Random Otaku’s Fault

7/26/2005

Lovely title isn’t it? Don’t worry, there is a rhyme and reason behind it as I’ll soon explain.

I somehow through events beyond my control (not really) ended up going to Chinatown with Waisoon. Boy was it ever fun getting up at 6:45am to go down around 7:30am! Ate dim sum at his dad’s restaurant as usual… Waisoon also paying for it as usual too. We walked around to burn off breakfast but since it was only 10am and we had plenty of time to kill before meeting up with Jan and Wai’s 1:30pm doctor’s appointment, crashed at his NY apartment for a few hours.

Through good luck and double checking directions, met up with Jan and one of his classmates at 22nd and 6th to do a lite lunch nearby which consisted of us just getting fruit smoothies. Wai had to get going soon but needed to drop by BestBuy to pick up a new remote. As we were looking around, Jan found out his professor suddenly got sick (heat stroke probably) and called off the rest of class for the day. What luck right?

Jan now free, himself and I headed off to Book-off on E 41st between 5th & Madison with his classmate tagging along (and giving us directions) while Wai went back to Chinatown for his doc appointment. After spending an hour at Book-off, where Jan’s classmate left to do other things, I was $67 more poor. I was hoping to find Mai-HiME v1 & 4 and Air Gear v10 but no luck. Instead I picked up Girls Saurus v1-2 ($3 & $1), Vulgar Ghost Daydream v1-2 ($4.50 each), Tsukihime v1 ($4.50), Sentimental Graffiti Image Artbook ($14), and Tsukihime Prologue DVD ($30). Looking through the stuff, I was a bit disappointed with the Sentimental Graffiti artbook since I’ve already seen all the art though it’ll be nice to have them in physical form. I don’t know what to say about the mangas I picked up other than I already have them scanlated but once again, nice to have in my hands; especially the beautiful artwork of VGD. And as for the Tsukihime DVD… that and the artbook were definite impulse buys… the TYPE-MOON artwork drew me in… ;)

Crying tears over my new purchases, Jan and I headed back to Chinatown to meet up with Waisoon and got some Malaysian 7-rainbow dessert thingie. It’s pretty frickin’ good especially since it’s only $2 and surprisingly the corn in it makes it work so well. After dessert, hit Elizabeth Center where I promised Random Otaku from the animeblogger.net forums I’ll try to pick up a MegaHouse Lunamaria figure for him. Too bad the store that originally had 5+ boxes of each MegaHouse figure didn’t have any left. Felt kind of disappointed at this point that I let the guy down but then I remembered there was another store two feet away. Surprise surprise as this store had them! Exactly one Lunamaria figure left to boot! I picked that up ASAP and thought that would be it. A few seconds later I gave in again and picked up a GSD and HoiHoi figure for $10 each, but then the owner said the GSD ones are 2 for $15… and yea… another $25 spent on three small figures!

Yet another bout of tears later, the three of us went back to Wai’s apartment to crash until dinner with his dad and younger sister. There I looked through all the crap I bought and opened up the figures box to see which I got. On the HoiHoi-san front, picked Combat-san while for Gundam SEED Destiny I got Aisha and Meyrin! Not bad not bad. The figures themselves aren’t too bad looking and one has got to love the Meryin sitting pose ;)

Dinner was great as we went to a nearby Malaysian restaurant and had a lot of kick ass food. Too bad I don’t remember any of their names but it was all good. Wai’s dad also treated us! Man, the Chan family’s way too kind…

… and that’s my day in a nutshell. Came home $90 more in debt plus a lot of random stuff I had to get done online. joy. Oh yea, as for the title entry I’ll like to blame Random Otaku since if he never asked me to pick up the Lunamaria figure I might have just said no to going to NY today. Or at least not have picked up those three figures at Elizabeth Center…

Ending photos:
Meryin, Combat-san, and Aisha
Mangas and Artbook attack
Tsukihime Prologue Outside Cover
Tsukihime Prologue Inside, DVD, and Booklet

4 Responses to “ Random Otaku’s Fault ”

  1. Zeb on 8/4/2005 at 4:11 am

    I love how you can just, walk to the store next door and get what you want XD
    The concept is alien here in NZ when most of the time, to get half of what you got, you’d need to order online *sighs*

    Yes, I am in major envy of your buying powers.

  2. Jeremy on 8/16/2005 at 7:35 pm

    you’re spending too much on anime! I remember doing that on my first year in college. My waistline went down from 34-28 in one semester coz I had to sacrifice a lot of money to get those lolz Hmm I just gave you a good reason to buy more. Alrighty! Good luck getting more cash for your collection

  3. Vinn on 9/19/2005 at 1:31 am

    Lol I used to work at 1 of those store on the weekends in Elizabeth Center :P The smaller one hehe.

  4. Fabrizo on 5/3/2006 at 12:59 am

    Hi, Ive been looking for a store like you mentioned here for awhile, I was wondering if you could email me the names and addresses of them. You can reach me at fabrizo@optonline.net. Thank you.
    Im goin to have to find myself one of those Lunamaria figures :)

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