March 9th, 2009
I need to look forward. There are things I need to do. Priorities that must take place first before others. The sulking is done and the emo’ing is over. I will do what I need to do. I will do what I wanna do. No one can stop me nor could anything unless its an act of god.
It is time you miscreants. We have heard your wishes and we will now make it come through. After almost a year of preparations, a year of blood, sweat and tears with a hint of desperation we(I) are(am) proud to present…
A Daikon????
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Presenting EMiNA Cyber’s and Malaysia’s first ever ‘Japanese Modern Culture Convention’ DAICON!!!!!!
I’ve always wanted to organise one again since getting involved in the very first GACC back in my Foundation (Alpha) days back in Melaka. Ah…the nostalgia. But since I’m already here in EMiNA Cyber and Its going to be my final year here I see that this might be my last chance to reach a flag strike something off my life’s to-do-list. There’s still ALOT of work to do but as they say “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”.
Details are as follows:
Date: 11-12th of July 2009 (yes, I know it clashes with Cosfest)
Venue: Grand Hall, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya
Time: 10.00am-7.00pm
For more information and inquiries, you can visit our website at www.daiconnews.com. Its gonna be BIG. Very very BIG. On a scale never seen before in any Anime, Comics or even Games(ACG) type events before in the country. This isn’t really a ACG event by the way and more of it related to the modern visual culture of Japan which coincidentally coincides with everything related to ACG as well. Talk about killing 2 neko with one boulder…heh.
Stay tune for more updates. Who knows…you just might get hints on what to expect if you read between the lines.
Oh, if you have any inquiries(regarding DaiCon) you can contact me at chris@daiconnews.com or at our general inquiry email at info@daiconnews.com.
February 9th, 2009
If you’re part of a group of people who work hard on costumes, photoshoots are rewarding as you then have something to take away with you. Some people are inspired by the more serious efforts at costumes and go off to make their own, which is flattering for the designer as well as those taking the photographs.
If you take a look through you’ll see a wide variety of people, though it’d be interesting to see people’s reactions to these costumes in a non-con environment – playing online bingo, for example, or just sitting around in MacDonalds. The shoot didn’t take too long, and it was enjoyable to work with people whose passions for costume design were at a similar level to my own.
Though I didn’t stay all the way through the photoshoot due to rushing to my sister’s birthday party I did had a good haul if I can say so myself. It was unfortunate that we can’t use the rooftop location as we had planned thanks to the stupid bowling alley having a party over there. The bastards.
Here’s a few samples of what I have taken the other day. Hmm…this is giving me an idea.
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February 7th, 2009
It was the holidays and I have to admit that it really had been quite a boring one indeed. I have never been bored this much during my holidays before. Before this there was work, studies, etc and when its finally here…its total BOREDOM!!!!! So, I have taken up the liberty of learning at least 2 new skills or ’stuff’ to kill time and to put my mind and time to proper and more productive usage other than just moping around aimlessly.
I’ve always wanted to try my hands on fansubbing. I was always curious on how it was actually done for a long time(actual hands on process). So recently when Silencers asked me to join and help out EMiNA Fansubs (Yea,its technically part of a University Club) I was like “….ok”.
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January 1st, 2009
I really should have posted this before January 1st but due to a very hectic and unforgiving schedule its only possible for me to post this up now. So without further ado here it is.
P/s: “this year” = year 2008 and not 2009. Remember, I cannot read the future nor take pictures of things that may come. XD
Comic Fiesta this year was held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Center which was a massive venue if you compared it to the last one held at Time Square in 2007. This year I volunteered as one of Comic Fiesta’s photographer and damn it was fun. The Comic Fiesta committee this time around manage to get all 3 halls of the convention center which in all sense cost a bomb and it includes multiple arms, legs, and first born too i guess.The ticket price however was higher than last year with a 50% increase from RM10 to RM15 but I understand it is to cover up the cost lah.
There was about 80 doujin booths opened this time, 20 more than last year. The sponsor booth were many but some smaller sponsors were hidden away in the sides making it difficult to spot them. However it can be seen that the biggest sponsor was HP which obviously had the biggest booth there.
The quality of cosplayers this time was superb. Influence by Singaporean cosplayers? Well, it doesn’t really matter as this time there were many Singaporeans who came up to participate in this event. That goes to show how big this event had become after so many years. I was not there for most of day 2 of the event so I couldn’t see how the cosplay competition proceeded but I heard that the ‘cosplay battle chess’ method was removed entirely to the relieve of both cosplayers and visitors alike.
Due to legality I cannot post most of my event pictures up yet so you’ll have to be satisfy with some cosplay pictures instead. Look out for the last picture in the end. Its my best picture of the year and my favorite in more ways than one.
Pon Pon Patapon!!!
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November 29th, 2008
Aching body, headache, sleepy and dazed. That’s what I felt when I woke up that morning. I was supposed to join Silencers and a few others to queue up at the Suntec Convention Center to get the tickets but I decided to take it easy a bit and just take my time. After a light breakfast of ‘Wan Tan Noodles’ at the Albert Center Food Court next to Bugis MRT we took a bus to Suntec after meeting up with Silencers and gang. On the way he mention that the event is held at Hall 404 Error. I was afraid that we would not be able to find it but it was easy enough to find. But as we came up the escalator we saw this…
Oh…
my…
GAWD!!!!!!
There’s even a queue on the OTHER side.
When we finally got our 2 day tickets and went in the fitst thing that greeted us was…
a 1/10 scale Exia!!!
There were variuos displays the Gunpla Bakuc competition corner, the exhibitors showcase row, and even works by various local mangakas. There were so many booths selling stuff from card holders to PVC models at such great prices I had to stop myself short of using all my cash on it. Even Chuang Yi Comics, a local manga distrubutor also had a booth there too bad they had nothing that I wanted though when I was there. I heard that they had a bigger selection but it was mostly in chinese unfortunately.
The gunpla works submitted for the competition was good. So good in fact I had an itch to suddenly go assemble one. I wanted to get a VF-25F Ozma Lee Custom but due to a lack of funds I had to resist the temptation of getting one. Damn…
I did not attend the Goda Gundam designer Kunio Okawara’s talk but I heard it was interesting and that he had some brilliant powerpoint presentation slides. If only I knew what my friend meant by that. Darn it, I knew I should have made my shopping till much later.
The various product displays by figurine companies like Alter, McFarlane, Figma, Goodsmile, Revoltech and even SquareEnix just to name a few was a real crowd puller. Visitors were snapping pictures faster than you can say “Kyah~~”.
I like the lighting reflection on the Ironman.
The details on the figures are simply in lack of a better word “mind-blasting!”.
Amazingly but not surprising Odex had open up shop there and looking at how it was going it seem that the locals do support Odex in one way or another(in buying anime related merchandises). I had assume that the booth would be ignored by anime fans due to the controversies involved with them but to my surprise it was pretty packed with people. They were selling Domo-kun related items, anime t-shirts and erm… bad subtitled font anime vcd/dvds. It would also seem that they had also licensed Toradora, Casshern Sins and Code Geass to be distributed in Singapore. I just hope the Japanese companies know what their doing.
Most of the cosplayers I’ve seen are some of the best that I’ve ever seen so far. High quality costume, a fine attention to detail plus a suitable personality to fit into the character really pulls it off. I’m pretty sure they are some Malaysians there cosplaying too but it goes to show that ACG has no boundaries.
When I first saw these guys I immediately went *clickety click*. I *heart* Macross.
A friend of mine has that very same banana.
Thats more or less day 1 for me. I skipped the Mizuki(Aniki) concert that evening because I was too tired. Day 1 was okay in my professional opinion but they could have done better in getting the crowd more excited by having more of a energetic MC’s and on the spot games instead. Until day 2 of the event, I now leave you with the best cosplayer of the day…Bakucman!!! (Isn’t he just awesome?)
Just kidding.
