AMG Appreciation Dinner 2015

It was a blast. I'm dead tired now but I have to prepare stuffs for tomorrow.....

Boss why you ate our table's photo :@
I remember you took a photo de leh! Cause you commented something along the lines of "why are you not smiling? you call that a smile? think of something happy!" noooooo I want the photo of our tableeee *cries*

Mei Mi La~

不入不入一入就没米没米没米！
是嗒！入了lo圈后直接一连连的没米日子～～
想买这又想买那。。。米能丛天上掉下来么　( ´•̥̥̥ω•̥̥̥` )

你

其实不用问不用想太多也知道你们想什么。
之前的你们不管动漫节后多么累都会硬撑带我吃宵夜啊确保我没饿肚子啊送我回家啊什么的。朋友招待指数满分。说什么得空过来带我吃吃吃。现在？问个哪有啥好吃的不是随便敷衍一下就是直接不回。若是之前啊，都直接带我到处吃了吧。
看那几年前只见过一次面，又没真么联络的朋友，听我说过来了，放工后直接飞徳士来带我喝糖水陪我哈啦。感动死了ಥ_ಥ 
咋刚认识四个月，只见过三次面的人在告诉我说要离开三年去美国念书时都很依依不舍快哭的感觉；而认识了更久说好一起做这个做那个的你却说了那些话？什么都要离开两年去美国打工，不在见面，就不算什么重要朋友之类的。之前多么想看见我把你买的裙子穿上的模样，现在让你知道我把它带来了，还特地借了衬衫鞋子裙撑啊什么的，你却一点反应都没有？就真的不当一回事了吗？
其实你不会知道我是特地把东西拖来让你有机会看见。说为了动漫节而带来是借口。你不会知道来玩也只是借口。最想要的是在你离开前再次见面。谁知道你却找来一堆不知是真是假的理由。
努力地告诉自己Ｙ只不过是另一个Ｖ。其他的？插肩而过的朋友吧。不是第一次，也不会是最后一次。

Ups and Downs

Wow close to 5 months since I last posted. Wow. I was suppose to blog about Comic Fiesta and I got lazy to do it. I wanted to blog about a recent week full of random things but I haven't posted it... Done typing the long-ass essay in the iPad but somehow have not posted it.. Came back from a trip, wanted to blog about it, then realize there's nothing much to blog about. Suppose to be having fun today after movie but shit happened. There goes me trying to contain my emotions. Was half way making something as a surprise, thanks to shitty things that happened, decided not to bother about the surprise anymore.

Promised myself not to blog about negative things but I just had to.


It's okay. You'll be fine. Movie sequels are what keeps you moving ♥

Anime Festival Asia 2014 !! #3

Technically this post has nothing to do with AFA anymore as it ended the night before. Then again my brain can't come up with a title that links this post to the previous two so Ima just go with it.

[Monday - 7/12/14]

 

Last photo taken of me taken at the inn before I left.

This marks the day I check out and leave Singapore... Ahh time passed so quickly.. I didn't get much sleep as I went to bed quite late or rather quite early in the morning so I decided to skip breakfast. But I couldn't sleep in pass 12pm unless I wanna end up paying for another night at the inn. I had a lunch date with Mayu and Aiko so I had to get up and get going before 12pm. Woke up, confirmed time and place to meet, start packing, check out and off I go. I was planning to leave my luggage at the inn while I wandered around but decided to drag it along with me. Save the trouble of coming back to Chinatown to get it later on. Mayu was already waiting for me at Somerset MRT station when I left the inn. Have a look at my bed this year and my yearly companion, a Rilakkuma pouch given to me by my Aika mates 2 years ago~ I left OO-Kun facing the wall since Saturday night..

 

While I was on my way to Somerset, I notice 3 guys who were from Malaysia (I assume based on the custom tag on one of their luggage) who went to AFA too. I had my OO-Kun with me so obviously at least one of them noticed I was there for AFA too. I'm mentioning this cause they had their luggage with them but they weren't headed for the airport. At least not yet. They took the same service line as I did but I got off at Somerset before they did. I assume they were heading towards Orchard. I like staring at people who has the same interests as I do. When I reached Somerset station, I started looking around for Mayu. I spotted a girl with a large pink luggage but assumed it wasn't her because she stays in Singapore. It was indeed Mayu... She was heading back to Malaysia to fly to Taiwan in a few days. We walked our way to *Scape for our McDonald's lunch~ Mayu was trying to collect the One Piece collectibles that you can buy along with a McD value meal. Aiko and her boyfriend joined us soon to sacrifice our tummies to help Mayu eat the meals. *cough* While nomming on my lunch, a kid came to ask me where I got my OO-Kun. Too bad for you kid. Aiko's boyfriend mentioned I should pass my OO-Kun to the kid since I can't bring it up the plane qwq While nomming and chit chatting, we mentioned our flight times and apparently Aiko's boyfriend and I are taking the same flight back to Malaysia. Coincidence much.

 

After lunch comes dessert! We walked back to 313@Somerset to have some Honey Creme soft serve ice cream! Ahhh thank you Aiko for mentioning Honey Creme on Saturday night else I wouldn't have been able to tag along for Honey Creme! I ordered Honey Comb while Aiko's bf ordered the same. Mayu ordered the chocolate one while Aiko ordered the Affogato! I totally forgot I wanted to order the Affogato qwq It tasted so heavenly! Aiko and the bf mentioned Milk Cow's soft serve in Malaysia tasted milkier. But they don't have Affogato here in Malaysia. Sobs. I'm heading out to try Milk Cow's soft server this coming Sunday with Dawn and Yuji. They have red bean related ones tho. My Honey Comb was sweet and tasted heavenly as well~ I love it a lot! Would totally come back for more the next time I am in Singapore! I asked ZH about Honey Creme the night before but he said he never heard of it....... Xen went jelly mode after seeing my Honey Comb Honey Creme photo~~ I was chewing on the honey comb when we left and was telling them how it was tasteless then Aiko and the bf started saying it's tasteless because it's wax and I'm not suppose to eat it..... I still continued chewing it and swallowed it lol. We bid Mayu farewell after our dessert and went Takashimaya. Aiko went Sanrio calendar shopping while I just stayed around to leech wifi from her boyfriend. Yes I'm that evil lol. They then mentioned there's 30 minutes free wifi available right at Orchard MRT station's entrance which my eyes immediately went *bling*.

 

After leaving the pair, I went to Orchard MRT station (in which I got a little lost) to leech more wifi. ZH and the rest was suppose to meet up with me to go to the Little Prince cafe but they ended up ffk-ing me. (ffk as in fong fei kei) Super sad! I ended up heading to Bugis to walk around, find my KOI and look for the cat cafe ZH mentioned. While I was leaving, my phone picked up the hotspot signal from Aiko's bf's phone so I figured they were heading back to Chinatown to pick up their luggage before heading to the airport. I ended up camping at Chinatown station thinking I might bump into them. I didn't. By 4.15pm I had to leave and head for Bugis. I took the Downtown line again as this time I'm really headed for Bugis. While waiting for the train to arrive, I did a mini photo shoot for my OO-Kun balloon pretending he's happily exploring Singapore! I have to upload those photos tho.. So no photos for now. I even skipped a train to take more shots. 

While walking around the station finding the exit, I spotted something I've been finding for 2 years, Lao Ban tao huey. Except this was Lao Ban's son?! I bought the almond flavored tao huey and headed for Bugis. When exiting the MRT area, something went wrong with my ezlink card.. I forgot what the error was but the staff had to do something to my card before I could leave. Even tho it's been the 3rd year I wandered around Bugis, I still get lost. Not like omg where am I?! more like which way do I walk to get to KOI again?... Since there's the Bugis Junction, Bugis+ difference. I saw the Hobbit promotional area thingy and took some photos~ People were swarming Gandalf so I didn't take a photo of the statue. How I wish I could stay longer to wait for the crowd to disperse...

 

Made my way to KOI Cafe after figuring out which way to head towards. Ordered another Black Tea Machiatto which I sorta regret cause I didn't drink my Green Tea Machiatto this year. After getting my drink, I stopped by the side to take a photo of my drink in which then the cashier asked whether the bag of thingies by the counter was mine. Holyshit I actually left my tao huey and iPod by the counter and didn't notice.... Lucky I have the bad habit of feeding my phone first.... (as in taking photos) I couldn't find MOS Burger at Bugis... Not sure if it closed or I just got lost and missed it. I did find the cat cafe ZH mentioned but I didn't have the time to visit nor even pass by it. I had to leave for the airport. It's good enough that I even manage to squeeze time out to wander around Bugis. I thought I wouldn't be visiting this area this year.. Hooray to getting ffk-ed! (not a good thing to be happy about)

After checking in to my flight, I started looking around to see if Aiko's bf is anywhere to be seen. But nope. Oh well~ I went down to the basement to take a look at Ramen Champion. This is probably the only year which I didn't dine at Ramen Champion. Opposite Ramen Champion was Four Fingers. Another fast food shop which is not available in Malaysia. While waiting for time to pass, I started taking photos of the Christmas decorations at the airport. Not to forget is to take some shots of OO-Kun exploring the airport! Dawn was suppose to join me this year in exploring Changi Airport but she couldn't make it so maybe next year. All of a sudden I realized I didn't take photos WITH my OO-Kun so I sat somewhere and started taking tons of selfies with it. I remember a random auntie was watching from the side probably thinking "why this girl so vain a taking so many selfies in the airport" Probably. When I was about to nom on my tao huey, I dropped it. The cover broke but the tao huey was still intact. Bless. *I brought the plastic container home lol) I had to finish it quickly as I still had to deflate my OO-Kun balloon. Ahh such heartache when I had to deflate it T___T After deflating it, I had to rush to my departure gate. I was so close to missing boarding time.. Like 30 seconds close. Yep. Despite reaching the airport early, I still ended up chasing the plane. I need someone to travel with me so that this doesn't happen again sobs. The guy by the scanner even rushed me to put my things on the belt as the gate was closing. Thank you miss air stewardess for putting my luggage up in the overhead compartment for me.

The seat next to mine on the flight was empty. The uncle even mentioned I could put my stuffs on it along with his wife's bag if I wanted to. There were assorted in-flight entertainments available. Including movies like The Hobbit : The Unexpected Journey and Sherlock (the one by Robert Downey Jr.). The moment the plane landed I switched on my phone and data immediately. Checked my FB messages only to see that Xen and ZH messaged me hours ago (after I left Bugis. I had wifi while still at Bugis) asking when am I flying back. I was like "er... do I still need to answer this question?" cause I already landed... Ahhh they were trying to plan to send me off... If only the message reached me before I left Bugis.. Oh well maybe next year.. I didn't see Aiko's bf in the flight till like when the plane landed. He was probably rushing to meet Aiko but still helped me with my luggage hoho. I lost sight of him by the duty free area as I was searching for chocolate! I did find what I was looking for! Nyums! Only bought two of the same chocolate before I left the area. Met up with the brother and mom after wandering around a little before leaving the airport. The airport is huge and I'm a little saddened I didn't get to wander around more. On the way home I even got to buy KFC's Double Down Maxx for dinner! Yep late dinner again. I was afraid if I didn't buy it now I would miss the promotion period and not get to eat it this year.

 

That ends my trip to Singapore in 2014! Next trip would be next year. I will still attend AFA even tho I complain a lot about the lack of things that interests me year after year. It is a tad bit saddening when I didn't get to hang out with them more but oh well~ There's always next time~ That is if we still stay contact... Fingers crossed. Oh they will be coming to Malaysia next week from the 25th to the 30th! For Comic Fiesta~ I doubt we'd end up spending much of the time mingling so fingers crossed I'd even get 2 hours of mingling okay. I sorta wish Xen would bring Olaf along but I doubt so. Bye Olaf~ 

Okay enough of random stuff. Ciao~ Be back after Comic Fiesta~

Anime Festival Asia 2014 !! #2

A continuation to the previous post~ Part 2 of this year's AFA trip~

[Sunday - 7/12/2014]

Woke up somewhere between 9am ~ 10am and went to the terrace area for another bread breakfast. The milo still sucks. I had a tiny bit of problem getting out of bed as usual as I slept late and well.. It's still the am and I'm used to waking up after noon so yeah.. I didn't wanna miss the breakfast that is included with my stay so I got up, went down to eat, and went back to roll around in bed. Ahh I forgot to mention a little something about my roommates this year. Out of the 6 people sharing the attic room, at least 3 were Koreans. They were nice and greeted me the night before when I just got into the room. There was another Chinese in the room and when I was rolling around in bed, she started packing her things in which I assume she's checking out today. I still feel bad for making so much noise pass 1am when I got back from supper. I Sorry peeps.

By 11am I figured I've wasted enough time so I got out of bed and went back to the terrace to have my early curry rice lunch, which I stored in the refrigerator from the previous night. Don't worry I didn't end up eating frozen/cold curry rice as they had a microwave right above the refrigerator for us to use~ The buttons on the microwave seemed different... Maybe they got a new one sometime this year. Got myself changed up and ready to go right after my lunch.

 

Ohh as I was about to leave the inn and head to Suntec City, something on the notice board along the hall caught my eye. It's a leaflet thingy promoting AFA! I took the courtesy of taking a photo of it before leaving~ It's nice to see something AFA related at an inn I've been staying at for 3 years. I did notice there were other people talking about AFA while having breakfast~

While at Chinatown's MRT station, I noticed a new MRT line. Downtown line which is highlighted in blue. It connects Chinatown and Bugis! No more changing lines while heading to Bugis from Chinatown~ I decided to give it a try as the train stops at Promenade too which is just one stop away from Esplanade (Suntec City). Annddddd I got lost. I got lost at one of the random sides of Suntec City after alighting at Promenade station. No more alighting there thank you very much. Gosh I was lost for about half an hour........ Bless the almighty fountain =____= Instead of going one floor down to the basement, I went all the way up to the third floor and walked all the way to a dead end..... 

You know what? I have no idea what I did for pretty much the rest of the day. Besides walking around aimlessly. I know I skipped food for the rest of the day... Oh wait I remembered something! There's this booth at the nico nico Kunikaigi area where you can get a ID card thingy. I went up to the staffs there and asked about the card and they said all you have to do is scan the QR code thingy, log in and voila! (Darren mentioned it's free when I saw him the day before but by the time I reached the booth, the cards were all gone.) I didn't manage to get the card in the end. Why? 1. Both my iPhone and the iPod I brought had a hard time connecting to Suntec's wifi. 2. Even after my iPhone managed to connect to a stranger's hotspot, the cards were all given out. Again. I shamelessly asked a random guy who just got his card if I could use his hotspot to get the card but after like 10 minutes? of doing this and that, and finally got connected to his phone's hotspot, the staff told me the cards were all given out. Sigh. Like the guy said "after going through all the trouble to get connected, the cards were out of stock?!" Bad luck for me yey~ Thank you tho random guy. 

I wanted to watch Keiko sing on the main stage as she got into the AAA finals but.. I didn't cause it's like an extra $10 to enter the main stage area. Ohhhh something sorta funny happened. Well to me it's sorta funny. I went to the washroom inside the exhibition hall and when I came out, I saw Cheryl/Ying Tze browsing stuffs at one of the doujin booths. As she was browsing, people interrupted her and started asking to take photos with her. It's like take one photo, turn to browse, within 3 seconds, another person interrupts. I wasn't trying to ask for a photo with her mind you. I was just trying to pass through the area. Felt bad for her as she was trying to browse doujin stuff but kept getting interrupted. I came back the same area about 2 hours later and there she was again and getting interrupted again lol.

Nearby the Culture Japan's booth was Cherry Credit's booth. At first glance I notice the Million Arthur area but I wasn't that interested in it. Next to it was the Coin Hunter area in which you can take on a challenge to win a kawaii iPhone/Android phone USB cable. If you lose the challenge (or rather did not get the required points of 500k) you still get a badge. There were 2 designs to choose from. The challenge for the USB cable starts every hour until all the USB cables for that hour is given out. I stood by the side watching people play while trying to understand the game. The emcee kept mentioning the person that broke the high score (which was like way over 1m points) was a girl. And how there were some people who tried hours after hours before finally winning the USB cable. There were 3 iPads at the side of the stage for us to try out the game. When I approached the iPad to try out the game, the staff (I think) tried to explain the game to me but I didn't listen and started playing blindly. Lucky for me it didn't take me too long before I got the hang of it. On my second round on the iPad I managed to hit the 500k points required. But of course we had to play the game on the stage to qualify for the USB cable. By the time I was ready, the round ended and I had to wait for the next hour before attempting to take on the challenge. When the next round started, there were people already there waiting to challenge the game on stage. I stood by and waited. When the emcee said there's only one iPhone USB cable left (for this round) I quickly raised my hand. I was super nervous as this is the first time I'm playing the game on an iPhone. Training rounds were on iPads and the level of the character for both devices were different. As usual the emcee would start by asking if we've ever played the game in which I replied "I just played it on the iPad a while ago".

As I was playing the game on stage, the emcee started talking a lot. I tried to reply but I don't think the words came out of my mouth. I just spam tapped the iPhone. I sorta heard the audiences by the side of the stage cheering (or something) as my game board (shown on a larger screen) looked spectacular to them (lolwhut). The emcee mentioned something like "are you doing some kind of magic here" cause my board was full of wonderful boosts. The game was only 60seconds long (more if you get time boosters while playing) but I somehow got stuck and froze for a few milliseconds. The game shown on the larger screen was delayed by a 1-2 seconds so the emcee said something like "she's thinking what to do next" probably cause I froze and slowed down the tapping. Yes I had super fast tapping skills back then. I did 0 drags cause the drags were weird to me. I heard someone yelling "wah she can just spam only for the rest of the game" when my board was filled with 500 coins so I went "ding!" and started spamming the 500 coins. In the end of course I got over 500k points but I could've gotten a higher score if I did not pause and freeze and break my combo record. I remember trying to tap 2 more 500 coins but the game ended and I went "omg I cannot spam anymore" to the emcee .___. I saw my score while passing the phone back to him while he asked if my score exceeded 500k and in shock and awe I said yes while sorta covering my mouth. Yey happy shocku! Ahh the audience cheered and clapped when they saw my score on the larger screen ♥ Took my victory photo and the USB cable before I left the area~ I'm glad I got it on the first round as I'm pretty sure I would fail if I tried again. I did come back to challenge the game again but instead of the USB cable, I was aiming for the badge. My score sucked badly this time. With only somewhere over 300k points. Meh. The emcee made it worst (my kokoro saddened) by saying "she won the USB cable earlier on, watch her play!" to the audience before I started my game. (I came back at the end of the day to take the other badge I wanted and this time around I didn't have to play the game on stage anymore. The emcee said "You don't need to play also I know you can get high score wan." I'm like thanks man thanks for stressing me out lol.)

Wandered around and noticed the Odex booth is closing at 4pm. Isn't that like super early?! Passed by NHK's booth while heading towards Starchild's booth and entered a MangaMe draw. The draw started at 4.30pm but I got super distracted at Starchild's booth with the appearance of Kaname as Mikoto, Reika as Munakata and Yuegene as Yukari and missed my name.... I didn't notice till like 4.36pm but it was all too late.. Well it wasn't actually.. My name did get called out at the beginning and we could like ask to check for our names in case we missed it (or something) but I didn't till like.. After they were done calling out people's name.... Sigh... Wasted T-T The nico nico Kunikaigi area closed quite early. Spotted Mayu while wandering around and met up with Aiko and her bf to chit chat for a short while before they headed for the concert hall. I wonder what I did for the remaining 2 hours I spent there while waiting for the last photo session at Starchild's booth besides walking back and forth near Seika Cafe eyeing on the curry rice. Oh right I went to watch the ARCC Singles at the mini stage. Well the final part of it. When the winner was announced, I saw Reika and another guest cosplayer shaking their heads. Probably disappointed with the results. Spotted Ashe with some boxes near the Canon photo booth area. ZH came after a while and pfff he really cosplayed as his Saburou from Nobunaga Concerto. I gave Xen an awkward hi cause I couldn't recognize him without his glasses...... It was awkward to stay there so I went on wandering the halls. *I didn't realize it was him until he got out of his costume back at the hotel*

When it was about time for the last photo session at Starchild's booth, I finally saw Keiko. Like lolwtf at the very end of the event. She was in queue to get her photo taken with the K cosplayers. She bought the K Character Songs and said to me something along the lines of "go buy something! must buy!" anddd I gave in and went to buy the same thing ///__\\\ I passed by Starchild's booth numerous times flipping their merchandises pondering whether to buy anything and gave in at the very end... I paid to enter the halls and bought nothing so why not. You don't get to see someone cosplaying as one of your favorite characters and is quite accurate at it that often~ At least I don't.. This could be the last time to see Starchild inviting someone as guest to cosplay as Mikoto since the character died in the anime. So yeah why not~ The emcee kept making us cheer as we waited for the cosplayers to appear.

Watching the girls (yep from what I remember everyone in the queue were girls) going up the stage one by one, hugging the cosplayers made me go awww~ Especially when someone cosplaying as Anna walked up the stage! Double awww~ I didn't trust the staff's ability in taking photos so I decided to go with the selfie/wefie mode this year. As I got on the stage, I started by hugging Kaname as Mikoto ♥, then Reika and Yuegene. I totally forgot I wanted to say "Mikoto wa daisuki!" to Kaname =///= ♥ Too much shocku desu. I requested for Kaname to put on his jacket and he thought I was asking for a hugging photo o///o ahh sorry really too much shocku till I can speak well. The photo was taken by Reika~ She was taking shots after shots after shots!! Thank you ♥ Even though in the end I only kept 2. The others were well... Me looking other ways.. Yep I didn't know where to look ///w/// Mikoto's jacket is ♥ I got more hugs as I was about to leave the stage. Reika said thank you in which I returned a arigatou~ owo Said otsukare to Kaname (I forgot what he said ///w///) and thank you to Yuegene as I hugged them~ My kokoro o///o ♥ It still feels so surreal while staring at the photo!

Continued to walk around the exhibition hall while eyeing on the curry rice again~ I saw Kaoru at the end of the event on both Saturday and Sunday but I didn't ask for a photo or autograph. Went back to where I spotted Ashe and they were still camping there. By 8pm ZH gave the signal that they're leaving. I'm like nooooooooo I wanna camp for my curry rice qwq which by then was sold at $6 or $4 ea.... Like sigh.. They were gonna head back to the hotel, get dressed down before dinner. I wanted to stay to camp for my curry rice but they were like "what if we cannot find you / reach you later" T___T okay lo you win liao lo... I didn't realize CJ was the one crossplaying... (them heels omg) I walked next to him the whole time thinking it was Ashe even though Ashe wasn't cosplaying........ Brain can you not...... And somehow thinking Ashe was Xen... And Xen was well... Another friend of theirs........ Dear brain can you seriously not..... While walking to their hotel (which at this point I have no idea which hotel their bunking at), I noticed Singapore's malls are pretty empty at 8.30pm on a Sunday. In Malaysia, 8.30pm is like the time we start leaving our houses to go out for dinner lol. Mentioned it to ZH and he said usually around this time Singaporeans are sitting at home, watching tv, waiting to sleep. Sounds boring to me.

Walked and walked and walked. Passed by Pan Pacific and thought they were staying there but nope. When I notice we were walking towards Ritz Carlton, I went "omgwtf Ritz Carlton wtfwtfwtf". Of course, only I hear it. (on Monday while on the way to the airport, a thought struck me that if only I had my OO-Kun with me, I could've done a mini OO-Kun shoot at the hotel) Damn the view from the 31st floor was awesome! I never even stepped foot into the Ritz Carlton in Malaysia so yeah I was amazed. Wei Lee works at the hotel as a cook if I remembered correctly. When I was amazed by the view by the elevator, someone mentioned the view by the bathroom is even better. The view was pretty cool! The bathroom itself is cool lol! Ah the view from the room itself is cool too owo I took some shots but am too lazy to upload them... They were taking forever to decide on what to eat for dinner.. Suggestions were like pizza, ramen, kfc, mcd... Most places were starting to close down for the night.

Ended up waiting for them to take turns to shower, get dressed down till like 9.30pm... My curry rice T___T another half an hour camping by the halls and I could've gotten it... sigh... When we were waiting for the elevator, I started taking photos of the view from atop and as the elevator arrived, I decided to stay back for a few minutes longer to get more shots. In which from what I remember, I deleted all of them....... Shakey hands meh. When I got into the elevator, I stared blankly at the buttons. "Why is "Lobby" next to the 3rd floor button?" Even with doubt, I pressed it. The first thing ZH said when he saw me walking out of the elevator was "Ohh lucky you know we're waiting on the third floor." I'm like "cause I saw the "lobby" next to the 3 ma so I press lo". It's weird so yeah. We ended up having KFC for dinner as Carls' Jr was closed. I was glad it was closed since the price was like omg same price just swap the currency which after converting is like ouch. (excuse the engrish) They (KFC) were only taking takeaway orders which we were fine with. While deciding on what to order, I notice the huge difference in Singapore's KFC's menu compared to Malaysia's. THEY STILL HAVE POPCORN CHICKEN!! Too bad the Cheese Fries were sold out for the night. And burgers... All that was left were chickens after ZH made his order so I ended up leeching ZH's buddy meal hoho. It was funny (to me even tho it's not actually funny) and warm when they noticed I didn't order anything and they were all like "omg you're not eating?!". My last meal before our supper-dinner was my curry rice so of course I had to eat. Thanks ZH for the dinner treat. Headed back to the hotel to nom on our dinner. Xen so classy sia. He ate his dinner by the awesome-view-window with a drink in a champagne/wine glass. We watched Pearl Harbor as we devour our dinner.

I somehow started losing my voice after dinner.... But I only shouted like thrice while at the Starchild booth.... So I got another bottle of water from their hotel. Yey! Tho the bottle wrapper by now is torn and I didn't even get a photo of it yet..... Meh. Even tho Xen had to drive me back to the hotel and ZH back to his place, he started drinking Shandy. Which I'm not sure if there's alcohol in it.... He fell asleep soon while we continued to watch Pearl Harbor. WE FINISHED PEARL HARBOR SIA. I never watched the movie before so yey~ ZH and I were like playing Get Rich while waiting for Xen to wake up. Xen only woke up when it was way over 1am and drove us back. Thanks again Xen for the ride~ Messed with Olaf during the short ride. I forgot to take a photo of it qwq mehhhh After I was done with shower, I went to the terrace to have a cup of teh tarik~ since the milo sucked lol. It was like... 4am... The yoloness...

 

And that ends Day 2 in Singapore. AFA ended and as usual I didn't want it to end. But wait! This is not the end of my 2014 Singapore trip! There's more to come on my next post on my Day 3 in Singapore! I got to visit places in Singapore that I have yet visited~ Well only 2 new places but still yeah~ To be continued tomorrow~ Ciao~ 

Anime Festival Asia 2014 !!

Hey-hie mighty-o!!
That was just a random thing that came up while thinking of how to start this post. Wow look at the date of the last post.. It has been close to 2 months since I last blogged.. That isn't too long I guess~ At one point I thought I haven't blogged for months so yeah~

Back to the main title! I just came back from Singapore last week! Why was I in Singapore? Why of course to attend Anime Festival Asia (AFA) 2014! It's officially a 3 full day event now~ And soon it's gonna be a week long event mwahahaha! Iit used to be a 3 nights 2 days event with concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and exhibitions on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 9pm. I skipped Friday thinking I was gonna be super bored there as I was pretty much all on my own this year and went for Saturday and Sunday only. Which of course I proved myself quite right. I flew to Singapore early Saturday morning and came back Monday night. The original plan to fly early morning is to skip trying hard to wake up and get out of bed while in Singapore and to listen in on Starchild's main stage event. Which I skipped cause I wasn't that interested in the other main stage events.

Now for the lengthier, detailed day-by-day part. Excuse the English.

[Saturday - 6/12/2014]

Pretty much skipped sleeping as my OCD kicked in and I was afraid of missing my flight. I woke pretty early (considering I only wake after noon time on a daily basis) on Friday... So I was pretty much sleepless for over 36 hours yey! Reached the airport, ate breakfast, checked-in and went on observing people at the departure hall. Didn't realize my FB status update had a typo due to lack of sleep... Instead of "Up up and away!" I typed "Off off and away!" and thought it was normal.......... 6.55am flight... Much yolo-ness in it. I picked the airport closer to home so I won't end up chasing the airplane. While waiting to board the plane, I heard someone playing the Minions' Christmas song video behind me. I get super excited whenever I spot Japanese around me and thought the girls in front of me were heading to AFA too but they weren't. Oh well~

After an hour's flight, around 8.15am, I finally reached Singapore! ♥ The plane somehow "parked" super far that we had to get on the shuttle bus to get to the airport building. It was awesome ♥ and suddenly dundundunnnnn why this? Tthe moment I switched on my phone, the horror of the year 2014 (in my life) happened.... NO ROAMING! Yep. For the first time ever I'm in Singapore with a phone that does not have roaming and best part? It's also the first time I'm traveling alone. And if that's not enough, the wifi at the airport doesn't work. I know it sounds a little exaggerated since it's only no roaming no wifi and stuff but it wasn't at all. Okay fine maybe a little. It wouldn't be a problem at all if I was traveling with friends. It wasn't that big a problem too even when I was traveling alone. But it is a HUGE problem when you're not sure if your friend is at the airport to pick you up and you have no way of contacting him to know. A friend sorta offered to pick me up at the airport but without roaming or working wifi, I couldn't contact him to find out. Maybe due to lack of sleep, it didn't cross my mind that I could just use the public phone (if any) or borrow someone's phone to make the call. "What if he's already at the airport waiting somewhere?!" is the only thing that came up in my mind. (Roaming thingy worked last year.. Then I realized I changed my mobile plan thingy just months ago....) Got on the MRT and off to Chinatown I go. For the third consecutive year, I chose to stay at 5footwayinn @ Chinatown for my AFA trip. It wasn't until I reached the inn, got connected to the wifi that I confirmed my friend did not go to the airport to pick me up. Phew~ Got myself checked-in, ditched the luggage, ate my second breakfast (since it was still available) and off to the venue, Suntec City I go~

There were no maid / butler cafes this year~ Moar space for other stuff *cough* Bought my ticket and in I go~ Walked around blindly since I'm not sure where to start. As usual there's Odex, Muse, AFA Shop, Culture Japan, Good Smile Company, Animax booths. I spotted the Asia Anisong-Singer Audition booth next to Starchild's booth and watched as people go up the stage taking turns to sing~ One of the main reasons I decided to step into the exhibition hall this year was to get Tsuda Kenjiro & Horie Yui's autograph. And to my expectation :

 

QAQ Did you hear the sound of my heart shattering into pieces?! Well yep.... I'm sure it's fully given out thanks to Horie Yui's appearance... My TsudaKen autograph T_T The other reason I decided to enter the exhibition hall was the Unlight Card Game booth by Gloczus which wasn't actually a whole booth thingy but just a corner of the table with characters with item codes on them being given away. Oh and a Evarist standee. The rest of the booth was mainly promoting Hakuoki otome game. I spotted one of the Unlight players cosplaying as one of the Unlight character but I didn't greet her and just walked off. *shy* 

The nico nico Kunikaigi area was huge and awesome! owo As much as I'd like to try the karaoke, I dare not to cause like... It's live and I can barely remember half a song |D I wish I joined the dance area activities... Looked fun qwq There were 3 karaoke booths. The AAA booth, nico nico karaoke booth and the one by brother. I wandered around listening to people singing karaoke for like 80% of the time I spent in the hall. Yep I was that bored. OO-Kun balloons (Animax mascot) were given out at Animax's booth from time to time and being the "I want all freebies" person that I am, I went to queue for it ///w/// Went out for lunch at the food court near the fountain area. I tried to order Japanese Curry Rice like I did last year and got the same reply of "oh curry no more" like last year...... Fine. I end up eating the same thing I did last year with an extra Chawanmushi. Yey! Cheap and pretty good chawanmushi~ Shared tables with 2 girls that came for AFA too. They were shy to ask where I got my OO-Kun balloon~ Darren spotted me when I was eating. We end up ordering from the same food stall. He came a day earlier for the concert and what not. 

Went back into the hall after lunch while still thinking whether or not to get angela's autograph again since I already got it last year.  Ended up not getting it since I already got it~ And it's collecting dust somewhere *cough* Around 4.45pm, I sat at one of the karaoke booth (brother) and started dozing off........ I was fishing (in chinese, expression of dozing off) there... When Lost Ash was about to come on stage again, I quickly dashed off. I was quite out of place so hehehehehehe.. I wonder what I did for the rest of the hours... Before the concert started, I was right outside the concert halls leeching wifi and bumped into Aiko! We were both like "wow we finally meet" We were both thinking when will we bump into each other. Greeted Mayu and confirmed my Monday McD lunch mwahahaha~ They went into the concert hall leaving me behind soon.

By 8pm the exhibition hall was pretty empty but the AAA booth was still on! I went to take a seat while deciding whether or not to get on the mini stage to sing. The emcee was like telling everyone "Come on stage and sing whatever song you want. It's free for all to sing. You already came in the hall so why not!" In which I finally gave in and did~ I came in and bought nothing, did nothing much so hey why not~ Once in a life time, yolo moment~ Chose moment by Vivian or Kazuma cause I'm pretty sure I can't sing Rolling Star by YUI well enough in that condition... I was shaking and shivering as expected but I finished the song nonetheless~ Thank you random event go-er stranger that sorta encouraged me and gave me a confidence boost :') At some point during the middle of the day, the emcee of the AAA booth sang "What does the Fox say?" on the mini stage. Like wow. It was nice! Before I got on stage, I had to run to one of the booths in the corner to get water. Haven't had water in HOURS. My singing probably sucked even more thanks to not drinking water *cough*excuses*cough* After singing, I went to Starchild's booth to ask about a lucky draw they were having. I asked the quite-kakkoi-looking staff since he's the nearest staff and he went "aa boku wa shiranai" and walked off cause he couldn't understand what I asked... Sorry dude I couldn't ask it in Japanese... It was cute and funny how he just moved away and let the other female staff deal with me~

Before I left the exhibition area, I went to buy the super cheap, price-lowered curry rice from Seika Cafe! It was sold at $8 during the day and by 8.45pm it was sold at $2 each!!! Regretted so much for only buying two! I spotted some Sherlock calenders being sold at one of the doujin booths! Too bad it was a little too expensive for me... Stood somewhere near the exit to have my curry rice dinner while listening to people singing FLOW's GO at the brother booth~ I left the hall just as it was about to close for the night. While making my way to the MRT station, I found a new KOI Cafe branch! I have no idea what I was thinking when I decided to get the KOI Cafe membership card thingy when I only go Singapore like once a year....... $5 gone. Finally got to try Black Tea Machiatto tho. It was as heavenly as Green Tea Machiatto~~ Went back to my inn at Chinatown only to see Xen's message saying I could just hang out at their hotel while waiting for supper...... Which was way back near Suntec...... Ouch. My kokoro is brokoro- wait wrong. My legs are brokoro. Ah much better. I could've... Saved my $5 qwq Oh well... What's done is done...

I had to ditch my other curry rice and my KOI BTM at the lobby while I moved my luggage to my room. While walking up to my room, I was praying the staff would lead me to the attic room and voila~ Attic room again it is~ I stayed in the exact same room 2 years ago during my first stay here~ Except this time I got the bed Hermes got 2 years ago~ But I got the same drawer/locker thingy I got two years ago~ Into the refrigerator the curry rice went~ Saved it for lunch on Sunday~ Waited for the supper call while surfing the internet like finally~ Met up with Xen, Zhao Han, Ashe, CJ, Wei Lee like finally @ 11.30pm. Supper time! I thought they figured out where to have our supper but nope. Most places were close so we ended up going somewhere near Zhao Han's place for tao huey owo Xen has an Olaf in his car!! And Wei Lee was messing with it .____. CJ thought I couldn't recognize / don't know him but I do. The first thing I said to ZH when I saw him was "hie stickman". ahahaha I'm evil :x It's the first time I got drove around in a friend's car in Singapore! It's usually either MRT MRT MRT or taxi. Thank you for fulfilling my nonsensical request for supper even though all of you were probably super tired m( __  __ )m They dropped ZH back at his place, then me, then went back to their hotel. I took my shower, set my things around properly and went to bed~ I notice the milo supply at the inn sucked badly this year. It's like 95% water and 5% (or heck maybe even less) milo powder... /muchsad/

That ends day 1 in Singapore and I shall continue later on as it is now 4am. HAHHAHAHA as usual when I start typing, I would end up typing for hours on end. Good night to me~