#con: report

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This is the first time TQP has participated in a 3-day event - and we regret nothing! xD!!! Joining up with chibimeli once again to form Salty Tiramisu, we participated in Liang Court Anime Week 2012, which was organised by the friendly people of EoY~

It was a small event, but Salty Tiramisu still managed to have fun - and so I shall let the pictures speak for themselves~ xD I did some live tweeting during the event! Made new friends too~ ^^

As for the event we held previously, please keep a lookout here, TQP is planning something special for our anniversary~! 8D

As always, we are thankful for the support we have received. We are so busy with school and work (aka Life outside of TQP), that we rarely have the time to create/produce more art for this year. At least, art that is of quality that can be sold at cons and events. oTL;;; Half of the year is already going to pass by us! @_@!

Nevertheless, we'll work hard to share our love for art (hey, that rhymed!), and we hope to see you guys with us again! ^^ In the meantime, please remember to get the remainder of our stocks from our online shop!! We need to clear the stocks in order to produce new ones;;;;

Hehehh.. \o/ <3

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Not really back from Katsu

I'm chilling in Union Station in DC with Jacqui and Amanda Our bus is at midnight. Time is going faster with internet haha But Katsu was fun. I was super happy that I got to spend a gratuitous amount of time with Jacqui, Jenna, and Jet. Saw a decent amount of Kate, and Chira too. haha And Caitlin is alive! It was the first time I saw her in over 6 months since she did her Disney college program down in Florida. But now that she's back home, we can start chilling together again? Y/Y? But yeah, I miss everyone so much already. Please come back to my arms. ;A; ♥ The Megan Highlights of Katsu since I'm too lazy to do a full length report ✔ Taking Jacqui to NYC on Day 0. I had the great honor to be part of the experience of Jacqui's first trip to NYC. ✔ Funimation Booth Times. I was/ am mayor of the Funimation booth on foursquare! haha ✔ 2P Shoot. Everyone was seriously amazing. Even if in the end we didn't have a Russia or Prussia, it was still a lot of fun. And I would love to do it again. ✔ Spamano with Kate. My Spamano loving heart couldn't handle all the cuteness that oozed out from these shoots. ✔ China Team Fun Times. Saturday was just an absolute blast with Jet and Jacqui. Regardless of the stress prior to performing, I'm glad we did perform in the end. We won Best Journeyman Presentation. though that's not hard when the only other journeyman skit dropped out But seriously, all my bros on twitter congratulating us before we even said anything about winning on twitter made me so happy. Knowing my bros sat at home watching the masquerade on livestream for us makes me incredibly happy like no one can ever understand. I love you precious babbus all so much ♥♥♥ ✔ Also all the HongWan stuff for Taiwan melts my heart. I just felt ridiculously pretty as Taiwan. ✔ Just every moment I got to chill with Jacqui, Jenna, Kate, Kat, Jet, Nikki, and everyone else I saw during the course of the con. ✔ Getting my bros to start saying "kawaii uguu" at some point of the con And I feel like there should be more, but IDK I can't think of anything else?... But yeah, super fun. I look forward to seeing all my bros again. Sad knowing I won't see Jacqui or Jet until Fanime most likely. ;A;

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EoY 2011 x TQP [21 Dec 2011]

The day EoY 2011 took place was the unfortunate day that Singapore experienced her second train network breakdown.

I started out my journey in the early morning from the East of Singapore with part of the train network already disrupted, and had to make a detour in order to get to Woodlands (North of Singapore) on time (i.e. before the event starts at 10am) but alas, the trains were going at slower speeds than usual. I got off halfway through my journey, and luckily I did, because at that moment.. The disruption was extended to cover more of the train network. So I had to hop onto a taxi to make it there with a smoother journey. Fortunately, I didn't bump into any traffic jams.

So when I got to Republic Polytechnic, finding the event venue wasn't difficult as it was right at the entrance. ^^ I went straight there, we got our booth passes and got down to setting up our booth. This time, TQP shared the booth with 4 other artists (including chibimeli). Due to the traffic conditions, two of us were late, but we still covered a few sales. ^^

I met with repeat customer Viktor - it's a pleasure to have chatted with you! Thank you so much for showing interest in our KyouKaku OCs and even recognizing them!! ;__; It makes me happy~ I hope to see you again at our next event, and by then I hope TQP will have produced new art of our OC's! ^^

Sales were admittedly slower than from AFA, but nevertheless, TQP saw support and interest in our booth. Please continue to support us~!! I recognized some people and it was great to meet new people too!

Although, there might have been some factors contributing to slower sales, one being the fact that Comic Fiesta in Malaysia was on the exact same day as EoY this year.. (I really wish to go there someday......) The other factor is probably the location and/or the cost of the tickets for the event. Or did the transportation breakdown dampen your moods? I sure hope not!! xD..

Overall, we have seen immense support during our comeback this year. ;w;bb ♥ Next year, we wish to broaden our reach! Will our wish be granted? ^^

We'll be holding online clearance sales for 2011's collection, so please watch out for it - especially those of you who aren't Singaporeans! I'll be able to ship out to other countries, so please look forward to it! :D

Thank you for your support! ♥

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Finally, AFA 2011 post is up! Sorry it took me so long! > <;;

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SOY'B' 2010 x TQP.

I am not so late this time! 8Db Heh, so here's the event report for SOY'B' 2010 at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, which took place last Saturday (30 January 2010). Idako was nervous and couldn't sleep well the night before -

- I dreamt that I was super late! TAT! I live on the other side of Singapore from the event location, so I had to wake up earlier to take the train to be able to reach there on time!

In the end, it went smoothly, and I reached in time to set up the booth. xD

This is the noticeboard kindly provided by the SOY Committee for the event; before I started using my thumbtacks and stabbing putting up the prints and prices for display!

All done! :D

Then I proceeded to work on the table display - I should've brought a tablecloth, but in the end, the easel had a good effect! xD And so did nendo Miku and MEIKO. ♥

By then, it was around 10.45am, and the event was about to be opened to public soon - as soon as that happened, things were actually slow on my side. xD;; I met some familiar faces from AFA'09, and so it was really wonderful to see you guys come down again!

Towards the end of the day, someone asked if I did sketch commissions. I usually don't, because I lack confidence in my on-the-spot drawing skills. I didn't even bring a pencil! OTL;; A BIG THANK YOU TO Silent Studio FOR LENDING ME YOUR PENCIL! ♥ I agreed to see if I could step up to such a challenge though! He requested for the KyouKaku gang, and so whilst I felt that I failed in portraying them as nicely as the limited print, I'm glad with the results of me being able to draw in such a short time-span. @__@;; Once again, thank you! ^__^~

The event closed as a success again! :D We are so grateful for the support, though, we know you guys just LOVE those Chibi VOCALOIDs bookmarks! xD!! We've also met new people - apologies that Idako doesn't have a deviantArt account - so please stalk her here on Skylight-Cafe.net! xD;;; This place gets lonely with the lack of comments.. D: Lolz.

Last but not least, we actually have some remainder stocks! o__o!! All the pieces are limited, and we'll be posting up the prices and shipping and information later this week. Please do continue to support us! :)

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AFA'09 x TQP.

OTL;;; This is A REALLY LATE EVENT REPORT! Sorry!! I'll try not to let that happen again;; Anyways, now that the pre-orders are already sent out and AFA'09 is over and done with, I (Idako) has the report right here! :3

Friday, 20 November 2009

The eve of AFA'09.

I was prepared with our two posters (one for the wall, and one for the table), and our prints were all packed and labelled.

The VOCALOIDS chibi bookmarks.

The VOCALOIDS regular bookmarks.

And the limited edition VOCALOID POLAROID and KyouKaku prints. ♥

I packed them away in their boxes and into my bag. It would make things easier for Saturday morning. So I headed for the event location, Suntec City Convention Centre, to meet up with the The MAGE Shop's owner to help with the booth set-up. Woddee came after work to help out too.

After setting up, and admitting that our stomachs were too hungry to carry on, we left for dinner at Pepper Lunch. Nom nom nom. :3

I got the table cloths for the booth - what a bright and blinding colour. @__@ xD;;

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Woke up early to dress up. xD I wanted to cosplay, but the prints took priority, and so I settled with just dressing up for the occassion. But in the end, we were all still late - me, Woddee, and angelus shared a cab there. xD;;

Once we got there, though, it was BUSYBUSYBUSY, and wow, just, kept sellingsellingselling.

I smiled a lot, which is rare. OTL;;;;;; But I was genuinely happy that it was so far, so good. Had late lunch, and just after I finished my last bite of McChicken (from Mac's lol), my mom and sis called, saying they were outside waiting for me to bring them in. That was about 5-ish pm already. o___o Time really flies.

So I went out and went in again with them, and showed them my booth.

They were proud of me..? :'D

Hai, Ida-chii desu~ Lolz.

All of the artist's works. Aren't they all pretty? *w*bbb

Answering a customer's question. xDD

Then my sis helped me snag some photos when she and my mom walked around the event.

Harumika booth. Pretty doll outfits.

I WANT ONE OF THESE SO BADDDDD D8 Especially the crepe-maker. It looks so fun, and makes real food! I totally am a sucker for these things. Hurhur.

And then, not long after the I♥Anisong concert started, and so the crowd naturally thinned out. I ended the day worrying if I had enough stocks for Day 2. LOL. Had dinner at Secret Recipe's cos I was too hungry to think about going home first.

Sunday, 22 November 2009

The crowd passing by the booth was considerably less than Saturday's, so I guess I worried over nothing. But then again, the chibi bookmarks started selling out, so I put up a sign to offer pre-orders. :3

I also got the opportunity to walk around myself, and take in the experience. Prepare yourselves for my picspam. 8D

Uh, I'm selling VOCALOIDS, so what other pics would I go for first? xD;; Miku and the twinsss.

I find it interesting that the figurines has movable joints. xD;;

I SPOTTED THESE. AND JUST WENT ALL "SQUEEEEEEEEEE!" COS I WANT THEM TOO! D8 HOW CAN I RESIST THE ADORABILITYYYYYY??? ♥

Oh no, Miku! oAo!!

If I can't get the set, I'll just be happy with this. KAITOOOOOOO~ ♥

After gleefully staring/hogging the camera space, I slinked to the stage area.

And these huge-ass event balloons just loomed in the audience area. xD;;

So after checking out everywhere, I went back to my booth. Sales was slow, but I'm happy, which is my main objective. ^^~

AND THEN MAKOTO SHISHIO FROM RUROUNI KENSHIN DROPPED BY and I just HAD to take his picture. His cosplay was just PERFECT! *A*bbbb The funny thing is, Woddee saw him first earlier that morning, and then he walked past our booth, but he wasn't wearing his mask, and we all went "OMG CAN HAZ PEEKTURE PLZ?". That totally must've scared him. OTL;; But we told him that he could please come back when he puts the mask back on, cos we really want a picture of him. so that's how I got this picture. xD!! He was a nice guy, actually, even though he didn't talk much, but I seriously think that his cosplay was excellent. Makes me remember the good ol' times when I watched Rurouni Kenshin. :3

Look! Road from D.Gray-man! xD Her cosplay caught my eye, and she dropped by my booth. I got braver with asking cosplayers if I could have their photo. xD I am actually shy/nervous. orz

x3 I thought their outfits were adorable.

S-SO PRETTYYYYYY ♥ These belong to Woddee's friend~

...Hurhurhur you have no idea how happy these shots made me. :'DDD

The day wrapped up well, I just felt happy and satisfied and proud of TQP for having had a successful and fun time at AFA'09.

We are truly thankful for all the support and love we've received during this time, and we hope that our love for arts will inspire you! ^^~ As of now, we are unsure if we might be participating in other events in the future, but do keep a lookout for us! ♥

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Katsucon Report

I never posted about being back... well I'm back. I had such an amazing time at Katsu. Hanging out with Jet, Ginny, Monty, Kat, Jenna, Brenda, and Hiro (when I got to see her) really made my con absolutely amazing. I'm glad, and don't regret spending my time with bros I don't get to see often. This was probably the second con in over a year where I didn't have any drama. It was beautiful, and great. It made me appreciate the con scene with my friends again since it was becoming nothing but a pile of endless stress, and me freaking out at people. I know I was talking to Jacqui before about how stressful cosplay and cons have been before on twitter, so I guess it just felt really good to be just like "Oh hey, this isn't actually so bad" I think right now, I am just gonna continue my soul searching, and figuring out what really makes me happy in life, and who makes me happy 'cuz you know, I don't post about all the stress in my life right now 'cuz I was trying to sort my thoughts and feelings out before putting it up here, but I have talked to a few friends who have been 100% supportive, and I'm really fortunate to have them in my life right now. Em, Mandy, Mandi, and Laura, I don't think you can ever possibly know how grateful I am for your friendships right about now. <3 <3 <3 Oh, whoops starting rambling, so how about that con report? While I was at the con, things were a blur to me, I was asked "What did you do all day today" and I just stood there going "What did I do today" everything just kinda meshed together. In a good way of course. I had such a great time after all. And it would have only been better if bros who were originally going would have been able to make it. especially my Valentine this year~ <3 Okey, so report under the read more break. And I might have mixed up the order of somethings, but what matters is that it happened that day... right?...

Friday ♔ Didn't sleep at all Thursday night ♔ Got ready and head out the door ♔ And like always, miscommunication between me and my mom ♔ Missed my bus ♔ Got into the city ♔ Somehow snagged a bus an hour later ♔ Bus ride comprises of me trying to get comfortable and sleep, but failing to do so ♔ Arrive in DC ♔ Meet up with Hiro~ <3 ♔ Voyage to the convention center ♔ Arrive at the con ♔ Get into hotel room ♔ Throw on Matryoshka ♔ Meet up with Brenda ♔ Get badge ♔ Run around the con ♔ Oh hey it's Emily! ♔ Oh it's late time to change into Oyasumi ♔ Meet up with Caitlin follower up by Jenna ♔ Take some pictures ♔ Bye Caitlin have fun at the ball ♔ Go up to hotel room to try to take pictures ♔ Lulz never mind. Too many people ♔ Go downstairs to shoot with Sonteen and a bunch of other Oyasumi people ♔ Oh God, they were just all so adorable~ <3 ♔ Good bye cute people ♔ Or not, apparently Sonteen's friend left her sheep. ♔ Now good bye cute people ♔ Good bye Jenna ♔ Text a Jet ♔ Meet up with Jet~ <3 ♔ More Oyasumi shooting. ♔ Oyasumi had 3 shoots. What a whore cosplay ♔ And now I get pictures in a bed ♔ Ari joins us in Oyasuminess ♔ Split from Jet TT^TT ♔ Me and Ari walk around the con ♔ Hello Venus, Esmeralda and Alyssa ♔ "You're the bad son" ♔ Also, I love black jokes with Venus ♔ Good bye Alyssa ♔ Esmeralda talks asks if I know where Cat is ♔ Low and behold they show up a few minutes later ♔ Walk around ♔ Laters Ari ♔ Laters Venus and Esmeralda. I need to go get a wig ♔ Borrow Yukimura wig from Billy. ♔ Change into Gakuen Basara ♔ Time to text Jet again ♔ Shoot Yukipuppy ♔ Using two cues to substitute for Yukimura's spears ♔ Flip desks about how I forgot to bring my soccer ball ♔ Run on photo high ♔ Jet's hotel room is the best hotel room to chill in lolz ♔ Okey leave at 4 AM ♔ Can't sleep ♔ Go on tumblr ♔ Sleep at around 5 AM

Saturday ♔ Oh hey, wake up at 7:20. Get ready and head out the door at 7:45 ♔ Trying to find panel room for that 8 AM Hetalia panel ♔ Find a Jet ♔ We find the panel room together. YAY! ♔ Sit down ♔ Oh my God, can I punch the Russia cosplayer behind us? She was so rude. hkdsjkfddf ♔ And the Russia cosplayer next to me and Jet is creeping on me ♔ Ari and Venus come into the panel room at some point during the panel ♔ Overall the panel was interesting ♔ Talked to the dude running the panel ♔ Okey, time to leave and let Venus run her panel ♔ Time to kill before our panel ♔ Let's take some pictures ♔ Okey, back to Jet's room ♔ Jet runs to panel ♔ I stay behind with Eve ♔ We run to panel together ♔ Also sneak her in since she doesn't have a badge ♔ Run panel ♔ Venus: "Megan, does that really have tea in it?" Me: "Yeah and it tastes beautiful too" No one say anything about how it was milk tea ♔ Crack times with my panel crew: Ginny, Beth, Monty, Eve, and of course Jet ♔ Run into Emily (again) and Hilary. They were so cute in Miyazaki cosplay ♔ Oh my God this Russia cosplayer is creeping on me... again ♔ Thank you Emily and Hilary for pretty much getting rid of her ♔ Bye Emily and Hilary, see you later. ♔ Time to walk around ♔ Watch Beth and Ginny take some Hong Kong and England photos ♔ Oh my God, this creepy Russia found me again. Please just leave me alone. TT^TT ♔ Talk to a Hetalia fan dad who was at our panel, as well as one of the older Hetalia fans. They were totally cool bros. ♔ Jet shoots an Allies minus China shoot. BRB flipping desks that I didn't bring Military!China in the end ♔ It's okey, I photobomb a couple pictures in the end ♔ Now the row of I thinks: I think this is when Jet changed into Gakuen!Hong Kong ♔ I think this is when Me, Jet, Ginny, and Monty ate lunch... ♔ I think this is around the time Kat arrived ♔ I think this is when me and Jet were like shooting Gakuen awesomeness and out beautiful not matching plaid pants ♔ Run into Amanda in her fabulous Femme!France cosplay ♔ Change into our troll Hetalia cosplays, Christmas Bloodbath. ♔ Venture the Dealers Room/ Artist Alley ♔ Ginny and Monty shoot their Prussia and Germany ♔ Oh My God. Some people are just so fucking rude, and obnoxious. Cosplay.com does not own the gazebo area. You can not kick people out of the area who is there already 'cuz of your shoot. Let them finish, and you may carry on your business. Not everyone goes on the cosplay.com forums. ♔ Oh, we're getting kinda hungry. Let's shoot Christmas bloodbath, and change ♔ So much leg @A@ ♔ Can't get into room. Borrow clothes from Jet ♔ Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom ♔ Oh later Kat~ <3 ♔ Let's go to the pool area to take some more pictures ♔ Oh God, I never would have thought I would see the day when regular people were more obnoxious at a hotel than a con goer. ♔ Finally they get some pictures ♔ Oh Hiro is in the hotel room, I can upstairs and change ♔ Walk into elevator, oh hello Jenna, Nissy, and Amanda ♔ "What did you do today?" "Uh...... what did I do today?" ♔ Change into Yukipuppy ♔ Text Jet to see where she is ♔ Go to Ginny's Room ♔ Chill there a bit ♔ Go to Jet's room ♔ Texting Kat to see what's up ♔ Watch things on TV ♔ Kat arrives in Jet's room ♔ Chill for a bit ♔ Laters Jet ♔ Shoot Yukipuppy with Kat now ♔ Wander around for places to shoot ♔ Oh see my roomies, and bunches of other people we know ♔ Let Kat talk to them as I scope out places to shoot more ♔ Oh get a text saying Kat is heading up... well okey ♔ I spot a Jenna with her Oyasuminess, and other friends. ♔ Chill with her, and her friends a bit ♔ After a while we go our separate ways, and I go to pack ♔ Oh Good, everyone is up still ♔ Organize my things, and pack up what I don't need for the next day ♔ Finally done, chill on laptop ♔ Fall asleep checking tumblr since it was taking too long to load. Whoops

Sunday ♔ God dammit, slept in. ♔ Got ready into Military!England ♔ Gave Jet her clothes back ♔ Threw things into bag check ♔ IDK I think I just wandered a bit ♔ I really don't remember what happened here ♔ I remembering chilling with Hiro, Jet, Ginny, Monty, Beth, Venus, Esmeralda, and a few other people around this time ♔ Esmeralda: "Hey Megan, you're short" Me: "Yes, why did you have to remind me?!" ♔ Took a cute picture with a really adorable Sealand~ ♔ Oh a legit British lady gave me an English coin. @A@ ♔ Say good bye to Jet. TT^TT ♔ Say good bye to Ginny, Monty and Beth ♔ Eventually bye to Venus, and Esmeralda ♔ Me and Hiro just chilling until our shoot ♔ YAY shooting times ♔ Crap, I have to come up with ideas? ♔ Okey wasn't so bad ♔ Shoot time over after so long. @A@ ♔ Change into Yukimura ♔ Wander around ♔ Okey let's just leave ♔ Oh ran into for 5 seconds. ♔ Trying to get in contact with Jenna but failing ♔ Oh my God, lady luck on our side, she's on our bus! ♔ We go our separate ways at the train station ♔ Fall asleep on the train ♔ Eventually get to Hiro's apartment ♔ And out we go to Kaj's place for dinner ♔ We get there and they're watching CSS ♔ Hiro: "Why is this so cute?" Me: "'Cuz it's Clamp. It's it's not oh my God cute, it's gay" ♔ Nom Nom Nom ♔ It's also very cold. I tried to ignore the cold by closing my eyes, but that didn't work and I eventually gave in and put my jacket back on ♔ Delicious desserts~ <3 ♔ Okey time to leave ♔ Bye bye people I just met/ people I finally got to meet ♔ Back at Hiro's apartment ♔ Shower ♔ To the internet! ♔ Sleep, I do that.

Monday ♔ Got up, and ready ♔ To Hiro's school! ♔ Have McDonald's for lunch ♔ Talk to her friend ♔ Okey, time to catch that bus back to the train station ♔ Bus is here. Bye Hiro. TT^TT ♔ I don't wanna go. TT^TT ♔ But I leave anyway ♔ Arrive at the train station ♔ Nap on the train ♔ Arrive in Chinatown ♔ Starbucks for a warm drink ♔ Wait for my bus in the cold for about 2 hours ♔ This one Megabus employee was the rudest person on the face of the earth. I'm writing a complaint to them. ♔ Finally get on bus ♔ Nap ♔ Wake up ♔ Nap again ♔ Wake up and eat ♔ Play my DS ♔ Too tired. Time to nap again ♔ Wake up oh look we're in Jersey. I guess I should stay up now ♔ In NY! ♔ Finally, the bus has stopped ♔ Walk to Path Station ♔ Just miss the train. Dammit ♔ Take next train home ♔ Finally chillax, and internets ♔ Sleeeeeep~ <3

Okey, so yeah, that was Katsu. I had a lot of fun with everyone. I was able to chill with people I don't get to normally, meet people for the first time, and just the general happy happy fun times with some of the people I love.

Once again, thank you to my con-buddies this go around for the amazing time. I look forward to when we can chill again. So much more excitement for Fanime as well. Oh man. I love you all to bits, and I guess it's time to religiously start planning/ getting to work on Zenkaikon. haha