Cosfest XII

Cosfest 2013 is over.. The best event I've attended yet-- in terms of the quality, variety and choice of cosplay I saw over the two days and my learning experience. Taking the time off my psp to type a full recount because I want to record the experience down properly.

Initially I had 2 costumes, one for each day of the festival. Was rushing them up to the day before the event before I checked the facebook group post and realised that the Hunter X Hunter team on sunday had been postponed. 

Well.. honestly it was a rather irresponsible of the team leader to not announce the news separately in a new post but I understand that he was caught up in the WCS so all it's ok~ 

Could have saved me a lot of stress though :( because I was really dreading Hisoka and lost sleep trying to rush out his arm bands and styling the hair. I still don't look good for Hisoka, probably the wig's fault :/ At least i'm done for his costume minus the lower arm bands.. might get a new wig too.

So I arrived at the chalet on saturday morning and did up the make up Also helped another team mate with hers yay. It was the first time I did my make up without my big house mirror and I took my own sweet time. I actually messed up on my eyeshadow because I used the wrong colours and used my eyebrow brush for the purple, making my eye make up look darker than I wanted. Lashes went on ok and I didn't put on lower lashes. 

                                                   

I was in full costume when i first set off to the event grounds with part of the team. Could not make it out of the chalet area -_______- it was next to impossible to cover much distance in that mermaid tail. In the end I hobbled back to the chalet and changed back into my shorts. Some team mates were still there and I stayed a while longer to help as much as I could with their costumes and wigs. Then I set off before them because I still needed to change.

When I finally changed into the tail, it attracted an auntie's attention in the toilet.She asked which country I was from, followed me out and literally stared in horror at my inability to walk :(((((((( omg I was drawing stares from everyone along the way not because my cosplay was awesome/beautiful but because I was brisk shuffling. Super embarrassing....

I totally regretted changing into the tail at that toilet because it was still a short distance from the actual place... I miscalculated haha. The funniest thing was that I  bumped into the rest of the team whom I left behind at the chalet and they laughed so loudly when they saw me LOL quite glad they caught up because it was much less embarrassing when I was with them.

My team mates later told me it was the cutest sight to see my curly wig bounce with every shuffle XD I wish I saw it.

Long story short, I had to shuffle in small steps everywhere. When I saw a cosplay I wanted to take photos of, I had to painfully shuffle over and ask for a photo. Thus every photo I took on the first day was the result of my hard work and aching calf muscles. 

I might have been wearing relatively little clothes but boy was it hot... Can only imagine how the rest of the team felt in their wings and gowns OTL

                                     

Took photo with my Sano dono ^^ very nice of her to put her arms around my shoulders without having to ask. Ahhh my fangirl heart XD

             

There was DRAMAtical Murder as well! In total I saw 2 Aoba, 2 Noiz, 1 Clear and 1 Koujaku. I heard there was a hot Mink but didn't see him ;__;

At night I had expensive chicken rice, macs vanilla cone and kfc supper cheese fries wheeee. Also managed to catch the 1st episode of Free! at the chalet. Squealed like nobody's business. I barely had time to watch any anime the past week cos was too busy X_X

                                              

Day2 was relaxing for me. As relaxing as it can get because honestly I could not forget about my lab presentation the next day and I had planned to go home early since I wasn't going to cosplay anyway. The highlight of the day was to see the X team.

It was all I could talk about the night before LOL and I was like: Omy I might see Kamui and my X guys later, what should I wear 8D

Bimbo ttm but yes I was that excited and hopeful.

Was kinda saikang warrioring for yifen and andy as Sakura and Syaoran but I was super distracted, kept looking around in hope of seeing the X team hehe

Needless to say I was extremely disappointed when I didn't see them. Went back to the chalet to get my belongings and returned to the event grounds to return the key to Yifen when I saw the Clover team:

                 

They were swarmed by photogs and I waited patiently until I got to them T______________T was crying tears of happiness in my heart. I told them that I was really happy to see a clover team and that they did a great job. Then I saw more members of the Clover team and I was clutching at my chest to keep my feels at bay.

                  

                 

ASDFGHJKLKLASDKJHASDJHGLAKSDHLASKJDHLAKJSH they recruited a pair of twins to cos A and B. LOVELY i spotted the twins walking around previously and was staring at them because they seemed clamp-like but they were not Kamui and Fuuma so I didn't pursue it. When I saw Sue and Ora, things started falling in place T_____T no idea how to describe my feelings

Finally met Yifen to pass the keys and when I went to check on the clover team again, my dream came true.. 

I saw a pair of figures clad in red jackets and holding swords. 

I ran up to them and made eye contact with Kamui. He has lovely blue eyes.

Fuuma was busy so I took solo shots of Kamui my love. He was really sporting and asked me to wait so he could give me his coscard.

Fuuma walked up, I stared at him and his earring hanging so alluringly from his ear. The only thought which flashed repeatedly through my mind was 'Hot stuff'' 

"Fuuma?"

Fuuma smiled "Ahh yes!"

"I've waited so long for the both of you" T ^T

                                                                         

The last photo below is a bonus, I never intended to take a photo with them because I was already saturated with happiness to see them and take photos. Also I was dressed down, looked really red/black faced because I was running around, so excited and the weather was boiling. Then Andy asked why I didn't ask for a photo with them and before I could state my reasons, he went up to them, leaving me gaping and flailing my hands at his retreating back. I didn't know what he said but Kamui and Fuuma turned to smile at me. Everything was a blur, I found out that Fuuma was from Australia though. Before we could take a photo, Fuuma had to answer a call, then Kamui received a call too so I was standing between them blushing hahaha and then this :))

Fuuma also had his arm around my shoulders though you can't see it here ^_________^ this photo really made my day, or possibly even my week. It's now my iphone lock screen.

I received both their coscards. Was really paiseh that I didn't have one to exchange. Should really consider making one hmm.. Never thought that this day would come ahaha it's a good thing I guess!

After I left, KaiLin sent me a photo of another X team, the one I was waiting for. I regretted leaving early of course but just seeing the photo above put me in an unbelievably good mood again. I will settle for photos ^^

Ending off with a loving photo of Yifen and Andy ~~

In all, cosfest XII with the CCS team was a great experience! I was hesitant when I agreed to join this group, mostly because I was not interested in the character nor the series but I agreed in the end because I knew that I would learn a lot from being in such a big team with many excellent cosplayers. I was right :'D

Anime festival Asia 2010

Will be held in Singapore!! For those looking for more information, follow them on facebook =D http://www.facebook.com/animefestivalasia

Oh man, can't wait to know the exact date and the singers attending this event!! By hook or by crook I will definitely attend this year's event.

-edit- exact date and venue have been confirmed: 13 and 14th of November, at Suntec international convention and exhibition centre, halls 403 and 404

READ ABOUT WHAT I DID AT AFA HERE ;D

Haven't been up to much this month since my last post, just watched world cup, more anime, read books and updated stories. No news from comics connection regarding the Legal Drug manga I 'ordered' -_- Spotted the 3rd volume around 2 months ago and bought it without thinking too much. Asked if they had the first two volumes and left my contact number at the counter. Technically not ordering but the guy said it'll take 2 weeks for the manga to arrive =( false hopes T__T

Here it is, looking sexy and unopened on my piano.

My current laptop wallpaper =D


Hmms english. Haha

All About CLAMP

HAPPY VALENTINES' X CHINESE NEW YEAR PEOPLE

Received another portion of my pay last friday and i finally had an opportunity to spend it happily when i visited Kino at bugis. The 1st item i spent on my pay on (excluding topping up my ezlink card) feeeeeeels soooo gooooooooddd XDXD

The manga selection there is *ahem* pathetic *cough* so i went to look at the big books which are usually too expensive for poor students like us. But with my pay in hand, nothing is impossible ne? ;D

There was no competition-- i ended up taking home with me the 1st book i saw: All About CLAMP

Especially when it's a refreshing picture of Kobato on the cover

And 2 bishies at the back ---- no competition at all from the other books =D

This book is literally, all about CLAMP, with information on the group of mangaka, every single manga series, magazine covers and reports. It also contains X volume 18.5 which is the last we have seen of X since the hiatus.

Content page for the Pastel section

Content page for the Platinum section

Of course, who can forget Clamp school detective?

Though i think that boys (with long legs) in shorts are seriously gay

I honestly hate myself for being unable to read jap. I did not buy the book thinking that it would contain english translations but the substantial amount of written text which contains origins and extra information on each series is totally wasted on a person like me. IS SOMEONE WILLING TO TRANSLATE PRETTY PLEASE??? T____T

A glimpse of X 18.5, Kamui gets owned as usual X_X

Clover~~

Kazahaya and Rikuo from Legal drug!!! I've given up hope on this.. CLAMP announced 4 years ago that it plans/planned to resume it in the 'near future' but since we don't see anything.... oh well. I just hope that X gets completed soon, Legal drug and Clover can wait, no problem XD

Eh so this turned out to be more of a picture post with little and badly taken pictures. I'm really sorry about the lack of eye-candy k, cos my 3.2mp camera phone has been lagging and giving me alot of trouble with terrible mem card contact. I might add more pictures when i change my phone soon so for those who are interested, stay tuned!

Happy CNY again and don't forget to drink water after eating all those heaty snacks :D

Of a fangirl's ramblings and strange reactions-- Tokyo Babylon

"If you and I should ever meet again, let us live together for one year. My heart is the direct inverse of yours... you are kind, pure, and honest. And I'm sure that is how you will continue to grow up. Your heart will remain pure. So, if we should ever meet again, I will try my hardest to learn to love you. Just for one year... and after that year, if I can consider you "special", you will have won and I will not kill you. But if I decide that I cannot consider you special to me -- if I cannot distinguish the difference between you and that corpse, then... I will kill you. And so today... I will let you go."

Taken from wiki, what seishiro said to subaru.

Do you sense the beginning of a tragedy...?

CLAMP likes to play with the notion of betrayal. I don't know what it is that makes me so sad when reading X or Tokyo Babylon. Maybe it's what the characters experience which cause them to change so much. I feel terrible when such a thing happens. Sure, it's a good thing to grow and mature mentally but in the case of X and Tokyo babylon, i feel terrible after seeing these changes in the protagonists. Like how a compassionate and innocent boy turns to a angsty teen full of vengence for someone he loves(yes, present tense). Or even the other way round when a heartless and powerful guy learns to care for people around him. Because the heartless killer loses his 'invincibility' and becomes affected by others, often getting hurt or even dying in the end.

I'm a selfish and self-contradictory fangirl, am i not? T__T

After reading so much CLAMP stuff these few days i can feel my angst level rising. D**n the CLAMP world is such a cruel and complicated place. And omg i'm exposing myself to alot of shounen ai. Because i'm also rewatching prince of tennis anime. You know lah.. a team of good looking guys playing tennis. Sure to have some hints here and there. This is terrible cos when i come across such a scene, be it in CLAMP manga or POT anime, unprepared, i seriously get a shock and cringe involuntarily. The cringe often comes together with a gasp of real terror. Like when someone taps you on your shoulders while you're concentrating hard on something else. The sound which i make is more solid than a gasp, not as high pitched as a scream and softer than a shout. Go figure.

Scenario 1: On the living room sofa reading X manga while mum, also on the sofa, watches tv

Me: (gets to a part where Fuma does something 'bad' to Kamui) AAAAHHhhhhhh *shudders and shakes the whole sofa*

Mum: OI YOU CRAZY ARH

This is the cue for me to go back to my room to read cos mum will start poking me with her feet until i move somewhere else.

Wow, wordy post but i feel better after typing all these. Stay tuned to photos of bishies from the manga in the next post =D

X CLAMP overload

Was supposed to meet up with melesa and Kw yesterday but silly Kw refused to reply to our smses or msn nudges so the outing was cancelled. But i went to watch Bolt at plaza singapura with sherin and yz instead. Bolt was hilarious and quite worth watching =D Too bad the soundtracks arent that amazing but it's alright XD

Anyway, the main highlight yesterday wasn't watching Bolt. It was something i bought from comics connection. Wahaha i bought 15 X manga. Nope, you didnt read wrongly. I meant 15 volumes of X from CLAMP, not book 15 of X. =DDDD The books were on offer, priced at $1 each!!!

Warning: extremely long sentences coming up

Omg it was such a steal i tell you my eyes were popping out when i saw the $1 price tags on the books and i was like totally going crazy and gapping like an idiot until sherin and yangzhi came to ask what was happening. *breathes*

And then i was like 'lookie only one dollar it's so cheap and how dare they sell CLAMP stuff at only one dollar' while sherin went 'hahaha' and yz went 'oooh' and i was there deliberating whether i should get all the 10 books there because mum will kill me if she finds out. *pants*

Still we grabbed all 10 books and walked around the shop abit more while i tried to make up my mind which was kinda made up already anyway hahaha we went to the counter and that guy there told me that he had a few more in the storeroom and if i wanted to take them all. I wanted to say no but aiya no harm in seeing how many more he has so the 3 of us waited patiently while he went to take the books then he came out with 5 more books up to volume 17 which was the 'latest' X manga printed. That put me in a dilemma again because i wanted to stop after buying 10 books but yz and sherin were bad influence and kept telling me to get the books so after less the 2 minutes i said 'ok i want the books' and paid $15 for the 15 books and carried them out of the store. *cough choke dies*

Btw, they didnt have books 3 and 4. That was why i bought 15 books but the book number was up to 17. It's alright, i already have book 4 which Bao's senior found and gave to her and she gave it to me in exchange for hints about the physics test we took in sec 4 =X

I'm currently at book 10 and stopping cos it's seriously X overload. Too much emo and blood haha will stop to do chem and other holiday homework.. =(

So this was what i had previously ^^

A plastuc bag full of CLAMP goodies =D

It looks totally satisfying. Thankfully one plastic bag was big enough haha it would look weird if i had to carry 2 bags of manga home

Whee~~ a little old but who cares!

Only $1!! I will keep these plastic covers to commemorate this great bargain XD

Clover CLAMP deluxe edition

Sooo i started on koukou debut which Bao recommended. It's... nice, better than some other shoujo series i've tried last time. But 'Beauty is the beast' still ranks number 1! XD I'm sure Janice agrees haha.
I dont understand this feeling.. why am i reading shoujo manga now?! The plots are almost 70% similar to each other and some parts can really bore me to tears. The amazingly good looking male characters obviously play a part in this attraction, they may not be perfect like edward cullen but i still glomp at them. I suppose it's my own imagination and fatasy that keeps me reading. ^///^ yes, i want to meet someone like that and fall in love. Doesn't have to be so drama lah, but isnt it nice haha =)

Oh man, i found this incident so amusing lol. Long long ago when my pw group was practising for OP, midzung popped over to hand me my birthday present (thanks midzung *love*) and she was frantically looking for a smaller box to put the present in cos she had this ridiculously large plastic bag containing the present haha. She acted quite secretively and refused let me see it or tell anyone what it was. Zhung How offered his empty pocky box and she used it. Zhung How was like 'what is it! come on, let us see it!' -__- it seemed like the guys were more interested in the present than gowri or I were. After Midzung left, Henry suddenly asked 'is it a panty?' OMG ROFL hahahaha he said he got the idea from anime. Then i must say he watched too much anime haha even then i dont recall any anime where a girl passes a panty to a friend in a pocky box. Haha the others were shocked too XD

Haha speaking of birthday presents, here's my bday present from Janice!!

Clover 1 deluxe edition! Rare rare rare!!! And nope, she didn't get it from comics connection =D

Isnt t pretty! Suu on the cover page

Kazuhiko at the back

Here's my CLAMP collection. Only X and Clover haha. Bao gave me X book 4 in chinese which her senior found in school. It's super old and yellow. I bought the other X from a second hand sale in school. The X illustrated collection was the 1st illustrated collection i ever bought, it's also my favourite =D

Trinity blood! Anime and books 1-5. Maybe i'll get 6-10 in the future =D

And cowboy bebop whee~ You might be wondering why i have 2 sets of the anime. That's because the 1st set (right) ceased to work one year after i bought it =(( And look at the beautiful illustrated collection at the back... *love*

Ahh hunter x hunter. My favourite but i seem to have the least stuff for hxh. The official guide book was also given by Janice who bought it in japan!! Thanks again janice XD. Hxh book 9 was also the 1st ever manga i bought, in sec 2. So it's also yellowish now hehe

These are the single items. From top to bottom: Samurai7 anime, Hellsing dvd, Mushishi dvd +soundtrack, 12 kingdoms dvd, black lagoon dvd, rave dvd. Vassalord manga, lonesome eden manga(one shot) and naruto book 27. At least, i think it's book 27

Saiyuki reload books 1-7. I remember Bao was the kind soul who helped me buy books 2 and 3 from popular. Book 1 was out of stock so i had to get it myself from comics connection =D Thanks bao!

There's also this gintama illustrated collection i got recently. Lazy to post the picture haha. It's quite a scary pile if you put my anime manga stuff together eh? I also have the anime magazines posters and cds (all not shown) from china! Mum will freak and forbid me to buy anymore if she saw my collection T__T

I want to stop dreaming about weird things X Clover CLAMP

Not worth mentioning here but the dreams were rather nightmare-ish for a period of time.

Op ended on tuesday and i did ok, just didnt answer the question well =( Had a pw group outing after that and we went to orchard. Zhung how couldnt join us cos he had training. (note to self: never allow my children to join canoeing).

So it was just henry, kokwah, gowri and i! 1st stop, we went to kino at takashimaya. Chionged straight to the manga section and searched for the CLAMP stuff. And i spotted my birthday present there: CLOVER 4!!!! Wheeeeee~ 9bucks, slightly ex but who cares XD Walked around more and no one found anything they want so we went off to have lunch. Had the teriyaki chicken student meal at yoshinoya, the waffle fries tasted weird..

Visited HMV next and glomped at the super expensive ost and jap singers albums. The special chemistry song collection album with live performances recoreded in a dvd made me drool but it was $55 and i have most of the songs in there.. so maybe another time =) No one bought anything haha we're just a bunch of penniless school kids.

It was near 5 when we headed home. The guys took bus while gowri and i took the mrt. Unwrapped clover4 on the train and amazed Gowri with the plot and beeeeaaautifuuulll drawings. Hahaha honestly i think she was very interested. Perhaps i can get her to read another manga soon. Here are some pics of clover2 and 3. The full version is on facebook.

That's clover3 on top and clover2 behind

Lookie at the transclucent cover XD

Suu, dont cry!

Starving X Tokyo Babylon vs Siddhartha?!

I'm in a relatively better mood today haha. Maybe because i did more than my fair share of stonning at grandparents house yesterday. We 'laoed yusheng' and mum kept dropping carrot strands and sauce on my hand. Even though we were supposed to add raw slices of fish to the vegies (thus the name), my mum refused to. She's had bad experiences from eating raw fish ahaha. Like mother, like daughter =D though my bad experiences didn't come from eating those disgusting creatures.

Urgh X_X something just happened and now i'm so scared i can hardly type. Ok, nevermind, please ignore the previous sentence. I need to find time to catch up with new anime series! Guess how long i've not watched my trinity blood or read any manga. Well, since i have the time now i shall read a chapter of tokyo babylon. By clamp. Pretty old, but it still features the clamp style of drawing which i'm so smitten with.
Interesting fact: Tokyo babylon was produced by CLAMP in year 1991. Subaru was 16 years old then.

Lol Subaru, Siddhartha pwns you cos he can speak om soundlessly

But i think Subaru should win in terms of looks.

This is sparstic =l

Clover CLAMP

Reading Clover manga now. The english version has been out of print since... 2 years ago? Lessons will start officially tomorrow, no more orientation =( That's too bad, though the orientation activities weren't particularly fun. They just tired me out and made me sleep early.

I don't think i will have the time to go online often anymore, so i plan to dedicate almost all my time online to reading manga, watching anime and perhaps blogging. ^^ I'm still not done watching my trinity blood anime, much less black lagoon or mushishi T_T Oh dear this is bad.

Clover is such a nice manga!! Quality drawings!!
Look at Ran san's sexy back! He's going to show his shoulder XDXD and nope sorry, I'm not going to put a picture of his beautiful face here =D

Clover has only 4 volumes. I just can't get enough of CLAMP mangas.

Grandpa's birthday!

Well, that's just a title.
I've finally come to realise that almost all of CLAMP works hint at shounen ai. CLAMP, my favourite manga producer, a promoter of shounen ai. X___X I kinda overlooked this fact these past years because of the amazingly good looking characters. And have you guys realised that the stories always have 2 main male characters, good vs bad. For example X and code geass. I don't think anyone has ever heard of Legal drugs, an unfinished manga with 2 hot protagonists XD ahh no time to blog now

=( i'm so tired and ACSI is... full of boys