The Comic-Con is one of the top San Diego events that fanboys should attend at least once in their lives.

Wow! I’m finally back from my trip to Comic-Con and I have pictures to share! Before posting them, I’d like to say that I had such a kickass time while I was there and I’m already yearning to go back. I miss Con and downtown San Diego, dearly. There are a lot of photos I took so I’m going to try my best to organize them in a way that your head won’t blow up. The photos that didn’t quite make it to this post will soon go in to my Flickr.

The photos which did make it however will be sorted in these four groups:

• My Cosplay: The costumes I wore to Con
• The Floor: Pictures that were actually taken at Comic-Con
• Food Porn: The extremely delicious and mouth-watering food I ate during my stay in downtown San Diego
• Creepy Ass Hotel: We stayed at the Horton Grand Hotel, it’s old and supposedly haunted

 My Cosplay

I went to Comic-Con for Three days. The first day I was dressed up as “reversed” Nintendo’s Mario, second day was a gothic Lolita and thirdly was my most prized, Frost from Mortal Kombat.

My Frost cosplay received a lot of compliments, in fact, I was interviewed by two different networks because of this costume. I’m glad this happened because I worked pretty hard constructing it and even waking up 7 in the morning to start the tedious process of the makeup and hair.

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After tweeting about the sound of my voice, Renn asked me if my voice changes depending on the person I talk to. I was confused initially, but after giving it some thought, I knew exactly what she meant. In other words, yes, my voice does change, sometimes just slightly or sometimes drastically, depending on the situation and the person I’m addressing too.

In social situations, I would probably describe myself as an “adjuster.” A person who adjusts to one or more people they are interacting with in order to make the situation as comfortable and least painful as possible. For instance, if I’m talking to a rather annoying attention whore who likes to hog the entire conversation, then I will automatically stay quiet, nod, and say “uh huh” and “mm yeah” after every other sentence, rather than competing with them. If I’m talking to a shy and quiet person, then I will speak up more and fill in the gaps of what could’ve been awkward silence.

I will even adjust my accent and the pitch of my voice without even paying attention to it. I really don’t think I’m trying to “fake” it either–it’s mostly subconscious, and you don’t realize you’re doing it until you look back on what you did.

In general, I have a low voice. Not low to a point where it sounds unattractive and manly, but a bit lower than the voice of an average woman, I figured. I was born in Massachusetts, but was raised in California. I don’t have that stupid California “valley girl” accent. My accent is pretty standard American, but there are a few words I say that originates from Boston.

However, this voice changes when I’m speaking to:

• Family: My accent changes (hilariously) from American to Vietnamese. The older the family member is the stronger, less pleasant and higher-pitched said accent becomes.
• Fobs: I interact with new customers everyday at work and a good portion of them barely speak English.  Thus, when speaking to an Asian immigrant, I speak with a generic Asian accent no matter if they are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, whatever. When speaking to a Latino immigrant, I speak with a slight Mexican accent. I’ve had a lot of Mexican friends since childhood, so it comes pretty natural to me. Sometimes, I get Russian people, so I speak with Russian accent! You understand the point.
• But I’ve come to accept that I am just really, really extra lame. My brain won’t stop believing if you speak to the foreigners in the respective accent, then they will understand you better.
• Buddies/People I’m use to: Besides doing celebrity impersonations and mocking southern accents for them, when I’m the presence of close friends, I tend to talk much lower and slower, everything is just much more laid back. I really think it’s because they’re my closest friends, which means I don’t really need to impress them.
• People I want to impress: Think of a weather girl or an American news reporter reporting the news for Dateline (hey, at least that’s what I’d like to believe).
• Boyfriend: This is probably the weirdest and most drastic one of all, and I CAN’T HELP IT. My voice is naturally low, but it becomes a lot more high-pitched, whiney, annoying and ditzy when it’s just me and my boyfriend. Frankly, I really don’t know why. I really don’t. A part of me believes that I simply want to sound more cute and feminine to my man because my voice is so low…orrrrr as cheesy as this sounds but perhaps he makes me more of a woman? /shrugs

No matter what you’re allergic to, it’ll always suck because your body can’t handle certain things that’s either difficult to avoid because it’s everywhere or it’s completely innocuous to everyone else. Take for instance, peanuts. Peanuts are, well, peanuts. I enjoy eating them with a lot of things or even by themselves, but if my professor would eat one, he’d literally die.

…that sucks.

There was a Cracked.com article I found listing the top most “terrifying” allergies you can get, aaaaand they are:

6. Electricity (though I find that to be bullshit)
5. Exercise (aka cholinergic)
4. The cold (aka cold urticaria)
3. Sunlight (aka solar urticaria)
2. Semen
1. Water (aka aquagenic)

Nuts, right? To add even more sucky-ness to this, I shit you not, I myself have FOUR out of SIX diagnosed allergies listed up there (hint: They are not electricity or semen)–and there’s even more that didn’t make it to Crack’s list (like pressure).

Before you think I’m some kind of a creepy hybrid of the wicked witch and a vampire who only lives in complete darkness, I’m not. I won’t blowup into pieces when I’m in the sun or try to exercise, but I will get really red itchy spots on my body. I won’t turn into a snowman when I’m cold but I’ll form hives and rashes from it. And nothing happens when I drink water (thankful), but when I take a shower or swim in the pool, I will get hives, red bumpy spots and massive itchiness.

These are the little things I have to go through every single day for the past six years, but I sure as hell don’t let them control my life. They can just get annoying as hell to have, but thankfully I haven’t had a severe case ever since I took medication.

I just thought it was fun to share a little factoid on my insane skin sensitivity to mother nature, but what I’d also like to know is, what are you allergic to? What are some of the craziest things you’ve heard people have an allergic reaction to?