Sunday, September 23, 2007

The long awaited post of 7.07.07 is finally HERE!!!!! :D

Dudes.. I know it took me like... forever (2 months, lol) to post this, but
The long awaited post of 7.07.07 is finally HERE!!!!!

So! Before the pictures, i'd appreciate it if you'd please read the entry :) Also! This was all typed in July but it was saved as a Draft, so some things said might be thought of differently now. I was pretty pissed when I first typed this, heheh x)
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My friends who knew how much I wanted this, who knew how much I bragged and complained about my cosplay, and whined and got angry over the people and the boundaries ALL THOSE BLOODY TIMES.. I apologize.. for you will be as disappointed as I was, and still am, after reading the paragraph you're about to read.

Tiffany(who cosplayed Junko) took ONLY three shots of me, and my friend took one. My aunt took one at home, and Areku & I were featured in a Nana Osaki pic, AND the top of my head was seen a couple of times. All of those; 5, minus the one where I wasn't actually seen, equals ALL of my pictures. T________T I have like only TWO good ones. I am very sorry.

DAMN!!!!! I'm so sorry people who I promised lots of pics. D: Shit.. it's not my fault though. And others also had problems. This thing ran from 12 noon to 10 p.m. That's 10 friggin hours.. and I got no more than 5 pictures. I should die, I know. Take the name of being a Nana fan away from me.. I was so light headed that day. Honestly, most of the day we just ate, shopped, freaked people out, talked, ate, drove, thought, went site seeing,waited, amazed people, got lost, looked for ice cream, ran from the RAIN, and rocked out. But I got to spend 10 hours (really only 7.. took me some time to wind down ^^') celebrating Nana day with the most funny, real, cute, short(lol), awesomest people, or nana fans, EVER!! Omg, I tried to steal Tabatha's Nana plushie.. It was so cute *.*

Anyway.. er, what else?? OH! I blame Areku for TOTALLY TOTALLY wasting ALL of our time. We spent almost two hours searching for this fucking ice cream place at the destination we all longed to go to (Atlantic Station), just for her! We wanted to take pictures there because of the beautiful lights and scenery. So when we didn't find it, this girl who didn't even give as little as a thank you, blamed us for helping her.. For helping her? She is the most ignorant piece of shit ever.. I can't believe her. These people planned for months for Nana Day and here they were spending their time searching for some magical ice cream shop just to make a stranger happy, yes I wonder why they're so nice also, and she doesn't give them a thank you, and tells them they never should of helped her? That's true, but she was the one COMPLAINING about how she wanted it sooo bad.We all felt bad.. and it was in Atlantic Station, so why not get it for her, right? Yeah, but do you know after we failed to find the ice cream, it started POURING down raining? And we had to leave after waiting for it to stop because people had to be home by certain times and already lived far away? Shouldn't she feel remorse or something? And first of all, she was bothersome ALL day. What a selfish ass. I'm never forgiving her for that.. it was just insensitive and rude as hell. >:|

Oh, why didn't they mind much?? Well let's see.. two days later they re-met at this beautiful Kareoke bar to finish the pictures.. and bad part for me is, the inside was perfect for my character.. it was EXACTLY like the room at Shin and Reira's party where Yuri (oh yeah, I cosplayed Yuri.. Nobu's porn star girlfriend, lol.) first came in and had that big thing with Hachi and Nobu. And plus the girl that cosplayed Hachi.. didn't like her too much.. so that would have been super fun! =D Well.. I didn't go. ;_; 1st reason: Areku had to go home like right when we needed to be at the bar. She lives like far away from me and my mom had to drive her back. The karaoke bar was farther, so she didn't wanna take me right after a long drive. -____- 2nd reason(the worse reason): Tabatha lost my number and I never gave it to Grace so no one could contact me to tell me they switched the time to later. They said so on the board online, but I didn't get on the comp. because I was mad Areku ruined my Nana Day twice! When I found out like right when it ended, my mom told me she would have taken me because she wouldn't have to waste so much gas and care for two girls. D: Omg! I can't believe I could have went! I always wanted to go to a Kareoke bar, and I needed to be there regardless!!!! Ahghrfhzhg!! *sobs* What a total fucking bitch. That's right.. bold AND underlined! A fucking attention having, hard up bitch!

I just wanna go to AWA (anime weekend atlanta) this year now so I can hang with them and re-do my cosplay. I don't think I can though.. because I got my membership drawn from last year, also because of Areku! And I was relying on her home address to re enter.. but because of what happened on 7.07.07 and the other days she stayed with me, I DO NOT want to attend with her. >=( But I still have the issue that my mom's like, friggin tired of me with all this cosplay stuff and Japanese stuff and "wasting tons of money on useless crap". So if I mention it to her... she may just explode then come back to murder me. >___>

SO! Let's get to the actual detail in this day!

I awoke at 7:12 am! Didn't get out of bed until like 7:50.. took a bath, and washed up to get into character! About 8:20.. put on my accessories and did my nails. Went to get my outfit on. After getting dressed, I put on my wig; I cut the bang of the wig the night before.. it was too long.. but I cut it too short T_____T

Then during the 10:30 - 11:30 hour.. I spent that time for eating, make-up, perfume, helping Areku, prepping the wig, and putting on contacts.
After everything was done we arrived late! Because of my mom.. -_- When we finally get to the place, i'm friggin nervous as hell.. lol. We walk into the venue and see people way across the room setting things up on a stage. I see lots of people I saw on the Int' Nana Day thread on cosplay.com.. but I have a hard time doing anything. lol. Finally, with a little help from Areku, I talk to some people and got situated. My mom stayed the whole time there. x(

Finally, London, Grace and Nobu came and they started the photoshoot. The first shoot was of Trapnest. Then of the Black Stones. And since it was two Nana Osaki's and two versions of B.L.A.S.T (the one with Ren and the one with Shin), it was really like two photoshoots for them. The characters that weren't needed.. we all slacked and sat there watching, being bored; the worst part of the day. Soon it was about 2 and everyone was whispering about us just sitting there not talking to anyone. Areku totally wasn't helping. She was actually starting to become a pest. So Tabatha finally came over and tried to lighten me up and told me they'd be shooting pictures of Yuri and Nobu soon.

When the time came to actually do it, we had about 30 minutes to wait, so I chilled with Rene/Rin (Nobu) and Grace 2 (Nana O.) By that time, Meg (the other Nana O.) had left to go back to work.. awws. So Rin, Grace and I chilled by the make-up counter and looked at some Nana manga for good poses.. while also enjoying some root beer.. that looked like beer, lol. I couldn't get mine open because I had on fake nails and I couldn't get a good grip. Rin tried to open it but couldn't, and Grace tried to open it.. but also because she had false nails, she couldn't get a good enough grip. So I told her to use her shirt. When she did, root beer shot up all over her shirt! o____o Opps... Her shirt was black and red but her white shirt underneath that she needed for a different shoot was ruined with brown stains. T-T I apologized many times. She smiled and said it was alright, even though it was obvious she was upset. x( Agh.. havoc.

Then after getting tipsy on warm root beer, I finally did my pictures with Rene. OMG! I could have killed her! Okay, Rene's a chick and i'm a chick, but SHE was playing a dude, so she should of let me get a lot closer!! But it didn't matter, it was only a head shot; it turned out great. ^^ A bit after that, the girl playing Sachiko finally came. Boy was she late. She didn't get a chance to be in any pictures.. and her cosplay was really good too! =/

Pictures from all that :D- remember, click to enlarge them~!



After all that, it was almost 3:30 and we had to go by 4, so we spent that time loading up the stuff and figuring out our next destination. My mom disagreed on driving me and Areku everywhere, so I asked if anyone was carpooling. Emily (Naoki) told us she had room in her car :) So I confirmed it with my mom and she said yes :D We were going to the E2 coffee house!!

So after about 40 minutes of driving and listening to Emily's tracks, she had some awesome music, most of my favorites, we arrived there. Where... we didn't have a crowd waiting like they said we would. So some of us just used their bathroom to change, and the rest of us hung out. :] That's when we realized we lost some people! The other girl cosplaying Hachi, the girls cosplaying another character, and the girl cosplaying Sachiko that came late, never showed up. o_o;; Opps.. I would have been super pissed off. x/ Anyway, we all just chatted, drunk frappeccinos, yep.. that's where it all winded down. My favorite bit of time. I got to know Grace (misato), Kei's sister. And I got to know everyone. Me and Areku told stories of our time at AWA 2006 and we all shared stuff about anime and Nana and Korean dramas and food and sewing, it was great!! Tabatha and I had a long one on one talk about cosplay and wigs, lol. And Grace (misato) told me she admired my courage. I was confused before she told me she was talking about going it full for my character, lol. She said she thought i'd at least have a undershirt on, but I bared my chest and my lacy bra, xD That may have been insulting, but I took it as a compliment xP The rest of the time we talked about random stuff and she was cute all the way through :D

Pictures taken there x3-


After everyone changed clothes, we finally headed out. :)
We decided to go eat at Fuddruckers. Mostly because we wanted to go to Atlantic Station for pictures and we needed to waste time.
It took like forever to get to Fuddruckers. When we got there, I got even closer to Tabatha and London, haha. I know, I know.. London's disliked by me.. but it was all good x) We all ate at this big long table since it was so many of us.. but it wasn't enough room.. I think Grace, cosplaying NANA not Kei's sister, and Rene and two more were at a small table next to us. Of course we were the scene that day at the restaurant, everyone was smiling at us! It reminded me of when my whole junior high school class went to the same Red Lobster after the spring dance. x) It was so cool.. all the people already there got to see a fashion show ^^
We stayed at the restaurant for a while talking about stuff while eating.. then we headed out. In the parking lot, we decided our next move.. we concluded we were definitely going to Atlantic Station.. but it being the summer, it was 6+ and still light out. So we were to hang out at the mall until the sunset, and head downtown to take pictures :]
Before we went into the mall, I HAD to change shoes because I had been wearing those 4 inch stiletto heels all that time... I brought along some flats *nods*. So as soon as we went in we had people staring like crazy.. and the store owners were very happy to have us there, we were drawing so much attention :D
I was mad though that we went there because they had the perfect dress for my character.. one I tried so hard to find, but I had no money. And then this beauty supply store we went into had these beautiful fishnets, tights and crazy wigs. I would of loved to shop there.. AH! Too bad I can't remember the name of the mall neither does it matter since we were like two hours away from home. x(
We all split up at some point and met back at the food court. Some of us went to the bathroom.. then we sat and talked more. There was one picture taken before the sun began setting and we left the mall.

Here is that picture-


I almost fell asleep in Emily's car it took so long to get to Atlantic Station!! But when we finally did,we lost each other in the parking lot. x/ Lol.. the best part of all this: Emily called Tabatha to see where everyone went and while she was talking to her, we could hear her clearly.. even though the garage was quiet and it was on the cell phone. So then we all walk to see what level we're on and Tabatha tells us it's level E.. so Emily asks Tabatha how she knows what level we're on, and as we're walking, Tabi comes up to us out of nowhere and says, "Because I stalk you at night.. " Lmao!! Turns out she was only like 6 cars away from where we parked. LOL~ How funny.. ^^ And so we Kei and Grace (Kei's sister) were in their car. We called Robert and told them to come down to level E from where ever they already were. So we wait a while and they don't know how to get down, so Areku suggested they play a song really loud so we could hear them coming and tell them which way to go. So they did.. and they wouldn't tell us what song it was. They said we'd know when we heard it. So about 5 minutes later we hear music. And as it get closer we see a car full of cosplayers, lol.. they were playing the Star Wars song! Rotfl~ Omg.. they so rock.. but how lame can you get?! Lol.. this is a memory I will tell my Grand children x)

So after we all had a good laugh and stuck together, we all set up to the street area of the shopping center. Areku was the first to run off like a moron. I don't even have to go into detail about what happened. We literally walked for almost 2 hours looking for her fucking ice cream shop.. and she wanted us to not follow her! Well if this wasn't a giant private place we'd of left you a million years ago, but we can't! We were all each other's responsibility.. we had to follow. And she just wouldn't stop! Over some fucking ice cream! She didn't even know where it was or what it was called! I wouldn't be surprised if it was the wrong place she went.. because after all that we couldn't find it. We even asked one of the ice cream shop owners and they told us there was only blank and blank ice cream shops there.. and she claimed it wasn't them! So we told her to just get some ice cream but she was super stubborn and whined about how it isn't the one she wanted. That's when it started to drizzle a bit.. so we all rushed to this restaurant where there's this large open flat grass to take pictures.. but as soon as we got there it was raining harder, so we all ran back to the garage. When we got down there we ran into this wall where there was like power washed gray brick and this long bar of light.. It looked really cool so we wanted to tak pictures there.. but Tabatha said we only have like a couple more photos to take so we should take group ones. That when Tiffany thought of the giant wall in the parking lot where we can let up the camera and take pictures, so we all went walking. When we got there we all lined up the way Tabi wanted us to as she posed all of us. Just before we where finished some security guard came strolling in her buggy with a bright flash light. She saw we had a camera and told us it was illegal to take pictures down there and made Kei take out the batteries to the camera. Before she left, she warned us that if she saw a flash we'd all be in trouble. o__o Omg.. I can't believe that happened! D: Serious much?! That ruined everything and to make matters worse, everyone left and I was left with no one but Areku still being stupid as hell. Omg, I wanted to murder her in the parking lot.. she was so fucking dead to me.. I just ignored everything she said until my mom called. When she finally did she told us to go up to the street because waiting in a parking lot was dangerous and that she didn't know how to get to it anyway. We finally got to her and I didn't talk to Areku at all the whole way home or when we got back. I went straight to bed and told my mom I wanted her gone tomorrow. She was originally suppose to stay two extra days.. but I couldn't stomach her. I didn't care if she couldn't get home.. she wouldn't be in my house sitting or standing in my space! Not after what she did! So when I got up, I woke to see her standing over me saying that my mom said she had to go home that day. :)

Areku.. no matter how much my feelings have changed.. or how others really don't have a problem.. I will NEVER forget it and NEVER forgive what you did on July 7th 2007! It was beyond forgiveness. I would rather you have us in jail or banned from a convention than dissing my feelings and being so utterly selfish and insensitive. I don't hate you though. I just pity you. Because with that personality.. doing whatever you want and bringing everyone down when you don't get it? It'll surely turn it's back on you.. and you'll mess with the wrong person. Then you'll appreciate your real friends.. but they won't be around to help you out.

Disregarding all that personal stuff.. I really enjoyed the times where everyone bonded, where I got to talk to everyone one-on-one, where we all shared a good laugh and many inside jokes.. once again I am very grateful to of spent those long hours hanging out with such cool people. I really am glad I got to. And I thank nana-nana.net for even bringing upon these people. For if I hadn't visited, I would of never knew :]

And with that, here are some of the pictures from the karaoke bar and pictures Kei and Tabatha took on their own and posted up on cosplay.com. I have to come back an edit to add more as I haven't found all of them yet x/

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