In the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore busy shopping district last Saturday, hundreds of costumers, cosplayers, photographers and other random people came together outside Ngee Ann City for one reason, to get as much vitamin D under the hot sun as possible. Apart from that, they are actually here to participate in Singapore’s first ever street costume parade. TK8316 checks it out.

Titled the Youth Mascot Parade, the objective is to get youths to come out and engage in wholesome outdoor activities, in this case wearing of costumes, instead of hiding at home surfing the internet whole day.

Though named as Mascot Parade whereby one usually thinks of mascot as depiction of cute animal representing an organization, there is no restrictions as to what one wants to wear, be it characters from animes, games, movies etc. Personally I feel that Pop Culture Parade sounds nicer but anyway that doesn’t really matters.

02. This fellow is one of the volunteers helping out at the event. Love his fingers and black nails.

03. When yours truly saw this cute yukata girl, only one thing came to mind…

04. …ask for her hand in marriage.

05. She accepted my rose. ^^;

06. Guess what is her answer?

07. The Joker was there as well. This is a very nice shot of him. Not sinister like in the movie but sorrow looking, emitting a very different kind of feel. ^^;
Pic by Rescend.

08. Extremely moe-some looking nekomimi girl in goth-loli dress!
Pic by Emo Oyster. Click on name for more of his pics of the event.

09. She’s so sweet I almost died from sugar overdosage. XD

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11. Can I take her home? ^^;

12. The hot weather isn’t stopping the Lich King from gracing the event.

13. Having some sparring fun with Arthas.

14. Supergirl.

15. Lovely girl.

16. This pretty lass is one of the best looking cosplayers at the event.
Pic by kularock. Click on name for more of his pics of the event.

17. When I first saw her, her hairstyle and ribbons reminds me of Rin from Fate/Stay Night and the red jacket of Archer.

18. Lets call her Female Archer then. ^^;

19. Just look at the wall of photographers shooting her. O_O

20. Female Archer was very friendly when yours truly approached her for a picture. She gladly posed with me. ^^;

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22. Check out her deviantART page for more of her pictures. She looks beautiful in normal getup as well. ^^;

23. Trying out each other weapons. She with my blaster and me with her swords. Love her swords.

24. She suggested we do a James Bond type pose. ^^;

25. Unbeknown to me. She gave me a kiss. ^^;

To my delight, I found out later this is because female Archer recognised me from my avatar at a local cosplay forum and decided to plant a lipstick mark on my helmet. ^^;

26. Feel so touched. That was very sweet of her. Am very happy. ^^;
Pic by Rescend

27. Thank you blacklash. ^^;
Pic by Rescend

There were a lot of other nice cosplayers but unfortunately I wasn’t able to cover everyone of them. Anyway special thanks to dice who took most of the pictures. Her blog is down so check out her flickr page instead. TK8316 will be very busy these few weeks with his Empire duties so blog updates will be slow.

Wow what do you know? TK8316 got featured on Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers (HCwS), a blog about well hot chicks with Stormtroopers. ^^;

Do check out their blog and perhaps leave a comment as well to show our support for their site. If you have Facebook, feel free to join their HCwS Facebook group. If you like this pic, please click on the “like” or drop a comment. Domo Arigato, thank you very much, 감사합니다, 谢谢！

Danny was also featured previously.

OMG I don’t believe it! Today got to be the worst day ever! Mum just got the shock of her life as she finally finds out that my car, my Camaro, is actually more than meets the eye.

I swear I told Bee a hundred times that during the day he is to stay inside Dad’s garage and pretend he is a real car. An example of a real car is one that does not play strange music out of the blue or transform into giant robot which mum was unfortunate enough to witness that day. Dad was pretty cool about it after I told both of them the whole story though.

Well other than that small incident, everything else was going swell the past 2 years following the battle with the Deceptions. Pretty amazed how the government managed to cover up something this big. But anyway that’s not my concern. I’m just a teenager, minding his own business, going about his daily life, who also just happened to be caught in the middle of an epic battle between outer space giant super advance robots.

So anyway Optimus Prime and the Autobots together with the military have set up a special task force to hunt down the remaining Deceptions. And they are doing a pretty good job it seems.

How about me? I’m doing great. I have a guardian angel watching over me, I have Mikaela, I am going to collage this year, world peace, what more can a guy asks for? Oh speaking about collage, mum was unbelievably emotional and making a big fuss how she is not able to see me for the whole semester despite me reassuring her time and time again I will come back during the breaks and holidays, well except Halloween which isn’t really a holiday.

Then there’s the second thing, I really don’t know how to break this to Bee, the one about how freshmen are not allowed to have cars. I guess this is good for both of us as well. Bee seems bored confined in the garage, he should be what he is supposed to be, an Autobot, together with Optimus Prime and the rest kicking Decepticons’ metal ass. Well maybe I’ll talk to him later. Today seems like a perfectly normal day. What can go wrong right?

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Many thanks to OMY for inviting me to the Gala Premiere of Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen. ありがとうございます。

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Imperial Droid database updated with 3 recent events TK8316 was involved in. More after the jump.

First up is “License 2 Play” a small gaming convention which other than video games, has a cosplay competition thrown in as well. Spotted Mio and she galdly accepted my invitation to join The Empire.

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3. Nice lightsaber effect here. No photoshopping done. It’s really that bright.

4. The one in black hoodie is our Commanding Officer, 501st Legion Singapore Garrison. Here he is interviewed by Razor TV which can be viewed online here. Our portion is at the middle.

5. Kid vs the trooper. What are the odds?

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7. The V sign never gets old.

8. Vader gets lucky. ^^;

9. TK8316 with Boba Fett.

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6/6/09. Second event is the Singapore Prevention of Cruelty to Animal (SPCA)’s flag day.

10. I didn’t troop for this one and was there to take pictures. Vader’s mini me was there as well.

11. Having some stacking fun.

12. She’s the latest addition to our garrison. One of the few female members and is attached to one of our troopers.

13. They say a dog is a Sith lord’s best friend.

14. This is Cosworth, it belong to a lady who was helping out with the selling of flags. Very obedient dog.

15. Chibi Vader was a hit with the girls.

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16/6/09. Lastly this was the Press Conference held at a museum for Mascot Parade which the 501st Legion Singapore Garrison will be taking part in next Saturday at Orchard Road. Do join us next weekend.

16. The Kamen Rider in the center is a friend and member of the our garrison as well, he’s a movie costumer and has lots of costumes. Check out his web.

17. We appeared on today’s papers. ^^

18. Time for another guessing game. Enter the vote below or just drop a comment.

19. The same female trooper I introduced earlier.

20. This lovely lady is from a local dance school. As with most members of the public, she was very intrigued with our armour and asked a lot of questions. ^^;

21. Here we are striking a post for another local paper.

22. A shot with the Saya cosplayer from Blood: The Last Vampire. Heard the movie sucks. I like the anime though.

23. Tk8316 is which? Make a guess.

24. It seems like for all trooping events, everyone we met is a Star Wars fan. ^^ Like this museum security guard who was very friendly and wanted a picture. We gladly obliged and I also asked him did the exhibits come alive at night? :3

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26. Oh for those who have been following my posts will know her to be Umeko, daughter of a friend. Here she is posing with her brand new clothes and my Legion badge.

Till next time, take care and stay safe.

Haruhi shines upon me. This year yours truly is very fortunate to be nominated for the Singapore Blog Awards again! O_O

Organised by OMY, last year this modest blog was nominated for the Most Entertaining Blog category (and didn’t win lol), and this year for the Best Individual Blog category. Last year’s Most Entertaining Blog category has been renamed as Best LOL (laugh-out-loud) Blog this year so am glad I got selected for Best Individual Blog instead, which I think better suits the theme of this humble blog. ^^;

很荣幸今年又被OMY提名入围新加坡部落格大奖。去年入围的是最具娱乐性部落格奖(没赢），这回入围的是最具个人特色部落格奖。很开心，觉得最具个人特色部落格奖比较符合我的风格啦，哈哈。^^;

Jealousy, an emotion referring to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship or love. Like what is demonstrated in this week episode of moe moe kyun anime K-ON!

Finally something noteworthy in the storyline other than the usual snacking, slacking off, playing around, acting cute and all.

As if being the least popular girl in the series wasn’t bad enough, Ritsu has to go through the agony of losing her BFF to someone else. This was not covered in the 4-koma manga.

But as with all feel-good wholesome family-oriented anime, everything turns out well, both kiss and make up, well literally. Would be cool if they really kissed and make… ok nevermind.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible is going to happen.

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Saw this interesting application over at Q’s blog the other day called PhotoFunia. It’s an online photo editing software that combines whatever pictures you upload with a variety of given photo templates flawlessly which is, in a word, unbelievable. Yes I know I’m WOLS since PhotoFunia has been around since 2007. But in 2007 I was stranded on an deserted island so please excuse me.

OK anyway, PhotoFunia is really fun, easy to use and most of all, fast. Played around with it and am amazed at how cool the effects are, shadows, overlapping textures, wear and tear, reflection, wrinkles etc. Below are what I have came up with. Please let me know which ones you like?

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If anyone here has their own PhotoFunia creations, I will love to see them. Please leave a comment below with your link. I’ll link you up here as well. ^^;

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Check out the creations of other comrades
Lene
Terry
Daymien
Bankai!

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Thanks for your votes!
Pic 06 – 1 votes – phossil
Pic 08 – 2 votes – AK, Savvi (SG)
Pic 09 – 1 votes – chun
Pic 10 – 1 votes – Savvi (SG)
Pic 11 – 1 votes – Savvi (SG)
Pic 13 – 6 votes – YuKi-To, chun, razrig, Savvi (SG), G2, Roy
Pic 14 – 6 votes – chun, Lene, AK, Eclair, phossil, G2
Pic 15 – 1 votes – chun
Pic 16 – 2 votes – Ryo-Base, Eclair
Pic 19 – 2 votes – Q, Blowfish
Pic 21 – 1 votes – WiseFreeman
Pic 25 – 3 votes – Q, Savvi (SG)
Pic 26 – 1 votes – G2
Pic 27 – 1 votes – AK
Pic 28 – 2 votes – chun, Savvi (SG)
Pic 29 – 1 votes – G2
Pic 32 – 1 votes – Lene
Pic 33 – 3 votes – anonymousobject, Savvi (SG), WiseFreeman
Pic 34 – 1 votes – AK
Pic 36 – 2 votes – Eclair, phossil
Pic 37 – 1 votes – phossil

I’m a Lego fan. Especially love Lego sets that are based on movies, like Star Wars. ^^; Check out these movie posters recreated with Lego.

More at speckyboy.com.

Speaking of Lego, I’m looking forward to these 2 new Star Wars playsets to be released later this year. Pics from brickset.com.

7749: Echo Base. This set comes with 2 Snowtroopers and the first-ever LEGO Tauntaun!

8038: The Battle of Endor. This set comes with 2 Biker Scouts with speeder bikes which I really want and also Chewbacca in a AT-ST.

As much as I love Lego, the prices here are really insane! O_O It’s way overpriced, about 2x it’s normal price.

Trailer is out.

Domo Arigato Danny and J-List. For the uninitiated, clickie here.

Hmm… this kinda reminds me of a retro song below by styx from the good old 80s.

どうもありがとうミスターロボット
どうもありがとうミスターロボット

The above shot was the entry sent for the giveaway. It’s actually an old pic shot months ago, Am glad that it still got chosen by Danny for the consolation prize. Below are some additional figures on the desk since that shot was taken.

This Figma Haruhi is a SAFS from someone whom we the 501st Legion Singapore Garrison will be working together for an upcoming event. very nice guy. ^^;

Figma Meido Mikuru. Love the “I love you” hand sign.

Figma Cheerleader Mikuru. Love this pose. ^^;

Yoko. Simply gorgeous.