Day 3
woke up like SHIT. first time ever having a hangover lol. booked it to the tsunku panel with the guys. THE MAN's panel was pretty awesome, a bigger turnout than i was expecting. more people wanted to ask him questions than i expected to, too. after tsunku's panel a handful of us went back to the hotel to work on the scrapbook. me and ping finished it up with some help from arun, and i think mugen was just there sitting around for some reason lol. finished up around 2 and headed back to the con with the book and the gift basket. got to the dealers room and met up with the gang. hooked up strawb3rrykream with a ticket for the session, thanks to aa!rita for that. sat around for a while waiting for the line to be cool. finally got in line and the staff was totally douchy as most people have already said. i wont go into much more detail. got my pic-cards signed. was about to shake reina's hand (she was first in line), her hand was about to touch mine when the handler was like i dont think so dude. reina apologized and said thank you. i was being rushed by the staff so i didnt get to say anything to anyone really, they just smiled and i would say thanks. got to aika and when she looked up she remembered me from the breakfast. shes prolly totally in love with me now, babes. barely remembered to tell eri she was my favorite member. she seemed embarrassed but said thank you and smiled. asked koha if she remembered me, she said yes but i think she was lying lol (see the interview post for more on that). told junjun we had shirts for them and other gifts over on the table.
got out of the little room and staff was jockin us like woah. we all sang happy birthday to sayu and she made them open the side curtain so she could wave at us. we all kinda stood around and had staff yell at us and threaten to pull our badges lol. exchanged experiences with kanki and others while we all waited for mm to leave. headed back to the hotel after some brief planning.
hit the izakaya at 6, shit was JUMPING OFF. quite possibly the best night of the tour and one of the best ever. period. had about 25-30 jph!psters chilling, boozin, eatin, actin a fool. fucken good motherfucken times. the palce was playing mm songs for us for like 45 minutes straight. toasts were made, asses were grabbed, drinks were slammed. went out to find an atm, came back and boy was looking too. we checked out the arcade, called arun down to play some ggxx with us. he schooled us pretty well lol. by the time we were done in the arcade, the gang was heading into karaoke.
karaoke was fucking magical. i dont remember the entire setlist but rokun, comfen, IC and diffstory and their friend all mad rockin the h!p tunes. me and fen did some m-flo loves that seemed to blow everyone away. some dudes tried to crash our party, but were dealt with by our fearless leader. group started to get smaller and our time was up so we all sad good byes to people who were leaving and headed back to the hotel to plan for sunday.
End Day 3
Day 4
Everyone went to the airport to stalk mm leaving lol. i was waiting on a phonecall from someone who i needed to meet up with so i hung back, boykun stayed with. we got some food then hit the con. checked out conops to follow up on the lost bag of shirts. dude said theyd had it for 3 days but didnt tell anyone cus it seemed so valuable. gj asshole. went to check out the dealer room a little bit. went over to the japanfiles booth and talked to Jeff a little bit. ran into alohellofan and we walked around some more. found the balzblue booth and queued up. played a few rounds before boy had to take off. i played a few more rounds and decided to take off. went and found this quiet ass hallway underneath the food court area and just there by myself lol. called my friend back home to talk for a bit then called my mom and said hi lol. met with fen briefly and by then the guys had come back.
went over to the auctions since the girl at the jph booth told me the mm and h&a signed posters were being auctioned off later. auction was long, but fun. JPH!P won the hueg signed h&a poster for $300. the mm one went for $1700, which was a little out of our price range lol. took some pics with the poster after and then hung out a bit. finally was able to connect with that phone call id been trying to get all day. so left the guys at the con to go handle it. met back up with them outside staples. jab was worried about the skeevy hotel shuttle guy jacking our poster so me and arun huffed back to hide the poster in arun's room instead. turns out we didnt need to since jab decided to stay back cus he wasnt feelin well.
met back up with the main gang at this seafood restaurant. had a good fucken time there. said bye to some more people by meals end. took ckd into downtown to visit 7-11 and parted with the dinnysaur. got back to the hotel and me and ping had to gtfo cus it was LATE and we still had a 90 min drive.
got lost on the way home cus i was ranting and missed an exit, ended up in santa monica lol. got home around 2ish i think.
End Day 4
well thats it for my recap. hope it was an interesting read...lol anyway, just wanna say i had a fucking blast with everyone, so glad everyone could make it from near and far! no one at the con had swagga like us--people asking wear to buy our shirts, asking where our booth was? no booth, we pimpin from wall to wall out of backpack! and stickers everywhere! as for all the people i met, yall were awesome:
daigong fucking reppin like he bleeds pink. generous, kind, loud, brash, the fucking man. no better leader than this. kanki amazing to finally meet you, thanks for hanging out with me and putting up with me lol, wish you could been with us the rest of the time, been missing you since day 2 arun bein my shoulder and my ear, mad props for helpin out a drunken fucker. dinny fucken love you girl, youre too awesome. ping my man (nohomo) fucking awesome to finally meet and hang out. planning shit for future, fosho flyp old crew back together again, we rollin! jab awesome to finally meet you bro, sick as hell and snoring like thunder lol. tris great to finally meet you, girl! good job tag teaming with me on the interview, we so baller sev you sexy motherfucker, coming all the way to LA to giggle at some japanese popstars. fuck it was great to meet you bro fenfen fun to hang out again! we tore up that m-flo, well do more next tiem! mugen fucken young honger, sleepy as hell and a crack up aewen conversion final i hope, glad you joined us and hung with a real crew! awesome girl limt quiet lowkey mofo. lol we still gotta do soem ggxx, but it was great to meet you man jayson, a_p, masa, aa!rita, t-back stand up fuckin dudes, awesome to meet you guys commie awesome to finally meet THE comrade, such a tourist (gah you're hot) strawb3rrykream omg you're so chibi and adorable we shouldve sold plushies of you. sayah & shan you girls are great, awesome meeting you, JFC bout damn time man, thanks for coming and thanks for bringing that fucking brother of yours lol kuno fucker, trying to punk us, fucking right you needed to show up! davetron quieter than i imagined lol thanks for coming all the way to hang out man, great to meet you bigfreaky fucking photomaster and scaring mm with your cosplay. awesome dude lol rickker, rokun, linna didnt get to talk to you guys much, but it was nice meeting you! ckd glad you could come and hang out man, see what the worlds about, get that slurpee action going opsmonkey crazy dude, droppin $1k on h&a dolls, good to meet you man differentstory12, I.C., friend of theirs had a great time meeting you girls, hope to see you at the next meet too! terrie & sevii yall are awesome too, repping taiwan with jphip like swagga.
omg if i forgot anyone im sorry.
JPH!P WORLD TOUR 2009 LOS ANGELES BABY