Dear loyal fans,

it is with great pleasure to be back among such brave and dedicated supporters. And tp be honest, it is good to be back. And where did I go dear people? Around Australia? Around the world? No my friends, my dear dear friends, I have been to another world and back. I have travelled to another realm, where things are quite as normal and ordinary as I thought. The world to others may be childish... it may be wrong. My weekend.. has been... in a word... interesting.

I believe it will be easier if I compile this in a form of a small journal, a small collection of thoughts in which I will showcase why I choose to have as little sleep as possible during those 4 days.

Thursday

More like Thursday night. But this journey starts a trifle earlier for me. I awake in the morning to go buy flowers. For two lovely ladies whom I promise flowers to, and nobody should break promises to beautiful women now should they?
So I pop over to the store to buy flowers and I told the lady I want 2 bunches of orchids... and a bouquet of roses. And so I left to purchase cards and write them in my hurried and horrid left-handed writing. 15 minutes later, I got back to the shop and picked up the bunch of orchids and to my amazement, shock, surprise, u name it, I experienced it, THERE WAS A GIGANTIC SOB BOUQUET OF ROSES. Go to Shan's blog to see it. It was... BIG. So how? I paid the lucridously expensive price and well, walked off with giant flowers. I skipped class cause it would be a trifle embarressing to go to class like that. I quickly got rid of them, placing them at Ams house, who gave me a hug as all pretty girls should do (I demand a peck on the cheek), and we went for lunch to talk about the score's for a certain lady's assets as compared to beef strogonrf.
That done, went to class, tiring, boring class. Survived that, slept for a while at night and went off to club with some frens for BIKINI NIGHT. Yes. A club at 30 degrees celcius, where the women come in or rather, out of sexy revealing clothes. However, even with all the great scenery and the eating of tofu (ugh... accidental touching of the wildlife), the company wasn't exactly the most fun and partylike of them all. So I couldn't really get into the groove. Sad. Got home and visited a fren, ended up sleeping at their place until 1030 in the morning.

Friday

Awoke at 1030 and trotted off to collins where I got lost searcing for a building. I was going to hand in a resume to a Border's recruitment fair... or so I thought. It was more of a registering and screen interviewing session and got me real nervous. I mean, my entire resume was close to empty, I've only really worked once in my life. But it was relatively painless. Dun think I will get to second interview though.
That done, met up with a fren for lunch and window shopping where my fren bought pink shoelaces at a shop I showed her. Me. I think I may be gay. I need a girlfren quick.
Went off an hour later to a career fair which sucked. No info about careers watsoever. Not for my level anywaes. Sigh.
Popped off to another frens place to sleep. Yes, sleep... for an hour before forcibly woken up to head over to uni in the rain. There, I had to pick up 18 tickets I had booked for Manifest. It was.. cold. After that, helped out pple untangling 23595454364556878563457034210492305946 strands of white string. It was not a good experience. Rested at frens place again for a while, before going out AGAIN.. this time... to a pub... for a concert.
RESET 0 rox. They so rock. A Jrock band in Australia. They were so bloody good, played bad songs in the beginning, but the pierrot and larc stuff they played blew my mind. They were awesome... I was jumping n screaming along with them. Wished the crowd was better though. Sucky crowds.. well... suck.
This time slept at 3am...

Saturday and Sunday

How to describe Manifest? How to describe something that is so utterly strange and unbelivable to non-anime pple? With pictures. But some background first. This was my 3rd manifest and the number of pple who attend it seem to grow every year. I think more than a thousand this year. Crazy stuff I tell you. There, one can watch anime, buy stuff, participate in competitions, take pictures, look at events, all that sort of stuff. Really is a two day experience. And now, pictures with random commentary ;)




This is manifest, well, the picture taking part anywaes. People dress up and go around, making frens, buying stuff and cosplay (costume play) competitions. And we go take pics.


sort of an idea of the fun pple have there. Sefie and Aeris from FFVII romancing each other. Sefie kills Aeris in the game btw.






many are detailed and meticulous. Very detailed. The girl I'm with is some virtual fren on irc. ESBEEEEE!!!!!






Some of them were juz plain kawaii!!! Meaning cute. So. Damn. Cute. That I could just eat them.


Video girl from Battle Royale. Excellent show. Excellent.


Go go from Kill Bill. My housemate is smitten. Yes Ams, your word... SMITTEN.


Housemate and A ninja.


Yuna giving Soujirou the thumbs up. Things must be going well.


Ok.. this... is a tentacle. You know the notorious tentacle porn of Japan? This... is a tentacle. Im a fan ;)





Competition pictures. Judged on popularity, costume design, roleplay. They range over many varieties from


sweet...


exciting and interesting blah blah...


warm and friendly and fun...


...to... just plain... wrong....

And finally, the stuff pple buy!!! The stuff I bought anywaes. Look look!!! Witness cuteness extreme!!! I give you pple...

CHIYO CHAN!!!!!



SHE'S SO FKING CUTE!!!!! I couldnt resist and got her, even with the high price. Sigh. Im truely and utterly beggared, a very very sad circumstance to be in. Sigh. Stop scolding me! Look!!!!



AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. SHE. CUTE.

Ok, that done. Manifest ran from 10 to 10 for 2 days. So you could guess the amount of sleep and rest I had those few days. Slept at 730am Monday morning. Sigh. Need to study lar. I know and yet...

Monday

DONNIE DARKO IS GOOD. Go watch it pple, a 6ft bunny tells you to.

THE END. Go home now.