Comic Fiesta 2nd Day Report

Cross-posted on Deviantart
Really. I should postpone writing this since it's 4:23AM!!! Whaaaat thheeee...cheese?
Anyway, because I can actually stick pictures in a journal for the mean time (and I'm still a bit down that I have, like, 2 days left of subs) you can haz pic spam~!

I love her cosplay. Seriously people.

Oh but before that, I gotta apologize for how shitty the pictures come out. I have bad photography skills and the lighting wasn't that good. Plus, I only have Nikon Coolpix at hand. it's not DSLR at any rate
but a pic spam it will be!!


I think he makes a pretty cool Bard really.

Started the day in a not so good condition. I was a bit grauchy from the lack of sleep and my sister took forever to get ready. I nearly bit her head off. It was 11 by the time we moved out of the house and arrived past noon OTL

;v; I was happy they turned my way for some reason orz

I kind of regretted eating before entering CF because my tummy went cold from drinking Twister's apple juice and + the not so yummy bread = tummy gets upset :(

S-so tall ;v;

but once we were outside the hall I was okay, stomach pain be darned.

Snap and ruuuuuuun. So sorry ^^;

THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE!! Agh! Most of my time spent at CF is squeezing through the crowds.

I feared for the safety of my belongings, sanity and...well purity or something but I don't mind that. I mean, I expected CF to be crowded. I just hope the organizers will choose a bigger place next year? For a minute I did get worried because...we're on the 14th floor. The floor won't crumble from our weight, right? OTL

TvT Renoooo. I actually wanted a picture of Reno since Day 1

I tried ditching my sister a lot *evil sister*
but she keeps pulling me back, y'know? It's a good thing she had that lolita meet-up today and I coaxed her to approach the group. Well, I more of scolded her to 'f***ing ask them already!!!' so I dropped her there and in the speed of a random civilian on a busy CF day, I went inside the hall.

Lol, the moment I enter, I hear SNSD's Gee playing and I'm like "ksjfhakfakjsdsdf I bet someone's dancing on stage." Lo and behold.

Yeah. Cosplayers were dancing to it. I was at the back of the crowd and cursing my shortness when SNSD's Genie started playing. Lol, the cosplayer standing next to me danced to it too. I did too, but that's irrelevant

Right after, I made a beeline to the Artist booth and immediately looked for Mousou-Garden booth. I waited so long to buy that doujin from ryo-hakkai" that when I had it in my hand I had this keening urge to laugh like a madman and do a weird jiggle. I didn't anyway since pride, shame and ego grabbed me by the shoulders and forced me to walk away.

One of the best shots I've got of them T_T I'm so incompetent

I went for kidchan's Illustration book next. asldakhdsfldf I've been eye-ing it since yesterday but now I'm really glad I bought it on the second day rather than the first because it's quite inspiring to me. The illustrations in the book that is. Germany and Rome 0.o!!?
I've gone through the book more than 5 times now TvT

Kuroshitsuji again. Masters and Butlers

After that I went walking around the artist booth again for what felt like the umpteenth time. It's good thing I have this Canada-like-tendency to not be seen or else someone would've noticed I passed their booth for, like, a dozen times already and messed up their table again orz sorry for those who I might've done that to TT_TT

Lolita-gathering of some sort.

My sister called me out right after to take a picture of that^ but I fled the scene right after to go chase after some random cosplayer with shiny clothes.

I think I spend too much time taking pictures of Kuroshitsuji cosplayers @_@

I don't remember much of what happened next. I think I (literally) chased after some skirts and was on the look-out for more Hetalia cosplayers.

Wow

My sister calls and tells me she's going to go join the other lolitas to eat. EAT. Without me. So I told her to buy me candies.

Anyway, back inside again, I spent some time watching whatever's going on on-stage.

S-so cute *3*

It's embarrasing to admit but I'm thrilled to see the same MCs. I wonder if they've been MCing for CF since ages ago. I've only gone to 2 CFs anyway and I took quite a liking to them already TTvTT

She makes such a lovely Hungary. Thank you for letting me take a picture of you >3<~<3

Side-tracking for a bit. When I took this picture, in my head I was playing the part in Chibitalia's sheep count CD where he goes "Hungary-san~ Hungary-san~! Gohan ni pasta demasuka~?" Or something like that. I fail at Japanese anyway lol, I fail so much.

Grell~~<3

Anyway! Solo Cosplay Competition! Or the moment I had a lot of 'WTH happened?' and can also be interpreted as 'lolwhut' moment.
Well, I tried my best but I couldn't really...understand what they were going about. I think doing it solo seems pretty hard. I only watched a bit. By 2:30 I left the hall to go outside. Again.

Giiiiiiiiiin-saaaaaaaaaan Dannaaaa---*mauled by Okita* I hope the flash wasn't too blinding. I'm so sorry!! @A@

My friend, who has a way cooler camera, came after that and it was difficult trying to sought her out from the massive crowd *A* We managed anyway...

I'm so happy to be able to stumble upon these three at the same time *fangasms. dies. revives*

...and somehow I left her with my sister before running off again. I really can't help it. T^T It saddens me that neither my sister nor my friend are big fans of anime. It just breaks my heart to get excited over this and that cosplay or fan merchandise and turn around to see their blank faces.

>w<>

Back inside~! Again. Honestly, sometimes I wonder why I go through all the trouble of squeezing between the sweaty bodies just to get inside, walk through artist booth, squeezing and wheezing and whining, just to get out, breath again, join the crowd outside and go right back in again. Rinse and repeat as you see fit.

Really happy to be able to see more FMA. Sorry I interrupted you ;A; I hope I didn't look too deranged

This year I didn't want to focus totally on Hetalia so I bought a few stuff from other series too like 1827 Reborn and Gintama. Wish I bought more Gintama stuff though ;v; Oh well. Next year, hopefully.

It's like stepping back in time *v*

I met and lost my sister a number of times but it's a good thing she has her lolita stuff to keep her occupied. She didn't whine so much about me not taking her pictures. It makes me happy. Truly. I never did like to get on her nerves or get her on my nerves.

So cool!! *A* I hope Kanda's face was really because the cosplayer is in character I disturbed them while they were talking TT^TT I'm so sorry!!

By 5PM we were ready to call it quits. And so we did.

Chinaaaaa

Stopped by the Berjaya TS mall before heading home. My sister got stared at a lot for her lolita dress but she likes attention so all is fine.

Dunno what's going on, really :\

Arrived home at 7PM. Immediately, I worked my way through the stuff I bought. Spent more than RM100 this time around. So, it's instant noodles until the next time my mom banks in money for me OTL

Grell, the enthusiastic stalker >w>

While waiting for the bus, I went through kidchan's illustration book. I really love it. I'm inspired to draw better now. I've been ogling it since I got home and watching every line and detail to see if I can improve somewhere. Anywhere.

Mini-Okitaaaaaa!! Seriously loved this moment. Sorry I disturbed you guys. I nearly lost them to the sudden sea of crowds. Thank you for still letting me take your picture *bows*

So, hopefully I'll get back to drawing soon now that the fairytale is over. I've still got loads of assignments to complete but I will HAVE to get to drawing or my sanity will leave me.

Double the Spain; Double the pedo Joy!

Oh lookie! I have no more rant. So more pictures for you~!

I just remembered her name was Taiga orz *named the file 'Cosplay - tiger.jpg'*


Lol, he was just sitting there between a Cloud and Naruto cosplayer.


This picture was originally dark. Brightening it didn't turn out so good OTL

And I saved the best for last:

I didn't catch them at a naughty time or anything. It was like a snap and run. Thank you for letting me take pictures of your awesome self~!

Okay, I was lying. I think this one was by far the most amusing thing I caught that day:

LOL

Oh and btw, for the Malaysian Hetalia fans, did you know TV3 will be showing Hetalia: Paint it White on the 29th of Dec at 9 AM? I was shocked when I saw the commercial. No one told me anything ;A;
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but damnit! I saw the ending at Youtube already!
Apparently Italy saved the day so I'm happy anyway.

Rough Faces Don't Mean Rough Hearts

The other day Rieya-chan and I were out fishing for props for our assignment. It’s a music video for our audio-visual technique subject. Please await it!

Anyway, we found a few stuff for her hair and the like.

These are a few accessories she’ll be wearing. It’s not all. The attire we set up for her just for the video clip is pretty elaborate for two girls with thinning wallets. Haha. But we’re doing fine so far. Nee-san is letting me borrow a lot of her stuff and there has been overwhelming support from a lot of people.

Thank you for all the help and guidance. We’re both just bumbling girls trying to do our best for an assignment and we love what we do. Thank you so much for making it a happy memory for us.
Please continue to support us.

Well, we’re getting pretty off the beaten path
I’m supposed to know what that means, seriously.

Let’s get back to the subject of this entry.
Because I recently managed to get a sum of money, I wanted so much to spend a portion on a comic. So, I dragged Rieya-chan to Borders bookstore. The feeling of stepping into that place again really lifted my spirits! I love giant bookstores like that

Because the chance of buying a comic is slim nowadays for me, I wanted to buy something that would really entertain me. In the end, between Hoshino Katsura’s D.Gray-man and Sorachi Hideaki’s Gintama, I chose the more humorous one.
A few pages of that volume:

Why am I starting with the last page? Anyway, from this volume of Gintama, I got to see where the heck Kyube poked out of.

Despite Gintama ALWAYS making my arse fall off, it does have its serious and deep moments. It reminds you that Gintoki DOES have a heart under all that laziness.

Read by following the arrow
Okay, this part made me laugh quite hard – and I was in the bus to boot! For people who know nein Japanese, this might bewilder you a bit. Let me try to explain~
I’m still high because I managed to explain this to Rieya-chan.
As a lot of people might know, three in Japanese is san. So, to reply to Gintoki’s persistent questioning, he answers “Shochu san!” which is equivalent to “Shochu, three!” but in Japanese, “Shochu-san” can also be mistaken for “Mr. Shochu”. Get it?

Okay, will shut up now.

I can’t believe you, Kondo…and Danna…
Haaaa~ I still like reading that volume again and again and again…
Ah! But we still haven’t reached the reason for this entry. Yes, we haven’t reached it yet. No, Gintoki has nothing to do with a rough face or a rough heart.

Anyway, after grabbing Gintama off the racks, Rieya-chan asked to see the multimedia department in Borders. We randomly walked around, going through the fiction, non-fiction, photography, music, health, etc. We went through a bunch of racks, okay?
We browsed a bit in the IT section and that was when something hit me. There must be a History section around here!

So I went in search for the history department, somehow managing to lose Rieya-chan a couple of times.
Ah, how heavenly it was when I found it~ There were books about the Thirty Years War (it was so thick!), The Holy Roman Empire (I wanted to cry), the expansion and fall of the Rome Empire (This one was interesting) and lots more books that fans can relate to Hetalia. To my utter happiness, the books were arranged to fit their countries. Like Asians, America, Russia and Classic History. I immediately went to search for UK.

Yeah…let’s leave that to that.

I did get a bit confused though since Iggy’s section was kind of divided into two: The British and The UK. I can’t really remember the difference between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, British and England even though the France in Worldface explained it once. Agh…I wish I screencapped it.
Can anyone tell me the difference? Please and thank you.

So – now we get to the main subject of this entry – after having been disappointed at the price of a very interesting book on British people – imagine nyotalia America married and living with England at his house – I went in search of Feliciano’s section. To my utter dismay, the Italy section was on the topmost part of the shelf, right above Ivan – eh, I mean Russia.

I was so depressed! I stood on my tiptoes and I still couldn’t get it! After jumping a few times, I somehow managed to bump rather loudly and noticeably on the shelf. I immediately glanced around to see if there was anyone around. To make it worse, there WAS a guy sitting right behind me! If my face had been any fairer, you could possibly see my blush.

The guy glanced at me weirdly but said nothing. I apologized and sadly backed away from the shelf.
I wanted to cry, seriously! Not only was my most-looked-forward-to book was out of my reach, I had also made a fool of myself! Never before had I been so saddened by my lacking height than that day.

After backing away a few steps, I sadly stared at that book so very out of my reach. Suddenly, the guy’s handphone rang. He answered and stood up before reaching over and plucking the book off the shelf, still talking to his friend.
You can’t believe how shocked I was. I was completely frozen on the spot and barely managed to say thank you to him. The guy walked away after handing me the book.

I’m pretty sure the guy won’t be able to read this but thank you so much! I really enjoyed reading that book!

Yeah, so that’s the reason for this over-written post. If you’ve read to here, thank you. I don’t think I am quite capable of keeping others attention.
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Please await more colourful entries like this!

Aini's Tiring and Totally Random Midterm Week!

My midterm examination schedule was actually something like this:

3rd April – Audio-visual Technique and Malaysian Studies
4th April – Academic Reading & Writing II
5th April – Scriptwriting and Multimedia Design Principles

But I’m gonna elaborate on those later. First, we go back to a few weeks prior, when I was still an excited girl, thinking,

Bullshit
That dream was soon killed by Ms. Xuan’s innocent exclamation of

You can imagine my reaction

Yeah, sorry for my fail Japanese. It’s saying ‘ZetsuboushitaAAA’
Ms. Xuan. Sweet, strict, all-smiles Ms. Xuan who made my Hetalia-ness escalate because she’s from China, decided to make a replacement class on that study week holiday. I can’t imagine skipping her class
Yeah right.
Especially since she said

Actually, there were TWO replacement classes. On Monday and Wednesday so I basically had to forget any ideas of returning home at anytime during that study week for it just wasn’t worth it to return only for a few days. Tickets were expensive no matter how you look at it.
After class, I immediately called nee-san.

Consequentially, nee-san had planned to buy the ticket once she finishes class that day. It was pretty late and I was nearly afraid that she had already bought it.
Nearly, because if she had, I’d have no reason to stay in KL
Sadly, she hadn’t yet so I despairingly told her

Wait, what?
No, I told her that I couldn’t return home and she should buy her own ticket. We messaged later and she asked who I was going to stay with and I said Rieya-chan and she was like

Yeah, duh.
Turns out okaa-san won’t let her return if I was all alone here in KL. Since Rieya-chan and I went through all sorts of hell together this sem, she was also going to the replacement class so I would be bunking in her place. That eased nee-san I guess.
Didn’t ease me though.
Later that night, nee-san happily told me

That feeling of slapping someone silly has never grown so big.
The least she could do to ease my despairing heart was tell me that without such a big goofy grin on her face.
The next day though, I got a call from someone I didn’t really expect. It was nee-chan.
She called and asked me,

You cannot imagine how happy I was.

She told me I needed to do something in order to be able to go and I needed to do it the next day.
So on that fine and blisteringly hot Friday, Rieya-chan, who was urged to go out on a spur, and I began our journey earlier than usual. It took a good hour to get what I needed before we made our way to the appointed place.

Appointed place being the Astro building somewhere near Stadium Bukit Jalil.
I seriously have never gone that far in KL by public transport.
And I didn’t even know Bukit Jalil was listed as one of the LRT stops on the Star Line.
S-sama, who had been a great help to get those tickets
-I’m sorry. As it was a request from the great Okaa-san, I cannot disclose about the event here-
Had actually told me something startling as I was just about to begin my journey.

Yes, that meager amount startled me so much. When you’re a student in KL, particularly learning in a private university, every cent counts. PTPTN and MARA be damned. Especially PTPTN
Plus, I was paying for Rieya-chan.
Because I was the one asking her to go with me, I felt bad if she had to pay a sum of money for something that had nothing to do with her. I could only swallow thickly as I waited for my wallet to thin.
It never came.
We flagged down a metered cab once we reached the bus stand at Jalil Hill Stadium (lolz for translation) and I told the taxi driver to ‘bring me to Astro’. I think it was a pretty obscure address but thankfully he understood.
I was in awe (both in shock and amazement) when we reached the building. It turns out,

If he was actually Berwald a.k.a Sweden, I would’ve hugged him but he wasn’t so I didn’t.
I did what I had to do and later, Rieya and I returned.
And in the end, we missed the day’s lecture.
The next day, on that very busy Saturday, Rieya-chan and I – you’re gonna be hearing a lot of her in this entry - went to Low Yatt to get our laptop fixed. There was worry that the trip would wear me down because I had a big event that night but we went and did it too. I ain’t young for nothin’

Sadly, I can’t elaborate more about the event so I’ll have to cut that part.

Nee-chan spent the night over at my hostel and

The following morning, we went back to Low Yatt to install Adobe Master Collection. Rieya-chan looked really awesome when she managed to talk the guy into installing it for free on both of our laptops.
Nee-chan departed back to Kedah on the day and I said my goodbyes to her at Berjaya TS

She definitely is my own version of Prussia-sama
Nothing interesting happened after that as I was waiting for Monday to come.
Oh, but I managed to learn to play around in Adobe Premier.
Replacement class turned out to be quite okay and she most definitely gave tips. Everything was,

When we returned home, I told Rieya-chan that I’d bunk in hers that night and we separated at the lift. Once evening started rolling in though, my body felt uneasy and my temperature rose. The major indication of a fever coming down was my runny nose. So, I texted her to tell her I couldn’t come for fear of infecting her innocent self with my untimely germs. She tried to reason with me that it wasn’t safe staying home alone but I was adamant.
A runny nose was

No matter how you look at it.
The next day, I spent most of my morning lying in bed. It wasn’t such a good Tuesday for me and when evening rolled by, I got very hungry. Rieya-chan texted me that evening to invite me to her house since all her housemates have also gone home. I relented but also asked if she could accompany me to the night market. You could tell from her face that she felt sorry when she saw me in my dreadful state.
Every few minutes she’d ask, “Are you okay?” to which I lied.
Duh
Wednesday and Thursday passed with us locking ourselves in Rieya-chan’s house. I didn’t find out until that Sunday that our Wednesday replacement class had actually been cancelled.
Friday morning of the 26th of March began with a healthy me. The only remaining illness was my cough and I was jolly all over again.
No more sleeping for hours and feeling like there wasn’t enough sun! Thank you God! Thank you Rieya-chan! Thank you coolfever and Maggi’s Instant Porridge!
Ah, thanks okaa-san for the moral support!

That Saturday, I returned home and cleaned around a bit. Nee-san was returning that day. Gradually, so were the others.
Nothing worth mentioning happened that weekend. The midterm atmosphere was around but with all the classes I had, I barely felt it. Rieya-chan kept asking if I had opened my textbooks and I did become troubled for a while because I barely did. I tried though, that should earn me a few points on hard work.
So, back to that Wednesday; A-kun told me she was going to give me the script for our Scriptwriting class. When I met up with her, it was like I was seeing Alfred a.k.a America-san sick.

The thing is, A-kun is pretty loud and proud and she’s also a technical kind of person. There wasn’t a day in class that you don’t get to hear her voice at some point. She also has a lot of absurd ideas sometimes.
To put it softly, I was amazed.
She gave me the sickleave memo to give to Ms. Xuan and told me to come pick up my pendrive after class. She had yet to finish the script at that time.
So, Rieya-chan and I made our way to Ms. Xuan’s Audio-visual Technique class and she taught us how to edit videos inside Adobe Premier. She also asked to see the photovideo she told us to do as our third assignment. I was the only one who showed.
Here’s a few screencaps of my Hetalia-cosplay photovideo:

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I used a hell lot of transitions and every single technique she taught and some. Because I chose the song ‘From Y to Y’ by Hatsune Miku, I did subtitles – something I actually figured out by myself because we hadn’t covered that part yet.
I didn’t know how to make the title cover in Adobe Premier so I used Illustrator instead.
My hard work earned me a 10/10.
You can’t imagine how proud I felt

Rieya-chan wanted to show hers and I, myself, wanted to see it since she’s been having trouble with Adobe Premier since forever. Turns out she forgot about the ‘source folder’. We were both really disappointed and she felt embarrassed throughout the whole class.
After that, I went back to A-kun to get my pendrive back. Along with it, she gave me the Celtx software, something to make scriptwriting much easier.
Thursday passed with a short Malaysian Studies quiz. Everything asked on that quiz was in our midterm exam. Rieya-chan and I were thrilled to have this ‘shortcut’
Shows how awesome our lecturer is.
I also took a look at Aina’s script and imported it into Celtx before doing a full editing to turn it into a celtx script format. The work felt kind of awesome. Here’s what the software looks like:

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Okay, it needs major help. I so totally know but it’s not like I have movie scriptwriters as BFFs
That is my part actually. I wrote it.
A-kun wrote everything above it. If you read the entire script, it actually feels kind of like this:

In which, Rieya-chan is Iggy, A-kun is America and I’m the China with a laptop.
Yes, a laptop and it’s not even going to be mine.
And yes, pocong shuffle. Just because A-kun has seen it on youtube.
Okaa-san isn’t going to be proud

I’m supposed to be the one in charge of doing the camera shots. In our notes, that’s actually the job of the director. In other words, I’m unofficially the script director of this film.
So far, A-kun is most DEFINITELY our producer. She’s taking care of everything. From the casting, to the equipments and she’s even asking a friend to ask for permission to film on the bus.
She’s our HERO!
I feel really bad since she’s a really busy person and to top it off, she’s not feeling well. She fixes people’s laptops as a side job and is also in the MPP. To top it off, all the other assignments we have to do. It’s really a lot. Even I’m barely getting through my studies at the moment!
Enough about her, let’s get to the Friday after that.
Our last day before midterms start!


Oh kay…I’m actually pretty tired already from all the writing and prompt drawing.
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So, TBC at the next entry. =3=
Note that the drawings in this entry are all done in SAI paintool. Ugh, I'm gonna go despair