Ah, sweet salvation.

I dug out my wallet, prepared a coin... waitaminute...

Insert wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Damn.

Deciding to ignore my thirst until such time that I found a working vending machine, I was greeted by a tall apparition in black. Handing out chocolate money.

Um, yes. From overheard conversations, I surmised that this was a ghost of some sort.

Can they even see each other?

Right now, two cultures are clashing.

Outside. There was definitely a crowd now. Perhaps not as much as MAC's Cosplay event, but then that was indoors. Maybe this one was just spread out more.

I kept getting stares for taking pics of the crowd.

A guy with a sword walked past. I couldn't get a pic of him, but I had a feeling that something was not quite right.

The ghost, meanwhile, was being suitably Creepy. I mean, how would you react in such a situation?

Me, I'd be terrified.

How about the other, non-threatening ghost? Oh, there he is.

Must be tiring, chasing a smiley all around the mazes.

All that attention must have aggravated him to breaking point, however.

Run. Now.

The time was about three in the afternoon. And finally, finally, the registration booth was set up. The call was sent out, and being Singaporeans, we queued.

Boy did we queue.

By virtue of my position (pure luck, I assure you), I was one of the first in line. A payment of six dollars garnered me a thin metal ring/band that was way too small to slip on my wrist, as well as a ticket. With the word "Green" scrawled on it.

Hm.

I checked my camera. Still many many pictures to go. I mean, I had 64MB, and I doubt there is a way to use it all up in a single cosplay.

Still thirsty. Must endure.

The guy with the sword walked past again. Still I felt something was not quite right, and still I couldn't pin it down. Ah well, I can wait.

I'm not exactly the authority on cosplays, but I had believed that Card Captor Sakura was a popular theme among cosplayers. I had expected a legion of Card Captors, complete with rivals, cards, and assorted accessories.

Yet this time, the legion seemed less... legion.

More or less the only CCS cosplayers I could photograph.

Ah, now this was familiar. What would a cosplay be without King Of Fighters characters?

The guy on the right is the aforementioned Hiroyuki.

Looking for more photo ops, I was approached by a cosplayer who wanted me to help her take a picture. I agreed, and she handed me her...

... camcorder.

o_O

For some reason, the girl in red looks very familiar.

The instructions were to press a button labelled "Photo". Seemed easy enough.

I aimed, focused, and pressed.

Recording... 1 sec

*sweatdrop*

The counter timed up to six seconds before the girl (she's the leftmost one in the pic) took the camcorder off my hands. I hope I didn't screw anything up.

What else? I turned, and blinked. At first I thought I needed new glasses (again), but no, this was a different cosplayer.

This is what happens when you mix horror with Di Gi Charat.

One thing I noticed was that if you approach cosplayers who are in a queue, they can't run away.

I don't remember Chii wearing that, but then I haven't read the whole series anyway.

Next up, a hostage situation.

This is why we outlaw guns in Singapore.

So very thirsty. I cast about for a distraction (and a photo op).

Ah, yes. The ghost finger was being fairly chummy with the Card Captors.

This is wrong on so many levels.

The guy with the sword walked past yet again, and now I managed to take a pic. As well as figure out what had been bugging me.

I have nothing to add.

About 1530h. An announcement from the admin booth, and we were supposed to embark on a treasure hunt. Ah, good, more chances for me to use up my 64MB of memory card space.

In the meantime, though, I took the oppurtunity to snap a pic.

The arm isn't really broken, by the way. At least, I don't think so.

The treasure hunt teams were divided according to the colour written on the registration tickets. As stated earlier, I was in the Green team, led by a guy with one glove.

Our intrepid captain.

Personally, I doubted that the treasure hunt would go as planned, since it seems to be very hard to organize anything for Singaporeans. Kudos to the SCC Committee for trying, though.

While the impassioned pleas for cooperation were being made, I took a couple more pics.

The ghostie seems a bit under the weather.

What else can I say?

Another announcement from the Almighty Organisers:

"The treasure hunt has been called off due to wet weather. This is now mingling time, so please mingle for about half an hour, when the buffet begins."

No kidding.

It hadn't actually started raining yet, so I tried to fill up my 64MB of memory.

Chacha and Yakko, from Akazukin Chacha.

Misha from Pita Ten.

Thanks once again to Arayd for the ident.

Still thirsty. Need water.

Ah, a distraction.

The two flanking Sora are from Battle Royale, I think.

And that was about the last pic I took before the heavens opened up.

Take cover!

Uryaaa!
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