Manga event
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yami_tai was lots of fun, with that funny moment of initial eye contact and surprise and 'Hey, it's you!' And then we proceeded to blather to each other all afternoon - it was very pleasant indeed. Also, we should go back to Pitas cafe and try some of the food there, because it looks delicious.
The manga event was, well, an event. The man at the till downstairs in Blackwells was shockingly rude to a Japanese girl who didn't know much English. She smiled in a desperate sort of way and rushed off, poor thing. Blackwells have clearly not yet movied into the modern age of air conditioning, so the poor Tokypop man was looking a bt glassy-eyed and there were hints of a rictus. There was an art competition and the 12 year old girl who won the younger age group was stunningly talented. And she was so shy when she went to get her prize! It was incredibly cute and really I was almost welling up.
Me andyami_tai both got a ridiculously ginormous TokyoPop bag, with a TokyoPop sneaks book, top sellers catalogue and Rising Stars of Manga book. Two of the rising stars were there, giving what seemed to be fairly good and detailed drawing workshops, although they were largely lost on us, so we sat at the back chatting in undertones and trying to guess the age of the attendees. We were not the oldest people there, just. There were a lot of teenagers, some early-mid twenties people and a few older types. We failed horribly at the multiple choice quiz. The only question I knew was the Saiyuki question. We both won things in the prize draw, but I gave my Princess Ai poster away to someone who seemed to actually want it. yami_tai, have you listened to your Samurai Girls School soundtrack yet?
Then we went for coffe frescatos at Costa Coffee, my official favourite drink this summer... the same as it was last summer. Then Waterstones on the way home, where I bought The King's Last Stand by Geoff Ryman and whereyami_tai and I told each other, yes, we really going to make an effort to read more, and not just fanfiction.
And now I am making chocolate cookies, frombeautifulsoop. They are easily the best tasting cookies I have ever made. Yum.
yami_tai was lots of fun, with that funny moment of initial eye contact and surprise and 'Hey, it's you!' And then we proceeded to blather to each other all afternoon - it was very pleasant indeed. Also, we should go back to Pitas cafe and try some of the food there, because it looks delicious. The manga event was, well, an event. The man at the till downstairs in Blackwells was shockingly rude to a Japanese girl who didn't know much English. She smiled in a desperate sort of way and rushed off, poor thing. Blackwells have clearly not yet movied into the modern age of air conditioning, so the poor Tokypop man was looking a bt glassy-eyed and there were hints of a rictus. There was an art competition and the 12 year old girl who won the younger age group was stunningly talented. And she was so shy when she went to get her prize! It was incredibly cute and really I was almost welling up.
Me and
yami_tai both got a ridiculously ginormous TokyoPop bag, with a TokyoPop sneaks book, top sellers catalogue and Rising Stars of Manga book. Two of the rising stars were there, giving what seemed to be fairly good and detailed drawing workshops, although they were largely lost on us, so we sat at the back chatting in undertones and trying to guess the age of the attendees. We were not the oldest people there, just. There were a lot of teenagers, some early-mid twenties people and a few older types. We failed horribly at the multiple choice quiz. The only question I knew was the Saiyuki question. We both won things in the prize draw, but I gave my Princess Ai poster away to someone who seemed to actually want it. yami_tai, have you listened to your Samurai Girls School soundtrack yet?Then we went for coffe frescatos at Costa Coffee, my official favourite drink this summer... the same as it was last summer. Then Waterstones on the way home, where I bought The King's Last Stand by Geoff Ryman and where
yami_tai and I told each other, yes, we really going to make an effort to read more, and not just fanfiction. And now I am making chocolate cookies, from
beautifulsoop. They are easily the best tasting cookies I have ever made. Yum.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2006-06-11 08:23 pm (UTC)Definitely, the menu looked really good! And we can have more Firefly ^_^!
have you listened to your Samurai Girls School soundtrack yet?
I have, and unfortunately, it is a bit like bad electropop ^^;! I must admit that I haven't listened to it all the way through though so it may have some gems buried in it yet *g*!
Enjoy your book and your cookies ^_~!
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Date: 2006-06-12 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-12 05:23 pm (UTC)What was the Saiyuki question?
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Date: 2006-06-12 07:13 pm (UTC)The question was: 'what is the device called that reins in Goku's power?' Sadly not 'Are Gojyo and Hakkai really doing it?'
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Date: 2006-06-12 07:24 pm (UTC)Maybe they thought that one would be too easy?
Like Gojyo.I have one from the library called Remains, but it has no boys dressed as girls, or even the other way round. *goes to check if the library has Misfortune*