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Cosplay finalists results released AFA09’s Regional Cosplay Championship!

sentinel011 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:30:17 +0000

After about 2 weeks, AFA09 has announced the Finalists for the Regional Cosplay Championship!

The pictures aren’t from their cosplays for the competition, but previous cosplays. To view their in-progress, please visit their figure.fm entries over here and here.

Congratulations to the winning teams! All the best at the finals! =DD

ALSO, pre-registration for cosplayers is up as well! You can access it over here. Here’s your chance to get a complimentary entrance ticket to AFA09 if you cosplay on that day!

AFA09 Regional Cosplay Championship

sentinel011 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:01:59 +0000

Anime Festival Asia 2009 has started their call for entry since 4-5 days ago! All cosplayers from South-east Asia can represent their country to be the region’s top cosplayer!

Well, as a former cosplayer myself, I would be tempted to join up as well, since it’s the next best thing to World Cosplay Summit. The 1st prize is a trip to Japan, too!

For more details, please view figure.fm and AFA09’s page on rules and regulations.

Hiatus no more, out of cosplay.

sentinel011 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:52:11 +0000

Yes, so I’ve decided that cosplaying is an expensive hobby that wasn’t fulfilling for me, with the amount of time/effort/money put into it, and it all feels superficial to me already. The local cosplay scene isn’t what it used to be; there isn’t any close-knit kinship kind of feeling anymore.

Cosplaying just isn’t fun to me anymore. It felt more like a popularity contest, with major bitching added.

What about my old costumes?

Honestly, I have no clue. Probably sell it after doing some repairs on it, I suppose. But I doubt anyone has my height/size ratio, since I’m kind of skinny/underweight.

However, the friends I made during the course of time when I cosplay, they shaped a substantial part of my life.

No, no I’m not feeling melancholic, just finally decided on what to do with this hobby of mine called ‘cosplay’.

But to the rest of the cosplay scene, and those who still find it fun to cosplay, don’t let this entry get to you XD Cosplaying is all about having fun role-playing the characters you like in their respective costumes.

Cosfest 2008 Day 2: Persona 3 Updates

sentinel011 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:38:21 +0000

The plum and I cosplayed in the same group for the first time (along with my other friends from cosplay), and everything sorta ended quite well… in a sense. XD

Quick update just because I don’t really like writing long entries; so I’ll let the pictures do the talking!

Cosfest Day 1: This extremely short report…

ume — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:40:32 +0000

…is made up of one video which sums up the lolwut of the area around the C.D.S booth (Aside from the impromptu SWR and Pangya JP, Hi, I am a Rake (Zentradi Fork) and In Soviet Russia, Bjorn Meets You session setups.)

Video credits to Aka. Video features possible brain-breaking content, brought to you by the genius of the one Mista Yoh (Mycstea now) and the ~~unfathomable depths of the random~~ plum.

And since 90% of the people I know couldnt recognize me (Even my classmate from the previous semester ;_;), here’s a picture for posterity

The rice crac-, um, Sen-cha- Right, Senti was unable to come yesterday because he was finishing up cosplay shopping. Let us shower him with appreciation by ~~spamming~~ sending him milfy cosplay pictures on IRC!

And for everyone else heading down later, we’re in the same team today so if you spot us do say hi :3

Spark: EOY 2007

sentinel011 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:31:59 +0000

Yes. I went to cosplay Natsume Rin, while the plum went to cosplay Trinity Blood.

Just Kidding. It’s the other way around.

Nothing much to report, Very tired now. Will update more maybe tomorrow or the following day? More pictures of my Trinity Blood group can be found here , here and here. Can’t seem to find The Plum’s pics around….

Well, I’m glad my cosplay group got 2 out of the 3 prizes; Best Female Cosplayer ( Queen Esther ) and Best Cosplay Group (Teh Bling, warped initials for Trinity Blood)

Why we used ‘Teh Bling’?

Cos our costumes are so shiny! So it blings up. *gets wacked*

Cosfest 2007 dates

sentinel011 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:24:52 +0000

As most of the readers will know, both me and the resident plum in the blog cosplays. So for the benefit of people coming to the ‘tiny red dot’ island, the details for the cosplay convention are as follows: (P.S, the Yoko (from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) cosplayers were found at an old post of moeyo.

7th July 2007
“World Cosplay Summit SemiFinals・
Location: Ngee Ann City, Civic Plaza
Time: 4.30pm ・6.00pm (Cosplay Competition)
5.30pm- 9.00pm (Booths)

14th July 2007
Cosfest Showday
Location: Downtown East, D・Tent
Time: 12.00pm ・8.00pm

Cosfest Showday will be a day whereby the exhibitor hall of Cosfest is open to the public.
The Anime Karaoke Contest takes place.
Programme for 14th 2007

12.00pm-8.00pm Exhibitor Trading Hours
2.00pm ・5.00pm Anime Karaoke Contest

15th July 2007
Cosfest The Golden Experience
Location: Downtown East, D・Marquee and D・Tent
Time: 11.30am ・8.00pm

On this day, the following will take place:
World Cosplay Summit Singapore Selection for Representatives
Best Individual Cosplay Competition

The working life

sentinel011 — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:57:15 +0000

Currently having Ignis-san as my wallpaper. =D

I’M BACK FROM SOME SORT OF HIATUS…. well kinda. Loads of preparations coming up in the next few weeks.

Haven’t really had time to blog much anyhow. Working life dragged the drive to blog over here. By the way I’ll be going to events in Singapore such as StreetFest ‘07 (a youth-oriented event that attracts jrockers and cosplayers generally) and Cosfest ‘07 (cosplay convention). A little cash tight… due to costumes and such.

Some of the stuff I’ve preordered:

After playing Tsukihime (I’ve only heard and seen of her character through other people before then), I’ve grown to like Arcuied even more; though in the fighting game Melty Blood : Act Cadenza in the arcades over here, I’m more skilled in using Len rather than Arcuied. But nonetheless this figure by Alter is just too good to let up.

I’m one of the lucky guys in Singapore to actually get to preorder the first release of MaxFac’s Yuki Nagato. =D she looks damn friggin’ nice (pardon my expression) with a fairly good price to boot.

The revoltech Dark saber will be my 3rd revoltech purchase in its line, the first and second being EVA-01 and Mazinkaiser respectively. I’m all out for the dark versions of Fate/Stay Night characters, including Rider too.

Well, I’ll post again, after I get around to clean up my SD gundam shoot pictures… *grumbles*