frozen movie screenshot]
"Don't you see... I can't."
Or
"Cartoon, Anime."
"Know the difference."
Or
[A series of images from Nisekoi anime]
"I can't hold all these feels."
Or this image post I saw just now, "Return of 2 Great Anime" and there's an image of DragonBall and Fairy Tail next to each other. Fairy Tail? Great? Are you kidding me? Sure it's a long running manga series, but "great"? Please. DragonBall is not that poor to be compared to Fairy Tail. It's not poor at all! It's out of Fairy Tail's league!
At first the 'Did You Know Anime' page was pretty informative, but sometimes it sprouts stuff that is bluntly obvious. Like names of characters and how they are related to their abilities or skills (DUH!). Or images posts comparing differences of the manga and anime. Those are okay but the comments are full of anime fans who don't know better.
The problem with anime industry now starts with the production companies making anime. Anime nowadays are just girls, boobs, panty shots, more girls and suggestive scenes. What happened to the story? A major turn of events from 2010 and 2014. In just 4 years, anime companies turn towards novels or manga with 'ecchi' as the tag, they take the core story, throw away the content and replace it with fan service. Absolute bullshit. Even Miyazaki Hayao made a comment about the anime industry not making quality anime. A big salute to the master!
Recently an internet phenomenon spawned, Twitch Plays Pokemon (TPP) became such a big hit there's a culture around it. At first it was pretty fun, it was a major chaos of madness in the classic Pokemon Red. But then the players started the TPP culture. Stories started spawning from the random and chaos of the game. "Praise the Helix!", "Anarchy" and "Democracy", those were fun at first but it turned into a monster. The memes and culture that grew around TPP started to poison the normal Pokemon videos. When I saw a comment on Pimpnite's WiFi battle videos saying, "How dare you use the false prophet.". I knew that was going over the line, TPP memes stay in TPP. The world of Pokemon games are not related to the TPP culture, and it seems some idiots cannot differentiate. After TPP completed the game, I started to see how the TPP culture is really stupid. Now I've lost the interest to check out the new TPP on Crystal.
People are ignorant. When I saw a Babymetal music video posted on 9Gag, I was curious to how the oblivious would react to one of Japan's fresh creations. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of hate comments. Ignorance is such a pain in the ass.
There's a question that has been on my mind for a long time but I don't know how to put it in words. I've tried to word it but the responses I've gotten were just confusion. Time is such a convenient human perception but I am confused by it's beginning of each day and end of each night concept.
As we know, the Earth is round, keep that in mind. Thanks to time zones, we can tell the time of each country or city compared to one's own. Also, with time zones and the Earth's rotation, we know that the countries to the east is faster than countries to the west, with that, the east is sometimes a day ahead of the west. That all works with the 24 hour concept. Now recall that the Earth is round, east is faster than west and that we use a 24 hour concept. When the Earth is round, there must be a starting point of when the very first new day of a 'today' is, and that point is the end of the last 'yesterday'. Where is that point? And if you know where that point is, if you move back and forth within the boundaries of this point, does this mean you are technically traveling forward or backward in time (it's just technical, in terms of numbers, not physical)? Or you your brain just gave up on what I just said. I think I will try to word that properly in a different post.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
A Little Reunion
Last Friday I joined a small gathering of my Standard 6 classmates. Jessie had created an event page and Jackie invited the whole class but only nine of us turned up. It was okay. Jackie was saying how every reunion we have, we always see the same faces. At our reunion, there was Jessie, Jackie, Sureen, Stephanie, Seng Keat, Hon Keat, Vincent, Josh and me. We had dinner at Kitchen Creatures at Centerpoint. During the dinner we talked about all kinds of things (as usual I did mostly listening). There was some discussion about Jackie's engagement, we talked about our studies and a bunch of stuff; Clearly I cannot remember everything, it was an amalgamation of talk. After dinner we moved to McDonald's to continue our talk because the table at Kitchen Creatures was long, we couldn't talk to each other efficiently. At McDonald's Jackie got three round tables together so that we can sit in a circle. We basically did some catching up and idle chat. It was a good change of pace for me. My Standard 6 class reunions are so far the best reunions I've had. We get to talk to each other so easily despite not seeing each other for up to ten years. Why yes, it's been ten years already. I hope to see them again soon. The next time will be Jessie's Chinese New Year open house. Jackie was making sure we go for the open house before we dismissed the reunion. Haha.
Friday, January 10, 2014
A New Year, An Update From Last Year & This Year
It's been a long time since I last updated this blog simply because nothing interesting happened. Oh wait, Comic Fiesta happened, and I totally forgot to blog about it. Reason? I was too engrossed with stuff that I forgot. So here it is.
Starting off:
Comic Fiesta 2013
What happened this year? A lot of people were complaining about CF Volunteer's attitudes, crowds, queues, people who cut queues, special tag abuse and so on. As for me, I was completely oblivious to all that because I was at my booth 90% of the time, both days.
At first I thought I wasn't going to have a booth because all booths were already booked 8 minutes after the booking list was opened. But a month before CF, Wee informed me that he got a booth and was looking for people, that was absolutely great news because I got used to being at a booth at CF that I got scared from the thought of waiting in line to go in, also I often AGC events so much I don't know what to do besides looking at booths, stage performances, meet friends and get bored (fast). The only stuff I got to sell are the Pokeball badges I printed months ago, which I first sold at AniManGaki before.
On Day1, I met up with Ang Yu at the Kelana Jaya LRT station with my goods and we went to KLCC together. Kin Yen would be joining us later after his exam at college. For this year, I decided not to cosplay because, I was too lazy and it would be a hassle as I decided to stay at the booth. Along the way, Laura called me to check if I was at the event halls already or not, which was a surprise to me because Wee couldn't confirm who was sharing the booth besides the two of us. This got complicated when I found out that Baddie and Misaki didn't inform Wee properly that they were bringing their goods to sell as well. But that problem was relieved soon after.
Laura got me into the halls with the pass upon my arrival at the halls and we quickly set up our booth. Our right side neighbor were two friendly adults, Shirley and [I am bad at remembering names], from Indonesia. Because I set up on the left side of the booth I didn't talk to them that much, Laura and Wee chatted with them mostly.
Now this is where the fun part begins. I had advertised my Pokeball badges on Facebook before so a lot of people came looking forward to purchasing my badges. Before we even finished setting up, a Pokemon Club member from my college's Pokemon (unofficial) club from the Penang campus came to our booth. We chatted a little in the Facebook Group page before so she was aware of my badges and immediately bought a badge from me. My very first customer of the day. Yay!
Besides putting up my badges, I also put up a sign asking for an Iron Key from Pokemon Black 2 version and an offer to exchange DS friend codes to expand our Friend Safari in Pokemon X and Y versions. Overall, it was a success. A lot of friendly people came to exchange friend codes and bought my badges. A lot of friends came to see me too. Baddie and Misaki started to call them "JY's friend No.34590" and such. I appreciate it a lot, to all my friends who came to my booth to see and bought our stuff, thank you very much. The default Pokeball badge got sold out before Day1 art booth section came to a close. I had sets packed before so they became kinda limited. Despite missing breakfast and lunch and also missing out a lot of badges that I wanted to buy (they sold out so fast!), it was a great day. A lessons I learned, when you get pushed to your limit, when you are so hungry and tired, you start calling people by the wrong name.
I stayed over at Kin Yen's house that night and he introduced me to Murni, the mamak fusion I've always been hearing about. It was great.
On Day2, I went prepared. I bought bread and took them into the booth with me. I also got Kin Yen to help me buy some sushi. I went over to Meis' booth and collected the Pokemon t-shirts I ordered and bought a few badges. Then rest of the day was the same. Meeting a lot of people, sitting around, looking at cosplays. Loverin Tamburin was live on stage that day but unfortunately she's not so popular so there were not that many people watching her performance. I felt disappointed that I could not leave the booth because my badges were too difficult for Wee and the others to handle.
My Master Balls got sold out on this day. Some people I met from Day1 came back. One guy tried to give me the Iron Key but some how it failed to transfer over to me. I was very grateful and thanked him so much. I was so close to getting my full PokeDex.
On both days, I frequent my friends' booths, especially Snow and Loli and Meis. On Day1, Loli was cosplaying as Pearl Fey and she said she was disappointed that I was not cosplaying. Because last year I cosplayed as Phoenix Wright. I decided that I'll cosplay Hobo Wright this year, too many friends are asking me to do it and it sparked my interest.
Having a booth is the new thing I look forward to at ACG events. It's what keeps the experience fresh. I can't wait for the next event.
Steam, they make your wallets empty.
Christmas was around the corner and Steam started it's Holiday Sale and Dota2 introduced it's Frostivus 2013, Wraith Night. Now, the reason I forgot to post about Comic Fiesta is Wraith Night. In Wraith Night, you earn fragments after each successful round and you can redeem items with those fragments. Thing is, after winning a whole game, you only get 900 plus fragments, and the cheapest box you can redeem is 2250 fragments (uncommon), the other being 8000 fragments for a rare box. Together with usually Mal, Emma and Yati, we farmed and farmed fragments. Everyday was Wraith Night. I think the only time I didn't play was during Comic Fiesta and that one day when I was out.
While I'm at it, I spent a couple bucks buying games on Steam, since there's a sale, and my wallet had been crying. Throughout the whole sale, I got Skullgirls, Draw a Stickman: EPIC, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage, Audiosurf, Terraria, Super Hexagon, RUSH, EDGE, Mirror's Edge and the best of all, PAYDAY 2. I spent about 60+ bucks on these games. The most frustrating thing about the Steam Holiday Sale is the Flash Sales and Daily Deals they offer, those things suck. That day when I bought Surgeon Simulator 2013 at 50% off, it was on the Daily Deals, at 75% off, 5 hours after I bought it. Absolute bullshit.
It's Penang, again.
My family went back to Penang after Christmas to visit my grandparents like usual. It's the usual sit around at home passing the time, or going out to malls with grandparents and (I love this part) lots of food. This time round, we went sightseeing, the main target were the wall paintings. My mom wanted to see them all but because she always wastes time at one painting (two photos is not enough), my dad and I got impatient and we made a lot of noise about wanting to go back. My dad met one of his old school friends, his class monitor from secondary school, who is running a batik museum at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Along the rows of houses (empty or made into shops) at the site, my parents would point out the previous homes of their childhood friends. My dad knew the place better, he remembers the stationary shops his friends' parents ran, the places they would play at together and the food they'd go to eat after that. Now the place is bustling with tourists.
H---- New Year
We came back on the 31st early in the morning because my sister and I made plans to celebrate new year's with our friends. I was going to sleepover at Kar Loke's place. The plan was to go to his house at 6pm and spend time until the countdown. We had no plans to go to malls or something because I don't wanna get caught in the middle of a massive crowd. But my mom dragged me along to spend time before I go off with my friends, I was okay with that. I had lunch with my parents and my youngest sister (my younger sister went to see her friends already). We went to Daiso to took around and then disaster struck.
When my mom went to Tesco to get me Maxis top-ups. My youngest sister brought up that she wants to go out with her friends. She's been doing that pretty much the whole day but my mom is not letting her go because she's got no transport back home and also, my mom won't let her sleepover because school reopens the day after. My youngest sister got into a fit and started blabbing her mouth away, crying and being her annoying self. Our car was parked in Ikea so my mom had to go buy something for the free parking fee. I was very late already and we kept getting held back because of my youngest sister's ramblings. My parents were already on her bad side but she still kept whining and sobbing. As we left Ikea, my dad exploded and shouted at her in the car. This was the first time in my life I've seen my dad so angry before. I've done a lot of stupid things that got my dad angry at me but I've never made him this angry. But my oh my, my sister sure does not know the meaning of death. My sister continues to talk back at my parents and make bad remakes as my dad gets more and more furious. I transformed from being happy that my parents are finally scolding my youngest sister to fear of my dad's raging temper. When my dad dropped me off at Murni where my friends were already at, I was relieved that I got to get away from the amount of anger going on in the car. I could not imagine what happened after that. I didn't even dare to ask about what happened.
Quiet New Year, Barbecue Dinner
And so, I had dinner at Murni together with Yati, Josh, Kar Loke and Melvin. I told them about what happened, why I was late and stuff. We then left that topic out and had our dinner. To my surprise, Laura was at the restaurant too. I chatted with her a little, and she reminded me about a dinner she had arranged as a little gathering for our classmates. After dinner, together with the others we walked to Kar Loke's house. There we played games to pass the time. I couldn't join in Dota2 because my Mac does not have the specs to play it. We lazed around until we heard fireworks. We went out to try and see any fireworks but all we could see were the lights from the fireworks. Within the housing area, trees were blocking the sky so we went out, the fireworks were too far away so the short buildings were blocking the fireworks, much to our disappointment. We went back to the house and continued. After that Melvin and Josh went back home. I remembered a news report about some people planning to hold a riot to protest against the new tax policy and the increase in price of many items. I also heard that some malls did not have any firework display or lack of crowds. I guess it was quite the quiet New Year celebration this year.
So the next day, Kar Loke woke Yati and me up at 10.30am. Which is a bummer because we went to sleep at 4am. And I usually wake up at 12pm (2pm after I decide to sleep some more). We went out to Ikea to have breakfast and shop for our barbecue. Because Yati and I dilly-dallied, we were late for the Ikea breakfast so we ate at the cafe downstairs instead. After that we went to Tesco and then Centerpoint to get all the things we needed. Then we headed back to Kar Loke's house and spend time again. I lent Yati my 3DS to play Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. I just passed the time playing Super Hexagon because that's the only game on Steam my Mac has space for to download.
Later in the afternoon, Josh and Melvin came. We then headed out to the barbecue pits and started to start the fire. The sky was dark and it drizzled a little (very little) but luckily it didn't rain. Yu Beng later came and we got a fire going. Chia Kuui later came with his plus-one and Luke came later. We had cocktails, bacon, button mushrooms, marshmallows, chicken patties (not a good idea) and popcorn. After the meal we went to Kar Loke's room and played Dota2 but hosting nine people with one internet connection failed to keep us in game. Luke, Kuui, Yu Beng, Josh and Melvin soon left. My parents couldn't get me home so I had to put another night at Kar Loke's place. Yati joined in now that he had a reason to stay longer, Ace Attorney.
After New Year Breakfast
The next morning, Kar Loke woke Yati and I up at 9.30am. We were gonna have breakfast with Yu Beng and Melvin. I wasn't sure where we were going so I just tagged along. But it turns out we were going to the SS15's famous pork noodle shop. I didn't really want to eat there but we were there already and I was hungry. I have to admit, the pork noodles there is good but the price just went up. If I knew we were gonna eat pork noodles I would have guided Yu Beng to the one at Kepong where I usually eat with my family. It's cheaper and the meat proportions are bigger there. Oh well. After breakfast Yu Beng dropped us back at Kar Loke's place. My dad later picked me up in the afternoon and we dropped Yati back home.
Hey Dinner!
I went for that dinner Laura invited me to. It was a small gathering for our classmates back in college. A small number of us turned up but it was good. There was Laura, Chia, Wee, Kai, KW, Ann Nee, Wilson, Sim Yen and me (duh). I went there early and had to pass the time. Where is a good place besides Popular? I didn't want to spend money at Starbucks or Chatime to use the internet so I went back to my roots. I looked around at the mystery, new arrivals, classics and thriller sections, at first trying to find any of Agatha Christie's works but to no avail. I then settled for the World War Z novel and read it away. After some time, Wee found me and he picked out a self-help book. After a bit some time, Laura contacted Wee and we went off to meet with her.
Everyone got together pretty fast (except Kai, he was stuck in a jam) and Laura urged us to decide on a place to eat, she asked, "Japanese (Sushi Zanmai) or Italian (Capricciosa)?" and we were to vote. It was a difficult decision for me, both sounded equally good so I was okay with either but Laura won't let me go with the flow, if I said anything, it would be Pasta Zanmai, which also a great choice to me. Still, Laura wanted me to pick one so I went with Italian. The final decision was Capricciosa. We took our time eating and chatting with each other. Like usual, I don't talk a lot so Kai blabbed his way at me. We stayed until closing time and we moved to some benches and chatted some more, a lot of random things. I like gatherings like this.
The Multiple of Eleven
So I turned 22. I initially had no plans whatsoever, I was gonna not celebrate my birthday but that felt too sad. I was also indecisive to whether celebrate with my school friends or my college friends. In the end I went with my school friends because most of my college buddies are already working. I got Yati, Josh, Kar Loke, Yu Beng, Kuui and Melvin, the usual, to have lunch. At first I wanted to eat at Chili's but the others had suggestions. After a visit to the ATM machine, I decided on Yati's suggestion, the new Shabu Ten restaurant and boy it was a good choice. Kuui was running late with his plus-one so we went ahead.
There was a grand opening discount and also because it's still new, there's no time limit. Yati's brother and father were there too. We sat at different tables obviously. The moment we sat down and our soup boiling, were dishing in plate after plate after plate of various meat, seafood and vegetables. After about two hours of continuous eating (Was it two hours? It felt like two hours.), Melvin was making a fuss about leaving already. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to eat some more. I didn't even get to take more than three cups of ice-cream! I forgot about the cake I planned to get from Secret Recipe because of the buffet.
With no idea what to do next, Melvin suggested we play Dota2. Honestly I was against the idea but I had nothing to do until my mom can fetch me. I would have sat at some place and quietly enjoy a drink but with so many people, I don't think everyone can sit still and just idle chat over a drink. After the discussion, Kar Loke dropped Kuui and me at Orange, a cybercafe Melvin said was good. The both of us ended up wasting our time and money (Kuui's money, he paid for me since it's my birthday) when Melvin can't join the game.
Putting the Dota Disaster out of the picture, I had a great birthday because buffet and birthday sounds really good together, and they rhyme!
So that's all. END
Starting off:
Comic Fiesta 2013
What happened this year? A lot of people were complaining about CF Volunteer's attitudes, crowds, queues, people who cut queues, special tag abuse and so on. As for me, I was completely oblivious to all that because I was at my booth 90% of the time, both days.
At first I thought I wasn't going to have a booth because all booths were already booked 8 minutes after the booking list was opened. But a month before CF, Wee informed me that he got a booth and was looking for people, that was absolutely great news because I got used to being at a booth at CF that I got scared from the thought of waiting in line to go in, also I often AGC events so much I don't know what to do besides looking at booths, stage performances, meet friends and get bored (fast). The only stuff I got to sell are the Pokeball badges I printed months ago, which I first sold at AniManGaki before.
On Day1, I met up with Ang Yu at the Kelana Jaya LRT station with my goods and we went to KLCC together. Kin Yen would be joining us later after his exam at college. For this year, I decided not to cosplay because, I was too lazy and it would be a hassle as I decided to stay at the booth. Along the way, Laura called me to check if I was at the event halls already or not, which was a surprise to me because Wee couldn't confirm who was sharing the booth besides the two of us. This got complicated when I found out that Baddie and Misaki didn't inform Wee properly that they were bringing their goods to sell as well. But that problem was relieved soon after.
Laura got me into the halls with the pass upon my arrival at the halls and we quickly set up our booth. Our right side neighbor were two friendly adults, Shirley and [I am bad at remembering names], from Indonesia. Because I set up on the left side of the booth I didn't talk to them that much, Laura and Wee chatted with them mostly.
Now this is where the fun part begins. I had advertised my Pokeball badges on Facebook before so a lot of people came looking forward to purchasing my badges. Before we even finished setting up, a Pokemon Club member from my college's Pokemon (unofficial) club from the Penang campus came to our booth. We chatted a little in the Facebook Group page before so she was aware of my badges and immediately bought a badge from me. My very first customer of the day. Yay!
Besides putting up my badges, I also put up a sign asking for an Iron Key from Pokemon Black 2 version and an offer to exchange DS friend codes to expand our Friend Safari in Pokemon X and Y versions. Overall, it was a success. A lot of friendly people came to exchange friend codes and bought my badges. A lot of friends came to see me too. Baddie and Misaki started to call them "JY's friend No.34590" and such. I appreciate it a lot, to all my friends who came to my booth to see and bought our stuff, thank you very much. The default Pokeball badge got sold out before Day1 art booth section came to a close. I had sets packed before so they became kinda limited. Despite missing breakfast and lunch and also missing out a lot of badges that I wanted to buy (they sold out so fast!), it was a great day. A lessons I learned, when you get pushed to your limit, when you are so hungry and tired, you start calling people by the wrong name.
I stayed over at Kin Yen's house that night and he introduced me to Murni, the mamak fusion I've always been hearing about. It was great.
On Day2, I went prepared. I bought bread and took them into the booth with me. I also got Kin Yen to help me buy some sushi. I went over to Meis' booth and collected the Pokemon t-shirts I ordered and bought a few badges. Then rest of the day was the same. Meeting a lot of people, sitting around, looking at cosplays. Loverin Tamburin was live on stage that day but unfortunately she's not so popular so there were not that many people watching her performance. I felt disappointed that I could not leave the booth because my badges were too difficult for Wee and the others to handle.
My Master Balls got sold out on this day. Some people I met from Day1 came back. One guy tried to give me the Iron Key but some how it failed to transfer over to me. I was very grateful and thanked him so much. I was so close to getting my full PokeDex.
On both days, I frequent my friends' booths, especially Snow and Loli and Meis. On Day1, Loli was cosplaying as Pearl Fey and she said she was disappointed that I was not cosplaying. Because last year I cosplayed as Phoenix Wright. I decided that I'll cosplay Hobo Wright this year, too many friends are asking me to do it and it sparked my interest.
Having a booth is the new thing I look forward to at ACG events. It's what keeps the experience fresh. I can't wait for the next event.
Steam, they make your wallets empty.
Christmas was around the corner and Steam started it's Holiday Sale and Dota2 introduced it's Frostivus 2013, Wraith Night. Now, the reason I forgot to post about Comic Fiesta is Wraith Night. In Wraith Night, you earn fragments after each successful round and you can redeem items with those fragments. Thing is, after winning a whole game, you only get 900 plus fragments, and the cheapest box you can redeem is 2250 fragments (uncommon), the other being 8000 fragments for a rare box. Together with usually Mal, Emma and Yati, we farmed and farmed fragments. Everyday was Wraith Night. I think the only time I didn't play was during Comic Fiesta and that one day when I was out.
While I'm at it, I spent a couple bucks buying games on Steam, since there's a sale, and my wallet had been crying. Throughout the whole sale, I got Skullgirls, Draw a Stickman: EPIC, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage, Audiosurf, Terraria, Super Hexagon, RUSH, EDGE, Mirror's Edge and the best of all, PAYDAY 2. I spent about 60+ bucks on these games. The most frustrating thing about the Steam Holiday Sale is the Flash Sales and Daily Deals they offer, those things suck. That day when I bought Surgeon Simulator 2013 at 50% off, it was on the Daily Deals, at 75% off, 5 hours after I bought it. Absolute bullshit.
It's Penang, again.
My family went back to Penang after Christmas to visit my grandparents like usual. It's the usual sit around at home passing the time, or going out to malls with grandparents and (I love this part) lots of food. This time round, we went sightseeing, the main target were the wall paintings. My mom wanted to see them all but because she always wastes time at one painting (two photos is not enough), my dad and I got impatient and we made a lot of noise about wanting to go back. My dad met one of his old school friends, his class monitor from secondary school, who is running a batik museum at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Along the rows of houses (empty or made into shops) at the site, my parents would point out the previous homes of their childhood friends. My dad knew the place better, he remembers the stationary shops his friends' parents ran, the places they would play at together and the food they'd go to eat after that. Now the place is bustling with tourists.
H---- New Year
We came back on the 31st early in the morning because my sister and I made plans to celebrate new year's with our friends. I was going to sleepover at Kar Loke's place. The plan was to go to his house at 6pm and spend time until the countdown. We had no plans to go to malls or something because I don't wanna get caught in the middle of a massive crowd. But my mom dragged me along to spend time before I go off with my friends, I was okay with that. I had lunch with my parents and my youngest sister (my younger sister went to see her friends already). We went to Daiso to took around and then disaster struck.
When my mom went to Tesco to get me Maxis top-ups. My youngest sister brought up that she wants to go out with her friends. She's been doing that pretty much the whole day but my mom is not letting her go because she's got no transport back home and also, my mom won't let her sleepover because school reopens the day after. My youngest sister got into a fit and started blabbing her mouth away, crying and being her annoying self. Our car was parked in Ikea so my mom had to go buy something for the free parking fee. I was very late already and we kept getting held back because of my youngest sister's ramblings. My parents were already on her bad side but she still kept whining and sobbing. As we left Ikea, my dad exploded and shouted at her in the car. This was the first time in my life I've seen my dad so angry before. I've done a lot of stupid things that got my dad angry at me but I've never made him this angry. But my oh my, my sister sure does not know the meaning of death. My sister continues to talk back at my parents and make bad remakes as my dad gets more and more furious. I transformed from being happy that my parents are finally scolding my youngest sister to fear of my dad's raging temper. When my dad dropped me off at Murni where my friends were already at, I was relieved that I got to get away from the amount of anger going on in the car. I could not imagine what happened after that. I didn't even dare to ask about what happened.
Quiet New Year, Barbecue Dinner
And so, I had dinner at Murni together with Yati, Josh, Kar Loke and Melvin. I told them about what happened, why I was late and stuff. We then left that topic out and had our dinner. To my surprise, Laura was at the restaurant too. I chatted with her a little, and she reminded me about a dinner she had arranged as a little gathering for our classmates. After dinner, together with the others we walked to Kar Loke's house. There we played games to pass the time. I couldn't join in Dota2 because my Mac does not have the specs to play it. We lazed around until we heard fireworks. We went out to try and see any fireworks but all we could see were the lights from the fireworks. Within the housing area, trees were blocking the sky so we went out, the fireworks were too far away so the short buildings were blocking the fireworks, much to our disappointment. We went back to the house and continued. After that Melvin and Josh went back home. I remembered a news report about some people planning to hold a riot to protest against the new tax policy and the increase in price of many items. I also heard that some malls did not have any firework display or lack of crowds. I guess it was quite the quiet New Year celebration this year.
So the next day, Kar Loke woke Yati and me up at 10.30am. Which is a bummer because we went to sleep at 4am. And I usually wake up at 12pm (2pm after I decide to sleep some more). We went out to Ikea to have breakfast and shop for our barbecue. Because Yati and I dilly-dallied, we were late for the Ikea breakfast so we ate at the cafe downstairs instead. After that we went to Tesco and then Centerpoint to get all the things we needed. Then we headed back to Kar Loke's house and spend time again. I lent Yati my 3DS to play Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. I just passed the time playing Super Hexagon because that's the only game on Steam my Mac has space for to download.
Later in the afternoon, Josh and Melvin came. We then headed out to the barbecue pits and started to start the fire. The sky was dark and it drizzled a little (very little) but luckily it didn't rain. Yu Beng later came and we got a fire going. Chia Kuui later came with his plus-one and Luke came later. We had cocktails, bacon, button mushrooms, marshmallows, chicken patties (not a good idea) and popcorn. After the meal we went to Kar Loke's room and played Dota2 but hosting nine people with one internet connection failed to keep us in game. Luke, Kuui, Yu Beng, Josh and Melvin soon left. My parents couldn't get me home so I had to put another night at Kar Loke's place. Yati joined in now that he had a reason to stay longer, Ace Attorney.
After New Year Breakfast
The next morning, Kar Loke woke Yati and I up at 9.30am. We were gonna have breakfast with Yu Beng and Melvin. I wasn't sure where we were going so I just tagged along. But it turns out we were going to the SS15's famous pork noodle shop. I didn't really want to eat there but we were there already and I was hungry. I have to admit, the pork noodles there is good but the price just went up. If I knew we were gonna eat pork noodles I would have guided Yu Beng to the one at Kepong where I usually eat with my family. It's cheaper and the meat proportions are bigger there. Oh well. After breakfast Yu Beng dropped us back at Kar Loke's place. My dad later picked me up in the afternoon and we dropped Yati back home.
Hey Dinner!
I went for that dinner Laura invited me to. It was a small gathering for our classmates back in college. A small number of us turned up but it was good. There was Laura, Chia, Wee, Kai, KW, Ann Nee, Wilson, Sim Yen and me (duh). I went there early and had to pass the time. Where is a good place besides Popular? I didn't want to spend money at Starbucks or Chatime to use the internet so I went back to my roots. I looked around at the mystery, new arrivals, classics and thriller sections, at first trying to find any of Agatha Christie's works but to no avail. I then settled for the World War Z novel and read it away. After some time, Wee found me and he picked out a self-help book. After a bit some time, Laura contacted Wee and we went off to meet with her.
Everyone got together pretty fast (except Kai, he was stuck in a jam) and Laura urged us to decide on a place to eat, she asked, "Japanese (Sushi Zanmai) or Italian (Capricciosa)?" and we were to vote. It was a difficult decision for me, both sounded equally good so I was okay with either but Laura won't let me go with the flow, if I said anything, it would be Pasta Zanmai, which also a great choice to me. Still, Laura wanted me to pick one so I went with Italian. The final decision was Capricciosa. We took our time eating and chatting with each other. Like usual, I don't talk a lot so Kai blabbed his way at me. We stayed until closing time and we moved to some benches and chatted some more, a lot of random things. I like gatherings like this.
The Multiple of Eleven
So I turned 22. I initially had no plans whatsoever, I was gonna not celebrate my birthday but that felt too sad. I was also indecisive to whether celebrate with my school friends or my college friends. In the end I went with my school friends because most of my college buddies are already working. I got Yati, Josh, Kar Loke, Yu Beng, Kuui and Melvin, the usual, to have lunch. At first I wanted to eat at Chili's but the others had suggestions. After a visit to the ATM machine, I decided on Yati's suggestion, the new Shabu Ten restaurant and boy it was a good choice. Kuui was running late with his plus-one so we went ahead.
There was a grand opening discount and also because it's still new, there's no time limit. Yati's brother and father were there too. We sat at different tables obviously. The moment we sat down and our soup boiling, were dishing in plate after plate after plate of various meat, seafood and vegetables. After about two hours of continuous eating (Was it two hours? It felt like two hours.), Melvin was making a fuss about leaving already. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to eat some more. I didn't even get to take more than three cups of ice-cream! I forgot about the cake I planned to get from Secret Recipe because of the buffet.
With no idea what to do next, Melvin suggested we play Dota2. Honestly I was against the idea but I had nothing to do until my mom can fetch me. I would have sat at some place and quietly enjoy a drink but with so many people, I don't think everyone can sit still and just idle chat over a drink. After the discussion, Kar Loke dropped Kuui and me at Orange, a cybercafe Melvin said was good. The both of us ended up wasting our time and money (Kuui's money, he paid for me since it's my birthday) when Melvin can't join the game.
Putting the Dota Disaster out of the picture, I had a great birthday because buffet and birthday sounds really good together, and they rhyme!
So that's all. END
Friday, December 6, 2013
Welcome Test Subjects!
Recently I bought Portal 2 on Steam during it's Autumn Sale. I've played Portal 2 before, pirated, so I sailed through the single player with ease. Thankfully I remember what to do and stuff. The first time I played it I was absolutely clueless.
Anyway, I completed the co-op levels with Josh yesterday and I played around with some community test chambers. And then I made my own test chambers. So yes. To whoever who reads my pointless blog and this blog post with a motive, I'd very much appreciate it if you try out my test chambers if you have Portal 2 on Steam. The link will be down there.
Now I'm thinking with portals.
Happy testing and have fun!
Anyway, I completed the co-op levels with Josh yesterday and I played around with some community test chambers. And then I made my own test chambers. So yes. To whoever who reads my pointless blog and this blog post with a motive, I'd very much appreciate it if you try out my test chambers if you have Portal 2 on Steam. The link will be down there.
Now I'm thinking with portals.
Happy testing and have fun!
Friday, November 29, 2013
Fleeting Feeling of the Absolute Carefree
For the past few months I haven't really been doing anything. Ever since my classes have ended, that sense of fighting for the future thing just stopped happening. Every week, I choose what days to go to college, the factors depend on whether I feel like it, if my friends are going and if I have something to do. When I go to college, the working studio is always filled with juniors so I have to find a lab to work in. By "work", I mean the short film project my group is working on for our graduation, and by that I mean "pass the time". Ever since my part in CG modeling was done, I had a few weeks of not doing anything and then I got called back to work on water simulation. Early stages was horrible, I believe I had complained it before in previous posts, if not, that's nothing to mention about now.
The past month (late October onward), all I've been doing is; 1) Find a computer, 2) Switch on the computer, 3) Open Maya 2012, 4) Open the water simulation scene file, 5) Open Firefox/Chrome, 6) Log into Facebook and Dropbox, 7) Play Pokemon, 8) Tweak water simulation, 9) Repeat step 7. When lunch time comes, I'd call Emmanuel and Ann Nee and we'd go catch lunch together and pretty much hang out at the restaurant and at the lab until I go home, usually at 3 or 4pm.
There really isn't much for me to do because I had pretty much nailed the water simulation. All I had to get was my group's approval on the simulation and I would be done. The last two weeks all I did was refining the simulation but in count of days, it took me only 2. Finally today I passed the files to my group member who's in charge of rendering. Now I'm back to doing nothing.
A few days ago, our lecturer posted on Facebook that our final submission date is the first week of December. Honestly, I don't know the progress of my group, our group leader does not update us or tell us what is happening. I only found out that our animation have finished when I asked a few weeks ago, and I still don't know our group's progress.
So, our final submission is in December but our graduation is in April. I had the thought of getting a part time job until then but knowing myself, I'm too lazy. I'd rather sit at home and hunt shiny Pokemon, read manga and watch anime. Night time is Dota2 time so that is not a problem. Maybe I'll really get a part time job to get some extra money. I've been overspending on food recently. Seriously, all I've been spending my money on is food, though there is a 10% spending on games.
A mail came in the other day with the particulars about my graduation. There are so many rules and so many words I feel that it's such a hassle and a bother. The price is expensive too! It's such bullshit. I really can't wait for my graduation, I can't wait to get it over with because thinking about it makes me feel such stress from such hassle.
When I don't go to college, the time I wake up range from a span of 11am to 2pm. After waking I would spend my time just like that. If I feel like it, I'd make nuggets for lunch, if not, it's instant noodles. After lunch I would just hang around Facebook, play Pokemon, watch anime, read manga or just spend the time doing nothing. Then evening comes and Skype would become busy. Every day I'd talk with KW, Ann Nee and Mal (Mal comes on pretty late since she's overseas now). Emma and Cardin seldom joins the conversation. On weekends, Kai will be around. Some nights we'd Google Hangout together with the addition of Cheryl and JL. And it's become a habit to play Dota2 every night. We'd play until 3am (4am on weekends). So now I got these eyebags. I plan to ditch Dota2 one night to get enough sleep. I'd also like to get some exercise if possible, sports or hiking or something.
So for the past month, I've just been "living the moment". I haven't put much thought on what to do after graduation and stuff like that. I just focused on the immediate moment. Unless planning what to eat the next day counts. I really wonder what to do after I graduate though. I guess university is the way to go. I doubt I'm ready to start working. Pfft. Me, working. I really can't imagine that.
The past month (late October onward), all I've been doing is; 1) Find a computer, 2) Switch on the computer, 3) Open Maya 2012, 4) Open the water simulation scene file, 5) Open Firefox/Chrome, 6) Log into Facebook and Dropbox, 7) Play Pokemon, 8) Tweak water simulation, 9) Repeat step 7. When lunch time comes, I'd call Emmanuel and Ann Nee and we'd go catch lunch together and pretty much hang out at the restaurant and at the lab until I go home, usually at 3 or 4pm.
There really isn't much for me to do because I had pretty much nailed the water simulation. All I had to get was my group's approval on the simulation and I would be done. The last two weeks all I did was refining the simulation but in count of days, it took me only 2. Finally today I passed the files to my group member who's in charge of rendering. Now I'm back to doing nothing.
A few days ago, our lecturer posted on Facebook that our final submission date is the first week of December. Honestly, I don't know the progress of my group, our group leader does not update us or tell us what is happening. I only found out that our animation have finished when I asked a few weeks ago, and I still don't know our group's progress.
So, our final submission is in December but our graduation is in April. I had the thought of getting a part time job until then but knowing myself, I'm too lazy. I'd rather sit at home and hunt shiny Pokemon, read manga and watch anime. Night time is Dota2 time so that is not a problem. Maybe I'll really get a part time job to get some extra money. I've been overspending on food recently. Seriously, all I've been spending my money on is food, though there is a 10% spending on games.
A mail came in the other day with the particulars about my graduation. There are so many rules and so many words I feel that it's such a hassle and a bother. The price is expensive too! It's such bullshit. I really can't wait for my graduation, I can't wait to get it over with because thinking about it makes me feel such stress from such hassle.
When I don't go to college, the time I wake up range from a span of 11am to 2pm. After waking I would spend my time just like that. If I feel like it, I'd make nuggets for lunch, if not, it's instant noodles. After lunch I would just hang around Facebook, play Pokemon, watch anime, read manga or just spend the time doing nothing. Then evening comes and Skype would become busy. Every day I'd talk with KW, Ann Nee and Mal (Mal comes on pretty late since she's overseas now). Emma and Cardin seldom joins the conversation. On weekends, Kai will be around. Some nights we'd Google Hangout together with the addition of Cheryl and JL. And it's become a habit to play Dota2 every night. We'd play until 3am (4am on weekends). So now I got these eyebags. I plan to ditch Dota2 one night to get enough sleep. I'd also like to get some exercise if possible, sports or hiking or something.
So for the past month, I've just been "living the moment". I haven't put much thought on what to do after graduation and stuff like that. I just focused on the immediate moment. Unless planning what to eat the next day counts. I really wonder what to do after I graduate though. I guess university is the way to go. I doubt I'm ready to start working. Pfft. Me, working. I really can't imagine that.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Enter, Kalos
Last week on the 14th I received my Pokemon X version and I've been playing it since. The hype on the latest installment to the Pokemon game franchise, Pokemon X and Pokemon Y was going on for a long time in the TOA Pokemon Club (it's a Facebook group created because TOA don't have clubs). About a month ago, one of our members found a page accepting pre-orders, we put our money together to pre-order our games in bulk.
There sure are a lot of changes to the gameplay now. Leveling up is significantly easy. The EXP Share is now a Key Item and it shares experience points to the whole party. Also, catching Pokemon gives experience points too! And I didn't know that since Black/White/Black 2/White 2 that TMs are reusable. That makes things so much more easy now.
I started my journey with Froakie. When Nintendo released the starters, I was gonna go with Fennekin but I now break my chain of Fire type starters (since Ruby/Sapphire) for Froakie because Greninja looks so much cooler than Delphox.
So my starters since Red/Blue go in this order, Squirtle (Blue), Totodile (Gold), Torchic (Sapphire), Squirtle (FireRed), Chimchar (Diamond), Cyndaquil (SoulSilver), Tepig (White, White 2) and Froakie (X). Notice how I never picked the Grass starter? Only Treecko and Turtwig are like the best Grass starters. Chespin looks okay, I might come to like it too.
As of the release of Pokemon X and Y, people playing are almost everywhere now. Ken is playing, we traded Pokemon a couple of times. Almost the whole TOA Pokemon Club is playing. Misaki and Baddie are playing. Charmaine started recently and Kai started today! (I had Kai's Pokemon Y with me because I helped him collect it, I used it to my advantage. Hee hee.)
This also made an increase in Streetpass in college. Everyone who has a 3DS started going around college trying get Streetpass. I am one of them and I would usually get an average of two to three Streetpasses when I make my round in the main block.
So far I have just defeated the 6th Gym Leader. I still need to complete my White 2 PokeDex though. I gotta complete that before December comes.
There sure are a lot of changes to the gameplay now. Leveling up is significantly easy. The EXP Share is now a Key Item and it shares experience points to the whole party. Also, catching Pokemon gives experience points too! And I didn't know that since Black/White/Black 2/White 2 that TMs are reusable. That makes things so much more easy now.
I started my journey with Froakie. When Nintendo released the starters, I was gonna go with Fennekin but I now break my chain of Fire type starters (since Ruby/Sapphire) for Froakie because Greninja looks so much cooler than Delphox.
So my starters since Red/Blue go in this order, Squirtle (Blue), Totodile (Gold), Torchic (Sapphire), Squirtle (FireRed), Chimchar (Diamond), Cyndaquil (SoulSilver), Tepig (White, White 2) and Froakie (X). Notice how I never picked the Grass starter? Only Treecko and Turtwig are like the best Grass starters. Chespin looks okay, I might come to like it too.
As of the release of Pokemon X and Y, people playing are almost everywhere now. Ken is playing, we traded Pokemon a couple of times. Almost the whole TOA Pokemon Club is playing. Misaki and Baddie are playing. Charmaine started recently and Kai started today! (I had Kai's Pokemon Y with me because I helped him collect it, I used it to my advantage. Hee hee.)
This also made an increase in Streetpass in college. Everyone who has a 3DS started going around college trying get Streetpass. I am one of them and I would usually get an average of two to three Streetpasses when I make my round in the main block.
So far I have just defeated the 6th Gym Leader. I still need to complete my White 2 PokeDex though. I gotta complete that before December comes.
JOTI13.PU
Last Saturday and Sunday (19th, 20th October) was the annual Jamboree on The Air and Jamboree on The Internet (JOTA, JOTI). This year I helped out at the JOTI Petaling Utama (hence JOTI13.PU, PU is Petaling Utama if that's not obvious enough) again as an officer. I was assigned as the Mac room head officer.
On the first day I had to wake up really early because on the same day, my sister was going for some cheer leading competition and they had to meet up at SS2 at 6am. After my dad dropped her, I had breakfast with my dad before going to Sri KL, the school hosting JOTI13.PU. I was the first officer to arrive so I had to wait for a bit. When Mr Colin and the head officers arrived, we immediately got to work, starting up the computers and readying them for JOTI. After that, we had our opening ceremony. During the ceremony, Mr Ekbert installed Joon Keet and Kai Liang their assistant scoutmaster epaulets. After the opening ceremony, Mr Colin got the scouts to get into pairs and patrols, he briefed them about the jamboree, rules and stuff.
The jamboree started and together with Lysandra and Mun Keat, we watched over the Mac room. There were a lot of technical problems at the start, some scouts couldn't sign up for a Yahoo account and some couldn't get a verification email from the JOTAJOTI website. The problems were soon solved and things went pretty smoothly. I spent most of the time in the Mac room alone, doing my own things while watching over the scouts to make sure they are focused on their phases and to respond to their problems, for both days. That's pretty much what an officer does.
I was impressed by the scouts' performances during JOTI Night. Most of their sketches were really good; short, funny and straight to the point. On the first night, the scouts worked themselves till late night wanting to finish as much as they can. The jamboree came to an end after an award and closing ceremony. I'm looking forward to next year's JOTI!
On the first day I had to wake up really early because on the same day, my sister was going for some cheer leading competition and they had to meet up at SS2 at 6am. After my dad dropped her, I had breakfast with my dad before going to Sri KL, the school hosting JOTI13.PU. I was the first officer to arrive so I had to wait for a bit. When Mr Colin and the head officers arrived, we immediately got to work, starting up the computers and readying them for JOTI. After that, we had our opening ceremony. During the ceremony, Mr Ekbert installed Joon Keet and Kai Liang their assistant scoutmaster epaulets. After the opening ceremony, Mr Colin got the scouts to get into pairs and patrols, he briefed them about the jamboree, rules and stuff.
The jamboree started and together with Lysandra and Mun Keat, we watched over the Mac room. There were a lot of technical problems at the start, some scouts couldn't sign up for a Yahoo account and some couldn't get a verification email from the JOTAJOTI website. The problems were soon solved and things went pretty smoothly. I spent most of the time in the Mac room alone, doing my own things while watching over the scouts to make sure they are focused on their phases and to respond to their problems, for both days. That's pretty much what an officer does.
I was impressed by the scouts' performances during JOTI Night. Most of their sketches were really good; short, funny and straight to the point. On the first night, the scouts worked themselves till late night wanting to finish as much as they can. The jamboree came to an end after an award and closing ceremony. I'm looking forward to next year's JOTI!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Back To Basics and Investiture Camp 2013
Just last week I went for the Back to Basics (B2B) camp. It's an annual camp for the Rover H Crew to go back and camp like we used to when we were still junior and senior scouts, hence, "back to basics". We camped at a site in Janda Baik for 3 days 2 nights. I missed the previous three years' B2B because I always had classes and final assignments to attend to when it came around, this time when my schedule is more relaxed, I finally got to go for it.
The mornings and nights were really cold, about 25 degree Celsius. On the first day, we built our tent upon reaching the campsite and continued on to building the kitchen until late at night. When morning came, we continued to build the dining table and made laksa for lunch with the help of Mr. Ekbert and his wife. For backwoods cooking, we made two types of chicken, roasted and baked, we made bread in the shape of cups and had jam in it and we made pizza, all using the traditional backwoods cooking methods, the pizza was quite the success considering it was the first time any of us have done it before. After cleaning up we played some games. First was Holey Sheet, a game that has been played every B2B camp, I think. The objective of the game is to move a ball around numbered holes on a flysheet as a team, the challenge was, everyone is playing in the cold cold river and no one can talk or give orders. We were divided into two groups and my group failed to win the game. After that we played a race where we were split into three groups and each group consisting of five members can only have four pairs of legs at the duration of the race. After the games, we had our bath and relaxed for a bit before we start our barbecue for dinner. The barbecue was really great. So great I already miss the delicious meats we had. After dinner we had a short night game and right after that we had our rover installation ceremony. After three years in the crew, I finally get installed as a full fledged rover. After taking photos, we went to bed, taking turns to sentry.
My sentry shift was the last. The morning was really cold. Together with Joey, Yong Tick and Kuok Wei, we kept the fire alive to keep the mosquitoes away from the campsite. Morning came and after breakfast, we had our closing ceremony and proceeded to clean up the campsite and prepared to leave.
We had lunch together at a restaurant in Bukit Tinggi before heading back to PJ. I really enjoyed the camp. Hopefully I can attend again next year!
The mornings and nights were really cold, about 25 degree Celsius. On the first day, we built our tent upon reaching the campsite and continued on to building the kitchen until late at night. When morning came, we continued to build the dining table and made laksa for lunch with the help of Mr. Ekbert and his wife. For backwoods cooking, we made two types of chicken, roasted and baked, we made bread in the shape of cups and had jam in it and we made pizza, all using the traditional backwoods cooking methods, the pizza was quite the success considering it was the first time any of us have done it before. After cleaning up we played some games. First was Holey Sheet, a game that has been played every B2B camp, I think. The objective of the game is to move a ball around numbered holes on a flysheet as a team, the challenge was, everyone is playing in the cold cold river and no one can talk or give orders. We were divided into two groups and my group failed to win the game. After that we played a race where we were split into three groups and each group consisting of five members can only have four pairs of legs at the duration of the race. After the games, we had our bath and relaxed for a bit before we start our barbecue for dinner. The barbecue was really great. So great I already miss the delicious meats we had. After dinner we had a short night game and right after that we had our rover installation ceremony. After three years in the crew, I finally get installed as a full fledged rover. After taking photos, we went to bed, taking turns to sentry.
My sentry shift was the last. The morning was really cold. Together with Joey, Yong Tick and Kuok Wei, we kept the fire alive to keep the mosquitoes away from the campsite. Morning came and after breakfast, we had our closing ceremony and proceeded to clean up the campsite and prepared to leave.
We had lunch together at a restaurant in Bukit Tinggi before heading back to PJ. I really enjoyed the camp. Hopefully I can attend again next year!
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Wanna Hang Out?
Just yesterday Joshua sent me a message asking if I wanted to hang out. The first thing that crossed my mind was, "Eh... I don't want to..." but I know I shouldn't reply with that. Sorry Josh. The first reply that came to mind was "What's the occasion?". That one response I wanted to reply sparked a thought chain through my mind. Was it necessary to have an occasion as a reason to hang out? That wasn't the case five-six years ago. I replied Josh with a "Where? What time?".
Thinking about it, back when I was still in secondary school, we didn't need a reason to hang out, we just decided on a weekend and we'd go to 1Utama to catch a movie and hang around, we'd play bowling and pool and check out books at MPH. Now that it's my fourth year in college, an arts college where we are to sit in front of a computer to do work, hanging out needed a reason, if not, I would rather stay at home doing nothing within the walls of comfort. Maybe it's also because of the internet's influence. I used to be a guy who wanted to go out and enjoy the outdoors, now I just want to sit at home and watch anime or read manga, play games or if I feel like it, do literally nothing.
In the end, the hang out was called off because nobody knew what to do if we went out. I also told Josh that I didn't feel like going out. There was an issue about spending not a lot of money as well. Well I gotta force myself to go out soon. I don't want to really become a recluse. I wonder if there's something to do that does not require spending money when hanging out.
Thinking about it, back when I was still in secondary school, we didn't need a reason to hang out, we just decided on a weekend and we'd go to 1Utama to catch a movie and hang around, we'd play bowling and pool and check out books at MPH. Now that it's my fourth year in college, an arts college where we are to sit in front of a computer to do work, hanging out needed a reason, if not, I would rather stay at home doing nothing within the walls of comfort. Maybe it's also because of the internet's influence. I used to be a guy who wanted to go out and enjoy the outdoors, now I just want to sit at home and watch anime or read manga, play games or if I feel like it, do literally nothing.
In the end, the hang out was called off because nobody knew what to do if we went out. I also told Josh that I didn't feel like going out. There was an issue about spending not a lot of money as well. Well I gotta force myself to go out soon. I don't want to really become a recluse. I wonder if there's something to do that does not require spending money when hanging out.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Sleep, Eat, Rinse and Repeat
For the past few weeks when I don't have to go to college anymore, my sleeping habits got messed up. My usual bed time is 2am, I always go to bed at this time, 3am being the latest. Usually I would wake up at 10am or 11am but as of now, I cannot wake up earlier than 1pm even when I set an alarm clock. I feel that things are getting worse when the other night I could not sleep at all. I was awake the whole night until 7am before falling asleep and waking up later at 2pm.
Now that I have nothing to do at all, I really don't do anything. My activities only start in the evening until night, the afternoon is when I spend some time playing with my cube puzzles, playing Pokemon or hanging around Facebook, doing nothing. I haven't been following my YouTube subscriptions and I haven't been reading manga. My mom told me to get a part time job the other day but I've already eased myself in this hermit life I'm living now.
After pushing myself to do at least something, I picked up watching anime again. I have a lot of movies and anime series I haven't watched and they are pilling up as I keep downloading the anime I want to watch. I started off with a Studio Ghilbi marathon, watching the films I haven't watched yet. I'm now left with Pom Poko and Nausicca. As for anime seires, I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion, MM! and a couple anime short films.
While I'm at it, I'm slowly building the motivation to work a part time job. I don't have a car so I can't go too far. I know I'm lazy so I'm hoping to get a job that don't need me to work myself out on the clock. Ever since college my body muscles ache and sprain easily.
While I had been wanting to go out for quite some time, I now prefer not to go out. The 'me' in my Pokemon White 2 can do all the outdoor activity fun for me now. Haha.
Now that I have nothing to do at all, I really don't do anything. My activities only start in the evening until night, the afternoon is when I spend some time playing with my cube puzzles, playing Pokemon or hanging around Facebook, doing nothing. I haven't been following my YouTube subscriptions and I haven't been reading manga. My mom told me to get a part time job the other day but I've already eased myself in this hermit life I'm living now.
After pushing myself to do at least something, I picked up watching anime again. I have a lot of movies and anime series I haven't watched and they are pilling up as I keep downloading the anime I want to watch. I started off with a Studio Ghilbi marathon, watching the films I haven't watched yet. I'm now left with Pom Poko and Nausicca. As for anime seires, I just finished Neon Genesis Evangelion, MM! and a couple anime short films.
While I'm at it, I'm slowly building the motivation to work a part time job. I don't have a car so I can't go too far. I know I'm lazy so I'm hoping to get a job that don't need me to work myself out on the clock. Ever since college my body muscles ache and sprain easily.
While I had been wanting to go out for quite some time, I now prefer not to go out. The 'me' in my Pokemon White 2 can do all the outdoor activity fun for me now. Haha.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Cubic Courier
A couple of months back I ordered a bunch of cube puzzles on Taobao with the help of BlackCatz and finally they have arrived. I still two more puzzles that have not been sent yet so I gotta wait for them a little longer.
What have I ordered? I got a Windmill Cube, a 1x3x3 Floppy Cube, a Skewb Diamond, a Siamese Cube, a Triamese Cube, a MF8 Megaminx and a WitEden Roadblock 2. I got a Skewb Ultimate but from the number of axles, it doesn't seem the case...
I actually already have a Floppy Cube and a Megaminx but they are not that good. I did some research and got the MF8 Megaminx, I'm really enjoying it, it's turns so smoothly and corner cuts nicely. When I ordered my WitEden, the image on the product showed the WitEden Cubiod 3x3x9 which was what I wanted. Instead, I got the WitEden Roadblock 2. After checking, it turns out I was looking at the wrong page but that does not matter so much. The Roadblock 2 by far is the most complicated puzzle I have solved. It took me almost a whole day just to figure out how to solve it even with tutorials.
So I just have to wait for my last two cubes. I'm thinking of making another order to get the WitEden Cuboid 3x3x9 for real this time and maybe a 2x3x3 but those have to wait until I save up more money.
Monday, September 2, 2013
AniManGaki 2013
AniManGaki 2013. It was the event that had some major decisions made.
For the event, I had printed a lot of Pokeball badges to be sold. Using the existing Pokeballs, I designed my own style of each Pokeball from Generation 1 to 6, Pokeball to Dream ball, including some from the anime and 1 from the spin-off Pokemon typing game.
Also for the event, I had made the decision to crossplay for the first time. Crossplay is "cross costume play" for short. Being in the cosplay community, crossplay among girls was always the norm but crossplay among guys wasn't until recent years. I made about four months of preparation for my first crossplay, Naze Youka. I made as much effort as to keep it a secret until the day itself.
So.
Day 0
I went to Cheryl's house to sleepover as usual because I wanted to get fully dressed before going to the event because I was worried people will see me and I was nervous and shy about it, and I didn't want my family to know it yet, especially my dad. I brought all my stuff including half the amount of my Pokeball badges. We have a booth on Sunday only. I wanted to have it both days of the event but my friends sharing the booth didn't want to. As to save money as we were fairly broke (the downfall of being an animation student and a cosplayer) we only had the booth for one day. Cheryl was rushing her Original Character (OC) cosplay so I helped her out.
Day 1
I woke up really early to prepare and Cheryl was finishing up her cosplay. After she helped me put on makeup and bandaged my head, I got dressed. My bandage plan was a failure, I should have done a test before to make sure it was right. With only being able to see with my left eye, everything was a blur because my left eye has astigmatism and I don't wear contacts because my eye sight isn't so bad as to need them. Amanda was supposed to be my cosplay partner as she cosplayed Kurokami Maguro but she was busy with her booth so I pretty much was solo the whole day. It was both a scary and new experience. It was the first time I had a lot of people ask for a photo while being a solo cosplay. Looks like I manage to fool majority of the public that I am a girl. I manage to meet up with a few friends who either already knew I was crossplaying (I told a few girls about it) and some who recognise me somehow (most probably my big smile). I didn't get enough sleep so I was sleepy the whole time, having only one eye made me really sleepy. I fell asleep for a while while Cheryl, Misaki, Baddie and Weiss were taking a break. Then they went for late lunch. I wasn't feeling hungry because of the bandages, they gave me headaches because of how tight they were and it was pretty hard to breath. I decided to change out and after doing so, I felt so much more energetic and hungry. I joined Cheryl and the others for lunch and soon after waking around the booths, we went back.
Day 2
This day it's easier. I was cosplaying as Okabe Rintarou again. Before going to bed (sofa) the night before, I had packed everything in order in my box along with the stuff Cheryl needed to bring for the booth. We got to the event late because we woke up late. But we manage to set up our booth in time but not complete when the door were open for the public. Laura, Wee and I stayed at the booth most of the time. Business was slow that day. Even thought a lot of people were interested in our stuff, they would not buy after some consideration. It was obvious when looking at their expression changes. The day came to a close with the dance off and Danny Choo who was at the event too did a sexy dance on stage. He wanted to escape afterward but the cosplayers on stage kept him in the center. He eventually jumped off the stage from the front and went back to cleaning up his booth. I bought two sets of badges, a Pacific Rim Yaeger set and a Black Rock Shooter set. I dropped one of my BRS badges somehow, I was pretty upset about it.
I intend to continue to sell my badges at Comic Fiesta but the booths are all taken and I can't find any friends who's got space for me to join them. I don't really have any other plans for the end of this year. Without a booth, it looks like it's gonna be a pretty boring Comic Fiesta for me. I hope it won't be as boring as I think it will be. After many years of being an event-goer AGC conventions don't appeal so much to me anymore.
For the event, I had printed a lot of Pokeball badges to be sold. Using the existing Pokeballs, I designed my own style of each Pokeball from Generation 1 to 6, Pokeball to Dream ball, including some from the anime and 1 from the spin-off Pokemon typing game.
Also for the event, I had made the decision to crossplay for the first time. Crossplay is "cross costume play" for short. Being in the cosplay community, crossplay among girls was always the norm but crossplay among guys wasn't until recent years. I made about four months of preparation for my first crossplay, Naze Youka. I made as much effort as to keep it a secret until the day itself.
So.
Day 0
I went to Cheryl's house to sleepover as usual because I wanted to get fully dressed before going to the event because I was worried people will see me and I was nervous and shy about it, and I didn't want my family to know it yet, especially my dad. I brought all my stuff including half the amount of my Pokeball badges. We have a booth on Sunday only. I wanted to have it both days of the event but my friends sharing the booth didn't want to. As to save money as we were fairly broke (the downfall of being an animation student and a cosplayer) we only had the booth for one day. Cheryl was rushing her Original Character (OC) cosplay so I helped her out.
Day 1
I woke up really early to prepare and Cheryl was finishing up her cosplay. After she helped me put on makeup and bandaged my head, I got dressed. My bandage plan was a failure, I should have done a test before to make sure it was right. With only being able to see with my left eye, everything was a blur because my left eye has astigmatism and I don't wear contacts because my eye sight isn't so bad as to need them. Amanda was supposed to be my cosplay partner as she cosplayed Kurokami Maguro but she was busy with her booth so I pretty much was solo the whole day. It was both a scary and new experience. It was the first time I had a lot of people ask for a photo while being a solo cosplay. Looks like I manage to fool majority of the public that I am a girl. I manage to meet up with a few friends who either already knew I was crossplaying (I told a few girls about it) and some who recognise me somehow (most probably my big smile). I didn't get enough sleep so I was sleepy the whole time, having only one eye made me really sleepy. I fell asleep for a while while Cheryl, Misaki, Baddie and Weiss were taking a break. Then they went for late lunch. I wasn't feeling hungry because of the bandages, they gave me headaches because of how tight they were and it was pretty hard to breath. I decided to change out and after doing so, I felt so much more energetic and hungry. I joined Cheryl and the others for lunch and soon after waking around the booths, we went back.
Day 2
This day it's easier. I was cosplaying as Okabe Rintarou again. Before going to bed (sofa) the night before, I had packed everything in order in my box along with the stuff Cheryl needed to bring for the booth. We got to the event late because we woke up late. But we manage to set up our booth in time but not complete when the door were open for the public. Laura, Wee and I stayed at the booth most of the time. Business was slow that day. Even thought a lot of people were interested in our stuff, they would not buy after some consideration. It was obvious when looking at their expression changes. The day came to a close with the dance off and Danny Choo who was at the event too did a sexy dance on stage. He wanted to escape afterward but the cosplayers on stage kept him in the center. He eventually jumped off the stage from the front and went back to cleaning up his booth. I bought two sets of badges, a Pacific Rim Yaeger set and a Black Rock Shooter set. I dropped one of my BRS badges somehow, I was pretty upset about it.
I intend to continue to sell my badges at Comic Fiesta but the booths are all taken and I can't find any friends who's got space for me to join them. I don't really have any other plans for the end of this year. Without a booth, it looks like it's gonna be a pretty boring Comic Fiesta for me. I hope it won't be as boring as I think it will be. After many years of being an event-goer AGC conventions don't appeal so much to me anymore.
Friday, August 16, 2013
D-Event
I went to this event that I have no idea what the name is but it was a marvel. I had a booth so I could enter the event place earlier than everyone else. When I got in, I immediately went to the rides. There was this Minecraft inspired water slide. It was freaking neat! I went on it a couple of times and then I hanged around the amazing food stalls selling food of epic proportions. I did not notice it but the event place had opened and I was enjoying myself I lost track of the time. Suddenly someone came up to me and asked me, "Hey, where are the stuff you are selling? Where's your cosplay costume?" and suddenly the whole place turned dark. I was stunned and shocked. I realised I don't have any of them with me. I was empty handed, only my booth vendor pass around my neck and my wallet in my pocket. I saw everything start to move in slow-motion and I blacked out, only to find myself awake on my bed, distraught and full of panic. For a second I thought it was AniManGaki already. That really scared me so much I stressed about it since this morning. I told my friend about it and she said it's my brain telling me that I'm nervous. I guess that's right. I know for sure my brain is telling me that I'm full of panic and worry as well. Only one week left to the event. I gotta check if my badges are ready or not soon. I feel so unprepared but I know that I am about ready. Brain, why you do this to me?
Friday, August 2, 2013
About This Blog
A=M
It's been a long six years since I last signed up for a Blogger account. Let's talk about my blog.
A lot of my friends change the name or title of their blog a couple of times at least once, someone I know changes her blog name once every week until she forgot her password. The name of my blog, Raison D'etre is a French phrase meaning, 'reason for existence' which, back then I thought was a really cool name for a diary or in this case, a blog. I had the intention of recording down the notable moments of my life in this blog and so I did. And now, the name of my blog is the very question I ask myself everyday, "What is my purpose in life? What do I want to do? Where do I want to be? What do I want to achieve?" and I haven't found my answers yet.
May 2007 was the time I started blogging. I remember my first blog post, it was a ridiculous and really embarrassing introduction (or 'hey it's my first blog post' post) so I deleted it, I wish I didn't so I can laugh at myself for how silly it was. When I first started, I had a couple of rants and pointless 2 sentence long posts about what happened in class or why I disliked this teacher and sort. I had those deleted too because I thought about how childish and naive it was, I don't have the right to condemn my teachers who taught me.
In the middle stages of my blog, it became a random mess consisting of daily events, nonsensical posts (random rambles), pictures and poems. Eventually as I reach adulthood, they became posts about major events in my life or just AMG (Anime, Manga, Games) events and the sort. I also became inactive a couple of times on this blog. Now, I would come here on my blog to express my thoughts and emotions when I believe it's inappropriate to post on Facebook.
I don't know how many friends read my blog and who reads my blog. I only know a few who do and most of them are from my secondary school days. I always wonder if people I know in college or from the cosplay movement read my blog. I always get cautious when I post a blog post and sometimes will reconsider what I wrote but now, I just check for spelling and grammar errors. I start to belief that I should be more honest with what I post on my blog.
In the past six years of blog posts, I have a few blog posts that contain hidden messages of all forms and styles. They usually hide a secret or something only for me to remember. Why am I telling this? I believe those "secrets" are not much of a secret anyway. It's not like it's gonna harm anyone. Some of those "secrets" are childish acts of stupidity though.
I don't really remember what my blog first looked like. All I remember is that I used to have a music player at the bottom of my blog. The layout didn't change much. I don't remember what my first color scheme was but that background has been black for a long time now. I recently changed it to a shade of grey because white font on black is just too much when most webpages are white.
Why did I write this? I wanted to save it for the 10th anniversary of my blog but I was looking through some old posts and rode the nostalgia wave so I had to write this post. Here's to more great memories ahead. Cheers.
It's been a long six years since I last signed up for a Blogger account. Let's talk about my blog.
A lot of my friends change the name or title of their blog a couple of times at least once, someone I know changes her blog name once every week until she forgot her password. The name of my blog, Raison D'etre is a French phrase meaning, 'reason for existence' which, back then I thought was a really cool name for a diary or in this case, a blog. I had the intention of recording down the notable moments of my life in this blog and so I did. And now, the name of my blog is the very question I ask myself everyday, "What is my purpose in life? What do I want to do? Where do I want to be? What do I want to achieve?" and I haven't found my answers yet.
Vsauce videos always remind me how short life is. I feel that I want to carpe diem and feel self achieving. If that makes sense.
May 2007 was the time I started blogging. I remember my first blog post, it was a ridiculous and really embarrassing introduction (or 'hey it's my first blog post' post) so I deleted it, I wish I didn't so I can laugh at myself for how silly it was. When I first started, I had a couple of rants and pointless 2 sentence long posts about what happened in class or why I disliked this teacher and sort. I had those deleted too because I thought about how childish and naive it was, I don't have the right to condemn my teachers who taught me.
In the middle stages of my blog, it became a random mess consisting of daily events, nonsensical posts (random rambles), pictures and poems. Eventually as I reach adulthood, they became posts about major events in my life or just AMG (Anime, Manga, Games) events and the sort. I also became inactive a couple of times on this blog. Now, I would come here on my blog to express my thoughts and emotions when I believe it's inappropriate to post on Facebook.
Sometimes when I feel really down or when I miss someone I come here and blog about it instead of posting it on Facebook as to not worry too many people. If there are actually people who worry about me.
I don't know how many friends read my blog and who reads my blog. I only know a few who do and most of them are from my secondary school days. I always wonder if people I know in college or from the cosplay movement read my blog. I always get cautious when I post a blog post and sometimes will reconsider what I wrote but now, I just check for spelling and grammar errors. I start to belief that I should be more honest with what I post on my blog.
In the past six years of blog posts, I have a few blog posts that contain hidden messages of all forms and styles. They usually hide a secret or something only for me to remember. Why am I telling this? I believe those "secrets" are not much of a secret anyway. It's not like it's gonna harm anyone. Some of those "secrets" are childish acts of stupidity though.
Blf givw gl wvxrksui gsrh xlwv wrwm'g blf? Gib gsv mvcg lov.
Wt hvwg kog vofr tcf mci, W rcb'h hvwby mci qob rsqcrs am chvsf qcrsg.
I don't really remember what my blog first looked like. All I remember is that I used to have a music player at the bottom of my blog. The layout didn't change much. I don't remember what my first color scheme was but that background has been black for a long time now. I recently changed it to a shade of grey because white font on black is just too much when most webpages are white.
Why did I write this? I wanted to save it for the 10th anniversary of my blog but I was looking through some old posts and rode the nostalgia wave so I had to write this post. Here's to more great memories ahead. Cheers.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Galaxias Wars Skills Camp 2013
I wanted to open this blog post with an epic intro but I got too lazy to think of one.
So the annual skills camp. For about two months before the camp, the senior scouts and the scouters started planning everything for the camp. A lot of new things were to be brought in this camp and it was intense. With Maverick busy this year, Sean and I had to take his plan and take care of the scout troop. Eventually it lead to Sean becoming the camp chief and me the assistant (which I did not know until the first day of camp). Because we didn't get to have a Tenderfoot Training Course this year, Sean and I kept teaching and training the scouts during troop meetings to prepare them for the camp, with the lack of TTC, we wanted the skills camp to be big. And we put a lot of effort into it, all of us, seniors and scouters, which we happily succeeded. The theme of the camp was proposed by the seniors, a combination of Greek mythology and Star Wars. Benjamin told me that they have bigger plans for next year and beyond as the themes will be based on the word 'hybrid' which is a six year plan, with each concept based on each letter of the word 'hybrid'.
Majority of my contribution to the camp is the photography, video and editing department. I basically had to make sure there were senior scouts taking photos and videos during the activities of the camp and all videos had to go through me for verification and critique. I also worked on the campfire opening video which took a month of preparation and when it played successfully during campfire, I almost cried of relief and joy. (Because the one I did was year was a huge failure)
Like usual, our scouters for the camp were Sean, Maverick, Yu Feng, Wern Kit, Ivan and me, and this year was also had Yong Tick to help us. A new feature in the camp was the exhibition hall planned by Benjamin. He had collected some scarfs, camp booklets, logbooks and uniforms for the parents and visitors who come for the campfire to see. I must say it was very impressive. The campfire this year I must say was quite a big success. We had not expected so many parents to come for the campfire but we were prepared. We learned from last year's mistakes and made this year's set up a lot more advanced. Mr. Dawson came to see the campfire as well and did a great help by helping us with the scouts. The newly assigned co-curriculum teacher, Madam Ngau for the school showed support by attending our campfire as well.
During this camp, I got to know our scouts even better. And hopefully the troop's skills camp will get even better.
I'm looking forward to sending our scouts to district events now that we have support from the new co-curriculum teacher. JOTI is coming soon.
So the annual skills camp. For about two months before the camp, the senior scouts and the scouters started planning everything for the camp. A lot of new things were to be brought in this camp and it was intense. With Maverick busy this year, Sean and I had to take his plan and take care of the scout troop. Eventually it lead to Sean becoming the camp chief and me the assistant (which I did not know until the first day of camp). Because we didn't get to have a Tenderfoot Training Course this year, Sean and I kept teaching and training the scouts during troop meetings to prepare them for the camp, with the lack of TTC, we wanted the skills camp to be big. And we put a lot of effort into it, all of us, seniors and scouters, which we happily succeeded. The theme of the camp was proposed by the seniors, a combination of Greek mythology and Star Wars. Benjamin told me that they have bigger plans for next year and beyond as the themes will be based on the word 'hybrid' which is a six year plan, with each concept based on each letter of the word 'hybrid'.
Majority of my contribution to the camp is the photography, video and editing department. I basically had to make sure there were senior scouts taking photos and videos during the activities of the camp and all videos had to go through me for verification and critique. I also worked on the campfire opening video which took a month of preparation and when it played successfully during campfire, I almost cried of relief and joy. (Because the one I did was year was a huge failure)
Like usual, our scouters for the camp were Sean, Maverick, Yu Feng, Wern Kit, Ivan and me, and this year was also had Yong Tick to help us. A new feature in the camp was the exhibition hall planned by Benjamin. He had collected some scarfs, camp booklets, logbooks and uniforms for the parents and visitors who come for the campfire to see. I must say it was very impressive. The campfire this year I must say was quite a big success. We had not expected so many parents to come for the campfire but we were prepared. We learned from last year's mistakes and made this year's set up a lot more advanced. Mr. Dawson came to see the campfire as well and did a great help by helping us with the scouts. The newly assigned co-curriculum teacher, Madam Ngau for the school showed support by attending our campfire as well.
During this camp, I got to know our scouts even better. And hopefully the troop's skills camp will get even better.
I'm looking forward to sending our scouts to district events now that we have support from the new co-curriculum teacher. JOTI is coming soon.
Friday, July 12, 2013
The Graduation I Can't Attend
Tomorrow is the day my friends from the class I was in will be graduating. While I feel happy for them, I can't help but to feel sorry for myself because I can't graduate with the people I spent my years with in college. Being dropped down a semester in a classroom full of people I don't know well is lonely, and I feel even more lonely when I think about how lonely I will be when I graduate with these people. I might have made some friends in this class but we are not so close to the point of being comfortable monkeying around with each other. I'm always the awkward outsider like a foreign tourist hanging around locals. Though such issue does not bother me so much, I just feel sad that I can't graduate with the people I call my true classmates. Happy graduation DG1001-1.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Oh Oh Oh Wo Oh O-Oh!
Last Saturday some of my classmates from DG1001-1 got together at the photography studio in college to take some final class photos. There were few of us but it worked out nice. The best shot I believe would be our take on the famous painting, The Last Supper. We had lunch after the session and part our ways. While everyone went home, some of us gathered again at Emmanuel's house.
37th Bon Odori
After lunch, Ann Nee and I met up with Yumi and JL at Emma's house where we spent some time relaxing a little before getting changed into our yukatas. I had bought a yukata from an online shop Ann Nee found on Facebook because they were selling it cheap. After Ann Nee, Yumi and I got changed, we headed out to the Matsushita Stadium. Surprisingly Bon Odori wasn't as crowded and had more Japanese people there compared to previous years. I wore the tengu geta my cousin, Zhen Rong bought for me when she went to Japan. The first thing we did there was take a look at all the stores before buying some food. I manage to spend only RM30 on a yakiniku bento and a can of Asahi beer. The Asahi beer was super dry, which was not to my taste but the beer definitely tastes better than Carlsberg or Tiger. Because my obi was tied pretty tight on me, I didn't have much of an appetite.
After my meal, I went to look for Vincent and Mun Kay. The day before, Vincent had marked where he would set his mat at on a map and so I found them there along with Denise and Andrea. It was a great short reunion. I also saw Alex, Sarah and Elie there. It was the first time got to meet up with so many friends at Bon Odori, usually it would be so packed that I would hardly be able to spot anyone. Wee and Andrea came later and we went to see Charmaine who was with some of her highschool friends. I didn't see Jun Ee, Atticus and Kuui that day even though they were there too. As usual, I joined in on the ondo dances. It's the same every year but I always have to relearn the steps. Together with Ann Nee, Jian Leng, Yumi, Emmanuel and his younger brother and sister, we dance one round and then spent the rest of the evening waiting for the fireworks. We bought some kakigori right after the dance.
This year was the first time Bon Odori Selangor has fireworks display. I heard that the one in Penang always has fireworks. Our wait was not in vain because the fireworks display was the most beautiful performance I've seen in my life. There were some firework patterns I've never seen before and they had the biggest I've ever seen as well. The sky was literally filled with fireworks of many colors. The huge ones were so big it felt like I was watching a 3D movie. It was absolutely spectacular.
We went back to Emma's house as soon as the festival comes to a close. My dad picked me up from Emma's house later at night. I have another event to attend that will drain my energy.
HaKU Live in Kuala Lumpur
About two months back, posters about HaKU's second concert in Malaysia was flowing about in Facebook. I was an instant fan when I first saw their performance at JRock no Tamashii last year but due to some financial planning I did beforehand, I thought I wouldn't be able to go to their concert this year. At C2AGE however, Jun Ee manage to confirm my decision and I got the concert ticket. I was excited.
The concert venue was at The Pavilion. I've never been to the mall before so I had no idea where the place was. All I knew was that I was late thanks to my sisters and the location is called The Venue. After running around the mall a couple of times, asking information counters twice and calling Jun Ee, I found out that The Venue is a pub and manage to get in just in time before the opening band, The Flying Pan play their first song. The Flying Pan played four songs, 3 of their singles and a cover of Deeper Deeper by ONE OK ROCK. I manage to spot Jun Ee and I joined him but he was with his group of Taylor's Lakeside friends so I just stood around. Atticus came pretty late but in time for most of HaKU's performance.
HaKU really rocked the stage. Everyone was constantly on hype. Jun Ee was obviously the happiest, singing along to the songs and getting into the moment. It was a long and exciting night of constant fist pumping and jumping. After the encore, I met with Yun Han who was at the front. We went to Tokyo Street for the next part of the concert. There I bought 2 albums, astronautS for me and Wonderland for Amanda, who had asked me to help her buy HaKU's latest album, and I got both the booklets of the album autographed by the members of the band. I also got to shake hands with them. I was excited, joyous and nervous at the same time. I wonder if my hands were sweaty. Anyway, it was the best feeling ever. I was at a lost of words when I met the members of HaKU, all I said was 'hello' and 'arigatou' and I kept bowing. I met up with my sisters later and we took the LRT back to Kelana Jaya where my dad was waiting for us. I feel like keeping the autographed Wonderland booklet but that wouldn't be nice for Amanda wouldn't it? Hehehe.
37th Bon Odori
After lunch, Ann Nee and I met up with Yumi and JL at Emma's house where we spent some time relaxing a little before getting changed into our yukatas. I had bought a yukata from an online shop Ann Nee found on Facebook because they were selling it cheap. After Ann Nee, Yumi and I got changed, we headed out to the Matsushita Stadium. Surprisingly Bon Odori wasn't as crowded and had more Japanese people there compared to previous years. I wore the tengu geta my cousin, Zhen Rong bought for me when she went to Japan. The first thing we did there was take a look at all the stores before buying some food. I manage to spend only RM30 on a yakiniku bento and a can of Asahi beer. The Asahi beer was super dry, which was not to my taste but the beer definitely tastes better than Carlsberg or Tiger. Because my obi was tied pretty tight on me, I didn't have much of an appetite.
After my meal, I went to look for Vincent and Mun Kay. The day before, Vincent had marked where he would set his mat at on a map and so I found them there along with Denise and Andrea. It was a great short reunion. I also saw Alex, Sarah and Elie there. It was the first time got to meet up with so many friends at Bon Odori, usually it would be so packed that I would hardly be able to spot anyone. Wee and Andrea came later and we went to see Charmaine who was with some of her highschool friends. I didn't see Jun Ee, Atticus and Kuui that day even though they were there too. As usual, I joined in on the ondo dances. It's the same every year but I always have to relearn the steps. Together with Ann Nee, Jian Leng, Yumi, Emmanuel and his younger brother and sister, we dance one round and then spent the rest of the evening waiting for the fireworks. We bought some kakigori right after the dance.
This year was the first time Bon Odori Selangor has fireworks display. I heard that the one in Penang always has fireworks. Our wait was not in vain because the fireworks display was the most beautiful performance I've seen in my life. There were some firework patterns I've never seen before and they had the biggest I've ever seen as well. The sky was literally filled with fireworks of many colors. The huge ones were so big it felt like I was watching a 3D movie. It was absolutely spectacular.
We went back to Emma's house as soon as the festival comes to a close. My dad picked me up from Emma's house later at night. I have another event to attend that will drain my energy.
HaKU Live in Kuala Lumpur
About two months back, posters about HaKU's second concert in Malaysia was flowing about in Facebook. I was an instant fan when I first saw their performance at JRock no Tamashii last year but due to some financial planning I did beforehand, I thought I wouldn't be able to go to their concert this year. At C2AGE however, Jun Ee manage to confirm my decision and I got the concert ticket. I was excited.
The concert venue was at The Pavilion. I've never been to the mall before so I had no idea where the place was. All I knew was that I was late thanks to my sisters and the location is called The Venue. After running around the mall a couple of times, asking information counters twice and calling Jun Ee, I found out that The Venue is a pub and manage to get in just in time before the opening band, The Flying Pan play their first song. The Flying Pan played four songs, 3 of their singles and a cover of Deeper Deeper by ONE OK ROCK. I manage to spot Jun Ee and I joined him but he was with his group of Taylor's Lakeside friends so I just stood around. Atticus came pretty late but in time for most of HaKU's performance.
HaKU really rocked the stage. Everyone was constantly on hype. Jun Ee was obviously the happiest, singing along to the songs and getting into the moment. It was a long and exciting night of constant fist pumping and jumping. After the encore, I met with Yun Han who was at the front. We went to Tokyo Street for the next part of the concert. There I bought 2 albums, astronautS for me and Wonderland for Amanda, who had asked me to help her buy HaKU's latest album, and I got both the booklets of the album autographed by the members of the band. I also got to shake hands with them. I was excited, joyous and nervous at the same time. I wonder if my hands were sweaty. Anyway, it was the best feeling ever. I was at a lost of words when I met the members of HaKU, all I said was 'hello' and 'arigatou' and I kept bowing. I met up with my sisters later and we took the LRT back to Kelana Jaya where my dad was waiting for us. I feel like keeping the autographed Wonderland booklet but that wouldn't be nice for Amanda wouldn't it? Hehehe.
When HaKU did their second encore, the crowd asked for Hikari.
That encore was the best feeling of all with everyone singing the song together.
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