The Toy Museum Of Penang (World Biggest Toy Musuem)

The Toy Museum (N5 27.962 E100 17.511) of Penang is located in front of Copthorne Orchid Hotel along the Tanjung Bunga Road, Penang.
Before we came. I just wondering why it called the World Biggest Toy Museum?! The only way to find out is to visit it.

The Toy Museum of Penang

The entrance fee was MYR10.00 for adult and MYR6.00 for children. The Museum actually is displaying all the 'Figurine' from Hollywood movies, Hong Kong movies and other childhood Cartoon. You won't appreciate it if you are NOT a movie fan! Haha!

Once you enter the Museum, you will see many rows of cabinets displaying all the Figurine of Movies, Cartoon & Comics.

Cabinets that displaying the figurine

I going to share the photos (more than 30) that I had taken in the Museum. Please be patient on the page loading...

Hong Kong Movie - Chow Yun Fatt

Cute typewriter

Miniature Sewing Machine

The Storm Rider (Hong Kong Movie)

The Wind (up) & The Cloud (down)

 

Garfield

Doreamon

The Star Wars. It's one of my favorite, you? :)

Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)

Darth Vader without his mask

Revenge of the Sith

I forgot his name, only remember he was the trader in Star Wars Esp. 1

Be The Force Be With You - Master Yoda (my idol)

I want my Precious! - The Lord Of The Ring

Harry Porter

Alien Vs Predator

The Star Trek

I thought all of the figurine are small size that kept in the cabinets, until I see this.....WOW! The ACTUAL size of Lara Croft and Jack Sparrow (The Pirates of Caribbean)

Unfortunately I cannot find the Lara Croft movie - Angelina Jolie...

Jack Sparrow - The Pirates of Caribbean

The Pirates of Caribbean

R2D2 and 3CPO (Actual Size)

Lara Croft, Batman, Superman and The Lord Of The Ring (Actual Size)

Brandon Lee - The Crow

Chucky

I forgot who is this...

The Matrix

I Robot

Last, One of my Favorite - The Iron Man
But I cannot understand what he gonna do with 'Mickey Mouse?'

We spent about an hour in this Museum, but my daughter seems doesn't like it! Because she only recognize Barney and Friends, Tom & Jerry and Mickey Mouse. Kind of boring place for her! Haha!

I felt the entrance fee (MYR10.00) was worth it because of the Huge Collection from the owner. But you might not appreciate it if you haven't watch all those Famous movie...

After visiting The Toy Museum, we continue our hunt for Penang Delicacies...

The location map of The Toy Museum, Penang.

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Live From Oaxaca

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy -All Rights Reserved
After suffering the trauma of temporarily losing my checked-in luggage between Newark, Mexico City and Oaxaca, I was delighted to be reunited with my belongings a mere 4 hours later. Not too bad Mexicana Click!! Of course, I jumped the gun and bought toothpaste/toothbrush and some other essentials (even a t-shirt) just in case, but that story ended well.

So here I am typing/blogging away in the patio of the delightful Hotel Aitana in the Centro Historico de Oaxaca, after a morning replete with photo ops in the two main markets of the town. We were glad to photograph a Guelaguetza rehearsal of young boys and girls at the Zocalo, who were prepping for a main event next Saturday.

We are waiting for one more member to join our group this afternoon, and we will then start the afternoon session. In the meantime, here's an image of a Oaxacan laborer. I can't tell if it sharp, or well processed as I'm using my Acer netbook...but it'll do for now.

Breakfast at Taman Inderawasih Kopitiam, Prai - Butterworth

The Xin Feng Kopitiam (Traditional Chinese coffee shop) is located at the Medan Kikik 1 of Taman Inderawasih, Prai - Penang (N5 23.333 E100 23.218). It's a corner unit and easy to locate.

One of my purpose to visit this kopitiam is the Duck Egg Char Kuey Tiaw. It's common to see the chicken egg CKT but it's difficult to find a good Duck Egg CKT.  We were having it since our last visit and me and my family love it very much! But....too bad, it was a Chinese New Year holiday season that the stall hasn't in business yet! Oh! That's mean we have to taste other food which are selling here...

I ordered the Penang Curry Mee and Chee Cheong Fun. The Curry Mee was tasty and the Chee Cheong Fun was delicious!

Penang Curry Mee (Noodle)

The Penang Curry Mee is different from the Johor Laksa. Although the colour are look a like, but curry mee taste less coconut cream than Laksa. If you tasted both before, you definitely know the different.

The Penang Chee Cheong Fun (Rice noodle roll) is always my favorite! Because they serve with the local made shrimp paste which I hardly taste it at the Southern Part of West Malaysia.

Penang Chee Cheong Fun

I like both of it! It's just because they were authentic Penang foods! The prices were reasonable and it's cheaper than JB food but the portions were slight smaller. Me and my family love the foods here very much!

After our breakfast, we were heading to the World Biggest Toy Museum at Penang Island!

Location map of Xin Feng Kopitiam

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On The Road: Oaxaca

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy -All Rights Reserved
As you read this, I should be on my way to Newark to catch my flight to Mexico, where I'll be conducting a short photo-expedition/workshop on street photography in the always delightful Oaxaca. Our small group will be staying at the Hotel Aitana, which will be our base for these 5 days.

Although the hotel has internet facilities, I'll be posting somewhat sporadically during that time, giving myself a break as far as daily blogging is concerned. Perhaps I'll be updating my Twitter page instead...we'll see.

A Journey Through Asia: Canon 5D II

a journey through asia from ivan vania on Vimeo.

Here's a short movie shot with a Canon 5D Mark II titled "A journey through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The photography/videography (and editing) is by Ivan Vania, a filmmaker from Italy. The lens was a 24 mm-70mm 2.8, while the software was Final Cut Pro.

Simple and effective...and an increasingly important component of travel photography. I think that ambient audio (instead of the current soundtrack) would have strengthened it considerably. And better titling would have been nice too.

My thanks to Ralph Childs for sending me this.

Peter Turnley Does Rio's Carnaval

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..."I became aware of the value of turning my attention away from the main event. So often, the temptation is to look where everyone else is looking. But, time after time, I have chosen to observe what’s going on by looking in the other direction—before, or after, or at the edges of the main attraction." - Peter Turnley

And that he did. Turnley's just featured On the Fringe of the Rio Carnaval photo essay on The Online Photographer is unusual because it doesn't concentrate on the scantily-clad gorgeous women of the Rio's Carnaval as many other photojournalists do, but it rather takes us away from the glitz of the main event to the less glamorous side show...to the fringe as he calls it.

The photographs represent moments that occurred away from the main event. It is this amazing spirit which, in Turnley's mind, exemplifies the Carnaval, and inspires him to return to Brazil year after year.

The complete photo essay is on The Online Photographer.

Dog Meets World: A Worthwhile Project

Giving a personal photograph to a stranger is one of the best, easiest and kindest things people can do for one another. It is an incredible vehicle for person-to-person diplomacy.

Dog Meets World Founder, Carolyn Lane

In late 2008, Dog Meets World was founded to fulfill a dream to photograph the children of the world. To seek children in their own settings, print their image to keep for a lifetime. The dream of Dog Meets World is to empower travelers to make real connections to people in other cultures, in essence to become photo-diplomats. A picture makes anybody a "somebody".

DMW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. So get involved and join the movement!