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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...
Gadgets

Vivo V7+ benchmarks, camera, battery performance

Following my earlier review part on the Vivo V7+ exterior, build and software. This section carries on into other aspects of the phone. Lets take alook at the Vivo V7+ benchmarks, camera, battery performance and the eventual review conclusion. Performance Tests The V7+ hardware specifications are not quite something to brag about. The onboard entry-level CPU and 4GB RAM...
Gadgets

Vivo V7+ phone review

The V7+ is Vivo’s flagship smartphone for their entry into the Singapore Market early this year. Released globally in September 2017, it sits as a mid to high-end phone set to compete in the already crowded market segment. I briefly introduced the phone previously last month where Vivo Singapore first announced the phone. Today. let's check out...
Blog

Mobile One My M1 App bug causes excessive background data use

If only this was an April fool’s joke. It looks like the Mobile One My M1 App bug causes excessive background data use. Today, I received an SMS from my telco Mobile One (M1) today that I had exceeded 100% of my mobile data allowance use. This was rather odd as I am a rather light data...
Events

CUBE & My Urban Backyard Exhibition

CUBE and My Urban Backyard Exhibition is a small Urban and Built Environment showcase organized by the URA as part of the Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment (CUBE). Held at the City Galley URA building. The exhibition aims to showcase built environment ideas portrayed through school projects. The event is jointly produced during the CUBE...
Articles

Grab Uber takeover, the Rise of monopolistic private-hire

The fallout of the recent Uber acquisition by Grab had been hitting the local headlines daily. The deal was seen pretty much of a takeover than a blatant acquisition. Thereafter, Grab swiftly spared no expense in promptly shutting down their bitter rival. This includes shuttering Uber offices, leaving staff on leave and taking over all App-booking in...
Places

Checking out Timezone Flagship Arcade at Vivocity

Timezone, Australia’s most widespread and popular gaming arcade outlet has opened their newest and largest flagship store right in the heart of Vivocity Mall Singapore. They were previously tucked on the upper third floors of the mall (where Diaso was also located). Now they had moved down to Level 2 at Vivocity unit #02-43 just between Candy...
Events

Marveling at the i Light show displays at Marina Bay

Singapore is often renowned for her fantastic modern skyline which defines the city and stays lit throughout the night. Blending that urban lighting sprawl together with the love for arts is the i Light show which runs at the Marina promenade for this month. Show Details For a limited time, the show runs from 9th March to the 1st...
Events

Fun at the Prudential Marina Bay Carnival and Gourmet GastroBeats 2018

Living in a city where fun is often an afterthought, it is refreshing and long due to see the return of large carnival fairgrounds in Singapore. Come the Prudential Marina Bay Carnival. Prudential is proud to be the Title Sponsor of the Marina Bay Carnival, Singapore's largest games carnival in its inaugural year. Moreover, Prudential, as the...
Japanese

Washoku Cafe at Tai Thong Crescent

Washoku Cafe is a Japanese fusion casual dining restaurant serving mains and quick bites in a chill environment. Let’s check out the establishment with a simple dinner dine-in. The café is located on the outside of a micro mall along Tai Thong Crescent. There is mostly roadside parking and the nearest MRT station being Potong Pasir MRT (NE10)....
Buffets

Roast Delights at the Carvery Park Hotel Alexandra

The Carvery is hotel restaurant located in the Park Hotel. They offer a buffet spread specialising in meats and roasts with a European flair. Lets check out the Roast Delights at the Carvery Park Hotel Alexandra. Getting there Geographically, the Park Hotel sits at the intersection between Alexandra and Jalan Bukit Merah. The Carvery is a relatively new restaurant...
Western

Collins Western Grille and Bento

Collins is s heartland western grill franchise in Singapore. They serves a variety of good and very affordable western foods as well as Japanese bento sets which are truly value for money. Let's check out what Collins Western Grille and Bento has to offer. It is not uncommon to find a typical Collins branch in a "hole in...
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Travel Guides

East Asia

Exploring Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

Let’s take an explore today The Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan. It is an interactive museum dedicated to the popular instant noodle brand....

Visiting Batu Caves Selangor, Malaysia

South East Asia

Exploring Yokohama City and Chinatown

East Asia

Visiting the Tokyo imperial palace

East Asia

Visiting Plaza Lowyat Bukit Bintang KL

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Gadgets

Colmi R10 smart ring review

Colmi smart ring is a budget-friendly smart wearable which offers essential health tracking such as sleep, body metric, step and activity features in small...

Belkin Qi2 10K Magnetic powerbank review

Gadgets

How to install and run a local Deepseek R1 instance

Computers

Visiting Plaza Lowyat Bukit Bintang KL

Computers

Events

Events

Design Earth NTU Exhibition

Design Earth NTU Exhibition

Blackhat Asia 2025

Events

Remembering LKY Reflecting and Renewing exhibition

Events

Hanami Market 2025 Suntec City

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