too many things in one post
This year's Comiket pretty much finished up today and unfortunately I wasn't able to go. I participated in a Marisa x Alice anthology and also drew images for the next New HORI-ZUN English textbook. Hopefully I can receive my copies soon!
I originally planned to visit Japan during August to go to Comiket but upon hearing the chance of being able to meet a Korean Touhou artist, I moved my trip to October, the month she wanted to go to Japan. The Touhou Koromu Event is in October.
Everything was going well up until last week or something, but she can no longer go to Japan. I was a little disappointed-- if she wasn't going to Japan, I probably am never going to meet her since I don't think I would go to Korea any time soon. Also, I definitely can meet way more of my friends during Comiket... but maybe next year. I still plan to go to Japan in October.
I wanted to visit Osaka and Tokyo, so I was planning to take the Shinkansen round trip until Minh opened up the idea of multi-city flights-- so now I'm flying into Osaka and then taking the Shinkansen only once to Tokyo. It saves a lot of money and with the exchange rate being so poor between the Dollar and Yen, buying a Rail Pass is just too expensive and not worth it if I'm only going to ride the Shinkansen one way.
When I was searching for flights, one of the flights required me to transfer in Seoul. That's when I got the idea I could just simply add Seoul to my trip. I asked my boss for a few more days off in October, and she said "We work hard, and we play hard, so just go have fun." Hooray! October then transformed into Osaka (and surrounding areas), Tokyo (etc), and Seoul. I've never been to Korea before, so I will get to add Korea to the list of countries I've been to soon enough! The Won and USD exchange seems to be OK, so maybe I should just save most of my money to buy things in Korea...
Yesterday, I met with a craigslist ad person-- I bought a Nikon D40x. I'm going to try and get into photography, though probably not super serious. If I am to get super serious, I'll buy a much better camera in the future. The camera is actually from Japan, so all of the manual and stuff are in Japanese. It wouldn't have mattered since I am the second owner so the original warranty doesn't work for me.
Today, I went to DD's Discounts for a chance to win a free Dell Mini 10 netbook. I saw the ad in the newspaper last week and thought eh, it's 3 netbooks per store and only 4 locations near me, so why not try the closest one? If not, then I'll just see what backpacks they have available because I wanted to replace my broken PowerPuff Girls backpack.
Well, I ended up winning the netbook. How about that! Now I have two netbooks. I'm not sure if I want to sell this second one or open it up to use it, but at the moment it's sitting in my room in a sealed box.
I'm tired and I wanted to update my LJ so this entry has become very tired sounding with good news.
I originally planned to visit Japan during August to go to Comiket but upon hearing the chance of being able to meet a Korean Touhou artist, I moved my trip to October, the month she wanted to go to Japan. The Touhou Koromu Event is in October.
Everything was going well up until last week or something, but she can no longer go to Japan. I was a little disappointed-- if she wasn't going to Japan, I probably am never going to meet her since I don't think I would go to Korea any time soon. Also, I definitely can meet way more of my friends during Comiket... but maybe next year. I still plan to go to Japan in October.
I wanted to visit Osaka and Tokyo, so I was planning to take the Shinkansen round trip until Minh opened up the idea of multi-city flights-- so now I'm flying into Osaka and then taking the Shinkansen only once to Tokyo. It saves a lot of money and with the exchange rate being so poor between the Dollar and Yen, buying a Rail Pass is just too expensive and not worth it if I'm only going to ride the Shinkansen one way.
When I was searching for flights, one of the flights required me to transfer in Seoul. That's when I got the idea I could just simply add Seoul to my trip. I asked my boss for a few more days off in October, and she said "We work hard, and we play hard, so just go have fun." Hooray! October then transformed into Osaka (and surrounding areas), Tokyo (etc), and Seoul. I've never been to Korea before, so I will get to add Korea to the list of countries I've been to soon enough! The Won and USD exchange seems to be OK, so maybe I should just save most of my money to buy things in Korea...
Yesterday, I met with a craigslist ad person-- I bought a Nikon D40x. I'm going to try and get into photography, though probably not super serious. If I am to get super serious, I'll buy a much better camera in the future. The camera is actually from Japan, so all of the manual and stuff are in Japanese. It wouldn't have mattered since I am the second owner so the original warranty doesn't work for me.
Today, I went to DD's Discounts for a chance to win a free Dell Mini 10 netbook. I saw the ad in the newspaper last week and thought eh, it's 3 netbooks per store and only 4 locations near me, so why not try the closest one? If not, then I'll just see what backpacks they have available because I wanted to replace my broken PowerPuff Girls backpack.
Well, I ended up winning the netbook. How about that! Now I have two netbooks. I'm not sure if I want to sell this second one or open it up to use it, but at the moment it's sitting in my room in a sealed box.
I'm tired and I wanted to update my LJ so this entry has become very tired sounding with good news.