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Dining at City Sprout Hub hipster food

City sprouts sprout hub is a self-contained community garden, social hub and chill dining area located in southern Singapore. It sits on the grounds of the former Henderson secondary just opposite Bukit Merah town central. A community city garden hub Moreover, here at Sprout hub, you might notice rows of green houses on your way up towards the establishment....

Prima Revolving Restaurant Dinner, Keppel Rd

Prima Revolving Restaurant is a cantonese-style cuisine located in southern Singapore. What makes it unique is that it that the restaurant sits on an elevated revolving unit offering an interesting dining experience with views to boot. I had always wanted to do a write up on Prima, since I visited the establishment since a kid. Let’s check...

Boonlay Power Nasi Lemak

Boonlay Power Nasi Lemak is a late night dining place located at Boon Lay place. It is synonymous to the late night Nasi lemak places like those at Changi Village, only that this is in the West. Lets check them out with a supper dine-in today. Their menu selections are few and simple. Here, you have options of...

June 2020 site update and upgrade

The site is due for a June 2020 site update which could result in some downtime. Looking back, the site had gone a long way. Starting from free hosting back in the late nineties, to shared hosting from early 2000s. The site also celebrated it's 15th anniversary last year. It grew to its own dedicated deployment today....

Sushi Express great for quick cheap meals

Sushi express is fast dining Japanese conveyor belt franchise all over Singapore. They offer fairly decent quality Sushi at a price really hard to beat. It is also one of my favourite go-to places for a quick lunch. Let’s check them out today. I do like the concept of fast dining, especially if you need to grab a...

Kampong at BM

Let's check out Kampong at BM restaurant with a dine-in. This establishment is a single restaurant serving a variety of cuisines ranging from Western fusion and Asian dishes. At its heart is a halal certified outlet also serving Singapore favourite Muslim mamak food with a great chill ambience to boot. The place used to be a public swimming...

Enoshima Island, Tokyo

Enoshima is a small offshore beach island location off the Shōnan coast of Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture. It is known for its sandy beaches, Shrines and ocean side caves (Iwaya Caves), with breath-taking views. Let’s check it out today with an on-ground day exploration. Physically, Enoshima island spans about 4 km in circumference, making it smaller than Singapore’s Sentosa...

A look at old Tsukiji Market Tokyo

The Tsukiji (築地) Market, also known as Tsukiji shijō, is a massive open air fish market and one of the largest wholesale fish markets in the world in Tokyo, Japan. If you had seen giant premium tuna cube blocks being auctioned in the wee hours in Japan, chances are this is where it happened. I had been...

Tokyo Skytree and Ginza street

Lets check out Japan's tallest building and the 2nd tallest in the world, the 32-floor broadcast, restaurant, and observation tower, Tokyo Skytree observation deck today!

Touring the Tokyo Auto Salon 2020

Tokyo Auto Salon (東京オートサロン Tokyo ŌtoSaron) is an annual mega car show held in Tokyo Japan. Unlike car show we are accustomed to, it is one or the biggest annual automotive event with focus on the aftermarket parts. Tokyo Auto Salon 2020 saw events ranging from performance and custom dress-up parts and technology displays by major Japanese...

Singapore Changi Airport in Covid-19

Changi Airport in the Covid-19 pandemic had seen its fair share of casualties, namely in the aviation sector where the demand for global air-travel literally slowed to a halt. The result are planes grounded and airport empty. How dreadful can such a scene be? Also considering that these are always busy 24/7 hubs in any city. Let’s...

Changi Jewel Pokémon Center store Singapore

Lets explore the Singapore Changi Airport Jewel Pokémon Center with a walk-through. The store here at Singapore Changi Airport opened on 17th April 2019. It was met with much fan fair during the initial months of opening. Interestingly back then it catered to patrons who can’t get enough of Pokémon or Pokémon Go, where it was a...

Changi Jewel canopy park

The Changi Jewel canopy park is a man-made indoor park on the upper floors of the Singapore Changi Airport Jewel complex. It is a vast open roof top area covered by the top glass domed roof of the jewel complex. The man-made park sits on the 5th floor of the domed shopping mall. It is a verdant...

Ouzhixiang Coomodel werewolf model review

The Ouzhixiang Coomodel werewolf is premium collectable action figurine made by Chinese company COO MODEL Toys. They are a Chinese company that specializes in hyper-detailed figures. The Werewolf is a 1/6 Scale figure made as part of their Monster File Figure series, particularly, the Ouzhixiang Monster File Series which also comprises of Frankenstein, Dracula and a Mummy...

How to stay safe Grocery Shopping during COVID-19?

The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted much of everyday live in Singapore and pretty much everywhere abroad too. As scary as it sounds, practicing covid-19 Safe Grocery Shopping by protecting yourself is not as difficult as it seems. Especially if you need to head outside for essentials such as groceries. So how can you keep yourself safe? Here...

128GB RAM on an ITX Board Asrock X570D4I-2T

The Asrock X570D4I-2T is a nice Gem of an ITX for what it offers out of the competition. For ages, PC builders who desire a small compact micro-ITX form factor will have to sacrifice having half the number of RAM dimm slots. This is usually 4 slots down to 2 if they were to transition from an...

Topre Realforce TKL capacitive keyboard review

What is a capacitive keyboard? We had heard of mechanical keyboards and capacitive touch screens on your smart phones. So what Realforce had in mind when they are saying that they make capacitive keyboard? Well let’s take a look with an unboxing and first impressions of the Realforce TKL keyboard by Topre corporation. I recently got this unique...

Singapore extended COVID-19 parking grace period

Singapore parking grace period had increased from 10 to 30 minutes. Following my last month's article on free parking at Singapore shopping malls, we took a look at the free weekday parking malls were starting to implement to encourage more visitor ship to their malls during the initial part of the COVID-19 outbreak. Come the "Circuit Breaker" However, with...

Why the Intel NUC Compute Element could fail

The Intel compute element is Intel’s new modular PC form factor to extend benefits of expandability to their largely popular line of Intel NUCs. However, the product is as dead as it is even not out of the water. Is the Intel compute element doomed to fail? Let’s take a close look at Intel offerings. What is the...

Touring Grand Canyon West, Arizona USA

In the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown, figured I do some catching up on my trips from the past year. Today, let’s go sightseeing at the Grand Canyon West! The Grand Canyon is a natural wonder in Arizona USA. The National Park is home to the immense Grand Canyon which you can explore via day or extended trips....

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Technology and Gadgets

Galaxy Ai 2024 new Fold 6 and Flip 6

Let’s take a hands-on of Samsung’s new foldable phones and wearables at this year’s Galaxy AI Unpacked 2024 event in Singapore. The global event...

Events

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Singapore Garden Festival 2024

Food Reviews

Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian restaurant

Let’s take a dine-in today visiting the Kapitan Slavic Ukrainian/Russian restaurant at Tanjong Pagar. The restaurant offers a curated offering of Eastern Europe. The...

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