Frozen in Heat. Mission: Singapore.

It was apparent that Rolo was in Singapore last Saturday, 17th May 2008, and had momentarily used his geass in front of Ngee Ann City's fountain. It appears that his geass ability has seemingly improved tremendously, and was able to stop people's perception of time for 5 minutes (no more 5 secs) over a huge area!!

Opps wrong geass... but you got to admit it's cute!

Extract from unknown source:
At 4.30pm (GMT +8) today, Hundreds of people were stopped frozen in their tracks despite the scorching heat, and bystanders who were not affected were simply shocked at the sight. Eyewitnesses at the scene were reported to be saying things like "Oh my god, why they all not moving! Why everybody stop?!", and many had to be treated for trauma by paramedics who came soon after.

At approximately 4.35pm, time seemed to have continued for those who were affected, and reporters rushed down to the scene to interview those who were frozen. However, upon interviewing of the victims, a common reply was heard: "Huh? What are you talking about?"; the victims just didn't have any memory of the incident.

Despite further investigations by various agencies, no cause has been found, and the case was closed. In order to curb the publics' fears of further occurrences, the government have announced that this is a one-off case, and there is no reason to panic. However, further explanation was not given, and many questions are still being raised by the public. The public rages till today.
End of Extract.

Okay enough nonsense, but I sure had fun typing that! 17th May was the Freeze Event that had been planned by Mission: Singapore about 2 months ago, and I was there to join in the fun. It was an interesting experience, and also an equally hot one, as I was "freezing" in direct sunlight LOL. Though there was abit of minor problems here and there (there was a group of guys in front of me who froze like 20secs late, even went into a pointing-at-something pose; not everybody froze at the exact second, I was watching my already synchronized watch before looking away at the last second so I knew; I bet half of the people who knew about the event was just there to take photos and not participate etc.), it was definitely a huge success.


Official Video of the Event. Too bad could only see my back in the video, at the 01:13 and 03:31 part. Guess which! Was hoping to have had a proper view of me, since I was wearing my TORCH COSPA shirt (Shana reference ^^, I don't exist!).

Hey we got onto the news!! There were also 2 newspaper reports of this event, but no scans were uploaded yet, sadly.

More information about Mission: Singapore: (For even more, visit their webpage, this is only an extract)
We are basically an improv acting group that engages the community in organized social activities that we call Missions. This Missions aim to create an alternate piece of reality from an everyday scene.

M:SG's next mission is being held on 31st May 08, and it's going to be a shoot-fest (it's also a facebook event)!! Can't wait for it ^^. Those who stays in Singapore and are interested in joining this flashmob, just do so. It's definitely fun if you're into crazy stuff (Eh. Who said Otakus were boring people? ^^). Until next time, Signing out.


The inspiration behind the "shoot-fest".

World of WifeCraft.

A funny parody video of World of Warcraft by FARK TV. Due to the fact that most of my real life friends are WoW players (I was a WoW player myself), this is something of a must introduce to watch for me to them. Simply hilarious lol. Sorry for the two post in a day but I just had to ^^.

Level 40 to "mount" wives... I wonder what about flying mounts at 70?? Hehe.

Source: Kotaku via Alafista.

Meltdown before the Freeze. Sentosa.

Even though I intended for the Freeze Event post to come before this, the long delay in photos/videos/reports by the group has lead to me doing this post before it (That post was actually finished on Saturday night, but waiting for more stuff before posting it). Here's hoping for it to be out before this weekend.

As mentioned, I was stuck down at an island called Sentosa for the past 3 days (18th - 20th), and boy was I totally bored. It's definitely not a place to go without friends (or lover >.<). Since being a miser and not wanting to spend money, I didn't really visit any attractions, and time was mainly spent walking/cycling around, wasting time during the 2nd/3rd day. 1st day wasn't too bad since I reached only in the afternoon, then had to prepared for BBQ and chit-chat the night away. Not much photos this time, but oh well enjoy them.

Some tower overlooking the sea and Palawan Beach. There's two of them next to each other, connected by a small bridge.Just something with the simplicity in its design that I like.

View of Palawan Beach from the top of the tower.

Zoomed in section. Lots of people still on Monday afternoon.

The "suspension" bridge to get across.

Kids playing with water. With the current outbreak of HFMD, don't really think it's such a good idea to let them play here though.

Just some high tower. Pay S$10 to sit some platform, then it takes you up to enjoy the view for about 10mins. Waste of money in my opinion (I'm really a miser), unless you're a tourist.Trying out some night shots. Too bad I didn't bring my tripod.

These two pictures are from Siloso Beach, just
outside Costa Sands Resort where I stayed.

Walked to Palawan Beach area to take another photo. It's lonely to walk alone with just a camera while you see others in groups of friends (mainly couples) chatting the night away. Uguu~

Taken using my Nokia 6500 Classic. This is Tanjong Beach. The same beach that Gordon used to take the Yuki Photoshoot. Now I know why, as it's alot more quieter than the other beaches. Why I was using my camera phone? Because I was cycling around. It's abit weird to carry my D70 while cycling around ain't it? Unnecessary weight.

And here's my finished bike!! (Proper pics to come soon) Still have lots of touch-up paint job to do, and need to adjust the gear/brakes systems more, still not as responsive as I want, but reasonable for cycling though. And all those adjustments are being self-done, not by shop. I even brought the tools to Sentosa to do adjustment as I couldn't finish it in time back at home lol.

That's about it for now. It also seems that the Freeze video was up after I'm about to publish this post, so I'll do that up later tonight/tomorrow morning. Signing out.

P.S: Really... Singapore is way too hot these days. Not fit for humans to live in!!! Or at least I think so lol.

Site Tweaking and Mini Teaser.

This will be a very short post. As you can see I'm in the midst of doing some minor tweaking here and there to my site, the latest being the adding of doujin circle links + their banners (eh more colours to the site!). If you don't see it, scroll down more, it's on the right sidebar of the blog. I don't want to put it up high as it'll force the rest of the links down even further. Being a total noob at web-based stuff, it took me a while to understand and use the mouseover command, but at the end of the day at least it works and I've learned something new.

For those who has been following my blog, remember the Freeze Event by Improv Everywhere that I mentioned before? Today is finally the day of the Singapore Version (4 hours to go woot!!)!!! Updates will come once the official videos/photos/newspaper articles (maybe) comes in. I'll going to join in the fun too! ^^

And with regards to my bicycle "project": This morning I sent my bicycle for it's final adjustment, changing of seat/tyres/chain, and will get it back tomorrow morning. However since I'll be stuck on Sentosa for the following 3 days, (18th - 20th May), I should only be able to post it's "revived" form after the break. Here's a little teaser for the time being.

Yes it may be abit sluggish, but at least I know
I did put in an effort and it's self-made!

Let's hope the Freeze Event goes off with success! And my next post will either come tomorrow morning, or it'll be next week Tuesday night. So enjoy the weekend (and an even longer weekend for countries that has Vesak Day as a public Holiday) and I'm out.

Outings Info and others.

Helping to spread the news around. Remember the previous outing we had to visit La Tendo? Where quite a number of SG Bloggers met up for the first time (not all) and just had fun and get to know each other? Panther has once again organised a 2nd outing, and details to follow below.

Date: 24th May 2008, Saturday (The following week after this)
Time: 3PM (1500hr for the military time followers)
Location: City Hall MRT, up the escalators after exiting the station, walk forward to the entrance to Raffles City, there should be a small directory on the left. Somewhere there, I'm sure it's easy to spot us.

Current plan is to once again head to La Tendo in the afternoon after meet up, spend some time there. Then after we might head to KKnM, maybe have dinner in that area, but not a firm decision yet. Other plans like the Japanese Karaoke (found by misakichii) or arcade playing at Bugis are also on pending list. In fact besides go to La Tendo, everything else is still unconfirmed, and I guess we'll be playing by time constraint to see what to do.

Kagamin cosplaying Tessa singing Karaoke. Moeeeeeee~ Overdose.

Besides the SG Bloggers Outing, on the 25th May 08(the following day after the outing), there's going to be the Singapore Streetfest's DJ Party 2008. From what I know so far, quite a number of us (bloggers) are also heading down for this event, but an actual meetup is still non-existant. Guess we'll also play by ear for whether we're going to meet before hand, or just go there and /wave hihi around.

Noumi is made of win! I'm just simply drawn to her. Let's just say I had pre-ordered the Kotobukiya figure and a mini clock of her, my current and only dakimakura and cushion cover is also her, and I have a keychain kept in my wallet, also her. -.-"

On other notes, everyone might have noticed that I had added a few more timers to the sidebar of this blog. Just using it to countdown to the important days ^^. Simply can't wait to ORD (7 more working days to go!!), can't wait for Little Busters! EX to release on 25th July 08 (hopefully there's no delay to the date!), and can't wait to start studying again and finish it, then it's goodbye Singapore!! That's about it for now, I'm out.

P.S: I had wanted to put a timer for my upcoming Japan trip also, but too many timers makes things messy. Either way I'm leaving on 6th June night, and coming back on 16th June evening. I'll see if I can get some posts up on delayed posting (blogger has this function now) on those days I'm away so at least this blog remains active, don't think I'll be able to do a proper post while I'm over there since I don't have a functional laptop, but should be able to do some updates in the chatbox still. Hope to get a ultra-portable laptop once I enter NTU, then I can do postings even when overseas ^^.