[ freeeeeeeeeee~ as a bird... ]

it's the next best thing to be, free as a bird.

taken from the song free as a bird by the beetles. yeap, one of the only songs i can play fully on the piano. it's kinda sad though. you sit for so many exams and once you finish, you should be a pro. but i suck and haven't touched the black [not white] elephant for at least 5 months. just sitting there showing off it's grandness... and my dad's asking me if we should sell it. i'm like "nooo....!!". i mean, it has some sentimental value. XD was just listening to maksim, man he's excellent. he plays the piano really well.

fuh. it's already october. 9 months passed by really fast. hehe. too fast. but it's good that it's over. i don't have to face that darn project anymore. except for the presentation. i hope it turns out well and the amount i did is enough. i know it's not about quantity, but still. my accessor is a bit of a bitch. and the sort who claims that she knows it's not about quantity, but quality, still dares to give me an average mark for my mid point. i guess i'm still a bit miffed with that fact, even though that 12/20 marks only contributes a bare 5% out of the entire thing :p

okies, i had a point to blog here, and it was to rant about the axn event and everything else under the sky.

the axn event was... tiring but a lot of fun, as well as disappointing. here's how it all began. as soon as i reached mv, i gave a call to a friend of mine whom i was suppose to meet there. haven't seen him in more than a year since the time he left for UK. also another anime otaku, decided it was the best reason to meet. still the same. haha! 'cept for a lil accent.

then we waited for the opening of the event. there were tonnes of people. before opening the shutters that lead to the hall, the mc was counting down. haha... of course the crowed joined it. and as the shutters opened, they played one of the songs from rurouni kenshin. it was all good until the squishing began and we realized later the hall was a bit the small.

was looking for people from the forum, and since i knew himi was going as sanzo, decided to look out for a monk-looking cosplayer. first person i saw was fenix. she looks sorta.... scary. haha... sorry yeah, that was my impression at first. i was afraid of her. hahahaha! imagine, being intimidate by someone who was 6 years younger than you O_o; but because she looked a little busy and didn't quite know who i was or what to expect for me to look like, i went to himi first. she was the only other person i knew looked like what. all based on the pics from cosmas and well, the sanzo costume was another give away!

tapped on her shoulder... waited for her to look at me, then asked, "hey, can guess who i am?". hahaha... then she started screaming, "labrynth!!" over and over again... that really was quite embarrassing since everyone around there was looking at a sanzo screaming. reason why she knows who i was is 'cause i told her i was well... not who she thinks i might be. it shocked her at first to learn that i wasn't chinese or even malay. the only other person who knew was enervate, and i didn't know what she looked like. then after getting whacked by her paper fan, a girl turns to me and says, "hey.. do you know how i am???!!!" i was so blur. i didn't have an idea at all. so obviously i said no and it was actually enervate. sheesh..!! and she told me she was only gonna be there much later since her graduation was finishing around 1pm. so that was an unexpected surprise for me :). you clown! gave me such a shock :þ. btw fenix, now you understand by what himi meant by "the second shock" ? :)

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!... just a sudden burst of happiness :O)

back to where i was... it was so nice to see everyone. yes it was. i think fenix asked me to take a pic but then there were so many complications that i forgot in the end. the joys of meeting people. the moments happened quickly and suddenly we were all separated.

so my friend [KY] and i decided to go look for other cosplayers and the stage area since something was suppose to happen at that time. got there and it was a samurai show. wait, let me rephrase. a lame samurai show. i was looking forward to some action bit of them fighting against each other but they looked like they were doing taichi. sheesh man, what the hell was that?? so we left and decided to check out graffiti wall. that was quite cool. saw an art drawn by keitsu. that was the only one i recognized. everyone else i didn't know who. the booths were pretty unsatisfying as well. the only nice one was the one selling some art. they were really nice. i took some pictures of them.

then it was the cosplaying event so we rushed back to the stage area, which was by then packed! but we managed to squeeze our way through and stand near the drawing competition. it was just about to start. saw fenix there, and took a pic of her getting all set to draw :) so when the cosplay competition started, everyone gathered closer to the stage and the only spot i could stand and get a view of the stage was near this big ass speaker. yeah, my whole body and camera was vibrating at the sounds. and my right ear... argh.. it was so loud i thought i was gonna burst my ear drum.

after that event, everyone was dispersing so we decided to check out the other booths we missed and the showcase thingy in the center. was quite cool. i liked the 'my neighbor totoro' miniature "dolls" [i can't think of the right word for it at the moment]. so basically were just roaming around and around waiting for something else to happen. it was getting boring. then we waited around the drawing competition area to check out how everyone was doing.

next, met up with enervate and her friend [another writer] nadia. it was so cool to meet another writer and boy was she one otaku. she practically watched and owned everything anime under the sky. she even brought a picture to show her collection ^_^;

so while KY [another big anime otaku compared to me] talked to her, i chatted with enervate. it was so nice to finally meet you, and your family! :) and the first thing i noticed [or reminded myself to notice] was your hair. it's so gorgeous, i'm jealous!! and you're gonna cut it... ;_; well, at least i got to see it first.

then decided to leave the place entirely. it was just about 2pm by then. we went off to the arcade to see himi do the parapara. hahaha.. man, she was good! after that, we left to go have lunch. was too hungry by then. then [i'm running out of other words besides 'then'], met with enervate again, chit-chatted a bit more, passed me some cdrs to burn for her the gluhen series [which i haven't the time as yet] and took one last picture [which is actually the 2nd last picture in the "axn af" link].

it was tiring, but my day of course didn't end there. still had to go home to do my documentation, which is already done. mwahahahahaha!! yeah, my days after that we basically in front of the pc writing [as you can see in the previous posts]. i was practically online the entire day the last few days and yesterday took the cake lar. online 21 hours non-stop @_@. luckily i didn't go blind :)

but the other side effects were.... neck ache, back ache, shoulder ache [all still very stiff] and other weird things going on in the inside which i can't even describe. and every time i tried to have a meal, i felt nauseated so ended-up snacking when i felt the need to. best part was my mom would come by and hand me either a multi-vitamin or vitamin c tablet. lol!

well, i'm quite happy now. the biggest task of my life is over. the final of all final projects in my studying life [until that is when i continue to do my masters] is over. *evil laughter*.

have a long list of things to do. so many, many things i planned along those last 9 months. incentives lar for me to go on otherwise i have nothing to look forward to. but first, i must recover to 100%. then format pc, install games... and proceed with revamping a certain ugly site. bleh. and this one too. planned to do a new layout. something totally different for a new beginning and to celebrate an ending.

before i leave, go download songs by queen. old, but good. [esp killer queen & bohemian rhapsody]. the songs are classic and lyrics darn funny!!

wheeeee~