Tag Archives: singapore

Cosfest VI — tons of cosplay photos

Cosfest is finally over. I am so tired from two entire days of photo-taking. It’s been 24 hours and my hands still ache from carrying a camera that weighs at least 24.43 jillion pounds. I’ve been feeling feverish the whole … Continue reading

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SOS-Dan does Lucky Star dance at Cosfest VI

A group of Haruhi cosplayers performed the Lucky Star OP dance as part of their entry item for the semi-finals of the World Cosplay Summit (Singapore), which is part of Cosfest VI. Here’s a super blur and shaky video of … Continue reading

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Apocalypse now

Taken from RIUVA. So Odex has finally done it. Singapore’s anime community is doomed. Oh shit. So anyway some poor guy probably wet his pants after receiving this letter. WTF zOMG H4X! BTW the organization mentioned in the letter AVPAS … Continue reading

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Calling all local budding student photographers!

The Raffles Junior College Photography Club (of which I am a member) is organizing a photography competition that is opened to all students in Singapore! The theme of the Singapore Schools’ Photography Competition 2007 “Lumière” (no, not that loli) is … Continue reading

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An Open Letter to Odex

Odex is just about the only company in South-East Asia that licenses anime, but unfortunately their products are pretty low quality and few people buy them. They also maintain a low profile in the Singaporean anime community with virtually zero … Continue reading

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Singapore Anime Bloggers Gathering

Or “a bunch of nerds playing Counter-Strike” as tj han would put it. Apparently, I have been included in this otaku gathering that is pushing the limits of Singapore’s unlawful assembly laws but I’m sure the authorities will understand. The … Continue reading

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Sales don’t save you money

But they sure are cool. KKnM is having a storewide 50% sale today and tomorrow. Of course whenever there’s a sale, you don’t actually save on anything because you end up buying things that you wouldn’t have bought otherwise. But … Continue reading

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EOY Cosplay’s Best Performance

This is my favourite part of the entire EOY Cosplay event. The quality is bad because it was taken by me with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W1 camera. In addition to photography, I also suck at video recording and editing. Shangri-La … Continue reading

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Event Report: EOY Cosplay 2006 @ Expo

EOY Cosplay 2006 Pictures, lots and lots of pictures. They say a picture speaks a thousand words. I suck at speaking, so I shall pad my post with pictures.

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Singaporean Maid Cafe opening soon

It seems that all the excitement has died down and everyone has forgotten about that maid cafe which was supposed to have opened at Far East Shopping Centre last month. Some people (me being one of them) had already filed … Continue reading

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My final JLPT adventure

…hopefully. I just got home. Today’s JLPT 1 paper was the hardest Japanese paper I have ever taken in my whole life. It felt like an entire level higher than all the level 1 past year papers that I’ve been … Continue reading

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The Ugly Singaporean

It’s been a while since I blogged about anything non-related to anime or Japan. Four million smiles This is an entry about Singapore. Please do not read on if non-anime entries bore you.

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