Wednesday, September 24, 2008

GCA with Nath & Josh

20th Sept. 2008 ~ Nathalie, a pretty Malaysian girl from Sabah, whom I met in FaceBook is finally here! She had been planning for a long time to come here to further her education. This is our second meet-up since we became friends in FB. The first time we met was on New Year's Eve when she was here on holiday with her parents. She's quite an outgoing girl, cheerful, sporting & fun person to be with.
We met up at SunTec City where Games Convention Asia was being held. Nath brought along one of her online pals, Josh, who is so shy a guy. Perhaps being with 2 pretty strange girls clammed his style. LOL! However he loosen up a little after a while & he isn't shy at all online! xD

Nath, Josh & me



Even though we are not gamers, we had a great time at the event. Am also really happy when I encountered a couple of old friends there.

My pretty neighbor, an ex-primary school classmate & an online friend



As expected, the event hall was crowded with almost all guys with a sparkler of girls here & there.

The Crowd @ GCA



I'm not into gaming, but was touched by nostalgia when I recognized this company which bring back some memorable time of my life.

EA Games booth



Used to played an online FPS(First Person Shooter) game of theirs, BattleField 1942. I even belong to a big BattleField clan, one the very few girls of the clan. Well, I guess the real reason behind the fact an online clan invited me into their group is I'm a girl & not that I'm any good at games. I tend to panic in FPS, killing more friendlies than hostilies. LOL! xD
Unfortunately, my clan was dismantled as most of my clan's members are working people, more committed to their real life than their virtual identities. Perhaps some of you may have heard of the clan known as DOM which resided in paGn, ex-gaming division of Pacific Internet. That's the only online gaming experience I have & it was a fun blasting period. =P

Anyway, back to GCA...

What's this? Money online? Virtual cash? =P

Panda Hammers as prize



We missed getting the Panda Hammers as the queue was too long for us to bother with.
Guess which celebrity we met at the event? WALL•E, my favorite movie character! Had been searching for the Wall•E bench since I first saw it in one of my friend's foto & I found it! Yes! Happy, happy me! xD

Sitting with Wall•E & EVE



While walking pass a booth, we were interrupted by their staffs. We might have been mistaken for tourists as the staffs used hand signals & simple words like "Pictures? Pictures?" while motioning us toward their small stage. Oh... they wanna to take pics of us posing with their big gaming poster. We obliged as their temporary models. xD

Online Game Models

The Fairer Sexy Team? =P



We had a great time posing with many other game characters at the event.

Monopoly Dude & Shortie King of ???

Nath walking softly carrying a BIG sword!



And one of the showgirls recognized me as Hengbok, my online nick! She walked up to me to say hi. Apparently, she is a member of a forum which I am also a member. Nice meeting you!

Showgirls seducing our horny guy! xD



We have some fun with a furry Sasquatch... yeah, yeah, I know it's a Ghillie suit for sniper & had to be bloody hot for the wearer!

Fooling with a Sasquatch! =P



Our fun with furry bear was being silently observed by Environmental Rangers & Nath was caught for being environmental unfriendly, teasing a protected specie. xD

Nath pleading for her life... LOL!



We rescued Nath & in retaliation, captured one of the Rangers... eh, US Marine to torture. Revenge is sweet! xD

Beg for your life, soldier boy! =P



So, they sent one of theirs to negotiate his release.

Cool looking SWAT girl



And we sent our horny guy to talk terms... =P

Josh 'negotiating' with the female SWAT



If you can't win them, join them...

The Cool Team from Movie Mania



Movie Mania's military team is one of the reason I went GCA. I so love weapons & camo uniforms! xD
Another cool team is the Star Wars team.

May the Force be with you!



While posing with the Star Wars team, again I was invited to be their Slave Leia. Erm... need to build-up on my boobs for that to happen! LOL!
Oh, what a tough choice for me...

To be an Army Girl or a Jedi?



In closing, I would like to thanks those who posed for/with us, especially Tim & the Movie Mania team. Also, special thanks goes to Eugene for being so sporting, allowing us to 'capture' him & borrowing his rifle. We have a great time with you guys! See you at the next event!

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Cosplay & Movies

Hi everyone! Since it's been a long time I updated my blog, I'm going to compress a number of entries into one long memo. No... I'm not being lazy, just too busy. =P

Due to a flame thread against me in a certain cosplay forum, my blog won't be featuring much cosplayers till I identify who are neutrals, friends or foes. That thread is full of groundless allegations, prejudices & slanders. Most of the flamers are brainless kids, gutless keyboard warriors, emos, no-lifers or envious girls. Their lives are so full of miseries that they always try to ruin someone else's. The thread starter herself is a mental case with a huge inferiority complex, full of enviousness & hatred of just about anything. Age 21, a wannabe playground queen, whose followers are easily manipulated kids. She even tried to get me by pretending to be the official representative of another forum & was warned off by the management. Her boyfriend is another nut case. At the age of 27, he still wanna be a king of playground bully, a hooligan who always threaten to beat up anyone who don't agree to his point of views.
I suspected, with the lynch mob mentality in that forum, many who wanna try cosplaying had been driven out. With selfish, narrow & shallow mindsets, those losers are not contributing to the expansion of local cosplay community. Their only ability is, preventing/discouraging anyone who might have the potential to be better than them from cosplaying, in order to preserve their own status. With such idiots around, the cosplay community will remain stagnant. In fact, they already created a very negative impression of cosplayers to the public. A bunch of juvenile delinquents, bashing anyone who don't follow their warped ideology. Those imbeciles will be the death of cosplaying.
Many of my friends came to know of that flame thread. They said I'm getting popular. LOL! Some even show support by accompanying me to cosplay events. I appreciated their support, kind words & encouragements. Thank you, my friends!
So, I'm ignoring those flaming losers & still attending cosplay events. Their tactic may deter others, but not me!

9th/10th Aug. 2008 ~ WCG/Coscon.
Event was held at SunTec City for 2 days.

Gamer Girl! xD


Many racing games & real racing cars were featured as there's a F1 craze going on locally due to the new F1 racing track been build.

F1 Girl! =P

Racing Mascot? xD



Took a few photos together with people from Movie Mania, a club whose members are devoted to dressing up as characters from action or sci-fi movies. They called themselves, costumers, which I don't think have any differences from cosplayers. In my opinion, they are more mature & with professional discipline. Coolest bunch at the event!

Movie Mania's members


During the visit, a Predator wanna enslave me! I talked him out of it & show him a prettier slave. He bought it, lock, chain & Princess Leia! xD

Snare by a Predator!

Slave Mistress

Enslaving Predator



The role of the Predator was played by Reno, the founder of Movie Mania. Initially, I was offered the role of Princess Leia, but I declined. I believe that girl who played Princess Leia is better suit. She was the star of the event drawing much attention, including from the media.
Went back the next day as I was told that Movie Mania members will be in their Star Wars costumes. Arrived late & managed only to captured Boba Fett with sexy Princess Leia.

Cool Boba Fett & Hot Slave Leia


31st Aug. 2008 ~ Matsuri @ Vivo City.
A low-key cosplay event. I went because an ex-primary school classmate of mine wanna check out the local cosplay scene. Quite disappointing. Stay for about an hour plus before we went our separate ways.



Month of July & August ~ Movie Spree!
Going to the cinema 5 times within 2 months is quite a lot for me. Seldom watch movies in cinema nowadays as there wasn't much good shows. My preference in movies lean towards action, sci-fi or war movies. However, most time, when watching those movies, I dunno what's what or what's going on, till later, after much inquiring to my companion who is resigned to be prepared with after-movie explanations. But I'm a just a cute innocent hamster girl! What do I know about sinister plots, fighting, weapons & big badaboom?!? Still, I love those movies with big badaboom! Hahaha... xD

Camera! Lights! Action!


A brief summaries of my opinions of these movies:
Batman ~ Quite a nice movie, but the character of Batman was quite disappointing to me. If he had rammed his bike into Joker, I would be delighted. So obvious that the Joker wasn't just a ordinary criminal. He's an incurable psychotic murderer, so just let him have it when you have him in your sight. Yep, I'm quite the anti goodie-hero type. =P

HellBoy ~ Overall, the sequel is not very impressive when compared to the first movie. Although the plot have a few strange plot flaws, it's still quite entertaining. Guess there will be a third follow-up as Liz is pregnant with twins. Hmmm... what will the babies look like?

The Mummy III ~ It's quite sad that the third movie is a jumbled up mess as the first two are quite decent. The good guys are quite clueless when it comes to important matter, like stopping the baddies. Just need to blow up that flimsy bridge linking to Shangri-La or if all else failed, blow up the pagoda which the Eye of Shangri-La need to sit in order to find the Terracotta Army. The baddies will be up the creek without a paddle! Hahaha...! Evil hamster me! xD Well, I suppose there's gonna be a fourth try as the ending hinted with Jonathan going to South America.

Journey to The Center of The Earth ~ I guess this movie will only appeal to audience of youngsters and the easily impressed. It's more of a theme park ride rather than an epic action-adventure movie. Good special effects, that's all I can comment about this movie. Nothing sensational.

I love animation movies too & finally, comes the eagerly awaited animated film, Wall•E! In my opinion, it's the best movies of the year! It's a Mac movie after all! Am so delighted to hear the start-up chimes of Mac when Wall•E completed recharging & Eve is so iMac, white & sexy! Was thrilled to see Wall•E watching the repeating video off an iPod with a huge magnifier! And Macintalk of AUTO is so Mac! I'm so crazy over this movie that I changed my MacBook desktop picture & some applications' icon to Wall•E theme. xD
Kowtow to Pixar for producing a GREAT movie! Wall•E is soooooo cute, adorable, brave & full of jazz for everything. Love Eve for her confidence, fierce loyalty & determination. What I really love is how they both sounded. Robotic chirps and whistles, but so full of expressive emotions! My companion was really amused when I tried imitating their sound while in cinema & after the movie. An electronic hamster?!? Hahahahaaa! =P

Wall•E

My Cutie Wall•E!

Robotic Love

Hilarious Robots



I'm so crazy in love with Wall•E & Eve that I bought toys of them even before watching the movie. xD

Wall•E Diorama figures

Wall•E & Eve

Bigger toys of Wall•E & Eve



Buying some of those toys from Toy'R'Us got me a free poster. It's up on the door of my wall closet. Was slightly damaged by my dad when he tried to put it up again when it came loose while I'm not around. Arrrrrr.....!!! Sob, sob!

Wall•E Poster



I am so in love with Eve & Wall•E! xD