Hi Guys,
Just an updated, we'll be having another picnic on Saturday 23rd of February. It'll be in Hyde Park again starting from 12:30. We're going to play games and chat about the bands we like. Everyone is free to join!
Here's the official Facebook events page:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/581745671842588/
And of course, this is organised through the Visual Kei Sydney group:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/200826070052392/
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Monday 10 December 2012
Visual Kei Sydney first event – Hajimemashou!
Event held On December
8 2012
So, here it is – our very first entry! To give a
background to this blog:
Visual Kei Sydney is a facebook group dedicated to bringing
people with a shared interest together. Originally, this started with another
facebook group Jrock Visual Kei for Australia, which at present has almost 400
members. From this main group, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane groups broke off
in order to arrange group events and meet-ups. This blog is an accessory to the
Visual Kei Sydney group. We use the group primarily for planning events, but we
thought the blog would be a great place to show others what we do, hopefully
encouraging more people to join in! This blog will include members comments
about group meet-ups, but may also include other relevant blog entries such as
album reviews or general banter about our favourite bands.
We welcome any one in or around the Sydney area (or if
you frequently come to Sydney etc and are interested in meeting up) with an
interest in Jrock and/or Visual Kei to join our group. We don’t exclude anyone,
but simply ask that you be respectful and considerate towards everyone (in
plain talk, no bitchy bitchy thanks). Now, onto the main blog topic, our first
meet up! Please be aware that I have abbreviated some members names to
initials, as I didn’t get permission to post their names and don’t feel
comfortable doing so without it!
Well, after much planning, discussion and many off topic
tangents, we finally had our first event! There are currently only 28 members
of the Jrock/Visual Kei Sydney group. Of those members, some of them are admin
from the Melbourne and Brisbane groups (we like to stay in touch with each
other), and some live outside of Sydney (but closer to Sydney than Melb or
Brissie) – as far away as Canberra! And also, naturally it’s impossible to pick
a date/time where every single group member can join….that being said, we still
ended up with 11 people participating! Pretty good for a first event and such a
small group!
Our first event was to be a picnic in Hyde Park, followed
by karaoke. We had all agreed to bring some sort of snacks for the picnic, some
people brought home made treats, other store bought – they were all awesome
(^o^)/
I arrived about 10 mins early, and I found Olivia, Ameera
and Marie quite easily purely based on Facebook profile pictures haha. Olivia
seemed particularly excited about the meet up, which helped to break the ice
quite a lot! It was nice to finally meet the three of them and get a little
time to chat to them before the others arrived. A little later three more of
our girls, Alisa, W and K, showed up and we sort of ended up settling in our
meeting spot for the picnic, right beside the fountain in Hyde Park. 4pm came
upon us, and Olivia and I decided walk around the fountain (it’s quite large)
holding the group sign in case some other members were on the other side. In
the end, it actually ended up grabbing too many peoples attention – I think
they thought we were protesting something, or had something really meaningful
to say on the sign – so people kept coming up to photograph it…but we just kept
running away. It was really unexpected, so we didn’t know what to do and just
ended up in balls of laughter o(>_<)o And we also failed to locate any
group members.
We set up the food, I’d made some matcha and red bean
manju, Alisa and K made some really yummy date and cinnamon cake, Olivia made
some biscuits and Ameera brought some ice tea. We really had way too much food
– but oh well! And not long after Y and Kwni found us and joined the party. It
was really good to meet and talk to everyone! We didn’t do much in particular
aside from talking. Ameera brought some speakers with her and Marie played some
music from her ipod for us. I also brought some flyers with me I’d collected in
Japan for the girls to have if they wanted…it was quite fun to hand those out,
and I was happy I seemed to have flyers for some of the members favourite bands
(^O^). I’s also brought some Jmags to flip through
OMG Food \(^O^)/
Photo by Olivia
Flyers~
Photo by Olivia
Hooray!
Photo by Olivia
At around 6pm, Olivia and W had to head home, but at the same time we were joined by J and S so we managed to get a few group
photo’s with everyone thanks to Olivia who sort of got us organised and managed
to find people happy to snap us – including one guy who turned out to be a
professional photographer (and had also mistaken us for a Christian group haha).
As mentioned, the plan for the event was to spend 2 hours at the picnic and
then move to karaoke at 6pm for a couple of hours. We had wanted to go to
Mizuya, which is quite popular and apparently has a really good range of Jrock
and VK songs. However, we hadn’t made a reservation because there was an issue
with the deposit. It took a bit of walking around and rejecting one karaoke
place that we’d got set up in before finally setting in at Echo Point….which
had been our original plan all along. At this stage, I had to leave the event.
I’d had a virus all week that I hadn’t fully recovered from, and I think the
walking from karaoke place to karaoke place kind of did me in. I just saw to it
that everyone got set up, and headed for home where I crashed.
I don't remember dancing at all!
Photo by Alisa
Goodbye Hugs (T_T)/
Photo by Alisa
Photo by Olivia (technically taken by some random dude, I guess)
I’m so happy we did this meet-up, I was abit nervous
beforehand, but our group certainly has some great people in it! I’m really
looking forward to meeting some of the other group members who couldn’t make
it, and also gathering new members along the way!
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