It has been pretty a long time since I wrote
something in my blog, and I still feel the falling out from a colleague who
helped me get to where I am at. A lot has happened over the course of the month
itself, tragic or joy – thankful that I got through. May, was a busy month, where
I was able to attend three cosplay conventions from Saturday to Sunday to the end of the month, and
tried to pull off a photo shoot in the same but got delayed due to unforeseen
things.
I never
realized how much the month of may drained me, that to this very day I still felt never so tired – never again will I do something like this but down the
line I had fun.
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April, O-Kun Fiesto |
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Nica, Nexcon |
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Shion Goddess, Animax |
On the 16th of May I attended the O-Kun
Fiesta which was held in the SMX of SM Mall of Asia, sad to say the event
pretty much disappointed me, in which I felt the event proper felt flat – I got bored
right away where I took a few shots and left home early. Maybe it was the crowd
that got to me or maybe it was the lack of sleep, which I think I had only 3
hours of – I came in to see two of my daughters, April and Yuriko, and did a
small shoot with some friends that I knew who were present in the area. I was
pretty much convinced that I will not go the event the day after which was Nex
Con, but sure enough with a few tugs from Vincent aka No-face and Nica, I surprised
myself by boarding the cab heading out to the function rooms of SM Aura. With
all the cosplay events I have attended, I have never gone to something that
felt organized and clean with Nex Con. Though the cosplayers wore western
influenced characters such as the likes of TV series the Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings to DC Comics characters –
it was fun. More so that Vincent and I helped opened the 2nd day to
the event with a game called Face Palm the Music, in which we had to guess the theme or song
by face palming a human buzzer. I lost by one, because we had to spin around
before buzzing… I lost to “Mortal Kombat”.
And my friends, this is how I humiliated myself with loads of people,
but I can't stop smiling from then on. I had a number of
shots, from shooting a gang load of Daenarys attacking a Tyrell, to seeing the
New 52 Joker harassing a Batman mannequin, to bumping in person the famous Jin
and Tadashi cosplayers, and scream my lungs out on a Lip Synch battle in support
of people who I just met. I went home late with a smile as oppose to O-kun.
The very next week I had to go to BGC for a photo
shoot I organized with inked friends, unfortunately I had to postpone due to
having one of my models not feeling so well that day. I was pretty much tired,
I didn’t want to go to any other events until my officemate the cosplayer,
Shion Goddess pushed me to attending Animax which was on the 31st
of May. To be honest, I never wanted to go and support Alodia events because I
felt cheated on overpriced tickets and felt it was not worth m time – but it was Shion Goddess’ return, I had to pay my respects and
help get her career going – thinking nothing could top the experience and fun I
had with Nex Con, the event of Animax was rather almost as par, same chaos
though, but meeting colleagues like my idol Sir Christian Mack, seeing my old
model Ysa, meeting up with Cjaze and others I had a decent amount of fun. From the cheesy lanyard I got from the ticket to laughing my ass off seeing Shion Goddess try to grab a soda, and ended up almost
half an hour or so because the fanatics just can’t stop admiring and take a
shoot of her, to having mysef just chilling and having a good time without stressing myself
too much.
Maybe I should keep on having this mentality of
not stressing myself too much on the next cosplay events – and just really feel and rock the vibe of
people and meet new friends. I am ever grateful to all of the time I have had –
it helped me overcome the depression I had along the way, especially dealing
with my Mom’s cancer and work performance blues… I hope the momentum keeps on
going.
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