After much preparation, we are finally going for Bon Odori on saturday morning. Dex drove to our house to take all the boxes of mineral water to campus and also gave me and yining a ride there. There were jz a few members around, cos it's jz 8.15am. I roughly took attendance of the members and then went off to withdraw money from ATM machine in Plaza Siswa. I was so excited cos i planned to get a Wacom tablet from Low Yat, with the 100 bucks i earned from assignment ^^. When i came back to the main entrance, someone(i forgot who ^^;) told me the buses had arrived and they were moving in the campus. So, we asked the members to queue up in 2 lines, divided into bus 1 and bus 2. There were some complication but we settled it without much delay. And guess wat? Khurshid is finally coming with us!! yey~~ good for you! ^_^ Din know why he wanted to go to bus two, leaving edo, the only AKM member in the bus predominated by KFC members, not to mention leaders too.. *grin*

In the bus, i was munching the sausage bun after finish taking attendance again for bus 1. Then only i notice that there were 2 pairs of lovebirds in the front row of my seat. wow.. I felt like a double lampost, so do kristine and loo mun, but not that we mind XD. During the journey to KL, i read the comic we rent the day before (ish, loo mun forgot to bring the first book, making me read the second book onwards with much confusion...) and chatted a little. But then the most interesting thing of course is to see ppl's cute sleepy faces! Kristine was at first chatting with Shu yin and Lynn, but ended up taking pictures of the ppl sleeping in bus XD. she caught the kawaii lovebirds as they were dozing (so cute...) and as well as loo mun's. hehehe.. it was so much fun seeing her taking pics of them stealthily. On the way we saw MMU bus!! Damn! and they told us we can't book the mmu bus cos the buses are going to Johor! It was no where near Johor, and instead was most probably going to kl. Gotta kill the bus manager...

About 2 hours later, we alighted in front of Time Square, and thus off we go to our first stop--Low Yat Plaza!! We were browsing around on the 2nd floor while i went over to the ps2 game stall to get some rpg games for my sis. Dex was accompanying me and he recommanded some games for me ^^. Before long, i've bought Tales of Destiny 2 and also Atelier Iris, which are quite interesting. I hope my sis would like it but dun think she'd have that much time to play nowadays ^^; Loo Mun was planning to get a mouse and also a pendrive, while i went in to Sri Computer to get my Wacom XD. As i walked into the tablet section, my eyes poped out and my jaws dropped. Damn! it's 330 bucks for a graphire 3! Last time it was jz around 200 bucks!! Waaaaa.... *sobsobsob* damn heartfallen. After all the anticipation, my hope of drawing and coloring digitally had gone to drain...

Abit dishearted, we went around the higher floor to search for cheaper tablet, but to no avail. Seems like they've got new stock for the tablet and thus selling them at a higher price. Damn! After Genny had got his dvd writer, we went down to ground floor to proceed to Sungai Wang. Jin wanted to withdraw money, so we went to the Lower Ground. Everyone was browsing around while waiting for him, but i was too tempted by non other than the Papa Roti's Mexico Bun!! My mood rose up again as i was happily munching the hot crispy bun, while Kristine explained to lynn and others that without fail, i'd go to the bread shop to get D bun every time i visit Low Yat Plaza. They were kinda fascinated by my craze, and after i've finished mine, Lynn treated me another one!! *eyes turned into heart shape* This is so great!! Thx, Lynn! >w< Of course, i shared mine with shu yin and yuhi, and shu yin said that it reminded her of Yakitate Japan XD. We joked about how the buns glow and how heavenly and exaggeratingly it was depicted in the series as we were munching on the way to Sungai Wang.

In the second shopping mall, we went up and browsed thru the ps2 shops, dvd shops as well as manga shops. Most of the time there were ppl who had to wait for the others who in turn are obsessed with the various anime or game merchandises or mangas XD. At last, we arrive in the teppanyaki shop for lunch. It was the first time that i'd been to a japanese restaurant so i was kinda awed by the setting of the shop. We sat down around a table, where the chef fries our food in the middle of the table. There were red and white strips of cloth hanging over the tables, giving it the Nihon look XD. We started to order and i chose the niku soba (beef noodle). We waited for our food patiently as we savour our occha (green tea) and some other dig in their japanese styled ice kacang (not much difference actually ^^). When our food arrived one by one, me started eating my soba. Found out that it was kinda delicious, especially the sauce XD. there's this saucer that contained 2 different sauce, one like soya sauce, another one is sour chili sauce. I ate the soba contentedly, besides taking bits of salmon from Jin and also Lynn's bean sprouts.

We left the restaurant at about 2pm after paying up our bills. Then, we went to browse anime shops. Later, As Jin wanted to see Gundam figurines, we gals parted with them and went to browse other stuffs. At the end, everyone separated, leaving me and kristine browsing handphones. I was in a dilemma whether to trade in my motorola phone cos it lags when i type sms. The trade in price was 170 bucks and that saleman can't guarantee that the price won't drop summore.. so in the end, i made up my mind to trade in and get another phone. I bought Nokia 1100 with an addition of 90 bucks. Many ppl were shocked that i 'down graded' my phone cos i dun think normal ppl does that XD. Well, i'm jz stingy i guess XD and i dun think there is a necessity for color screen. hehe.. but then i was buying it in a rush, and din check that the phone's vibrator can't work until i've got up the bus going to the matsushita sport stadium >"<. I'd have to fix it in melacca then...

At about 5pm, we reached the sport stadium, seeing alot of other buses, including another mmu bus there, which we found out later that was from cyber. we went in and got our fans, and then saw Yeo-san, our japanese class teacher over there too. We greeted him, but he was so blur that he can't recognize us >"< After that, we went off to the site with japanese food stalls. there were so many types of snacks that i dunno wat to eat XD. there's takoyaki, origiri, unagi bentou, soba, kakigouri...*drools* In the end i bought some sushi and origiri, while Kristine bought the 10 bucks unagi bentou. Loo Mun was crazy enough to get the bbq corn jz to satisfy her craze. Then we shared a kakigouri (ice kacang, without kacang XD).

After buying the snacks, we went around the field stalking ppl. ahhaha.. we had fun trying to take photos with little kids, and in the end kena stalked by shuyin XD. she's a better stalker than us >"<. Besides that, i took picture with Edo's Lisa, D lisa other than me XD. We wanted to take pic with Lina, the president of EMiNA Cyber too, but din have the chance as it started to drizzle when i was introducing myself to her. Too bad la.. and she's wearing a really nice yukata >"<. if not we'd have three 'Li's together in a pic. The place was too huge and too filled with ppl that we can't really had a chance to get group picture. In fact, all our emina members were scattered over the field that we can hardly find each other XD. Well, if Loo Mun's lost, we can always go over to the lost and found counter to get her back XD. Talking about being lost, there were a few cosplayers in the field too..*sweatdrops* it's like they are doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. i remember last year's bon odori there was a girl cosplaying as Rikku, from FF10. Now there's Kikkyo from Inu Yasha and another unknown character =_=|||. Haiz, ppl nowadays...

At about 7pm, We got to the spectator seats and started munching our food XD. The japanese organizer gave his speech in crisp english, while later on another local guy gave one super long-winded one *sweat* and of course no one was listening XD. Then the event starts with the first part of dancing. Everyone got down the field and gather round the stage in the middle, with lanterns hanging on it. Then the ppl in yukata standing on stage started to dance as the traditional song was played, along with the rhythmic drum beats. So ppl down there follow suit and it was a really nice view to behold. We joined in the fun during the later part and enjoyed doing the movements along with everyone else...

When we went back to the spectator seats, there were 2 kiddos in yukata sitting beside me. I tried hard not to look like a peadophile but they were so damn cute XD Yet when they were talking to each other (omg.. their voices are soo kawaii...) i can hardly catch up with wat they said. haiz.. wat to do.. i jz learnt japanese a few months only wat >"<. During the break, i was mustering up courage to talk to them. Anything will do.. maybe wanna ask them 'is bon odori fun' or sth. But in the end they went off, when i was jz going to open my cowardly mouth... Well then, I've gotta brush up my jap!! *resoluted for a while and totally forgot about it after 10 mins*

After going down and dancing for the 2nd round in the moonlight, we decided that it's time to go 'bargain for goods' XD. First we went to the Yakult drink (sth like vitagen) stall and queued up for our free drink. it took kinda long as the salesperson was patiently introducing and promoting the drink to the thirsty ppl. Think they cared more about getting the drink than its history ^^; Before long, it was our turn to quench our thirst. Actually it was not bad, not too sweet, but hard to say, since when ppl are hungry or thirsty, anything can be blissfully delicious. Jin, me, Yining and Loo Mun walked around the site hunting for cheap drinks. I got apple and plum green tea with 5 bucks, while Jin got 2 bottles of alcohol for 10. We exchanged one of ours and then waited for Kristine to get her favourite Asahi XD. She was really slow and when we went over the asahi stall, she was waiting for the price to drop. A can was sold at the price of 6 bucks, but she insisted on waiting for the last ones. At last, there were only a few cans left, so she gave up and bought 3 cans. haha.. when Hsia Liang came over the stall, there was only 1 left in the salesman's hands and he got it for 5 bucks XD.

At about 9.45pm, we went out of the stadium and headed towards the junction where all were suppose to gather. Was really blur cos we dunno where the bus's exact location, and i had to lead a bunch of members towards it *sweat*. In the end we found it, far away from the junction. so everyone got up the buses safe and sound~ phew. All the way back, we were chatting about stuffs and laughing and sharing the joke. Kristine was drinking her asahi already and ppl kept saying she's drunk, tho she's not XD. In the middle of the highway, we stopped at a rest station for ppl to 'release tension'. When i got back to the bus, there was a commotion in the bus. After asking around, found out that Edo was 'washing' the window glass by sticking his face and body there... The passanger in the JLs bus beside was horrified and drew the curtains over. Imagine it was that disgusting. ewwww.. Unsatisfied, he later on did more visual harassment to the next passenger. Lol..

Finally, we returned to MMU at about 12 sth. Kristine paid the bus drivers and then we left for home. Phew... that's the end of this post then.. took me so long to finish it >"<.. Anyway, gonna link the pics here later on so dun worry XD