!!EOY09: "An Extraordinary Journey"!!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 3:24 AM

Finally, it’s time to blog about my experience of EOY09: "An Extraordinary Journey". The location held at was pretty different from all the previous EOYs. It’s not longer at the Expo but at the National Library; Drama Centre level 3.

Anyway, I met up with ShunAn and XueNi first at Bugis before heading over to Shaw Tower at 12noon. We were supposed to dress up first and then help Puikwan with hers later when she reached. She had work and will be joining us later. Why we chose to change at Shaw Tower? Because we kinda expected the toilets for Parco Bugis and the library to be packed with cosplayers and other people. I certainly do not want to waste my time walking about, finding empty toilets. And during the whole period, my friends and cosmates kept smsing me to ask me where am I! ShunAn and XueNi were getting pretty annoyed by my ringtone :X

And yay, my EOY team is up and ready! After months and months of hard work and planning. Ahem~ We are pleased to announce that we are cosplaying Gakuen Alice for EOY09!
Me as Imai Hotaru, Puikwan as Sakura Mikan and ShunAn as Ando Tsubasa.


All dressed up, we made our way to the National Library which is diagonally opposite and promptly up to the 3rd floor :) XueNi left us at this point. Her task was done and we solemnly thanked her xD I met up with Yusri who was cosplaying as Uchiha Madara, before proceeding into the Drama Centre. I bought my tickets at the SAM which was supposed to be cheaper. As they state in their website, “[ Admission ]$12 (Pre-sale), $15 (Door)”. They forgot to mention about the $1 booking fee. So I paid $13 which is only $2 cheaper. Not very much a big deal…


The location was horrible, IMO. It was too small. Much smaller as compared to the previous location at Expo. Everyone; cosplayers, photographers and others were pretty much in a tight situation Dx No space to take photos, too much background noise, bad lighting. I almost suffocated in there. I had that heavy oppressing feeling whenever I felt too claustrophobic. Anyway, I was out of there after a mere 20minutes and never went back in again. What a waste… that $13 :( Oh ya, I found ashie and Yehoshua; and I saw Violet there too in that overcrowded space! :P AND I FORGOTTEN TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH ASHIE AGAIN! Dx


We went down to the first floor and met up with my cosmates; TingYu, Wendy, Angie, Jasmine and photographer; JiaQing! :D This was when the fun truly begins! Cosplay to me is not all about posing for people/photographers to take pictures. That’s just part of the package. But is to hang out and enjoy this activity thoroughly with your fellow cosmates! The best thing is you don’t have to be yourself for a day! xD

Anyway, there’s nothing much to type about at the moment. We spent almost 4 hours taking pictures :D Real amazing xD Although the lighting there wasn’t very good and it was drizzling almost of the time. Couldn’t really go anywhere at all, due to the rain.
Trying real hard not to spam pictures ahead… Collages :D?
& the pictures are not posted in any specific order...

First up, would be pictures of my team Gakuen Alice :P

At 7pm, we decided to stop, change out of our costumes and return back to our boring selves. Puikwan,Sally ad JiaQing went off first, while the rest of us went to the nearby hawker to eat our dinner!~ We continued chatting and joking while we ate. One of the jokes/games we played is called the “Seagull Sandwich”. That game really left a dull sad feeling in my heart :( But I managed to eat finish my dinner! Yay! That’s probably because I didn’t really anything for the whole day, except for that 3 takoyaki balls at 12noon :X


After that, we all retreated back to our homes to rest. I really enjoyed my EOY09 except for the fact I wasted my $13… I really glad I could meet up and bond more with my cosmates in this event, since our previous meet up was the flyer trip. I’m super happy that Puikwan cosplayed together with me for this event! Although it was her first and last cosplay T_T~ I’m glad that ShunAn finally has his chance to cosplay :) I’m really sorry to Eclair because I was supposed to be in her team for the EOY09 :X And I'm super glad that our early preparation really paid off!! :D

Appreciation List
Thanks to XueNi for helping us with such efficiency in the background!!^^
Thanks to JiaQing, TingYu for the pictures!!
Thanks to my team for making it happen!!
Thanks to all my friends who went looking for me!!
Thanks to Yokie for the x'mas present!!
Thanks to everyone for making this a wonderful, extraordinary event for me!!

Labels: cosmates, cosplay, EOY, event, fun

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