WCS, Mam and Innocent World

[aimeekitty]

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Does anyone know if Mam and Innocent World allow international english orders?

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"What is important today is that Giorgia is the best cosplayer in the world as stated by the jury that she certainly didn't know and overall with the best costume. What counts is that the Italian team is the best in the world."
yeah, the best in the world at CHEATING? At a competition that is a completely rigged farce. I mean COMPLETELY RIGGED.

what most irks me other than the hurtful things that were done to all the cosplayers OTHER than the Italians, is that lots of ignorant people are going to see the results of this competition and assume that Italy DID win fairly. I have never seen something so insanely rigged in my entire life. See This post, and also this one, a translated response of the Italian go-to boy. Anyone who supports or competes in WCS next year is a complete IDIOT.
I hope that TV Aichi realizes that it is making Japan look bad to outsiders. Thankfully, we know that they don't actually represent Japan...

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"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy" -Jim Rohn
I really do think that, but it's hard to keep those walls down, isn't it?

my tire exploded yesterday. It took me ALL day to get it fixed and now I'm having to make up hours all week. *_*.

food: YESTERDAY:: 2 eggs, some strawberries, 2 slices of whole wheat toast, a slimfast shake and a beef shabushabu salad with 30 min cardio. TODAY: no cardio... not enough time. ate 2 slimfast shakes, 2 slimfast "snacks", some spinach leaves and a grass-fed burger that Mitch made. Both days I stopped eating before 7 pm and had no booze.

Comments

[lberghol.livejournal.com]

ARGH! The same thing happened to my tire last week, but it took me DAYS to get it fixed due to mad run-arounds with creepy mechanics and tire companies, and special ordering and nonsense. It still isn't completely fixed, since I still have to get it into the shop to fix the problem that caused the blow out in the first place...it completely destroyed my work scheduale, and I'm still making up for it...

So yeah..cars suck, we should attach wings to horses and be done with it.. ;P ;)

Oh and thankyou for the Loli links! I haven't gotten to look at them due to work nonsense, but I bookmarked them all for eye-candying later ;)

[lovemeeko.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to get involved. If Italy thinks they won fairly, then they are stupid and completely clueless. It was quite obvoius from the start who TV Aichi was catering too.

Truthfully, the only audience members who loved Italy were the 40+ old otaku men. If the audience had a choice to pick the winners, China would of won.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I'm just floored after I read H. Bunny's post. I mean really. I know you said it was bad, but geez.

[esques.livejournal.com]

/I really do think that, but it's hard to keep those walls down, isn't it?/
You and me both =/ That's something I've been dealing with for as long as I can remember.

[sakurae.livejournal.com]

I hate to admit it but the walls are my safety blanket, especially after traumatic events in my life. I know it's not healthy in the long-run but it helps me heal if that makes any sense.

Good for you on the fooding! Does Slimfast really keep you from being hungry though? I kinda wanted to try but was afraid I'd get hungry faster because it's liquid that your stomach processes faster.

[twjudy.livejournal.com]

I actually did slim fast for about six months...

as a liquid, yeah, you get hungry pretty easily... I found what worked was putting it in the freezer for 20 minutes... it gets slushy and fills you up nicely :)

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I get the ones with less sugar. I do get hungry again, but I have to try not to eat anyway, and I have to have a snack in about 2 hours

[crzydemona.livejournal.com]

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy" -Jim Rohn

I think I built my walls to try to keep the joy IN. ... it didn't work.

[naveen.livejournal.com]

good god, that is one awful trip. i can understand the person's arguement. even if it wasnt rigged, and actually judged fairly, italy could have won just the same. but since it -was- rigged and -wasnt- judged fairly, then that just makes simple dissapointment turn into anger and bitterness.
the italian person neglects to realize that just because you have never met the actual judges before the competition, does not mean that they have not been told who to vote for...
that whole thing really was pointless. and she ruined her costumes to boot. :(

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

TV Aichi can do what they like, but they deserve to reap what they sow (almost wrote "sew" :p) - they can continue to feature their alleged "WCS" with their few carefully pre-chosen fluff-bunnies, but SERIOUS cosplayers should shun them and pointedly take their work to REPUTABLE events instead.

Frankly, TV Aichi is really shaming their country, blackening its name (as Howl would say) with this rigged-as-hell "International Competition". People in Japan should be outraged too; I'm sure some are.

[lovemeeko.livejournal.com]

A majority of the Japanese cosplayers who were apart of the WCS audience are outraged by the results and feel that TV Aichi took adantage of the international cosplayers.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

I just feel very sorry for you and all the other innocent cosplayers involved in any way who've been basically "taken for a ride" by this unscrupulous TV station and its bogus event. Has TV Aichi no sense of shame? Did they really think it would go unnoticed, or do they think they are so "powerful" they don't give a damn?

I honestly hope Karma hits them where they feel it - in their reputation at least, if not their ratings. If they want to be the "National Enquirer" or "Weekly World News" of the Japanese TV broadcasting world, they're certainly working hard toward that goal. :/

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

that's good to hear.

It's just, reading about how this went, it's easy to think "Wow, Japan treats people like this?" (if you haven't had any or many experiences to the contrary)

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

What is important today is that Giorgia is the best cosplayer in the world

Ah yes, the old "Legend in Their Own Mind" syndrome. Big deal. ^^

[ziggybecket.livejournal.com]

Sorry, had to delete and ban the idiot who made that post.

Ironcially that person created the account today just to make that post, very suspicious. :P

As for walls. I have to say, walls are good right now. Yep, very good. I know it's going to come back and bite me, but for this instant, walls are good. :-/

[ex-howlinmad825.livejournal.com]

Not to be all HAY U NEEDA DIET or anything (You really don't, but I do know what it's like wanting to shed a few lbs for your own self image), but if you ARE going to diet, don't waste your time with slim fast. You might as well go have some candy or something, it's basically just sugar. Which also explains why another commenter said it doesn't keep you filled-- it's not the fact that it's a liquid, but because your blood sugar skyrockets and then crashes, making you hungrier than if you hadn't had it to begin with. The concept of Atkins, zone, etc. etc. "fad" diets (which have actually been around for years and years-- look at what athletes eat) is to keep your blood sugar stable. I'd recommend munching on unsalted (too much salt will make you feel bloated and worse) nuts as a "no guilt" snack whenever you're craving something. If you've just gotta have sweet, go for berries, they have the most fiber of anything naturally sweet, which will help your blood sugar rise and fall slower.
But definitely ditch those shakes (and the "snacks", unless they're sugar free). If you've gotta do shakes I'd say go for Atkins, even if you don't believe in low-carb, they're sugar free and not bad tasting at all. Slim fast is like drinking chocolate milk or something.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

I've been trying the low sugar slimfast ones... are they still not worth my time? it's at least 50% less sugar.

[ex-howlinmad825.livejournal.com]

Depending on how much you enjoy them/how sane they keep you, I wouldn't keep drinking them if they had more than say, 10 grams of sugar, or cut down to one a day at least? Sugar is what usually kills people on diets, they cut down on fat but up on sugar to keep themselves satisfied, but then don't get results and quit. It sucks that everything that's easy is full of junk these days :[