Weekend Shootout - Cosplay Matsuri 2007

Another Saturday spent snapping away, this time at the Cosplay Matsuri 2007. Here are the pics...

Hokie, that's for the first round. The next round of pics will be coming up shortly so stay tuned.

Weekend Shootout - WCG/Moviemania Coscon 2.0

RAWR! Hot damn too many photos were snapped during the event so here's the second batch of pix taken...

"Ok padawan, let's take out those anime loving cosplay photographers!"

Looking down the barrel of a gun..."

Son of a gun son of a bitch..."

Getting paid getting rich..."
- Beastie Boys

"Okay guys, let's pop his head to make sure he's dead!"

"Yay! We won! We won... Erm guys, am I supposed to be counter-terrorist or terrorist?"

And of course, no event is complete without the lovely promoters and sponsors!

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Weekend Shootout - WCG/Moviemania Coscon

A good part of the weekend was spent snapping away at the World Cyber Games 2007 cum Moviemania Coscon held at Suntec City. Cosplayer turn out was fabulous with several familiar faces and some new ones with character line-ups ranging from anime to movie, TV and game characters.

The weapons merchant was one of the first friendly faces that greeted me. As usual, he offered me a wide range of firearms for my personal protection.

However, he has highlighted the ironic fact that he has been a victim as several customers have attacked him using the weapons purchased from him.

Taking his cue, this lovely lady purchased a HK MP-5 to address her maid abuse problem.

Of course, her employers did not buy into her solution and have aired their objections. The case has been brought to the attention of the courts...

Where there has been much deliberation...

Which was eventually settled amicably out of court with the lady being awarded a sum to compensate for the aggravated trauma suffered. Although she has accepted compensation, she still insists on carrying her personal firearm as she goes about her daily chores.

"Join Vader's Imperial Legion to get Whatever you desire!"

"I don't think so you Imperial biatch!"

In some beauty contests, tie breakers involve the contestants to pit themselves against the other in a test of strength. From the looks of this, the judges will probably need to come up with another tie breaker if they want a final result.

Maid to order...?

"Time to 'arrow' someone..."

"Please don't feed my television screen
TV casualty, TV casualty"
- The Misfits

Argh! More photos to come! I'm still in the process of getting the rest of the photos up online so stay tuned...

Culturally Speaking...

Spent the day at WCG with two of my friends snapping pix of cosplayers at Suntec City and headed down to Esplanade to check out Intone playing at Baybeats.

As we headed back after the set, we walked towards the front of the Esplanade which prompted one of my friends, who is from Sarawak, to ask if we visited the Esplanade frequently to catch any cultural performances.

Upon hearing this, my other friend replied, as-a-matter-of-factly, "The only culture in me comes from a daily bottle of Yakult". I'm putting this down for the quote of the day.

East Coast Park: The calm before the storm

Went for a morning run with my colleagues at the National Heart Centre walkathon held at East Coast Park. Took some pictures after the event around 11am. Minutes after taking these the winds acted up and uprooted one of the camper's tents and the rain came pouring down just a little later.