#eph_c

watched oreshura ep7, gj-bu ep6

browsed stackoverflow

12pm took subway to manhattan, played some more eo4 demo. Mostly airship stuff

1pm met with @ephshi @catplanetcuties (formerly @8bmp or @bitmapchaos or... whatever it was previously) @hflw @lilypichu

after eating, walked over to karaoke duet 53, got there at like 2pm

I sang a ton of vocaloid songs pretty much. @equinoxrocks and chris arrived at some later time (I think at about 6:30?). Ended with Last Night Good Night, after which it felt like my voice was dying

we went to ny beer company for dinner; the chicken flatbread thing I ordered was huge (didn't get beer though because I don't drink). A bunch of other people showed up including @zzgzzpop @afrostevekun @yyr_ @mattostrofsky and uhh I don't remember everyone. There was also some collaborative drawing times in my sketchbook

watched gdgd fairies ep9

10am wasted time on stackoverflow

1pm waited for @ephshi at go go curry, then went to starbucks to wait instead because it had wifi and so I would actually have something to do

~1:45pm? fc arrived, we ate curry, then went over to the starbucks and drew stuff. Also when waiting for the bathroom there was a guy in suit who for some reason started talking to me about job offers. In fact there were a bunch of people in suits in the starbucks. Then later @desucarforcutie (formerly @akirascuro) and @c2switch showed up. And then also later @afrostevekun (formerly @mr_sangkm) and @xminttea showed up. And then later @bearpigman showed up. And then steve was feeling sick and had to leave. Then later another person who I don't know if he even uses twitter showed up. Time was spent drawing and listening to people tell stories about various things. Here's some of the things I drew. sameface everywhere.

6:30pm-ish? went to kbbq restaurant and we were joined by more people and had a group of 13 people woah (@shin_superdry and @equinoxrocks and a bunch of other people I didn't know where also there). Also I learned that shin works at cooper union and I think I have seen him around the building because I vaguely recognized him. Anyway after kbbq a bunch of people left, then we went with akira to deposit cash into an ATM and when the door opened it made weird noises

~9pm the rest of us attempted to karaoke at karaoke duet 35 but it was full and the next available thing was much later so we left. I went home and I guess the people who were still there went drinking

watched SAO ep19

1pm met with @ephshi at starbucks, drew stuff

3pm went to go go curry, then walked over to book off where fc bought artbook

walked over to nintendo world because I wanted to get some streetpasses

wandered around trying to find a starbucks that wasn't crowded, found one and then drew some more. Here's what I drew today.

7pm took subway home

more nycc stuff

12:30 go go curry with @ephshi @canon_chan @r1ck_d0m @mike_br @yuyuko_saigyoji, then fc had to leave to go to work

walked over to herald square (everyone had all their luggage and stuff), @mike_br had to leave, then the rest of us played "we didn't playtest this at all" (card game) and "No thanks" (also card game) until about 3pm, then everyone had to leave for their respective transportation out of nyc

took subway home, had to wait for the Q for a long time and then it arrived but decided that because of delays, it wanted to be a B train instead so I had to wait for the next one

got home at about 4pm, and then wow what did I even do today I'm tired

caught up with internet stuff I missed the past few days

(yesterday)

~11:30am, waited for @ephshi's car with @hflw

12:__, fc arrived and then we drove to New Jersey to pick up bitmap and his friend who turned out to actually be @lilyki (aka lilypichu)

somewhere from 2pm to 3pm, arrived at 8 on the Break and then I played technika for the first time since spring break and I am pretty bad at it now. Nowhere close to being able to perfect play Someday anymore!! Also somehow I failed a stage 1 song (break) and some other stage 2 song that seemed pretty easy when I watched it on youtube but I kept messing up. But still it was neat. Also had a bbq cheesesteak thing

some time between 5:30 and 6pm, started heading to mitsuwa. Went to some stores (one that sold various things like kitchenware and sushi things, and then a bookstore) and then got food. I got this thing which was pretty good. Then went to the supermarket part of mitsuwa and hflw tried ramune for the first time. Then there was a girl there who liked lily's hoodie, and she seemed fairly normal but then she said "you can call me ayumi konekochan" and then it got weird and when we left mitsuwa we were just like "did that really just happen"

at about 9pm, went to a karaoke place with a funny sounding name that I forgot named "ding dong dang". It was kinda like that other Korean karaoke place in that the machine was similar and it had a similar song selection. I sang a bunch of vocaloid songs, or at least attempted to. Oh yeah they also had TAMBOURINES

left at about 11pm; fc drove people back to their respective homes, first bitmap then lily and then me and then hflw took a train or something because he does not live nearby. Listened to various anime songs and niconico medleys on the way

got home at about 1am

this dream was pretty long, I don't think I remember all of it too well

wow actually now that I think about it I don't remember much of it at all

something involving a place that looked like Times Square except it was surrounded by swimming pools and there was a central thing and I sat on the floor and watched the screens or something? 

was there with some friends

There was an ad for some tv show that had a tagline "It's totally sugoi" and I just kept saying that out loud because it was it just sounded so funny, and there was a girl in front of me who kept looking back when I said it

then at some other point I was in a place that looked sort of like the room outside the auditorium of my elementary school and people were playing with balloons

I was throwing balloons around at people and it was a white balloon and it kept deflating

then twitter people were there (I believe it was @ephshi, @8bmp, @canon_chan, @r1ck_d0m, who I guess happened to be people who attended that NYC spring break walfascon thing back during... well, spring break)

fc was saying something about DC so I assumed it was like, DC comics or something

bitmap said something like "8bmp more like 8bmpdc" (I'm pretty sure whatever it was, it made more sense in the dream)

and then r1ck was like "wait, really?!"

and then bitmap suddenly became a kawaii anime girl with a blue hoodie (kind of like that prinny one) with brown hair and twintails and was like "y-yeah, I guess" and was blushing a lot and it was a very kawaii anime expression, (if I could draw anime things well enough I would animate it from memory and you can all confirm how kawaii it was but I can't do that)

and everyone was like "awwwwwwwww bitmaaaaap" and canon pulled the hoodie down over bitmap's face

then I woke up and was like "oh goddddd that was adorable and also anime"

surely this made more sense in the context of the dream than it does in retrospect

the end

~12:10pm, went to Go Go Curry to meet up with @ephshi @8bmp @hflw @fasalina @eejcloud except no one was there. Met with FC shortly after and went to Starbucks. @fasalina had the wrong meeting time in mind (2pm rather than 12pm) so they would be late, but anyway bmp and hflw met up with us a while later.

Went to Go Go Curry and got some food

Went to Karaoke Duet 35, we didn't have a reservation so it wasn't guaranteed that we'd be able to stay until 8pm. They didn't have all the vocaloid songs I wanted to sing (well I only tried inputting a few but if one didn't work, it was highly likely that none of them would work). Sang mostly songs that I sang in the past.

@fasalina and @eejcloud arrived at about 4:40pm-ish but we had to leave at 5pm because other people had reservations.

Walked around a bit looking for another place to go and ended up going to this other karaoke place in Koreatown. The interior and the machines were definitely a lot fancier and they actually did have a few vocaloid songs (I was surprised they had 1925, I guess it is not as obscure of a song as I thought it was. But they didn't have aikotoba) and also Marisa Stole the Precious Thing which was a voice-killer most definitely. Also tried Ura Omote Lovers which was impossible to sing. However they didn't have as many Japanese songs as the other place, which I guess made sense since it was a Korean place. Oh yeah also I got a 100 on one of the songs I sang but I forgot which song it was. Might have been Melt.

Left the karaoke place at about 8:30, went to the same food court as last time. Got some popcorn chicken and fries which I couldn't finish even though it didn't seem like a lot. Had various conversations, or rather I mostly listened and commented on a few things. Also received hugs from @fasalina @ephshi in that order