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Olympus E-P1 Pen TVC

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 1:55 am -

I am quite into retro camera lately, just an interest that suddenly struck my mind, this might me old but check out the Olympus PEN commercial. Pretty girl and lovely camera. Woo!

Too cool already.

Tags: camera, cool, Cool Stuff, japan, Model, TVC, video
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Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 9, 2009 – 2:04 am -

Thanks to Nuffnang and Uniquely Singapore, I got to join this Uniquely Singapore one day blogger tour for free. This is part of the Nuffnang Blog Awards trip to Singapore and happened on the next day of the blog awards night. I slept quite late on the night before, spending some times on the Internet and woke up at around 7.45am, it’s like 5-6 hours of sleep.

Freshen up. Put on a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, got my camera and off I was. The bloggers tour were divided into groups and I was in Group A with bloggers from Malaysia, Philippines, Australia and Singapore too.

First stop of the one-day tour was Mint Museum of Toys which is also a cafe, restaurant and wine bar. Pretty cool right? A toy museum which is quite different with the one in my hometown here in Penang.

Located on Seah Street, very near to Raffles Hotel.

A 5 stories building with a basement, it doesn’t look like a museum from it’s outer contemporary view. It’s a sponsored tour, so I need not to pay the S$15 entrance fee, which I would say a little bit expensive but worth it if you are a museum hopper and a toy fans. There’s so much to see in this little cozy space.

We had already been divided into group, but at here, we were divided into a smaller groups to tour different floor because of limited space and guide. Randolph Chew was so kind to guide us around and told us almost everything about the toys and the stories behind.

The top floor is a bar which house a lot of old school coffee shops advertisement plates. It’s like travel back in time to the olden days.

It’s a very modern-ish, contemporary gallery of toys. Everything are well-displayed with very sweet lighting on the acrylic illuminated shelf, which makes photographing easy and nice.

It’s all about toys from around the world, America’s, Europe’s and Asia’s. You see the above King Kong’s poster? What’s so special about it is that it’s one of few which features King Kong itself on the World Trade Centre instead of the Empire State Building.

The owner of the musuem is a serious hardcore toy collectors. I would say he turned hobby into investment, and he must be eff-ingly rich! Just look at the price tag and imagine how much he had spent on the toys. Oh my god, pro.

I know only a few of them, eg. Popeye, Disney’s characters, Tin Tin, Star Wars, Star Trek, Astroboy and a few more. I realised that there’s no Japanese cute anime figurine, where are they?!

I am not really a fan of cartoons now. Do you know that Astroboy was actually Astro(girl)? The Japanese felt weird and later changed her sex into a boy, and the girl character had became Astroboy’s sister.

See the above’s mouse. They are evil Mickey Mouse created by the English to defame the real Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. Interesting stories back then when there’s no patent about toys and cartoon character, everyone copys.

Ugly bear.

Another cool piece is the the wagon. The wagon is not cool, but the box is because it came in from Penang’s port and travelled to Ipoh and lastly, lies in this museum. Penang yeah!

Free door gift too! Nice tour.

Next stop: Chinatown Heritage Centre and more!

Tags: blog awards, contemporary, cool, free, Freebies, modern, museum, nnawards, nuffnang, singapore, Tour, toys, Travel, trip
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Some Photos From Physics Lab

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 21, 2009 – 12:03 am -

Here comes some photos taken from my brother Cybershot’s T200 in my school Physics lab during Physics class. I don’t really like to bring my DSLR to school with me because it’s heavy and there’s already books in my bag, I only bring it when I need it for school assignment. Though the T200 is not mine, it’s my brother and he’s gonna taking it back to Singapore soon, so I don’t get a pocket camera later then.

Anyway, just sharing around with some happenings during Physics lesson which is conducted by our lovely Miss Chin Wee Kem. She was my Physics teacher last year and still is right now. Very good.

We were doing on electricity and some demo and experiment on solar cell. It’s not sunny that day, the sky was dull and there drizzle out there, so this solar thingy can’t work outdoor but have to move indoor. Using the lights from the projection machine, the solar cell thing works. =D

Chin Wee Kem.

=.= No idea what he was trying to do.

Our love to Chin Wee Kem. ^^

Tags: 5SA1, Chung Ling High School, Class, clhs, fun, high school, Lesson, physics
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Random Photos in Class 5SA1 ft. Fake Xinjiang ID

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 18, 2009 – 12:24 am -

When I take the camera to school, my friends love to play with it and they just pass around and each snap a few shots with it. So it turn up a lot of interesting photos in the memory card. Sometimes, I just bring it along for some personal work, but they just like to press on the shutter no matter what.

Ee Teng, the number one boy in the form, top student with his LOL Xinjiang’s ID.

Very LOL right, with very cool Arabics word and translation.

Xiang Foong, Jin Sheng and Tee Jin.

Haha, caption this.

Jing Min, not me. =X

It’s him.

Tags: 5SA1, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, Class, clhs, fun, random, School, School Life
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Father’s Day Dinner at Rasa Sayang Resort

Written by Nicholas Chan on July 6, 2009 – 8:57 pm -

Thanks to my brother, who treated us for the dinner, only then I got a chance to be fat and go into a 6 star hotel in Penang, for the first time after its renovation and upgrade service. It was Fathers’ Day and brother brought us there instead of daddy or mommy. He goes to work now so he earns his own money to treat us.

LOL. We went in the wrong entrance so it’s turn and turn and turn only then we get to the restaurant, the Spice Market Cafe where there’s an International Cuisine Buffet. I have wrote about it in my food blog.

My brother, Yikhung.

It’s just a simple fathers’ day celebration, very full and bloated after the dinner. Didn’t take much photo on that night except on the surrounding, I was just concentrating on the food.

As usual, I love taking shots via the mirror. XD

I know it’s late, but happy father’s day again. I bought a DVD for dad. Haha.

Tags: Dinner, Family, father day, Festival, Food, fun, Hotel, mirror, Nice, Penang, Pretty, resort, self
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Self-Portrait in The Gardens Club Private Toilet

Written by Nicholas Chan on June 9, 2009 – 5:56 pm -

Brother joined The Gardens Club member when we went to Kuala Lumpur two weeks ago. Accumulate the receipt up to RM1k and you get to join the club for free and get first hand privillage to sales, food promotion, events and more. Unfortunately, we are staying far from The Gardens, Mid Valley, it’s 4 hours drive away.

The Gardens Club members area called The Gardens Club Cocoon is located at the fourth floor near the Isetan there in The Gardens shopping mall. There’s a resting lounge with free coffee, drinks and Internet access. I went to the toilet and it’s a private toilet, it’s big and cool. There’s like five of it.

I took out my camera and camwhore inside. Haha.

Tags: camwhore, cool, mid valley, self portrait, The Gardens, Toilet
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