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Paintball Outing @ SDC, Crossfire

21 January 2010

I am not really a fan of waking up early in the morning, but last Saturday was a special one. It was tokuAsia’s first paintball outing to Crossfire at Singapore Discovery Center. Having to travel to Joo Koon was a more then enough reason to wake up early. (Thanks to Andric for the wake up call!)

$25 per person (excluding GST), and only 50 pellets for each player is not exactly an attractive price. But having looked through the pictures of the three different paintball arenas in Singapore (Red Dynasty and cannot remember the other), Crossfire looked more attractive. Not to mention the markers were modified M16 rifles.

A total of 11 people attended this outing, and I will definately say that everyone had a hell of a fun time! Check out the pictures in the thread here!

Watch the special video produced from footages taken during the game. Andric was the ‘wartime reporter’ who filmed the footages.

Black Hawk Down – tokuAsia War

Photographs and Video by Andric Teng

Gan Meng Yeow
Head Administrator
www.tokuAsia.com

EOY 2009 – An undoubted success on all fronts

Basil Yeo
www.tokuAsia.com

It was a venture into the unknown for the tokuAsia team as we approached EOY 2009 as a partner of Custom Workz.

This was the first time we were directly involved with the public, and being the one and only Commercial Entity throughout the event, which had a costly entrance fee of S$15 (S$12 for pre-sale), our main objective became apparent – to increase the awareness in the local community on the existence of Custom Workz and its services.

It was no mean feat acquiring resources & personnel and planning for the event, especially on the part of Jonathan, owner of Custom Workz, who put all his best in making the Kamen Rider Decade suit and bringing back more items for display.

However, it was unfortunate that the suit’s armour could not be completed in time, and therefore a prototype of PVC had to be made to complete the suit in time for the event.

Last minute logistical complications and the hefty entry fee did not help either, as we feared a poor turnout compared to our knowledge of the previous year editions, but the team faced these obstacles with resolve and resilience.

A staggering 2,500 pieces of flyers were printed for the event, and almost all were given out together with the Custom Workz name card.

On the day itself, clad in red and black Custom Workz tshirt, Jonathan was made busy with people enquiring about services, especially with regards to the custom made helmets. Particularly a pleasant lady who enquired about the original pink ranger helmet.

Jason, a partner of Jonathan from Custom Workz, and the other staff of tokuAsia were made busy in front and behind the booth that had a huge banner being placed over it.

A number of enquires was also directed towards what Custom Workz specialize at; Sculpting, painting, moulding, reparing of toys services, in which customers are left satisfied with Jonathan’s expertise and professionalism.

At the end of the day, through a terrific display of professionalism and true character, our fears were quashed as a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction overwhelmed the team. All of which would never have happened without Custom Workz’s key involvement in this event, by providing the suits for the cosplay, and also, the products that went on sale at the event.

A nice to know is that we received feedback that the Custom Workz was the most impressive booth in the entire event, with our 3.6 meter long table being fully packed with seven Kamen Rider helmets, and other Tokusatsu toys.

With this event as the first major event to bring awareness to the public, the result was satisfactory. Custom Workz and tokuAsia now look forward in forging partnership to participate in future events, with more Kamen Rider suits to show!

tokuAsia Day Message

This year has been a hard and tough year for many people, but it is also a year where the people of tokuAsia have matured and took on new responsibilities which they have never done before in their lives.

We took on our first major film project, aptly titled Initiation, earlier this year, and started production in the third quarter of the year. It was not easy for us to handle this project, as most of us have never been involved in any form of film production of such a scale and intensity before. Previously, we only worked with a small entry-level camcorder, but this time, we have a full professional high definition camera setup complete with audio recording equipment rented to us by the Management Development Institute of Singapore.

I am proud to say every personnel involved worked their way through and did not shy away from difficulties presented to them. Kudos to all of them.

Also, our film would not be successful without support and sponsors, who have contributed in several forms to enable us to kickstart our production. MDIS, our technical sponsor, and also EBChip Asia Pte Ltd, AMAC Creative Pte Ltd, Hock Seng Choon Fishball Noodles, Poise Image International, Miss Gan Pinpin and Miss Gan Qingqing, and not forgetting friends and family members of our production team, for their contribution and support rendered towards our film. Thank you all very much.

In addition, we welcome several new members who have joined our family and took the initiative to help promote the community. I would like to formally welcome to Andric (tachidric) and Shaun (ZenoPhantom) who have now started their own podcast program talking about Tokusatsu and several other tokuAsia-related topics.

It felt like just yesterday when tokuAsia’s 3rd Anniversary Celebrations had come and went, but in just a blink of the eye, another year has passed and now we are into our fourth year.

However, we are still young.

Four years may seem like a long time, but on hindsight, it is only a small step along the journey to realize our dreams. It will still carry on nonetheless, and it will never end.

Here, we encourage people to pursue their dreams, whatever they may be, to do what they really want to do. We only have one lifetime, and sometimes in life, we only have that one chance to do something, so why not make the most out of it when we have the energy to do it?

Come December, tokuAsia will be partnering with Custom Workz as an exclusive partner to participate in the EOY 2009. Details are being discussed, and more information will be released along the way. It will surely be a big step in our efforts to promote the community and the Tokusatsu genre in Singapore.

Once again, I would like to thank everyone who had contributed their efforts. Thank you.

Happy 4th Anniversary to tokuAsia.

Gan Meng Yeow
Head Administrator
tokuAsia