{"id":8995,"date":"2010-05-07T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:28:01","slug":"c261-cosplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/05\/07\/c261-cosplay\/","title":{"rendered":"C261 Cosplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It\u2019s a sort of like a Star Trek<\/em> convention, only that the costumes and makeup are often a lot funkier and colorful given how these characters already look like in animation.<\/p>\n

Various student groups in the program I lecture in over the years have tried their hands on cosplay before, but none to my memory have ever gone to quite the length that my freshmen group of students have today in the institution\u2019s annual fund-raising event for needy students.<\/p>\n

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The persons who visited our booth, took pictures with my dressed-up students and had the ice-creams we were also selling; many \u2013 especially faculty staff – were both impressed and also encouraged by the spontaneity of the C261 class.<\/p>\n

I confess I was also beaming with pride when my department colleagues (who not usually quite easily impressed) remarked that C261 had really gone out of their way to do their best, and that we were all enjoying ourselves was apparent.<\/p>\n

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The obligatory class photo. There will probably be more of these for the next three years I\u2019m mentoring them, but I don\u2019t think there will be many occasions where we\u2019re dressed like that again.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anime is a big thing here for many people in Singapore, and of them, there is a subset of young people who get dressed up in the costumes of well-known Japanese anime and film characters in events. It\u2019s a sort<\/p>\n

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