One Piece

27 October, 2011

Nijikon 2011

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I’m an idiot.

Yup, only I could’ve managed to go to the wrong location to an event that happens every year in the same place. Yup, that’s me an idiot that never gets where she’s supposed to.  Not only that but the convention wasn’t called Otaku festival it was called Nijikon. The Otaku festival took place in May while the Nijikon convention is in October.

I’m an idiot.

The worst part is that this time I dragged Johnny after me. Yup, I managed to convince him to come with me. I was happy that he came with me even if he wasn’t that pleased. Well I can understand him, I wouldn’t have liked to pay for things that I don’t use either. But he’s a nice guy and he supports my hobbies (even financially).

So here’s how it went:

  • we payed the fee and got in
  • I dragged him around looking for the best shops
  • we noticed a lot of people who were cosplayers are a lot of cute cat hats
  • bought a handmade notebook with Totoro and a Chopper plush toy
  • left

Yup, we only stayed about 20-30 minutes there.

I just realized that the only thing that I like about this things/conventions are the goods that I can buy. I don’t like to hang around much, especially since I don’t have many friends that are into anime. So it’s weird to be the only one going alone to this kid of things. Seriously, I only saw people in groups. I know that I had Johnny with me this time, but he was there because he’s my boyfriend not because he wanted to be there.

It’s different when you go with people that share your hobby.

This year there were a lot more shops and a lot more merchandise. I saw many cute things but *cough*Johnny*cough* only bought two: a handmade Totoro notebook (15Ron) and a Chopper plush toy (50Ron). But there was one item I do regret not buying: a Chi wallet (30Ron). It was so cute and functional. Darn you life for not giving me money when I need it most.

There were some Japanese guys there that were selling a lot of cool stuff, and this is were I saw the wallet. But all of their merchandise was expensive. I mean a Totoro wallet was 70Ron! That’s pretty expensive for a wallet. They also had some Totoro plush toys, pretty big in size, but truthfully they were ugly. And after seeing the price of the wallet I didn’t dare ask how much the plushies were.

Oh well, I can’t complain much because I did spend a lot of money this weekend. Besides the things I bought at the convention I also bought new manga’s from MangaShop: 2 new volumes from Dr. Slump and the first 2 volumes from Cross Game.

I’ve spent quite a bit this month on my hobby so I’ll need to behave the next few months. Heh, but I got Chopper and he’s so darn cute I can’t believe it.

19 September, 2011

Learning Japanese on a lovely Monday

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Repetition is the key to learning any new foreign language. But I can’t help but feeling sleepy after 2 hours of practicing. Repeating gets boring really fast and my mind starts to wonder in different places.

I must confess I haven’t practiced as I wished. Actually I haven’t practiced at all in the last month. I can’t even blame laziness this time. I was just busy.

Yet, this morning I told to myself I will practice at least 2 hours. Well, here’s the result of 2 hours of learning:

It’s not much and with some characters I still have a long way to go. But I’m getting there. Soon I shall know the basic hiragana characters.

Well, I have one more thing to share. The new character design for One Piece:

I am just shocked. I usually hate spoilers but this time I just want to watch One Piece some more. They look so different and yet the feel the same. Okay so maybe they haven’t changed that much, still the one that changed the most seems to be Usopp. Heh, I really want to go home now.

I.Want.To. Watch. One. Piece.

30 May, 2011

Arghhh

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What a pirate weekend I had!

Full of fun and good times, and what a dreadful way I started my week. Monday’s are the worst I tell ya.

Not even my friendly doggie from work couldn’t save this day. Although it was my first time trying to photograph him. He was really interested in my camera and what I was doing. It certainly didn’t fit with my usual petting and scratching.

This weekend I actually saw two anime movies: Clockwork Island Adventure and Chopper’s Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals. I just wanted something crazy and funny and you can’t go wrong with One Piece. The first movie I saw a few months ago and I wanted to watch the anime series but I freaked out when I saw how many episodes there are (+400). I think for now I will stick with reading the manga and watching the other movies.

Of course I watched the One Piece movies on my own since Johnny isn’t much into anime.

But later, I finally convinced him to watch The Pirates of the Caribbean. He hasn’t seen any of the movies and he wanted to. Well that’s what he said but after the first 20 minutes of the movie he was sleeping so peacefully. I tried waking him up, but that didn’t work much. He did woke up at the end of the movie and I asked him if he wanted to see the second part.

I was on a roll…

But we had such good weather this weekend it would’ve been a shame not to go out. So off we went to our pizza place.

I didn’t cook at home, mainly because I forgot to print the Korean recipe I wanted to try and because I knew Johnny wouldn’t be interested in it. Oh well, I shall try it today since I have fresh eggs and green onion from the country side.

Overall, the weekend was great. It’s just a shame it ended.

Seriously, everyone is really annoying on Monday morning. For example, today the bus was really empty I even got a chance to sit down. But when I wanted to get off I had to push my way out. Why? Because some guy with his daughter (which had this huge backpack) were in the door way but it wasn’t their stop yet so they just sat there. They were actually offended when I had to make way so I could get off. WTF!!!

Then I made the mistake to go to the grocery store to buy something to eat. I waited patiently till the clerk lady asked me what I wanted and when I asked for something she told me she couldn’t give it to me because the store was supposed to be closed so she can arrange all the products that she received. O_O I just left and didn’t even look back. Why the hell didn’t she lock the store door or said something when I came in?

What’s wrong with these people? Are they still in weekend mode?

Grrrrr

This is going to be a very long week.