Ah, ohisashiburi desu.

Now that I'm now officially free of the CAF mayhem and such, I'll be updating on CAF itself while I'm away. So refill your empty coffee mugs and get ready for one long rant.

Firstly, CAF. In my opinion, it wasn't as draining as last year's tightly scheduled practices and the cosplayers were certainly better than last year's.

One flaw of this event though, was that the stage was too plain for the event. I like the house though. :D But still I was a little disappointed that the grass that Russell, Murphy and a few others had finished wasn't put up so the background looked particularly empty. Nonetheless, during the real thing, the saikang warriors actually took the effort to use dry ice for several of the cosplayers' opening walks. Now that was a really nice effect for characters like Road Kamelot (my character) and Void (Azmah's). A BIG THANK YOU TO YOU ALL SAIKANG WARRIORS AND NINJAS AND ALL HELPERS FOR THE EVENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS PWN!!!! XD

Hm, next I'll skip back to my photoshoots. For the first one, which took place in school, and took what seemed like eons to finish. I arrived at the place at approximately 4 p.m or 5 p.m, changed into my costume and waited patiently for Lue Song sempai to come and fix my Road Kamelot wig. But Faustine sempai came early too, and I was already a bit tired from waiting, so Faustine agreed to style the wig. Then came the even longer wait; I sat on the chair holding a plastic bag, while Faustine trimmed, waxed and sprayed and Hougang-sprayed the wig, the stubborn thing just refused to stick upwards and stay there. So even hair pins were used and more spraying and combing and styling and spamming and so on.

Throughout that process, I had to sit on that chair, waiting patiently for my wig to be fully styled while my other fellow cosplayers had their photo shoot, stopping once in a while to think of more poses and leaving the place after they're done. And throughout the process, I was wondering to myself "When will this thing be done?", as well as "Why must Road have such awesome hair?" while fidgeting in my seat and listening to Fook Yu's complaints and ranting. It's not as if that's a bad thing, she's giving constructive criticism and stating facts in my opinion.

Finally by the time they were done, I think the time was already about 9 p.m or maybe even 10.

But another cosplayer was having their shoot so I had to wait even more. Until about 10.30, maybe? Either way, my shoot didn't take long, mostly because it was relatively easy for me to come up with Road poses.

Next, it was Hakimah's (Saya) turn and she didn't take long, in my opinion. Me and the twins were then finally released at about 11 p.m. I reached home near midnight and my mother suprisingly didn't reprimand me as much as I had expected her to. Probably she's just used to me coming home late and I had a valid reason for that.

After my bath, I proceeded to destroy Faustine's efforts on my wig by soaking it in shampoo water. I mean...I had to. Lue Song sempai needed to experiment with it and well... I still feel a bit guilty for that though. >_<;

Otherwise in just one sentence that was one hell of a tiring photo shoot.

And now, the second one; the outdoor shoot. That I had actually enjoyed despite...circumstances out of humanly control (ie. weather).

We all met up at about 9.30 a.m first, or at least we agreed to. I was late and I was rushing towards the Dhoby Ghaut station exit, the time was 9.35 and Fook Yu was emphasizing during the previous day that late-comers would have to go to the venue (Fort Canning) by themselves. I was soooo worried and already had the mental preparation to take a taxi there when I saw Shan. So in the end, no one had actually arrived punctually. Oh well,typical SJCC, should have known better than to panic so much. =_=

As we waited, everyone gradually arrived and we headed towards the place where we camped at the National Museum to prepare for the shoot. I'm more or less bored throughout because the only thing I have left undone was my oh-so-awesome wig, so throughout the preparation period I've made multiple trips to the vending machines to purchase snacks and drinks and disturbed various people and over-doing my make-up. XD

After a lot of spamming and waiting, Lue Song sempai finally arrived and was then rushing around doing make-up for cosplayers and such. I've never seen him rush around like that before; in fact, he was so busy that he even considered taking in a 'disciple' to help him back-comb wigs and maybe do make-up too.

Upon finishing with my wig, he prepared for his own Grell get-up as I went for my own shoot. I had 2 ~ 3 photos taken with Usagi-san, and then was brought to my photographer, Sam for my outdoor shoot. The day was so hot, and we were walking around the place, pausing once in a while so that he could take my picture. And he even bought me a drink and said that it was a treat! He's one nice guy and his photographs were simply fantastic. I never knew that I looked so different as Road Kamelot until he uploaded my photos on sgcafe.com. In fact, for the first time in my life, I feel...defined, if that's the way to put it.

Ok, now moving on to the real thing. 22nd July, the big day that we've all been waiting for. There were quite a few stage glitches and some minor mistakes here and there but otherwise, the full rehearsal was completely fine.

Of course, waiting plays an inevitable part once again as we, the cosplayers grew bored backstage and started to look for any source of entertainment available to us. Entertainment choices included, but not limited to: watching a bit of Hitman Reborn on Azmah's com via Eileen's hard drive; cam-whoring a lot; fixing my hair (courtesy of Mika and Kenneth); fixing all our make-up; playing with the electric fan and making weird noises; making A LOT of omake photos and so on.

So yes, WE WERE THAT BORED. (and Sasuke has a soft side for...hem, plushies, hem)

Then as usual, eating MacDonalds takeaway at that usual staircase, crowded with not only cosplayers but also with some photographers and occasionally a saikang warrior or two. Upon finishing, we waited to be ushered to the stage and...well, I don't think I need to elaborate more.

In my opinion, I think I did a relatively good job of Road Kamelot, but when it's all over, the nagging feeling that it's not my best walk plagued me as I watched the others. And when the past cosplayers had to walk past the big grey wolf for the character listing, I only realised that I should have gave Sherwin (the big grey wolf) a kick before going off but oh well.

Everyone had tried to give it their all for this, and therefore I don't really have anything to say other than I hope that the event would be as successful as it was this year too.

:D

Alrighty, that would be all for CAF.