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Feeling. 
VERY happy
Melody.LM.C - OH MY JULIET.
Eating/Drinking. water and I crave to eat watermelons XD;
Thoughts. I seriously have so much crap to do haha ^^;;
Wants to. do a HUGE art project, I dunno why and I dunno what, but I just feel like it, haha it's just a random artist feeling XD
Obsessing. the fact that my Squirtle/Zenigame plushie got groped by
Kuro from the jrock group
Velbet har har. And my lovely Buns you're gonna love me for this...
REITA from
the GazettE!! Cuz his recent photoshoots are just SO HOT and I dude that taiyaki on his head... I'll never get over it hahaha. ♥
I was suppose to blog this during the second week of expo ^^;; but I was so busy with other things to do as well, as work, going to my School orientation, and all that good shat, I didn't get to finish till the end of July XD; But I've been typing this blog entry little by little whenever I got the chance, but! I'm so sorry for the major lack of updates, with personal life these days it's really hard to continue blogging as I use to, unless I make it short and snappy haha.
Let's get started, shall we? Well, Heads up! This is going to be the longest and I seriously mean longest blog entry ever, because I feel this is one of the best memories I've had for 2008 so far with my best friends so I want to write as much as I can remember and make it as detailed as I can, that way when I look back at this entry I can read it and laugh, laugh at the fact of how CRAZY I am for writing so much haha, but seriously laugh at how much fun I had with my friends X3. Well, pretty much what you see for this blog entry title, I'll be blogging about my Anime Expo 2008 experience, I seriously believe this is one of the best year of the con EVUR! Though there were some downs, there were plenty of ups! X3 SO HERE GOES NOTHING! You don't have to read it all, skim through it or just look at the pictures and it is totally packed with lots of pictures from the con that we took, but is totally up to you to read what you can or what not XD, but to those who will read everything (*coughs* my best friends right? haha jk jk) thank you so much for taking your time to read about my random experience haha.
DAY 1.
The night before going to LA for the Anime Expo convention, I was up till probably 2 or 3 in the morning. REASONS: ONE! I was up finishing my fanart gift for LM.C and TWO! I just couldn't sleep because of the excitement. By the time I had fallen asleep I slept for only 2 hours probably because I woke up at 5am to get ready to leave for Neko's place because my friends and I have planned to meet up at her place then go off from there. AH! And the following friends who I went with were: Panhda, Usagi, Neko, and Alice, I met up with other friends at the con at a later time. I first went to go pick up Buns {Usagi} after she had called me to ask if I was up and ready to go, I was still in process of packing things into my car XD; so it took me awhile haha I came FASHIONABLY LATE TOO >: I didn't get to Neko's place till like 6:05 am when I was suppose to be there exactly 6AM! HAHA XD After I picked up Buns, her cosplay was frackin adorable too btw <3 she dressed up as Abingdon Boys Girls School fangirl, because Neko, Panhda, and I cosplayed as Abingdon Boys School -err... well Girls School har. I called Neko's cell to tell her that Buns and I were coming over and I thought it was Neko who picked up the phone so I practically rant to her in a tone that I normally speak to Neko with xD and it was Bear {Panhda} haha, she was like "RYUNA! O_O IT's PANHDA!" haha opps XD; Bear had told me Neko was in the shower, so I just told Bear that Buns and I were coming over. When we came over, Neko's auntie was ready to leave for work so early in the morning too! Buns and I greeted her properly and she was so kind to open the door for us to go in Neko's house, and when Buns and I went in we went over to greet her Daddy properly too {yea, typical asian thing where it's polite to greet :D}. Went in to Neko's room and there was Alice and Bear X3 hehe they both seem so tired in the morning XD; but hey I think all of us were *laughs*. Neko came in to greet Buns and I and she was just wearing her PE shorts and BRA! COVER YOURSELF UP YOU SMEXY Beech *slaps her with Shirota*! lols XD Her dad comes in to tell her something about locking the house up before we leave, because we were the last to leave her house and Neko screamed when her dad barged in because she was just wearing her bra and tried to cover herself up with her t-shirt! HAha XD; After her dad left, we pampered ourself up to get ready to go to the con and dressed in our random cosplay, we did our hair, makeup, accessorizing... all that good shat! After we pampered ourself up, and took some time to shove all our stuff in the trunk haha (seriously, we were like shoving things in XD;) and me being the designated driver, we were all set to leave for Los Angeles and to Anime Expo 2008! BUT WAIT! Before going up to LA, I had to withdraw some money XD; haha, so we went to the bank first to withdraw money as needed, and started off our morning to get food for a early morning start, and to make things quick we just went to Jack In the Box and got hashbrowns and orange juice only, lols because I was the driver I paid for everyone. But since my friends refused to let me pay... they snuck the money in the back seat of my car T_T; {I forgot the money was even in there till when I got home from 4 days of expo}.
Driving to LA in the morning wasn't so bad, we didn't hit a major traffic as I imagined it to be, however, following Neko's GPS got complicated @_@; I think I just can't understand the GPS while driving it distracts me haha, but Neko helped guided me there so no problem! The good thing is we got there safely, so that's all that matters :3 We arrived at the convention around 8-9ish am. So we weren't that late or anything, my other friends Kitsune and Ramen were already there, Buns had called Kitsune asking if she was already there, since the day before the convention, Kitsune was kind enough to pick up SIX BADGES! for us because we couldn't go up there to get it ourself, since I was working, Buns was also working but couldn't take her car up there, and Neko and Alice were barely coming down from Davis, so none of us were able to get it, so Kitsune volunteered to get it for us *HUGS HER TO DEATH* THANK YOU SO MUCH KITSUNE ♥! Anyways, when we got there we sorta got lost looking for a place to park because we couldn't check in our hotel yet because our check in time isn't until 3pm, so we just looked for parking to park for the con. I drove around in circles XD; and many streets were only ONE WAY! WHICH IS SO WEIRD! Well... not weird but I'm just not used to it XD; because there are like 5-6? lanes for a one way street, when I usually drive in streets with 2-3 lanes excluding freeways. Anyways, when we finally found parking we parked at a place that costed 7 dollars, but it was so stupid and weird, if i had wanted to park in farther in the back with shade for my car, it would've costed us 10 dollars to park there! O_O; My friends and I were all "WHAT THE HECK?! How stupid it's not that far apart how come parking price is different?!" So we ended up parking in the hot sun xD; my poor car, but hey we saved 3 bucks, which is a lot of money to us, since we're like poor college students ^^;; We parked on the streets Figueroa and Flower or was it Flower and Pico? Meh... something like that I'm not quite sure anymore haha. It wasn't too far from the con, only like a block away, but it was good exercise for us I guess haha. We met up with Kitsune and Ramen in the convention, but this one security lady wouldn't let us in without our badge, but Kitsune had it and she was coming towards us anyways so the lady just let us in, but now when I think about it, for people who were gonna go pick up their badge, how the heck can they get it, if they can't go in the con to get it?! Whatever, haha my friends and I got our badges so we were good to go, the only problem was we needed to get a stamp for Shuttle Access so we went to the information booth and asked them and they directed us to go to where Kitsune had picked up our badges at, which was at the Registration area. We headed over there to get our shuttle access stamp on our badge that way we were able to take the shuttle to get the convention instead of having to take my car back and forth and waste gas or what not. While waiting in line to reach to guest service for the stamp, Neko had told us that she'll be meeting up with her friend at the convention, he was also the one who helped us find a hotel to stay at for the con also instead of having to drive back and forth for all 4 days. Neko found him and my friends and I greeted him and thanked him for helping us find a hotel to stay at and everything, finally we got up to the guest service and told them we needed the shuttle access stamp for our badge in order to take the shuttle, technically only 4 people were allowed to get the stamp which were Neko, Hyo {Neko's brother}, Panhda, and I were the only ones allowed to get the stamp since our names were registered for the hotel, however, Buns and Alice were also staying at the hotel too, but their names were not included at the hotel for that reason is we basically snuck in more people in our hotel just to save money XD; Anyways, we told the girl the reason, and she was very nice about it and told us she shared the same experience, except she had told us that she stayed at a hotel room with 20 PEOPLE! OMGOSH! That's a lot of people for one tiny hotel room, and she also mentioned that some of her room buddies slept in the bathroom too @_@; ew... but yea I was greatful that she was kind enough to stamp Alice and Bun's badges so they could take the shuttle as well. Alice had left to meet up with her other friends, so I basically spend time with my close friends: Buns, Neko, Bear, Kitsune, and Ramen, tailing along Neko's friend Maki (who helped us get the hotel). We still had time before the Dealer's room/Exhibit hall opens (it always opens at 12pm every year at the con), so instead of waiting in line like almost every year, we decided to just sit somewhere comfortably and relax till we could go in. What did we do for that good 3 hours? XD; Well we were just sitting at a table around the food court and pretty much analyzed the place, and just chat. I can't believe Neko brought her notes that day to study, because she had a midterm right after the con was over, poor thing ._. but she's truely amazing and a hardworking student to even BRING all her study stuff, if it was me, I totally blow it all off >_YOU ARE FRACKIN AWESOME NEKO ♥ Anyways, we also killed some time by playing the teeny Uno cards that Kitsune brought XD; I didn't play because I didn't feel like it, but I watched my other friends play and it was amusing to see them play with itty bitty cards *laughs* I forgot who the winner was, but after they had finished playing I insisted that we tried to make a card pyramids with the cards, and I'm telling you those cards were the size of your thumb XD; hahahaha, and no, it was impossible to do so making the card pyramid was totally impossible haha.
LATER, my other friend Tori, her nephew, and sister came! :3 Tori cosplayed as Kakashi and her little nephew was dressed as Rock Lee from Naruto and omgah... they were such an awesome pair ♥!!! Tori looked so awesome, she had borrowed my poor megaman plushie to work on her wig to make it perfect as she can XD; MY POOR MEGAMAN PLUSHIE T-T; but sadly Tori didn't get her eye thing she ordered, but she can wear it next year at the con hehe. AH! To see Tori and her adorable little nephew cosplay she posted a picture on a Deviant so you can view it here @ Utenafangirl on DeviantArt. I TOTALLY FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH HER AND HER NEPHEW =_= very sad... my mind was probably to cluttered of excitment of see LM.C performance that day XD;. By the time it was around 11:30am ish we decided to just go to the Artist Alley since we thought to ourself it would probably be much easier to go into instead of the dealer's room, because practically everyone was waiting to go in that. We went in and there were these two cute green and red costume, display, whatever it is thing XD SO! We decided to take a picture of it, so pretty much here's one of the first picture we took at expo
From left to right: Me, Bear, and Neko haha we're sorta dressed like Abingdon Boys School -- SORTA XD; I don't think anyone at the con recognized us, and it was too hot to wear the black jacket, so we only wore it for a bit then took it off XD;
Err... yea that green and red thing got cut off in the picture but it was totally cute! Like always, my friends and I got separated from Kitsune haha XD she usually runs off when something catches her eyes, but it's alright though since I was still with Buns, Neko, Bear, Maki, and sorta with Tori, her nephew, and sister. Tori had to constantly take Max in and out, since he's still young and wants to explore, so I can understand that he wants to go all over the place,
I FEEL FOR YA TORI! Tori is such a sweet auntie hehe {gets bricked by Tori X_X} THERE WERE MANY AWESOME art at the artist alley, it made me feel like wanting to open up my booth of my own and show off my art, but there were many people who had like MASSIVE skills in their artwork and it made me feel sad that I can't draw something like that haha, but I try! I didn't buy much at the artist alley, just a couple of small art chibi prints of Cloud, Sephiroth, L, and Riku, one hand made keychain of a monster from Ragnarok Online the Poporing ♥ and one mini poster of a chibi drawing of Cloud and Sephiroth, it is from the same artist that I got postcards of Cloud and Sephiroth from last year anime expo. The poster costed $10, at first I was hesitant, because I already have the pictures on the post card, but I think what hit me to getting it was what the artist wrote on the poster "Which is better? Long and thin, or Short and Fat?" XD haha. It's going on my wall definantly! Until I finish cleaning up my room that is. AH! The first art we looked in the artist alley were by these girls who made a buncha jrock chibi arts, and they were so adorable! HAHA X3 I wanted to trade them my LM.C sticker for one of their art, but I didn't make enough stickers to do so XD; I showed them the drawing and they thought it was cute so thank you to their comments <3 their drawings were cute as well! Hmm... nothing else exciting really happened afterwards so we finally to leave to go to the Dealer's room/Exhibit hall. Sadly... even though we went to artist alley first there was still a freakin line just to get into the dealer's room, seriously everyone was going to that or something haha. My friends and I didn't want to wait in line so we tried waiting out some more till we can go in without having to go outside to wait in line in the hot sun... WEARING
LAYERS OF CLOTHING haha. EVEN SO! We ended up waiting in line outside to get in, it wasn't that bad though since the line constantly moved, I thought the funny thing was that there was a ice cream man out there selling ice cream (for probably a high price I bet) and dude I bet he made so much profit for selling it u_u; Anywho-sa! WE FINALLY WENT INTO THE DEALERS ROOM, yes, YIPEE haha. They weren't giving out any major free stuff as the years before that I went sadly >: but they had the
Gaia booth there and they were totally splurging out giving free golds to everyone on this piece of paper, and omgosh my friends and I totally just went in a circle around that booth to get as many paper as we can, and the silly thing was, everytime we already went up to that person, we just get the paper and pretend to look at it like we've never heard of Gaia or something haha. However, I think they knew, besides I bet a lot of people went back and forth to get a buncha Golds too so whatever haha. I didn't get a good chance to take a good look around the whole exhibit hall we were mainly at the east side {practically where
Anime Jungle and the
Gaia booth was at since it was our main places to head to haha} AH! One of the booth we ran into
Kana and
Ayane (shoot me if I got their names wrong XD;) they're adorable famous cosplayers in Japan? Something like that I don't remember XD; but they were having photoshoots for 2 dollars, Buns was the first to decide to take a picture with them, they were incredibly adorable haha. Then I believe Neko took a picture with them and later Neko's friend Maki also wanted to take a picture with them, but gave the lady who was with Kana and Ayane had to leave for a bit to get change, while she left we tried to converse with them. They noticed the artworks that we got from the artist alley and knew Itachi from the poster that Neko had bought, and they also noticed the poster of Sephiroth and Cloud and said it was cute and I pointed at Sephiroth and said "DAISUKI! <3" LMAO XD; Anyways, the lady came back and didn't have change for Maki, but luckily I had some change on me so I help pay for him XD; then later I decided to just take a picture with them for the heck of it haha and here's the picture outcome of me with them
I totally don't match with them hahaha. We bumped into Tori again later, and she told me that around 1:30 the Gaia booth was gonna have the spin the wheel thing, win an item kinda thing, so of course my friends and I went over there to test our luck and while we were there we tried to get more of the gold paper thing haha. Buns was up first to spin the wheel, then it was Bear, Neko, Kits, me, and Maki. None of us won anything spectacular, however bear was really close to getting like the good stuff but she was off by 1 or 2. All I got was a sumo outfit for my avatar lols XD; they had a slight stop when it was Maki turn, and they weren't gonna let him spin till like 5-10 more minutes or so, I wanted to look around in the dealers room so we told him we were going ahead, while we did that we dropped by the
Anime Jungle Booth to see who was there, and it was
GaGaalinG!
Mym and
Moto were both at the booth, they looked so cool but I feel that they look like they didn't seem to be looking at the guests/expo attendee that much O_O unless it's just my imagiation. I sorta regret for not having to approach up to them at the booth, and to buy one of their item to support them, but I was looking foward to seeing LM.C so my mind was all dazed XD; AH! Maki finally spun the wheel and met up with us, and he came back with a plushie of Kiki from Gaia that he
yoinked XD; because he was pissed of waiting so yea he ended up yoinking it, I dunno where but he just did o-o; After looking around the dealer's room till 2:30 ish Neko, Bear, Buns, and I decided that it was time for us to head to our hotel and to check in. Plus- we were hungry XD; didn't eat anything besides hashbrowns and had OJ for breakfast. I finally decided to call
Ashley YUSH! My lovely host for my blog :D
Psycho-Garden.org XD I've known her since we affiliated with each other when I had my
Dreamer's Wish Fantasy website and she had her
Sailor Moon fansite :D it's been... about 6 years since I've known her... MAYBE? O_O BUT WOW! Anyways, I asked her if she was at the con already or not and she had told me she was there and in the exhibit hall and I was thinking "SHOOT I JUST LEFT! T_T" so I told her I'd give her a call again when I my friends and I decides to come back to the convention. When we walked back to my car, DUDE IT WAS FRACKIN HOT OUTSIDE, and what's worse, MY CAR WAS STEAMING! I didn't bring the car window sheild with me so my car was sitting directly under the sun @_@; all the food and such were all warm ^^;; but at least the frozen food that needed to be in the ice cooler was at an okay temperature. We went to go look for our hotel, we got lost with finding where to park, and I drove around the hotel in circles at least 3-4 times XD; but the second round I dropped off Bear and Neko so they could go in to check in while Buns and I tried to find a parking, the parking structure seriously looked so tight, we went down a level below, and seriously there was no way to park, and it was already difficult to get out, I dunno how they do the whole parking there @_@; Anyways, Buns and I left the structure and went around the hotel some more XD; I know I was totally burning gas >.< but I dunno where to stop my car! So I had to keep going, eventually either Bear or Neko gave Buns a call back and told her that we can park in the hotel all we needed to tell them is that we're registered guests. So we did that and the man who was taking in our cars told us that we should bring everything in at once, because once they park my car I won't be able to go back to my car till the last day of our hotel stay. I didn't want anyone to carry my bag so I carried it myself to our hotel room XD; Buns also carried her stuff and the man was all "We can have someone help you bring that up" and I was thinking "OH HECKS No..." haha XD; Anyways, we went to go find our room and it was on the
27th floor OMGOSH! HAHA XD so many floors in the hotel! The whole hotel lobby WAS SIMPLY
GORGEOUS I love how they had the water fountain there, my friends and I especially like the statue of the fishies that shoots water and it lands in the other side of the fountain... I'm not good with explaining it but here are some pictures that were taken by
Buns (Thanks for the pictures Buns ♥) of the hotel lobby :3
Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles
When we hopped on the elevator, Buns, Bear, and Neko were spazzing like OMGOSH!!!!!!!! Haha XD I've been on so many different kinds of elevators on many trips/vacations so it was nothing to me XD; but it was cute how Buns, Neko, and Bear were all "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA O_O" haha. The elevator shoots up faster then normal elevators so I felt a bit shaky once it stopped @o@; We found our room and when we went in, it was SOOOOOO
pretty X3
BUT! THEY MESSED UP OUR ROOM ORDER THERE WAS ONLY
ONE BED when we requested for a room with two beds, so Neko called in the lobby area and requested to have our room change, but they couldn't since practically all the room were filled with visitors and probably full of Anime Expo attendees. Because of the error, they gave us free parking which is good since parking was $24 a day! XP bleagh! The bellboy later came in with all our stuff and we dragged it all in, and everything, he was also kind to tell us some of the features we had in our room, but mostly we had to figure out everything on our own. THERE WAS NO MICROWAVE =o=; but we did have a fridge while looking through the cabinent under the TV. Well to get straight onto the main point, we just browsed around in our room and relax, and of course! We took loads of pictures taken from Buns and my camera. Har har.
Back on track now hee, we waited for
Alice to come meet us in our hotel room since Neko had contacted her and told her we checked in our hotel room and such, and plus we needed to give her the key for the room since there was 4 of us there were 4 keys, Neko, Hyo, Alice, and I each had our own keys to hang onto. After Alice came and left we her friends, we finally decided to head back to the convention and to go back to dealer's room before it closes since we hardly looked around. Of course... WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE THE SHUTTLE WAS XD; lols but when we hopped on the elevator, there was an expo attendee on the elevator as well so we asked her if she knew where to take the shuttle and she told us where it was and yadi yadi ya. We found the shuttle, and to our surprise the shuttle was like one of those tour bus that I normally take when I go on trips with my family, and not some run down crap of a bus hahaha XD; But it makes sense that it's a nice bus since its for the convention and all, anyways, here's another camera whore moment with Buns and I and I just realize THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE I TOOK WITH JUST HER AND ME T3T; {
Note to buns. dude we need to take more pictures together of just you and me next year k, k? >: hehe} AH! And right after we got off the shuttle and thanked the driver, the driver liked what my friends and I were wearing so she took a picture of us haha XD and since she took a picture of us, we asked her to take a picture of us with our own camera, so here's that shot as well.
We headed to the Dealer's room abound 4-5 ish? And I gave Ashley another call to tell her that I came back to the con, but she told me she was resting somewhere in the registration area, and I told her I was heading back to Dealer's room and she told me she'll meet me there and give me a call when she arrives X3 While going to the dealer's room we passed by
Mym and
Moto from
GaGaalinG!! It was so sad that it seemed like no one recognized them >: Buns and I wanted to go up to them and ask for a picture or something but we were very hesitant ^^;; Neko kept telling us to go for it, but we'd feel bad to interupt them since they were eating and all. In the end we didn't go up to them ^^;; but it's alright. Anyways at the Dearlers room, my friends and I
TRIED to look in the Dealer's room in a snake formation XD; and everytime we do that... we just end up wandering off to another booth ^^; Then eventually I
met up with Ashley ♥! She looked cooler in person then I thought XD {AND NO I'M NOT EXAGGERATING ASHLEY ♥!} She was with her sister Kaylen, her sister was adorable too. We both exchanged our late birthday gifts to one another she totally spoiled me with a bunch of sturffs >:! Boy Princess manga vol. 2 and 3, a Shoxx magazine feat. Antic Cafe on it, and a CD by Despair Ray - Mirror ♥ GOSH DURN YOU! Spoil me too much >3> and all I got her was a CD by Manterou Opera - GILA, a print of Heechul's picture from my Korean Music Festival experience '08, and stickers of my Miyavi and LM.C drawing T3T I hope you like the gifts though Ashley! AND of course I
love yours XD! Anywho I introduced Ashley and Kaylen to my friends, Buns, Neko, and Bear :D we ended up going together since Ashley and Kaylen didn't have anything else to do, but it gives me more time to spend some time with Ashley
IN PERSON O_O! One of the booth at the con we stopped by was Yaoi Con and they usually have all the Final Fantasy doujinshis I want ♥ but sadly this year they
HARDLY have anything that was good =3= actually, overall there weren't any good doujinshis this year, I'm disappointed at that >: while Neko and I were fighting over to who is gonna buy who's doujinshi XD; haha because Neko spotted a Dgrayman Doujinshi she has her eye on, and I had my eye on a FF7 doujinshi, Bear and Buns went over to the other booth and took a picture with the huge voodoo model and I didn't even know till Buns sent me the pictures XD; I guess I was too busy fighting with Neko on which doujinshi to buy hahaha. Here's a picture of Buns because she's too purely adorable :D {Don't attack me for posting a picture by yourself buns XD; I already told you guys I'd be whoring this blog entry with shat loads of pictures!}
She's
SO ADORABLE NEH? XD *
Everyone agrees with Ryuna* u_u Anywho-sa! After Neko and I got our doujinshis and did some browsing, Bear and Buns came back after wandering around randomly to tell us that a member of
Velbet was at the Anime Jungle booth! OMGAH! Haha, but Buns said he looked very mean xD; or pissed, even so I wanted to see him XD; SO we went over to the booth. I was amazed by his appearance my jaw dropped but luckily I didn't drool hahahaha xD; He totally look so cool and he seem friendly to people who were in line buying Velbet cds. Of course with bishies selling their own merchandise =0= it's difficult to avoid hahaha, just like my Anime Expo experience 2006 with Miyawaki and Sakai selling their merchandise they drew me in and I just BOUGHT w/o thinking! T3T But this time I got Velbet cd just to support the band, I'm not sure which of my friends went up to get his cd first or either it was me who went up first O_O; I totally forgot, but I just remember going up to him telling him
"Can I get two cds please? :D" and he responded "TWO?! O_O OOOOOOOOOH sank you~ sank you" I got two one for me and one for Ashley xD and he gave me his autograph on a paper with a picture of Velbet on it, and I reach my hand out to shake his hand. All I wanted was just a regular handshake BUT INSTEAD! Te did some
FUNKY HANDSHAKES and I mean
FUNKay~ handshakes! Handshakes like... "YEA! PEACE YO~"!!! INSTANT OMG moment XD; my face was totally "Whooa O____O;;" AH! Also after Buns wanted to get his cd as well she stuck out her hand to him to thank him for his autograph, BUT INSTEAD OF A HANDSHAKE,
HE PATTED HER HEAD!!!! Her face expression was totally priceless, and later he patted my head because I was next to her, and he also patted Ashley's head, I bet our face expression were all "
O__________O Omg" LMAO! He was so adorable ♥! Ah, his name is
Kuro :D but that time I didn't know his name till the second day XD; very sad neh? Anyways, Buns and I went in line to pay for the cd and dude we were totally at a daze XD; because we didn't expect Kuro to pat our heads like that hahaha. After we got his cd we went back over to him to see if there was anything else, and he was signing the items that everyone had purchased from him, so of course I gave him my cd to signed and he asked where to sign and I was like "Anywhere you want! XD" thus he signed the cd cover and before we left the dealers room, he said a bunch of thank yous to us and some stuff in english XD; that I don't remember but all I remember was that I kept saying "OMGOSH He's so cute..." haha I dunno if guys like being called cute XD; but he was definantly cute to me :D whee X3.
By the time dealer room closed there was nothing else to do really, so Neko wanted to head back to the hotel to study, whereas Buns and I wanted to go to the
Battle of the Bands event - mainly for the LM.C concert. As for Bear, she didn't really have anything to do so she decided to go with Buns and I, we felt terribly bad for Neko since she went back to the hotel >: plus she seemed very tired as well, we didn't want Neko to go back to the hotel by herself so Bear and Buns went with Neko, and I went with Ashley and Kaylen to wait in line for the event. At first I asked someone who was near the front of the line or the doors if there were a line and she told us there wasn't any line so we just sat wherever, and later a line seem to start forming and these group of people who were behind us I told them to move up and they were all "THERE'S NO LINE! >_>" and I was thinking "PSH! Fine then XD; jerk heads..." Bear and Buns eventually came to meet Ashley, Kaylen, and I back in the line we just did some random stuff like repetively look at the magazine over and over. We waited in line for about 3 hours XD; it was INCREDIBLY boring and I kept yawning XD; but some highlights while waiting in line haha, we were moved outside to wait in line as more people came, and during the wait outside
Moto and
Cherry froM
GaGaalinG came out for a SMOKE BREAK! O_O OMGAh! Haha XD we didn't want to go up to them since none of us smoke XD; so it'd be weird to go up to them ^^;; but a girl who does smoke went over to them and ask to light her cig or whatever and got to take a picture with them T.T; lucky! Oh wells, ah... and during the wait time I was getting hungry T3T I needed dinner! And practically my dinner was a piece of Dentyne Ice Gum T3T; very sad... By the time we were able to go in it was about 9:15-30ish... they never schedule stuff on time XD; it's usually always late. We were able to find a decent seat for the Battle of the Bands event :3 we were in the middle ish roll.
GaGaalinG was the first to perform and they were awesome I
LOVED what
Mym was wearing! She's so cool, there's not that many female visual kei jrock artist... well at least to the best of my knowledge XD; excuse me if I'm wrong. I don't remember the song title that they performed XD; but they did however performed about 4-5 songs? They were all good X3 I liked them all, but I think I was more anxious to see
LM.C more XD; I kept thinking to myself, "IS LM.C GOING TO PERFORM YET?! O_O" but nopes! HAHA XD; After GaGaalinG performed, up came the
Battle of the Bands and seriously O_O I didn't know what Battle of the Bands meant, and what the meaning was that it was anime expo attendee who were going to perform xD; OOOOOOOOH I see... hahaha! Actually it was pretty amusing to see them perform and they actually did a pretty good job, I think I was more amused with the host of the event,
Vic Mignogna who does the dubbed version voice for Edward(?) from the anime Full Metal Alchemist and also Dark from DN Angel, he was hilarious haha. He kept the mood entertaining as we waited for each bands to individually set their instruments and such. I think I like his video where he talks about yaoi fan girls hahaha XD; and also his World of War craft commercial thingy he did too haha. I totally forgot who was the following bands that performed XD; but it was totally obvious to see who the winner was going to be, but overall I think they all did a good job, and again I was too anxious to see
LM.C performed XD;
OKAY! By the time the battle of the bands was over... it was
LM.c's TURN TO COME OUT AND PERFORM *freaks out*! LOLS X3 I was so hyped up waiting for them to come out and perform! Of course they didn't come out right away, so they showed us
LM.c PVs from their Music Video dvd, and dude its so cute, I love the menu page xD it's like a carnival, they showed a few PVs like... Sentimental PIGgy Romance, OH MY JULIET, BOYS & GIRLS, Rock the LM.C, Liar Liar, and err- yea that's all I can remember. I just know they showed a lot before they actually came out to perform. AND OMGAH! THEY FINALLY CAME OUT! Of course everyone freaked and went nuts when they started to perform, and everyone ran up stage, at first I was about to go run up too, but I decided not to XD; Ashley and her sister ran up, but I stayed back with Buns and Bear xD, besides I had a better view staying back, and I didn't get mobbed by fans haha.
Maya came out with his lolipop XD I think it was a pink lolipop though I don't remember the flavor but I'm pretty sure its the same brand that Buns love "
Chupa Chups"! Right Buns? :D RIGHT! LOLS. They had like a whole mini
Christmas tree stand of Chupa Chups!!!! OMGOSH I wished that Maya coulda thrown it far to where Buns, Bear, and I was at XD; but sadly he didn't haha it's alright though. Their performance overall was awesome in my opinion X3 sadly I don't remember the songs they performed XD; I know they performed OH MY JULIET, 88, and little Fat Man Boy, BOYS & GIRLS,... is that all or at least most of it? O_O haha but I really enjoyed myself X3 I KNOW FOR A FACT! During their
little Fat Man Boy performance Maya grabbed some guy Pikachu plushie and played with it on stage hahaha xD. I'm pretty sure you can find their performance at Anime Expo on youtube since a lot of people were taking pictures and recorded them when they said "Please no filming during this event" XD; well once one person starts to record, others will be like "HEY I WANT TO RECORD TOO!" so its a chain reaction :D; Again, their perfomance was superb fun xD by the time Maya and Aiji finished performing and left, Buns tried to go up staget to get a Chupa Chups but the stupid guy didn't throw it at her T.T JERK! HAHA. So we left empty handed T3T its okay Buns! We'll still have LM.C in our heart haha xD
After the concert ended, Buns, Bear, and I headed back to the shuttle to go back to our hotel, it was already 12am ish when we got back so pretty much
DAY 2 of Anime Expo began, but I'll blog that separately since I didn't consider it as Day 2 until I slept and woke up for it XD; haha. Anywho-sa! When we came back to the hotel,
Hyo, Neko's brother arrived at expo :D well actually he came sooner, but I didn't see him till I came back from the concert. As for Neko she was already snuggled in bed comfortably XD dude she looked so comfortable haha, but I was too hungry to sleep! Bear, Buns, and I were all hungry XD; so after we showered and cleaned up, wore our pajammers XD we made a really late meal to eat at night haha. Neko was so sweet to get out of bed to make us instant noodles to eat *hugs her*. After I finished eating my instant bowl noodle, I was STILL HUNGRY so I made hot pocket to share with Buns XD; and Buns was telling Neko and all of us that if we hear some crunch noise in the middle of the night, it means that she woke up to get more food to eat haha *HUGS BUNS* XD you're so adorable! By, then we finally were full enough to sleep, and I know we chatted at night I just don't really remember what right now XD; I just know that I slept in the middle of the bed, Neko was to the right of me and Bear was to the left of me, and Hyo and Buns claimed the floor, and DUDE the bed was comfortable that I was totally KNOCKED out cold when I went to bed XD;
DAY 2-4 I WILL FINISH BLOGGING IT LATER! I'm currently too busy and... *coughs* lazy/tired to blog now since I have work tomorrow @o@; but I'm pretty sure this is enough reading for one day xD ENJOY! I WILL BE BACK! HAR HAR!
Plugs: AHHHHHH... I'm too lazy haha ^^;; ♥
Ryuna. Ryunie. Cece. {Cecile}. June 21st. Asian American. Weird. ODDLY Random. Smiling, Smiley, S M I L E :) . LOVES Bishies ♥. S E P H I R O T H. Final Fantasy VII. Kingdom Hearts. Tomodachis // Friends & Family ♥. Animanga freak. Gravitation. Kumagoro. Fluffeh Shonen Ai. Snow Bubble Boba/Jelly. Strawberry Pockies. Vanilla Ice cream cones. P U D D I N G S ! {Flan}. Jpop/rock. Kpop/rock. Cpop. Dramas. 1 Litre of Tears. My Boss, My Hero. Computer Graphics. Drawing. Animation. Light and Darkness. Cute Dinosaurs. Dragons. Fantasy. Dreamer... more?
