Comic Fiesta

Yesterday I went to CF,the first time in a very long time.The admission ticket was rm10,seems that they increased the entry price again,i can still remember the time when admission was completely FOC.

Anyways,me,Sook and her friends arrived at around 10.30 and waited in line for the tickets.Already the line was like Sook's "Secret Recipe experience" and still growing.We were waiting for 11.00 which was supposed to be the opening time,but actually we only were allowed to enter at 11.15.Wonderful Malaysian timing.Even the booth owners were only allowed in at 11.05.Taiyaki had to open quite late compared to the rest of the booths,but luckily the booth behind us was empty so we sort of got free booths that can seat all our members.

What I noticed this year is that there were so many cosplayers,maybe 1/3 of the people who attended CF.I remember there were some people dressed as Ban and Ginji from Get Backers, Sephiroth and Vincent from FF,a TV and a Pocky *sweatdrop* and about a few million goths,including one guy dressed as Gothic Lolita and some small boys with eyeliner(Anisa was happy)Oh yeah,and the SWAT guy who I thought was some Malaysian police coming to stop another fake riot.

Later Sook pointed out that there are so many famous people near the Taiyaki booth- KidChan next door,whose books were selling out and flowing like water eventhough it was one of the more expensive merchandise being sold (Rm45 I think)even when she just opened the booth there was a big flock of people waiting already.Then there were YonGumi(one of the earliest groups in CF,i think they are one of only 3 groups that participated in the first year of CF) on the other side of us,and Kamcao behind us as well.

The whole day I was sitting at the booth just drawing manga and waiting to be commissioned,although not expecting to be commissioned.As it happened i really wasn't commissioned,but JJ.who was sitting next to me,got 3 or 4 requests.What was really,really sad was that,eventhough JJ is an artist with her own style and ideas,all,or nearly all the people who commissioned her wanted her to draw anime/game characters from references,which basically defeats the purpose of asking for commissions.Why not just photostat or photoshop and print right?

So I was drawing at the booth until around 5.00 when I had to go back for dinner.By then I was getting a headache from the sound of the loud music/irritating DJ/huge crowds.I couldn't use my iPod because of the loudness too.When I reached the train station just outside Times Square I got another "Secret Recipe experience".People were lining up for tickets an spilling off onto the side stairs.I regretted not buying a 2 way ticket earlier on.Nevermind,lesson learnt.However,later there was no way to avoid the huge crowd in the train.People were literally trying to pack into the train like sardines.I was holding a huge file,a huge bag,an a huge drawing board,so it wasn't a very pleasant experience.Halfway,I experimented on letting go of my drawing board to see if it would drop.It didn't.Also,my super seme drawing board got stuck in between a lot of people's legs and probably castrated a few people as well,which was satisfying to my sadist side of the brain...

Oh,which reminds me,I saw a shop called S n M in Times Square.And I thought SnJ was suggestive enough.

In conclusion CF was ok,but not something I would go to ever year,what with the crowds and the yearly-expensifying entry fee.Although somehow I think the best cosplayer of the day was the TV. Behold, otakus, the source of all your happiness.