Published by Adun June 30th, 2008
in Anime Blogs, Car, Everyday Life, Japan and Miscellaneous.
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With just under 5 weeks to go till I head off to Japan, it’s time to get some things organised. So far my accommodation and airfare have already been taken care of, and during the Supanova Sydney weekend, I paid off the travel insurance as well as a 1 week JR pass. I was contemplating getting a 2 week JR pass so I could travel out to Nagoya from Tokyo and head up to Shirakwa-go. But given the amount of time between arriving back in Tokyo and Comiket is rather short so I’ve opted for the 1 week pass instead. It’ll mainly help me travel between Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
Now I mentioned before that I was planning on hiring a car and drive around. Well I’m halfway there. The first step is to get myself an International Driver’s Permit (IDP), and that was this weekend’s agenda.
Essentially what an IDP is is an translation of your current driver’s license of your country and is required in certain countries in order for you to drive there. The great thing about these is that they last at least 12 months so I can use it again if I decide to head overseas again in the next 12 months. Acquired this from the NRMA (National Roads and Motorist’ Association) and normally it cost $50 AUD. But I somehow only paid $25. $25 if you are a member of the NRMA which I used to be, but not anymore. Oh well, not that it matters. So all I have left is to actually book a car which I’ll do in a few weeks. I’m planning on heading up to the Gunma Prefecture to check out some of the places that Initial D is based on as well as driving around on the wangan at night time. My friends reckon we should just drive to Shirakawa-go, but I can imagine it would be a VERY long drive up that way, but I’ll see how things pan out.
Animelo 2008 was also one of the events that I had planned on attending. Initially we received the help of our travel agent to acquire us tickets through the online booking system, but unfortunately he couldn’t get to the site. And by the time he did (an hour later) the tickets were all sold out. Throughout the week he had tried various sources in hopes to acquire us the tickets but unfortunately he came up dry. It’s a shame really as it was something I was really looking forward to, though I could look online for tickets, but I don’t think it’s worth $300. If people were going to scalp tickets at that price, they might as well sell the tickets at that price from the office.But now I have a day free and Chara Hobby is on the same weekend as Animelo so looks like I’m going there instead.
So as the weeks go by, I’ll give an update on any preparations I need to do for the upcoming trip. I still got many days unplanned on what I want to do and much research to do still. Not to mention that I should brush up on my Japanese speaking skills. Oh and as I mentioned before, if you are going to be in Japan any time during the 1st August and 31st August and want to meet up, drop me an email at adunATmoemoerabuDOTnet.
Boxes are f***ing awesome. You can do so many different things like build a play fortress, use it to sneak around like Solid Snake, create a Danbo, use it as a pedestal, use it as a desk, anything. But there will always be one purpose for boxes and that’s to store items. But in situation of an otaku, it’s a package to have your precious merchandise mailed to you, and with Supnova Sydney 2008, that’s no exception. Many may have remembered from my Animania 2007 merchandise post that I spent a good $1000 AUD, this time it has gone beyond that. So hit the jump to check out what’s in the box.
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Cosplay competitions are always so awesome as we see many of the cosplayers around go upstage and strut their stuff, but it also means that I can sit after after walking around for about 3 hours. I got the exact same spot as Saturday so I was in a pretty prime position. But sitting down probably made it worse since I haven’t eaten the entire day and only lasting off a can of V. Still I soldier on so hit the jump to check out the rest of the photos for Supanova Sydney 2008 Sunday. WARNING: Picture intensive post.
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So after a rather eventful Supanova Saturday, it was a mission to make it to the Sunday. I got back home around 1am and spent an hour or two working on the photos from the Saturday until I couldn’t see the screen anymore. So with my equipment reorganised, lasting on about 3-4 hours of sleep, a drinking only a can of V, and having a significantly lighter wallet I made my way once again to Olympic Park. WARNING: Picture intensive post.
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Yes its the continuation post of Supanova Sydney 2008 Saturday photos. So far there have been some pretty awesome cosplayers not only from the anime scene, but as well as the sci-fi side of things. Hit the jump to check out the rest of the photos. WARNING: Picture intensive post.
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It’s that time of the year again where fans of pop-culture converge into one place to enjoy a day with other fans of pop-culture. Yep it’s Supanova Sydney 2008 so it was time to head down to The Dome at Sydney Olympic Park armed with camera gear, Moé Moé Rabu business cards, and a wallet fat full of gold. Though I didn’t actually arrive to the convention until midday since I had some earlier business to deal with in regards to my Japan trip, but upon stepping through the doors after paying my $20 admission ticket, the place was packed. I swear Supanova must get larger each year, or I keep forgetting how many people attend each time. Before combining the camera gear together, I had a walk around with fellow friend Roobar to see what was there and to say hello to various friends and associates. WARNING: Picture intensive post.
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Last year I had the idea of creating business cards for Moé Moé Rabu using a collection of photos from my figure photographs. Well having only a few left over it was time to bring out the second season. Using the same service, MOO have again produced some quality cardsfor the same price. Though I only managed to create a collation mid last week I was worried that it wouldn’t arrive before this weekend since Supanova Sydney is on. I was tempted to pay forexpress shipping, but $57 for express shipping for a pack of cards is wellnot worth the price.
My other worry was not having enough decent photos to use for the cards since my photography has slowed down considerably. The only two that I reprinted are Suzumiya Haruhi and Shirakawa Nanaka.Lets hope that by the third set I’ll have more photos to choose from and hopefully my photography skills have improved since then.
