Current Mood: Bored

My first impression was, “Why so many MMORPG booths”?
Ok…so I went to meet up with Tzeling first and had our lunch. Initially Kinyu and I wanted to go to Jln Silang to have our Beef Ball Noodles. But it was closed and we still have to pay for the 5-mins parking T_T, it was 4 bucks alright….

So after lunch we went down to the 3rd floor of Times Square to see a few cosplayers scattered here and there posing for pictures. I saw a lot of familiar faces, mostly from the Comic Fiesta crowd. Comic Fiesta has a booth there as well, with Kidchan demonstrating her uber drawings skill and Ben (from Powder/ex-Gempak) giving out autographs. After that, we went and check our other booths. To our dismay, there were only MMORPG booths. Now where does “Animation” and “Comics” in Animation, Comics and Games Convention disappear to? If there aren’t gonna be any animation/comics, why do they bother to name the convention as such. I don’t even want to go into the fact that it was held openly, unlike Comic Fiesta. There weren’t much cosplayers also, most are recycled costumes or bad cosplays. I think the only cosplayer which appear to be better than most was the Kyo (King of Fighter) cosplayer who could spark out fire from his hands!! But that’s the only good bits. Oh and I saw a friend’s brother, who was a hired cosplayer for Cabal. Hot guy he is, very much like Daniel Wu.

I also got a shocking news from chibiying who was working at Powder previously. She is out of job now because Powder is pronounced closed. It came as a shock to her because it was very sudden. It came as a shock to me! Cuz they only started promoting the first volume in Comic Fiesta, December. Osamau who went for leave on that fateful announcement day came back the next day to work to find his colleagues packing up their stuff. I must say Tzeling is lucky for not jumping over to Powder…

Before we head off, we passed by this shop call iSocks. I’ve bought a pair of pantyhose from them before, a lot of choice and service was good. I repeat, WAS. This time around, it was “urgh”. The salesgirls who looked like pseudo Harajuku-streetwear fashionista followed me around without saying anything until I went out of the shop. I wonder if they are really hired as a salesperson or a guard. The other ridiculous thing about the shop is, it has 4 outlets along the same row. Two of them side-by-side and the other 2 were just a few shops away. What made my jaw dropped was the fact that the 2 side-by-side shops are ‘members only’ area. To be a member, you gotta make a minimum purchase of RM200 at the 2 non-members shops which sells mainly SOCKS and some Japanese street fashion wannabes clothings. The members only shops sells gothic lolita and punk outfits which I was quite interested to check them out. However, after knowing that only members were allowed to go in, I went quite mad. Who do they think they are? H.Naoto? Sex Pot Revenge? Metamorphose? Baby, the Stars Shine Bright? Heck, even these brands open their arms wide to welcome the customers, not sealing them off! I give them 6 months to open their doors or they could kiss their asses goodbye. C’mon, the dresses they showcase are made out of cheap materials, even their laces are of cheap quality. Urgh. Seeing these eyesore shops made me wanna fly to Japan immediately and feast my eyes on the real deal.

Sonic the hedgehog!

Cosplayer for a MMORPG

Cosplayers for another MMORPG

Cosplayers for Cabal

i-socks gothic lolita members only shop

i-socks punk rock (mainly for guys) members only shop (see those chains?)