Erm,
So yes. Back from Hong Kong, pictures are on my facebook.
My Wife, beloved mother of my daughter is pregnant.
So yes, 1 victory lap around the store followed by 9 months of anxious waiting/medical visits.

Alright,
It has been a while since I last posted.
Busy with real life and real life issues.
Suffice to say that my life has had to undergo some radical changes of sorts.

So Change as always has to happen.

Random thought.

Singapore will be running an Anime Festival in Nov (I think)
Of which one of the special guest stars is supposed to be May'N who is the voice of Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier.

In another day and age, I think I would be drooling and eagerly waiting for the event.

At this point in time, all I can muster is a 'meh'

My personal thoughts.

1. Macross Frontier has never been shown on any cable or public access TV station here.
2. From a purely legal point of view, it would mean that no-one would know who she is since they would not have been exposed to her.
3. But from all the rabid fans drooling online one can only surmise that everyone has watched Macross Frontier online and thus know about her. Hence the eager response.
4. So does that mean that the organizers know that everyone (read: greater fanbase) has watched Macross Frontier and they will get a better response with a someone like her of some older 'talent'.

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

I was asked a question by J the other day. How something simple like doing the gardening just made her happy.
My reply, "I cleared a blocked drain. I am happy."
So is this domestic bliss or just finding happiness in the simple things in life?

These are quite mundane items when you think about it. But hey. If it works.. why not?

Well,
We finally had a sit down with all the TOs from SPORE.
The current decision based on what was discussed and based on how SPORE was run is to cancel PIG-Con.

This is mainly due to:
1. Costs of running the event
2. Lack of enough trained people to actually pull it off

This 'trained people' being the players who would be willing to volunteer and help out during the event.
Gamers when usually asked to choose between playing and volunteering to entertain little kids will prefer to game than entertain. Something which I do not blame them either. However, it is something that we will need to overcome for next year's SPORE.

Yes, Pig-Con as a con is going to be shelved and we will be going with SPORE-Con for the foreseeable future.

I like Petunia. But given that this is a multiracial society and not everyone might accept the pun that is Pig-Con it's probably for the best to go with a more neutral sounding name for the convention.

So yes, planning will begin soon for SPORE 2009. Which is in all likelihood going to be held once more in June 2009. The only exception being that we will probably not be holding it in Chua Chu Kang CC but might be moving it around to a different location instead.

I was asked my response to it. Given that I had gone in on the industry night.

The response?


...


Make of that what you will

Well,
SPORE has come and gone.
As Cons go. I'm going to chalk this up as a success.
We had a good turnout of about 600+ people and not all of them were gamers. So that's a good thing. We might have had more people but no-one was counting heads. :) (Something I need to remember for the next one)

Clean-up went quickly due to the number of people left after the con who were around to help.

AAR Meeting for SPORE will be this weekend and the questions will be whether to go ahead with PIG-CON in November or to just plan for next year instead.

Well,
It is 1.25am. I got back from Chua Chu Kang CC at 12.45am after sending some of the guys back.
From 7pm to midnight. That's pretty much how long it took us to set up the tables and terrain for tomorrow.
Early day tomorrow. Since we have to be at the CC by 8am.

More later and hopefully with pics.

We had our last committee meeting on Sunday for SPOREcon.
The numbers for most of the events have been finalized. Now comes the bone weary task of getting all the logistics in place for the event.
Spent the day in the back of the warehouse trying to dig up (in no random order)
1. Brochures for the store
2. Posters for the store
3. Terrain for the various events (for the TOs to go through)
4. Poster Stands
5. Models to be used for Miniature Painting Demos
6. Paints for above event

Found some of the stuff. Not all.
Need to get the boards out to be fixed and retape.
Lots of things that need to be done.

But I think it's good. It has been a long time since we have held an event of this size here in Singapore. As I told Peeyush, "So what happens if we get more people than the hall will hold?" His reply was, "Won't happen. The hall can hold more than 2,000 people." I'd like to prove him wrong on this. I would like to see 2,000 or more people at Chua Chu Kang CC on the 8th of June.

I want the gaming community to get a sense of community again. That yes, you may be a CCG player, a Board Gamer, a Miniature Gamer or an RPGer. But deep down, you are a GAMER. Someone who enjoys gaming. Who enjoys the mental challenge of pitting your wits against another player. Someone who has fun doing so.

I'll update more as we get closer. But here's to a great SPOREcon. :)

Well,
It seems that Starhub has taken upon itself to cap users of Bit Torrent. Essentially, you can download but you can't upload. And since BT uses a share ratio to determine speed, it screws anyone who uses it with a slow speed.

Damn. I am annoyed. Nice to know that companies like to do things without informing their users.
It would be nice to have a heads-up as opposed to having some random news article be the source of information.

-- end rant --

PIZZA NIGHT TOMORROW.
House is a disaster area. More cleaning required.

Well,
Courtesy of the in-laws, we now have a new 3 in 1 oven. It seems to work fairly well. Baked a Chocolate Cake last night with the whole family. Mental Note: Must remember to get proper baking utensils etc.
Good result. Nice n Moist.

Time to stare at the Muffins and see how they will turn out.

Public Holiday today. Vesak Day.
Spending it in the warehouse doing work. Not exactly what I had in mind. But such is life. :|
Can't say the wife was happy about it either.

Work.. Work.. Work...