Newzies! 23/06/2009
WARNING: LONG ENTRY LIKE WOAH!
been really busy lately. been getting ready for metrocon (totally a last minute plan btw) and been so busy with this and that. luckily i’ve been able to find time still to hang out with the Brodeo. ^^
a few weeks ago, beni and i went to our friend Kienan’s art show in Kaleisia Tea Lounge. it was really cool and there were a lot of people there just to support him! there was also a Doorstop Productions open mic there (DSP hosts the open mic i go to every thursday) which was AWESOME! grant even played the “icelandic people are strange” song he always plays. x3 the art was pretty ballin’ too. all done in gel pen! i wish i got a few shots of it. D;
beni and i at kienan's art show
also been going to open mic like usual. thought i’d try the pastries there for the first time. OMG! DELICIOUS!!! so people, if i ever take you to the open mic, make sure to get food from there. i had the chocolate zucchini bread, and as strange as it sounded, i thought my mouth was going to have an orgasm. holy crap it was so good!
chocolate zucchini bread + vietnamese iced coffee = nervana
enjoying goods at cafe hey
went on a midnight beachcapade recently with the Brodeo. it was quite a trip. haha. there was SOME fire spinning involved, but it pretty much turned into a silly guy-time type trip to the beach. haha. oh i love them..
me and beni before the crazy started
me and mike before the crazy started
and the crazy begins (top, left to right: mike, eddie - bottom: beni, dara)
me and eddie jumping in during an "intimate moment" between dara and mike
one of many "wacky faces" pictures of the guys. oh boy... ^^;
i thought i should stop it there. there are just so many of them i figured it’d kill the post with it’s insanity. xD oh. and it DOES get worse, btw..
at dairy queen with beni and mike
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metrocon just passed last weekend. it was ok in general. the best parts were haning out with friends, seeing old friends again, and people watching. OH! and i also finished my nanashi costume in time!
incomplete nanashi
absolutely NO ONE knew who i was, but it was all good. i didn’t really expect anyone to. after all, the DVD did just come out like, what? 3 days before the first day of the convention? there wasn’t even any merch for it in the dealers room aside from the blu-ray disc sold by Best Buy. i was hoping to get the nanashi + laou figures there or (wishful) the tobimaru plush toy. nope. that’s ok. a lot of people did like the outfit though and took a picture of it just because they thought it was really good. i felt bad because everyone wanted me to draw my sword, but i couldn’t due to story purposes. *sigh* if they only knew, it would’ve been so much cooler that way. D; i might make the tie out of velcro come comic-con so i can do the “epic teeth rip” as i call it that nanashi does at the end of the movie.
my "son" as marth and me as nanashi
watched the chess match on sunday. missed it on saturday. honestly, it was OK~~… i don’t know. maybe it was exactly the same as every chess match, but since i’ve never actually watched it, i didn’t know what to expect. probably my favourite fight was the Marth and Captain Falcon fight. it was good and hilarious at the same time. i just loved the Smash Bro. elements to it too like the many lives, sluggish attacks after long battle, smash ball, and the clapping at the end. hahaha! too cute! too cute! some other fights were really good too. but at the same time a lot were HIGHLY disappointing. *sigh* i commend all in the cast though. it’s a tough show to put on!
dana as engineer, me as nanashi, jason as sniper
chilled out and walked around with some really fun people on saturday too like dana, who i met for the first time saturday, jason or “martini gendo”, beni, and henry. dana and jason were dressed up as engineer and sniper of the RED Team from Team Fortress. they were SO awesome! jason even had a jarate, which btw wasn’t filled with his own urine but white grape juice. shame no one EVER wanted to sniff it! oh! and his rifle was also fully functional and bolt action. of course it wasn’t real but a nerf gun rather. it was funny because they could hardly get ANYWHERE without being stopped for pictures! they even met a RED Team scout and demoman while there. i wish i got their picture! D; i loved it when people also found out engineer was a girl. hahaha. she did such a good job looking like a dude even with the 5 o’clock shadow. oh dana. she was such a sweetheart! it was fun. they left not long after arriving, albeit. it was a shame.
after they left we hit up the happy hour at the embassy. had a couple drinks, i won’t lie. it’s good to be 21. xD the fun just continued too. i can’t even really explain it. let me just say sober beni + drunk henry + other drunks + russian accents = awesome tiemz
yeah. after the day ended, my face hurt so much from laughing. oh man… i love my friends.
sunday: in line for chess match with madison
wish i got to to see a few other old friends, but i wasn’t all too successful (suzy, sam, maddie, etc). like it said, overall the convention was OK. the good was friends, a few fights from chess match, and fire. the rest were pretty much…ehh. like closing ceremonies. i won’t even go there. well, i think that’s about it for now. until i decide to post again, which i hope will be soon, ta!!
drive home from metro
Rae needs to post more D: 10/06/2009
- sorry i gotta go – it’s time for me to fly!
nii-san is an official college graduate! holy crap! yeah. i know she graduated a month ago yesterday, but she just got her diploma in the mail. So NOW it’s official. i’m so excited for her. god. i’d be graduating next year. oh if i only stayed in school. ehh~
haven’t blogged in a while. been even longer since i vlogged. oh man. i should really edit and post my “Earth Day” vlog. i might just have to rerecord that since it’s so old. Dx uhh…so what’s been up? OH! i met my friend Jim7 from the forums i go to. he was actually super cool (not that i expected him not to be) and even though we never met in person before that, i felt really comfortable talking to him about whatever. i was kinda afraid i’d scare him a bit especially since i think i act a little differently on the forums than i do in real life, but i think he thought i was a decent las myself. hehe. too bad he drove up north for the summer. would’ve been cool to hang out with him again.
i made beni try on some of my wigs. lololololololol (oh arby and the chief. you influence my speech so much!). he actually looked really cute.
i was going to crop out everything but the two of us, then i saw how much NERD was on my dresser and thought it was best to keep it. yep. beni’s umbrella shirt, my greg cipes painting under that, my ben 10 alien force omnitrix, and my treasured copy of god hand that i luckily found by chance in the brandon mall. lulz. dorkz. anyway, i made beni try on my short black wig on this picture which i call the “kevin 11″ wig. hahahaha. and because of that, i thought i’d try on my gwen wig. aww!! wouldn’t we make a cute kevin and gwen?? xD
lulz tiemz! i think beni makes a better nathan keyes as kevin than the actual cartoon kevin. xD
speaking of dressing up, i’ve decided on a new costume aside from tira. GASP! yep. oh, and the fun part is, i’m going to be cosplaying a dude!
nanashi (left), laou (right)
yep! i’m *hopefully* going to be cosplaying nanashi from sword of the stranger. which, by the way people, it is an AMAZING movie. watch it like WOAH! i’m excited. i’m planning it mainly for comic con this coming july, but i might be wearing it to metrocon (yeah. i know, metrocon. EWW! long story). i figured that if i was in costume, people wouldn’t recognise me that easily. hahaha… i really wish beni would just give in and cosplay laou with me, but he’s too much of a pussy to mullet-ify his hair. oh well. his lovely yellow locks are fine how they are. wish they were leon-long again, but this cut is still super cute. the costume is actually kinda important to me. the movie was not only epic with deliciously beefy studs (uhhhh~~~<333), but it was also very moving for me. i guess it just hit my soft spot. i didn’t dislike any characters and that surprising because children in anime almost ALWAYS piss me off, but kotarou was just so lovable and i was heartbroken when he was betrayed by his own family. and tobimaru REALLY made me want to get a shiba inu. i had seen one a while ago at a puppy store and really wanted him. went back a few months later only to see he was still there and discounted because no one wanted him. ;-;
uhh. just watch it! you’ll love it. i was afraid nii-san wouldn’t like it, so i forced her into watching it today and she loved it. <333
beni and i went to the beach recently too. i got a little burned and i think i got a tan. it was fun though. this nice couple also let us use their umbrella when they left so we weren’t burning in the sun for too long. the water was lovely and the sky was a really pretty blue. the day actually started out TERRIBLY, but it got SO much better after we went to the beach. i hope we go again soon. it was really fun.
uhh. so i have so much more to write about, but this entry is getting long. i’ll update more soon. until then, ta!
DAMMIT METROCON! 11/07/2008
i have done my damnedest to avoid anything and EVERYTHING metrocon (minusing the peeps because YOU ARE MY HOMMEDAWGS!). why? so i can save myself from regretting not being able to attend this year.
well i cracked.
totally went to metrocon’s website. WTF?!! GREG CIPES?! you let him go last year and decided now was the best time to have him?! WTF times 9 thousand!!!…and one!!!! i have been wanting to meet that man since i was a wee little teen! he was what helped me stay a vegitarian! it was my dream to have little vegan babies with him!![/overreacting] and now…UUUGGGHHH!!!
and dave stanworth from snafu?! F***************CCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!! WHAT NEXT?! DAVID HAYTER?!! *cries*
someone…please…send me to florida to meet these people…
ahhh!!! and seeing all the avatar goodness that will be taking place there too?! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PART OF THAT!!! but nooooooooooo!!! i had to go to ALASKA to see the mooses and the mountains! *cries* there’s always a next year right…? NO! gahh!! *bangs head against floor* THE MEDICINE!!![/grey fox]
for all you that are going, tell greg cipes i love him and want to go surfing with him while we eat vegan chik’n burgers together…
no. for serious though. tell greg cipes about me. if i can’t meet him, he will DAMN well know that i want to and that i exist.
also, if someone can record the chess match, super hero stunt show, and avatar shows (yes. tape them ALL) and send it to me, i’d really appreciate it.
i’m wronry now.. 22/02/2008
this year is going to be totally different from the past…how many years now? five? yeah. metrocon wise.
yeah. i have in some way, shape or form have been a part of it since year one. hell, i still remember when roy came up to me at AFO with the hotel brochure for metrocon’s first convention, totally stoked about his dream actually coming to life. wow. how old was i? 13? 14? that’s young compared to my age now. xD
the first two years i was a crazy active volunteer. i worked at the con suit religiously like it was my own business. i think i could’ve taken senshi’s place. xD i even worked there when i wasn’t scheduled. met a lot of cool people that way. also had breakfast and other meals with the guests a lot. xD oh the connections..
third year i did a lot of volunteering too. but that year was when i first became a part of the chess match. holy crap that was fun. i played random school-girl ninja pawn. more like PWN! oh-ho. still had a losing battle though. it’s ok because sensei jasmine sexy ninja saved me. not to mention this year i met beni. oh chess match..
fourth year was a little different. tried out for both chess match and miss mascot. got runner up for miss mascot. i think i was cute mascot!nikki’s back-up. don’t remember. yeah… i think that’s right. for chess match i got the part of gally from battle angel alita/gunm. that was cool. i loved my fights!
fifth year was a little different. chess match wasn’t exactly the same the first two years, but i made a lot of new friends. and became better friends with people i met last year. you can tell there were a few cliques, but hey. it was bound to happen eventually, right?
this coming year, wow. hasn’t even officially started yet and i’m seeing changes. i think the biggest thing that hit me was the metro_chess community on livejournal taking me out of their friends list. ouch. i mean, it’s hard enough that i won’t be making it this year, but way to make it known. i was kinda hoping i could stay on there so i could keep up-to-date with my buddies who are still involved with it. like, OMG TORI!! i’m so excited for her! she has a major role this year! that’s something i wanted to keep up-to-date with.
and now i think everyone is supposed to lock all their lj entries if it involves chess match. i’m not going this year. you guys seriously think i’m going to go off blabbering my mouth on who got the role of who? it doesn’t hurt if one person knows, right? just feed my curiosity. you’re not feeding the messenger to the WORLD. wait, you already shot the messenger. ouch x2.
i think the reason why i’m so upset about this is because when i was expressing my distraught about how i will not be involved this year, don told me that even if i’m not there this year, i’m still a part of the team, the family. i always saw chess match as a family. a rather dysfunctional family, but one nonetheless. and now i’m getting shut out? to those cutting me off from my family, well, fuck you than. when you guys are paying $4 a gallon for gas to drive to practice, i’m going to be having the time of my life in alaska.
oh. and read between the lines while you’re at it.
