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New Kuala Lumpur Sungai Buloh Kajang MRT, Malaysia

The MRT Sungai Buloh–Kajang line is the ninth rail transit line in the capital city of Kular Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. It was built as part of Greater KL/Klang Valley Integrated Transit System. I was around trying out the new Sungai Buloh line, numbered 9 and coloured green on the official transit map. It is one of three planned rail...
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Singapore Amazon Prime Now Online Shopping

There had been a lot of buzz about giant global online retailer Amazon coming and operating in Singapore, with great hype since the tech giant broke official news of entering the SEA market. Amazon's intent was largely verified with massive employment ads employing for a Singapore-based regional headquarters over a year ago. Following a line of delays from the...
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New site design and layout in the works

A site design revamp on the works. As the world of internet consumption changes with more than 70% of today’s web traffic are consumed on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones, this current Orangy site design, which had faithfully served the site for almost 15 years is going to be decommissioned with a replacement. As such, over the...
Occasions

Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Rooster!

To all our Chinese friends and alike who celebrate the occasion alike, time to say good bye to the monkey and hello to the Rooster! Wishing you a very happy Chinese new year and many happy returns!
Occasions

Happy New Year of 2017!

A new year ahead, a new celebration for the new year. As 2016 comes to a close 2017, my family gathered at the Gardens by the bay with my grandmother for the New Year’s celebrations and countdown tonight. Eve Dinner Chilli crab! Fireworks For new year’s eve dinner, I hosted a Seafood get together at Punggol settlement with grans and my cousin’s family...
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Dell Kaby Lake product range at the Alienware launch party

Dell too, took the opportunity to announce their new range of XPS and inspirion laptops at the Alienware launch party, targeted to mid-range consumer and business users with their Latitude line. I got to try out first hand a number of new devices on display. Here are 5 products in the Dell lineup XPS 13 The XPS line first started out...
Interesting Stuffs

Pokemon Go nests in Singapore (End Sept-Oct 2016)

Every month or so, Pokemon which can be found in the hit mobile game "Pokemon Go" around the world undergo a mass migration, where Pokemon previously found in their so-called "nests" get rotated with new Pokemon type appearing in new areas. Such areas are often isolated to gardens and parks and are consistent in spawning same type of Pokemon...
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Back from my March 2016 China trip

I recently came back from a 1.5 week China trip. I did a Yangtze river cruise and travelled to tour the beautiful cities of Chengdu and Chong Qing on a budget. The scenery in China, especially those of the 3 gorges and the dam was fantastic. Chengdu and Chong Qing are both rather modern cities, with world-class transportation and...
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Zootopia, excellent storytelling which both impresses and teaches

I caught Zootopia on the opening weekend. Disney always never fail to impress with their animation films. Disney had always have a magical stake in anthropomorphic cartoon animals, whether it's Goofy the dog, Balo from Junglebook/talespin, Ducktails/Duckwing duck or even Mickey for example, we can agree the animation studio had came a long way into making feature-length animation films...
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Lego Mini-figures series 15 and identifying the figures

It’s time of the year again where Lego releases their hugely popular Lego mini-figure series for the 2016 New Year. These mini-figures are released twice yearly comprising of 16 unique mini-figures in blind packs. They are extremely popular among collectors and hold their value very well (even said to be a better investment than gold since 2000) given their...
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Happy New 2016!

Wishing all my visitors on my site a Happy New 2016! Every year is always a busy year for me, and resolutions are always a big thing for the New Year. What are your New Year resolutions? I managed to stick to my last resolutions. Last year, I got back to running on a regular basis, totalling at least...
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Starwars BB-8 astromech droid anatomy exploded view, How BB-8 works

BB-8 is arguably one of my favorite adorable little astromech droids in the Starwars universe (Sorry R2D2). Ever wonder how BB-8 works? I had spent some good time drawing up an exploded view of BB-8 in all it's engineering glory. Have a peek into what makes him tick, courtesy of yours truly! (click the image below for a full-sized...
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Huawei Android Wear Smart Watch in Singapore

The Huawei watch will be sold in Singapore, that is the latest release I was informed by Huawei Singapore last month. The watch is possibly the best-looking Android wear watch you can buy today, even surpassing the likes of the LG Urbane and Moto 360 2nd Gen. Huawei has invited me to have a try out of their watches,...
Thoughts

Graphene is a solution where we have yet to find the problem for.

Graphene has always been a topic fascinating so many people in the engineering and scientific scene. Even my university professors were all totally hyped up about Graphene over the past year even well way after my graduation from University. In my understanding from various research groups and PhD students in Cambridge, the properties of Graphene are astonishing, the applications...
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Lee Kuan Yew and Us Memory in Print Exhibition at Plaza Singapura

Lee Kuan Yew and Us Memory in Print is a traveling photo exhibition organised in collaboration with Lianhe Wanbao and freelance photographers. It was opened by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Finance, on 1 August 2015 at Big Box in Jurong and now is on it's leg in Orchard at Plaza Singapura Mall. The exhibition...
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Massive North America trip update coming up!

Am back from a 3 week overseas trip to Washington State and Vancouver Canada! Being hosted by my overseas friends there. The trip was exciting, Seattle was awesome with rich aviation history and Washington with Mount Rainer offers fantastic mountain driving roads, I even had coffee first Starbucks in the world! Vancouver is bustling with life and still have...
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Handy tool to calculate and score your IPPT (Individual Physical Proficiency Test)- myIPPT.com

Tiny little gem finds on the internet are always worth sharing, this time; it’s a rather handy and unique IPPT scorer and calculator (accessible on myIPPT.com) based on the new IPPT scoring standards. This IPPT calculator not only just calculates your IPPT total point scores and determines your corresponding award/cash returns for you from your given number of push-ups,...
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Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) 2015 Performances & Artist Alley

Performances No STGCC is complete without their trademark center stage performances, including FightSaber SG trademark Light saber fight choreography. Rie Yunohara from Miyazaki, a member of the All Japan Idol National Team Japan was on stage too. You Yanase brought her harmonious "Wa" style of music in her maiden STGCC appearance right here. Tam (Tamusic) rocked the tunes on his...
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Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) 2015 at Marina Bay Sands

The Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) is back for its eighth year, this time running on 12th and 13th September 2015 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Sands Expo & Convention Center at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. The convention combines the best of pop culture from East and West to Asia, uniting the worlds of comics, anime, toys,...
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Lego Halloween Mini figures Series 14- Identifying the blind packs

This month saw the launch of the 14th series of the highly collectible Lego Mini Figures (minifig). With each series, you get 16 unique figures following a specific theme, with the last one being the second series of the Simpsons minifig line. The figures are sold through stand up boxes containing 60 mini figures each, where there will be...
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