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~

JRockの集い- JRock 1st Gathering

Just like the title says, this is JRock no Tamashii first gathering~ It was on Oct 7, 2012 2PM-5PM at Pavilion KL Tokyo Street (yeah I know my update is like a month late). I have been wanting to go look see the gathering to show some support in Malaysia's JRock community and of course, eat ramen + walk around Pavilion KL.

 

I was there for just a very short 30 minutes or so, chatting around and made some new JRock friends~ Met some people I know, Jourdan (who went there alone, and i hope he is not too bored), Adam Genesis (his FB name, since I don't know his real name), Dante, just to name a few.

 

Am glad to know that bands and solo singers could send their resume to JRock Tamashii to get informed of stage related events and opportunities. This is really a great help for performers who wished for a place to perform! Thanks a lot to JRock Tamashii crews~ Love you guys ^^

 

Come back to the gathering, there's a chance to win the "best dressed" award so I sorta participated, although I did not dress up JRock/punkish haha. Was feeling a little lazy to be punk rock and so I whipped up a JPop-ish/oshare/black gyaru cordinate for the day: 

 

Color cordi: Black x Wine red. Black lace dress from H&M Singapore, with wine red accessories, beret and over-knee socks.

 

Me with Gloomy, head only haha. There's nothing much to take photo with so I randomly grab this cute furry Gloomy. Thanks to Jourdan for the above two photos~ Kinda regretted not taking more photos coz I wonder when will be the next time I'll do this cordi again.

 

To enter the "best dressed" contest, I'm supposed to spend RM5 on a chekki (instant photo) and then fill in my contact details. I knew I won't win anything but I just had to join because the chekki is in Rilakkuma design!! Ohmygosh, it's hard to come by so photo taking is a must!

 

 

My cute rillakkuma chekki!~ It's small and lovely, can put in purse but i'll never do it coz I'm sure I'll lost it within days. I kept it well with my other beloved purikuras~ I miss Purikura now, who's gonna take with me? (I wanna try going alone too >_<)

 

The "I LOVE JROCK" fusha pink badge is something I bought from the counter; figured that if i wanna support Jrock Malaysia Community might as well buy some prove! and it's cute so of course I'll grab it with no hesitation haha.

 

I never throught that my day will be a more Rilakkuma day rather than a JRock day. Some how the gathering has some Rilakkuma merchandise, my chekki is Rilakkuma, and that there's a shop in Tokyo Street FULL of Rilakkumas!!! Ohmygosh, but I only buy 1 HP earplug la, i'm controlling not to buy any other stuff, perhaps I will get more stuff when I visit there again.

 

We did Gachapon. And. Rilakkuma. AGAIN. Me and mum picked the Rilakkuma one to try, while sis played some Panda in a soup/dessert whatever.

 

What I got from gachapon: Rilakkuma mini mirror! It's very small and useful, can hang anywhere ^^. Mum turned and got the exact same one as mine, so no need to exchange.

 

 





This is my Rilakkuma hp earplug from that Rilakkuma shop! Super cute! Rilakkuma eating chocolate on his own head =_= (my hp cover is a Rilakkuma head, can see the ears). Mum even thought I would buy two for myself but I only took one.

 

Anyway I had a great Rilakkuma invasion + JRock + Ramen day~ Would like to go for the second gathering (and have to be Gazette theme summore) as well but I will be quite busy until Mid-December so I'll hold off the urge.

AniManGaki 2012 Day 1 (Solo)

Yeah I know. It has been like more than 1 month since the event. But better late than none right? This will be my entry about how I felt relating to my solo singing performance + event. So anyway, here's some introduction of the event:

"AniManGaki is abbreviated from the words Anime, Manga and Gaki (Japanese slang for 'brat'). The event name was coined on 30^th of March at 3.00 am via MSN Messenger Chatroom between Yvonne and a crew member. The light bulb lighted eventually because of Yvonne’s nickname for the crew members. You’ve guessed it right; it’s the word 'gaki'."

And so, AniManGaki is a yearly event that aims to bring together "fans and lovers of anime from all walks of life". Apparently this year's theme was High School theme, so there's more cosplayers wearing school uniform themed costume - My band's keyboardist wore school themed stage clothes too~.

 

I know there's more reviews and walkthrough for this event done by other bloggers, but perhaps this review is a little different since it's from a performer's perspective. I'm happy to say that me (Sakurazuka Minori as solo singer) and my band (The CrestFall) was one of the performers for this event ^^.

 

Poster picture for bands and performances at AniManGaki. This was printed in the event booklet as well.

 

Event schedule for stage activities.

 

I was there in the event hall around 7.45am, in order not to be late for the sound check by 8am. Was not too worried about the sound check for my solo performance because it's just playing from my USB/CD. The main concern for sound check was the band, but the members were late, so...anyway this will be talked about in my next entry for bands~.

 

First I went to the ticket counter to get our stage passes, which was printed "Rock Band Superstar"; kinda funny but interesting. I was searching for Pau as she was the one who liase with me through emails regarding stage activities but she was not around (only met her later). After that I was lead by some helpful volunteers to meet Kenneth (the person who was responsible for the stage). He was a very nice person and we went through the sound check for my solo performance very quickly.

 

 

Stage pass.

 

After the sound check I was just hanging around with my band mates, having breakfast, rehearse quietly as many times as we can. P/S: So sorry I couldn't spend much time with some friends hanging around in the event. You all know I can't really enjoy myself before the performance >_<. Was always too focused on my preparation and warmup before stage.

 

My stage outfit this time was pretty simple. It was the first time wearing pants on stage actually. My band dress code was supposed to be semi-formal (which in the end all of us ended up wearing differently haha), and so I decided to keep my outfit simple. For solo performance I just top my white blouse with a punkish rock vest, braid my hair and decorate it with a mini hat (that'll do i guess haha).

 

Solo performance outfit for AniManGaki 2012.

 

Some pictures taken while I'm on stage. Photo credits to  photography and blue diamond photography.

I don't think I've made much mistakes for this performance, except for my final song, which I now learnt that I should not do a really tough song at the end of my performance (when i was fully exhausted). But oh well, it's always learning from mistakes ^^, will continue to do my best in my future performances.

 

OH but i've meet with several friends (Akiko, Sayoko, Nat and Fishie~). This was the first time I get to stay in the event longer after my performance since Akiko was kind enough to give me a ride home after dinner. Met Sacchin(Sayoko) and Nat while I was having breakfast in McD with my band mates, am feeling so sorry because I've forgotten that I was the one holding their entrance ticket. They had to go all the way to find me for the tickets O.O oh gosh so sorry.

 

This time, I get to walked around the event halls with Fishie~ We looked around the doujin stalls and obviously I'm too weak to resist buying stuff. Bought a pack of Kuroko keychains! I decided to get the entire pack which includes 5 generation of miracles + kuroko +kagami + 1 mysterious character; as I really do not have a favourite character in Kuroko no Basket (I absolutely ADORE them all!).

Full characters! Chibis are always so cute~ There's even Kuroko no2 on Kuroko's head ^^.

 

 Guess what's the mysterious character?
Drum rolls....TADAA~

It's Momoi~ I heard from Sacchin and Nat that there's Takao, would have been happier if I've gotten Takao instead.

After buying 2 sets of Kuroko chains (one for my sis), Fishie and I passed by a stall which erm..you can pay like RM1 (something like that I forgot) and pick a piece of fortune for yourself. And this is what I've gotten:

Quite a fun fortune telling hahaha. But I was not wearing blue underwear that day so I'm safe I guess? hahaha... and after that the booth helpers kinda poof some magic on me to increase my luck or something, don't understand but fun either way ^^.
 

Photo with Fishie + Kuroko no2. Wish I could have walked around more with her, and with other friends. Typing this post made me wanna go walk around events properly seeing booths one by one, wonder if I get to go CF, haha.

After the event, Akiko and I had dinner in Sakae sushi, which we had Sukiyaki and some salmon mentaiyaki (may have eaten more but I can't recall). Sukiyaki in sakae was sweeter than the one I used to had in Bdr Puteri, but still lovely all the same. Thanks Akiko for the ride home (and of course the chats and fun)!~

I'll end this post with my solo performance videos; I performed 4 covers on that day, sit back and enjoy~:
1. Hirano Aya - Lost my Music
2. Younha - Houki Boshi
3. Fukuhara Miho - Let it Out
4. Vocaloid GUMI - Setsuna Trip

 

 

A big hug and thanks for all who came and supported my performance, it really means a lot to me. Hope to have more time to hang out with all of you during events. See you guys in next event!

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