140516 Meet and Greet

so on the first day, we were supposed to have rehearsal and set up our stuff from 11am onwards. it was quite a shock to see the place, really. it was non-aircon and the stage was much smaller than cosfest. kind of expected, but perhaps not the hotness. would have thought that they'll be decent enough to install some aircon for the poor cosplayers, but guess not.

so... since we didn't bring over most of our things, we decided to tape up a background bought from taobao, and set up some mock stands - both of which didn't come to any use eventually. lol.

while waiting for our turn to rehearse, we went on interviews with the local newspaper over phone. it was so hot, we had to walk over to marina link mall to be able to talk decently. we weren't even in our costumes yet for goodness sake.
at night, we were brought over to novena square for a Meet and Greet session.

wise choice for Kasumi, who had to skip this thing due to his japanese lessons. we had to basically change and make up in the public toilet (it felt like some rush for time in a reality show btw), in our sweaty state, and be introduced to the small little crowd. then entertain them with clownish games. so here's some photo spams~

 team japan, china and malaysia... can you tell who's who!

 

 

indonesia team~

 

thailand team!

linlin was the contestant in 2010 for china. so happy to see her again!

 

the pretty boy shamo. maria was impressed by his make up skills. so was i!!

 the power girl team from malaysia

team amaterase! heard a lot about them and it's great to see em.

me and maria on stage since kasumi wasn't around.

and a big group photo at the end!

we went back to the stage area to practise my solo before going over to Kasumi's house. human form selfie~

oh ya, cannot forget my selfie with myself in the poster. HAHA!

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and it's buffet breakfast again~

this is the day we all cosplay as photogs!

on our way over to the exhibition area, we managed to get a chance to talk to xizhen. my new idol. *_*

she's such a lovely person!!

i helped xizhen get her lunch as she had difficulty with the buffet tables. what an honor. but we couldn't sit together as she had to be with the other judges. and i only realised she's one of the judges too late cos she told takahan congrats.

the last day was just for us to walk the exhibition halls before the final prize presentation.

 the anime booths were da bomb.

hurhur.

there's a signing session going on with xizhen and xiaoxiaobai!!!

 ate ice cream inside too.

we went to chiong a lot of swords and wigs and all the booths but there were just not enough time!!! at least i managed to buy 3 swords and 2 wigs. whee!

then we proceeded to the event area.

maria and i with our little yellow chicks that came with the goodie bags we bought.

and the event starts to round up the whole event and present prizes.

there were live sound acting too!

for the pairs, these were the top 2

and we got third!!! yay! get ready for more picture spam with our prize!

been a long time since we got such a trophy so super kiasu about it. lol. here's the cn-jp interpreter. heh.

there's also a plague given to all participation teams who made it.

our foreign counterparts had to leave early so we got in a team photo before everybody left.

with the interpreters and japan team left, we set off to our hotel for dinner. finally got to take some pic with team japan who's left with us.

the sailor grandpa is so cute!~

and our dinner.

we met xiaoxiaobai over dinner with his gf (i think). wah! he looks like a spin-off of junki!!! so pretty!

not much to do for the rest of the night but we did hang out with team japan afterwards. heh.

wheehee~

not to forget my xiamen airway food...