Picreport of my slightly Dtoid-themed trip to Singapore :-)

Just got back from Singapore, as a loyal Dtoid-member, I took all my 3 dtoid-shirts with me, sadly only one of those ( STFUAJPG ) is not black, so I had to wear that one the most ( luckily my mother-in-law cleaned it regularly for me so I could wear it most of the days :-)



I left from Brussels in my Kamikaze-shirt, which turned out to be both a great Idea and one of the worst ever in travelling :-) It was a great idea since it's such a recognizable t-shirt. We had just passed security in Frankfurt ( Germany ) when suddenly a security-guard comes running at me, I crap my pants as I've got a lighter and matches in my backpack, both of which are banned from flights, but they didn't find them on me, so I figured he had spotted it after all... but he just points at my shirt and goes "That's from Destructoid right? I'm a huge fan of the site!" so I handed him my contact details so he can join us for the EuroNARP in August :-)

When I arrived in Singapore, I noticed all locals staring at me like I'm crazy, at first I figure it's because of the bright yellow jogging-suit I'm wearing ( very comfortable for 13+ hours flights ), but as we leave the airport with my parents-in-law, my mother-in-law points out that it's not very "nice" to wear a shirt with the Japanese WW2-flag on it in a country that was ass-raped by the Japanese in those days... ( so that's why it was a horrible idea :p )


upon our arrival we went for a late night dinner ( 10 pm by then ) where I stunned Chinese people ( the people suffering most from the Japanese invasion in WW2 ) by still wearing the shirt ( as I didn't have a chance to change yet :p )


Singapore is a city of tech-addicts and gamers, on the first real day out, we found this Sony-booth where a huge contest was taking place in FIFA World Cup on PS3, pretty fucking sweet :-)


There was also a anime-convention somewhere in town ( never made it there in our short trip ) but there were people cosplaying all around town, like these examples show :-)




In Singapore, they try to put statues in the places where they're supposed to be, like this one of children swimming in the Singapore-river. While I "took a dive" a group of Japanese tourists was passing by that obviously thought my pose was hillarious as I saw a shitload of flashes go of :p


For the rest I mostly walked around with Dtoid-shirts all the time :-)





Sadly we weren't allowed to take pics/vids in this arcade or I would've been able to let you feast your eyes on 2 asian teen chicks cosplaying in japanese student outfits totally destroying a Dance Dance-machine a 2 player Expert-mode match... ( My wife wasn't too happy about my looks at them but she understood it was more the awe at the quality of their playstyle :p )



I had gone to Singapore thinking to spread the word about Dtoid everywhere I got the chance, however it turned out that it wasn't needed at all, Dtoid had already invaded BOTH toys-museums!

MINT Museum Of Toys:



I couldn't help myself (vid at bottom of blog):


Magical Children Museum:


In short, Singapore is a fucking great city with 3G and 4G-networks all around, even on the subway you've always got FULL coverage, 60% of the people on any given subway-train is doing something on their smartphone, 15% are playing a PSP and the rest are just staring at you :-)



Dtoid-robot in action: