'Believe in yourself, and things will be wee bit easier for you"
 - Josh Elder, winner of TokyoPop's Rising Stars Manga competition 2007,

Alhamdulillah, everything went well, even though there's some minor glitches that cant be avoided. Let me go over how its been before i forget everything. ^^;

The alarm goes off at 7 am, before i knew it, i went back to bed and woke up at 7.30.(oh well, things happen, right?) get prepared, then i walked to the train station even though last night was snowing, so coldness is expected. Got there pretty late, since i misjudged the distance between my house and the train station, so had to take the 8.30 train instead.

Let me cut to the chase here. i know you people not gonna like reading all these little details here, kay?

The place isnt that huge, compared to what i've seen in NYCC last march, and not to mention they took the smaller hall. Since this is their first year doing it, so i give them some kind of leeway of determining whether its good or not. They have screening rooms(live actions, AMV and MTV, sneak peeks, and such), game rooms, rooms for autographs (Kobun Shizuno, the co-director of Eva 1.0 is there, i heard that Takehiko Inoue is there as well on friday, which i didnt go), Dealers and Artists Booth, as usual.

Went around showing my Portfolio around as i intend to be, much to my suprise that i got pretty good reviews. especially from DarkHorse. I got lucky since the person i approached is an editor, so i'll follow up for on that in couple of days time. Met more artists and editors which they asked me show them more stuff that i did, but hey, thats not a problem at all. (XD) Massive praises and comments like "what are you doing here? Get it published!" or something across the line. ^^;;

sorry man, i still consider that i have LONG way to go. seriously.

Got chewed off from Udon Comics, which i dont really care as much (flip,flip,flip, good work, thanks. That kind of thing), aspiring critics and nudging me tp enter Rising Stars Competition (more like forcing it down me throat) from Tokyopop and before that...

/me takes a deep breath

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~ i met JO-CHEN~ KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~

jo-chen looks VERY surprised when i mentioned about her artbooks, which did went back to fetch her books and showed the audience. Fun, right? haha. I dont fanboys over things very much, but this is an exception. She's very nice person to talk to and pleasing to the eye. ahhh....life.


All of that, fanboys and fangirls still irks me the most. Thats why it reminds me ALOT of ComicFiesta. Kids in their costumes running around shouting and screaming, yaoi actions and all of other nonsense. Somehow i prefer 'normal' Cons like NYCC in march. oh well. i cant have everything, can i? BUT, who am i to complain? Somethings are good liek:

SimonxKamina

2 Kaminas and Simon
 
Phoenix Wright cosplayers

someone drew Voltron on the floor. Its coo'

Too much to think right now, contemplating over options given and new avenues that i can go, since new doors opened up to me. Lets see how things move on from here. I'm glad that i have this chance to make things as i wanted them to be, and work towards it. There's nothing more satisfying than that.