a K-ON inspired day out.

*refer to K-ON episode 2*

this morning i was at minori's place to watch her play the piano and her beloved ESP electric guitar. (black and glossy!) after that, we had a "test drive" around her housing area and back. if the car was mine, no prizes for guessing who was taking the test drive. XD

once we were in the carpark of mid valley, we went many many times around for a parking lot. strangely, we bumped (NOT physically, mind you!) into a big white car aka the same person. guess what? the third time we saw him, he was walking to the escalator - which means he found a parking lot first and we did not! and the fourth time... i'll save it for later.

akiko and minori were here!

our purpose in mid valley today was to:

• window shop for particular musical instruments and get the best (aka cheapest) price.
• shop for some unnecessary things to buy.
• have lunch.

to our surprise instead, our day went like this:

• make first purchase! (mine totalled RM2, hers RM2.50) lol.
  
• sweep floor by floor for any gashapon/figures and music instrument shops.
• take note of prices (for guitar, bass, and drums).
  
• withdraw money from ATM. (RM50~)
  
• have quick lunch. (onigiri bento and apple juice~)
  
• buy gashapons! (ultimate action evangelion 1.0 series)
  
• play taiko (my first)!
  

onigiri bento~ (the staff forced us to choose fork&spoon OR chopsticks)

for your information, we spend a splendid amount in jusco... both the supermarket (lunch actually) and arcade (gashapons and taiko). we went to McD for free tissue and straws (for our drinks). then, i managed to roll out the evangelion fourth angel (which probably contained the most parts i ever saw in a gashapon)!

its like fixing a gundam kit! how is the above to look like the below...!

Evangelion 4th Angel SACHIEL.

speaking of "fourth"... the fourth time we saw that man from the big white car (we noticed he was wearing a pinstriped white shirt too) was in Yamaha - while we were browsing for the prices, he was sitting in there testing a classic-looking electric guitar and repeated asked the Yamaha staff, "are you sure cannot give me another 5% discount ah?" i thought, mister you can drive a big fat car in the OPPOSITE direction at the P2 carpark, you want further discount at Yamaha?

anyway, that was our K-ON inspired day out. (except the number "4" which appeared a few times.)

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's next blogtop for eva!

(ignore the impromtu abbreviation of autumn leaves in summer. and pardon me if you accidentally got some dirty thoughts.)

yay~ finally found some time to work on the new blogtop! after the old pinkish haruhi suzumiya no yuutsu gashapon series, i decided to take on evangelion gashapon series! unfortunately...

as luck would have it, i have several repeats of the current evangelion gashapon series.. leaving two more to go - but the one i want most is rei! anyhow, i'll upload the new blogtop without her until i get lucky - like a trade or something. unlike the previous blogtop, i edited my name to turn out embossed - due to the fact i was lazy to get the evangelion red-orange gradient right.

oh and yes, the photoshop skill was terrible coz i simply mashed four individual shots together. i dint have any group photos of them.. yet. (still hopefully waiting for rei!) btw since these are non-scaled gashapon figures, misato is actually larger than the rest of the figures. also, i dint shoot them in macro mode so the photos may turn out noise-y.

shinji and penpen

asuka langley - plugsuit

misato (and her beer can XD)

hikari~

nagato yuki - space captain!

nagato yuki - seifuku bespectacled version

random negima figurine from a random weekend vacation! XD

EDIT: not only that.. by midnight, i've completely redone the whole pinky default blogger template to a greyscale version by yours truly! i know what people think about grey, but im special! XD *wink*