The Symphony to Oblivion

FAnimeCon 2007

Location // Ventura, CA
Time // 7:00PM
Event // None
Day// # - 1

the day begins as I wake up eagerly awaiting going on a trip to Northern California for FanimeCon 2007. So it starts off normally….. Wake up, eat breakfast, run some errands and such, just to kill time and make the time to leave come a little quicker! So the day goes on by, I go and text scsa to see what time he will be arriving. Then as I get bored at home, I go to the mall to kill some time. Go to the EBGames here and hang out with them before I go on vacation. Then as the night progresses, I get a reply from scsa saying that he will not be able to come and pick me up until the next morning around 6am. “well, at least I can try and get some sleep”, I replied to his text. So there goes the night, waiting and waiting to go on my trip.

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Location // Livermore, CA
Time // 6:00AM
Event // Fanime 2007
Day// # 0

So my morning begins waaaay too unexpectedly. I had previously asked my mom last night to wake me up a little earlier than 6am just so that I can get all of my belongings ready. Instead, I get a call from scsa saying that he’s already here. “-___-x;” was my facial expression as I was woken up suddenly as the phone rang >.> 5-10 minutes later I finally make it out to where he had parked. We greet each other again, and all the other stuff that friends do. We then proceed to our wondrous trip.

(Around 1pm; same day)

We arrive at scsa’s hometown of Livermore, CA. It’s quite the nice place to live in, as it appears similar to my hometown down in Southern CA. We go and meet up with several of his friends which are really awesome people to talk to.

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Location // San Jose, CA
Time // 11:55pm
Event // Fanime 2007
Day// # 1

well, my new buddies and I didn’t even go to sleep throughout the night, so I decided that it was time to use my laptop to go online since we were really bored and since my laptop was the only one capable of reaching more wireless access points compared to scsa’s. Lol …. but anyway, we spend the night just doing random things while watching digimon (scsa’s note: Digimon sucks but second season Mimi is cute). Later throughout the night (or morning now I should say rather, michael starts to play Super Swing Gold on the Wii since he likes that game now. Then around 8am that morning we go to the convention center in San Jose to go pick up our badges and go get some breakfast. After we arrive, he takes the honors in showing me around the convention center just so I can get a feel on how/where things are. Then as we’re walking around, we start to get photos of cosplayers! (yay!) After a while of being there we go back to our friend’s place in Livermore to get our luggages ready to take to the hotel room we will be staying in.

As we reach the hotel room later that night, we go in to get ourselves accommodated with the room and set our belongings and then pass out sooner or later. (Finally after 2 long ass days with no sign of sleep whatsoever.)

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Location // San Jose, CA
Time // approx. 6:00AM
Event // Fanime 2007
Day// # 2

I had woken up to the chilling temperatures of the hotel room’s AC. No one else was awake other than me, so I was really bored on not being able to find something to do. Eventually more people start to wake up, but still haven’t talked to one another yet as I am still trying to wake up myself even after writing this (8:30am presently). And now there is some construction going on outside and made us wonder what they were doing…..

Around 1 or 2pm, we are in the Hotel Room playing Super Smash Bros. Melee on my friend’s Gamecube, and began to get owned again (I suck with using a Gamecube controller nowadays) >.> and I was still awaiting the time on when I would go to the Play! Concert.

The time now is about 5:30 and I am in the Karaoke room waiting for me turn to go up. So a few minutes passed by and it was eventually my turn to go up. I had sung Velvet Underworld by Weiss Kreuz. Awesome show if you ask me.

Fast forwarding to approximately 6:30pm the same night, I go into the cafe section of the convention center to once again steal their WiFi Internet.

The time is now 8pm…. And FINALLY can I witness one of the coolest video game symphonies around. Everyone goes into the venue, gets their freebies, and then go to the balcony to get seated. Then around 8:10 the concert begins and greatness is born. The pieces they played were from the Mario, Shenmue, Oblivion, Lair, The Darkness, Halo, Zelda, Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy, and another piece I forget about already.

At approximately 10pm the concert ends and I go outside all happy-like because I really enjoyed it 100 percent. Afterwards I start walking around and eventually get lost somehow (yes I was stupid enough to get lost) so I met this one guy who was also lost, so we walked around together in hopes of finding the convention center… in which we did. I guess we were destined to get lost so that we could keep each other from getting even more lost. Now, around 11pm I finally make my way to the convention center, go up to my room, and begin blogging what you are seeing right now. And now it is time to sleep so I will blog more tomorrow. D:

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Location // San Jose, CA
Time // approx. 11:50PM
Event // Fanime 2007
Day// # 3

Well today, Scsa and I met a friend of mine from the Anime-Expo forums. She was really cool.

Then we went to Sekihiko-san’s panel. Afterwards Scsa and I went walking around a bit more and then went to the Masquerade later on, where we met Lynne again ^^. Afterwards, Scsa and I decided to go to dinner @ a Jack In the Box since we were both starving.

That’s about all that went on day 3. Not too exciting. lol

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Location // San Jose, CA | Livermore, CA
Time // approx. 8:00AM
Event // Fanime 2007
Day// # 4

Well, this morning I had woken up around 4AM due to unknown reasons. Then again around 6AM only to find that Scsa and one other guy were still sleeping. So around 7AM, I finally begin to wake up completely, only to find Scsa reading a manga.

 

In present-time, which now happens to be 8:30am exactly, I am here writing this out while listening to Megadeth’s ‘A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)’ on my PSP since my laptop’s power supply was snapped into pieces somehow last night. But at least I got to fulfill my mission this year… which was to have a picture taken of me “battling” a Sephiroth & Cloud cosplayer. (I was cosplaying as Reno).

The time is now 11:10pm & I am eagerly waiting for tomorrow to arrive so that I can finally go home. So many things have happened in a week’s time frame that even now I am beginning to cry a bit while writing this as I am going to miss my new friends that I have made over the weekend here in Northern California.

Although it was nice to be able to hang out with Scsa and his friends, I really did enjoy their company. I’ll be totally honest when I say this … but I really do like the guy. He is surely a cool person to hang out with once you get to know him.

Another year, another convention attended. Only next year will it keep getting better …

</end of Fanime 2007>

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Artist // Weiß Kreuz
Album // Die Bleibende Erinnerung
Song // Beautiful Alone