AFAX 2010 2nd day

Wake up damn early, but still nt as early as initially planned haha. but neways managed to reach ard 9am. wah bloody lot of ppl sia.


Queue frm 1 end to the other side, and even extending into one of the "events room"

as u can see frm the pictures, that's the other end of the imba queue -.-


after getting in, gt another queue again for the screening for the disappearance movie sia

only manage to get like.... i think row M seats. Nt like on the first day we get imba front row seats haha

So proceed to watch The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi.


i rmb years back, when i read the novels. this volume was so exciting. i read until 5~6am in the morning, 1 shot clear to the end. this volume imba. surprises at every corner. not until the last 3mins of the movie den can catch a breath. it was a hell of a ride.


was scared that the movie will suffer frm terrible decay. since season 2 for some reason didn seem to be very entertaining. recently also gt UBW movie, whose original work was so imba, but the movie adaptation wasn't THAT good, tho seems like its good enuff to get some ppl interested in the original series.


so GLAD that it turned out to be quite PERFECT lol. very entertaining, tho dun hav the excitement like when i first read it, but hw to surprise some1 who already know wads gonna happen lol. but everything was done nicely.

i like it they have those little subtle funny scenes, such as the 1 where haruhi drive kyon away frm getting warmth frm the heater, so he had to go to the CPU and warm his hands there lol.

introduction, delivery and conclusion, all wonderful.

very quite happy with the movie. despite afa x being a little quite DISAPPOINTING, i wouldn mind to see it as i paid $30 simply for disappearance haha.

Den watch the cosplay competition. To tell the truth, watching years of cosplay competitions, i think probably  only 5% was good. the rest i can only say i applaud their courage xD. But its nt easy serious. Firstly, doing a imba replica of the costume is nt easy, especially when some ppl wan to chu stun. like this imba crazy gundam i saw last year

2ndly, need to do some skit/performance which is NOT CHEEZY, let alone entertaining.

Seriously, i think if a grp of girls cosplay as the k-on girls and perform a song nicely, sure win lol.

So neways, like usual, spent most of the time watching the cosplay contest feeling embarrassed for the contestants xD.

After that jus walk ard see stuffo. Many things see before liao leh, nuthin exciting also haha. ANYWAY i also jus came back frm AKIHABARA jus a few months ago, having visit the place 3 times on JCC? so its gonna take something SPECIAL to give me a shock.

This year also nt a lot of ppl cosplay, much lesser as compared to last year. Nvr took much picture, but heres 2 characters frm umineko no naku koro ni haha

Virgilia

Siesta 00

Aw why no ange ushiromiya?

also saw superpaper and eva-beatrice cosplays, but didn manage to take pictures haha.

Pretty much sums everything up haha. I think i can't be satisfied with attending AFA anymore, need to cosplay next year xD

cosplay as this lol

AFAX 2010

Went over suntec today at ard 1130 liddat. wah this year the main stage so big sia. like 2.5x bigger. the lighting and sound system also imba haha. glad the increase in entrance fee was reflected in the improvement of the event haha.

first up was watching the gundam 00 movie.

I only briefly watched season 1, but i guess that was enuff information for me to watch the movie. As compared to unlimited blade works movie, i think gundam 00 did a much greater job. At least it was exciting, whereas in UBW movie, they simply animate scenes which was awesome in the visual novel randomly. Well fate was a shorter route but they also cannot do properly with entire season, hard to imagine them doing a great job with a longer route, UBW. But the animation looks damn good haha.
However the ending of gundam 00 movie was wtf. i totally dun understand lol.

After that go queue up for the maido café. this year they doing skool theme tho, so nt really maido anymore haha. But in the end nvr get to go in. After waiting for 1 hour, i think i moved 3 steps. Need to go see kana hanazawa, ( if can't see link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0OBIAgdyFc instead ) at the main stage haha, so left the queue =(

hmmm ok la quite an entertaining watch, but i think last year when the k-on seiyuus came, it was more fun and stuff haha.

Didn eat breakfast and lunch. bloody hungry at this point of time. walk ard abit only, see the café queue longer than before, den i decide to chiong out and head for waruku for dinner haha.

didn take much pictures this year, neither is there a lot of cosplayers. Last year was crazy. i think like almost
3 : 7 ratio last year. this year more like 0.5 : 9.5.

quite tired anyway. gonna sleep early n wake up early. need to chop seats tml to watch disappearance the movie!!!!

WHERE ARE YOU?! TAN TECK LONG

A public service announcement, from LOW CHOW LONG, looking for Mr Tan Teck Long to come out for a drink.

if u ever see this msg, plz contact 97685977 or drop a msg at lowxuanzhi@gmail.com.

tho i doubt it haha.

hmm maybe upcoming holiday i do a ala-ah liang-super sunday-"super mission"

ktv and it's etiquettes

haha that episode was so enjoyable. absolutely can relate with all those stuff they mentioned haha. but i think sometimes i also forget to observe the ktv etiquette fully haha oops. at least my understanding of the ktv etiqutte that is.
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Basics such as spamming 8~10 of songs u wan to sing, worst still when its all frm the same artist, even worst still is when u pick all the popular songs, suppose to be like can only pick a few popular songs per person; every1 loves/want to pick those songs too. and summore its nt like others can pick the same song if it was already picked, thats also another unspoken rule. at least for me, i feel like by doing that u like tryin to 踢馆 liddat haha
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Jump queue and insert songs is no need say 1. if any1 thinks there is nothing wrong den i dunno wad to say lol. well of course unless that person sit 1 corner for 5 years nvr sing any songs or that he or she came late den still acceptable.
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Another impt etiquette some ppl fail to observe is singing song picked by some1 else. sometimes ppl sing right frm the start as if it was picked for them to sing lol. even if they come in halfway, uninvited, also quite as frustrating. ESPECIALLY if that song was one of those performance-type songs, which as said by xiao S "为了要慲足自己的欲望", dreaming that u are 蕭敬騰 or something lol. If it was a normal-type song den can mix sing no issue, given that they do it properly.
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i dun mean have to sing nice. come on we are singing for fun nt holding a concert, but wad i meant by doing it properly is that u observe the etiquettes.

Like the person picking the song should be allowed to sing the earlier half of the first verse, den followed by the 2nd guy for the later half.

Den the first guy will sing the first half of the chorus, den followed by the 2nd guy.

Den here the 2nd guy have to start the 2nd verse first, cos usually at the 2nd verse, the 2nd part will be zhng'ed, so the better part should give the guy who picked the song. Den usually the first person will be happy with wadeva order the rest of the song turns out, well still gt 1 last part.

usually, prolly all, the song will have the most imba part, like maybe imba high, imba technique, or wadeva other shitz. obviously that part should give the guy who picked it right? but some ppl jus ks man. lol. having said that, somehow i gt a feeling i probably did that at least a few times before xD.
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well of course the above standard format is nt absolute. if both party or grp of ppl are very familiar with the song, they can sing the song their own way, doing beautiful blendings and harmonies, or echoing after certain select lines; stretto, etc, which is very nice and fun.
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sure there is more but lol, enough blabbing frm me. the video alone is pretty "nuff said". time to meditate.

how would u respond?

A: ... because ... (yada yada).. which is why we have to conclude that this is the cause of your problems.

B: now im upset.

*silence for 5 sec*

A: errr.... is there anything else?

i learned something new

A : ..... damn angry. XXXX bluff me, say 3rd storey! Turn out wad u know? They count frm the ground floor lol! only 2 units above!

I learned something new today.

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