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!

Singapore Day 10

 Didn't do much today! Mostly rested and spent time with Nadi and Archer. Nadi and Archer both went to work but came back around 2pm or so. So I just spent the day resting, catching up with blogging, and writing postcards. I am so tired. I helped paint some of their prop gold rings and worked on colouring Nadi's ears for cosplay.

For dinner we decided to go out to Tampines Hub, it's kinda like a community centre with a pool, sports court, stage where they have performances or play movies/TV shows, food court, and a mini mall. We found a stall in the hawker centre that had chilli crab!! So we got a few dishes to share. Chilli crab, spicy lala (cockles), and kang kong (tong choi). This is my first time eating crab. It's hard work getting into the shell bits and eating the meat. The spicy sauce was very yummy. The cook did the lala in the spicy sauce of the crab too. The kang kong was much better cooked and flavoured here. The stall was all halal. 

Archer got chendol afterwards and I tasted a bit. It's like gula melaka! Then Archer left for Beyblade and Nadi and I got some bread from the bakery in the mall.

Off home we go. Just chilled and I helped style Archer's Shadow wig. The Gatsby hairspray he got feels yuck and is really heavy and weighs the wig down. I got rid of it and rinsed most of it out. It also can't be brushed out, it leaves white marks on the hair. Then sadly, around 9pm, I suddenyl felt sick.

Sigggh. Uh oh here we go again. I threw up. And also did a poop that as mostly liquid and sharty. And threw up a couple more times. I took an enzyme capsule that Nadi has, but threw it up twice (I rinsed it and ate it again twice). The third time I couldn't find where the capsule went so I had to give up. TToTT This is so sad. I think the crab did it. I don't think my tummy likes seafood anymore. Waaaaaaaaah. I was also sweating balls. Just no strength. Curled up in bed exhausted. Nadi was so nice and was comforting me and got me plastic bags just in case (and I threw up in it one last time too). 🥺 I hate how my tummy is so sensitive now. 

Singapore Day 9 (S.E.A. Aquarium)

 Woke up but so tired from last night!!! We had agreed to meet up with my bro at 10:30am at the aquarium at Sentosa. Welp, got up, and Nadi made me a roti for breakfast in the air fryer!!! And let me try kaya (pandan flavour). It was really good?!! Yummy~ 

After that we just got ready and decided to take a Grab as it was easier. Archer will stay home. Happy to split with Nadi. It ws like $38 ish. We arrived and went to the toilet first, and when I came out my bro was already outside, coincidentially at the toilet entrance haha! We stopped for a snack at the Malaysian food court. It was nice and quiet, so it's really good. I had the steamed rice cakes with 菜脯 on top. Why so greasy?? I split with Nadi as she was also a ittle hungry, and she bought me a teh. Niceeee.

Aquarium time. They had a promo for double happy - buy 1 get 1 free. So $44 for 2 people. Nadi and I split and my bro decided to get one for himself. Then a random Chinese lady came up and asked if we were ok to split her extra ticket of the combo deal. Paid her $22 and then took a photo of the QR code from her screen. Thankfully it worked out! Funny that she heard we were from NZ and she said she was also from NZ. 

The aquarium was partially under rennovation, but according to Nadi it's been like this for a few years?! There used to be a big pirate ship at the lobby, and there's also a part from angler fish. The aquarium wasn't too big which is good, because we're quite tired from all the big days!! The lighting made it easy to take photos without reflections. So nice. There was a lot of fish! They were all so pretty! And for some reason their info boards were electronic, but also flipped to a full screen ad. I want to read the information....!! Why can't they have the ads on like a portion of the screen, and the rest to be the info about the fish. 

They had a tank full of sharks too!! And I spotted a Relicanth in the big shark tank. xD They put the gift shop in the middle of the aquarium (it's a loop around, and at the furtherest end). They had a lot of tropical fish too, and there's also a tiny cleaner fish that went into the mouth of a moray eel!! Like!! The eel would just stop opening/closing its mouth and leave it open while the cleaner fish goes inside, and continue again after they come out. So cool. 

At the big central tank there was a keeper diving into the bottom, I think cleaning the tank. They had a suction thing going? while cleaning the pebbles on the bottom of the tank floor. After a break in their work, he turned around and posed for the camera hahahahha. That was really cool. They also have a jellyfish section, and some fish are so small!! They added magnifiers for us to see. At the shark tanks near the end of the visit, they had a manta ray? mascot come out where kids can meet and you can pose for photos with them. I got one. xD They also have a lab and nursery section with a window where you can peek in and see what they are doing. I got to see seahorses and seadragons too! They had some other eels, and the gift shop still had the Genshin collab merch haha. 

After the aquarium, we headed to Bugis for lunch. It was about 1:30pm ish now. We took the MRT to Bugis station and headed to Albert Court/Centre where I had dinner of the roast duck, and saw a lot of eateries the last time. We found it and tried to find the halal foods. Nadi said usually they group all the halal foods together, and behold, the last row was all halal foods! I ended up getting Mee Reebus for like $4.50, and then a homemade lemonade drink at the next drink stall down (who also had milo dinosaur) for $2. I bought Nadi's drink as she went to get something else. Alan got something as well (a big plate of saucy something). The homemade lime juice was really good!! He squeezed fresh lime. Yum. My Mee Reebus was rich and interesting. Rich sauce in noodle. Nadi let me taste her dish, which was a selection of breads/carbs and shrimp/fish cake dipped in a sauce. Mmm! Since the food court is open air it was really nice. My bro left to check out and head to the airport. Bye~ 

Archer came soon after and we headed out to look at Arab St. The mosque does a call to prayer the 5 times a day that muslims go to pray. They also have opening hour from 2-4pm for 參觀 but we arrived like 2 mins after 4pm. Awww. Mosque is really pretty outside. And they had a line of Turkish and Lebanese shops! The decor is super pretty! Nadi said her great-grandma lived in the house with the gold trim windows (above a Turkish restaurant in the middle of the street, across from Turkish ice cream) as she was Javanese. She has such a rich heritage!! Then on anoher side street it was all like trendy bars?? But muslims don't drink alcohol... it's very strange. Some of the shops have like artist/indie creator stalls inside, which is really cool. 

After that, we headed back to Bugis and looked for a white shirt for Archer's shadow cosplay, and popped into 2 optometrists and 1 Korean contact lenses shop, but they didn't have read. It was almost 5pm by the time we were done and headed back home. We were all tired as. Nadi and I went home first on the bus and Archer went to look for his lenses. 

We had a rest and rehydated, and then had instant noodles for dinner. I got to try a tom yum flavour! It was nice! Different from the Trident tom yum. 

Then Archer came home and we watched the Sonic Adventure 2 ad-lib fandub, and then took a shower and bed. That wa funny. Good day!!!

Singapore Day 8 (River Wonders and Night Safari)

 First thing to focus on today is geting luggage packed and moved to Nadi and Archer's. My bro still has the hotel until tomorrow but I check out today. After breakfast I tidied up my luggage and then went out to do a quick trip to the post shop to get more stamps and mail some post cards.

After that I got back and then moved my 3 suitcases down and left the key in the room, and called a Grab. Made my way to Tampines and got off. I think it's at a different entrance to the one I came in last Weds. Nevertheless I walked into the communal area to the centre so no matter where I am it'll be easier for Nadi or Archer to get me. Archer came to pick me up. Thank you for helping me with my luggage. 😭💖

After I got inside I settled the laundry and moved my luggage in, repacked my bag, and we had some of the Thai leftovers for lunch. After that, we got ready and Archer and I headed to River Wonders via Grab.

We arrived! And Archer bought his ticket. We then went inside. It was like a semi-aquarium with a lot of fish animals and a couple of water-based animals like otters! And for some reason the pandas are here?! The pandas were in full view and showing us bamboo eating, so that was really good. It wasn't as crowded today. There's a animal encounter show at 4:30pm so we made good time going through the first half of the park, and then having a ice and snack just before the bridge to the boat plaza. I had a soursop ice popsicle (a cousin of 釋迦). It was nice! Archer had a popsicle and then later a coconut drink. We also bought a Rumukku? fried dough snack. It was kinda like 麻花 but with cumin. Very interesting. Also toilet here.

We crossed the bridge and the breeze was so so nice. We arrived at the boat plaza just in time for the show, and settled onto the audience chairs. They really trained the animals well! And got to take photos with the pelicans afterwards. They had a capybara, a big reptile lizard, river otter, got a kid to hold a snake, and a mammal I wasn't sure what the name was. It was cool!!

Afterwards we continued through the park and meet quite a few big tortoises, a few mammal-fishes, ghavials/gharials and alligators. They has huuuuge sturgeons, and an lungfish that was 80 yrs old?! Mudskippers and catfish. Lots of big fish that I've never seen before. We managed to finish at around 6pm, and the manatees were at the very end! Like dewgongs! Nadi was on her way now, and we ended up going to the zoo foodcourt to have dinner. I had a "healthy" Nasi Lemak, according to Archer. IDK how it was healthy, maybe less grease? I couldn't finish all of it... but I managed most of it. Just left some rice and pickled vege. Sob. Archer got me a lemon tea drink and it was so sweet??? But by the time I got to the bottom of the drink it was less sweet, I guess the ice cubes melted. A cleaning auntie came around to grab my tray around 6:30pm, and I realised that the food court closes around this time. I finished my drink and called the auntie at the return station when she came out from the room (I can't see). I thanked her and we waited for Nadi at our table. She arrived!! Soon after 7:15pm, when the Night Safari has opened.

We headed in and made it just in time for the 7:30pm show, but had to wait until the bird flew onto/off stage before being let into the audience area to sit. We saw heaps of animals; hyena, owl, fennec fox, porcupine, raccoon with really dexterious hands, pelican?? and they pulled the bird's sack on the bottom of the beak!, and a few more which I forgot. But it was an awesome show!

After that we got out and got ushered into the tram by Nadi, saying there's no line and it was packed last time she was here! So in we go! The rangers took a photo of us which I ended up buying for $35 SGD. Oof. But it's a souvenir! We got to see a lot of animals on the tram ride!! Which is so cool! Usually it's like hit or miss but there was like 2 animals we didn't see. They had deers, tigers/lions, hyenas, hippos, elephants!!!, and various others. So very cool. And lots of cattle stops. xD They had rangers at carious points of the trail waving at us (they served as traffic control I'm assuming) through the tram ride.

The tram ride was about 30 mins long. Once done we had an ice kachang as a snack, and then headed on the trails to see the animals. We also participated in like a activity and you can get a badge afterwards. They had an owl one for the first half of the event, and an elephant enamel badge for the second half. We were on the elephant one now, sad, I would have preferred the owl one. Oh well!.

We got to see a pangolin walk right past us!! That was so cool. And quite a couple of owls of different species. Monkeys, too!. And a white tiger!! A couple of marsupials, like a woylie (cousin of kangaroos). And then we got to see a North Island spotted brown kiwi like walking right in front of us, like whattt!! Blessed!!! The kiwi was digging around and then slipped on the ledge next to the glass while turning around. 😂 Aww so clumsy! Sadly we didn't see any Tasmanian Devils today. We also ran out of time to see the bats and the leopards. By the time we were tired and done, it was after 10:30pm, and we kinda wanted to go home. We were at the other end of the park, and we went through the Civic enclosure to get to the exit. 

They had taxis waiting (it as 10:45pm) thankfully, as Nadi/Archer was worried about getting a grab home at this time. It was about $35 odd I think, and we got home in 30mins ish. We took a shower and then everyone just went to bed. It's past midnight now. I'm soooo tired. It was such a fun day.

Singapore Day 7

 They ran out of congee today at the breakfast buffet noooo.... 😭 I just had some of the croissants, fruit, scrambled eggs, and tater tots, which were very nice! Then back to our room and I packed away my cosplay stuff and tidied up a bit. Finished blogging for yesterday (or most of it), and then time to head out to meet Nadi at Singapura Plaza. She needed to pick up some stuff for cosplay~

I walked to the Plaza and met Nadi~ we went to Art Friend and looked at all the craft stuff they had!! So many~ Nadi needed to paint some of her ears blue and got acrylic, she showed me and it was faux fur so I said that we could look at fabric paint, or dye, or marker. We managed to find a fabric marker pen so went for that option. She also managed to find styrofoam rings, and also one in a diamond shape!? For Chaos Emeralds. Awesome.

Then we went to the only remaining Spotlight in Singapore, and found that they have a Naruto print, and also one with Shrek heads hahaha. There's also a Sonic print but it feels low effort and basic, sadly. Most of it is the same as NZ.

Next we had a look at an anime/games shop, and then went to have lunch at a café. It was barely bearable with the amount of people inside, I did not like it. I asked for a miso eggplant burger and a teh tarik. The teh tastes pretty weak, like healthy version of it, and no sugar, haha. Once done, we headed out of there, and looked at the other weeby shops. There was a Muse shop and inside they were playing like a medly of anime covers by Mickey and Goofy? And it was soooo funny. I just went looking for the song and I found it loooool. Most of the merch was the popular mainstream stuff. Then we went to the next store, which has some really old nendos. Another store had bookshelves full of Taiwan manga.... I had a look and sadly no 1/2 Prince. :') Once done, we went downstairs and there was a official Bandai Gashapon shop. One token is $2 SGD, and most gashapons required at least 3-4. Wow that's a bit expenny.

Then we walked all the way to Orchard Rd's Takashiyama Dept Store for the big Kinokuniya. Nadi picked up a Corocoro with Shadow on it. Chrono was big on the cover, my boy is popular TToTT. They also had Vol 1 of Unmei no Makimodoshi too. We were pretty much done today so headed home. Took the bus and Nadi then took the MRT home~

Got back to the hotel around 4:30pm, bro was there (he headed to AFA in the morning). I rehydrated and rested, and he went to the concert. I took a nap and woke up exhausted around 6pm. Took a while to wake up and then headed out to dinner at 6:45pm. I just went to Albert Court, and there's this HK style roast  meats place that had lots of people lining up in 3838 Food Court. So I also lined up and asked for roast duck with rice $4.50. They didn't come with any vegetables and after I finished the dish, I was still thinking about the veges, so I went back and got a plate of bokchoy.... $3.50. It was all open air and all the tables were taken so I just sat across from some other guy. Once done I went back to the hotel and popped into the mini mart next to the hotel and picked up a can of Qoo. It was $1.50 and I paid all in change, and the shop guy and me had trouble doing maths LOL.

Back, watched an ep of I Parry Everything and then took a shower. Going to sort out Zoo tickets and sleep.

Headed

Singapore Day 6

 Oh man I am so smashed today. My eyes are so dryyy and tired. Nadi proposed we meet up to go around the anime shops La Tendo and Rashinban in Suntec today, so I got myself ready and headed out. We met up at Bencoolen MRT and took the MRT there. Cause Suntec is so big it's so easy to get lost inside. Nadi took us to the shops (thank goodness we have a local guide, I would have never found things!) and La Tendo is pretty big with a real mix of merch. Some merch are old and never sold I guess? There were nendos and other figures, and I spotted 3 Lan Wu Yao nendos... like whaaat.... 

Rashinban is connected and apparently they just get whatever merch Japan gives them. I didn't find a general general section, so no fishing for Appmon badges... sad. There wasn't much for me, didn't find any treasures. After browsing Rashinban, my bro needed to head off to AFA for his panel, and Nadi and I decided to get some lunch.

There was a food court not too far and it was quieter, so we found a table that was empty around, and then got paratha flat breads from an Indian Muslim place which came with 2 curry dips (Nadi said the thicker one is for chicken curry and the thinner one is for fish curry). 

After eating it was time for my panel Re:Zero with Kobayashi Yuusuke guest, so I headed up to AFA with the staff pass wristband and managed to get through without needing to line up (thanks Shawn!), and they let me into the stage as well! I got there about hald an hour early and saw the last bit of the panel my bro was attending (Towe of God with Hayamin and Ichikawa guest). Thanks to my body I kinda needed to pee just as the panel ended and was waiting for Re:Zero to start... maaan why my body gotta be like this!!! :'D I'll manage...!

After introduction Koba Yuuz turned up in Subaru's tracksuit. The man!!! xD Himeself!! He says that Subaru's outfit is pretty much official uniform for Re:Zero events hahahha (and he bought it himself apparently). When he first started afterrecording, he needed to shout to much and die so many times, he was left so drained at the end of a session, and the other seiyuus around him would be like "are you ok? do you need water? don't push yourself too hard" and turned into many Emilias. xDDD He also mentioned that he would think about how to perform each death, for example when his left arm got chopped off he imagined that since it is close to the heart and lungs, his breathing would be affected and gasp/gulp his speech. If his throat was affected he can get away with muddier pronounciation. If it was his leg then he would still need clear pronounciation as his blood circulation wouldn't be affected too much. He mentioned during Petelguese's arc, since there's so much "GEEEH!" screaming he was left dead at the end of every session. At the end of one afterrecording, the sound director saw him lying these and told him that he should be left to rest and don't get up. xDDD

KobaYuuz also mentioned that he auditioned for Subaru and Reinhart, since at that point he had done a lot fo princely roles so he thought he might suit a knight/noble role. Subaru was his first "dirty/messy (kitanai)" role character.

The panel was great! They took a kinen shashin and we all got to do "VICTORY!" pose. He's come such a long way since his debut role.

After that I went out and there was a line to get out... crowd bottle neck... needed to pee but the toilets on this level were only like 2 cubicles... met up with bro and went downstairs where there's heaps more toilets and peed. Phew. 

After that we met up with Nadi at a Coffee Munch café where she chilled and drew. Then we went to Vivo City (Archer was going for a Beyblade event there). We took the bus and saw the harbour/shipping containers on the way there. The mall was SO BUSY AND NOISY inside. It was really sensory overload. I didn't like it. We ended up looking around, and there was a weeby game shop. They also never clear out their merch so you may find old and odd merch just marked down sitting there. I found.... 4 copies of MHST2 on Switch marked down for $38, and all the ammiibos for them (Tsukino, Laeus, Ena) were still there... $30 for each and $40 for Laeus. All dusty.... TToTT

Then we continued to have a look around the mall... and had soft serve from a shop called Nasty Cookie... say outside the playground for some quiet and under the shade for rest... 

Then walked around outside the mall for some quiet, and ended up walking up Sentosa Boardwalk! My bro wanted to see where the chess matches were, so we went to Resort World(?) and also saw the casion which had a $150 entry fee. We walked all the way there, and then decided it's time to head back. Took the Sentosa Express, and turns out it's free to go back but $3 to go to Sentosa, lol! Got a nice view of the shipping containers and harbour from the train. 

After that we went to Toys R Us to meet up with Archer. Nadi showed me the Sonic section and we also found a Sonic Monopoly set! I sent a photo to Dark H, but sadly seems like Taiwan doesn't stock that. Once Archer was done (he didn't get picked for Beyblade), we headed to dinner at a place called Servus. It's German, and they recently changed their name. They had outdoor seats (!!!) and everyone was OK sitting outside. TToTT Thank you~~ I got a vege burger and it came with saukraut, but the saukruat wasn't cooked and it was super sour!! I finished eerything except 1/3 of the saukraut. Then it was time to head home, as everyone was tired. We took the MRT and said bye to Archer and Nadi while they stayed on the Blue Line home. 

Once home I was sooo tired, took a shower and bed.