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OBike Singapore exit- Getting your OBike deposit refund

With the recent announcement of OBike pulling operations out of Singapore. Users are left in the lurch of being unable to use their services or get a deposit refund from the now defunct dock-less bike sharing operator. Lets look into how OBike came into the fray and how to submit an OBike deposit refund request from the...
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Great Eastern Women’s Run 2018

To this date, the Great Eastern Women's run is one of the key running staple events of Singapore's annual running calendar. Whether it is your wife/partner, your mum or everyday friends, the event best recognizes and is dedicated to the ladies in our daily lives. The event is back again this year. Lets take a look at...
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Bukit Merah Day Night Char Kuay Teow

Char Kuay Teow is one of the dishes which resonate well in the Singapore foodie community. It is an unmistakable staple so ingrained into Singapore culture that is it said to be one of Singapore's national hawker dishes. Day Night Char Kuay Teow is a Fried Kuay Teow store only specializing and serving this favorite Singapore's hawker...
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A visit to WeWork 71 Robinson Hipster Offices

I was fortunate to be invited to the new offices of WeWork to view their newest and largest space in Singapore at 71 Robinson Road, as well as to meet up with a couple of industry experts. WeWork 71 Robinson is not a stranger to this space. The American company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in...
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Trump-Kim summit, Singapore Sentosa Capella facts

Much attention is now focused on Singapore Sentosa Capella hotel. This is following White House press secretary Sarah Sanders making the announcement on instilling the America-North Korean summit scheduled to happen in Singapore come June 12th. Capella is the chosen venue for the historic summit. Additionally, the summit will see President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim...
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Marvel Studios Ten Years of Heroes exhibition Art Science Museum

The heroes are in town! Brewing in the depths of the Singapore Art Science Museum is an entire awesome collection of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Called the Marvel Studios Ten Years of Heroes. The exhibition showcases 10 years of Marvel movies. The show runs from 9 June till 30 September 2018. In addition to my write-up about the...
Sports Events

NTU Vertical Marathon 2018 Guoco Tower Race Report

Today was the National Vertical Marathon. The NTU Vertical Marathon is an annual vertical marathon race event held in Singapore. The annual vertical race is organized by the NTU University sports club. Also, the event has it place in the Singapore sports calendar as one of the few pioneering sports events, having been around for almost 20...
Automotive

New Mercedes 2019 A-class

The new Mercedes 2019 A-class is a car plenty to be excited about. It is a completely new model built from the ground up and loaded with plenty of cutting-edge tech. The sub-compact car market is one of the biggest selling segment for Mercedes. Mercedes in the recent years begun to market their brand towards young working professional....
Asian

Nan Heng Hainanese Chicken Rice Bukit Merah

Nan Heng Hainanese Chicken Rice is probably a name which does not comes first to mind when you ask about chicken rice in the Bukit Merah region. Though maybe some may quip at the popular Char Kuay Teow store there. The Chicken Rice store however, one of my few favorite chicken rice stores to date given it's...
Computers

Hands on new Windows 10 Sets Tabs Feature

The upcoming introduction of tabs (Sets) in Windows 10 is plenty to be excited about. It goes about the idea of allowing you to bunch together multiple windows together as tabs in a single window. Also, you can create multiple windows with tabs. Today, let take a first look at the Windows 10 Sets Tabs feature. What makes...
Sports Events

Singapore Bay Run Army Half Marathon 2018

The Singapore Bay Run Army Half Marathon 2018 to be held on 26th August. It is a staple running event in the Singapore Annual Running Calendar. The event was previously known as the Sheares Bridge Run, the highlight of the event involving a run along the iconic bridge. Presently, given new more viable running routes in the...
Western

Chef Hainanese Western food at Commonwealth Tanglin Halt

Update: Following the SERs en bloc of Tanglin Halt, Chef Hainanese Western has now moved to the new two-storey Margaret Drive Hawker center Unit #1-32 (Blk 38A Margaret Dr, Singapore 142038). They will begin operating from 28th Aug 2022. Chef Hainanese Western food had been serving up their traditional western food style for decades. Such small family businesses,...
Articles

How to disable Windows 10 updates

Windows Update is widely known today in the computing world as the evil everyone likes to hate. Interestingly, it protects Windows computers everywhere as much as it annoys. This post focuses on how I managed to successfully disable Windows 10 Update via disabling key services. This was tested on release in the 15xxx builds up to the...
Articles

The bane of Windows 10, how to disable Windows telemetry

My experience with Windows 10 had been a love-hate affair. It started great as a lightweight replacement to my main Windows 7 daily driver. The lightweight operating system was well received globally. It offers benefits of both function and familiarity. However, in recent light, Microsoft's had sadly put it down with many crippling and worrisome features, such...
Europe

Linnanmaki Theme park, Helsinki, Finland

Linnanmaki is an amusement theme park in Helsinki, Finland. It is one of the few classic theme parks dating back and been running for more than 50 years. Much older than Thrope Park in the UK, which I last touched on previously. The park opened on May 1950 and is owned by Finish Children's Day Foundation (Lasten...
Western

Collins Western Grille Premium Restaurants

Collins is a household brand in Singapore when it comes to offering good western grille at a matching good price. The brand has now expanded into a more premium market with dine-in restaurant setting. You can remember Collins from the last time I wrote about my dining experiences to their coffee shop western grille stores. They can...
Japanese

Hamburg Steak Keisuke

Hamburg Steak Keisuke is a small Japanese dine-in restaurant in Tanjong Pagar region. It offers good quality Japanese patty steaks at a fair price in a setting hard to beat. It is located at Peck Seah Street just in front of Gucco/ Tanjong Pagar Centre in front of Tanjong Pagar MRT station. You might remember it being...
Asian

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice

The eatery I shall be touching on today is not a stranger to Foodies in Singapore. Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice has long been a household name for anyone who desires one of the best home growth local dishes right in central Singapore. The stall is located at Maxwell food center off Tanjong Pagar (Maxwell road). It...
Western

Eighteen Chefs at Star Vista

Eighteen chefs is a small casual eatery located at various spots around Singapore. The branch I am visiting today is Eighteen Chefs at Star Vista. Their Star vista branch is situated on the third floor of the sparkling shopping and entertainment complex. The eatery ambience is good. It is set to a dark modern contemporary setting with a...
Asian

Wong Kee Wanton Noodle at Depot Road

Wanton noodles stores are aplenty around in Singapore. You can usually identify them by the arrays of Char Siew (Char Siu) strips (Sweet roast pork), which can be seen hanging at shop fronts. Often glistering until spot lamps. Good ones however, are dime a dozen. Wong Kee Wanton Noodle store is one of the few gems I...
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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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