It's been very eventful and hectic last weekend. As i said in last post, the robotics club were promoting their event named Robotics Challenge Week in mid valley, courtesy of Play!Ex's organizer who gave us a free booth slot there.
Well, i skipped alot of classes this sem, so i dun mind skipping more :p Lilo, Ziqi and I went to KL with Mohan, my classmate + the driver, on Thursday night. The whole Savvy was packed with robots, boxes, and alot more other stuffs and luggages that we can hardly fit in the car :p It was tiring because i have just left work at 5pm and i had to go borrow batteries and redo circuit for the electromaze and stuff until 7pm, when Mohan came to pick me up. I barely packed and later on i found out i forgot to bring my hp charger *dies*
When we reached Midvalley around 10.15pm, The area was jammed with cars going out of the shopping mall. This is the first time for us to go to a shopping mall after closing hour so it's kinda fun to see shops all closed and cleaners in work uniform all over the place. Oh not to mention all the cleaners are foreign labors too. seems like Malaysians are all too good for menial jobs :p
Anyway we went to 3rd floor, and the exhibition site is beside the Lilian Too Feng Shui shop. Some of the booths were being set up and decorated at that moment so it looked bleak and run down. Our booth was free of charge, so we got the furthest corner slot from the main entrance. Despite that, We felt lost and awkward and most of all embarrassed to be there at all when we compare our own random n incomplete polystyrene with color paper cut-outs wordings and A4 monotone print outs with their printed colourful posters, eye-catching banners, buntings and attractive flyers. We were the only student booth around so we felt tensed. After much swearing and complaining with good reason, we start planning how to decorate with whatever limited resources we had. In the end, due to insufficient color papers and other stationeries we gave up and went back to Mohan's house after midnight.
The next day things were getting a little better as we fill the empty space with our pitiful amount of exhibition items: 2 mobile robots, one of which can't function, and 2 other electronic project from our lecturers. Our booth was still pathetic, having Celcom's huge purple site right opposite our booth and blocking all the view. Not to mention the killer sound system from the DJ booth which was stationed near the Celcom site. Since the Savvy couldn't take in anymore stuff, our mini games were left for those who will come in the evening. So all in all, it was bleak and uneventful for our booth, and sadly it applies to the whole event too, since there's not much crowd to begin with. On the lighter side, i finally went to Kim Gary HK restaurant to eat. The soup noodle is very good and the side vege is delicious XD Though it's abit too expensive for a simple meal like that, i think it's worth a try (for Muslims, sorry guys cos it's non halal >.<)
The other committees finally came around 5pm with more stationeries and robots the mini games. The games were set up and then i started to fix the robots up and charge batteries. the exhibition site looked abit more crowded, which was a good sign. All the booth around us are selling Toys, Anime merchandise, promoting Online Games, magazines and the very prominent Celcom Xpax prepaid card. And again, we looked so out of place orz. I think we should have moved to the edu fair at the other exhibition site beside ours :p
That night i stayed in my aunt's house, who fetched me from Midvalley after the event was closed for the day. Found out that my 2nd auntie was around too, with her 2 kids as well. It was the first time i saw the 2 kids so i was quite amazed how they looked like their parents, as well as my other auntie's kid haha. My sister were with them too, and had suffered long enuf to call them akuma-tachi. hahah.. well they were loud and always hungry for attention and they cry alot. all these i got to know in mere 2 hours >.<
For the 2nd day it was more crowded and better still, i managed to promote my mini game electromaze (where you are to hold a loop and go through a metal wire frame without touching them together) to the crowd and many tried their hands on it as it looked ultra simple. It tests the stability of your hands and your concentration power so luckily only 2 person of the whole 3 days won the game and each walking away with a prize of 1GB Kingston pendrive *ouch! the sales of keychains at our booth was ok too, despite the fact that we lost 6 sets of them when we left the items overnight on the site. In conclusion, we earn only a little sponsor money and a lot more of fatigue during the event.
Near evening, both my sisters came over to meet me up. My youngest sister, Li Li went to Comic Fiesta in Timesquare and hauled a lot of bookmarks and small badges for herself while she got me Kidchan's artbook 0.o with her signature on. It was damn expensive but hey, there's a signature on so nvm la hahaha *shoot self* after browsing her harvest, I went off early with them and our Auntie came to fetch us for a sort of reunion dinner in a Steamboat Restaurant. My 2nd auntie from singapore was there too, with her 2 cute akumas around. Anyhow, the steamboat with hot porridge is very nice indeed after adding in all the ingredients plus a raw egg xD
Sunday was my off duty day so I was able to go shopping with Loo Mun and the others doing training in KL. After light breakfast at my aunt's house, me and my younger sister went to Mid Valley to set up stuff, and then we went our different ways at the Monorail station as she will go on for the 2nd day of CF while i will go to Lot10 to meet LooMun up. It was around 12pm when Loo Mun, William, HR and CYC turned up so we walked to Pavilion together after that. It was huge and the White Christmas deco inside was really nice. We went to eat at a jap restaurant at the Lower Ground, where J.Co and the Cream Puff are located too. Then we went shopping as there were alot of mega sales and year end sales going on. Surprisingly and not without Loomun's influence, I got myself a slack from Element and a white shirt from MnG. they looked nice on me and so byebye to my pitiful amount of cash and hello to ATM machine :p
After that, we went off to Coffee Bean and i treated everyone with the RM10 vouchers i got from my aunt. And i finally get a chance to properly drink those ice-blends and food that i make and serve almost everyday hahaha. Then we move on to Timesquare as Loomun wanted to try on evening gowns. Too bad she can't get the ideal dress after alot of try out. At around 6pm, since it's free entrance by then, we went up to the 6th floor in timesquare for a glance of CF. the site looks abit run down but once we get inside, Fuh! it's packed with cosplayers and doujin booths. not bad la i can say haha. And i din know that Ce yi was involved in CF too! I saw alot of familiar faces and doujin booths. There are so many figurines on display. And there was a person cosplaying PACMAN. how cool is that XD Should really ask for photos from those who's been there for 2 days *stare at sis* I din buy anything though i wanted to, and too bad the moyashimons badges are no where to be seen T.T
Before we went back, Loo Mun and I had a haircut for RM13 at the speedcut shop in the pedestrian bridge across timesquare. Before it was our turn, there's an indian almost bald customer who had been in there for ages. We were waiting and cursing as he kept on requesting the hair stylist to cut a little here and there off his already hair-less head. When he was finally done, which was around half and hour later (hey old man it's suppose to be speedy cut! which part of speedy do you not understand?!) the stylist told us that the Indian baldy was picky cos his hair curled up after the cut and requested to cut it off. He even mention how the Pakistanis barber would do an easy job on that. man why can't he jz go for a barber then?! Never mind i hope his hair won't grow long any sooner *evil*. When it was our turn, we had some fun while talking to the metro sexual hair stylist and Loo Mun and her stylist were unable to stop laughing at our conversation :p haha.
and that's about it for the trip now. I'm now broke and did not get any oryzae fanart/badges.. *cries
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That's me in the reflection with GACC shirt XD I took the pictures indoors so don't mind it :p
Isn't it cool? I din expect to see it from here, but she told me that it's only about 200km away so it can be seen when the clouds are gone, thanks to typhoon 18!
