Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Weekend at the Zoo (... or something like that :) )

My recent weekend was pretty fun. Saturday was covered with an attendance to the recent Kawaii-Kon '08 with my niece in tow since we both have an interest with matters anime. Waking up early, buying spam musubi for breakfast on the go, overshooting the planned stop in front of the convention center rewards us enough to get there early to do a walk-in registration to have access of the events and rooms open for us to see for the convention. A lot of cosplayers were in abundance. The common cosplayers encountered were either those dressed up as characters from Naruto, Final Fantasy VII, and Death Note to point out. A few exceptions to the majority were like those dressed up from Full Metal Alchemist sans Edward and Alphonse, a pair of persons dressed up to be above averaged size to above man size boxes of the Japanese snack food Pocky, a lone fellow done up as Vash The Stampede in every aspect from the red outfit, boots and the glasses though the signature gun is missing to round it up. There were like 3 different girls dressed up as Tifa Lockhart. I sat through a panel discussion featuring the voice actress or seiyu for Evangelion character Asuka Langley Soryu: Yuko Miyamura for the original Japanese version and Tiffany Grant for the American version. The discussion and questions along with amusing answers were pretty fun to watch and enjoy as to the experiences of a seiyu's career as well as the series which make or break their career. The remaining hours are pretty much checking the other rooms for things to look like a number of vendors and artists tables. I pretty much just bought a T-shirt with the NERV logo from the tv series Neon Genesis Evangelion. My niece wanted to buy some art pens the likes most of the artists at the con were using. We left the convention around 2:30pm after rounding up a few more photos to shoot of random cosplayers. It also make me think that the convention also became a lolicon hotspot on account for a lot of young female cosplayers as well as those who sport the matching attire for such. Of course, I don't mean anything bad in the context. Its just a thought.

Sunday after that Saturday is where we finally went to the Honolulu Zoo as a family. Me, Mom, Sis, Bro-in-law, Niece, and Baby Niece trooped over to the Zoo after getting a favorable weather status over the zoo location. It was fun to check out the animals available there. Monkeys and Lemurs can appear similiar from a distance and how they are agile in the trees. It was fun for those who watched Disney's Lion King to see the real life basis for Timon and Pumba, the meerkat and warthog in respectively but not living together like the comedic duo in the animation. It was a sad sobering thought on not finding the lions on display since a sign was posted there that they are already past their prime and are being cared for on their remaining days here on Earth. It was all clean fun to go around and take pictures of them.

All in all it was fun weekend.

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