Mint Museum of Toys (Singapore)

I found this museum by accident after finish my window shopping at Bras Basah Complex. It was across Seah Street with a brown sign pointing to the direction of the museum. The admission fee was $15, a bit pricey but for being a figure lover it worth penny of it. The building also have a Restaurant on the basement and Winebar / Rooftop bar that open at night. I am planning to try the restaurant when I have enough money to spend. So look out on my review of the restaurant, the ambient looks cool from the outside.

Now the main part! There are 6 floors for you to look around the museum from Disney characters to Atom Boy to Batman. Each floor have it specialty toys. The 6th floor is mostly toys from Japan (Atom boys and Doraemon) and Star Wars Movies. While 5th and 4th floor are more towards Western cartoon and action hero toys (Tin Tin, Tom & Jerry, Batman & etc). The last two floor are a mix of Western & Eastern old toys... It is a a bit hard to describe these two floor since I saw traditional toys, action hero figurine, Ultraman, Beatles and etc.

I took a lot of pictures with my iPhone so the quality of the picture is not that sharp so I would like to apologies first  (シ_ _)シ. By the way, flash photography is not allow.

Overall, it was fun! This museum is for those that love old or retro toys/figurines. I manage to see some very very rare toys and some toys that might be provocative to some. For example, the Dalee Toothbrush toys. I do hope that everyone would be open with this section of the museum. Do write something on my facebook page which is on the picture link.

Here is the pictures link:  Mint Museum of Toys (Singapore) Pictures

日本人の知らない日本語～～～

I finished reading日本人の知らない日本語 volume 1 & 2(roughly translated - The Japanese Language that Japanese doesn't know) and now going to volume 3 the last book. It is a 4-koma (Mostly) manga book about the life of Nagiko-sensei a Japanese language teacher and her foreign students. She would have trouble answering the students question about Japanese language and looking at their weird ethic and comments while in Japan.

Some of the chapter reminded me of my Language school days in Japan T__T. Good old fun days~~~ I am sure some of you guys and girls that studied in Japan language school would have a good connection with this book. ^^

  

OOoooh yeah!!! and also I got a present from my friend in Japan. Its FRAU-san from Robotic:Notes. 

WUAHAHAHA!!!! looove her so much!!! 

Konnichiwa Japan Postcard & Doraemon Credit Card

I am currently in Singapore and was in Liang Court to check out the Kinokuniya's Bargain Area. Along the way I saw these cute postcards made by the management group. They are trying to promote Japan's different cultural festival by using Onigiri Head mascot. I believe it is a good chose to promote Japan since in Japan agricultural history, rice was the most important staple food for the Japanese. In addition, the first time I arrived in Japan I ate sake(salmon) onigiri. 

While in Bangkok after the Japan Mania Festival, I went to a cafe for a rest and was browsing a magazine and found a Thai bank offering Doraemon Credit Card to their customers. Pretty neat yeah! Hope other countries would do these type of thing. 

Japan Mania Festival Extra

I forgotten to add the video that I recorded... Silly me! Anyway Enjoy the short clips.

Random Dance by Random Cosplayers ^^v I really love this one:

A short clip on the Idol Group dancing on the main stage:

Japan Mania Festival - Thailand

Japan Mania Festival, the first anime related event in Bangkok after the Song Kran Festival was finish.  The event is held annually at ekkamai gateway shopping mall which is located beside the BTS station for easy access for tourist like me :) The mall has a Japanese oriented theme to it. There are anime like characters and traditional drawing on each floor of the restroom area. Some of the rest area are decorated with Japanese famous dolls as their benches. 

I went the event around 12.30pm and had lunch on the food court (food was decent no complaint) and then straight to the 2nd floor where there were a few booths selling doujinshi, accessories, figurines and etc. in addition, there was a booth selling food and beverages with cosplayers serving them. Oh let's not to forget a small stage :)

The turned out of cosplayers were good for a pretty small event. There were 3 or 4 of Rika from Chuubyou (maybe I lost track) and lots of maids and school girls (I guess from K-ON?) on the events. Most of them were pretty and cute too ((⌒-⌒; )) The most interesting cosplayers I came across was a guy with a panty on his head (what anime or game he is from?) and two cute Disney characters (Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse).

I managed to have my small adventure too. I did not know that on the 3rd floor, there were more cosplayers. However, most of them were preparing their costume and wigs so I decided not to disturb them and walked to a small anime shop called "BakaToon". They sold manga and illustration books in Thai language so did not stay long and go for my cosplayers hunting. Along the way, I took pictures of K-ON characters cardboard but "Where the hell is Mio?!" I was practically saying out loud in Bahasa Indonesia. Thank god nobody knows what I was saying at that time. OK let's forget about and move on! 

I decided to walk the escalator area and found a group of cosplayers trying to do something (dunno what they were talking) and when their hands were on dance like position. My god-like instinct changed the setting to video and managed to record most of their dance. I do not know what they were singing but the person beside was laughing. My guess maybe a gag song?

By then I had given up on finding my Mio and when to Toast Box for a rest and get myself a cup of Hot Milo.I have not done any photo taking for some time and legs were cramping up too. YES, life of an otaku ＞_＜ Gonna start training again :p

Getting a short rest, I went up again and watched a stage performance by a AKB48 like performance. They were pretty good to be able to dance on a small stage with 8 or more members. And yes everywhere you go you will always find fanboys dancing along with the performance *Salute* I got a lot of respect for you guys. 

After the performance, as i was heading to escalator direction, i found Mio!!! She was next to a booth all along (Baka me). After taking Mio picture, I decided to have an early dinner at the food court and head back home. Along the way, I had a bad stomachache after eating the beef noodle. HAha guess I should be careful on my food intake na....

Overall, a great event to kick start the anime scene after a crazy Song Kran Festival week :D. I would love to see more unused space on 3rd floor to hold a small doujinshi event but that would be highly unlikely since I bet the space is prepare for new shops that the mall management is planning. I love how the cosplayers tried to use the limited space, moving around a lot. Hope to see you again! Khob Khun Krab!

Pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.161544560677344.1073741825.100004654028054&type=3

PS: For those that love Maid, there is a maid cafe nearby! (⌒-⌒; )

Going to Thailand for a Month~~

Where did my texts go!!! T.T

Anyway I am going this friday to Bangkok for a month to get a job since I have no luck in Singapore. I hope to get a job there, because the doujinshi and cosplay events are very lively compare to Singapore =). I wonder if AFA would come to Thailand since Indonesia and Malaysia already had it. 

Well it is not goodbye but I will post more pics later =D

Makoto Shinkai New Anime Movie

Makoto sensei never fail to disappoint me! The background and song for "The Garden of Words" looks very fitting for the anime trailer. The funny part of this trailer is that some people thought the anime is about a guy with foot festish *j/k*. How I wish I am still in Japan now. T__T