#TouchGrass Share your Friday - #IAmAliveChallenge Saturday November 25, 2023

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It's already around 03:00 AM on Sunday here 😂. Too many activities today and I just have time to make a post now.

Today is such a bad day for me. Why? I already scheduled to participate in Lapakgaming Battle Arena (A gaming event) with my friends. I wake up at 10:00 AM and the first thing I hear is a storm... Wind, rain, and thunder it's like Poseidon and Zeus are at war again. It's already putting me in a bad mood. My friends also can't go because of the heavy rain there. After waiting until 01:00 PM, The storm is gone and I'm walking as fast as possible to the train station. I found that there's a delay and I need to wait around 20 minutes. After reaching the right train station, I continued by bus to find there was a traffic jam at the event place. The traffic jam held me around 30 minutes to go to the nearest bus stop from the event place. I think I arrived there around 03:30 PM... It is supposedly less than 1 hour but it becomes more than 2 hours. Luckily, I have friends who can make me cut the queue and go in from the backstage. But, my first thing to do in that event which is Mission Card is already out of stock. Well, I don't even know what I want to do again after knowing that 😴.

It's the second gaming event from this company. So far, it's better and crowded not like the first one. There are some booths from a game shop, a streamer app, a gaming merchandise shop, Lapakgaming itself, and also game stands. At least, I have friends who are with me. We almost can't do anything because we don't participate in gaming tournaments and we don't have a lot of money right now to buy gaming stuff tho it's on discount sale there 😂.

Some game stands have a game challenge to get a discount to buy something too. People are most likely to queue and see the player who took the challenge. Sadly, the event is in a small area in the mall. It's too crowded. I think it's because, from the first event they held, it's such a big one, fewer people came, outside the building, and no tents so... it's hot and when rain is coming = people are gone.

They learned from the last event and made it inside a mall and the stage is bigger than before with fewer stands too. But, it is too small now 😂. I think they should think more about these 2 experiences of making an event and make the third one better. As it is a gaming event, there are also some cosplayers and brand ambassadors that I found and know. Some of them are participating in competitions too like this image below. She's cosplaying as Iono from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and also participating in the Pokemon TCG Competition.

Iono from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

It's an exhausting one, not because it's fun or I'm having a lot of activities there. It's exhausting as it's too crowded to even walk. After that, with the small money I had for this month's expenses, I tried Ramen1 restaurant for Dinner. I ordered Chicken Teriyaki Bento + Chicken Karaage special price + Spring Calamansi. It cost me 62,677 Rupiah ~ 4.04 US$. For a low-cost dinner, I didn't expect much of the taste. There's a teriyaki sauce on Chicken Teriyaki, I don't know what fried food on right below but I know it's dipped in shoyu, salad with Thousand Islands mayonnaise, and Thai sweet chili sauce on the middle. However, it's quite good with their condiments at the table. They have shoyu, chili oil, chili sauce/sambal, chili powder, and fried shallots. Spring Calamansi is the best overall as it's Soda water + Calamansi + Basil seed. The taste is kinda different from the lime that I usually drink.

For the last word, I'm so exhausted and my leg is sore 😂. 54 minutes to make this post 03:54 AM. Time to sleep. Have a nice weekend~