it's sem break! day 22

happy mid-autumn festival~ it is sometimes shortened to "lantern festival" or "mooncake festival" etcetera. where do these people get their ideas. tsktsk. anyway, the actual festival was yesterday, but i was busy eating mooncake, so i am sharing the home-made snowskin mooncakes i mentioned here today.

home-made pandan snowskin mooncakes with white lotus paste filling~

these few were dotted to separate them from the ones with fillings mixed with kuaci seeds. yes, i wanted the plain filling all to myself. hahaha~ of course, i am only joking - you know that, right?

a day in september seems to be incomplete without a parcel from somewhere. so click the jump to continue reading if you have not tired from my month-long shopping craze. includes something from AFAX too~

[prepost] saturday - AFA08 Day 2 finale

okay, so this is my final post while i am in singapore. if i still had not yet upload any AFA08 photos, im really sorry because i had not the opportunity to use the internet here.

hmm.. its 12noon, means that i get to be at Suntec halls one last time this year (this weekend is the first time i am there anyway). i hope everyone enjoyed their time at AFA08 coz i believe i did too. except for the times when i had trouble with the airlines, customs, MRT, Suntec, and food (hokkien mee here is not black like in KL, and no laksa/curry mee can compare to malaysia's authentic one). thank you sooooo much to william and family for putting up me and my friend! (*wave frantically* see you again for christmas!) oh no! christmas!!! ive just got an idea for advent calendar!

goodness me. i have great imagination or what - i am already complaining non-existant issues. (lets look forward to my first fiction publication! its in the fantasy/sci-fi genre.) lets hope i'll come home and put a strike through this complaint for good. i expect to come home and read all your comments and spamz on the cbox, okay - promise? ^____^

thanks for all your support and weekend subcription throughout the duration of AFA08! i'll be home tonight around midnight, and i have souvenir for everyone~

[prepost] saturday - AFA08 Day 1 photos

hah. gotcha.

well, not really. but you are reading this because it was pre-written on 13nov. so, i am particularly sad that i still cannot upload the photos i have taken today (assuming my big head remembered to get fresh batteries and more importantly, bring the camera along). this also means that i cant tell you if i got lost at the MRT, had a misunderstanding at the AFA ticket counter, bumped into some great cosplayers, met up a lot of people who bore familiar faces, really tired, got other people to buy me lunches and dinner, kicked motr's friends who he might be meeting, and got back to william's rather tired tonight.

they may be true but they are not a fact, no, not yet. coz now, at time of post (not press time) i am tired and my mind is wondering between memories and sleep.

tomorrow is already my last day in singapore - its too quick! where did all the time fly to?

oops, gotta stop blogging - have to pack up for AFA day 2 (and home). do not be fooled, i am posting in future p-o-v. i'll take it as a compliment if you think its believable! XD

before i forget, read my next post: 12noon, 23 november 2008. (my, isnt it exciting!)

[prepost] saturday - AFA08 Day 1

status: in singapore @ cousin william's home~ (will be leaving for AFA soon!)

as you have expected, this is the ever reliable blogger auto-publish. aint it way more trusty than having me post one by one? if i said it was going to publish today, it gets published today.


how to go to AFA08?
by public transport: ride along the MRT line to City Hall, walk underground the City Link Mall which ends up in the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre. four floors up, you arrive at the entrance of halls 403-404 which welcomes visitors to Anime Festival Asia.

the throng of people i expected to see are: cosplayers, arcade and console gamers, children and parents, Shonen Jump fans (Death Note!), STUDIO 4°C fans, kunio okawara and gundam fans, ichirou mizuki fans and "VIP fans" (those who have the not-yet-released VIP seats to his mini-concert later of the evening), and did i mention cosplayers? lets hope i have not forgotten anyone.

motr and i will be going to suntec together in a short while from this post. the hall opens at 10am, but you can purchase your pre-registered tickets starting 9am. but for me, i will be claiming my ticket at the cosplayer's counter as i have registered for the cosplayer entrance fee waive (free!) by 7nov.

i hope to see a lotta things and take loads of photos, or as many as my batteries will allow. (i have to save up for day 2 too!) oh, yes of course, my cosplay. i was hoping to group up with the singapore team (with deidara and stardust) but apparently the singapore members have taken up other characters for AFA08. well, i'll drop a couple hints on my character:

1. same character for CF08 day 1, but manga version
2. blonde as picture below:

truthfully, i have registered for two characters but i am only revealing one (the aforementioned is for AFA08 day 1) as i may choose not to cosplay the second character, due to baggage weight limit at the airport.

stay tuned for my next post tonight: 11.30pm, 22 november 2008. (i might be able to use the computer after all! *cross fingers for uploading photo status*)

[prepost] friday - running errands and riding MRT

status: in singapore @ cousin william's home - homestay host! (writing from overseas p-o-v, eventhough still malaysia IP address.)

what a tiring day! first it was all the hassle at LCCT. (i had forgotten how hectic can it be with airasia if there is a conflict of interest.) then it was running errands while conquering MRT (so that i dont get lost to suntec/city hall, since i already know whats the LRT like in malaysia.)

well, that could or could not have been true. all i know is that if there has been trouble at the LCCT, it was either caused by my luggage or delayed departure. (i hereby thank everyone who bothered to sms or call me earlier today~) here's one of my lengthy lists but this one is a list of errands to run while in singapore:

1. buy singapore hardrock cafe t-shirt for xxx (unnamed because i told him nobody from class will get a mention in my blog, thus they are not able to locate my blog - imma coward?)
   
2. visit cosafe @ chijmes
3. popular bookfest @ suntec
4. window shopping @ chinatown
   
5. meet friends with motr (not going, if i chose #6..)
   
6. makan dinner with relatives
7. sakae sushi buffet at student price!
8. buy souvenirs (its at the bottom of the list because i had forgotten about this!)
   

see - its not as lengthy as you thought, right? anyway, if this was posted real-time, i would be too tired out by now as it has been a long day today, and i need the sleep for tomorrow - Anime Festival Asia aka AFA08! oh, guess what are my bedtime story? defamation act (for law mid-term test!) and two whole scenes of dialogues to memorize for my upcoming play for drama class.

here is today's "image of the day" for the sake of adding visual items related to today:

singapore MRT/LRT system: eight lines, 14 terminals! (thank goodness for whichever of these i might be using: one-time travel/tourist/student pass.)

stay on your toes for my next post: 9.30am, 22 november 2008!

[prepost] I'm leaving on a red plane..

ohayo, minna-tachi~ i am posting this in advance (12 nov, crack of dawn) because roughly now (assuming airasia does not delay) motr and i are awaiting my 10am flight to the uniquely singapore Singapore. (its a repetition, live with it.)

as of now, i hereby predict that i will have difficulties to access the internet as i do not have a laptop to travel with for the weekend (would love to try their broadband speed). so its going to be understandable that the following five posts are [preposts] because i am so kind to share with you my fictional prediction. ^____^;;

oh, where was i? yes, LCCT. status: still in malaysia. if you are reading this exactly NOW (refer to posted time and date), you can sms or call me as mobile phones are only required to be switched off on the flight. in fact, i would like to receive a phone call or sms at 10am just so you can check on airasia (whether i am still waiting in the departure hall, or staring at the silver right wing from the white oval window - coz i always sit there to watch the wing unfold).

also, i believe there will be too little visual items for posts made-in-advance as i am not there to publish it with photos. (i shall take along the usb cable for the camera so i can attempt uploading photos from singapore!) anyway, for now you will have to do with canned photos because i will bombard you with [image heavy] posts afterwards. (melc, its time for me to take the limelight for a while~ XD)

you will stare at this plane, and imagine i am in there (the window on this side next to the wing) flying to singapore.

curses. i just realised that the wing might be a blinding red. i also remembered that the last time i was in the plane, i accidentally sat next to the emergency exit - felt like i was going to.. not reach my destination and get semi-panic attacks. (most if not all times, i dont get travel sickness.) if its motr's first flight, pray for me that i wont need a change of clothes. T__T

last but not least, hello singapore and all friends (megamitensei, ywsmokona and friend/s, clow and emina members, deidara and stardust, aoshi and /as/ members)! see you guys there~ (how silly of me - if i have no internet, so dont they.)

look forward to my next post on auto-publish: 9.30pm, 21 november 2008!