The SEA Games is Southeast Asian (SEA) is a multi-sport event between 11 participating countries in SEA themselves organised as a biennial event. The one in 2015 is hosted by the city-state of Singapore and is the fourth time Singapore had hosted the games and the first time since 1993. The one opening on 5th June will see 4370...
Jake Parker presented a short presentation on his professional life, works and a short introduction into his life story as an illustrator and concept artist. Jake himself has works with Marvel (Rocket raccoon series), Blue Sky Studios, Disney Animation and Warner Brothers Animation. The event was hosted by NTUC in partnership with Lasalle College of the Arts, as part...
Leading up to the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games is a sports carnival held right at the OCBC square at the Singapore sports hub. The localised event comprises of various booths, merchandise stores and a live stage (with live performances almost daily), filled with events leading up to the actual opening ceremonies of the SEA Games. Here you can have...
Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) 2015 runs from April 10th-12th 2015 at Suntec City (Halls 401-403). It is Asia’s longest running dive show and held in several countries around the region. The marine creature theme this year is Dolphins. Every year, the event will set and dedicate its theme to a particular animal/ focus point, raising awareness and encouraging conservation...
The Lee Kuan Yew Memoriam exhibition is currently held at the National Museum of Singapore as a temporary exhibition set up at the Museum’s atrium section. It covers notable items and photographs the Lee family has opened up to shared publicity on the less-seen private life of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. It covers Mr Lee’s life from...
Alienware Laptops 13, 15 and 17
In this 2015 hardware refresh, Alienware has kept the screen size naming convention of their flagship gaming laptop line consistent, with the number corresponding to the gaming laptop’s corresponding screen size. Alienware, has a reputation for offering powerful portable solutions than most mainstream laptops. Their latest portfolio includes the Alienware 13 and 15 laptops...
The Alienware launch party last week was held at the 1-Altitude bar at 1 Raffles Place. The place is decked out cool for the occasion right up on the 61st floor of the former OUB center. In the glitz of drinks and dinner, the event saw the unveiling of Alienware’s collection of new hardware for the new year, namely...
700 years of Singapore is a temporary exhibition at the Singapore National Museum, bringing you on a journey through six sections back in time into iconic events in Singapore’s transformation from a humble fishing village, the pride of an empire, to an independent nation-state it is today, 700 years back. The exhibition runs from 28th Oct 2014 to 10th...
Comic Fiesta is Malaysia’s largest and longest-running animation, comics and games (ACG) convention. It’s an annual Anime convention which ran on the 27th and 28th December 2014 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia. I was fortunate to be invited to attend the convention. At the heart of KL right at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, located between Traders Hotel...
Anime Festival Asia is an annual convention held in Singapore, running 5th to 7th December 2014 at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre. The event runs up annual in Singapore after STGCC and is one of the region’s biggest festivals for Japanese Popular Culture. There is a music festival, particularly the “I Love Anisong” artist line-up, one of...
STGCC this year was held at Marina Bay Sands, Sands Expo and Convention Center, the organisers are starting to like this new spot over the old venue at Suntec Convention center. The sights this year are typical to any STGCC, with key booths such as Hot toys, couple of game studios dotted near the front of the entrance, with...
Solo displays
In addition to the aerobatic displays, there were a number of solo displays by a number of representing countries, such as the Royal Australian Air Force with an F-18, a Bell Boeing V-22 "Osprey" and a Boeing C-17. The F-18 did a number of aerobatic displays, including rolls, loops and low-powered glides to showcase much of the F-18...
The highlight of any airshow will of course be the aerial display. Highlights this year will include the RSAF Black Knights who will perform acrobatic displays with spirals and not frequently seen, a chaff dump while while in mid-flight (which members of the public will refer to as plane "fireworks"). The Black Knights together with the South Korean ROKAF...
The 2014 Airshow this year is held at the Changi exhibition center, which was built as a one stop aviation display hub north of Changi Airport and just off Changi coast road. You will be able to get to the exhibition center directly with a car pass or taxi where a $10 surcharge will apply on the outbound journey...
Recently caught the musical performance of the TingTong Belles at the Esplanade. It is a Christmas themed musical performance and comeback of the Dim Sum Dollies, brought to you by Dream Academy. New for this year, Selena Tan and Pam Oei welcome their newest Dolly, Denise Tan. Supporting the main cast are other "Ting Tong Belles", namely Petrina...
The Joint-Polytechnic engineering career guidance seminar was held at Bishan library last Saturday. I was invited to speak in the event by my polytechnic as an alumni and industrial representative to promote the engineering profession to all the five polytechnics in Singapore. The seminar is primarily targeted towards 'O' level leavers and their parents with aims to promote engineering...
There is nothing as synonymous as the free tissue boxes from petrol kiosks after each top up. This time, the boxes can do more than just find their way into the comfy rear passenger compartments in my family car. Shell is delighted again to announce that the much-awaited Shell tissue box promotion is back from 2nd May to 30th...
Tonight is Guy Fawkes night! In a nutshell is the celebration of a guy called, well, Fawkes who once tired to blow up Westminster palace. He was once placed in charge of the gunpowder at an undercroft beneath the House of Lords stockpiled there. His plot was eventually discovered by an anonymous letter which led to Fawkes begin exposed...
The Torch relay this Olympics involves bringing the torch through various sights and cities around Cambridge, such a horse back riding and water bodies, on top of the traditional on-road type relay. The one in the second league of the relay in Cambridge is no exception either.
From the event at Parker's piece the night before, on this Sunday morning,...
The Olympic flame is coming to Cambridge city, in style the least. Cambridge city forms part of the London Olympic Torch Relay route leading up to the 2012 Olympics, involving 8,000 inspirational torchbearers in total, where the flame will eventually reach the London Olympic stadium for the opening ceremonies on the 27th this month. The torch arrived in Cambridge...