STGCC

 

This year’s Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention (STGCC) was held at Suntec Convention Centre from 13 to 16 August. I only managed to get down there on the last day this year. I had my brother in law help me out on the first day to get Brian Bollard’s signature. He got me a cool Tank Girl sketch as well. That was lucky too as the last day most of the time were already sold out. I did get my Batman the Killing Joke signed after waiting almost an hour in the queue. Here’s a picture of me with Brian Bollard.

Pretty nice obliging gentleman, managed to get a picture of him signing my book as well. That was great too.

I did get a few things at the convention like my last piece of Star Wars Mighty Mugg (Darth Vader) which I was missing for sometime now. Hasbro had the ‘Smiling’ Luke as he returned from destroying the Death Star it was a Comic Con Convention Special and I got that as well. I guess that was about it. I guess the highlight for me was getting a picture with my favour Star Wars character the Emperor’s Royal Guard. ya ….

As to the cosplay characters they were quite elaborate did not know who won as I was still standing in line to get my book signed, but here’s 2 of my favourites.

 

Bridge Run

Well it was the first run for me this year, 10km only on the Sheares Bridge Run. Flag off was at 7am. My timing for the event was terrible, I was more of just there to complete the race. But the good  thing was I managed to complete without really walking any part of the course. The interesting thing about the race this round is that they used disposable timing chips which means we as runners get to keep them as a momento.

Expo Sale

Metro had their Sale over the long weekend at Expo, Border and Harvey Norman were having theirs as well. It was like a free for all there, so many people and everyone seems to be there just to shop shop shop, well we were not the exception, spent about $300 worth of stuff and it might even have been more had it not been getting late and we wanted to get home.

The Nation’s 44th Birthday

It’s the Nation’s big again today and since it is celebrating 44 years of Nation Building, I think I’ll list out the 44 foods, fruits and desserts that I really like in no particular order.

1) Nasi Brayani

2) Chicken Rice (Wee Nam Kee)

3) Soto Ayam

4) Chilli Crab

5) Hor Fun (seafood)

6) Cha Kway Teow

7) Fish Head Curry

8) Kambing Soup

9) Indian Rojak

10) Chinese Rojak

11) Pepper Crab

12) Deep Fried Baby Squid

13) Hot and Sour Soup (Cathay Restaurant)

14) Satay

15) Mee siam (the sour type)

16) Mee Rebus

17) Roti Prata

18) Half Boiled Eggs

19) Escagot

20) Pizza (Super Supreme)

21) Ice Kachang

22) Cocktail Ice Jelly (Bedok)

23) Cheng Ting

24) Durian

25) Chicken Wings

26) Mango

27) Ngoh Hiang

28) Fish Ball (Old Chang Kee)

29) Beef Kway Teow (dry from Maxwell)

30) Prawn Kway Teow Soup with Pork Ribs (Katong)

31) Nasi Lemak

32) Buah Keluak (grandma’s)

33) Wan Ton Mee (Dunmern Food Court)

34) Otah Otah

35) Rambutan

36) Mangosteen

37) Lychee

39) Fish Head Steam Boat

40) Drunken Prawns

41) Peking Duck

42) Crispy Chicken

43) Sambal Kangkong

44) Coconut

and so these are my favourite 44 all time items.

Sing Dollar

Attend the week night screening of Sing Dollar at the Esplanade recently. The show was to start at 8pm, I was a little late off work and me and the missus had to get a quick dinner and header for the show.

The comedy play basically centered around a hawker stall in Geylang, with the regular crowd of people from the beer lady to the hooker and how they came to find half a million dollars and how it affected their lives. It was directed by Zahim Albakri and Selena Tan (who acted as well) What was innovative was the program which came in a huge money like format even had 4-D type page with the songs.

Some celebrities were spotted, including Koh Cheung Mun (Dolly fame) and that NUS professor or something in that academic show on TV, can’t remember his name. Some of Singapore big names from theatre were in the production the cast list included :-

 

Hossan Leong as Boon Huat (the stocker broker younger son)

Kumar as syed (the Blangadeshi worker)

Najip Ali as Sa’adiah (the Malay ‘lady’ cleaner)

Lim Kay Siu as Mr Siong (owner of Geylang store run by elder son)

Sebastian Tan as Valentino (the elder son)

Selena Tan as Tiger Lily (the beer lady)

Emma Yong as Lan Lan (the China call girl)

Pam Oei as Glory (the Filipino maid)

I have to say the play was hilarious, I love Kumar best of all, his jokes and the delivery was really good. They even had all sorts of dig at the Singapore local events and even world events, talking about Michael Jackson dying, Ho Ching, and even Mas Selamat’s escape, not forgetting the 4 widely known white collar crimes by David Rasif, Joaquim Kang, TT Durai and Ming Yi (Ren Ci head)

I had no regrets getting the more expensive tickets we were like 5 seats from the front of the stage. I guess the only issue I had was the lady audience 2 seats to my left who was really into it and was like giggle and giving piggy snorting laughter, arm chair beating, at times it was she who made me laugh and she was I think either Indian or Eurasian and she laugh the loudest at the Hokkien jokes, guess that tells you what a multi-racial community we have become. Go catch it if you can, there are still a few more tickets as they open up 2 more shows.

Cash Flow

I've always wanted to know my spedning habits and so I have decided to record my espenses for the month and in the end I can probably tally how much I have spent on stuff inlcuding personal and household expenditure, hopefully I can keep a running daily total.

Liverpool Anthem

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH A STORM

HOLD YOUR HEAD UP HIGH

AND DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

AT THE END OF THE STORM

THERE'S A GOLDEN SKY

AND THE SWEET SILVER SONG OF THE LARK

WALK ON THROUGH THE WIND

WALK ON THROUGH THE RAIN

THOUGH YOUR DREAMS BE TOSSED AND BLOWN

WALK ON, WALK ON

WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEARTS

AND YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE