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So I was at the second day of the Embrace The Now, the *SCAPE Launch Festival. Just like the first, it was pretty awesome, although I couldn’t stay for all of it ): There are some more pictures of what I missed at their Facebook page, so do look at that to see what I don’t have here! :D Some of the photos are by Seriously Sarah because mine didn’t come out properly (:
Long story short: I had an awesome day at Embrace The Now, the *SCAPE Launch Festival! *SCAPE, if you’re not familiar with it, is a brand-new youth shopping mall and lifestyle centre. It used to be an open field, but they’re launching the brand-new shiny mall over the weekend. This is the first day, and I’m so sad I couldn’t stay to watch all of the acts at the main stage ): Check out their Facebook page for the latest updates and pictures. The folks over there are really great at updating stuff, so there’s pretty much always something new to see. These are pictures from just the first day! :D For something free! The NLB Book Exchange is back again this year. Bring your used books down to any NLB library from 10 to 23 April to exchange them for coupons. Then, on April 24, go down to the main library at Victoria Street to get books that other people have exchanged. All for free! Here’s a copy-n-paste [...] There will be a Borders Fair at the Singapore Expo at the end of the month. Details below! Venue: Singapore Expo Hall 6B I remember last year’s event had a selection of books that wasn’t half-bad, but it does get very crowded on the [...]
I’m not exactly big on celebrating new years, so technically I wasn’t really celebrating New Year’s Eve when I went to the Blogger’s Hat-py Party at the Singapore Art Museum a few days ago ;) An aside: Maybe it’s because I’ve been playing a lot of Assassin’s Creed II lately, but when we went into SAM — which is housed in a colonial-era convent school that had monks and everything — my mind went something like this:
I did actually figure out all of that, and before long I was looking out for bales of hay to jump into in case enemy guards spotted me. I think I’m experiencing the bleeding effect! /aside At any rate, I went with my minions cronies usual gang of suspects, but with new additions! I’d met Lysistarielle (of Tiramisue.com) before at STGCC — some of you might remember her as Poison Ivy. But Arrch I’d never met before, so if you’re reading this, hi Arrch! :D And of course the wonderful Seriously Sarah, Joelyn Alexandra and Avariel were along for the fun.  Arrch, Lysistarielle, Sarah, Joelyn, and Avariel The theme: hats! Everyone had to wear a hat or headgear of some kind, hence the rather amusing name of the party. (Arrch had a Scribblenauts hat, which makes him a ton of awesome.) I wore a Mario hat, mainly because I could. Hahaha. And what if you didn’t have a hat? 24seven.sg had a solution to that… (Read more) Aheh. Full post to [...] 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 [...] I don’t have many pictures for this, largely because I was too busy to take any! Quite a lot of the photos were by Nerwen. On Saturday was the kick-off party for the Singapore chapter of Nanowrimo, of which I’m proud to be co-Municipal Liaison for. It was also the launch of Happiness at the End of the World, a collection of short stories revolving around the title theme. You can buy Happiness from our publisher, Two Trees! Things started off really well with a gigantic cake box being delivered to my home. I was a little late because traffic was bad, but by the time I arrived at Earshot cafe things were already buzzing. There’s quite a lot of thanks to go around, so I’ll try to fit everyone into my thirty-second speech :P There were competitions and prizes given out, but everything went so fast and so crazy that I completely lost track. I had a heck of a time. I was so pleased with all our Undercover outfits – what with it being Halloween and all. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.  Rozen undercover as a tourist, winner of the Best Undercover competition
I went to see Neil Gaiman today! After waiting over four hours for tickets, you can bet I was excited as heck to see the man himself! With me was Seriously Sarah, Nerwen, Joelyn Alexandra (formerly Raven Azure, who is moving sites) and Justin from Nanowrimo. They had to move the venue from the Chamber inside the Arts House (200 seats) to the Victoria Theatre (900 seats) because demand was so high. I learnt a lot of things about the area today, including that it’s very easy to walk from Cavenagh Bridge to Victoria Theatre and cut through to the Arts House. I’ve been going to that area for four years now, and only this year I find out… Sigh. I was in the ticket-holders line, of course, but there was also this – and the organiser’s sense of humor really shines through…
Heh. People did try, though! Nevermind that all the tickets were gone. It’s Neil Gaiman, man. And some of them got really lucky! I saw a few people in the ticket-holders line give their extra tickets to the ticketless, largely because their friends couldn’t make it at the last minute. (Read more) On Sunday I was out and about, and two of my stops were the Wii Sports Resort Carnival at Takashimaya and the Xbox Gaming Showdown at VivoCity. Both were underwhelming, especially XGS. Maybe it was because I went at an off-hour, in the middle of the afternoon, so it wasn’t as exciting as it otherwise have been. (Read more) |
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