Mangafest 2013‘s events for the weekend was held at The Arts House and Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City. The Arts House’s exhibit was from 10am to 8pm. I lurked outside, eating my Old Chang Kee porridge as I waited for my friends to arrive.
And good grief… It was Saturday morning and I saw lots of people going up to the second floor where the exhibition was held at the Gallery.
Fort Canning green. That’s where the first Handmade Movement Singapore would be held on the 19th January 2013.
It didn’t stop raining.
Guys, do you remember N.E.mation! from last year? If you could recall, I WENT TO THE USA with the winning team. It’s back again this year and the 10 teams’ Animation Clips are all ready to be voted. This year’s theme is “Together We Overcome” as you can plainly see on their logo. YOSH!! TEAMWORK. Togetherness! Wooo!
Each team in N.E.mation! has worked hard for us to finally watch it. The best you can do is watch and vote for them.
Plus… you can win prizes JUST by voting!
This time the Adventure Crew wasn’t in Singapore. We had a trip to Kuala Lumpur for Comic Fiesta last weekend on 22 and 23 Dec! Technically we set off on 21st with Aeroline. It’s really fancy since they do have ‘in flight’ food (their tagline is: The Convenient Way to Fly).
It’s about a 5 hour bus ride and it was really that good. They even had in flight entertainment and ooh, I got hot chocolate too besides our meal.
I totally saw it first. Minus the press the day before since they are press. Also minus the people who are building this. BUT YES! I got to attend the Library@Orchard preview.
We’re helping to wake the Dragon up in 2013. You can know more about it on their wordpress here or their Facebook. Once there were at least 20 Dragon Kilns in Singapore, now there are two. And this one will be gone so we’re going to wake the Dragon up before it leaves us forever…
At the moment there are still workshops for YOU (no experience needed) to contribute to this project since they want at least 3000 pieces to fill the dragon and to fire it up. You can even have a private session, as long as you contact them with a small group of friends or people interested to do it with you.
AND THUS, The Adventure Crew managed to get into the slot at the National Museum of Singapore on Saturday afternoon. It’s $15 per person or $25 for adult with child, just check which workshop you want to attend since it might have different prices for different locations if they have drinks provided etc etc.
We got to host the Thank Goodness It’s Over party at the central library’s multipurpose room. It was to start at 6.45pm but people were early as always.
Perfume’s Singapore concert was held on 24 November at *Scape. The night before, there was Sigur Ros and SMTown, I didn’t go for either, only this. And wow, it’s the most orderly concert type queue I’ve been in. It’s all SO orderly. You can know which batch you are in with the number on your ticket.
The installation art truck! There were three figures of Perfume and there were HOLOGRAMS. Kinda like how the Perfume’s global website is.
We were given this by the fanclub! Instructions. It was all so cool.
International Perfume fans!
Them welcoming Perfume to Singapore. Also, there were Japanese film crews around. Apparently it was live streamed to Japan to some cinemas there I wonder how the stream looked like.
No footage or pictures during the performance. Everyone said “Hai” when there were announcements saying no photography, footage or smoking etc in the concert hall. FYI, it’s called the warehouse at Scape. This was everyone after it.
The concert was like a two hour dance party! And it was quite a small venue which meant you WERE quite close to the trio too. Those who were in the VIP queue were super close like woah.
We hope Perfume will come again and that their concert will be held in a bigger place. This was like really, just THREE OF THEM performing all the way, with lesser visual effects compared to other bigger venues. They danced and they talked to us and… There was a surprise special guest too…
DORAEMON
Yes. Of all surprise guests, I would have never guessed Doraemon was there. And yes, he appeared to us by using his magical door! Hahahaha. He said he was there because Perfume was going to perform the THEME SONG of his new movie next year! I mean I like Doraemon a lot and then Perfume and then now A COMBO OF THEM?
Doraemon said good bye to us before Perfume performed the song because he had to get back to Japan to make sure Nobita did his homework. So we ALL said good bye to him. Then Perfume performed their song and we followed the hand movements for it. YES. And well, you have to wait till next year for the movie. Doraemon movies re always inspiring and about friendship and FIGHT ON!
So wow. Ok, Perfume is as good as all their Lives or MTVs.
The Ayam Curtain book launch was held on 16th November at Books Actually. There was a launch at the Singapore Writers Festival but this is the main one!
Set the scene! Emily Hill, on a Saturday afternoon. After climbing up the steps from Little India MRT station (the escalator broke down) and then going up some more steps to get to the house on the hill, we arrived at the Threadless party! Before that, we were at the Nanowrimo write-in at Republic Plaza. Next week’s write-in will be at Rochester Park’s Starbucks.