Train wreak? Maybe. But still fun to watch. Yes, of course. There's always something strangely fascinating about seeing something huge crash and burn. Anyway, guess who ended up working on an orange plantation?
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One of the reasons I went over to the GCA 2008 (apart from the games) is that Kurohoshi, the cosplayer who did a fabulous Illya last Matsuri said that she would be going down. Since I had wanted to get more shots of her, it suited me just fine. 1. A nice peaceful shot by Fishz.And come down she did, bringing in tow a buddy of hers, who was doing Saber. Saber, who atual name remains unknown, does a respectable job at protraying the King of Knights. Excalibur's hilt is a little short, through. It is, after all, a two handed sword, but Saber's hand covers up the entire hilt when she holds it fully. 2.I'm getting flashbacks to Rozen Maiden Träumend.  Nevertheless, its still a pretty good Saber. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. The well made costume and the hair both gain points. Plus, she's pretty cute. As a matter of  fact, you haven't seen some of the real "EPIC FAIL!" attempts of people trying pull off Saber. In fact, just thinking about those pictuc - OH SHI----!!3. Awww....*Cough* Cough* That was a close one. I almost got my mind scared again. Gotta focus...4.Caramelldansen?Kurohoshi, like before, did a wonderful Illya, which is commendable, since she did say that she wasn't feeling too good that day. 5. Kurohoshi and Saber pulled off a number of omake shots, some of them implying a certain relationship between the two that you would normally see only in H-doujins *coughyuricough*. Not that I'm complaining. Pity I didn't get any shots them doing those poses, but you can find plenty of them over at their sgcafe thread. :P6. Its been ages since I did any worthwhile with photoshop. Gotta start practicing again.7. Sad girls in snow?Well, that's it for cosplaying. Now its time to wait for EoY at the end of this year.Credits to Fishz for taking the first 4 shots of this post.
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A side attraction to the GCA is the Cos-Con, one of the many smaller cosplaying events here in Singapore. Few years back, you won't even see something like this at the WCG or the GCA, but recently its becoming more and more popular, almost like its routine. A step in the right direction?Are you the droid we are looking for?At the scene were the guys from the 501st Battalion, Singapore's local force of Stormtroopers. Promoting the latest game from Lucas Arts, "The Force Unleashed", they were a big draw, as expected of anything Star Wars. Of course, the grunts are always the first to die. >.< One shot, one killWe also had a Blood Elf, plus an Orc from Warcraft and a Knight Templar from Hellgate Lomdon London. Didn't take any pictures of them through. The Orc and the Kngiht Templar was very well done, IMO. The Orc was so huge he couldn't move without help, lol.Here we have an Eureka Seven cosplayer promoting an online trading card game. She seems quite surprised when I recognized her from Eureka Seven through...Apparently, people thought that she's just dressing up as an ingame character. Gameplay reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh. You are (not) aloneThe ever popular Eva series. Rei did a good job of protraying the "expressionless"-ness of Rei. Did that sound right? Asuka came down later, but I didn't get a shot of her.Um....Right. Like I'm going to believe that...Stop maphacking TF, Spy. The ever popular Vampire Knight cosplayers, and the same Suigintou from Matsuri. Its almost a given that you would see Vampire Knight, Naruto, D.Gray Man and Bleach cosplayers at any cosplay event. They are so numberous, they are like part of the background, no offense to any cosplayers from the above few series. :P     Why aren't your breasts the same size???Death the Kid plus the Thompson sisters. One of the better Soul Eater cosplayers here I've seen. Black*Star and Tsubaki were there too, but I failed to take any shots of them. No Maka and Soul through - a real pity.Turning round a corner on my way back, I stumbled upon something I shouldn't have...Gah! No, not a Spider-Head?!No, keep it away!!! AArrrgggGGGhuuuhHHHh.......Bad End.Play Again?*Please message me if you want the pictures in their full r<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alvin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style> </style>esolution. Shots of the Fate/Stay Night team to be up....soon-ish.....*    
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So I went down to Suntec City for the 3rd and last day of the Games Convention Asia. Tagging along were Fishz and R. I went on the 2nd day as well, but my cam died on me, so I only managed to take shots on the 3rd day.The Games Convention AsiaAs the name implies, there were a healthy number of games on display. Demos were everywhere, allowing one to have a feel of the game before hand and hopefully, convince them that its worth the buy. Black Shot, a promising FPS MMORPGOf particular interest is Black Shot. Like Gunz, it is an online game that focuses on...well...pumping your opponent up with lead. Graphics is stunning for an online game, and gameplay apparently is almost identical to that of the ever popular CounterStrike. Judging by the number of people queuing up to take part in the impromptu tournament, you can say that this game is very well received. It can probably give CS a run for their money.  Along the way I met up with Xephfyre of Certifiably Insane.He managed to create an iSlug on the planet TypeMoon in the hit game Spore. Ranka's popularity knows no bounds, even in the far reaches of the galaxy. Pity I forgot to take any pictures of that epic creation. Anyway, I was pretty impressed by Xephfyre's brief demo of Spore. I would consider buying it, if only my computer could run the game, which it can't. The raising of an entire species of creatures appels to the inner desire in everyone of us to play God - which is why games like The Sims never seem to get old. And you wonder why <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alvin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style> </style>scientists like to mess around with stuff.NBA Live 09. I enjoyed 06 and 07, but felt that 08 was a disappointment. Would 09 be any better?For Motherland Russia!The latest in the long running Command and Conquer RTS series brings us Red Alert 3. Set in an alternate timeline where the Cold War did not end, the Red Alert series never fails to bring a smile to my face with its unconventional weaponry. Dolphins with supersonic guns? Check. Giant squid? Check. Gundam? Check. Telekinetic girl running around wearing a sailor fuku? Check.That's right, we have a telekinetic girl in the game. She belongs to a new fraction in the series, the Empire of the Rising Sun, which may or may not be related to Japan. :P As Xephfyre would put it, one does not simply walk into Mordor... My Lord of the Rings blood is thrilled at this game. Gameplay seems pretty freeflowing, much like Fable. The choices you make in game would affect the game's story, how people perceive your character, and your character in general. It was pretty funny seeing this ranger stuff murderous little hobbits full of feathers. But seeing how you are part of a raiding party, I guess its natural to have an old hobbit grandmothers hobbling towards you with puny (but nevertheless dangerous) knifes in their grimy little hands. ...you enter it perched on the back of an Ent.And along came the Ents. Can someone please tell me why are there Ents strolling through Hobbiton?Mirror's Edge is another game that drew my interest. Its an interactive, fast paced game with an emphasis on free running. Its quite realistic - your vision blurs whenever you move from a dark room to a brightened area, and vise versa. The free running element is pretty cool too, but that makes its fiendishly difficult as well. I fell to a gory death about 10 times just because I couldn't manage to grap onto a little red pipe sticking out the side of a wall.And one wonders, just who on Earth places all those ramps for you to leap to your death from?And for the low low price of $990, the sword Frostmourne can be yours. Caesars had a booth there as well, promoting Frostmourne, the sword of the Lich King ArthasWorld of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King opening screen. The highly anticipated expansion pack to the world's most popular MMORPG brings to you new items, new level caps, new quests and a whole new class - the Death Knight.Leeroy Jinkins, anyone? Much of the exhibits promoted online games, some of which looked pretty good, such as this one. The moe-lious character designs of Emil Chronicles Online is just begging me to play it. And who can resist a cute girl like that?
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Its the 9th of September. And if you are a Type-Moon fan worth your salt, you'll know what date that is. And in case you don't... Tanjobi omedetou, Kuro neko-san, Shiroi neko-san. See you in Actress Again. Awww...LenXLen love. Would have liked to spam all my pictures of Len/White Len, but since I'm in camp, I don't have access to my Type-Moon folder of pictures. So these will have to do. Sorry about that.
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Likewise, I am slowpoke.jpg on this one as well, but the Code Geass R2 OST1 is just pure love, maybe even rivaling the excellent piece of work that is the Macross Frontier OST. Especially track number 14 "If I were a Bird", which is the song that was played when Rolo was escaping together with Lelouch. I may hate the bastard for what he did to Shirley, but that song just stirs up the emotion within me. No matter what happened, no matter what horrible things Rolo might have done, you can't deny that he had a good death.Even the cover album is great. To top things off, we also have 2 tracks by Hitomi, namely "Sensibility" and "Lullaby of M". Both tracks are great, proving the powers of the vocals done by Hitomi. This album is a must get for all Code Geass fans. And even if you aren't, well, you can get it too for the awesome tracks that it offers. I'll probably be looping this one all day.
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" 'Now, why don't you introduce yourselves one by one?'This kind of thing was already expected, so I wasn't really surprised.As the other people introduced themselves, my turn was approaching. I'm starting to get nervous! You must understand how I'm feeling right now, don't you?After I managed to finish my carefully-thought-out, short-length introduction without stammering my words the best I could, I sat down feeling the relief of having finished something unpleasant but inevitable. The person behind me stood up for her turn and―Oh, I probably won't forget this for the rest of my life―said the words that would become a legend." 1."My name is Suzumiya Haruhi. I graduated from East Junior High."Now, if you are finding her familiar, its because you've probably seen pictures of her floating around the Internet before. Yes, this is the same Haruhi cosplayer that caused fountains of blood to sprout out everywhere during Cosfest earlier this year. Windbell here has some good pictures of her from that time, so you might want to go take a look at them.2.I don't have interest in ordinary people.3.If anyone here is an alien, time traveler, slider, or esper...I had heard from a friend that she was coming, but it wasn't till late in the event that I finally caught sight of her. And to make things better, she's wearing neko accessories! When you have someone who is widely considered to be the best Haruhi cosplayer in Singapore wearing nekomimi, you know that you have a winner on your hands. 4....Please come see me!In fact, she was so popular that everywhere she went, hordes of hot blooded guys fans followed, snapping away with their cameras. But when you exude moe-ness at her level, I guess its understandable. Here's to hopefully seeing more of her in the future! 5. That is all!....... Sorry, just could't resist a Dark Knight reference.
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  I was walking home when suddenly a young voice echoed through the night. The voice, like a song, is unmistakably that of a young girl. My vision is drawn to the top of the hill. There - Berserker a pure white angel, standing in the softly falling snow.1.(ﾉゝ∀・)~キラ☆Out of all the cosplayers, Illya here stood out. Not because she was the only Fate/Stay Night cosplayer in a sea of Bleach and Naruto, but because she pulled Illya off with such grace that one would have thought she was the white angel in the flesh. And to top it off, she's only 14 - a real life loli. 2.3.Okarinasai, my master4.Bouken desho desho?5.So moe! I gonna die!I hope that she appears again in EOY later this year. @C.I : Well, no Akiha cosplayers, but there's Illya. lolMaybe I should have detexted this first....Never mind.
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Went down to the Summer Matsuri at VivoCity yesterday. While I know it isn't anything like Cosfest or EOY, it still fell short of expectations. Admin matters were the main problem - the emcees appeared lost most of the time and planning wasn’t really smooth going. And they kept looping the same few songs over and over. I probably heard Chobits’ “Let me be with you” 10 times that day. But oh well, who cares about that. The important thing here is the cosplay. Most them were so-so, but two stood out in particular. They will be getting their own posts later. From Xedo, with love. Have you recieved yours yet?Yup, there aren't as many people here as there were during Cosfest this year. Sure makes it easier to get around, without having to<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alvin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><style> </style> squeeze pass everyone. Some of those magazines date back to the year 2004. Some nice stuff on sale. Such as this Konata and Akira figurine. Gah! Konata!-----------------Okay, that's enough random pictures. Let get down to the cosplaying proper----------------- The Flame-Haired-Raging-Eyes Hunter, Shana Air Gear Naruto cosplayers. You see them everywhere. D.Gray Man, Vampire Knight and Bleach cosplayers flood the place too.I'm bored of them, so I didn't bother taking any This guy pulls off quite a good Kakashi. Can't see his eye through, ahaha. I forgot who she's supposed to be, but who doesn't like gothlic lolita girls with swords? Gin-sama! Yeah, I'm a fan of Suigintou, so it doesn't matter if she does a good job or not. This is the face that will piece the Heavens!
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Okay, I've been slowpoke.jpg lately, so here's a couple of updates and news that I've missed over the past few weeks. ~~News Number 1 - Matsuri@VivoCity Aug 2008  ~~ Day One - Music Matsuri • Official Bands & Singers Showcase 2008 Day One - Music Matsuri (JRock/ Punk/ Pop Rock/ Visual Kei/ Lolita) Date: 30th Aug 08, Sat Booth: 11am-8pm ShowTime: 3pm – 7pm 3PM Cloud Sef - community band 4PM MERFURY - community band 5PM Ana Natasha Path Records (Artiste) 5:30PM Guest - community band 6PM Hellven- Path Records (Artiste) band----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Two – Cosplay Matsuri (Cosplay/Anime/ Games/ Movies) Date: 31th Aug 08, Sun Booth: 11am-7pm ShowTime: 3pm – 7pm 4PM Jack & Rai (Special Guest) CosplayAll stars Contest Talents from Ocean Butterfly- music forest (Dance) Ana Natasha Path Records (Artiste) Announcement of winner(s) @ 6.30pm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Dance Showcase Street/ Anime related/ Para/ Fusion Music to be used: Kpop, JPop, Songs/ Sound track from anime/ games • Others cosplay, anime related shows-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Since I missed the first Matsuri in March this year, I will be dropping by this one to see what's it like. I don't except it to be as big as Cosfest or EOY, but hopefully we'll get to see some good ones. ~~ News Number 2 - Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1 English Patch ~~The Witch Hunt over at Baka-tsuki has released their long awaited translation of the first episode Umineko no Naku Koro ni. Done by 7th Expansion, the same guys who brought us the aweseome Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, this game promises to send chills down your back Rapidshare MegaUpload Mediafire Sendspace
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 The final two chapters of Bitter Virigin have been released by the nice guys over at Solaris , so if you are reading this beautiful series, be sure to drop by and thank them for all the hard work they have put into working on this. Final Story - Me and HerI'm going to skip my usual rants this time. Just enjoy what I consider to be one of the best mangas to be published in recent memory. Savor it, for we won't be seeing another series quite like it in the near future, if ever.
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