Phew, what a weekend, on saturday night it was our company's year end party where i was the emcee along with Zul my another charming and witty colleague. It was a very refreshing change to see everyone glamed up for the event as the theme was "Secret Agent", but with the twist of bringing a kid/childhood toy. It's probably the only time i'll ever see , , , , , etc in suits and formal dress. Everyone looked absolutely stunning and my year end pic convinced me ever more to go on a friking diet cause the camera doesn't love me anymore TT_TT

On sunday i daunt my katamari costume and i attended the yearly Comic Fiesta. A convention for local artists and cosplayers. This year was held at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, a huge improvement on everything! (sadly not the price of the ticket) However i still dont get why people would complain about the price, it was definitely worth it. Hell the chair was ribbon and PVC cloth wrapped - WRAPPED!!! The place was spacious, the air-condition swell, and plenty of room to walk about! I definately had alot of fun cosplaying this year, wish i had done a better job at fixing my costume though. Wednesday threw me off course completely as i stayed till 1am finishing the animation project and knackered me till the entire week. Thank goodness for alphaleo14 and pokelai for staying with me, i'd been terrified to stay that late alone. Anyway back to my cosplaying experience, well, i probably got the biggest respond from people this year because its a complete costume and not a humanoid cosplay like my previous chocobo, moogle, moomba or tonberry. People simply get confused when its humanoid. I'm thinking of reviving my moomba costume next year and a katamari for the 2nd day, cross your fingers that i wont be too bogged down with work to do my cosplay!

As a katamari, even before i put my head gear up, people already pointed out my huge beach ball in disguise of a katamari. "EEEEE!!! a katamari!!" and when i rolled around people would scream out how cute it looked. I secretly enjoy the attention under my mask, and i enjoy the freedom of frowning or without smiling while posing for pictures. Thank yoga for great balance as most of the time i'm standing on one leg, posing in motion as though i'm running. Alot of people are excited to take picture with the katamari and some are even sporting enough to pretend being rolled over by it! Some cosplayers pretend to roll away my ball and others gladly traded places with me so it looked like i'm the one being rolled up! I got slightly annoyed by some people who couldn't resist poking the ball, i understand your curiosity, but don't press your weight entirely on the ball! Poking is one thing, pressing to see if it will burst is just crossing the line!

While i was standing near the stage wallowing in sadness and regret that i missed the first day to register for the cosplay competition. The emcee spotted me and asked me to come on stage to play a game. They requested 3 other cosplayers and the objective of the game is to roll them up with my ball... but of course with wobbly headgear and a blurry filtered vision it was really quite difficult chasing after them. One of the male cosplayers (named Reno-san) was kind enough to play defeat and let me roll him up (or down, either way), because of my narrowed vision i run into the board on stage and i was dizzy for a brief moment. But the show must go on and i continue to chase after the remaining 2. After all the laugther and hooha i was awarded with a pc game called Xpand rally *shrugs*. I dont even play racing games... oh well, lucky brother. another cosplayer named Kilmasis was kind enough to offer his helping hand to help me off the stage. I think i'd have lost my balance and fell off the stage if it werent for him. Thousand thanks to the kind gentlemen!

oooh, and managed to sell her okami hat like hot cakes! Thanks for RAWR group for their kindness and generosity that allowed me to rest and put my stuff with them. Ayon was also quite concerned for my dehydration or tiredness and keep urging me to sit down. Lynndy, George and Jason also showed their support in my cosplay. I met alot of my old friends during CF and had a blast.

Also, this year has a large amount of high quality cosplayers (and cute guys and cute girls, hehe) Too bad i was mostly behind my mask and couldnt see them clearly. Cikgu, one of our long time cosplayers came as Doc Ock!! Frikking awesome and heavy! (according to him, the tentacles were about 8-9kg heavy) Also, we have 2 totally awesome soul calibur cosplayers with their shiny and heavy armour. All in all this year was well worth it. Plus :icon:blueyoke got to sell her awesome hats! She was really happy and proud to see people wearing them around Sunway Pyramid.

With the end of an awesome weekend starts a dreadful new hecktic week, ack, ray left for his hometown for 2 weeks but i'm not totally afraid because i still have julius by my side to help guide me along the clumsy way.

The below links are pictures taken by other cosplayers.

[link] by DM jewelle

[link]SC00461.jpg by Kilmasis

[link]SC00462.jpg by Kilmasis

[link] by Eien