C2AGE RAVE 2014

Day 2: 11th May 2014

To be honest I can't remember much about C2AGE this year lol, probably coz I didn't walk around the event. I was spending most of my time practicing with Kaoru and other Harmonia ACG members at some empty area. I have heard a lot about C2age recently (for last year and this), especially about the stage management which I don't wanna speak of them here (feel free to message me if you guys wanna know more in detail lol).

 

I've had a pretty bad experience for my solo performance this time, and FORTUNATELY our duet performance was quite a success so I felt better and trying to forget about what happenned during my solo.

 

Kaoru and I (and Alissa) reached quite early in the morning because we were told that the sound check will start at 8am. BUT! The soundman only reach around 9.15am WTH, and worse the reason he gave us was kinda hard to accept -- having breakfast. We were slightly pissed off because we haven't even had our breakfast yet, and we reached on time because we are responsible people and would never want to cause trouble to the organisers. But obviously the other party doesn't have the same mindset with us.

 

Anyway, here's some photos we took:

 

My OOTD.

 

 

Me and my best duet partner -- Kaoru!! I just love pairing with her and I'm looking forward for more collaborations to come~ We rarely have any good pictures together so I really like this photo ^^

 

 

Thanks Erin for supporting our duet performance~ Waiting for the day we go sing K and go hyper together and scare Adam off lolol.

 

So some insights on the problems we faced as a performer during the event. Besides the late arrival of the soundman (who don't even feel sorry for being late), their sound engineering and arrangements was a total mess! Okay let me list them down:

 

1. There's no monitor speakers (as usual), and the only speakers available were facing outwards, way in front of the stage blasting outside. So obviously those around the stage and ON the stage could hear a thing. We politely asked to push the speakers behind, and were rejected because they said the vendors complained about the speakers being too loud. I know. It's confusing. Why would you push forward your speakers towards the vendors if they are complaining about the volume being too loud? Won't it be better to push behind so that people around the stage could hear better, and the vendors won't get blasted? I don't know. Ask them.

 

2. The sound engineers keep adjusting all the settings DURING our performances. Our performances thus sounded instable due to all the adjusting. And so I don't know what's the point of having soundchecks.

 

3. The sound engineers told us "We can't guarantee that you guys will be able to hear ANYTHING on stage, so if you guys can't hear, just sing". Apparently they think of us as some genius so perhaps we should  be feeling proud about it.

 

One sad part is that I had to stop my solo performance half way simply because I couldn't hear a single thing. Not the music, not my voice. Luckily the audience seems to understand our difficulties and still supported us nevertheless. Thank you very much.

 

I'm really glad that after all complains and persistency in asking them to push the speakers backwards, they FINALLY did it reluctantly. Therefore we had quite a success in our duet performance! I enjoyed singing "For the first time in Forever" with Kaoru so much, one of the most joyful songs I've ever performed~

 

Some of the on-stage photos, thanks a lot to Joee for the photos. And for coming all the way to support us!

 

LOL Guess I was being kinda hyper on stage haha.

With my lovely partner Kaoru~

This duet performance was one of our best! And our first attempt on Disney songs. Wish we could perform more of these songs real soon~ We worked really hard for this performance, practicing every morning before I start work (Kaoru was working night shift so we practice after she finishes her work and before I start work). I'm really glad that at least our hard work paid off, if we had those speaker issues again I would probably rage.

 

I'll end the post with a video of one of our duet performance on that day. This is the one where we performed "For the first time in forever" from Disney Frozen. I did not upload all performances from C2AGE this time hahaha, and even for AMG this year there's no recording LOL. Actually not just that, I realised most of my performance this year were without recordings hahaha, wonder what happened to me.

 

Alice Nine "Supernova Symphonia" Concert 2014

29th June 2014

Still can't believe that my first ever concert was actually the Alice Nine "Supernova Symphonia" two months ago. I've always thought my first would be The Gazette, or Granrodeo hahaha. But i did not regret though! I haven't felt so much love towards Alice Nine until I've been to their live! Now every songs from them sounds great and I can't help but to recall how great was the concert and how much fun I had that night.

 

My mum dropped me at Sayoko's house in the evening because her driver will be sending us to Mega Star Arena. Both of us did not take our dinner because we thought there'll be stalls around the arena but of course we were wrong =___=. It was puasa month so all stalls around the area closed so means we could only eat after the concert lol.

 

Sadly many merchandises were sold out hours before the concert began. We saw from Facebook that some people actually reached as early as 11am omg to sweep off all merchandises. The Ali-can that we wanted is sold out as well. But we still managed to get the Supernova CD and Ochazuke (with their lovely pictures on top!). It was kinda fun trying to pray hard to get the pictures I wanted for Ochazuke haha. We signed a banner for Alice Nine too hehe, although super small because there wasn't much space left.

The waiting crowd. Photos credit to Mega Stars Arena.

Our tickets. Damn sad case coz the free tickets has Alice Nine photos on it, while us the paid tickets looked so plain sobss.

 

Best thing to do while waiting to enter the arena: Photos!

And Selfies.

 

This is how it looks like in the hall. We had a really really good standing spot! Even better than the VIP rows in fact. For VIP rows only the first two rows at most gets to see clearly I guess, while our spots has no one blocking in front of us, it's spacey and the view was really clear ^^.

 

More selfies.

Pictures during the live. Photos credit to Mega Stars Arena. OMG Shou is soooo handsome!!! Saga too!!! And of course Tora as well~~~~

 

I almost felt like crying during Daybreak hahaha. Or better to say I felt like going crazy lol.

 

 Short clip taken by Sayoko, she recorded this song (Senkou) because she said it's the first Alice Nine song she listenned when she first started liking jrock music. My first Alice Nine song was "Q", sadly they didn't play that during the live.

 

I'll try my best to go for more concerts! Concerts are just so great for destressing haha. We were feeling slightly regret for not getting the VIP tix though, missed the chance to take a photo with them haiz. But it's okay coz we had a great spot throughout the concert, so it's even.

 



Our merchandises~ First one was mine, while the bottom pic was Sacchin's share. Sacchin was seriously happy because she got Saga for her first try haha. My tora looks cool too (and I got like two of him) so it's okay~

Gah wonder when will they come Malaysia again. Or maybe other bands! I need to destress again haha.

Jojo Himemiya's Birthday Party

12th July 2014

Was invited to Jojo's birthday party at PJ Live Arts, Jaya One, thanks a lot for the invitation! It was a costume party so the dress code for the day is obviously costumes, or formal clothing for those who prefer to dress up more subtlely haha.

 

To be honest, I wasn't thinking much about what to wear for the party hahahaha. Then the night before the idea of wearing my Edo Hakama traditional clothes pops up suddenly. So yeah, just like that I wore that to the party~

My full body OOTD~ I've worn the top with a fluffy short skirt before but never the complete piece. Mainly because I was fat last time and the full suit just doesn't look nice on me. Somehow after 2 yrs I'm quite satisfy with this outfit haha.

 

The party was fun by the way; met old friends (Harmonia ACG gang, shaun etc) and also made many new friends ^^. I reached there rather early and helped out with the arrangements for the snacks table. The party was during puasa month so the snacks corner were hidden by curtains.

 

My performance was right after the Otaku quiz game, and I sang a song from Pokemon - Kimi no soba de. I chose the song because I wanna convey the message to Jojo that no matter what happens there'll always be someone by her side and cheer her up~ Although quite funny to perform a pokemon song wearing hakama hahaha.

Lol. This is me being happy during performance and swinging my lightstick haha.

 

There were three games during the party: otaku quiz (before my performance), charade (this was sooo fun hahaha, my team got the second place!), and best dressed competition. I really like how we all feast together during buka puasa (we had domino pizza~), it was really fun hanging out with Kaoru and gang hehe.

 



 

Me + Lolita girl hahhaa. Her friend came with Lolita outfit as well, and I could recognise her dress from Infanta lol. Yay I'm becoming slightly better in lolita identification liao.

 

The Harmonia ACG gang with me~~

 

After reaching home, I had a mini self-vain photoshoot at my music instrument area hahhaa. All photos taken by my sis:

Me looking at my Hanafuda cards.

Okay. I don't know what was I staring and smiling at lolol. But I really do love the photos though! Somehow my sis is the best person who knows my facial features, style and look the best. She would always take pictures that suits my preference hehe. I really miss playing my hanafuda deck, it's soooo hard to find partner to play with, so I always practice my skills through online hanafuda games, and I have to say I'm pretty good at it hehe.

 



 

With my super expensive Spanish fan. My sis like this pic a lot, she said my glance and expression were good there.

 

The happier version.

Me and my chinese harp ^^ The colourful chinese knots hanging on my harp represents my grades ^^ - Red being the lowest and Black being the highest~ Ahhhhh such memoriesss.

I like my skirt in this picture haha.

 

 

Ending the post with double peace sign~

Yummy Foods!

This is gonna be a blogpost with less words but full of pictures, food pictures to be specific. These are all the foods and places I've tried in the past weeks/months.

Frisky Goat

Went here with Nicole and Juri during lunch. Kinda like the creamy pesto pasta here, and also their breakfast.

My TWG Silver Moon Tea.

 

Nicole and Juri ordered latte and some coffee drinks I can't remember. Gosh sign of old age.

 

Egg Salmon Royale - seared salmon with poached eggs over waffle, served with sauteed mushrooms, tomato hollandaise sauce and toast. Not a bad choice!

 

Creamy Pesto Pasta!

 

I've forgotten all names of the cakes I've tried lol. And lost count also.

 

I remember this was great! Espresso Creme Brulee if i'm not mistaken.

 

Some cheese cake.

 

Group picture~

 

Miam Miam (Revisit) 

Revisited this place with my Japanese team leader, Yukari-san. We worked till rather late during the previous quarter closing and she invited me for dinner. I let her pick the place and we've finally decided on Miam Miam.

I ordered this -- some soufle egg omu-rice. It tasted really good! I have cravings now and then to eat this again haha. Yukari-san ordered some seafood pasta, and she said it was not bad as well.

 

ZEN

I've been here several times, but just gotta include this in the blogpost because this was my first Ootoro~ Had this with my sister during one of my summer Friday break.

Garage 51 (Revisit) 

Second visit with my mum and sis. 



 

Beautiful baked eggs. Tasted averagely okay to me.

I think my sister ordered this.

 

Something huge that my mum ordered. She said it was quite dry and she would prefer something more delicate haha.

Betjeman & Barton

This place wins the worst afternoon tea set I've ever tried. And expensive. ERGH, blogging about this makes me angry.

Three-tier Tea set. Despite the pretty looking plates and desserts, they all tasted pretty bad =___=. Well not as bad as the ones at Tokyo Pastry though, those are marginally edible at most.

 

Macarons ---- Worst I've tried.

Some amazingly dry puffs, madelines, and tarts.

 

Don't try this place if possible. Their tea is sobbingly sad.

 

Rakuzen

My favourite Hotate Mentaimayoyaki

Fresh Sashimi.

 

Kyochon

My first and second visit to Kyochon ^^. Remains as one of my favourite fried chicken place till now haha.

Spicy Drums.

 

Honey Wings.

 

 

Chicken breast strips. Tasted really good and matched really well with the honey mustard sauce.

 

 

Tried their set during my second visit. Too bad they don't let me order kimchi fried rice ala carte haiz.

Sushi Tei

They look great but tasted average.

TWG

Prawns were not fresh =____=. Kinda hate this meal. Liver Pate wasn't good as well haiz, dissapointing.

My sis's Wagyu green curry rice were really good though!

Pickle & Fig

Friday consolation lunch session with Nicole and Juri.

It takes a while to read the entire menu on the board lol.

 

My Gryphon Tea - Earl Grey Lavender. Not bad ^^.

Some avocado salad.

Nicole's big breakfast. The sausages were really good.

Mine! Smoked salmon and cream cheese foccacia. Wonder if I will get to try the other sandwiches, particularly interested in this pesto chicken one. And I have to say I LOVE their wedges!

L-Table (Revisit)

 

Went with Benjamin this time.

Yummy potato croquette. But a little dry.

My yummy scallop pesto pasta ^^.

 

Benjamin's boring red sauce pasta hahaha. Crabmeat Linguine if i'm not wrong.

Dave Deli

There's 30% discount during weekday lunch hours. I ordered beef lasagna because that was what I always had when I was a kid. Mum would always bring me for dinner before my piano classes ^^. It was overcooked though, I guess they cooked loads of it to cater for lunch crowds.

Menya Musashi (Revisit)

Went alone hahaha. I wanted to spend my two hours lunch in leisure, having the food I want and shop around feeling relaxed, so I decided to reject all lunch invitations that day hehe. And true enough it felt really great!

 

Am gonna end this post with nice ramen picture hahaha. It's taking forever to clear off the backlog posts =____=, there's around 15 more left! And harder posts like AMG, I haven't even blog about C2AGE ergh. Not gonna update though, am going Japan next week for vacation ^^