7:11 PM
Monday, July 18, 2011
SMASH EVENT. (FINALLY!~)
So I went SMASH yesterday.
It was a real pain in the morning since i was half-dead. It also didn't help when ONE cousin who promised to go with me ditched at last minute, so his brother, O (not bothered listing his name) volunteered instead.
I was dressed up as gothic lolita with this huge black coat (forced to wear as mom kept complaining that it's cold. My thigh-high socks kept slipping down to my knees since I didn't replace the elastic (too lazy to, anyway) so my socks looked droopy?
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| Moi, in GothLoli |
I have to complain about one thing while I was there, some prices are ridiculous.... especially some of the figures. Just go China, they sell for 80 yen which rounds up to around 13 dollars. The MADMAN vendor was reasonable, $10 for each manga, regardless of name.
So my mother drove us to Central and we walked all the way to the Sydney Convention Centre. We saw some cosplayers along the way. Predator from 'Aliens vs. Predators' was the first. <3
O was hungry and didn't eat breakfast so we stopped at Maccas for a meal. When he finished, went in to purchase tickets for $30 for adults. Entry for those that are 7 and under is free. Sooo unfair.
Continuing... We wandered around the vendors... Gasped at some prices and brought some stuff. I only brought two manga books, Onepiece volumes 46 and 53 since I save around $1.?? even if I use the Kinokuniya card. There were also many consoles where you find many people competing with each other.
We then went upstairs and found the maid cafe. Did I mention I couldn't figure out if one of the butlers were male or female, his or her name was Sho.... There was one that looked so Visual Kei <3....
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| The Card, I'm an Attendee!~ |
I ordered a rainbow cupcake, which I thought was going to have a blast of colours but it ended up being like any ordinary cupcake and an orange juice. O ordered cappuccino and the bill added up to $26... you wonder why? it's for the butler/maid service. A maid told us to come back around 4-5pm so we then went to the Auditorium where they had some gigs. Cough... then checked the Art room where they teach you how to draw?
So we went back down to wander some more. Then out to the closet shopping centre to find an ATM so O can buy his fake gun from that gun vendor. There was a girl who dressed up as gory lolita and it looked very nice... I should dress like that next year.
We, not wanting to get out of the 4pm scheme, went to the Auditorium to see the cosplay contest. There was this funny MC who dressed us as Jessica Alba, in a bikini and scuba suit from a certain movie. Then came along a guy who had this glowing necklace, it was amusing when he threatened to bash MC Scott up, the poor guy. There were also auditions on CDs and etc. Some cosplayers looked really good and there was a girl who caught stage fright and ran off the stage. She then reappeared again. Bravo!
When 4pm came we left to go to Maid Cafe. There were people lining up and some complaining about when were they going to be seated. I love how the maids/butlers went looking for their cilents and how butlers would have one arm angled at the back and one at the front.
Rain was our butler and he was really polite, well he is a butler... We got seats outside and it was awesome. The view was great and you could totally see what things were happening at the entrance. we got to stay for one hour where O and I just talked and yapped and so forth. It seems like we had telepathy with our butler because we rang the bell to ask for another refill of water and his answer was 'Oh, I was about to ask you that." Weird. He then asked if we wanted to play cards but we declined since we both didn't know to. There was a very cute moment where you see a butler ringing a bell and maids following him, they were giggling and running around. We then posed for a picture. Rain led us to door.
O wanted to buy more manga, went to MADMAN vendor again. Then to 'Pancakes on Rocks' to eat dinner. O paid the bill. Went to EB Games where O tries to persuade me to buy a game. Pestered him with many questions and after a deep thought, he put it back down. There goes our long walk to station where I looked wierd since i was dressed up. There was trackworks and we ended up catching train to Sydneham then have to travel back home by bus. Very long and tiring, I must say.
That day, I was amused by someone dressed as Pedobear. Had taken a photo with someone who asked me to. Get ignored by a cosplayer when asking what manga they were from. Got sore feet. Had fun but pricey fun.
Labels: cosplay, event, lolita
