Thor is tired and asleep at STGCC. Come back next week.
Meanwhile, don’t forget Ken Liu is in Singapore this week and his sessions start on the 4th September!
Year: 2013
STGCC 2013 is this weekend!
Ahhhh! The Singapore Toy, Game, & Comic Convention is on this coming weekend (31 Aug/ 1 Sep) ! That’s my badge there.
No, that’s not the badge for the entry to the convention. (You can probably try to make your own from the pictures here.)
You have to buy your tickets either at Action City, etc etc they have a list on their website or you can just buy it on the day itself.
I’ve gotten mine for a normal 2 day pass. That is my day 1 outfit since hah, I can just wear formally and stuff and be an agent!
Plus, if you’re hanging around on day 1, around 3pm we’re having an “unofficial” Marvel photoshoot from the Hot Toys booth towards the Marvel booth at 3.30pm. There’s going to be a lot of Iron Mans and other characters then, heh heh heh.
Meanwhile, even though there are things listed on the event programme of STGCC, not everything is stated.
For one thing, if you’re in the Pacific Rim fandom, you can buy this poster by Sarah Isabel Tan while walking THROUGH THE AISLES. Toysrevil have more info on how to purchase this piece.
Even SKLO or Samantha Lo is collecting pre-orders at STGCC for her first toy there. It’ll be at the Mighty Jaxx booth so check it out.
HAH, be cultured, GET IT?
Good toy to be used as a gift to those who you think need to be more cultured or are super cultured or something.
Basically, if you’re on tumblr just search the tag for STGCC too cause some artists from the artist alley might post up previews of what you might be able to buy there.
Remember my survival guide for STGCC 2012, it still works for 2013.
Mostly, just remember to bring cash and not too give too big of a currency, try to give exact change if you’re buying from the ARTIST ALLEY booths.
And ok, if day 1, I’m a S.H.I.E.L.D agent, day 2 will be…
Ken Liu’s coming to Singapore!
Yes, Ken Liu’s coming to Singapore in September! Don’t know his work or want to read one of his stories for free? You can check his Paper Menagerie out! It’s also part of Read Singapore this year.
So the important dates would be:
- 4 September , 7.30pm – 9pm: The Paper Menagerie
- 7 September, 2pm- 3.30pm: The Writing Life : Science Fiction and Fantasy or 5pm- 6.30pm: Comparing Notes: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 8 September, 3pm – 4.30pm: Author Reading at Origami Exhibition
We’re going on the Saturday sessions. Especially if you’re Nanowrimo-ers COME ON SATURDAY. He has done Nanowrimo before too and well, it’s always great to meet up with others who have done it while meeting an award or rather AWARDS winning author at the library.
This is all free but if you want to register to just ‘chope’ seat here’s the info:
Registration Info: All sessions are free, but seats are limited.
To confirm your seat, kindly email readsingapore@nlb.gov.sg
1) Your Name 2) Title & Date of Session/s 3) Contact Number
See you guys there! I’ll be going to the 7th September sessions.
Purrzaar…
I went to the 2013 Cat Purrzaar at The Arts House! It’s on next week too. Anyway click more to read after the cut to see the poster since you still can attend this cat photography exhibition and visit the booths.
N.E.mation! 8 call for entries!
Remember that time I went to Disneyland for free*… The actual Universal studios in the USA and so many animation companies…? WELL YOU CAN TOO! Because it’s time for…
N.E.mation! 8 yaaay! This year’s theme is Because You Played a Part. What does it mean? It means:
30 years of security and stability as a nation was built upon everyone’s efforts.We stood with each other through the good times and bad, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes. We are able to enjoy what we have in Singapore today because each of us has played a part, in building this nation, our home.
Look what last year’s winners get to do. IT IS for winning N.E.mation! 7
How do you even join this? Or what is this even? Click the poster to see how.
Yess. It’s just takes you to form a team of 3 to 4 students from your school, register online at http://nemation.sg and submit your story ideas by 21 August 2013, 1pm.
You have to be a student of a Secondary School, Junior College or a Centralised Institution. Plus you must be a Singaporean or a Singapore Permanent Residents.
What you don’t have to know is how to animate! No worries on that because if you’re in, THEY will teach you how!
So you’ve grabbed your friends, you want to do this but don’t know how to start? The people behind N.E.mation! 8 has given you some resources like:
1. View the Free online Story Workshop at http://nemation.sg/story/
2. Receive coaching on your story ideas when we visit you in school, or when you attend our Public Story Clinic session*!
*The option to choose your preferred Public Story Clinic session is available when you register online. 83% of all past N.E.mation! Top 10 teams attended this same Story Clinic session and this is why you need it too!
OK, so what if you can’t form a team or if you’re not a student? NOT TO WORRY, you still can win some goodies with their Share Your Story competition. HO HO HO HO HO.
Yesss. You know the N.E.mation! 8 website? Well, you can either find their facebook there or search for ‘nemation‘ to enter this competition. You can join this competition by pressing the Share Your Story tab on it and enter.
There are 2 rounds for this and the last day is 11 August for the FIRST round okay? You have the long holiday to just come up with something and ENTER.
So, don’t regret entering either of the two competitions because this year you can play a part. Hah, GET IT? Anyway, you could be one of the finalists like how these teams were last year in N.E.mation! 7.
* Ps. I was the N.E.mation! 6 ambassador hence the free trip to the USA too! It’s super fun so try enter the competition if you can.
For the horde
3 August was friendship day and Hasbro Singapore decided to make it magical with My Little Pony because… Friendship is MAGIC! Yes, I do follow the series.
Even my brothers.
Yes, shut up.
Anyway, I didn’t know it was going to be a street event like their Star Wars day.
The facebook event details said it started from Ion downwards, I must say a lot of people asked concierge that they wondered what was up. The event was not in Orchard Ion. Ok can. I deduced it didn’t have a booth or something then. The first 1000 people were gonna get some mysterious freebie from them.
Spoiler alert: The freebie was from a new range of neon MLP blind bags that haven’t premiered yet in the stores.
Maker Faire 2013!
Don’t say I never told you Maker Faire exists in Singapore. Of course, you’re too late to attend 2013’s since that just happened last weeked on 27th-28th July at *Scape warehouse! This is also in conjunction with the Science Buskers Festival.
I like this year’s because last year it was held in the… paid area… of the Science centre and I went there in the afternoon so it wasn’t worth paying mucho moolah when I wouldn’t have enough time to explore the centre itself. Which led me to play some other stuff outside of the science centre but still in the building itself.
Maker Faire! Ok, it’s called mini Maker Faire and it’s really fun since they have workshops and talks lined up. I wasn’t there for any of the talks since I was too late to sign up for some of them. Haaa. They’re popular so if you ever want to go to a talk, just CLICK REGISTER when the next Maker Faire is up.
Instead, I got to go around the booths! Yay! That was free since no entry fee at *Scape. (Except for some workshops, duh.)
So Unnatural!
No adventures around Singapore because, ok. I did have some but I wanted to write more about this series… UNNATURAL! You can actually watch it on XinMSN. Thank goodness for episode recaps for local shows on it cause I have no idea who else will do it if you don’t record them yourselves.
Frankly, I have watched season 1 and 2. Not that I wanted to but mostly it’s when I was eating food and it happened to be on and I switched channels because the first two seasons were SO painful. In a sense that they were actual reenactments of what had truly happened. Some of the cases had happened a few weeks before and were in the newspapers.
Unnatural was really about freak accidents and unnatural deaths that happened and you couldn’t help the victims at all. It was doubly painful because they managed to get the relatives and interviewed them. Just really heartbreaking.
NOW, I can watch Unnatural because it’s just… Well, if you haven’t noticed me tuning in every episode and telling my friends online about it, WELL, you just need to watch it now.
It’s totally the opposite of the first two seasons because it’s so unbelievable, it’s unnatural.
Each episode has Darren Lim as the host introducing the ‘story’ of each episode. Sometimes he’s involved in being ‘examples’ to show what he is talking about.
The format of Unnatural is pretty easy, you have either one or two stories per episode and in between it you have interviews with professionals like doctors, psychiatrists or whatever professional sports person that goes with it.
And that’s when you start to bring popcorn or whatever snack you want to eat as you watch the show.
Under One Sky writing workshop
Hey ho! There’s a writing workshop for the Under One Sky competition! It’s like preparation for the competition if you haven’t tried out writing short stories before.
Here’s the details! Fyi, it’s free.
Creative writing (short story) workshop!
Date: Sat, 3rd August 2013
Time: 10am- 1pm
Venue: Woodlands Regional Library, Programme ZoneThis workshop will focus on the techniques needed for writing short stories and give participants room to experiment with ideas.
Below is the programme outline:
• Appreciate the unique features of a short story
• Brainstorm and develop a plot for a short story
• Apply basic writing skills and techniques to formulate a short story
• Write a short story inspired by another work of literature
• To have a basic draft of a short story by the end of the workshopThis workshop is open to only 40 participants aged 13 and above!
Please register at library e-kiosks or website http://golibrary.nlb.gov.sg Should the programme be fully registered and you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please email your name and contact number to readsingapore@nlb.gov.sg
Participants are strongly encouraged to submit the short stories produced in the workshop for the Insight: Under One Sky Competition, organised in collaboration with Read! Singapore.
If you have any queries regarding the workshop or the competition, please send it to us at insight.competition@gmail.com
More details about the competition or the workshop can be found here.
Cosfest 2013 aka Cosfest XII
And it was Cosfest weekend once more! There’s so many people this year (and less Vocaloids) going about. The programme for Cosfest had karaoke competitions, the World Cosplay Summit (WCS) competition for representatives of Singapore and well performances.
Reika was there as a guest and judge too and she has mucho fans who were lining up to buy her photobooks and yes, her photobooks with various cosplays are very good and gets sold out pretty quick here since she brought them along with her from Japan.
ANYWAY, you’d know the official programme, see photos and videos from this year at the Cosfest website.
I go to Cosfest mostly to meet my friends, and I did!