Goku Raku Ramen @ Mid Valley

after watching Railways (2010) at GSC Mid Valley Japanese Film Festival (RM5 each ticket), organised by Japan Foundation, kilmenyanne and i were starving from lack of dinner. so i intoduced her to a new place (to us) called Goku Raku Ramen because it was having a 50% discount on ALL ramen items on monday and tuesday this september.

i ordered some sort of char siew pork with egg ramen, while kilmenyanne ordered some kind of spicy char siew pork ramen. there is absolutely no way to remember the long food names especially with someone who kept pointing out good looking waiter and waitress left and right.

verdict of Goku Raku Ramen titular dish? absolutely amazing! the broth tasted thick of pork flavor, the ramen smooth and original, while the portion is definitely generous. i would eat here again even without the discount.

our drinks were not discounted but i was too full to refill my refillable hot green tea, and kilmenyanne was contented with a mug of Sapporo beer.

Japanese food is a great way to end a Japanese movie day~

movie, handicarft & tea times~

(considering it is past midnight, day before) yesterday, i had dinner at Papa Johns and then watched a movie with my family - it was Mr Popper Penguins starring Jim Carey. i guess it is only proper to say it was half family and half romcom type of movie. mummy said the penguin casts were probably remote-controlled because it would be difficult to train them to perform, but my sister said there are animal movie trainers who can, and i said we should have stayed for the credit roll to find out.

before the movie, i quickly walked into my favourite tee store, Brands Outlet to look at the current tee prints available. i immediately spotted a couple must-haves, and a couple more cute wants. i left empty-handed since i was penniless (though i vow to return soon for them!) but i did buy a pack of colourful heart-shaped beads at Daiso before making it juuuuust in time for the movie.

i am really happy to have made and wear these~

i made three sets of cute bracelets out of that pack of beads from Daiso, and added some white pearl beads and string them together with some leftover elastic thread (which are not exactly leftovers coz i still have a lot and never actually sew any shirring with it before).

weekend II - cineleisure exclusive eva 1.0 invasion

after the family day, i have to be at cineleisure. so, at 11.30am (by the power of improvisation) mum dropped me off at the LRT so i could tumpang kclee's ride~ i believe some of you must have been expecting this review to publish (or not ;_;) since i did pre-post it here last month. (familiar title? it was also my displayed pm on my msn messenger for a while now.)

the EMINA ticket collection booth~

we arrived there just in time to meet up with /as/ (two-fifth of evangelion 1.0 you are (not) alone movie attendance) at the kopitiam on lower ground of cineleisure. linkin asked me where's flame13. TAT then i fled. XD no, i just went to the opposite mall, the curve, to post the letter (i mentioned earlier in weekend I) to USA - why the heck do i have to mention the destination too? @_@

some cute things spotted at the EMINA booth~

when i came back to the cinema on level2, they were already queuing up to redeem tickets from EMINA's booth. (EMINA members and miscellaneous people make up the remaining two-fifth and one-fifth respectively of the hall screening evangelion. darn, i left my ticket stub with kclee. TAT)

some promotional NGE stickers on the cathay floor..

yosh~ while waiting for the movie to start at 1.10pm, i met anna sagara, connman, makie and a few recognizable /as/ members. since i dont know how to get the EMINA bus trip (RM10) to bon odori at 4pm, i asked around to carpool. (girl friends, better not learn from me to ask around a ride from random guys - but since the majority was male and i only know anna sagara going with her *ahem*..)

wish the poster was not screwed to the display.. *grin*

as far as the movie goes, i enjoyed it as it was the first of any evangelion i have ever watched. (okay, other than anime tributes to misato on youtube.) the mecha and angels, particularly the sixth one, were.. wah! also, it kinda felt like watching a movie in your friend's (very big and darkened) living hall coz everyone laughed at the ads, cheered once in a while; but they kindly left the booing (for cutting two solid so called speshul rei scenes) to after the movie. in case you were wondering: no, there wasnt any preview spoiler for the next NGE movie, after the credits rolled. T__T but yes, we stayed until the end of the screening.


then kclee and i tagged the /as/ to McD on the ground floor of cineleisure, but there wasnt enough space for all of us (i'll estimate half of the 50 members who attended the movie). so we went all the way to the McD next to tesco. (its only a short walk, cut through a couple malls since at that one location has these within walkable distance: courts mammoth, courts megastore, the curve, cineleisure, ikea, ikano power store, and tesco.)

next destination: bon odori!

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

its time to shower another mecha anime some love!

the japanese poster for the movie (image from wikipedia). (my gashapon series too! :3)

come 3 july 2008, cathay cineplex damansara (cineleisure) will be exclusively releasing the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (pg-13 animation movie, running time of 98minutes in japanese language with english and chinese subtitles). here are some links to my sources:
- full moe panic (this is where i first stumble upon the movie coming to malaysia)
- lowyat anime shrine (im watching this page for movie contests)
- kurogane's blog (just for the buzz)
- kakiseni (its here too!)
- cathay cineplex (the people who brought you the movie~)

okay, its not a great big event.. but you can dream and turn things around, no? well, no. i just wish to see a group of evangelion cosplay group there~ *bricked* i asked some other who cosplayed character from evangelion before, but will not be able to make it. what is the point of having the operations chief of NERV around if there are no pilots together? *wink*

[edit 24june]

i will be watching the movie one either one of these dates: the opening day (3july), the opening weekend (5july), the following weekend (12july). lalala~ im looking forward to it; anyone going, do inform me when you are to watch it, in case we get to book by group nyaaah.

ALIS 19th

oops! looks like i decided to pun the blog title again - alice 19th is a manga by watase yuu (also artist for ayashi no ceres, fushigi yuugi, absolute boyfriend).

teaser: sample product from my lolita headdress booth at c2age.

not only that, i turned nineteen yesterday~ 31may was the c2age event at help university; i went there with flame13th and spent the whole day at my shared booth with ywsmokona - but that's coming in the next post, coz this one is dedicated to my birthday! before i continue, allow me to introduce you my new blog:

Last Days Of A Teen

let's see.. i got several early birthday wishes at c2age (from kclee, anna sagara.. sorry if i left out anyone!) the first one on 1june was an sms from yazid at midnight! i woke up a couple hours before noon (1june, sunday, of course) and lazed around until mizuiro woke up an hour after me; i asked her to call miko to join us but i dint allow more time to talk.. so by half past noon, dad stopped both of us at ywsmokona's house so that i can pick up my headdress materials (i accidentally left it with her after c2age). then, dad sent mizuiro and i off at ioi mall by 1pm; later he went yumcha also. XD

mizuiro teman me to GSC to buy five reserved tickets to superhero movie; we walked around a gift shop (ground floor; between guardian pharmacy and toy city), while we waited for the half of the gang to arrive. anything you buy there that is not a soft fluffy furry item, i will accept as birthday present no matter how cheap. XP (unfortunately nobody got me any of those.)

slightly past 1pm, we met up with megamitensei, amaterasu, and manjix at *drumroll* sushi king~ i was actually silly enough to have us sit opposite each other across the sushi belt! thank goodness a sympathetic waitress suggested a table to us (so that we sit opposite each other across a table instead) - hey, i dint see the short-legged tables okay! our lunch at sushi king was a treat from tensei (coz he had rm50 voucher XD) but i offered to pay half anyway. (we took photos with his phonecam but he hasnt uploaded any..)

once we got our hot green tea, the table slowly got swamped by little round colourful sushi plates. but in comparison, we could not beat irene's record of 44! (even with five persons to four girls!) - but i bet they dint order side dishes like the kitsune udon, unagi rice, macha ice-cream (red bean + green tea = yum!).. although there was three hours before the movie, we decided to stop after two hours of eating and yakking (yeah, we must have been the noise-makers that day) at sushi king.

finally! from background to foreground: paradise kiss dvd book opened up; narnia prince caspian movie merchandise; misa amane's prop used at c2age.

before we enter GSC, we ran around popular books and i found a paradise kiss dvd boxset! <3 style="font-weight: bold;">tensei's pocket (but i paid half too). oh, i also ripped the balance (a couple ringgit) from the movie ticket off manjix. then the boys fussed about getting some drinks+popcorn at the cinema snacks bar, so i also fussed about getting the narnia limited edition glass with purchase of large set (two drinks and one large popcorn), which amaterasu got for me after all. ^____^

nyah~ i'm showing-off the narnia merchandise glass "from" amaterasu..

superhero was a comedy, to be more exact, spoof of superhero movies (by marvel comics/studio) filled with strange things you dont expect your average caped/masked hero to do. when i watched the movie trailer sometime ago, i decided i should try watch a stupid spoof - but it turned out even tensei agreed with me this is one of the better spoof movies today. i enjoyed smirking at the faces of parents who took their underaged children to watch it without knowing it contained stupidity you dont want your kids to catch (if they havent got enough), and risque (suggestive) double entrande but in the form of visual (can you imagine what were running in the heads of conservative parents?). if you want to really enjoy this movie, i suggest you have watched some superhero movies (spiderman, x-men) and a tiny bit of pron. yup. pron.

miko got me a random present!

after the movie ended, we rounded the entire ioi mall while waiting for tensei's dad to fetch us home - my home, fyi. after we picked up a chocolate cake from king's confectionary, we did a mini countdown on the way out of the carpark - 10, 9, 8.. 4, 3, 2---YEAH! free parking if you exit within 15minutes. once we got back home, it was around 7pm; but we still invited miko who arrived after dinner.. spent some time fussing about which pizza to buy - pizzahut or domino's (nobody mentioned shakey's at all)??

while waiting for our order, we watched random anime: kanon, himawari, midori no hibi.. then we peek a bit on the computer for kanokon! XD (of course, i stopped the episode before some kids stick his hand in the pants.) as luck would have it, we let the poor domino's deliveryman to take his time, and extorted a free pizza voucher from him. after the pizza, crazy fun time starts...

drinking like misato (evangelion) but sip after sip of coke, coz we were about to burst out laughing each time we drank.. shouting kanpai over and over, until i think the neighbour almost killed us (*almost* coz we are still alive).. having choc cake and coke, i think that's enough sugar for one night.. went on yakking and then.. playing blackjack while waiting for 11pm (when they all went back home).. finally, check up all my sms greetings - thanks y'all!

love everyone who made my day~ (in random order) thanks to: ysmokona, kclee, medicontherun, melc, yazid, megamitensei, amaterasu, manjix, ashley, kilmenyanne, mizuiro, mum and dad.. which reminds me, here's a list of my birthday presents:
- money (first time wishing for some this year; thanks mum, dad, daniel XP)
- parakiss dvd boxset! (thanks tensei)
- miscellaneous (thanks amatarasu, miko)
- new mobile phone with camera (dream on)
- more hard cover books! (tak dapat pun..)
- full body treatment at strip kl (nobody knew i wanted this)