Meeting The Shire Folk

Gosh, this post has been delayed for quite abit due to my end term projects, so happy that I finally have the time to post up all these posts!

Anyway, found out some time before that there was a mini event for the opening of the movie, The Hobbit. Dropped by to support my friend Jas (I was the Kaoru to her Kenshin & she was also Ronald in our Kuroshitsuji team) who went as along with her relatives.

 

Photo from Jas' cam

Congrats Jas for winning first place! Your Galadriel is so awesome! :D The kids' costumes were awesome too! Look foreward to more cosplays with you!

 

Jas' pretty Galadriel ! Congrats on getting first place! 

Anyway, there were articles about it in The Straits Times. I've kindly scanned em' up for your viewing pleasure :D (there's one more article but I can't find it in my house right now >.< will scan it up when I do)

I'm sure all LOTR fans are looking forward to catching The Hobbit on the big screen, so go catch if if you've yet to do so! The movie's around 3 hrs long though, so do make sure you have the time to spare (it's not the usual 1/2hrs), you won't want to miss the ending I'm sure!

EOY 2012

Omg, this is a pretty overdued post. Been quite busy the past week with school work and stuff.

Anyway, I popped by EOY for an hour last week, mostly met up with some friends there and chatted for abit before taking off. Took a look at the booths but there weren't really anything that interest me other than the BonJapan booth. Foooood! Anyway, it's good that they sold some reasonably priced food and drinks given there arn't exactly any food or drink stalls around (there was a food cart/truck I saw outside, but I didn't check it out). I took the shuttle bus there cause I have no other idea how to go there -.-;

Overall, I'd say Marina Barrage is a pretty good location for photographs... when there's not any people around. The weather was not bad and the lighting turned out really well. Anyway, here's some pics from that day~

 

Gelly! She looks cute with any short wig! Our Amazing Alois!

 

  My long lost primary school friend omg. Sam :D The last time we met was in primary school lol. She was with Gelly and this Misty cosplayer. Amusingly, we used to talk about 

Pokemon all the time back then.

 

Jean-no, my awesome cosplay partner! She was performing that day but I couldn't stay to watch T^T

 

 Fail camwhore with Kiti and Yiki =3

 Sora has Alpacas! The fluffy stuff that's the newest Japan mascot character craze here I think .____.

  

They're kinda cute I guess. I only kinda like the one with the eyepatch :P

There were tons of cosplayers, some pretty good ones but I didn't shoot much since I didn't have much time.

 Trunks from Dragonball

And Invinc smokin' up a lollipop

Did afew random shots with JY, and that's about it. 

 

This sums up my really short visit to EOY. Hope to be able to attend the event properly next year!

License2Play 2012

Dropped by both events (L2P and EOY) today for a really short while cause I had stuff on afterwards. Here's my take on my 1hr spent at L2P.

L2P wasn't really crowded when I arrived (at around 3pm). Headed straight for the Ragnarok booth, did the "quests" which include throwing metal rings onto a standee thingy. I think it was kinda dangerous tho, cause it wasn't easy to get on and half the time I barely missed hitting the Ragnarok staff with the metal rings >.<

The standee thingy. Had to try to throw these metal rings onto the spikes of the crown.

Shortly after, bumped into some friends near the EA booth and Nescafe booth.

 

 With Toshiro as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy. I love his super long sword! I mean most Sephiroth cosplayers don't exactly have it at the correct length.
(Thanks to Jason Trooper for helping me take this photo)

Anyway grabbed some loot at the EA booth, then headed to the stage and was just in time to see the results of the western cosplay competition. Took pics of Lavi on stage, she was cosplaying Katarina from League of Legends. Haven't seen her for ages! <3 Sigh, the lighting was so bad though and I didn't have the right lens to shoot with so most photos ain't of good quality.

A Lavi that's happy to see me. ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ Hahaha.

 Getting comments from the judges. They love her flips!

 Also, congrats to Jason and Joey for winning the competition! 

Sorry, I don't know who the other girl is >.<

Finally noticed Joey! A Joey in the foreground and a Joe in the background. 8D

Then headed over to the Blizzard booth. I don't exactly play WoW, Starcraft or Diablo anymore, but well, used to play those games alot when I was in high school. They had some pretty neat art and stuff on display. I heard that they gave away the art pieces as a lucky draw or something too.

 A chibi(small) Tyrael! Haha so cute! It looks a little like one of those bobble head stuff, except with better proportions. Jason should take a photo with it. Too bad it's in a glass casing..

I did walk around the whole event hall, which was smaller than I expected. I wish I had more time to spare though, heard that it was really fun doing the quests from each booth from some of my friends who did them. Most were giving out quite abit of loot too.

 

Pretty cool World of Tanks display

Here's my loot for today ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ :

 I really like this door hanger that they gave us upon ticket purchase to L2P~ ＼（＠￣∇￣＠）／

Overall I'd say SGD5/ticket is quite okay, given if you stick around long enough and/or do the quests at the booths, you do actually get more than $5 worth of stuff already. Talking about money, Play Imaginative had a both there selling toys at quite a steal, but I wanted to save money so I didn't get anything ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡ I'd love to get my hands on some Disney figures and the Gloomy Bear plushie which was going for only SGD8!!

Well, that sums up my 1 hour at L2P. Will post about my 1 hour of EOY tomorrow!
(Hopefully.) ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ

An Unexpected Kind of Happening.

Been thinking whether to switch back to blogger. Even though I've been using the wordpress interface for quite awhile, I'm still having problems uploading photos :/

The past few days have been kind of gloomy for me cause my aunt was admitted to hospital. Been visiting her nearly everyday. Can't understand why some relatives don't extend their help, instead they keep suggesting stuff to me and my family. I mean like, we're already doing as much as we can, why don't yall do it and help to instead of asking us to do more stuff. I'm not claiming to be the best helper but at least it won't hurt for the rest to offer some help, no?

I think I'll be back to blogging properly soon. I miss blogging weekly like I used to in my secondary school days. Also, I do feel that my English standard has dropped drastically, argh! I def need to write more, I don't want it to drop to the extent that I get nervous when I have to write for websites and stuff.

I don't think I'll be cosplaying for L2P or EOY. I was intending to finish up my Faith cosplay (from Mirror's Edge), but now I don't think I'll have the time. Oh well. Looking forward to the photoshoot for next year. I might pick up parkour formally as well so I can do more stuff for the photoshoots, not just for Faith but afew other nimble characters as well.

Games I've completed recently:

1. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attroney on iOS! I've always wanted to play the game but never got down to buying it. Bought it on my phone two weeks ago when I fell sick and couldn't sleep. Completed it and I'm hooked! I've always loved detective/mystery games so it ain't really surprising, been looking at the trailer for the new Professor Layton VS. Ace Attroney too and it really looks good!

I'm considering cosplaying one of the chars for a photoshoot next year (if I can find the time). Akane has already cosplayed Edgeworth and we can totally do a shoot together and I have some ideas so I hope to be able to pull my plan through.

2. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective also on iOS. This was also bought and completed when I was sick. I loved the ending! It's just so epic and unexpected! Actually, I did notice (the final character) being there in afew scenes, but I never expected that it was how the story would end! Yet another new favourite game, I do hope they'll create a sequel in the far future. I love the vector style art as well, it kinda reminds me of The World Ends With You.

That's all for now I guess. Needa complete my school work and prepare for tmr & friday's lessons.

Mello out!

And it shall be, what the future commands of it;

Hola guys!~ (^______^)
I am back. Back from the mundane tendencies of what homework brings, though I'd have to admit, I'm pretty proud of my work this time. It's something I would at least call decent, given my tendencies to be hard on myself. Sometimes I feel a real lack of resources when I want to do projects hence having to choose other alternatives to replace stuff which kind of disappoints me. Ah wells. Talking about being back, I'll be back reporting game news & covering events as well, so do keep a look out for that. Have a couple of game reviews to do as well.

In the meantime, I'm on my one week school holiday, so any friends who's free to meet up do let me know. The other half of the time is going to be spent preparing for Cosfest and the upcoming projects I have for this blog & CosplaysOfTheWorld. More info will be released in the next update.

Anyway, looks like the next two weeks will be rather interesting (other than the fact that I will be starting my new school term next week). I will be interviewing Taiwanese cosplayer, Neneko at the Youth Mascot Parade on Saturday. Pretty excited about it, she looks kinda cute to me too. Will be posting up the blogposts on previous events I've attended as well, even though it's kind of late, but well, for memories sake. Other upcoming events include Cosfest next week and I am really excited about my plans as well. Somehow everything just fell into place, it's such a coincidence that quite a few of my friends have decided to cosplay this series for Cosfest. No doubt it's a popular series, but this group of people who are all familiar with each other and didn't plan on the group will end up in one, and I'll be part of it too. Quite afew of them are friends whose cosplays I really like love, can't wait for next week! Wondering what we'll be doing? Y'all will have to wait for photos from next week to find out, so stay tuned! ;)

- Nano Mello x

Anime Week @ Liang Court ;

Anime Week is a small event held at Liang Court(it's actually on for only 2 days, not a whole week. But they hold other Japanese culture activities throughout the week), actually I've heard of it previously but did not get the chance to see it for myself till this year. There were only a few booths, Pan In The Box being one of them. Not many cosplayers showed up either, only afew cosplays that I would consider quality ones.










This cosplayer actually freaked me out a lil, although her face ain't that close to the character (Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler in the party dress), she really looks like a real life doll!


Look who's here to watch the stage events too~ ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ


Met Simeon there on the 2nd day, he came as Tokiya Ichinose from Uta no Prince-sama /うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ . (o⌒．⌒o)♡




Really nice of him to give me a hairpin as a temporary fix for my shoe, the strap broke while I was on the way there. (Ｔ▽Ｔ)

Overall, the event was okay, I guess given that it's a mini event, we can't expect much as compared to the likes of EOY etc. Looking foreward to more events!

Till then,
- Mello x