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Cracktastic Koha Weekend Gets Downgraded

Thursday, 3rd December 2009 03:06

So you may have read on here about the planned meet up of some UK H!P fans, it was decided that as Koharu would be graduating soon we'd name the meet after her, Cracktastic Koha's Craze Addiction!. However the weekend was downgraded to a Mittsi weekend, which was perhaps a little harsh... I quite like Mittsi XD
This 2nd meetup was a two parter, Saturday; some Karaoke and drink fest, Sunday; another little drinky and the Grand Cosplay Ball.

With the meet spanning two days it meant that those of us coming down that didn't live near London or it was just simply too expensive to head down on the train on both days booked some hotels rooms, these were booked in the lovely area (and by lovely I mean....) of Clapham, those staying in the hotel headed there first whilst the rest prepared ourselves for the day ahead.
Before meeting everyone I perused the local sex shops, I think I impressed CDevil with my expert knowledge of Harmonys shop layout. Grabbing the final parts to my cosplay, 4 rolls of bondage tape, I headed to the counter and made idle chit chat with the guy behind it, I couldn't bring myself to disappoint him when he saw all the tape I was buying, especially when he heard I was planning on using it all this weekend, he thought I had a weekend of kinky pleasures ahead of me (hopefully he didn't think it involved CDevil, lol you're a great guy an all, but you're just not my type ;P)... unfortunatly I had a weekend of cosplay ahead XD
CDevil, Tasukidaisuki, Tammy and myself all met up at the new and improved Japan Centre Food section now located in it's own special shop. This was the first time I've been to the Japan Centre since this part has had it's relocation and I have to say it's fairly impressive, it's much larger and filled with even more snacks and drinks to tuck into and having zero will power I grabbed some sweets and a Yakisoba Pan to help fill the gap before Pizza.

With the lack of any Japanese songs at the last Karaoke meet we decided that a new venue was called for, so we booked a room at Karaoke Epoc. Having no bar meant that drinks worked out quite cheap as we stocked up on booze from Tesco before hand, grabbing 15 Carlsbergs and 15 Boddingtons for a bargain price of £15, 50p a can!! All we needed to make this like my teenage days was some bottles of White Lightning!! Buying the beer actually made my day, as I was ID'd at the counter. The odd thing is it seems to be becoming a regular occurance now when drinking down London, I was ID'd at the door of the cosplay Ball, although to be fair I'm fairly certain the guy gave up on me when he compared my ID to how I actually looked...with a face covered in paint and a totally screwed up haircut I could have giving him anyones ID and blagged it. A few weeks back I also got ID'd yet again when trying to grab a drink in the Moon Under Water in Leicester Square, personally I'm puzzled, I wonder if I'm shrinking XD

The Karaoke room we had booked was huge, which to be fair it had to be as there was 12 people coming along. The equipment and amount of songs available was really impressive, there was a great catalogue of Japanese music; ranging from Morning Musume and other JPop to Anime themes and war songs, a range of great and fairly random English songs and to top it all off a selection of Korean music including The Wonder Girls, it was a shame that they had no Kara as I was totally up for giving Pretty Girl an attempt...well I say that now.
My singing is crap, totally and unquestionably crap, and it's not that I'm a bad singer it's literally that I just can't sing. It's something that I know and at times, normally when I've had a drink or two, embrace. However I don't think there's enough drink in the world that will get me up and singing a Hello! Project, a lack of knowledge of the language isn't really an issue as we had printed out the lyrics, it was more for my love of the music. My karaoke songs are always pure cheese and there's a reason for it, I don't want to murder a good song and so I stayed clear of H!P, choosing instead to do a bit of Kula Shaker, Monkey Majik and the theme from Monkey. Others, with abilities way above mine sang all manner of Japanese songs, including songs by Morning Musume, Koharu's solo songs and some AKB48.

The reason for the downgrade to a Mittsi weekend was in part due to the lateness of those staying in the hotel, what can I say...? I'll keep it simple and I'm sure every guy reading this will understand when I say this, girls.. Lampshade however having power walking skills equal to that of Harold Bishop actually managed to turn up an hour before all the others and got in a couple of songs and even managed to polish off a bottle of plum wine alongside some beers. The rest of the gang (Matt_D, Steph, Sam, Emi and Lauren) turned up with about 30-40 mins to spare, a beer each and quick song and it was time to go. Unfortuantly a short while after everyone turned up TD had to shoot briefly as she had take Tammy home, although TD wasn't showing off her legendary drinking skills this weekend (as she'd managed to single handedly destroy a night club the previous night before ;P) Tammy stepped up to the mark and got totally smashed! Wandering around and hugging everyone, letting us know how totally awesome we were. To be fair I was expecting that if anyone was going to get that drunk that someone would be me, next time maybe lol.
Drinks, pizza, random chat and even a stop in the torrential rain to stare at boots in a window (girls.. lol) ensued, with us eventually meeting back up with TD and heading to the Trocadero. CDevil grabbed his ticket to the ball and we browsed Claire's (or was it Accessorize?) for some star shaped ear rings for CDevils High King cosplay, it was fairly amusing watching a member of staff head over to us and ask if we needed any help. Whilst CDevil headed off I tried on some hats to see if any suited me, as I was hoping to have something to cover up the scary haircut I had planned the following day...if you can belive it, girls hats don't suit me :(
The night finished with some drinks in the Trocadero and Matt_D almost getting in a fight with every security guard in the building, for some reason he just drew them all in.

Sunday, the day of the Ball. From my experience of the ball there's two types of cosplayers, those that enjoy it and make the effort and me XD This was my first ever attempt at anything Cosplay related. I'm going to hold my hand up and admit it, I'm not really a fan of Cosplay. Well technically that's a bit of a lie, I like cosplay for two reasons, attractive girls + cosplay = WIN! and secondly, I enjoy a good laugh and quite a large amount of cosplays fall into that category for me.

I have zero skills in making anything clothes related and the manga that I read are fairly absent of any outstanding costumes to wear, so I went with a character off of Oha Star, a character I was into even before I was into H!P, Tekken. My thinking was simple, a bit of face paint sorted! Upon thinking about it I thought that I may need to do a little more than this, so I held out on getting my haircut so that I could chop it off for the Sunday and get something similar to that of Tekken's, unfortunatly I ended up looking more like Keith from the Progidy, but in the end it all looked pretty good. And the bondage tape even made a pretty good (if cheap and amusing looking) attempt of what he normally wears.
For me things started off bad, after meeting up with Matt_D, Lampshade and CDevil I went to there hotel rooms bathroom to apply my facepaint, with seconds of me stepping into the bathroom the paints were all sitting at the bottom of the toilet, I'm hoping that it was the yellow escaping that gave the water it's colour....

With my face all made up and the guys all kitted out in their SHIPS and High King cosplays we headed to the ball. For those of you who've never been to Croydon let me give you some advice, if you have a haircut like a member of Progidy and your face painted, if you have sparkly pink trousers on, a sparkly hat and a feather boa or you decide to wear a hat, a bright red body warmer and shorts (with it being the middle of Winter) do not, I repeat DO NOT walk the streets XD
In all honesty it wasn't that bad, we got the odd look, which is perfectly understandable, and I was only approached by three 8 year olds for a fight XD For some reason, which I can't quite understand it was my outfit of shirt, trousers and shoes with just a painted face and dodgy haircut which shocked these kids, they saw me and their reaction was "WOAH!" they all came walking over asking if I "wanted a fight?!". As tempting as it was to punch them all squarly in the face I thought better of it, I don't have much of a reputation to uphold but I'm fairly positive being found stabbed to death by three 8 year olds outside Croydon station with a bag of bondage tape and my face painted isn't going to do me many favours.

Getting into the Ball I whipped out the tape and started mummifying myself, it actually got quite a reaction some random came over and helped wrap me up, the staff and people by the food counter were also equally intrigued. I learnt a lesson that night, don't wear bondage tape over your clothes for 6 hours straight, you get very hot and sweaty!
The ball itself was 'interesting'. It wasn't really my thing, but it was still a very enjoyable evening. Much like the nights at Fuyucon and Anime Expo, the music at times were a little to be desired, why have an event like this and not play Japanese music? Why have a Disney Medley? Why have a fat and unattractive Burlesque dancer in a thong 3 sizes to small for her? Why is a bottle of beer £4? Why have a strange throw back from the 80s whose not quite good enough to be in a boy band hosting it? Why was one packet of Sainsbury's Rick Crackers £2? Am I the only person that seems unable to dance to the Azumanga Daioh theme?

Hahaha, ok I'm making it sound a lot worse than it was and as I say I had a really good time, I just feel that at times at event like this a little bit more effort could be put in at times, as much as I like Bon Jovi I don't really want to be singing and dancing to it at an event like this.

With the night coming to an end with Choco singing the final song, we all gathered at the front of the stage to show her some support, we waved our hands and cheered as she sung a song from a Final Fantasy game (I've no idea which one lol). When it was over me and CDevil managed to lose everyone, but luckliy found ourselves in a kebab shop :D We sneakily made our way back to Matt_D and Lampshade's room where we was greated by a semi naked Matt_D half asleep looking slightly puzzled as to why we was knocking on his door (haha, you don't know how tempted I was to post that photo we took of you), in we walked collapsing on the floor ready for our few hours sleep.


For those of you in the UK that are intersted in the next meet Matt_D has already put into action a play for the Koha Rerun which is on the 30th January 2010, drink, karaoke, food and bowling. So if you're around come on down we know for sure they'll be some Morning Musume for you to sing at Karaoke!

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Posted Thursday, 3rd December 2009 03:06 | 2427 Reads | 0 Tweet Count

Comments

Comment by paul.thomas on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 04:10
Oh, I forgot to mention that the photos I've taken from CDevil and Steph Facebook page, hope you guys don't mind me using them.
I love the expression on my face on the bottom left one, I look so happy XD


Comment by paul.thomas on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 04:32
And I totally forget to mention and thank Choco for the badges and little Konkon photo and frame magnet she was handing out to everyone, so...THANKS CHOCO!
Link to photos of them is below.
http://www.ptom.co.uk/?p=276


Comment by The Chris on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 10:31
I think I just did a little wee in my pants


Comment by paul.thomas on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 10:35
A little sex wee no doubt, after seeing me in sexy shiny bondage tape, you're wrong ;P


Comment by choco on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 11:59
It's the Grand INTERNATIONAL Cosplay Ball - it's not Japanese-exclusive, hence the variety of acts and music :)


Comment by paul.thomas on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 12:33
ah, now that would make sense, i just presumed that the 'international' bit was for show to make it appear more 'grand' or an attempt to get foreign people turning up XD
i just associate cosplay with japan, othewise i'd of just said it was fancy dress lol

but still disney medley...lol, probably quite good if you don't hate disney with a passion....lol and bon jovi, t the reaction of some of the people on the dance floor was amusing.


Comment by The Chris on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 15:11
Been looking at more photos online.

Looked like fun, wish I had been in the country I could have bust out my Hiruma cosplay.

Grand and International - Interesting choice of adjectives??

And Paul, it wasn't a sex wee, the smell of toast said it was a regular passing.


Comment by paul.thomas on Thursday, 3rd December 2009 23:06
I may hold you to that at the next time we go somewhere where cosplay is even slightly involved XD
Toast? Your wee smells of toast?


Comment by kelsey hale on Friday, 4th December 2009 01:24
cant believe your koharu weekend turn into a mittsi weekend kudos paul!!!

hugs & kisses,
kelsey


Comment by Nana on Friday, 4th December 2009 14:07
I live in london, I know H!p fans here, however on the 30th jan theres a huge bdai celebration happening for my 18th in St james park, so you could maybe take a small detour and come seee meee maybe?? it'll be epik.


Comment by CDevil on Friday, 4th December 2009 20:29
We are so damn cool. The people who were staring in the street were just jealous of our obvious pimpness. Even Will Smith complimented your outfit.

Why the lack of 'Matt in his undies' and 'Lampshade: cock on head' pics? XD


Comment by tasuki daisuki on Friday, 4th December 2009 22:30
That reminds me, I need to buy a new eye pencil....


Comment by paul.thomas on Saturday, 5th December 2009 00:56
Kelsey, lol I don't think people meant it a good way unfortunatly :( Poor Mittsi, there's so many haters I just wanna give her a big hug.

Nana, I don't see why not, have to check with everyone else but shouldn't be a problem.... well as long as you don't mind a troop of potentially drunk H!P fans crashing in ;p Not that we're all alcoholics or anything... ;p

CDevil, haha Will Smith? I remember something about Will Smith, although not much...does that mean I got a little drunk, or am I just loosing my memory? :S And yea, they were all just jealous of Matt_D's and Lampshade's trousers!!
Hahaha, what a combination to talk about the photos in....Matt in his undies followed by Lampshade with a cock on his head :S I didn't realise I had one of Lampshade, I'll double check, might replace the one with his eyes shut if I find it. And Matt's well... I value my life, plus I don't want to mentally scar anyone else, I don't think I'm going to knock on a hotel door with out curling up and crying from now on XD

tasuki daisuki, did we ruin it? Sorry! Luckily I wasn't drunk enough so you'd had to add nail polish to that list.


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