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I had such a great time at the Anime Expo with my siblings and my friend Steve. We went to the Morning Musume (a Jpop music group) live concert. This was their first concert in the United States.. and I got the chance to see/hear it. They’re very upbeat and happy! I loved it. My favorite songs so far are Aruiteru and Love Machine.
After the concert, I wandered into the exhibit hall and I was determined to bring back some manga home. I ended up getting Kana de Manga and The Manga Cookbook which are very adorable. I also got the Morning Musume cd. :)
We left the expo at 5:30pm and had dinner in Little Tokyo. It’s now a tradition to have dinner at Teishokuya of Tokyo after the Anime Expo every year. :)
I’m thinking about heading back tomorrow just to take photos of all the great costumes. But that’ll depend on my family engagements.
More photos from AX 2009:
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To be honest, I don’t know much about Anime or Manga, but @dragonal‘s cousins and aunt convinced us to go Anime Expo last year. I had a really great time. So I couldn’t miss this year’s event! My sister and brother are both addicted to it too, so why not make it a family affair? :)
The one thing I really love about this conference is seeing everyone all dressed up. You can’t help but smile at all the amazing costumes. I’m going to attempt to buy some Anime stuff this time so I can learn a thing or two about Anime. :)
And if you didn’t know already, I’m a big fan of Pikachu! Last year I managed to find Ash and cute little Pikachu. I wonder who will show up this year. I can’t wait until tomorrow! If you’re at the Anime Expo tomorrow, let’s meet up! I’ll be tweeting where I’m at. :)
I just noticed that my plumeria started blooming yesterday! I repotted it and decided to take some photos today since it’s so nice and sunny. I love the two-tone colors. :) I can’t wait until the other flowers start blooming too.
Photo taken by Albertech.net / @@dragonal
WordCamp SF was the first WordCamp event that I attended physically. I attended PodCamp+WordCamp Hawaii virtually last year. I have to say that I had the best time ever. I knew I would the moment I found out the date and registered. There were more than 700+ attendees… doubling the size from last year! There were so many great people attending too. I didn’t get the chance to meet and talk to everyone that I wanted to, but there’s always next year, and WordCamp LA is coming up as well!
WordPress means A LOT to me since I was using it from the very beginning. It’s the essence of my internet existence. When @photomatt gave the State of the Word, it brought back so many nostalgic memories. I remember helping Michel V (the original coder of b2) beta test his software about 9 years ago. I use to constantly hack b2 every way I could. And I also remember when WordPress was born, as well as all the other blog software there were competing with WP at the time. It was a nice walk down my internet memory lane, and I shall not forget it.
Photo taken by Albertech.net / @@dragonal
@Veronica, @Giannii, @mcnitt, @jyamasaki, @jamescway and I were pretty busy getting ready for #winebarsf tweetup today. We had some great swag arriving all over the place! Many thanks to MightyLeaf, Digg, Revision 3, Tekzilla, Disqus, Zappos, FunnyorDie, AllTop, Twit, Google, Box.net, and Seesmic for all the awesome goodies!
Before the event, I had a pre-tweetup dinner with @emilychang, @maxkiesler, @mcnitt, and @dragonal at Santorini. Mmm, the food was delicious! I highly recommend going there if you get the chance. We left the restaurant to head over to the #winebarsf tweetup, but hit Critical Mass. I didn’t know what that was until I heard all the cars honking at the cyclists. Oops. We were stuck in traffic for a bit, but finally made it to the #winebarsf tweetup!
It was awesome seeing all our fellow geeks in one place. :) I got to meet a lot of people — too many to name — that night. It turned out to be a nice pre-Wordcamp event. Thank you all for coming!
I left #winebarsf around 10:30pm and went to have desserts at Ghiradelli with my college friends. Yum. Yum, yum. Now I need to figure out how to get some sleep before the big day at Wordcamp SF!
