Neither here nor there

SO OTAKON HAPPENED
[H E R E ] are some pictures. Not complete as SO MANY ASSCREED PICTURES NEED TO BE UPLOADED PROPERLY.

Favs under the cut as always.
( It was sooo hot. )

Thurs & Friday night I was... so drunk. So. DRUNK. Saturday I woke up feeling like death, that wasn't exciting at all. I had so much fun being gay assassin's with Amanda tho!

honesty meme

Step 1: Post this into your LJ publicly.
Step 2: Others will reply anonymously about what they really think of you.

It was a real chill con. COLD and it SNOWED and that was fun. It was lacking one very important person, though... minuberry! It was a bit depressing but turned into a fun day. I loved seeing everyone and meeting some new people, including an Arashi fangirl in artist alley. I ate some Rutgers cuisine and it wasn't too bad! I have some pictures, describing the craziness of the day, cosplay, hanging and... IDK what else. I wish I could've stayed longer but I'm sort've not envious of sleeping over.

This is brought to you by the cosplay judges, Randy, Simon and Paula and Paula's ho.


( oh what a day. )

More can be found here.

I'm sure you've all heard of the floods happening in the Philippines... From the people on my FL (yes you guys, I've been listening closely!) I'm happy to see you are okay but I'm still worried. It still rains so there isn't much chance to get a break but I hope you will all continue to be okay.

For those of you not familiar with what's going on, here's a story in pictures by Jin (a Philippino cosplayer) [ H E R E ]. Maybe someone most of you can relate to more?

I hope everyone will be okay and it won't get worse than what's happening.

You'll never see me write a public post like this, but this is more of an open letter.

Dear Mei-Ling,

Recently I was reminded of you in an article about Chinese adoptees (yes I know you're Taiwanese but I was reminded). After our last exchange how I "didn't get it" and was "too harsh and critical" I actually didn't care to read your blog any longer. You rehashed the same issues and I couldn't believe how you accused me of the one who "didn't get it". I remembered though, you were on your way to return to Taiwan and meet your birth family face to face. I read your entries and even though we have different views on adoption, I'm glad you were to make it over there and see for yourself. I hope it makes your life a little easier to live and it may takes years to organize exactly how you feel about what took place but... good luck.

Reading all your entries didn't make me change my mind about how I feel and I doubt as many reunited stories I read it ever will. We have different circumstances of adoption, and our lives are different. I am thankful for my adoption, now I am. I wasn't when I was younger but I was a selfish preteen who didn't understand the importance of a warm bed and hot meal with a roof over my head. I have a wonderful life with wonderful friends and a wonderful future ahead of me. I hope you don't continue to think those who are happy with life as an adoptee as "delusional" or still in the "adoption fog" because that's just ignorant and close minded.

So good luck on your next chapter in your life.

It's been long enough so lets get on with the show!

The Good

Going to hooters with sleepy_syusuke, alchemy_of_yaoi, doorknocker_dog, kimmy16, xemo_ninjax & socialriots~ Good food and pretty girls.

Running a successful panel.

Having spectacular roommates.

Our room being an American sized room <3

Pfftt getting resident visits from psychelock, morninglow and x_notsosilent_x... they ended up staying and talking while eating ice.

JE MEET! So mcuh fun~

FFFF High School Musical cosplay going great. The death note cosplayers hated us but still admitted it was cool.

Hanging out with friends on Sat. and enjoying ourselves~

Getting badge replaced with no problem (FUCK YOU NYAF AND YOUR STUPID SYSTEM)

Smooth check out and easy ride home.

The Bad

The ride there, I was falling asleep and no one in the car stayed awake!

Snags in relationship. Bah. Thanks to those who were with me to cheer me up and calm me down.

Losing my badge, so smart I am!

Being unable to sleep because of neighbors and/or fighting.

Missing so many people to meet up with...

LINES. Everywhere! It's like Disney world without Mickey.

My GPS freaking the fuck out and deciding not to work.


SPECIAL THANKS: To all those who cam to my panel to support me! That meant SO very much to me and... GAH SO HAPPY! Never did I expect a turn out like that one where they turned people away. I loved how nice the audience was and... YOUUU GUYYYYYS. Also more thanks to tech support who was so nice and helpful XD; I was so nervous and they gave me encouraging words!

( SHOUT OUT TO MY PEEPS )

Even though I didn't take many...
( PIIICTURES )

MORE CAN BE FOUND HERE

Ooooooo
I've been travelin
on this road to long
Just trying to find
my way back home
The old me
is dead and gone
dead and gone


On the ride home I just turned and looked to Vicky when this song came on (being stuck in Stanen Island traffic for 1hr) and we both agreed that was our song for the con.

The Good

Rooming with the girls, it was a lot of fun and full of special times.

Eating semi-well, it kept me alive.

Panels went so much better, for some reason anime/mangaNEXT always had the best audience reception. To all who cam to AniMyu & ConBudget thank you!

Spending less than $200 at this con. Including tolls & food & hotel room and everything else. WUUUT?

Going to the rave for the first time in 5 years and having fun. Though I felt at one point the music felt slow. Sometimes I wish they moved away from DDR music and gone into more main stream music. They mixed Womanizer well~

Not drowning in the flooded bridge

Hanging out with old friends and new ones. Gawd, cosplayers under 18 have so much talent!

Seeing a Charles cosplayer who spoke Ebonics. That is EXACTLY how I imagined him to be.

The mixed portion of the 18+ dating game killed me. In a GOOD way.

Parking was okay (IT WAS FREE!)

The Bad

Where was this con? LOCATION WAS THE WORST THING. So out of the way from commuting, even driving there wasn't fun. Artist Alley in a small hallway in front of panels? I couldn't look at the art comfortably without someone bumping into me.

Everything was everywhere. If they thought I was going to walk across the way to get to another part of the con they thought wrong. I felt like the con was everywhere but no where, it was just too confusing.

Food, driving to get food sucked. Yes there was food inside of the con and honestly it was well priced. However, not everyone eats the same thing. More of a variety would be nice and useful.
Also, all food places shutting down at 11pm? Not cool. Noooot cool. at 12am it'd be nice when we have 4 more hours of work a head of us. Sorry, even living in Farmingdale where pretty much everything was a small business I could still order food at 2am.

The cross over from the double tree to the main place wasn't really useful because of the crowds.

Feeling let down by the dealers room. Maybe I'm just at that state of mind recently.

Sub-par masquerade. A few good skits, a lot of really horrible. Nothing in the middle.

I was so over scheduled I had no time to find people I really wanted to spend time with.

The Ugly

Nothing too horrifying but the confunk was pretty strong at this one.

Over all feeling: Better than Anime Boston, maybe because it was closer to home, but not by much. If they stay at this venue I won't return.

Find some pictures here.

So New York Comic Con was this weekend and tons of fun for me.
( the report, only two days... not long. )

NOW PIIICTURES( oh yes there is NinaxTable loving )

The complete pictures can be found [ H E R E ]