Game Start 2017

Last weekend I attended Game Start 2017 as a guest blogger for Hpility.

"Southeast Asia’s Premier Game Convention, GameStart 2017 is back with a cyberpunk theme held in Suntec Convention Centre on 14 and 15 October 2017. Organised by Eliphant, bringing you “All Things Gaming, Across All Platforms, Right Here at GameStart”....."

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Singapore Coffee Festival 2017 - More Than Coffee

Singapore Coffee Festival is back from 4th - 6th August at Marina Cruise Centre. 

Organised by The Straits Time and presented by DBS, you will more than just coffee in the Singapore Coffee Festival 2017.

Clover Films SG blogger event!!

It's been awhile since I had attend any events, thanks Kevin from Clover Films SG for inviting me down for the blogger event!

Over the weekend I attended Clover Films SG blogger event held at Fullerton Hotel.

Established in 2009, Clover Films distributes and produce Asian movies, emphasizing on Singapore and our neighbor's Malaysia markets.

Some of the movies Clover Films had distributed are :

The Viral Factor, CZ12, The Fierce Wife : Final Episode, and many more.

They even co-produced some local movies like Jack Neo's Ah Boys to Men I & II

It's nice to have more and more Asian movies choices in our local cinemas.

As a VFX artist, I love movies.

Personally, I really love watching movies from Hong Kong, especially the action ones.

In recent years, there are also lots of good movies coming from Taiwan and Korea too, not forgetting Japan.

Thinking back into my Secondary school days or early Poly days, before 2010,

there are actually lots of nice Taiwan, Japan and Korean movies that I actually looked forward to watching them yet was disappointed to find out that they won't be shown in Singapore.

All I can do is to wait for DVD release and get them off shelves.

I guess those are one of the reasons why people started streaming online or ended downloading them off the net instead.

It's really nice to have Clover Films around, bringing us more Asian movies selections!

Kevin shown us some of the movie releases for the next few months during the event presentation!

Co-producing in the two movies, locals can look out for 2 upcoming locals movies starting next year!

KING OF MAHJONG 麻将王 and

BRING BACK THE DEAD 招魂

Collaborating between local and Hong Kong artistes, "King of Mahjong" has lots of big casts in it!

Jeseeca Liu acting as the grieving mum seeking to bring back her dead son in the horror movie

"Bring Back the Dead"

I seriously freak myself out watching the trailer ><

There are also lots of upcoming Asian movies that Clover Film brought in too!

(from Left to Right

1st row :

THAI - The Eyes Diary , HONG KONG - Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2, CHINESE -  Black & White : The Dawn of Justice

2nd row:

TAIWAN : My Geeky Nerdy Buddies, KOREA : Haemoo, CHINESE : Kungfu Jungle

3rd row:

The Golden Era)

Here are my personal 3 picks out of the 7 movies.

Personally speaking, other than story plot, director, even vfx choices are what lead me to be attracted to the movies, and of course, the selected casts.

Black & White : The Dawn of Justice

痞子英雄：黎明再起 

Releasing on 9th Oct 2014, this is the sequel to the action movie Black & White.

Do you know they had renowned action choreographer from Hollywood to be the action director in this movie?

Jack Gill has contributed to lots of Hollywood movies and among them are Fast and Furious 5. 

The visual effects house for the movie is BUF from France, who did CGI for movies like Thor, Avatar and even The Dark Knight.

I really can't wait to watch how the vfx gonna be in the movie!

Mark Chao back with his role with Lin Gengxin,

I am excited to see Lin Gengxin in his new works, started to notice him from 步步惊心 as 14爷.

One of my favourite casts in the TV series indeed.

Haemoo

Based on true events, "Haemoo" is the story of a group of fisherman who are driven into madness when their attempt to smuggle illegal migrants ends in a horrible tragedy.

Heh the trailer seems exciting, and the cast really attracted me.

See the younger actor in the poster?

That's JYJ's Park Yoo-Chun!!!!

I am always interested in movies that are based on true stories/events.

The excitement and anticipation to the story plots never fail to attract me.

Haemoo was also selected as the Korea entry for the 87th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film.

The Golden Era

黄金时代

A 3 hours art film, directed by Ann Hui.

It was already shown in numerous film festivals internationally.

With A grade actor and actress like

Tang Wei and Feng Shao Feng acting in the film, The Golden Era is a must catch.

It might be 3 hours long, but The Golden Era catches my eyes, 

other than the fact that Feng Shao Feng is acting in it.

For dramas lovers out there, Feng Shao Feng is Lan Ling Wang. 

The chinese drama that is starring Ariel Lin too. 

Ann Hui's movies are best known for her controversial Hong Kong movies. 

Talking about 2 important writers in the 20th century China, it's a movie filled with competitive friendship, emotions and love.

It's not easy to find film festival Asian movie in Singapore and even if there is the screenings are always so limited! 

Clover Films is bringing this in to share the good stuffs. 

To be shown in so many international film festivals, it is definitely going to be awesome. 

I can't wait for all the movies to be out in the cinemas!!!!

Before I end this post, here are some photos with the other bloggers.

It's really nice to catch up with some of them :)

CK-HP-Tselyn-Thiang

Thanks Kevin from Clover Films!

Group photo credits to HP and Derrick See

Thank you Clover Films for the invitations once again!

post AFA 2013

AFA this year was a different experience for me.

Initially I thought I wouldn't be able to make it or I should just stay at home and forget it.

Which is till I saw Joyce's tweet.

We went for the last day on Sunday and I was expecting huge crowds, but it was okay.

There weren't any queues for the ticketing so we got in really fast.

I am glad AFA was back at Suntec this year.

For one who stay in the west, EXPO is really too far to travel.

I don't like sitting on the train for one hour and enduring it again on the trip back,

which I will expect myself buying this and that.

Plus, the air condition is really great at AFA, haha.

AFA to me is all about looking and going crazy at merchandises from my favorite anime series.

Looking at certain anime experience zones and meeting friends whom I haven't met for ages.

I didn't really check out the cosplayers this year, but you can easily tell from the crowd that's there lots cosplaying Shingeki no Kyojin, which wasn't surprising at all.

(sochii's friend Stella's hand, trying out the nail polish designs)

It was more like a chill and relax, hangout with a friend for me.

I just wanted to spend time checking out stuffs and not focus on photos that much.

Didn't bring my camera along so everything was just taken with my iPhone. 

We easily spot the huge kyojin head right smack in the middle of the event hall. 

Snapped photos quickly since not many were walking past.

It's kinda cute ya? 

I always walked pass the maid and butler cafes, namely Moe Moe Kyun and Atelier Royale, and never enter them?

The never ending long queues are such a turn off and my friends were never interested in entering.

They merged both together this time and the queue is way faster.

For the very first time, I went.

It's $29 for a set of Katsu curry from Monster Curry & a can of Nescafé drink.

(Ps. Monster Curry backlog review coming up soon)

Or $19 for the dessert.

The price range was kinda expected, somehow? 

We had fun playing with my pokabu (Tepig) keychain I got back from Japan.

I like the interactions between the butlers and the customers. 

They do walk around and chit chat with us, and it makes us as customer feel welcomed?

The meidos didn't walked as much but they still greet every other customers with a great smile. 

With the butler Hiroshi, aka Hellven.

 With Rina the pretty maid, and a fellow friend/ice skater/ex Japanese classmate of mine. 

Got myself a cheki (Polaroid) for souvenir keepsake?

I actually don't know who to choose, so I ended up with a fellow Pokemon trainer, hellven.

Hahaha! 

A fan drew the manga version of the butlers and the crew were using it as a "cheki menu" 

Isn't it cute!!! 

We kinda hang around till 5pm since Kaname sama was having a photo session just right outside the cafe.

I finally got to see the legendary Kaname sama in real. *laughs*

Didn't manage to take a clear photo and this is the best I managed to take of. :( 

We strolled around and went to find the 

LOVE LIVE! School Idol Project experience zone.

Was really happy to find out that Joyce watched the anime too. Hehe.

We each got ourself a file there~

We stroll around really randomly, trying out stuffs here and there.

A lot of those bigger merchandise stores are closed by mid day. 

Kinda sad but heh! My wallet will be happier haha.

We just walked around and trying to finish covering the entire hall,

While looking out for the Baby Metal tee that I want to buy.

Was really sad that I forgot and missed out Psycho Pass experience zone.

The Hello Japan mascot. Adorable!!!!

Saw a few friends here and there! 

Am glad that events like these allow me to meet people whom I haven't seen for awhile! It's like a reunion.

(From left to right:

Shino, Seika, me, Kuro and Kaze)

Haven't seen them for very long and normally I only catch them at events.

Here's Yumi.

I knew her from Sundown Festival concert last year because of Alice Nine.

Respect how she is daring to dress up in Singapore and to school in different type of J-cultural influence.

I don't dare to, seriously. People stares too much.

This is Emily. 

Both of us were in the Ice Skating club back in Ngee Ann Poly days.

Her face is so small that my palm seems big.

Justin aka Lukai.

Knew him from Sundown too and really appreciated all the opportunities he brought me for food tastings and events.

Thank you! Please don't stress yourself up ya! 

CHIROOOO, my dear "sister"

I am suppose to be the older one here but most of the times our roles exchanged and she likes to see me as her younger sister instead. ><

Here's Sochii. Caught her with her Indonesian guest Stella.

She was the first one I saw!

Naomi... Whom I decided to just call her Nao.

My cute little girl. Can I say that I practically "look at her grow up"

I knew her since she was still in Primary School.

It's really nice to see them all! 

And here's the loots for AFA 2013.

I spend less than last year *claps claps*

Some close ups?

We got the Shingeki no Kyojin tattoos free after doing a simple survey at one of the booths.

Since it was the last day and closing, some stuffs were going for discounts.

The pink snow bunny hairclip at $4

The randoms hair clips at $3 for 5.

Too cute for me to resist indeed.

Originally $10 each, I got the pairs of handmade Kuma ears headband at

$12 for 2.

Here's how I looked with it!

Friends who know me well should know that I am a huge fan of Chopper from One Piece.

Practically spend lots last year on just Chopper merchandise alone.

Managed to got myself a plushie, figurine and a capsule ball. 

Adding on to my chopper collection.

Here's the file I got from Love Live! Booth.

It's Kotomi chan!!! 

Still been looping their songs nowadays.

There's the Pokemon nanoblock,

Got a squirtle since I have a mini Charmander figurine, Bulbasaur keychain so Squirtle was the only original starter that I am lacking.

For those who want to get them but missed the chance, fret not, Kinnokuniya sells them too. 

Some coscards I got from Tsuki and Chiro. 

A free mask I got from the beauty products booth.

They sells stuffs like fashion wigs and related products too. 

I got myself two products from the booth.

One is a hydrating lotion and a hair styling water.

Will do up another short review on them.

The people are really nice, gave me the pink BB vitamin water with my purchases.

I had so much fun on the day and am so tempted to pick up cosplay again or at least finish up my sub-cultural plans.

Last by not least, thank you Joyce for the company! 

Hope I didn't bore you ;)