Hi, Good day all,

I'm going to two events in two weeks

The post this time is about my time visited two different expos at Melbourne. First was about the Model Expo, and the second one was about Melbourne Oz Comic Con. Model expo was not the expo about human model, but more into the model kit. This was my first time visited this expo,and for my boyfriend, he always came at this expo, this expo was his favorite expo.

The model expo 2017 held at Sandown Racecourse every year. They had this event as for celebrated Queen's birthday. If you forget, Australia is still part of United Kingdom,so they also have holiday to celebrate the Queen of England. In this expo, you can see a lots of kits that made from the tiny one, until the biggest one. You can find air force planes, tanks, or soldier miniatures. You also can find racing cars, even gundam. The complete story about this expo has been told in my boyfriend's blog, you can visit his blog HERE.

These are some of the model kits that I took when we was at the expo:

who doesn't like cute & sexy model?

Mix between sexy,cute, and robot?why not

ordinary musume also ok

this model is soooooo tiny

this is the model of japanese warship, of course it's never been real

Gundam is the favourite model in here beside tank and plane

Building robot model also one of the favorite thing

this cute pink panther car is a campaign

this is one of my favorite. It's a mini model. And look at those details

Of course...CAR

Car again

they even build a minion gundam

Gundam is still favorite

This is a giant gundam, its tall is almost mine

this also one of my favorite. Look all those details

This archer is also a mini model

Samurai model

they even build this kind of model,amazing

sexy lady, sexy lady everywhere

The only God model that display in a cool form

Oh yes, deadpool

Me taking picture of Mas Bojo taking picture of Tazmanian Devil and it car

Tazmanian Devil & its car

I found the Oz Comic Con by accident. One day when I watched the television, it showed the commercial about this, so asked my boyfriend about visiting this expo. Same like Model expo, this Oz Comic Con also wasn't the fist time in Melbourne,and Australia.

Melbourne Comic Con 2017 at Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Center

Oz Comic Con in Melbourne was held at July 1st and 2nd, 2017, at Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Center. For a cosplayer lover, you can see lots of people wearing their cosplayer costumes. This year, Melbourne Comic Con invited some artists like Allison Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer & How I Meet Your Mother), Jason Momoa (Games of Thrones & Aquaman), etc.

we bought our ticket online, so we just go straight to the gate and each and everyone of us receive this bracelet

We went at Sunday, July 2nd 2017. At this day, they had Games of Thrones Panel with Daniel Portman & Eugene Simon. In these panel, lots of people asked lots of questions, especially about their acts at GOT. Some also have absurd questions like what Hogwart house that they would choose. While Daniel choose Slytherin, Eugene choose Hufflepuff.

Games of Throne Panel is one of the panels they have that day

Talking about Harry Potter, I also found lots of people cosplayed as Hogwart students. Beside Hogwart students, there were lots of cosplayer. From anime/ manga,until game. All were in here.

Since this is the first time for me, I still a little bit confused about how they put the booths around. Lack of instruction's boards, and also staffs. It was so hard to find the staff around.

but you can have fun by playing a game in this event, like this dance competition

Or even having fun with family at creativity corner

this corner is my favorite, because you can see lots of drawing from the guests creativity. And it's fun

Cosplay, of course. This year still dominated by princesses and also wonder women

avengers and its ally....of course

Hey! I meet Groot!!!!

This year Comic Con was the first time they have anime corner. Too bad, for the first time being part of this Comic Con, the Anime Corner didn't feel like anime at all. They had several mangas in english language at their bookshelves at their corner. you can find some of famous mangas here, like Naruto, One Piece, Death Note, etc.They also have schedule for watched anime every half hours. Since I like anime and manga so much, I was expected this corner will be like anime heaven. But it still far from it.

My boyfriend is not a huge fan of anime. When I move here, I introduced him with some of the anime I like, such as Card Captor Sakura, Inuyasha, Death Note, we even watched some animes from Studio Ghibli like Totoro, Spirited Away, and Cat Return.

Comic books at anime corner

All I could see in this expo, Japanese anime or manga still lacked of fan. Even though they are lack of fans, but you still can find some people cosplayed as a popular manga like One Piece and also Sailor Moon.

they even have my favorite manga

I told to my boyfriend that I would like to wear a cosplay too next time. I said I want to be Sakura Kinomoto, or maybe Kagome Higurashi... But I think the best one is being Kaonashi (No face) from the Spirited Away.

This is Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura

Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha

Kaonashi (No Face) fromSpirited Away

Hi, good day all,

Before I moved to Melbourne, Mumun is one of my concern all the time. Because we still have not enough money to bring her with me. And I also I don't have a willing to let her alone at Indonesia, without me with the new parents.

my cutie pie Mumun

As a domestic breed, Mumun is not a special breed in some of Indonesian people who they tell them self a cat lover. And if someone have domestic cat, they will treat the cat as a wild cat. And for them, me treating Mumun to be an indoor cat is something weird, knowing that she "just" a domestic breed.

In Indonesia, if you want an indoor cat, most of them choose an expensive breed, like siam breed, persian breed, and any breed with really really expensive price. I still not find anyone who have domestic breed but treated it like someone who have an expensive breed in Indonesia.

do you know she like to sit at my tummy and cover with blankie?

I had a housemate before, and she had a domestic breed cat. But she treated her cat just like most of Indonesian people with their domestic breed cat. She lets her walk in and out the house, having a contact with wild cats, she even gave her cat human meal as her food. Actually giving fish or any protein to cat will be alright, but to teach them understand which one is my food and which one is her food, you can't share your food with them. She also not provide her cat a litter box, so she always littering around the house, yuck! DIRTY!! So I bought her the litter box to make her understand. Since then, she always provide a litter box for her cat, but another problem occur, this girl don't always clean her cat's litter. Even the best thing to get the cat away from the virus is always clean the litter once everyday, she don't care about it. Me,as her housemate was so angry, I don't want to get sick just because she didn't put any responsibility to her cat.

There is always a good thing for us to learn how to have a pet, before we really adopt one. Like me, since I was a kid, all of the people around me always scared me about how cat can give you toxoplasmosis virus. But since I read lots of articles, finally I know how to prevent the virus, and how to keep our cat free from that virus. The best thing that we can do is always provide clean and healthy food and water for our cat. 

toxoplasma cycle source:https://www.researchgate.net/figure/234087025_fig2_FIG-2-Toxoplasma-gondii-life-cycle-Domesticated-and-wild-cats-are-the-definitive-hosts

Second, providing cat litter box. This is also really important. Since my house have a lots of wild cat, which are so dirty and full of viruses, so keeping Mumun inside is the best way to prevent the virus came to her. This litter box is also the things that keep Mumun inside. She doesn't have to go outside just for poop or pee. And after she doing her business at the litter box, is important to clean the litter box everyday.

Once every two weeks Mumun having her bath with the cat shampoo, and warm water. I want to keep separate between thing that I can use as a human and thing that she can use as a cat, not to mix it. So that's why she had her own shampoo. I said like this,because I still heard some of people around me using the human shampoo for their cat. And the warm water is to keep her calm and not running here and there. Her towel is also different like mine, and drying her fur not with hairdryer. If you don't have a fur drying machine, you just let the fur dry by it self. It will be okay if your cat is indoor cat.

Everytime Mumun went out from home, I always put harness at her. To keep her out of reach. And if we walked a little bit further, I prefer hug her, or put her at pet carrier.

Since I put these conditions for her new parents candidates, no one able to follow what I want. I even don't understand why they can't follow the simple conditions like that. Because of that, I really confuse to leave Mumun at Indonesia. One of my friend agreed to taking care of her, but not her parents. Luckily another friend of mine also want to taking care of her. But since her house is not like mine, most of the time it is open, and lots of people comes and go, she wants me to made something for Mumun to keep her save as an indoor cat.

At the end, I found an article about CATIO. Catio is a cat cage outside the house that connected to the house. To them who have a garden this catio thing is perfect for your baby furry. Your cat can enjoy the outside without worrying they will suddenly gone. Fo me, this catio is perfect for Mumun that still able being outside, without worrying she will meet a wild cat.

Actually, you can make this catio everywhere, as long as it save for your baby furry. The most important thing, you will also not forget to fill it with your cat needed like its litter, food, and toys.

Here are some example of catios I've found at google:

this is an example of simple and easy catio. source: https://catioblog.wordpress.com/

this is extend catio, for cat owner who have creativity to build their catio. sorce: http://icreatived.com/2016/02/catio-spaces-keep-your-cat-safe-and-happy.html/

But since my friend house is not made for connecting catio, so I made the catio separated from the house. It loos like a cage actually, but I like to call it catio.

The tools that needed is so simple. I just only had to find plywood, plastic roofs, and also the carpenter tools. Since it will be difficult, my boyfriend suggest me for looking a carpenter to make it. So I found one, and asked him to build one according the sketch that my boyfriend made.

It just took two days to finished it. Once it finished, he also put the big catio at my friend's house. The catio it self have 1,5 meters length and 2 meters high. In hope that Mumun have lots of space to move around.

this is catio we design for Mumun

two floors for her save place

there's a stair inside too, to get to the second floor

the upper level for her to walk around

Mumun checking her brand new temporary house

big enough for her to moving around

she in totally new environment. Hope she is alright.

Inside the catio, I put her favourite banana pillow, and her blanky. This banana pillow and the blanky are her favorite things when she's with me. With those things around here, I hope she will be alright waiting there until I can bring her with me to Melbourne.

If you still don;t know why I can't bring Mumun with me, you can c come at THIS page to know the reason.