Tango Appassionata

TWO WEEKS OF NO POSTAGE!





*thinks of stuff to say*





last LAST Sunday, BBQ @ the fish's place. It being a social gathering and as a farewell party for Daniel who's leaving to somewhere which we asked about but I didn't remember hearing the answer. I helped the fish with the preperations before the party started at 4 (hosing the chairs and the porch was teh fun :E)... people slowly started coming, and I wandered off to play Sim Tower that I wasn't able to install successfully on my computer (had the sudden urge for it one night so we both installed it -- my attempt being a failure)... Eleanor showed us her photo album as she told her story about her two week trip to Japan. She got to do voice acting :O!! Anywho, didn't get to play MJ cuz the other people hogged it up. Played some racing game on PS2; beat Eleanor a few bwahaha... nice cars tho.





AE was a little under two weeks away when Sty and I decided to make a last-minute costume for the cosplay for Anime Evo 03. Bought the fabric (FABRICLAND MUST GO TO HELL) and began that Monday. Did plans, slacked off much, got "stressed like frick". Day by day, we woke up earlier and earlier to meet up and work to try and finish the costume. Monday: 4pm; Tuesday: 10am; Wednesday: 10am; Thursday: 9am; Friday: 7:30am; Saturday: 6am (supposedly 4am but no buses came until 6)... ending the day around at 10pm everyday. We planned to finish that Saturday morning, but Sacha collapsed because of over exhaustion in the morning, so we didn't go at all. Sadly I finished my costume (with a few problems here and there that I temporarily fixed with some pins just for the day. Sunday was the worst day of course, but since we worked so hard all week, I didn't want to put it to waste. Saboo felt sick that morning so she didn't go, leaving Sty, tzen and myself to go ourselves. Hee, scared lots of people on the bus and skytrain with my wicked pink hair (btw I was Lacus from Gundam Seed -- no pictures to show yet :p) that turned out sorta shitty because we didn't exactly finish combing it so it looked big and puffy. We met some "otaku" at the bus stop after the skytrain and followed us everywhere cuz he noticed my cosplay and knew we were going... he talked a lot. We arrived at SFU and was bombarded by rabid Lacus fangirls (where's the hot fanguys? :p) and then headed off to the Stargate SG-1 panel that Sty wanted to go and see. I had no interest in it whatsoever, considering I've only seen less than 2 mins of one of the eps and found it really corny. Sty won a free hat at the panel and bragged about it all day. We headed off to the dealers room right after, following a couple (which I swear looks like brother and sister -- but they said they were a couple in the AE forums) cosplaying as characters from Lunar 2. We journeyed across the SFU crazy valleys, huffing and puffing at the sight of stairs and from the sun. We got there, the dealers room was stuffy and crowded; no fun. Nothing looked interesting so we glanced at everything quickly. I wanted to waste money but there was nothing to waste it on. We bumped into tzen and went off to meet frector at one of the video rooms. The first 10 mins or so was a free-for-all talk forum about anime people wanted to see next year.. some really funny suggestions: this particular boy in the back suggested Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh and Yuu Yuu Hakusho .. funny. They finally found the Excel Saga DVD that they were stalling time for, got through the first DVD and then moved onto Noir. Watched the first ep and left. We were once again attacked by rabid fangirls, this particular group somewhat cosplaying as Gundam Seed too (too cool too cool!!). I honestly didn't expect anyone to cosplay as Gundam Seed at all. So there was this Cagalli and younger version Athrun (not older, BOO!) but cute anyways. Tzen took the mini group photo... I want it. :E After that we went to bother Nina who was sleeping at the art tables, selling her artwork. Sty pursuaded her to follow us home and buy ice cream cake, and so she came. We arrived at the Victoria Dairy Queen and spotted a v. good ice cream cake with a naked muscular guy flexing as the icing, so we got that. Brought it back, partially melted and we all ate some; sweet as hell. Had some shake n bake chicken and hash browns for dinner at Sty's place and got going. Did I mention my skirt was crooked the whole day making it seem like I wasn't standing straight for the pose for the camera? :p Oh well, overall: total suckage weekend of unnecessary stress.