[Event] - Garena League of Legends Circuit 2013 Grand Finals

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In association with Comic Fiesta 2013, Garena decided to host their Legends Circuit 2013 on KL Convention Centre together with Comic Fiesta 2013. It all makes sense as e-sports are closely related to ACG such as cosplay activity.

As a former e-sports competitive player myself, e-sports has been growing steadily in Malaysia, especially League of Legends and its counter part Dota 2 by Valve. With the recently success by Orange e-sports claiming 3rd in The International 3, e-sports has been a quite a huge thing in Malaysia now. Even our Youth Minister are promoting e-sports.

As business point of view, it is a very strategic move. Not only can guaranteed a certain amount of visitors watching the tournament live by pre-selling ticket, also promoting e-sports and League of Legends. At least 40k visitors at least pass by and know what's going on. As a fans point of view, they are giving it free live performance back to the fans which ain't bad.

The Legends Circuit 2013

If you read the blog of any event we cover, we like to uncover the behind the scene thing. And yes, we met the earliest team in the field of justice.

Meet Team Singapore Sentinels

They sure do arrive early, we meet them around 9am where they are already inside the hall waiting for the competition start. 

SGS Chawy - Mid Player

There are 4 team competing the Champion which is :- SGS, KLH, KTB, and IGS.
You can find them on Leaguepedia.com for more information.

The Main Stage

Summoners Cup

The Legends Circuit Summer Season 2013 - Champion Cup

How can it be a ACG event in Comic Fiesta 2013 without some Cosplay Competition?

League of Legends Cosplay Competition

Silent night Sona w/ Amumu

JINX! Isn't she excited

Pulsefire Ezreal

After the Cosplay Performance, the competition continue.

They warm up with ARAM, what?

Score Board

Lylia and LII will be casting the matches

Ah, I so wish that I can back to the e-sports once again. O well, casual player is pretty enjoyable too. Watching matches like watching football, pretty awesome hobby don't you think?

Join the community here at Garena League of Legends!

[Event] - Comic Fiesta 2013 Day 2

NO MORE LIAO! as today is the last day for CF 2013

Beautiful morning in Comic Fiesta Day 2.

Morning KLCC is gorgeous

Day 2 que system is much better as you can see.

No Long que, it was smooth as butter

As they improved with their system, the que is just fast and simple. As compared to the Day 1, the process of buying ticket is much faster and efficient.

Fast lane, buy fast

As usual, the morning peeps is early. Even the event starts around 10-ish, the 1st waiting zone is already packed with people.

9am que

We actually missed some of these amazing art work located inside the convention hall at the waiting area.

Artwork

Artwork

Artwork

Artwork

[Event] - Comic Fiesta 2013 Day 1

YOU SHALL NOT PASS through the crowd even with early bird pass to the event after opening due to bad que-ing setup to the awesome Comic Fiesta 2013.

Is here, the long awaited Comic Fiesta(CF) 2013 on 21/22 December 2013. One of the largest ACG(Anime Comic Game) event in Malaysia. If you still don't know what Cosplay is, despite the wrecking news few weeks ago with the teenager boy rape-fail-killed cosplayer incident ; Cosplay is known as Costume play, an activity where participants dress up to represent a character they adore. It is a sub-pop culture in Japan inception in Akihabara.

As an ACG lover, we can't resist ourself to attend this event. We even got ourself a 'Official Blogger' pass to ease our coverage. Benefit with such pass is we get to access everywhere. As always, we do have responsibility to not abuse the pass. Respect and self behave always come first.

Enough lecturing, lets get started with the event!

Arrive at 8am in the morning

Well we arriving as early as 8am, talking about early bird.
Let me rephrase that.

8am and it is crowded!

Well we arriving as late as 8am, talking about lazy bump. Cosplayers, photopraghers, bloggers, volunteers, crew, even visitors arrive early, que-ing to get the best seat, beat the deals, buy-it-before-gone~

Entrance to go to another entrance

The long que around 9am-ish

Early bird's ticket holder entrance

Non-early bird ticket holder

As past experience with many ACG event, Comic Fiesta is out of the league. We truly can define that CF is one of the largest ACG event in Malaysia, every single year the crowd is just amazing. Speaking last year experience of mine, I can't even enter the event hall due to the huge crowd que-ing for ticket.

I strongly recommend to future visitors for such event, please just buy the Early Bird Ticket, totally worth it. If you can't attend event after purchasing the ticket, you can just sell it to others, many people that live outside the City are drooling for the Early Bird Ticket. So reselling is not a problem.

First Aid prepared for emergency, thoughtful 

Online Purchase via MRuncit as CF Official Ticketing partner, also part of the early bird perk

Day 8 Taiwan - Tea

Relax

Almost the end of our trip, we have our last day as a more relaxing day trip to any where we want. After some serious voting and discussion for 30 sec, we choose MaoKong for some tea tasting and the infamous Shilin Night Market to beat our curiosity.

Let's go!

Crowded as usual in the early morning at Taipei Train Station.

Gondola to the Moutain! Maokong

Day 2 Hakyai - Mango

Sawadee!

While everyone is embedded with Hakyai's praying routine, well you are out of luck for my Day 2 literary.

Blame it all on the message we had on Day 1, it was too relax and distress so we woke at a godly hour - 9 in the morning. Well the driver we hired already used of our 'time'. Totally not recommend to woke as late as us as you'll miss all the time for your vacations.

Rui Dian bakery
Passed by many time, have no chance to buy and sample it. Both my stomach and bag have no space.

Tuk Tuk car to temple in the morning~

Coffin donation department
Poor people cannot afford buying a coffin, this is where we can help them :)

See those papers? They are actually the prove for the donations. Prove you have done good.
Just like coupon for Karma.

I've been asked to offer 3 joss stick to the god for praying and receive lucks.

The Afternoon market. Love this place

250 baht (still can nego)

[Event] - #Churp Out 2013

A street fair with a cause

#Churp Out 2013 is a street fair event hosted by our local micro bloging advertising company - Churp Churp. Despite they hosted various events such as Churp Hangout, movie premier and such, this is their first time organizing such huge event.

Event took place in a far away town from KL, Setia Alam. Ok, is not that far just 30 minutes driving from KL will do.

There's a huge green field beside the huge mall where the event located.

It's 10am, vendors is setting up their booth.

Churp Out 2013

Churpers who RSVP to this event gets a goodie bag.

Tai Lei Loi Kei 大利来记 @ Kepong Usahawan

Macau Pork Bun(澳门猪扒包）@ Kepong

Tai Lei Loi Kei is an Fast Food Chain located originally in Hong Kong - Macau. Recently Macau is celebrating 10 years anniversary of their independence back to Hong Kong, China, the famous Macau Pork Bun has been a hype since then as their signature food to celebrate this historical day.

Sign Board of the Resturant

As a fast food chain, this is not fast at all. We arrive at 8.00pm and placed our order. We wanted to try the Pork Bun so badly, we ordered two Signature Pork Chop Bun & Drink @ Rm13.90. I was happily waiting beside the order line to collect our food, however when I realised my order number is 40+ customer behind this number as shown.

They do offer variety of choices such as chicken wings, rice, meat balls and etc. Even dessert @ Rm5 each cup.

Menu & Order Number pannel

As I have tried the original Macau Pork Bun, my expectation was high and looking forward to recall the taste and memories.

Day 1 Hakyai - Hello

Hi, Neighbour!

So this is where the story begin! As soon as I reached Thailand - after hideous 10 hours Skyline Bus from Kepong, me and my friends and bunch came across this Alisan Gold - Bus company. 

Upon arrival, we rent the whole bus/minivan alike vehicle to our hotel - cost THB1000, equivalent to Rm100. Surprisingly the Indian-like-driver can talk Cantonese like us. Better use Chinese or Japanese or if you want to talk bad about him from behind, think twice - they are language master just like us.

We even can discuss and schedule our pick up spot, with Cantonese in Thailand, that just plain amazing.  

Seat inside the bus is very superior and spacious, they even provide Hello Kitty blanket throughout the journey.

Tuk Tuk Car

So, the name for this truck is Tuk Tuk Car. Mystery Solved!

We always watch Lakorn and saw this unique design mini van. Apparently it is used to transport, just like bus.

I don't even know why it been called as Tuk Tuk Car. It never make any tuk tuk tuk sound ; even the horn is pit pit pit, not tuk tuk tuk, weird.

Initial plan I was going by myself. Because I want to be "Like-A-Boss" . But my friend was too going to the same trip, same locations, same time. (luckily it did not happen, or you will not reading this blog now)

So in the end, I'm going Hakyai with my friend and along with his relatives. Most of them are very good in negotiation, especially our leader, forgotten her name, lets name her, Ms Nego.

Time in Malaysia 9:24am. 

Centara Hotel. One of the best hotel in Hakyai, but most people will choose Mayflower Hotel for tight budget.

Day 7 Taiwan - Hipster

What do youngster eat?

Is Taipei! The city of traditions and modern youngsters. As a typical Malaysian, where we are multicultural, we get to choose roti canai, nasi lemak, variety of noodles, western, capati, and much much more. Common Malaysian problem is, we always in headache to choose what type of food we wanted to have since we have so much to choose from. How about in Taiwan where they are less multicultural? We'll see.

But first, in day 7 - we woke as early as 7am and get prepared for your guide-less trip. Pack up the essential, jackets, umbrella, water, camera, etc and lets go!

The huge interlinked subway station of Taipei, it is a hall cum subway stations!

Taiwan subway system is just freaking awesome. May be I have not seen other countries's, but this is an eye opener for us. There's a mall inside which spread around 8-10 stations I think, is so huge that if we miss 1 or 2 stations and walk back via the underground passage, if would take us 30 mins. Yes we done that.

First stop, 故宫(National Palace Museum).

Lobby of National Palace Meseum

You can easily reach this place by taking railway - station National Palace.