Fan hva snygt

Apparently I am pretty^^,
Still at Birdie, and the photo competition just had a showing of the pictures, one of which portray yours truly playing with soap bubbles. And from the stage area where all the people were watching came a "fan hva snygt" (Damn, how pretty). Now they might have been talking about the bubbles, but my ego chooses to think they were talking about me^^,
I don't think we'll win thou, I think the half naked chick with the pink hair will win. Seeing as how she's half naked in the pics XP

Fun seeing myself on bigscreen^^,

Crappy piece of crap (also: Birdiebirdienomnom)

You know my craptacular piece of crap that tries to pass itself off as a laptop.
It's broken. AGAIN!!!!
At the worst time possible. Again.
There's Birdie this weekend, which is a big LAN/demo party in Uppsala in Sweden. And the day before we are to leave miss craptacular decides she doesn't like her power button, and refuses to turn on!!!!
I ended up having to bring the piece of shit Dell. It turned off 3 times due to the heat in the hall we're in before I just had to go buy a big fan thingy to put underneath it. It works like a dream thou, no more problem.

We arrived in Stockholm after a 6 hour train ride about 2 yesterday and went shopping before travelling on to Uppsala.
I bought Kamikaze Girls, Cutie Honey and Sex is Zero on DVD. The two first are Japanese and the last one is Korean.
I have started watching Cutie Honey, and it's so over the top it's pure genius. If you have seen Cybergirl it's even more over the top than that. It's awesome beyond belief=D=D

It's really hot here. They have everything that can be open open, but take around 1k computers and laptops and put them into a hall about the size of a junior high PE hall, and you get a hot hall indeed.
Actually it's not so bad right now, because most of the kids are sleeping.
I slept for about 4 hours in the sleeping hall, but I woke up from heat and dehydration. So I just had to get up.
The showers here are actually hot thou, and that was really refreshing.
Right now we are mostly waiting for the stores to open so we can get some breakfastXD

Sleep deprivation makes cute girls cuter^^,

No, I am for once not talking about myself.
There's this competition up the big screen, the how-good-coordination-do-you-have kind^^,
And there's this one girl up there, and she keeps screwing up, and laughing at herself, and generally being adorable^^,
Just thought I'd share^^,

Today I hate gamers

Yeah, I know that a vast majority of my friends are gamers, but I like to believe you are polite gamers, who when the Demo showing is going on, will turn down your music so that it does not bother the people who actually want to look at (and hear) the awesomeness that apperently is beyond the grasp of the feeble minds possessed by the gamers here at The Gathering 2010.
Loathesome, foul children, the lot of them.
Is it really necessary to have your speakers blaring the worst music known to man when people are trying to watch art?
Seriously, today I loathe, I despise gamers.
Foul little children, the lot of them.

DemoScener's Oscar Awards

So apparently there's an Oscar type award for DemoSceners. It's called Scene.org awards (unless it's called something elseXP).
It's just finished at BreakPoint in Germany, and we got it live here at TG^^, Which was fun^^,
There wrere lot of awesome nominees, and all the winners were well deserving^^,
It's awesome that they stuff like this. I want to be up on that stage somedayXP Fat chanceXP But I am allowed to dream rightXP

Oh, and it's allowed to consume alcohol at BreakPoint. I saw alot of underwear tonightXP

Rude Dude Resolved

For those of you who saw the Rude Dude post before I took it down, because I thought it was too agressive, the matter has resolved itself. We did not get him to move, but I found somewhere else to sit, still next to boyfriend.
My computer is up and running again (yeah we dowloaded windows, but it's my right! I have legally paid for windows, and it's acer's fault that I don't have a legally installed version right now. Send it back, my behind), but I'll still be mostly unreachable thou, because I will be playing with Blender^^,
(Which is a 3D modelling program, in case you did not know^^, I am already Noctural's main lightpainter, but I plan to become their 3D modeller also. I plan to make myself indespensibleXP)

The Gathering 2

So I gave up on the whole "not sleeping for 24 hours"-idea.
First I slept a couple of hours on the concrete at the stands, and then I slept a couple of hours at my desk with boyfriend's sleeping bag as a pillow. As you can probably guess, I'm hella tired.
But the blaring speakers have calmed down, and there's someone a couple of rows over playing techno remixes of songs I like, which is really cool^^,
We are going to enter another contest and then we are going out for breakfast. I'm gonna drink a gallon of coffee, I swearXP

The Gathering

So I have been up for 18 hours and have eaten next to nothing today. Or, I have eaten some chocolate.
We arrived an hour and a half ago, and thus far my only impression of TG is that it is noisy and flashyXP
There are strobe lights, blaring speakers and people absolutely EVERYWHERE.
Anyone who really knows me should be damn impressed I'm not cowering in a corner right nowXP
It's just about everything that freaks me out at once^^,
Social training is important thou, which is why I'm here in the first place.
Oh, and the photo contest. Which I took second place in^^, So hah XD
The prize was lame thou, a t-shirt and a mousepad^^, None of which I need, and seeing as they didn't actually have any girl-fit shirts, do not particularly want, but I WON SOMETHING. Yay us, right L? We rule^^,
So now I'm sitting at boyfriend's computer while he is off photographing^^,
I am running the drunken singing list on full volume on my pink skullcandy headphones to drown out all the other noise and writing this blogpost.

The lights are purdy thou^^, Even if they make my head hurtXP
I'm guessing it will be better when they turn the lights on in the morning.

The prospects for Pichu is looking up thou (she might need a new name now thou, seeing as she has a new harddrive and therefore is basically almost brand new again. Since I have to set her up again with my settings and programs and everything).
We are downloading Windows 7 of the net, and installing that. And before you go report me to whatever stupid people that you would report this to: I am using my own product key, which I payed for, and if you are going to report anybody at all, you can damned well report Acer, who sent my computer back BROKEN in the first place *glares*

Yeah, I've been up for 18 hours, can you tell?XP

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is the most genius song ever written.^^, My Norwegian textbook in junior high said the Beatles only wrote half-assed love songs. They obviously had not heard Beatles. It's one of the most deviously innocent murder songs I have ever heard. At least the Curse of Milhaven sounds evolXP
Beatles definitely rank up there with Bertine Zetlitz and Kaizers Orchestra^^,

Meh, my stupid armband thingy is really annoying=/

I have been up for 18 hours, and I plan to stay up another six, so expect more nonsensical blogposts during the night^^,

Yeah, and until my own 'puter is up and running, this will be the only thing I will do at a computer seeing as I have to borrow boyfriend's computer, and I guessing he wants to use it himself at some point during the nightXP
So no mail, no facebook, and no msn on me until I have my own toy to play onXP

Oh and one more thing before I go hunting for something containing ridiculous amounts of sugar and caffeine, TG has a nautical theme this year, so there are giant Tentacruels having from the ceiling, and Tentacools on stage.
And if you are here and the thought did not occur to you, you are most certainly the wrong kind of nerdXD

I forgot yesterday

I read over my post from yesterday, I realized I forgot to tell you all about having my Pocky stolen. So I stood talking with one of the girls I went to Berlin with that I had met by chance at SoraCon, and then this little asian girl start walking straight at me. I stand there wondering if I knew her, because she walked so straight at me, but I didn't. She stops right in front of me, and takes the half-eaten Pocky I was eating out of my hand and walkes away with it. I was so stunned I didn't know what to say. I certainly did not think to tell her I have a really nasty cold which I am almost well from, but that she will most certainly catch^^,
Had she asked she would have gotten a brand new, germ free Pocky^^,

If you don't know what Pocky is, it's Japanese candy (obviously). It's chocolate covered pretzel sticks. Here's a little Pocky commercial for you. They are all really weird like this^^,

You get them in many flavours, my favorites are Strawberry and Milk^^, You can even get gourmet ones, with chocolate mousse and what not^^,
You can take a look/buy some over at the Sweet Kitty store. It's really tasty^^,

I am going to get addicted to instant miso. I love miso soup with tofu. I really shouldn't eat it, 'cos I'm a bit allergic soya, but I think I will try to desensivitize myself. It's just so yummy^^, And it's insant. A perfect quick snack^^, More nutritional than insant noodles anyway^^,

Word of the Day:
盗む - nusumu - to steal

The long post about the long day

I did a lot of things today. I was at a nice birthday party, and gushed at a cute baby, and was impressed by some nice staffers. I went to the best con I have been at for a very long time, and got my Pocky stolen, and bought a very nice frilly pink and white head-dress with pink bows. And I have been to the very first American non-indie comedy I have liked in years.

Lets start at the beginning shall we?

So my grandmother has her birthday (80-something I think) soon, and we went to celebrate at this fancy hotel restaurant thing, and it was really nice, and my one and only female cousin and her fiancé and their baby was there, and two of my male cousins were there, and my aunt and uncle, and both my grand aunties were there.
I'm not really one for family gatherings, I think they are stressful, but I really enjoyed myself today^^, My family is really nice, and even when they tease/bully me or each other we all know it's just for play, andI like that.
My cousin's baby is really too cute^^, And she is so quiet and well behaved it's almost freaky. I managed to infect with a cold last time I met her, which she is still recovering from, and she still didn't fuss almost at all. I want my babies to be like that. Even thou I know that with many twins in my family I'll probably get two at once, and they will both be fussy. But they will be my babies, and I will love them, so thereXD
Now, I am deathly allergic to peanuts. To the extent that they have to ban them when I fly, I can't go to the theatre, or concerts, or sometimes the movie theatre. I can't eat ice cream when other ice creams or the topping stand has peanuts in them. I can't almost eat chocolate at all. And I can't eat at restaurants were they serve things with peanuts. Or, it's okey if the kitchen is super clean, and the chef is super careful. And they usually are, so that's not the biggest problem. At this restaurant however it was a buffet, and there were mixed nuts with the deserts, and with the air vent and air circulation the dust just goes everywhere, which meant I couldn't even go near the food, what with the dust in the air and all that. These sort of things happen, and it doesn't really bother me all that much, seeing as I am used to it, and I would rather take hunger over death any day, but it did kind of suck. And it's not nice for the other people around.
But the waitresses were super nice, and when I told them they made up a special plate just for me, straight from the kitchen, with no nut-dust. And I got beef and pork and lamb and mushroom and vegetables and gravy, and it was really very tasty. And for desert they cut up fruit for me. I got orange and watermelon and passion fruit and kiwi and pineapple, and it was all very fresh and tasty too.
But seeing as I am a sweet tooth and it all looked delicious and I love mousse fiancé got me some. He scraped of the entire outer layer and I got to eat the dust free middle and it was all very yummy, and a really bad idea. It could have gone very wrong, but I was lucky and only ended up with scratch marks on my arms from the itching.
But it was very nice all of it, and I had a very good time^^,

And then after that me and fiancé went to SoraCon, which is one of three AnimeCons here in Oslo, the other two being AiCon and DesuCon.
We mainly go to take pictures of all the cosplayers, 'cos there isn't much else to see or do. But the cosplayers are all very cute, and they love being photographed^^,
One of the things that made this a good con was that they had (finally) learned from past experiences and moved the cosplay contest outside, in the sun. It was hot, but they gave out cups of water, and they had benches that we could sit on. But there was so much more space, it wasn't cramped in between all stands in some auditorium, and the lighting was nicer, because of the sun. And the backgrounds were so much better than some drab white wall and lots of things going on in the background disturbing your moneyshot.
They kept having technical errors of some sort thou (inside), and they kept throwing us all out when we were shopping, but it didn't really matter.
I bought some Pocky and some Ramune. And I helped some kids who were cussing at the stupid Japanese and their stupid bottles. It's a bit hard to see in this picture, but Ramune is sealed with a glass marble at the top held in place by the pressure in the bottle and you need to push it in. To do this you place the bottle on a smooth hard surface, take the plastic pushy thingy and lean on it. Beware, it has been known to fizzle all over the place^^,
Anywho, I also bought a very cute, pink and white frilly headdress, like lolitas wear. It's super cute, and there will soon be a new profilepic with me wearing it and you all better think I'm adorableXD

As for the movie, I saw Hangover.
First a little note of warning: it's not a movie for your kids, and probably not for your mother either, and you better pray this never happens to youXD
Then for the trailer:

Yeah, in case you didn't realize it's about a bachelor party gone veeeeery wrong. They wakeup in a trashed hotelroom, with no recollection whatsoever of the night before, with a tiger in the bathroom, and a baby in the closet. And the groom is missing.
And it's hillarious. Now I don't normally like American comedies. Especially not big studio ones, I think they are very scripted, and all about making one self and others look stupid, and I don't tolerate things like that very well. Actually makes me a bit agressive. But this one, I laughed till I literally hurt, it was bloody brilliant, not be honest.
They didn't use a horrible lot of slapstick, I could not foresee much at all, and the very very few streotypes that they used were used in a way they made them cool, and not like they were trying to make someone look like fools.
I believed in the main characters (which I very rarely do when it comes to comedies), and even thou they were really stupid and crappy to eachothers at times, I still liked them. They were humans, with human reactions, who did very human mistakes.
Go see it. I mean it. If you liked Zack and Miri Make A Porno, or really if you like Seth Rogan movies you'll love this one.
One thing thou, if you dainty sensibilties, you can see most of the movie just fine, but leave without looking at the pictures during the credits. There are strippers and hookers to put it like that. Jolly fun if you don't have dainty sensibilties thou^^,

Buuuut, it's one in the morning so I think I'll go to bed now^^, Spellcheck later^^,

TwiCon

^Clickable title everyone.

Twilight con. I'm not even going to start on how pretentious that seems to me. An entire con dedicated to a single series of craptastic books?
But I am going to rant about the price they are going to charge, just for the heck of it, before moving on to the first of many (probably) rants about Stephenie Meyer craptastic writing abilities.

So for the price on this oh-so-wonderful fan con, 255. American Dollars. Per person. O.o
That does not include living in Dallas for the duration of the con, but this you can get at the marvelously affordable price of 139 per night. O.o But at the very least it's per room and you can fit 4 people in each room. So now we're up to $359,25 for the entire con. Assuming you found three more slobbering fans to share the room with. This does not include eating thou. Or spending money. Or getting yourself there and back again.
Did these people not get the "financial crisis" memo? People are loosing their jobs by the hundreds, many have to sell their homes, and these people find it acceptable to charge 255 for a con O.o
But the really scary thing is that it's probably going to be packed with little blackclad, spoiled, fan-girls and boys, many which of quite certainly are going to sport fangs, and/or cat-ears, tails and paws. And they are going to spend like there's no tomorrow. And if these tweens are under the age of 18, they have to bring a chaperon over the age of 21, who also have to pay the outrageous 255 for admission...

Assuming any artists are actually going to bother to show that is. Because if you want to sell anything at all you need buy a spot in the vendors hall. Which costs 750. But this is for two days (the con lasts 4), so it has to be affordable, right?
But then again, maybe you are only a struggling artist who wants to show of your awesome fanart. Well, to do that you need to rent a space in artist alley, and that costs $100, but seeing as I found no info on how long you hold the spot (which is 6'x6' floor space) I assume it's for the whole con, so I guess that price isn't all that outrageous. Even thou it is nothing more than an overpriced advertising spot, 'cos you aren't allowed to sell anything in artist alley. And all the art has to be preapproved. And they have a no refund policy, so you risk paying 100 dollars for displaying you fanart and not being allowed to actually displaying it.

As for the musicians, actors and other "famous" people who are booked, they may not even show, seeing as they have a clause in their "ToA" saying that they are allowed not, and do not expect to get your money back if they decide to be no-shows.
And oh, do not get me started on the musicians. 2 of the 3 bands booked for the event does not only play exclusively Twilight inspired music, but they are even named after the books. They called them selves "the Twilight Music girls" (O.o) and "the Bella Cullen" project. Does anyone but me find it a teeny bit creepy that talented young girls dedicate their careers to making music for these books?

Which brings me to the book itself. I finally found a copy today of Twilight without the fugly plastic fantastic movie cover (I will copy paste a rant I have written about plastic fantastic movie posters at a later date), so I bought it. I'm at page 32, and Oh My Gosh! why can't any of the tweenies feel their brains bleed?
I mean, the book start with your normal misfit semidepressed 16 year old (as far as I could gather) teenage girl who is moving. So far so good. Just that she is moving to her father, which she is less than thrilled about, to a town she has avoided since she was 14, and which she hates, to go to a school where she expects to be even more of a misfit and even more miserable than at her old school. For no apparent reason. Her mother tells her "You don't have to do this", and apparently her father had been bewildered, but pleased, when she have told him.
So of her own free will, she condemns herself to a miserable, wet (because apparently in this horrible town it always rains, cliche anyone?) existence. I can only assume she was drawn there by the knowledge that her one true love existed in this town, or some other mindnumbingly creepy, stupid reason, she hasn't told us yet.
Edit: I have gotten a tad further and I just thought I'd add this before I got lynched by a Twilightfanchild; she has a reason, she moves so that her poor mother can travel around with her new husband, who plays minor league something with a ball...

But she becomes instantly insanely popular, even with her very own personal stalker boy, who she mentions is acting like a golden retriever.
And then she sees Edward Cullen from across the cafeteria. And he instantly hates her, his coal-black eyes (I kid you not) burning with intense hatred and rage. We all know they are going to end up together, you can tell from the way she describes him when she first sees him, but from what I have gathered on the interwebs he acts like he hates her because she loves her and is afraid to hurt her or some other equally creepy crap. I have not gotten that far yet.
Oh! And how on earth can the Cullen kids be "devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful" when they are chalky pale and have dark purple, bruise-like rings under their eyes? That does not constitute beauty to me, no matter how good their bone structure, or how well trained their physique. No, that sounds more like sickly, and ugly so me.

I expect to tire you all immensely with my constant Twilight ranting, but I will read them all to confirm their creepyness, and to tell every roundeyed, lovesick Twilightfanchild why exactly why Edwards behavior is in no way normal or acceptable, but rather downright creepy and scary, and that no guy should ever be allowed to act like him. EVER!!! No girl either for that matter. EVER!!! (I'm told there is serious stalking later in the series.)

Word of the day:
いけ好かない - ikesukanai - nasty, disgusting, disagreeable, creepy

SoraCon pictures

Just thought I'd post a notice that the pictures from SoraCon are finally up. You can find them at fiancé's flickr account here.
There were lots of nice costumes, but taking photos at cons are a real drag. First of all the lighting is dreadful, it's either ugly or dark, which means we have to use blitz, and that looks awful. Second, people at cons obviously thinks it's boring to be photographed, and they seem to think that pictures become great the first time every time. Which usually means that they end up looking bored and/or pissed at the first picture, who doesn't get good, and even more bored and/or pissed at the rest. Why on earth do people take the time to dress up if they don't like getting photographed?
We took a lot more than the ones that fiancé has posted, some of which are decent enough to put up after editing, but a very large amount of them are so fugly that he doesn't feel that he can put them up. We have to think about the models as well you know.
So to anyone in costumes as cons ever: learn cool poses and be prepared to look interesting more than once for each photographer, or you might very well end up looking awful all over the internet for the rest of eternity, for onve it's out there you ain't ever getting it down.

Desucon

Just as unamusing as all the cons in Norway I have been to use to be. It was as usual all about the cosplayers, and seeing as I don't really cosplay it was all that much to do. I bumped into a friend from Japanese class and we mostly sped around taking pictures of the cosplayers, most of which didn't seem to realize that dressing up in costumes make people want to snap pictures of you, and ended up either looking confused or bored or something else equally unbecoming. I got to take pictures of the Joker thou, which I thought was awesome, seeing as he isn't an anime character, or at all Japanese^^, He gave me his business card even, a playing card with a Joker face printed out and glued to it^^,
And what's with free hugs girls who gets confused when you wanna hug them? And why is there always so many catgirls (read: girl's with cats ears in their hair, and paws if the want to be elaborate) at these things. Next year I am so totally wearing this. If I can get a hold of the t-shirt that is.
For the first hour I was there it was hot and impossible to breath, but managed to fix the ventilation at some point, so it became breathable after that.
They had of course a Pokémon area, with tons of preteen boys battling it out with their Pokémon cards, but people with DSs were virtually nonexistent, which was a bit sad, since I would have loved to trade and battle.
They had a few cool stands, including a Swedish store called New Nippon which actually had a pretty awesome selection of Japanese music and magazines. Fiancé bought me inspi' NANA CDs for Christmas, one with Anna Tsuchiya inspi' NANA Black stones, and the other OLIVIA inspi' Reira Trapnest. I was adorable until he gave in and let me listen to the Anna Tsuchiya one. And it was full of all sorts of goodies^^,

All in all it was a bit boring, but perfectly fine. I wished there had been more stands or something selling drinks, because I quickly became dehydrated and in time developed a throbbing headache which resulted in me having to go home lie down in a very quiet, very dark room for a few hours while waiting for it to pass. It was however better than last year, and suspect the next one will be better than this one, and so on, until it becomes a great con. It is only the third one ever after all.

Word of the day:
年会 - nenkai - conference, annual convention

SoraCon and other things

So I went to SoraCon in Oslo today. Not terribly exiting, I think we got there around two maybe, and by then they were well into most of the contests. There were some nice cosplaying there and the fiancé took some nice pictures that hopefully he'll let me put up later. They had screenings of the first four Naruto episodes, and we went to the second one, but there were all these tall people in front of me who were blocking the subtitles so I entertained myself (and annoyed D) with telling D what all the kanji meant XP
I think I liked last year's DesuCon better, even if SoraCon had more activities. There were more stands and more things to see at DesuCon, but this was SoraCon's first year so hopefully they will get better next year.
Anyway we tired of it all pretty quickly and went out for thai food, then we proceeded to walk aimlessly around Oslo for a couple of hours. All in all I had a pretty nice day^^,

I am house sitting for my parents for the next week while they visit family further north. Rusket loves all the outside time she is getting and is actually fleeing the scene whenever she notices I am home. Well actually it was okey yesterday, but we are fairly certain she knows her days, because today she just ran. (I usually come pick her up on Sundays.)

I started reading my battered Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell agian. Wonderful book really, can't remember why I stopped halfway through, but maybe I just found something more interesting... That sort of happens...XP Anyway, I'm halfway through, but it's going fast, and if I get nice weather and can sit outside I will probably be done by the end of the week. The forecast is full of black clouds thou, so I might just sit inside playing on the 'puter.

Word of the day:
年会 - nenkai - conference, annual convention