Was busy on Saturday and no adventures… Well sort of. I did do stuff. Instead here, on Sunday I collected my Race the Dead pack. I wanted to pick it up on Saturday evening but good grief, the queue was long.
It was so much faster to pick up on Sunday morning so I guess they managed to streamline things?
Click to enlargen the poster! Or you can download it here. The Nanowrimo Kick-Off party will be at the possibility room (level 5) of the central library on the 26th October! Don’t forget to actually sign up in the main Nanowrimo website though. The RSVP thread will be out in October.
What do we do at kick-offs? We have intro to Nano, quizzes, fun and stickers.
If you don’t know how to get to the fifth floor of the central library. You can take a lift, that’s just a video of me taking the escalator and trying to get up there as fast as possible. Starts at 6pm to 8pm but generally for those who have been to the parties know the ‘main’ part of it ends around 7pm and the rest is the major mingling and cake time.
And if you’re not Nanowrimo-ing… JOIN THE ZOMBIE WALK!
It’s on the same day but different time! REGISTER here.
Time:
Venue:Â The Cathay at 2 Handy Road
Attire: Zombie Attire
Admission Fee: Free! Though we are asking all participants to bring at least 2 canned foods or non-perishable food items in support of the walk’s charity:  Food Bank Singapore
Get more info on their registraion page!
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…
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
I’m phoning it in. BECAUSE you can read about the cat party I went to for the launch of Love Kuching’s Foster Space here! That’s Cooky. You can still adopt him if you meet the requirements. He apparently likes to smoosh up to you in slightly weird positions.
We went to the HomeTeamNS club at Bukit Batok! Because of a fun shoot!
A charity fun shoot for Aishah. Click to enlarge that. The fun shoot is over but you can still do private donations, check their facebook at Help Aishah Fun Shoot to ask how to give in the email in the poster above.