Sunday, April 10, 2011
Community While applying for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, I have to do an essay test and a couple of interviews. Today happened to be the essay test.I suppose the essay topic is something related to Medicine?
Actually, not always. Looking at the history of essay questions raised in the past, it appears that there is no set pattern nor common topic amongst the essay questions. Which means that there's no telling what they'll come up with.
So, in a sense, it's like your GP, just that you only have one question instead of 12 to work with.
Close enough. The topic was actually about community. Something like "describe your community and your place in it."
Oh my.
Yeah, I didn't see it coming. Fortunately, the broadness of the topic allowed me a lot of room to discuss, so the community I discussed was that of an online forum. In general.
An... online forum.
Hey, I can't go wrong if I fulfill the question's criteria, right?
Still, discussing something so out of the ordinary...
Ordinary is something I'm not always satisfied with.
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Posted on 3:59 PM.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
SOYC So, today was SOYC - Start Of Year Continues. It's an annual convention held in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. And much like other conventions, there's lots of cosplay there.So, you're cosplaying again? I thought you didn't find suitable replacements for the Cardboard Gundam body.
Yeah, never got around to finding a proper replacement. Head's still nice and intact though.
Instead, I cosplayed with a bunch of my art club juniors. We planned it several weeks in advance. Though we couldn't get enough people, we did Team Fortress 2.
So, who exactly did you guys cosplay?
I cosplayed as The Scout, since his outfit was the simplest and could be improvised using what I already had in my wardrobe. A friend who previously did The Spy still had his costume in good condition. The only girl among us went as The Engineer, and she really put a lot of work into assembling her costume, complete with toolbox. One of us tried The Medic, but gave up after failing to complete the Medigun, while the remaining one who was going as The Soldier couldn't quite finish his rocket launcher.
So it wasn't all perfect (the paint on my bat was flaking off), but when you're cosplaying with a group, it doesn't matter how accurate the costume is, or whether your face is shown or not. Some people actually liked my cosplay despite the imperfections.
That's good to know. So I suppose it's mostly group photos you posed in?
Pretty much, though we did mix it up a little bit. The Spy cosplayer got all the cool spots since he's the one doing all the backstabbing. While it was unplanned, one of us brought a rather... distracting poster, in order to re-enact bits of gameplay where a Spy uses a diversion to create a chance for a backstab.
Ah, he also had a number of paper masks as "disguises". Hilarity ensues when he got the PaedoBear one and began handing out "free candy" to little girls around.
What about the event itself?
To be frank, there wasn't anything too interesting. Aside from the usual cosplay competition, there were tournaments for games I don't play - specifically, BlazBlue (fighting game) and Weiss Schwarz (card game). Nothing of note on sale that wouldn't attract unnecessary attention, either. Well, except for an artbook.
I suppose you had fun.
Definitely. Those soccer socks make me feel like I can really run and jump like The Scout.
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Posted on 10:35 PM.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Blogwalking Have an idea on what blogwalking is?Um, no, not really. Why do you ask?
Just take a look at the chatbox there. I find it slightly annoying.
These look like they've been posted by bots.
What a bother...
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Posted on 4:30 PM.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Another Quarter So, yesterday was April Fool's Day. An occasion where many would go great lengths to troll the unwary. A great day for great laughs, regardless of how cheap it was.Did you do anything?
Not really. As usual, this neighbourhood's essentially a ghost town. There's no incentive for setting up a large prank when there's no worthy victim or audience.
So instead of going for a futile endeavour, I settled with watching from the sidelines. One of my friends, still in JC, went to fake a relationship. The other party was cooperating, of course.
Great success?
It was a bit of a success, having netted at least 30 likes on Facebook within the first hour. We're not exactly sure which proportion of those were genuinely deceived and which were just playing along.
When it was revealed it was an April Fool's joke all along, there were a few statements of disappointment. Well, it was amusing while it lasted. Out there in the neighbourhood, that day was just business as usual.
How boring.
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Posted on 9:45 AM.
