Movie Night & MASQUED!

*This post will be a summary of my last two weekends since I simply don’t feel like writing them in separate posts. *

June 11th-13th
Friday June 11th was a normal Friday but Adam, Lawrence, Christine and I were to eat at Pizza Jam before we went to play poker at Bryans place. Unfortunately Pizza Jam was closed (which is horribly odd for a Friday) and we resorted to eating at Gustos where Saiyuri meet up with us. After that Christine decided to go home and Saiyuri and I headed over to Bryans. Zack and Diku ended up making an appearance and so it was an eight player group for poker. Of course this eliminated quite a few games we could play since most games require that you have no more than seven players. Nevertheless it was a night of poker and on the TV FIFA world cup was playing. I have never been one for soccer but since I am in a country where soccer is pretty important and I have quite a few European friends the world cup is serious business. The game is interesting enough during world cup time so it was an overall “guys” Friday night. Poker lasted till around one in the morning and with that I drove home and hit the hay.

The following morning (12th) I woke up and made my way to Toyama to practice at the venue with my group. We needed to practice the skit they were to perform for the show. It was a pretty quick practice. It lasted no longer than an hour and then we were off our separated ways. This was good because I needed to go home and prepare my dish for Movie Night that started at Christine’s place at six. I ended up preparing fried potatoes as my dish since I recently just learned or (attempted is more the right word) to make them like my mom, and I have to say I did a darn good job. After I drove to Uozu I managed to get fairly lost trying to find her house on foot. I was this close to turning around and going home but finally I found it (thirty minutes later) and went in. Thankfully everyone adhered to the “not everyone brink desserts” rule and ended up with one or two desserts but several dishes of food to eat. Everything was good and people really liked the potatoes so I was glad.　We had basically eaten before we started watching movies. It was decided that we would watch Kick Ass, which was a pretty decent movie. It was far more raw than I thought it would be and the amount of gore was impressive considering that Kick Ass is somewhat a Super Hero Parody. I would also like to say that no little girl should be able to do that. O.o After that movie we kinda just chilled out, a few of us went over to Ally’s to chat and then back to Christine’s. It wasn’t long after that, when I decided to drive home. It was an all together good weekend.

July 18th-20th
This Friday I want to say that I did something be in all honesty if I did, what I did escapes me ^^; All I know is I prepared my make-up, clothes and sketches to leave early the following morning to Toyama for the Fashion Show preparation that day. I ended up not landing much sleep because of an impromptu conversation with Trevor till 3am in the morning. I managed to make it to Toyama and after a while of waiting and two missed tram opportunities to the venue I was picked up and taken to Mau Fine Arts where the fashion show was to be held. Once I arrived I helped to set up a bit but most of my work really didn’t kick in until we started doing skit and run way walks. We got the models in their corsets and vests after practicing that morning and had a full run. Vannie was there to watch the first run and I took it upon myself to do a second run of the show because there was some fine tuning to be done with the skits and such. Once the second run was over most everyone went and acquired some kind of dinner and or lunch or simply just left for a while. I didn’t have much of an appetite and even when I was hungry I was too busy to really eat. So I just sat around and did nothing when I could.


Finally about two and a half hours before the show we began putting makeup on the models, fixing hair and dressing them in their corsets and vests. It was truly and hectic few hours and there were several break downs. Thankfully everyone got it together, I didn’t go crazy and everything that needed to be done was done (for the models anyway) Vannie and I hurried to get dressed in something decent (I looked a hot mess in my opinion) and waited for the show to start. Thankfully the show went well and the crowd seemed to like it. Once the last skit was over Vannie and I ran out waving crazy at the camera. The runway walk through the two bottom floors went well to as we followed the models waving and thanking the audience. When it was ALL OVER the models posed on the stage and then mingled with the crowd. I did as well and was trying not to die from heat. It was a job well done, but I was tired, and really tense for some reason. A few Japanese woman came up to me and told me how nice they thought the make-up was and then made the “oh wait Ive seen you before” face and asked if I was in the Play. I told them I was Yamamba and they freaked out and were really excited. They asked to take another picture with me as the Make Up designer of the Fashion Show. They wanted to have pictures of that as well as the pictures they took with me at the Play. It was really sweet of them. Made me happy that they thought I did a good job. As the party went on things were ok till around 11:30 or so when there was some serious rifts between the owner and some models. He cursed one of them out for one reason or another and it just started a snow ball effect of tense conversations and us ultimately having to leave the venue three plus hours early. As a result to this debacle people were extremely upset, sad, pissed, and tired. It was a little more than crazy. Sara moved the party to Ajito where I went later after packing things up. I spent another two plus hours there dancing and such, but in truth I was just exhausted the whole time. I was just spent for that day. I was happy to then drive home in Lawrence’s car because he had drank. Either way it got me home to be in my bed, in my apartment in peace and quiet. My head hit the pillow at five am Sunday morning and I didn’t leave my bed again till five pm that evening.