Singapore Day 13 (Comic Con and return to NZ)

Bro guess we are doing this, going to a con on the day I fly back out!! Wake up, have breakfast, then pack the rest of my luggage. Nadi and Archer were getting ready as Sonic and Shadow respectively. Our aim is to leave at 10am.

Archer left first because he wanted to attend a beyblade event at 10:30am. Nadi and I took a grab to Changi with all my luggage, and I paid $43 in total for 24 hr luggage storage for 2 large suitcases and 1 small one. We found the postbox in T3 (next to GST returns counter) and I posted the last of my postcards. Then we got a grab and headed to the con at Sands Expo Convention Centre.

There is a Bandai TCG thingy event going on next door to comic con. When we arrived there was a line but it moved fast. The other line for bag check took longer to get through, and they just did a rough check compared to AFA (only looked at my large compartment of my Toothless backpack). Once in, we found Archer beyblading, but he didn't get into the competition. So we headed for the Sonic booth. 

The Sonic booth was so cool! Archer and Madi had so much fun posing and taking photos, and then the mascot suits Sonic and Tails came at 12pm, and they lined up for a photo. After they got their photo I lined up and then ended up taking one with them together. Yoooo! We looked so cool.

After that we headed to get some lunch, they weren't hungry but I was so I bought 2 pizza slices (Hawaiian and like a vege one), and sat down in a corner (sadly, no empty surrounding space), and ate my pizza while they sat and had a break too. Once I was done we headed back to the Sonic booth as Archer wanted to take a video when it was empty. Not long after they suddenly got popular and was asked for photos from people visiting the booth LMAO, they work for the booth now. xDDD

Once done, Archer went back to the Beyblade (or wandered around), and Nadi and I went to look around the artist alley. Boy, the first 3 booths were already winning! So much more variety than AFA and there were like more niche/less popular stuff in the first 3 booths. Way more different art styles and series variety. Lots more original creations and comic book artists. 

We made good time going through the stalls, but at one point I felt kinda sick and tired, and then I realised when walking through the comic artist booth row, where there was less people, that the sickness was from the crowded CO2 muddled air. Ergh. That's awful. The stalls were fantastic though, there were a couple of stalls that had Kamen Rider stuff!! And also Digimon that's not just Adventure!!! But sadly no Appmon, a tragedy. Still heaps better than AFA. I even found a stall that did heaps of acrylic keychains, and had Asta, Nero, and Liebe from Black Clover!! My holy grail from this con, lol! I went back to get it at the end (3 for $20). There was a stall that had Sonic sticker sheets, ($5 for a sheet), one or two that had a Sonic print, and even one that had 2 Sonic iron on patches. 

Comic Con had a much better vibe than AFA. Woooow. They had 2 floors and there's a giant elevator (like industrial type) that took you between the floors. I didn't like being packed in...

At 2:45pm, we were done with the artist alley and went back to find Archer. Then they wanted to find someone so I ended up meeting an ex-cosplayer called Natsu. Hello dude! And then wandered around a bit more before I said I needed to go~

So sad to leave. Archer and Nadi seemed sad too and kept waving bye. :') They saw me off at the door. I thanked them for letting me stay at theirs and they said I was a good house guest. TToTT I am so glad. We all had heaps of fun.

I called a Grab and since the taxi drop off was so busy, someone accepted my request straight away??! Like bro!??! I got a notif straight away saying "get ready to board" and the taxi was 2 cars down. Jfglbjsdfs Good thing I was able to spot them straight away. My driver was super chatty! He spoke in Mandarin. He asked what NZ was like and compared like cost of living and house prices. I said it's great to retire in but not so much going on, so it's a bit boring. He was really friendly. I thanked him for a good ride and wished him a good rest of his day.

Once at the airport I decided to get an ice cream to eat first as I was a tiny bit hungry but didn't want solids. I ended up getting a coconut milk black rice popsicle from Cheers. Then I headed towards Baggage Storage and sat down at some seats there where there was less people. At my ice with my mask on. Then claimed my baggage and headed to check in/baggage drop. They weigh your carry on here!!! And stick a tag on it. I was 22.4kg and 21kg. 

After that I headed through departures (just immigration!? Check at the departures gate, had to pull mask down, then once more through e-gates for unmasking.) There was no x-ray?! I found my gate and sat down for a while to rest but didn't go into the gate area. Then I started getting a bit hungry... so went to the Singapore Food Street area on the upper floor, and had a look through. Didn't really fancy any, ended up walking into a 7-11, and they had onigiri so I bought one and a milk tea drink. 

I went back to the food area and found the emptiest seat in the corner near the room/access where they do dishwashing for tray return, I assume. I could hear a lady phlem coughing, thankfully a ways away but boy.... 

Just as I was finishing my drink, a push notif told me they were boarding early?! Dang I wanted to go see the Butterfly Garden. Tough luck. I walked past it though on my way down to the lower floor. Oh they have a TWG (tea brand) stall here. Nadi let me try a tea bag of theirs for breakfast one day. 

I headed towards the gate and found out they they have the xrays here... !??! Okay so xray screening is at the gates I guess?! They wanted laptop out but liquids could stay in.

Once that was done I saw for a wee while before they asked everyone else to board the plane. There wasn't much people left. I am in a window seat and the people sitting in my aisle seemed to be family, a European guy and girl. They were nice. The hardest part was needing to pee but can't do it on demand, I had to wait until they were awake or also going to pee to go. Ooof.

There was wifi on the plane but I was too tired to browse. I watched Suzume no Tojimari movie which was cool. They also had Doraemon movie as well, but I only had eye energy to watch 1. 

Finally landed and biosecurity didn't even open up my bags. They just asked me what I brought in and ticked the form and asked me to go to lane 0, in which a doggo came to sniff and then out into the airport. So so tired. Dad came to get me, he stopped to fill up and I took a shower when I got home and slept the rest of the Sunday.

Singapore Day 12

 Nothing much today as well! Mostly resting. I watched some more of Nadi's streaming videos and helped to style her Sonic wig. She put on a Goosebumps one where the video maker ranks the books and corresponding TV episodes and how they've held up over time. It was like this for most of the day. I sorted out my luggage and put all my food items into one luggage.

I caught up on episode 8 of Thunderbolt Fantasy around 5:30pm and BOOOOYYY was this a great episode!!! Ahhh!! Ba Wang Yu and Hua Wu Zhong acknowledged each other's strengths and supported each other up, and worked together to take down Fujirai. Waaaaaaah. And then Shang Bu Huang entered the scene to help Mu Tian Min and Tenkou Kisho, entering with his Niàn Bái. 😭😭😭 And then Tenkou Kishou ended up having a speaker amplifier function on his mecha which transformed his hands into HUGE SPEAKERS and Mu Tian Min plugged it in and SANG THE LAND IS CLOAKED IN DEEPEST BLUE,  the theme song!!!!!!11 AHHHH IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAA!!!

Then Archer came home and we went out to a different foodcourt near their house and I got Mee Soto. It's yummy but sadly so heavy in grease, I couldn't finish it. I also got some spinach al-la carte. Sadly thay didn't rinse the spinach properly and there was grit in it. The drinks stall had a honey lemon one so Nadi got me one. Archer ended up eating the rest of my Mee Soto. After dinner we walked to an ince cream shop called Betsubara, haha. Cause you have a separate stomach for dessert. I got hokkaido rockmelon flavour, very intense. I got to taste Archer's dark cocoa, very rich and pure. And also Nadi's choc mint, very minty and refreshing. We walked through the near by park home. 

Then we just chilled. Tomorrow they plan to take me to Comic Con in the morning and then I catch my flight home in the afternoon. :') So sad. My holiday is over and I was too tired to be able to enjoy it to the fullest.

Singapore Day 11

 Nothing much today too! Woke up exhausted and Nadi had taken medical leave (she was tired as well). She was supposed to go into office today. Just rested a lot. Tummy is settled but still delicate. Archer had a med appt at the hospital for his sinuses and came back just as I was finishing breakfast. 

Finished Archer's Shadow wig styling, and then ended up watching the rest of that Sonic fandub they made, ad-libbed from like Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 game. The cutscene graphics were so cool, but the story feels quite convulted and complicated due to time travel sheningans and 3 storylines/3 characters. 

For lunch I had some of the leftover pasta in the fridge, and dragonfruit. Nadi went out as she had an appointment to help with her grandma's car things.

Then Archer let me try the massage chair. It's really good, it relaxes you and when the back parts hits the right spots... ir hurts good. It made me so sleepy. It's controlled by an app too! Many different modes. It's an Osim chair. I ended up going to take a nap around 3pm and woke up an hour later. 

For dinner we just went to the nearby station, posted my postcards and then bought some more stamps. We then headed to the mall near the station, and picked up some hot glue sticks. And then Archer got me a Qoo and then a soft serve from Mixue (a China dessert chain store which apparently is alsp in Japan and other parts of Asia). For dinner we got food from a stall near the station. They no longer had steamed chicked rice so we got roast chicken instead. yummy. And then from a stall nearby we got some veges (as they didn't have any at the chicken rice stall). 

Then home we go, had dinner, then chilled. Nadi is joining in a friend's stream at 8:30pm ish so during that time I can finally catch up on some Thunderbolt Fantasy!! Ohhh all the plot threads are starting to come together~~~ and then I took a shower and blogged. Gonna try sleep soon, Nadi is still streaming but she sounds like she's having so much fun!