Boo!

figmas from Swatwolf

S.I.C.s from Mr. Peter

The Swinburne Anime and Manga Society decided to take up the opportunity to experience firsthand the ways of exhibiting merchandise in a public area, so we joined in the toy fair. Toy. Fair. So far, we’ve only eaten tonnes of Sugarbun ice-cream and played Swatwolf’s PS3 throughout the day…

Back to topic. Thanks a million to all gunpla, figures and the one and only S.I.C. contributor for contributing your precious merchandise and collectibles to help us out in boosting up the numbers. I’ll slowly pass around the collector highlight as I post the next few posts.

And to Swatwolf, thanks very much for the figmas, PS3, Wii and the much more stuff from all these times. Here’s a tribute and an all the best wish to Swatwolf in his going off to KL later today!

Panorama of our small little booth, taken by Swatwolf and hastily put together by me.

By the way, the reinforcements have arrived!

So do come visit us at our booth to take a look at more new gunpla and figures, as well as activities such as the Gundam modelling session and artist drawing session. Not forgetting the last minute put together cosplay as well.

I’m off to sleep.

SAMS daikazoku (big family)… ugh… an overexaggeration really. Well, maybe in terms of numbers, but in terms of ‘family’-ness, hell that is way true, we’re one big SAMS family - albeit our relational issues. So what does a big happy family do?

Make dangos of course.

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Too bad it isn’t summer yet… it was actually raining when we had the soumen. SAMS seems to be having out of season Japanese activities this few weeks^^ Nagashi soumen, as the Japanese like to do in summer, involves flowing white noodles down a shoot of bamboo in ice cold water. You try to catch the flowing noodles with a pair of chopsticks, and what you catch is dunked into a fish-soy-mirin based sauce and eaten.

Before I continue, here’s a webpage on how to have your own nagashi soumen: http://toyohara.com/inaka/somen-e.htm. The effort of cutting the bamboo was… well, a LOT. Thanks to everyone who took time to help and prepare!

Edit: Due to requests, I’ll put up the steps to have your own nagashi soumen party.

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