Road to Singapore and Cosfest VIII (2009)
Filipino Cosplayer, Ice Artificio competes in Cosfest VIII 2009 in Singapore as Talim from Soul Calibur IV. Here’s a snippet of the article.
We’ve been planning the trip to Singapore for many months now. I have often told my friend Sese that I wanted to be able to experience a convention outside the country as I have often found conventions and events here to be disappointing. Often our local events focus more on ticket prices and sponsorships than actually creating an event that would really cater to their audience.
We finally decided to attend Cosfest VIII (2009). Cosfest is Singapore’s largest cosplay event held every year in July. It also hosts the Regional Qualifiers for the World Cosplay Summit held in Nagoya, Japan. There have been attempts to hold regional qualifiers for the Philippines, but as we have not been recognized as a participating country, we can’t really send our own delegation.
To read the rest of the article, head on over to the dot hacker review here.
A reflection on what TOYCON 2009 has become
The 8th Philippine Toys, Hobbies and Collectibles Convention (TOYCON) was held at Megamall Megatrade Hall 2 & 3 last June 13 and 14, 2009. There has been a lot of buzz for this convention even back in early May. I personally was looking forward to the event because of the exhibits and the collectibles that would be available for me to see.
As early as 10 AM, Saturday, a line was already amassing in front of Megatrade. In fact, the line got so long that it reached the bridge area and then back to the other side of the atrium. With the recent marketing strategy of Toycon and the infamous irenecullen multiply blog (which by the way I still suspect is connected with an organizer of Toycon), it wasn’t much of a surprise at the amount of attendees. The cosplayers haven’t even arrived yet and the crowd was swelling. Entrance to the event was PhP 100.00 per day. I did hear that they sold out on the tickets that they had to sell day 2 tickets for day 1. Though one way the could have avoided this is by preselling the tickets, which I understand was not done (correct me if I’m wrong)…
Read the rest of this article at the dot hacker review.
Solon speaks against Online Games
With the uproar caused by the bill now known as the Hentai Bill, another member congress sets her site to attack Online games in a speech she made at the University of the Philippines – Cebu College.
For more information please visit this <a href=”http://seedsop.yuki-hime.com/2009/05/Solon_speaks_against_Online_Games”>article at the dot hacker review</a>.
