All over again. Recovered post-AX09, so my attempt to organize my cosplay stuff...

( 2009 Cosplay Schedule )

Hmm, adding pictures up to my cosplay list to make it more pretty looking?
( 2010 Cosplay Plans )

If interested in any planned groups mentioned, same as always, post a comment. :3

arashi....you've done it again ♥ *sigh* Thought I half climbed out of the fangirl hole, and now i'm back to square one again. xDD;;; No escape when they keep putting out such amazing songs ♥

New layout (arashi_layouts) yay~ One day will attempt to make my own....one day, but for now, borrowing other people's amazingness. xD;

Ahh *sigh* interview today at 11 AM...>>; *sigh* hate interviews....

So sleepy wanna sleep, but can't sleep....yet. Today was interesting. Met my Japanese language exchange partner (who I realized looks like Eita xD) and his 2 friends, and invited Jess and Diane for talk times~ One of them likes KAT-TUN, specifically Akanishi, so I was like. wah～　But Jess prefers NEWS, and I like NEWS and Arashi more than KAT-TUN, but that's okay, cause even if we did karaoke I would still be able to do a large part of KAT-TUN's songs. xD;; Working on Arashi songs, but slowly....they have a very long history, which I finally realized today as an Arashi song popped up in my car and I didn't know what it was. :x

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Okay that entire cut could only come out in Japanese...T___T but yeah my brain's in that mode...gomen ne xD And doubt anything in my head is making sense...T__T

Gwah~ Tsukareta T____________T Late JAC evenings...>>; But guess it's not so late, just the driving back home all the way from Westwood afterwards. >>; Nice, but tiring (now it is, more so than last year I think at times XD). x__X

Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics. :D Yay~ So far in the future, but hehe, awesomeness. I liked the video presentation though~ I wanna go 7 years later... xD

Current Goal: Somehow, by some miracle, get to see Tenimyu in the winter in japan. Which means, save, save, save. D: Or land awesome PT or FT job ASAP. ><;
That aside, wouldn't mind going to Japan again. xD; and this time I know what I'm doing, and where I'm going more or less. xD; Still have this goal of being able to study over there for a whole year at university, but I'm only left with graduate studies now. Playing field is definitely different. Tada yume ka na....

Today was fun~ Minus my laziness in the beginning of the day, followed by a random drive to do something productive, like look for chaos;head fabric, which I couldn't find in the Glendale and Pasadena Joann stores at all -__-; FAIL. But I think it's online *crosses fingers and hopes that's the right one, will order it tomorrow and hope for the best*

Went to a JACCC event in Little Tokyo with epiic, and met up with Super No 1 (recognize the face, and sn from cosplay.com). Followed by yogurt yumminess, and arcade playing time. ^^;; Found that, for some reason everytime I get someone to play DDR with me at the arcade, I'm always wearing flip-flops for some reason -__-;;; *sigh* Akiramemasu~

But yeah today was fun, although I felt like I was totally unentertaining. D: After my afternoon adventure in 100 or whatever degree heat, my energy totally was depleted. T___T Mah, it was still fun. :D I got have done without my unproductive afternoon trip though. ^^

( Right ear I can't live without you T____________T )

Started writing a fanfic for hanakotoba challenge on FF.net, so yeah....just writing out my current thoughts, since I can't move from a certain point.

( Day 3 )

EDIT: Yay, gave up on that to do scanslations...yay for first time doujin translating from start to finish. xD;

Went to spa today with my mom and aunt for my aunt's upcoming birthday this weekend. It was fun....soooooooooooo tired though. Reminds me of how when I was younger and went to water parks...and yeah, wow playing in water all day makes you tired for whatever reason. -__- Gah T___T But it wasn't bad~ Wouldn't mind going again, just so far.......and too lazy. >>;

After that stopped by CSUSB to visit my cousin, who looked/sounded dead tired. ^^; Hehe, leadership positions do that to you? Especially when it's for housing stuff right before school starts back. *sigh* Makes me feel all nostalgic about when I first started college 6 years ago. *gah* XD

Anyway somehow managed to cure my "not watching anime for a while" phase immediately after my last post, and managed to finish Skip Beat!, catch up with all the eps of Hanasakeru Seishounen (I kind of like this series. xD I wonder why :P would cosplay it if the costumes were more recognizable? more of a group kind of thing), almost finished with Chaos;HEad, and not sure what's next. xD; Started playing this otome game called Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side. xD; Dunno how that happened, just started when I got sudden idea of buying a DS, and yeah... the voice actors = ♥ Miki Shinichiro (Lockon ♥), Midorikawa Hikaru (xD GW's Heero Yuy ♥ *___* and more but I will always remember him for that particular role, since that series started my never ending spiral into darkness/paradise, your pick), Ishida Akira (name says it all), Okiayu Ryoutarou (Tezuka ♥ ♥), Koyasu Takehito (Mu La Flaga, and more ♥), and of course, Yukana (:D). Needless to say I'm having my fair share of fun with that, but yeah. xD;

Guess time to start the cosplay work this weekend or something...@___@ if I can finalize my list in 48 hours. xD;

Oh yeah, y-con...somehow I say I'm going but haven't figured out my ride situation yet :X whoops? xD

Hmm....trying to figure out what my cosplay schedule is for the rest of the year. :x *geh* Half feel like starting a project from a game or something. xD; First need to be remotivated to start stuff up again. I'm about 30% there...
Been a while since I've watched any new anime series...guess I should start back sometime soon. Finally invested money in a DS, so yeah...been half obsessed with that. And finally got my new room all put together, just needs new furniture. XD Been a bit lethargic since I came back from Japan. xD; Struggling through the jetlag didn't help. T___T Problem with trips that far, for durations longer than a month. ><; , and I guess the fires didn't help when I tried to go anywhere too (especially since my car has no functioning A/C right now...need to change the filters sometime soon... .__.; ) .

*sigh* つまらないね。。。今の私。。。＞＜

Why are earthquakes so interesting xD maybe it's just me that would immediately visit the japan meteorological agency earthquake site to find out information about an earthquake that just happened 10 minutes prior, or instantly. xD; ♥ Habit from my earthquake engineering class. (if it was america USGS, and it would of course pop up on my list of visited websites within one or two keys "ea" --> earthquake.usgs.gov, or something like that xD) . Gah I really should go study that. xD; At large magnitudes they are frigtening, but small ones are interesting...like the one I just felt ay 5:09 AM this morning. Was expecting typhoon madness, but instead I get an earthquake jolt (Magnitude IV, on american scale approx.) xD; And really close by in Shizuoka-ken, which I had just viisted abuot 2 weekends ago :O DIdn't feel the one north of Tokyo, so guess this time they made sure I could feel it xD

Anyway back to take a 30 minute nap before getting ready for class. xD

Wah thought I would be able to make a post everyday, but impossible after all. D: Anyway been doing well in Japan~ lots of rain lately even though it's summer season. Went to Kyoto yesterday and to see Okazaki's hanabi taikai, but in both instances heavy rain fell. To the hanabi taikai I wore a yukata I bought at Uniclo for ~ 4000 yen. Bottom of my yukata got really wet + my flip-flops, really sandy and wet from standing near the river on the banks D: Anyway feeling meh D: onset of the sore throat, as a result of yesterday's rain. D: Gonna sleep soon (even though I have homework for my japanese class and a vocab quiz tomorrow morning T___T will wake up early and do it....maybe)

Wah~ Today was fun, even though there was rain. Got to play with rasuberi たのしかったよ～　xD; Went shopping...10,000 yen is never enough when you're clothes shopping. ><; I learned that pretty fast. Pretty sure each store we stepped into, I bought something xD; Except for the shoes, but I totally want some of those shoes *___* Ahh Japan, you will make me totally broke, but I love you ♥ We went to the JUMP store and Ghibli store, but no moneys = no awesome purchases. D: Need to go to the school office tomorrow, and pick up my money ^^;;; Guess I really overpaid a lot for my program, so I have lots of money waiting....I think I should be able to pick it up tomorrow ( was supposed to on Friday, but was running late for the train back home D:) . xD;

Went to Johnny's Nagoya store, and OMG pictures galore. I have not reached that level of fangirl yet...xD;;; They didn't have any cooler merch. apart from photosets, ticket holders, a Ryo uchiwa...in terms of NEWS. Ahh and something from the winter concert. Glad I didn't get myself anything though, I have my really awesome bday present from this year already. xD; I will be back at some point for sure though xD

rasuberi, kind of regretting that you didn't get those rainbow shoes D: Kind of regretting I forgot to pull out my camera at that point xD But they were some awesome shoes, only in Japan I say. xD;

Karaoke place we went to was fun, but the first one was really sketchy next to this place that was like something about healthy bodies, and yeah.. -__-;;; from all the guys waiting outside, I'm pretty sure the place next to the 1st karaoke place was uhh...sketchy. xD; So we went to this next place, which looking up at the stairs we were like o___O Looks sketchy too, but not as bad as the other one with a bunch of guys waiting outside in the rain xD;;;; So we went up, and it was okay...until we headed up to the room, where the stairs from 2F to 5F looked like a scene out of a video game...I forgot what we decided. xD; But one of those one person shooter type games with poor-lighted staircases, etc. xD;;; But the music selection was abundant. 恋のABO, Believe, and Bolero (felt empty without the harmonies though) was fun to sing, but wish we had more time. xD

Pictures will come later. (Not that I took much ^^;;) I need to review for my vocab quiz tomorrow. xD;

Must learn to tune my brain's level of Japanese with what comes out of my mouth T__T;;

Day 12? Time flies by fast...kind of. xD; But still another 5 weeks to go, not that I'm counting the days or anything. (I hate the mosquitoes that attack me while I'm sleeping.) I really like my host family xD;; Plan today is to go to Nagoya to meet up with rasuberi :) That should be fun~ :D Hopefully I can make a stop at the Johnny's shop for someone's birthday present...xD; Think I need to take a train to get out there. At times like these I think *wah, if i knew how to ride a bike* Yes -___- I don't know how...and yet I'm surviving. xD; Determined to learn though, just like how I'm learning the ukelele (never was on my list of things to learn, but learning the guitar was, so it's close xD). Yesterday played the Wii with the kids. xD; It was fun: Taiko drumming, tennis, bowling, golf~ Sometimes I forget I'm in Japan. xD Feels like I haven't gone that far at all. Maybe just cause I'm so used to spending my entire day watching Japanese TV, etc~ xD Sometimes it hits me though. xD; Still a''djusting to the time difference, but I think my set pattern is sleep at 11 PM (or if I am lucky, I can make it to 12 AM), and wake up at 5 AM/6 AM. All without any alarm, so that's not bad... xD

Next week weekend plans:
Saturday -- visit Okazaki Castle, and other places in the area. xD;
Sunday -- Take the choo-choo train xD to Shizuoka Pref. (forgot exactly where), and then I think there's this parrot/bird farm there me and my host family are going to. xD;

anyway off to get ready...xD

Arrived in Japan a few days ago　：）　It's really hot and humid、and will only get worse as the summer progresses, but I like it here :) Met a lot of people through my class at Yamasa, and really enjoy being with my host family. The three daughters are really cute. Although at first it was like XD what to say, etc...furthermore everything is in Japanese, so my brain is adjusting. I often wonder if after all this whether I,ll still remember English. I use it some times but only at school everything home is Japanese. xD;; And everything else  of course, but I think I,ll mprove a lot this way :) anyway off to buy a blow-dryer comb thing at the shopping mall and then going for a BBQ and to see a Noh play. xD; Yay stuff I learned about in J50, but only remember 50% xD;;

Seen lots of Stitch things here that I know Jenny would love, but only been here 3-4 days so far so there's more exploring to do....anyway off to check e-mail, missing everyone though :) but enjoying the food. (which i've been surviving on...first time I've had egg yolk ... the runny version :x don't like it much but mixing it with the rice and shoyu wasn't too bad xD) Host family mom and family = amazing :)

just kind of miss my cellphone though D: txt msg D:

Wah...T___T AX already here.....>>;; Things moving too fast all of a sudden. OTL

Finally figured out what I'm doing though...

( Shortest Schedule ever.... >< )

Michael Jackson dead? D: Makes me so sad. Shocked, etc~ Really unexpected news. T___T Will be missed. *sigh* Talk about news putting a damper on my day. Not that I was the hugest fan, but yeah...

Today's goal: buy a new camera today (and avoid clothing shopping...^^; ); and work on cosplay commission for Kimmy. ^^;

::Fanime 2009::

Hehe, so when I started watching this series despite knowing what I was getting myself into, I still decided to one day attempt a group for these outfits, even though simliar past attempts failed horribly. xD; Harukanaru, Saiunkoku (kind of, sort of), and it still hasn't happened. So I'm determined this time. I have some interest already, but just looking for others to join in.

With enough people, hopefully I'll be able to get someone to do the photoshoot for us at Fanime. Unless someone had a suggestion, preference, and wouldn't mind taking care of that. ^^ Anyway, here goes. Group 1 of ? for Fanime 2009 (must remember to limit myself this year). My first attempt at a group for something I like and don't see much of. ^^;;;;;;

Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009
Time: 10 AM
Location: Meet at Fountain in front of convention center

( Character List )


Nyx -- epiic


Hyuga -- lunaneko


Jade/J.D. -- OPEN


Rene -- yoshikochan


Bernard -- OPEN


Mathias -- OPEN


Erenfried -- OPEN T___T 


Jet -- shintenshi


Roche -- nightroad
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If anyone wants to see the full length pic of the character, let me know. I'll see what I can find. :x Will be hunting down magazine pics later. =3 
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Updated: 5/18/09
Neo Angelique Cosplay Group

Definite revival at AX planned...

( Fanime Cosplay Schedule )

Wow...the most open schedule I've had in a while...yet it really doesn't feel like it in preparation. D:

NEO ANGELIQUE --> 10 AM Sunday desu. I also updated the main post.

Neo Angelique Group:

Made a change to the list (we have no Erenfried now since she can't make it to Fanime... D: )
And photoshoot times/details are as follows (unless there are any objections):

Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM (~ish)
Location: I guess by the fountains in front of the convention hall? (definitely wanna try taking pics at Fairmont, Sainte Claire areas. xD; They look nice inside...xD)

Guess before Fanime I'll post up my contact information in a post too.