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I quarantined myself at home until school on Friday. I love you guys too much, so I don't wanna kill you all, haha. But I love H1N1 more. No, not the virus, but my tag-team with Horse. Those at the Mascot Parade will get the joke~

Speaking of love, I'll make a lost of the 10 things Neko loves. Just cos' I'm bored. So in no particular order:

1. My grandma
She's been taking good care of me since young; I couldn't ask for a better grandma than her.

2. Chicken rice
A staple food for this cat. Any modifications to the chicken would be nice too, like honey-roasted, or black pepper. I just don't like steamed chicken though.

3. Drummania
The game that got me into playing real drums. If not for this, I wouldn't be good enough to play for a live audience for the 1st time. I still can remember the awesome feeling of playing at Suntec.

4. Cosplay
Hey, it's cool to dress up and be like a character. And even cooler to meet up with like-minded people. You get to act out like your character for once.

5. Arcades
Probably the 1st place that got me into gaming, and game design. I love watching pros beating their top scores in fighting games, or racers duking it out in driving games. I still remember the time I was feeding tokens to the WWF Wrestlefest machine at a makeshift arcade at a pasar malam, haha.

6. Going out
I love going out a lot, with or without friends. I don't really like getting cooped up at home too much.

7. Anime
This is what got me into cosplaying. Some of the characters have costumes that look cool to dress up in. And some stories are really nice, you gotta keep watching it over and over again.

8. My laptop
Without this baby, I can't do much else. I need the MSN, forums, and games. And not forgetting Youtube, lols.

9. Doubutsuen
My 1st official cosplay group. Wait, are there any official cosplay groups to begin with? Anyways, without these guys, I wouldn't progress as far in cosplay as I have now. You guys still rock.

10. Hurhur~
Those who are close to me should know this one by now. If not, Hurhur~

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I met up with Eriol and his gang at around noon. Then we went to find Rina and Sakurazaki at the main area, in front of Ngee Ann City. I wasn't cosplaying, so I became a sai-kang warrior for the day.

I found famliar faces along the way. I saw Knife as Mario, Alucard at Terry Bogard and Mao doing Lich King. I took the free lunch at some booth before the cosplay competition started.

"Otaku Unlimited" happened at about 3pm. I found it quite bad for 3 reasons:

1. It's technically a cosplay competition because of the word "OTAKU", yet I see people dressed-up half-heartedly (for the lack of a better term). They look nothing like the characters, save for the cos-sers doing the game and anime characters.

2. What's with the all-team format? I thought there was an individual competition too. Some of the cos-sers were damn pissed about the news too. They can't perform in a group because their characters are too different from each other.

3. The organisers did mention a prize cash of up to $1000 for the winners, yet on the day itself, it became $100. Hooray.

Anyways, the group doing the anime and games cosplay won, much to nobody's surprise. I mean, Sheryl Nome did a stripshow! Plus points from the judges for that, haha.

Then while the rest were all taking photos, I sat down near the water booth, while I talked to some of the people there. Oxi was doing Francis again, I met up with Tsuki and Tohru (with her dollfie too), and I managed to talk to the genderbend Archer for the 1st time. Her costume and weapons look damn cool.

Then came my H1N1 partner, Horse. Simple calculation here: 1 Horse and 1 Neko make up H1N1. Best tag-team ever~

Later on, Spidey, Ash and Kei came along. The latter 2 were cosplaying from Lamento; they came from their morning photoshoot which I didn't go since it was too far off from my area.

Hmm, the mascot parade wasn't really too good, but there were some nice, accurate mascots there. I saw Iron Man, Kamen Rider, even a Barney dinosaur, and a Sakae Sushi mascot. More power to that. And not forgetting the countless Stormtroopers.

At night, there were the band performances. I caught a glimpse of Miavi's band playing. Nice~

And Freedom took a video of Sheryl's Henshin performance. Took 2 NGs before she got it almost perfect. The yellow wig keep falling off with the blue wig, lol.

But in all, not too bad for an event. It's just too bad the organisers have no damn clue what "Cosplay" really means. Speaking of which, I wonder if anybody spotted Raymond Yee anywhere. Was he even on-site? Hmm...

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Well, I'm probably going to the Mascot Parade this coming Saturday as a reporter/blogger. I'm not gonna cosplay for ther event anyways, just providing play-by-play coverage~

If you don't know about the event, here's the link to the official site:

Mascot Parade official site

I'm looking forward to this big event, and hopefully more Western-related cosplayers. Star Wars cosplayers still rocks, haha.

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I'm now slacking at a cafe with Spidey, Melo and Ashley. The girls are doing their work now while I'm blogging.

Yeasterday I went to the Video Games Live concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. I went there for the finals of the cosplay competition. It was really the best one I've ever joined. The crowd went nuts over Patapon even before the host introduced my character. I loved the crowd reaction a lot, it makes cosplaying really worth it. In the end, I won some stuff from Costasia, a VGL cap, and a DVD of tunes from Overclocked Remix. The last prize was awesome for me, haha.

Then came the actual concert. I loved the Guitar Hero part of the song. 2 guys were competing while the orchestrs provded the background. Then Martin Leung's blindfold play of Super Mario on piano was surreal. And the Castlevania medley was the best part of the show. I didn't regret coming to the concert. It was the best one I've ever enjoyed so far.

Before I went back, I left my Patapon somewhere around the North Side of the stadium. Me and some others signed on it before leaving it safe somewhere, hehe.

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And no, you don't read it as homesick.

I just fell sick, just before the VGL day. Nice going, man. I had to visit the doctor and get an MC in case I don't turn up for class tomorrow as well. I don't think I'll survive through the whole day at the Indoor Stadium; I'm expecting crazy cold temperatures in there.

Ah wells, I'm gonna get an early rest so I'm well prepared for the big day.

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Yeah, you read the title right. I've pretty much been abandoned by my family. Well, it's only my mum, stepdad and sister.

Well, it's a messsed up story. And I'm seriously at a loss for words. It started when my stepdad talked to me (well, more like scolded) about the job I wanted to get. It costs a lot to make the portfolio and it includes photoshoot and make-up. I told my grandma that I'll return it once I borrowed from her a bit (which is possible since I'm selling my damn PSP that I haven't used in ages). Then something kinda ticked me off when he said my grandma is outside of the family. Which is true, but is wrong because she used to be a family member, until my mum got her out of the household after she married my stepdad. So I kinda spurted out that incident... and it sure is too quiet now in my house.

I borrowed from my grandma because I am very sure I can return back all the money in the future. This is for my future. But my parents think that, they're in the spotlight, and everything is about them only. Heck, my stepdad said if there's anything, I should ask my mum. Which is impossible to get anything from her, 'cos she can be VERY stingy at times. And best of all, my stepdad thinks the place I'm working in is a type of scam. Come on, I already went to the place and saw for myself. If you can't believe me, then my future in the household is in ruins. I'm already 20 years old; I can jolly well take good care of myself. I want my independence.

Off-topic a bit; my mum keeps telling me not to take drugs, smoke, drink beer etc. Man, she doesn't know that I absolutely HATE all those things. I'd rather burn my money than buy those... things. I get stressed out very often, and what does she do? Keep forcing me to say out my problems. At least let me sort out my thoughts first before I say anything. I always feel suffocated in my house; this is one reason why I always go out and hang around places almost everyday.

Anyways, I really don't know what to do now. I feel lost...

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Oh man, durians during their season really taste heavenly. I really feel on Cloud 9, although I feel like throwing up from too much sweetness too, meh.

I managed to get an offer while going to Carrefour. 4 packs for 10 bucks, sweet. And I'm supposed to treat my grandma to durians, so there goes my money for a good cause, haha. My uncle and aunt got one packet each also. The least packet went to me, and boy, I really enjoyed the "snacks".

Okay, I'm supposed to organise a durian outing. Anyone reading this who wants to join in, please find me on MSN or PM me in SGCafe, ya?

Oh yeah, I need to add my SGCafe address in my blog too. Gah.

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I don't know why, but I just felt like dancing all of a sudden. Gotta thank Turbo's Black Cat for this, haha.

Anyways, I'm going to chill out for today at town again. It's really strenuous for me to stay in my house for 2 days in a row. I'm too outgoing I guess. And I gotta spend my money wisely too. Now I have to try not too spend too much on arcade games, which is hard since I love arcade games too much too, meh.

Hmm, yesterday I was talking to another cosplayer. Forgot his nick, but he did Iori from the King of Fighters before. He did mention something about the cosplaying in general here compared to Japan. If you mess up there but try to cosplay as accurate as possible, you won't be screamed at much over there. But over here, you'll get flamed all over SGCafe if you so as much get you wig colour slightly off. Yeah, SGCafers are generally unforgiving, lol. That's why I have to cosplay as accurate as humanly possible, so nobody can say anything.

For one thing, just about all my cosplays cover my eyes or my whole face altogether. I can't wear contacts for nuts, so I'm very restricted. But I had to get around it and cosplay characters who wear shades. And I usually want to stand out a bit from the majority, so I'll most always do funny characters like Don Kanonji or Patapon. If others like or are entertained by my cosplays, it makes me happy too. And that's the only thing that keeps me cosplaying. I would like everyone to enjoy every cosplay event there is (well, maybe except the really, REALLY minor ones, haha).

4 more cosplays to go for this year, I'm definitely ending the year with a BANG.

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It's 2.30pm and I'm still sleepy. I still have to fix my Patapon's feathers later on, but until now, I got nothing else to do. Maybe I'll watch the Gurren Lagann OVA that I haven't watched since I got it a few weeks ago. I want to enter WCS as Kamina, and hopefully Ice would be doing Yoko and Spidey can finish his Gurren on time.

I don't see my future in cosplay though. It's just a hobby for me to enjoy myself and to meet more new friends. But really, cosplay in Singapore has been getting bad attention, especially with recent events like the "Cosplay with No. 3 SAF uniform" and the "Cosplay SailorIdol", among others. It's okay if you want to have fun, but there's also limits too. Don't do it at the expense and inconvienience of others.

In other news, I'm supposed to treat my grandma to durians soon. Maybe tomorrow's a good day, if it doesn't rain. And I hope I'll be able to work at Cos'tasia soon. At least I have a source of income to fall back on, and I don't have to be spoonfed anymore. I've taken a lot, and I really want to give back to those who have helped me and pushed me further.

And my photoshoot CD still hasn't arrived yet, meh.

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Hmm, later I'll be playing that Harley-Davidson motorbike game with Spidey before going to Costasia to disturb Yuki, haha. I pity him for not being able to go to Streetfest yesterday; he had to run the Costasia store alone, that poor thing.

I should cut some slack and enjoy myself today. No use sulking over past events~

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Man, I feel miserable today. I probably woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

I'm still feeling the effects from yesterday. Even playing Drummania didn't really cheer me up. More like woke me up, 'cos I was nearly asleep, meh. I didn't really stayed around to watch the Guitar Hero competition. What a waste.

Speaking of which, I really have the urge to play real drums again. I currently don't have a band to play with right now, but I'm sure willing to play just to get the kicks out of jamming to anime songs, haha. Maybe I should look for members in SGCafe. Then again, it might not be too reliable.

Anyways, for the past few days, I didn't really feel like myself lately. Is it because I'm being lovesick? It's been a long time since I ever had this feeling, since I had my 1st girlfriend. Come to think of it, my 1st relationship didn't really ended too well...

I kinda lost my confidence in going after a girl now. Last time I wasn't like this; I would pay 100% full attention to the girl that I liked. Maybe now is because my prorities are different. I have different needs this year. The hunger for success is probably what keeps me more motivated than anything. Wanting a girlfriend is somewhere behind, lols.

I find it funny when my long-time good friend Jeremy told me how much I had changed since he left for studies in Australia. He said I went from "Helping people in a relationship" to "Really going after girls" to "Really don't care now". Which is kinda true to an extent, but it's just funny when he said it. I never expected to turn out like this now.

But I sure want to settle down with a girlfriend before NS. I gotta do some soul-searching and regain that confidence and cockiness that made Neko what he was.

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Man, was Youth Park bloody hot. Then there was rain about 3 hours later. WTH...

I went to Streetfest with Spidey, Kei and Ashley. They were helping out Mel and Rina with their costumes. I went elsewhere and met the usual Batsu Game suspects and we had a lot of fun playing the games, especially "Minorika Rhythm 4" and "Number Game". Tohru got problems playing the latter; she keep putting out the correct number, haha.

Other than that, I met other of my old friends, like Leo (my Anime Club senior), Xin's friend (keep forgetting his name), Oxi, Miavi, Virusz and a couple others. They were having fun until the rain arrived. Then half the cosplayers were rushing to Cineleisure, hurhur.

Too bad I didn't manage to talk to that cosplayer much. Kinda regretted it. But lucky I brought an umbrella, AND I didn't cosplay Patapon. Kind of a foresight I guess. Gotta thank my grandma for lending me her umbrella~

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Yeah, basically a new blog. I'm only posting my thoughts and events around me.

Hmm, right now I got a lot of hobbies. Videogaming, jamming and cosplay. And I got my other "work" too, that I'll hopefully enjoy.

'kays, now I'm gonna write my blog about Streetfest later. Ja ne.

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