Wow, it's been a while since I updated. School has been crazy for me these past few weeks. Especially the last days, because I had to
finish A LOT of work. The bus companies were on a strike so I was unable to attend school for quite a while.
It was really stressy and at some points it became to much for me (pressure, annoying comments from classmates) that I sometimes just broke down
in tears. HOW EMBARRASSING!! :x Glad that's all over now though. Chibicon is in less than two weeks, I'm so excited. Have you guys checked out my cosplay yet? I'll be going as BULMA!! From DragonBall of course. My first plan was to go as Bra (Bulma's daughter), but her boots were a problem considering I didn't want to spend €60+ on them. :/ So, I decided to do Bulma instead. I ordered my wig from Cosworx and it's really pretty. Considering I'll be going as Bulma as she appeared in episode 1, I wanted to braid the wig but failed. So now I'm just gonna wear it loose with a little ponytail on the side. I made a great deal of the costume myself and I'm very proud! I never thought I was able to do such a thing. The costume looks good and so far I only received positive comments *yay!* ^_^ Caroline will be going as Videl!! We're both gonna buy some extra stuff, a toy gun for me and handcuffs for her. :P She'll be going as Videl's first version. Anyway, her cosplay is very pretty~ We wanna go already!!
So what else have I been up to... Well, for my driving lessons I bought the CD for the theory exams. I'd figure I'd take it now in the summer vacation. My sister has also started her lessons recently so we can study together. I don't think the test will be that hard, it's the practical exam I'm worried about... I have had more than 20 lessons already but sometimes I still make stupid mistakes. -___-" Gambare, me...
I also installed a new nifty program on my PSP, even though most people would probably find it boring - - PSP Reader! What does this do? Well frankly it allows you to read documents on your PSP!! XD So, I have put several BOOKS onto my PSP. These are titles such as Dracula, Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. Yup, I'm back into vamps once again. You can thank Vampire Knight for that. XD Why do I like vampires so much? Well, because they are mysterious and ...VERY HANDSOME~! XD I love Zero (Vampire Knight), Kaname (Vampire Knight), Lestat (Vampire Chronicles), (young!!) Dracula (Dracula), Angel (BtVS) and Spike (BtVS) @_____@ yessh
I'll conclude this rant because I don't want you guys to leave my blog forever... lol xD PS: The Live Action movie of DragonBall becomes suckier and suckier... D;
So Animecon 2008 is over. We had a lot of fun, let's start.
I left on Friday around 2 PM and I arrived at 5 PM or something. Me and Caroline went to bed at 9 PM because we wanted it to be morning quickly. Thanks to my hyperness we finally went to sleep around midnight.
Saturday arrived, we woke up and had breakfast and after that we started dressing up. My uncle and aunt didn't laugh TOO hard when we went downstairs... anyhow, we went to the city where the convention was held and people already started staring at us... :sweat02: But we didn't care tooo much... We also saw the first other cosplayer there besides us. It was Roronoa Zoro from One Piece! We yelled "Heey, fellow cosplayer!!" When Nick stepped out of the train Carolien ran towards him to give him a major hug. Well Nick, like me, isn't into hugging that much so he was quite embarrased *kind of cute* XD So, we went towards the convention and shopped at the AH, where we met many other cosplayers who were all staring at the bottles of drinks. We bought and went. When we arrived on the convention it wasn't opened yet so we had to wait. We started taking pictures of eachother and other cosplayers allowed us to take pictures of them. We also met Cedric (who cosplayed as Itachi Uchiha of Naruto). I told him I usually don't take pictures of Naruto cosplayer but I'd make an exception for him. :razzle: After the opening we went in, got our badges and we searched for the room where we could dispose of our bags. We were lost 2 times, because first we went to the place where it was last year but it moved. So we went to the place where it was two years ago. Nooo, now it was located somewhere completely elsewhere. So we went upstairs and waited, and after that we waited in line for the dealerroom. There we met the GREAT SAIYAMAN! :P Carolien and I promised eachother we'd make a big fuss whenever we'd find a DBZ cosplayer. So she hugged him, did a kamehameha pose with him and squeeled everytime he passed us. I think he didn't really know what to do with all the attention. XD I just took the pictures.
So we waited quite a while in line, while meeting several L and Light (Death Note) cosplayers. There was also a professional photographer around so we hid behind Cedric's AKA Itachi's big coat. :neutral: After a while we heard the reason of why we were waiting so long, apparantly a dealer got kicked out for selling bootlegs (illegal stuff, you know). A short while after the news we were allowed in, and we bought quite a lot. I was mainly hunting for volumes 2-4 of the manga Vampire Knight, but someone told me that it was sold out. T___T
I also hurt my arm in the dealerroom and whined about it the whole day. :gah: After that we went for a snack at the Mac Donalds... And we met two girls along the way who Carolien knew from MSN. So they went with us to the Mac, and it wasn't really crawling with cosplayers just yet. After that we went to see the anime music videos but it took SO LONG for them to start I suggested we'd visit the dealerroom again instead. There, I met two Yagami Light's (Death Note). With the first one I started talking about the series itself and how my character (Amane Misa) was going to commit suicide over him. XD Ahh well yeah, it was a fun talk and apparantly my friends were making fun of me by doing little heart symbols. I WASN'T FLIRTING OKAY. XD We bought some more and while I was browsing Caroline suddenly called for me. They found yet another Light! :sweat: The other bench was full so I sat next to him. Then Carolien wanted to take a picture of us (OMG..)... So, the Light next to me didn't hesitate and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close to him. I was like: :confused: But for the picture's sake I decided to smile. XD I wonder how that one turned out... XD Afterwards I accused him of cheating on me with Takada. He said it was for the sake of a new world. Well, I didn't care! I left and so we left the dealerroom once again. :laugh: I bought a lot of things;
- Fruits Basket Momiji hat - Chrno Crusade vol. 2 & 8 - Death Note vol. 7 - D.N. Angel Wallscroll - FullMetal Alchemist vol. 13 & 15 - School Rumble vol. 9 - A button
I don't know if it was before or after our second visit to the dealerroom, but I also met Sabina aka Super Pan (an ex-staffmember of Bulma.NL). She was cosplaying as Ryuk of Death Note and she was surrounded by two L cosplayers. So I decided to sit with them for a short while. The L's where placing sugar cubes on top of eachother and Caroline aka Lucy/Nyuu (Elfen Lied) was starting her own little tower of sugar. So I decided to help her because Misa-Misa doesn't support L (and especially not two!). Sooo I placed one on her tower and it immediatly collapsed!! :sweat02: Sorry Lucy! So I decided to write down L's real name! But his badge said "Ryuuzaki"! That was okay though, I have the Shinigami eyes so I could see his true name anyway... fufufu...
So after a little while we set there in the lounge where we saw a Kikyou (Inuyasha) cosplayer! She was really pretty. I also met a Misa rival!! *lightning shoots from my eyes* Anyway, afterwards we went to wait for the Cosplay Compo. We waited quite a while and while we were waiting I spotted a better Amane Misa than me!! T-T She had the official dress and a wig... while I was using my real hair... ah well, a lot of people reconized me anyway.
Cosplay Compo wasn't THAT great but that was simply because I didn't know what anime/game/manga most acts were from. I only knew Ragnarok Online and Sweeney Todd (hey, that's not an anime is it?). Afterwards we went to the mac again for our evening meal... and then we went to the game room to play our promised DragonBall Z game, but it wasn't there!!! TALK ABOUT UNFAIR!! I requested it at the forum and it was confirmed but it wasn't there? Laaaame.
Afterwards we brought Nick to the trainstation. On our way there some woman yelled to us: "Carnaval is over you know!!" And Carolien snapped back; "Well, this is the AFTERPARTY!!" Nick and me laughed so hard. :laugh: After we dropped Nick off Carolien and I decided to go home as well.
Anyway, it was a very fun day and we'll definitely be back next year!!!
- Bura
Blah, I still haven't retreived my wallet. I was really depressed about losing it these past few days, but now I
kinda got over it. I'll wait untill tomorrow before ordering a new bank pass (for the lack of a better word). I'm
doing it so I atleast have it before the con'll begin. Can you believe it's NEXT WEEK? I certainly can't. I can't
imagine me being there then. I also asked for the day off this Friday... we are allowed to take 4 hours off every
10 weeks, so I thought I'd do it now. Caroline and me also decided that we wanted to buy Vampire Knight outfits.
She wanted the Day Class costume, and I wanted the Night class costume. :3
Perhaps we'll be wearing those to Abunai then! I'd love to go there also. This year it's being held in Zwolle (Netherlands), which is only an hour traveling for me while Animecon is more than 2 hours. We'll be also going on one day then. We don't have a place to stay then anyway so it's only logical.
I also finished my course at school and I got pretty good grades. I'm very happy about that. By the way, do you guys like this new layout? It's from the movie Sweeney Todd with Johnny Depp :wink: At first I didn't like the fact that it was mostly a musical but after seeing it more than once I started liking it more and more. It's pretty amazing that Johnny Depp can act AND sing too! :D
Anyway, time to catch the bus home (is at school while writing this).
LOL, I've done it again!! I LOST MY WALLET FOR THE SECOND TIME. And this time it doesn't contain a mere €15, but € 50 (for my driving lessons, red.)!! :cry: :cry: Why me?! This is the SECOND time in such a short while! I'm also positive that I had it with me today considering I bought two things at school with the damn thing T__T so I either lost it on school or on the bus, and school is the most likely because I was sitting next to someone in the bus. ToT Anyway both have been contacted by now. I blocked my bank account and everything and all I can do now is wait.
This is just too amazing. Last year I broke my foot right before Acon, and this time I lost my wallet for the second time.
Friggin' amazing.
The thief better buy something good from my money. It better yet, RETURN IT!!
- Most unlucky person ever
So, I turned 21 just now. I still have the mind of a child though. Anyway, happy birthday to me I guess. Too bad I have school and everything :cry:
- Bura
You know, sometimes when you screw everything up and you know it's completely on purpose? I
am an extremely jealous person. I can't stand it when people tell me what fun thing they did
with their lives... I become angry and go into the "I wish my life was like that" mood. During my angry
lectures towards my friends who are desperately try to reach the "block" button, I do notice that I still
have a lot of unresolved issues. I can't stand some things, and I can't accept my friends doing some of those
things... but I can't just tell them to do as I say. They're not my slaves, I know this, but none the less I
argue with them. Currently I'm having a fight with one of my three best friends, it's about a stupid thing but
I do not feel like apologizing... I'm very stubborn ¬¬; Yesterday I had a fight with someone else of the three,
it was resolved but things weren't really cheery today so there still was a lot of tension. Blaah..
Also, none of them are a lot on the computer anymore... Because of school and such. They're all having a way better and harder education than me, so I sort of understand but it still sucks. I don't have homework, and when I do it's only a little, but they litterally swim in it. So as a result I'm on MSN Messenger every evening, and they are only online for an hour, sometimes less, and not daily. One of my friends was, so I talked to her every day, but today she told me that starting Friday she can only be online for one hour (a day? a week? a month? I don't know yet). So, that was fairly depressing news considering the other two weren't much online to begin with. ;_;
I also can't visit them frequently thanks to school and the distance. :cry:
Anyone know a good chatroom/forum where I can hang out and make some new chat friends? :aww:
So I went all the way to Limburg this Friday! In case you didn't know, I live in the north of the Netherlands so it's all
the way across the country for me. It took me four hours to get there by train. I had the week off last week but unfortunately
Caroline (whom I visited) didn't, so I had to come in the weekend. She had it really rough the past week so it was kind of a
miracle that I was still able to come. I'm glad things are finally looking up for her.
Anyway, I got there early in the evening and we went straight to her home, where we enjoyed some macaroni. :laugh: And afterwards we battled eachother on her PS2, we played DragonBall Z: Sparking 2 (or Budokai Tenkai'ichi 2 if you're a dubbie). She beat the crap out of me, but when we started playing on the PSP I started winning for once. She told me she had the same PSP game like me, which was Shin Budokai 2: Another Road. Well it turned out that she had Shin Budokai 1 in the package of Shin Budokai 2!! So the store had made a mistake! That really sucked considering the first game is like 20 euros cheaper. But anyway, it was fun.
After that we went to bed pretty early. We played an anime game in bed and we used our brains a lot (hahaha). Then we went to sleep, and the next morning we took the train to some other town to shop for cosplay materials. In the train we encountered this little girl, who asked the WRONG questions. Carolien was talking to her and playing with her, and I was totally ignoring the girl by staring out of the window. Suddenly the little girl said she liked me best.... RIGHT. In Venlo I bought a pair of boots for my Amane Misa (Death Note) cosplay, and we searched for a beachdress for Caroline's Lucy (Elfen Lied) cosplay, and we were also in search for a gothic store. We were unable to find both, but we did find this cute chinese store which had beautiful chinese dresses. She asked me if we should buy them, but we didn't because we wouldn't get a chance to wear them anyway. I would've done it if it was a kimono, though. So we went back to her hometown and went to the partystore, where we found something resembling a Trunks (DBZ) wig. I couldn't help myself and bought it, and I also bought a choker for Misa. We went back to her house and we found out that the wig was a bit too short and needed a lot of styling. I shall post an image soon. The choker was also too wide for my neck but I managed to fix that.
In the evening we went to see the movie Cloverfield, she was watching it for the second time. I really liked the movie, I was glad to be viewing it in theatres rather than on my computer screen. Afterwards we talked with Nick on skype, and then we went to sleep. The next morning Caroline bought a "DJ Roy" wig, which we somewhat styled into Teen Son Goten's hair. We also made some pictures of ourselves in the photobooth. It was fun! So at the end of the day I went back home, with muscle cramp and whatnot. It was late when I was back home again, so I stayed home the next day even though I had school to get some rest. But anyway, it was worth it and I was glad I went!!
So yesterday I was still a bit depressed about my loss. Anyhow, as the they ended I was on my way back home when my sister called me and said that my wallet had been found! The bus company had it, and we could retreive it tomorrow, my dad said he would take me to the city where'd we get my wallet and drop me off at school. So as planned we went but they said they didn't have it at the bus station. @@; They told me to head towards the police station or the OLD bus station. We had no clue where it was. So we drove around and I called the customer service of the bus company. They also said they didn't know where it was located @@; So after we found ourselves a map we found it and I got my wallet back! And everything was still intact! I thought I lost my money but apparantly the founder was a nice person and decided not to rob me. So, I'm incredibly happy and when I get home I will de-block my bankaccount.
I also got good grades, yay for moi!
- Marjolein
Weeh, this day started absolutely brilliant. Well first of, this is the first day of my period
so I'm stuck with this annoying stomach ache. So, I wanna leave for school, suddenly I realize
I needed to find my wallet because I couldn't find it in my backpack yesterday during lunch break.
My dad said he'd look for it in the car. So I'm off on my bike, heading for the bus stop. I'm almost
there when I realize my mobile phone isn't in my pocket -_- So I go to the busstop, perhaps I left it
in my backpack. I check, and it's not. So I use my sister's phone to reach my dad so he can bring it to me.
So I hang up, return the phone to my sister who suddenly says that he'll never make it because the bus would
arrive within a minute (which it did). So I saw the damn thing approach, and decided to walk towards my bicycle
again. 5 minutes later I met my father, but I missed the bus so we both went home. We looked for my wallet there,
my dad replied it wasn't in the car. I looked there myself and I didn't find anything. So we looked around the
entire house but there was nothing.
So we went to the "Media Markt" where I had last purchased something with my wallet. They didn't have anything. So I called school to call in "sick" and to ask if they had found a wallet yesterday. They didn't. So when I arrived home I called the bus company, and they also said they didn't find anything but they were going to call me when they did. I also called the police... and I of course blocked my bank account.
So, the only thing I can do now is wait. It's a friggin nightmare, but fortunately I still got my OV, since I always have that in my pocket seperately. I hope I will find my wallet soon... this absolutely sucks. I also missed school because of this today... tomorrow people'll probably whine about where I was *sigh*
Hi, here I am again... Things went *great* today, I kinda missed out on the field trip and now I feel sort
of bad because I don't wanna face any consequences or anything... Anyway, moving on.
I finished the anime "Monster" not too long ago. I wasnt a big fan of the art style at first, but once you get used to that this anime is pretty good. I finished watching all 74(!) episodes in one week(!). My favorite character is either Johan or Dr. Tenma... XD After Monster I started on the second season of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, I watched three episodes of that so far. I also started with another vampire anime called "Rosario + Vampire". The anime has a lot of ecchi fanservice while the manga doesn't (that's what I read anyways). The anime is about a guy who somehow ends up being a student at a school for monsters. He rans into this girl, the main character, who happens to be a vampire. Because we're talking ecchi here, every girl-monster in the school starts to fall for this guy, the only human. Interesting.
Oh, I also bought gloves for my Misa outfit! They're pretty standart, the only damn things the city had. I bought these. When I had worn them for an hour or so, I pulled them off noticing my arm had all these red marks... XD So I guess I need to wear them more often so it stretches a little bit.
So, only things left are the boots, dress and choker!
For school we have this new project, "make a site about your hobby". I raised my hands and asked; "What if you already have one about your hobby?" Of course, I have to make another one. Ah well, I like it so. I still need to finish the DBZ fanart fanlisting as well, I hope I make it. Instead, I'm watching the confession of Joran van der Sloot. Pretty cool reality-TV, let me tell you. :D
~Bura
Sooo, I already registered my ticket for the anime con this year in May! I'm only going on Saturday though.After a
while Caroline also bought her ticket :laugh: and not too long after that Nick told us he was going with too! So
we're all together again!! :biggrin: One day Caroline logged on on MSN Messenger, and told me she bought a PINK WIG! @_@
I didn't really know what to think. Anyway, she told me she was interested in doing an Elfen Lied cosplay as Nana. You know, that
poor girl that get's both her arms and legs torn off. Anyway, she showed me how her wig looked through cam, and it actually didn't
look that bad at all...? So, she told me that she wanted to cosplay (quite badly). And obviously, she wanted me to do it also. I
already kind of had plans to cosplay as Misa Amane from Death Note sometime, but I wasn't sure I'd do it. Buuut, if she was gonna
cosplay people were gonna take pictures of us anyway, so I might as well cosplay myself.
So, it's not a 100% sure but the plans are that I will cosplay Misa this year. It will be my first cosplay, and...
AAH!! People in my class are watching the DBZ dub now!! KYAA! OMG, I hate it so much! And everyone here LOVES the dub!! WATCH THE JAPANESE VERSION!!! GOOOD!! AAH
Alright, now several hours later I've returned home from school. XD I purchased some PANTIES voor my cosplay in the city X3 Only € 2,50 :exclaim: I also went to the party store, looked at some wigs, didn't buy one though because I will be using my own hair... and I asked the guy if he had those gloves Misa wears, but no. Only in pink and bright green. :(
Anyway, I will go in this outfit, probably.
