#me on my 12th rewatch of the movie and i get the same butterflies i did the first time i watched it when he shows up OIGh....

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#Madagascar Week 2017 - Day 7: Madagascar Day! | History of Me in the World of Madagascar

Well, it has been 7 days since we kicked off this year’s Madagascar Week with the Movie Day, and finally, we reached the Madagascar Day which this time is on the last day of the Madagascar Week. Today is the day when Madagascar was released in the United States of America, but 12 years ago. And that is when I first met Madagascar, although I didn’t really like it. Not that I hate it, but I don’t have the likeness, you know what I mean? Anyway, although I think I told this story a lot of times, though probably in the tags only and less elaborated, for this year’s Madagascar Day, I will be telling the story of how I met and fell in love with the Madagascar fandom, and then all the way until now, the moment I am writing this...

2005 - It was, a good day. Don’t remember much about it though, but it was a historical day as it’s the first time I am going to the United States of America. At the time, Madagascar was very new, probably a few months old, I don’t know, didn’t really pay attention to that information back then. And obviously, to get to somewhere that far, I’ll have to use a plane and there I go on a plane ride. And at the time they were playing Madagascar on the plane TV, and I thought like, well, might as well want to watch it before I got distracted and ended up doing something else like looking at the clouds and all. My little sister though, was really into the movie. She liked it so much that after I can’t remember how many times she watched it, she accidentally slept and woke up during the credits before crying because she missed it. At the time, the movie to me was a normal movie, mostly because I did not really pay attention to it and watched the boring-ish parts only. And it was all about to change when the year 2009 comes.

2009 - So it’s been four years and I literally forgot about the whole thing, it wasn’t a main and important thing anymore. The only thing that reminded me about the movie was the sequel to the movie, which, I still didn’t really care about. It was more of just a “Oh, it’s this movie, I remember that” kinda remark. But then one Saturday morning, I was going to a local hardware store to look for tools so my father can assemble some IKEA wardrobes and do more, I don’t know, but that kind of stuff. Somehow even as unimportant as it is, I can remember the shop name even though I only went there once. The name is “Tukul” which means ‘Hammer’ in the Malay language. And over there they had a TV, and they had the, probably number 1 channel in this country on, and they were playing TPoM at the moment. I still wasn’t really interested, but was quite. The fact that they ended up not only making a sequel movie but also a TV Series, it must be a good show. But then being me, I got back home and forgot all about it. But after that, probably the month after that, I bumped into the story on a Saturday morning. They were playing Penguiner Takes All and Two Feet High and Rising, and I was like, “Oh, not a bad story afterall”. So I began to like the story, and eventually bumped into Madagascar on a Friday night. That was, I can’t remember how many years after 2009.

2014 - By this time, I had already loved TPoM. It got sad at one point when the channel stopped airing the story. But after just a week they uncancelled it like how King Julien uncancels Xixi’s show. I remember on the 8th of March, I was watching TPoM before I received the news that the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing. And TPoM was the last non-news story which was played on the channel before they went on about MH370. Ok, that’s not the point here. The point is that the Friday after that, they were supposed to air Madagascar 2 and 3, but they cancelled due to the tragedy. So sadly, I had to wait for like a month before they decided that they can play the story already. So back to the point of this, I watched the two other movies and decided that among the three, Madagascar is the best, then comes Madagascar 3, and then Madagascar 2. And then suddenly came Penguins of Madagascar. I first only saw the name and only know that it’s a movie at that time, and I was so excited since I am expecting an elaborated story on Dr. Blowhole. Or Hans (not the zombie :P). OR BOTH OF THEM!!!! But sadly, it was about a whole new villain. Not that it’s a terrible movie, I mean, after rewatching it, it was, pretty good. But then it’s very disappointing to know that it’s not a sequel or a part of the The Penguins of Madagascar plot. But then, it was interesting anyway.

2015 - The year is still new to me, I still occasionally write 2014 instead of 2015. It was February, my favourite month, and I was... I can’t remember exactly what I was doing. But it was something to do with King Julien. And then I found a TV Series called All Hail King Julien. I was quite shocked to see this. So I looked for the story and found it on some site, and watched the first five episodes. It was, pretty good. Not as good as TPoM back then. And I only watched it once, and practically forgot about it. Then exactly one year has passed since I watched TPoM on the day of the disappearance of MH370, I was watching, TPoM again (never realised how it’s on the same day until now). Somewhere in 2014, they moved the story to Sunday, and brought it to 10:30 AM instead of just 10. They were playing I Know Why Caged Bird Goes Insane on that day, and my favourite part was the Commodore Fluffington, causing me to make a search on Commodore Fluffington. And when I searched for it, I found a picture which is part of a photoset posted by @the-bus-called-graveyard-8​. I was quite surprised to see that the fandom is actually still alive and has like lots of Tumblr blogs. So I decided to follow the-bus-called-graveyard-8. At that time, I only have my now ‘closed’ primary blog, so I tend to reblog some stuff there. I can still remember when the-bus-called-graveyard-8 made the first Madagascar Week, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Madagascar’s release. At that time, I did all the stuff using my primary blog, and it was a really nice event which then came again last year, and once more this year. July comes closer as I began to think whether or not I should make a Madagascar blog which focuses on the Penguins. And on the 6th of July, I decided that it will not be a good idea, because it will be a great idea to make a Madagascar blog of my own. I thought of a name that will represent my blog, and that’s when I got the name Just4Penguins, because when I created this blog, it was dedicated to the penguins. And although now it’s kinda more dedicated to the lemurs, I still keep the name there. And also an additional information, I began to like AHKJ more than TPoM somewhere in November 2015.

2016 - Somewhere in mid-March, I turned on the computer and do some stuff before I opened Tumblr, just to see what’s new and reblog some stuff. I saw a post about Season 3 of AHKJ which will be released on the 13th of May. I was excited. By this time AHKJ is my favourite TV Series already, and I had been waiting, and waiting, and waiting since October or November for the new season to come since Season 2 had a suspense ending. So we were all excited for this. ... ... ... Until they suddenly changed it to June 17th instead. It was, really sad when that happened. But I remained patient like Sage, and just waited for ages before we finally reached 17th June. I was away at that time, but I was free. Or free-ish. I saw a picture posted by @lemurslovethelemurladies​ at around 6 o’clock, telling me that it has been released. And I also can still remember watching the Prom Drama clip in the room I stayed in. I left my earphones so I just played it like that. And when I returned home, I went on looking for it, just in case someone upload it online early. I waited for weeks, and WEEKS (3 days) and finally found it! I watched all the way to The Butterfly War where Ted was singing, and then I had to stop and finish doing some stuff. I think I finished the whole season the day after that. Four months after that, I was informed that Season 4 shall be released on 11th November. I remember how excited I was. Compared to Exiled and Season 3, the preparation for Season 4 was the best, despite me being away again (at the same district where I was at during the release of Season 3). And a month after that came the 2nd anniversary for AHKJ. I was shocked to know that, I was not at all prepared. Suddenly @stevulien posted a post about it. So I stopped, and thought for a moment on what should I do for this event. And I decided to make the long poster which I made and posted rightaway. Finished it in around half an hour, and went off to sleep since it was in the middle of the night at that time. The next day, I noticed a few mistakes which I made while making that poster :P

2017 - The year of, a that moment Season 5 and Season 6. I was all ready for the announcement of Season 5. But then it took such a long time that I practically forgot it. But then one day I woke up and saw, can’t remember who posted a promotional poster for Season 5. The picture of an empty throne with the logo of AHKJ on it, but with the word ‘King’ faded. I was going out when I read it, so the next day when I returned home I quickly did some research on this, and began making posters which most of them weren’t even successful. I mean, I made a whole All Hail King Koto logo, but then I forgot to post it :P On the 15th of April, we learnt that the new season shall not be called Season 5, but All Hail King Julien: Exiled, after lemurslovethelemurladies posted this info on her blog. And we all waited till the day of its release. On 12th May I was away (again, at the district where I was at during the release of Season 3 and Season 4), so when I went back from the long trip, I tried a lot times using a lot of methods to watch Exiled. All of them failed. Lemurslovethelemurladies even offered to help me by letting me borrow her Netflix account, but then it’s not available in my country. KissCartoon was closed due to the DMCA thing. Someone else remade that site, but then they only update popular stories. On the 16th of May (man, that’s just four days. IT FELT LIKE WEEKS!!!), I was contacted by both the-bus-called-graveyard-8 and @dazringtail, saying that there is a way to watch Exiled. Dazringtail also cannot watch Exiled on Netflix, I think because of the same reason as me, so the-bus-called-graveyard-8 helped dazringtail by using rabb.it to stream Exiled so that we can watch it. I spent 8 days watching it, because I only get to watch parts of the season because people kept on interrupting me. I started on the 19th of May, watched Episode 1-4. And then I resumed on the 22nd and managed to watch Episode 5-11, but I only managed to watch half of Episode 11. And then yesterday, I finished the whole season, and it was the most amazing season ever. I’d like to rewind a bit back to 21st May, though actually it’s 22nd for me. Madagascar Week 2017 started. I was quite sad since I was looking forward to post things for every day of the Madagascar Week this year since last year I was extremely busy during Madagascar Week. I was informed that I will be busy on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Or 22nd, 23rd, 24th for most people. But luckily I managed to post things for all the days even when I was out. On AHKJ day, I was already scared because the internet there was extremely slow, and I cannot upload the GIFs of The New Wiper Fluid which I made on a laptop I brought. I tried to upload it to OneDrive and it works! So what I did was, I asked my little sister who is at home to open the computer, open my Tumblr account and upload the photos there before saving it. And once it is uploaded, there’s no more problem for me as all I did was add the texts, tags, and BOOM! it’s posted! On the 24th, I got some time to draw Pancho from the intro of Episode 3 of Exiled, and on the 25th, I made the Favourites Questionnaire, also when I was outside. I literally cannot believe that I actually made it through this year’s Madagascar Week.

I’d like to thank @the-bus-called-graveyard-8 for this amazing event, a good way to celebrate this great fandom’s anniversary. So that’s all for today, it took me hours to write this and I just realised that I didn’t wait that long to watch Season 3 and Exiled. And now, I am officially ending Madagascar Week 2017 for me. Even though it’s 28th already here, but I usually use 12:00 noon as the end of the day for this event. And now it’s 11:30+ so, close enough. I’m sorry if there are any mistakes in this post, I am not going to go through the post one more sine I have a lot of things to do right now.

Goodbye, Madagascar Week, see you again next year.