This post comes a little late, but I got caught up with school! But here it is.
Last Saturday was Nanowrimo Singapore’s Thank Goodness It’s Over party!
We had a sign and everything!
We had catering, so Earshot cafe was mostly ours for the afternoon :D But yess.
Sign-in area: stickers, Vicious the Ninja Bunny, sign-in sheet, assorted condiments
So I arrived early and set up for the arrival, then Sarah of Seriously Sarah arrived with more stuff! Awesome stuff of the prizey sort.
Have a funny story: she came into the cafe with her bags and no cake. I thought the cake had met with some sort of mishap, and I experienced a moment of panic. All I could think of was “THE CAKE WAS A LIE!”.
It turns out the (extremely large and heavy) cake was in the car. She went back to get it. And this was right after I’d been joking with a Wrimo about the cake not being a lie.
More and more Wrimos started arriving so we could really get the party started.
Wrimos galore
There were quiz questions, and we gave out all sorts of prizes. There were prizes for Highest Wordcount (200,000+ words – amazing), Best Last Line, Earliest New Wrimo of 2009, among others.
It was all rather fun, even from the ML side of things. After all the prizes and quizzes, there was cake! :D
The cake isn't a lie
It was an awesome cake. The ’50′ was, of course, for Nanowrimo’s 50,000-word goal. The coins were chocolate Euros, which was amusing because I didn’t even know they made chocolate coins in Euros.
The yellow stuff next to the coins are meant to be gold bars, I think. They were made out of white chocolate colored yellow. Everybody was wondering what the heck they were, until someone cut them up into little cubes and passed it around. They were quite nice, even if the color was a bit off-putting.
The cake in all its yummy glory!
Cake cutting
After the cake, we had the refreshments catered by the Arts House: muffins (with chocolate cores), assorted mini-cakes, puffs, and beverages. Lots of sugar meant a lot of interesting conversations were had :D
While we ate some of us did readings! Mostly from Happiness At The End of The World, a collection of short stories that I’m in ($18 from the publisher, hinthintnudgenudge) but also from our Nanovels. I read the Phail Whale bits from my Nanovel :D
Sarah Coldheart reading
It was good. I had some extremely entertaining conversations, cake, and other sugary baked goods. And as we all know, cake and assorted sugary baked goods are always good.
Happy MLs are happy
Til next year! :D