After booking out from camp early in the morning, I went home to sleep until 11+am. Then studied a bit for my 会話試験. Reached JCS at 2:10pm. Supposed to start at 2pm but doesn't matter because everyone only gets one random topic which consists of four questions, thus only taking one or two minutes, depending on how much answer you give. I kena the not so simple one. Walau totally blank out and forgot the answers that I memorized. In the end there was silence for around 10 seconds before I uttered just some simple sentence. The other few questions were also answered with a simple one-sentence answer. Holy shyt! Sure score very little points. Oh well as least it's all over! 終わりだ! But then again, here comes the real challenge. JLPT3!! 2 weeks to go. How well I do depends on how I can make use of my time in ICT to study. Maybe this ICT came at the right time. It gave me the time to study my Japanese in camp. And so after the massacre in JCS, Jiahao and I then proceeded to lunch, but I had a drink only since I ate at home already. Then he left for Sim Lim while I went to Suntec to join Nic at AFA.It was a massive crowd at the usual level 3 area with throngs of cosplayers and photographers. I got the ticket from Nic that he helped to buy earlier. It is $15 this year. Don't remember it being so expensive last year. But anyways Nic continued to shoot the cosplayers while I went to the AFA exhibition hall. Lotsa Gundam, as usual, as well as tonnes of other figurines from all sorts of animes. There is the Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe as seen from the website. Can't miss it since it's specially made for AFA. Therefore after walking around the exhibition hall, I then got Nic to go up and together we went for dinner at the maid cafe. No photography allowed. ZZZzzz... But then I just snapped other things instead of the maids stealthily with my iPhone lol. And as expected the maids will say some cute lines followed by "goshujin-sama", meaning "Master". There weren't much set meals left on the menu, so Nic chose the chicken burger set while I chose the beef burger set, at $25 each. Very costly but it's just for the experience. There was a burger, with fries, soup and tea, and of course little maids in kawaii maid uniforms serving you and addressing you as "Master", so $25 is justifiable lol.
We were given just one hour to stay within the maid cafe. At least they give us a photo taken with their own camera and then print out for us, but we had to wait at least an hour for it cos they only had one printer. So the tea was served and we were asked if we wanted milk or sugar. We both wanted milk and so the maid serving us, Miyake, then opened the little cup of milk and poured into our tea. We effectively don't need to do anything. And then our main dish arrived. One of the maids then made special smiley faces on our burgers and decorated the rest of the plate with other cute drawings using chili sauce. LOL. Just like what I saw on those shows that show maid cafes in Japan. Then a few maids gathered around our table to do their magic. They did some hand signs, waved around and chanted a "Moe Moe Kyun Pa-wa Uppu!" (meaning Moe Moe Kyun Power Up) spell to power up our dinner. We saw them teaching other tables to follow their gestures but for our table they didn't tell us to do the funny gestures. Haha luckily, cos otherwise we'll be quite paiseh to do so. We see guys from other tables quite stunned and can't really follow what the maids were doing. But it's all kinda fun and interesting wahahah. We then took a picture with Miyake. KNS the male staff said can only give us one maid to take photo with. Previously Hitomi said can take pic with her and Miyake. In the end we only took one with Miyake.
And so one hours passed by quickly and we were shown the door. T_T And as we left, we saw another group of people, around 6 of them, taking a picture with 4 maids! KNS! Tio cheated. Why other tables can have so many maids! ZZZzzz... And so Nic went to the concert area while I went down to level 3 again to take pictures of the cosplayers. There were much more variety compare to last year's. Plenty of interesting and new costumes.
After scanning through the cosplayers, I then went back up to join in the concert. Nic got the actual concert tickets for two days which cost $188. And he got the front row seats, which was very up-close to the performing artists. The entrance ticket to AFA also ensured viewing of the concert, but at a much further distance away from the stage and the seated ticket-holders. But still I was able to see quite clearly of the performers of the day, namely Yoshiki Fukuyama and MAY'N. It was a pretty atmospheric concert hall with bright lights and some pyrotechnics. They also threw tonnes of lightsticks throughout the show to ensure that the crowd hyped up the atmosphere. Totally awesome. I was busy taking pictures and videos although the authorities kept announcing that video or photo capture was not allowed lol. Plenty of others were also taking pix and videos of the wonderful performances.
After the concert was over, I went to collect my photo at the maid cafe and also went to get the Gundam figurine that Tat Yeong wanted me to help him buy. And then Nic got the opportunity to go onto the stage and have an autograph of MAY'N and even take a photo with her! Nice! That is a very nice picture, as I saw it on Nic's DSLR. That picture is priceless for sure for Nic. And then that's all for the day. I stood there for almost two hours for the concert. Damn tiring. Even more tiring than doing guard duty wahaha.
