Avalon

Childhood

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Finally got my favourite robot figure from mecha (robot) series Gundam Seed Destiny. For those who don't know, this is ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom, but of course this is just a small replica instead of the 1/100 scale model I have been eyeing since two years ago. I have been taking the box off the shelves and putting it back for a forgotten number of times, and this sort of reminds me of eons ago when I was a child in a Toy Department, except this time I wasn't looking at my parents with that pleading expression in my eyes and receiving a firm and finalised "no" each time, but rather wrestling with my rationale alter-ego which manages to emerge victorious time over time.

For a side note, no I am not a supporter of Transformers, even though many guys happen to be and it has become a sort of trend, amidst the retro fever and movie craze. But I am just not impressed by talking robots who can transform into harmless cars (except for the baddies, who are either tanks, fighter planes or missle-launching jets, all ready to blast their house-car counterparts into oblivion)

Was at Cineleisure and happened to see many people cosplaying. But I could only recognise a few characters those people were posing as, but apart from the costume that can at least make the cut, the cosplay groups weren't exactly fantastic. My friend reminded me that their effort should be applauded though, especially in Singapore, where anime culture is still very much subtler and suppressed to a certain extent. "In a way, cosplay is like acting, once you are in the costume and assuming that character, you are no longer who you are."

Watching anime these days just fill me with wild thoughts, like how interesting it will be if I can work for now as a voice actor, creating an anime character and defining it's personality. In a way it's just like an actor, but one in a fictitious, made-believe, fantasy world, where everything is so much more possible, with lesser restrictions of that in reality. It may even be more challenging to give life and a soul to an originally 2D image. Just like how I used to wonder whose voices Woody and Buzz Lightyear belong to, voice casting was just one of the hidden ambitions I had, since childhood.

Envoy of the Stars @ 9:24 PM
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