Welp,
just hit 51 a few days back and I'm loving the new orange gear I got
from Akasha's Hideout! First, it's dark sapphire blue - one of my
favourite colours in fact and two, it's got a fierce-looking spiked
collar (feel free to say that I've got quite a weird and acquired taste
haha!).
Not to mention, the key point here is, it's got good stats and helps pump up my overall damage.
But
still, I want that ring from Akasha's Hideout! It is just so
frustrating to see it drop TWICE and you lose the roll TWICE. Argh, I
really really need that upgrade man!!!
Frustrations
aside, I've had my share of randomness in dungeons today. Like, a
notice just suddenly popped when I was running Golden Labyrinth and I
got awarded a raptor mount (quite a cool-looking beauty, just a pity
that it only lasts for 21 days).
Just.like.that. I don't even know which achievement I completed to warrant this reward.
To
be honest, TERA has pretty nice stuffs, you know, like awesome-looking
costumes and all that jazz. Though, I'm not really into the Castanic's
ones (although my sorceress is of the Castanic race...) because they
tend to get more and more revealing as you progress in level.
The Elin's ones are pretty cute. I saw TERA's blog post on one of their cosplay contests
last year and most of the cosers who participated are well, Elins haha!
Well, you have to give it to their race for their cute bunny ears in
all shapes, sizes and colours.
I did toss the idea of cosing from TERA to Hubs, but he's not so keen so, nah, gave up on the idea in the end ha.
Speaking of cosplay, I think I have yet to type out my AFA 2014 entry hur hur. So ok, here it is.
This year's AFA is slightly more different for us because yes, we have a team! Of three people, which includes me and Hubs haha!
And yes, very much less chaotic than 2013's because of our experience at ICDS, where instead of doing makeup and suiting up at home, we were doing it at my booth at the event grounds. That, was honestly a first for us, but somehow after that, we kinda got past the hassle of our cosplay makeup routine (since Hubs is a guy and I seldom put on makeup on normal days so...).
The morning started on my end with an early bath at 7am (am very used to waking up at such a timing due to my daily exercise routine and weekend work) and a quick breakfast after. Had to head over to Hubs to wake him up since he's not much of a morning person.
Most people do ask me why I take so long just to get ready to head down to an event. First, I need to handle the makeup and preparation load of two persons and second, shit always happens and tempers always catch fire at the last minute.
Murphy's law so.
That and Hubs always take quite a substantial amount of time to get his contacts in.
But, we're still working on it - to try and get our asses out of the house before 2pm.
Hubs got his basic makeup on while being almost fully suited up (we made sure to turn on our room's aircon to full blast before that) and waited while I got my finer details in place. Honestly, I need to learn how to draw my eyes properly.
Eversince my eye operation earlier in 2014, I made sure to keep both our makeup essentials separate from each other because I refreshed mine to those which doesn't make me allergic to them in any way.
So after slapping on my eyeshadow, eyeliner and what nots, I scrubbed my hands clean before I started on Hubs's finer details with his 36 Coastal Scent eyeshadow palette. Sorcery King's eye shadow was honestly a challenge to me because first, Hubs is already tanned in a way and Sorcery King is well, tanned. Took me awhile to get it decent with a rather messy array of browns, bronze, dark yellow, antique gold and gold brass.
His eyebrows were mostly hidden by his wig so I just left them black. For mine, I took quite some time to dab BB cream and foundation mixed with yellows and golds to get somewhat blond-ish eyebrows.
Sorcery King got his wig on just fine, although the fringes and the back are still too long (but still can be hidden somewhat). Mine was a total disaster because I miscalculated the paper-cut fringe's length. I had it cut too short to the point that I could hardly hide my black hairs in.
I was honestly panic-striken (because I really, really didn't want to screw up on Technosmith), but in the end, I just told Hubs I'll heck it and just wing it with whatever I had already don on. Hubs looked really worried because I was really really stressed out. But I wanted to keep the promise I made to my friend Mordred (I had already "flown kite" on her for STGCC earlier in the year), so I just kept quiet and headed off to the event.
But, as the balances of life would have it, I thank the stars for IceTea and Jade Sis who were both there to set things right, somewhat. Jade Sis helped us get tickets, while IceTea fixed us both up. Thank you so much for saving my wig gal! I honestly can't thank you enough for it! Now I know how to use eyelash glue to hold down my side fringes too ha.
And fixing my makeup too with your Nyx Mosaic powder!
At the same time, I guess we were having a lot of fun trimming down Sorcery King's wig too ha!
Managed to get some photos with our Mordred at the Canon photo booth (their booth setups are huge and varied!) before she had to head home to rest. I feel really sorry for the poor girl who had been waiting for us for such a long time.
Jade Sis had to head home too because she was out for too long and her energy was like sapped for the day. That and luckily I reminded her that the very next day was our JLPT N4 exam before she head off.
Felix and Buddy tagged along with us while we toured the AFA halls. Felix had a hard time recognizing us in costume (and the first thing which came out of his mouth when he saw my Hubs was, "OMG you look like a girl!") and Buddy, on the other hand, had a hard time finding us because first, crowd and second, it was a little hard communicating with our phones in costumes, since the both of us don't have pockets or whatsoever.
I managed to take a look at the Saber Nero dollfie Jade Sis was telling me about. She looks really really well made and her eyes looks eerily life-like as well. S$900 for her, wow, just WOW.
And of course, we made our customary trip to the Million Arthur booth, where we picked up our AFA cards from. Hubs and I had to exit the halls just once to pick up the AFA brochure with the Million Arthur AFA card redeeming voucher (an insignificantly tiny green triangle amongst the numerous event and booth line-ups) because the Million Arthur booth ran out of it.
I think one of the AFA staffs outside is our neighbour's son, who kinda recognized us but wasn't sure if it was us, from the way he reacted to us ha.
What a small world really.
As there weren't many photo requests this time (Million Arthur, though a famous Square Enix mobile game, ain't exactly that well-known with widespread popularity on our local soils), we were able to see more of the event. We had exceptional fun watching the fighting game where there's a mish-mash of our fave characters from "Shakugan no Shana" and "Sword Art Online". It feels especially gratifying to see Asuna beat the living daylights outta Kirito because the both of us are going to cosplay as these two characters later in the year hehe.
While heading out of the fighting game area, the Nico Nico booth was nearby and one of their staffs (she was really polite and nice) asked if we wanted to take photo with their Nico Nico photo booth. Needless to say, we had fun posing and she really took very nice shots for us even though my phone was running low on battery ha.
And wow at the Mirai series characters at the event (because Danny Choo's one of the invited guests), where Hubs and I were contemplating on getting one of them T-shirts printed with a cute sheep design of a Mirai series character, but gave up on the idea in the end because it was abit pricey (S$35 for a T-shirt).
Good Smile Company was there with the better quality Asuna figurine (amongst the other Asuna figurines which were released so far) Hubs was telling me about, but she was like sold out, along with the other Kancolle and Love Live figurines I think.
Like Cinderella at the ball (this is honestly the closest description I can find for us in costume), when the digital clocks on both our phones struck 6pm, the fatigue kept at bay by our earlier running adrenaline started to creep in steadily upon us and Hubs was starting to experience dryness and discomfort from his FreshKon green contact lens.
A good dinner is in order then.
Swiftly changing out of our costumes and makeup in our car (we looked remotely presentable in our plain clothes, or at least tried to, especially for our messed up hair), we wrapped up the day with our guys at Yayoiken at Liang Court.
Before I forget, I bumped into Luel in the lift while heading down to the carpark. Nice seeing you gal! And your stinky guys ha!
"Tiring but fun," is the usual that I would say after every event and I'll say the same for AFA 2014 too. One thing to improve for sure, is my time and event stress management. がんばってね！
Next event, Cosfest 2015? This time, chalet maybe?
This year's AFA is slightly more different for us because yes, we have a team! Of three people, which includes me and Hubs haha!
And yes, very much less chaotic than 2013's because of our experience at ICDS, where instead of doing makeup and suiting up at home, we were doing it at my booth at the event grounds. That, was honestly a first for us, but somehow after that, we kinda got past the hassle of our cosplay makeup routine (since Hubs is a guy and I seldom put on makeup on normal days so...).
The morning started on my end with an early bath at 7am (am very used to waking up at such a timing due to my daily exercise routine and weekend work) and a quick breakfast after. Had to head over to Hubs to wake him up since he's not much of a morning person.
Most people do ask me why I take so long just to get ready to head down to an event. First, I need to handle the makeup and preparation load of two persons and second, shit always happens and tempers always catch fire at the last minute.
Murphy's law so.
That and Hubs always take quite a substantial amount of time to get his contacts in.
But, we're still working on it - to try and get our asses out of the house before 2pm.
Hubs got his basic makeup on while being almost fully suited up (we made sure to turn on our room's aircon to full blast before that) and waited while I got my finer details in place. Honestly, I need to learn how to draw my eyes properly.
Eversince my eye operation earlier in 2014, I made sure to keep both our makeup essentials separate from each other because I refreshed mine to those which doesn't make me allergic to them in any way.
So after slapping on my eyeshadow, eyeliner and what nots, I scrubbed my hands clean before I started on Hubs's finer details with his 36 Coastal Scent eyeshadow palette. Sorcery King's eye shadow was honestly a challenge to me because first, Hubs is already tanned in a way and Sorcery King is well, tanned. Took me awhile to get it decent with a rather messy array of browns, bronze, dark yellow, antique gold and gold brass.
His eyebrows were mostly hidden by his wig so I just left them black. For mine, I took quite some time to dab BB cream and foundation mixed with yellows and golds to get somewhat blond-ish eyebrows.
Sorcery King got his wig on just fine, although the fringes and the back are still too long (but still can be hidden somewhat). Mine was a total disaster because I miscalculated the paper-cut fringe's length. I had it cut too short to the point that I could hardly hide my black hairs in.
I was honestly panic-striken (because I really, really didn't want to screw up on Technosmith), but in the end, I just told Hubs I'll heck it and just wing it with whatever I had already don on. Hubs looked really worried because I was really really stressed out. But I wanted to keep the promise I made to my friend Mordred (I had already "flown kite" on her for STGCC earlier in the year), so I just kept quiet and headed off to the event.
But, as the balances of life would have it, I thank the stars for IceTea and Jade Sis who were both there to set things right, somewhat. Jade Sis helped us get tickets, while IceTea fixed us both up. Thank you so much for saving my wig gal! I honestly can't thank you enough for it! Now I know how to use eyelash glue to hold down my side fringes too ha.
And fixing my makeup too with your Nyx Mosaic powder!
At the same time, I guess we were having a lot of fun trimming down Sorcery King's wig too ha!
Managed to get some photos with our Mordred at the Canon photo booth (their booth setups are huge and varied!) before she had to head home to rest. I feel really sorry for the poor girl who had been waiting for us for such a long time.
Jade Sis had to head home too because she was out for too long and her energy was like sapped for the day. That and luckily I reminded her that the very next day was our JLPT N4 exam before she head off.
Felix and Buddy tagged along with us while we toured the AFA halls. Felix had a hard time recognizing us in costume (and the first thing which came out of his mouth when he saw my Hubs was, "OMG you look like a girl!") and Buddy, on the other hand, had a hard time finding us because first, crowd and second, it was a little hard communicating with our phones in costumes, since the both of us don't have pockets or whatsoever.
I managed to take a look at the Saber Nero dollfie Jade Sis was telling me about. She looks really really well made and her eyes looks eerily life-like as well. S$900 for her, wow, just WOW.
And of course, we made our customary trip to the Million Arthur booth, where we picked up our AFA cards from. Hubs and I had to exit the halls just once to pick up the AFA brochure with the Million Arthur AFA card redeeming voucher (an insignificantly tiny green triangle amongst the numerous event and booth line-ups) because the Million Arthur booth ran out of it.
I think one of the AFA staffs outside is our neighbour's son, who kinda recognized us but wasn't sure if it was us, from the way he reacted to us ha.
What a small world really.
As there weren't many photo requests this time (Million Arthur, though a famous Square Enix mobile game, ain't exactly that well-known with widespread popularity on our local soils), we were able to see more of the event. We had exceptional fun watching the fighting game where there's a mish-mash of our fave characters from "Shakugan no Shana" and "Sword Art Online". It feels especially gratifying to see Asuna beat the living daylights outta Kirito because the both of us are going to cosplay as these two characters later in the year hehe.
While heading out of the fighting game area, the Nico Nico booth was nearby and one of their staffs (she was really polite and nice) asked if we wanted to take photo with their Nico Nico photo booth. Needless to say, we had fun posing and she really took very nice shots for us even though my phone was running low on battery ha.
And wow at the Mirai series characters at the event (because Danny Choo's one of the invited guests), where Hubs and I were contemplating on getting one of them T-shirts printed with a cute sheep design of a Mirai series character, but gave up on the idea in the end because it was abit pricey (S$35 for a T-shirt).
Good Smile Company was there with the better quality Asuna figurine (amongst the other Asuna figurines which were released so far) Hubs was telling me about, but she was like sold out, along with the other Kancolle and Love Live figurines I think.
Like Cinderella at the ball (this is honestly the closest description I can find for us in costume), when the digital clocks on both our phones struck 6pm, the fatigue kept at bay by our earlier running adrenaline started to creep in steadily upon us and Hubs was starting to experience dryness and discomfort from his FreshKon green contact lens.
A good dinner is in order then.
Swiftly changing out of our costumes and makeup in our car (we looked remotely presentable in our plain clothes, or at least tried to, especially for our messed up hair), we wrapped up the day with our guys at Yayoiken at Liang Court.
Before I forget, I bumped into Luel in the lift while heading down to the carpark. Nice seeing you gal! And your stinky guys ha!
"Tiring but fun," is the usual that I would say after every event and I'll say the same for AFA 2014 too. One thing to improve for sure, is my time and event stress management. がんばってね！
Next event, Cosfest 2015? This time, chalet maybe?
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