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Getting to the Singapore Airshow 2018

2018 is the year again for the Singapore Biennial Singapore Airshow. It is Asia's largest aerospace and defense event, seeing a broad range of aerospace exhibits again both in-air and on-ground at the Changi Exhibition Center. The show comprises of indoor, outdoor open area aircraft static display area and aerial displays. Given Changi Exhibition center rather remote...

Food Capital Grand Corpthrone Riverfront

Grand Copthorne Waterfront is one of the few hotels situated along the Singapore River. It belong to a chain of hotels managed by the M-hotel (Millennium hotels) group. Their line of hotel chains including M-hotel Cafe 2000 and Orchard hotel. Also, Millennium hotels are known for good quality international buffets, offering an excellent spread of seafood. Let's...

Taipei Maokong Tea Village Gondola Cable car, Taiwan

Maokong is a quaint little hilly village located at the top of an evergreen mountain overlooking the city of Taipei. The highland spot is widely known for Maokong Tea Village and Gondola Cable car. It is one of the most scenic spots in Taipei (the other being Elephant hill) providing breathtaking views of Taipei City. These views can...

Yang Ming Shan, Qixing Mountain, Taiwan

Yang Ming Shan is one of the few scenic and nature sites located with a short travel away from the city of Taipei. It is located about an hour plus at a national park in northern Taipei City of the same name- The Yang Ming Shan National Park. The park spans 114 square kilometers and is highly...

Taipei IT malls, Guanghua Mall and Syntrend Creative Park, Taiwan

Taiwan is the home of global electronics, or at least most of them call home here before being shipped to all parts of the world. If you are in the DIY computer scene, big component brand names you may be familiar with like ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, etc. all have one thing in common- They all originate from...

Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village Amusement Isle, Nantou Taiwan

Following on the Aboriginal villages of the theme park, we come to the southern end of the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village Amusement Isle. This is where all the fun and thrilling theme park rides reside. Amusement Isle (Theme park) and rides It is not long after leaving the Aboriginal section of the park where you can start hearing people...

Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village, Nantou Taiwan

Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village is a massive theme park located in the highland hills of Nantou Taiwan near the Ita Thao region of Sun Moon lake- another popular scenic and tourist spot in Taiwan. The Cultural Village was founded in 1986 by Mr Jung-i Chang. He is the park’s current president with the vision to establish a...

SORA Gourmet Food Hall Japanese Cuisine at Changi Airport Terminal 2 (T2)

Tucked on the third floor in Changi Airport Terminal 2 (T2) is the Japanese SORA Gourmet Food Hall. It is tad synonymous to the Market place "Marche style" eating outlets. The food hall opened just recently late 2017 at the public area of the airport Terminal. I got about trying out what this place has to offer...

Happy New Year with 2018 Fireworks at Marina Bay

I was at the Marina Bay "the float" on new year's eve to catch the countdown party at the floating platform, as well as the 2018 Fireworks at Marina Bay. It was pouring heavy rain that evening yesterday. However, that didn't dampen our spirits for the new year. The fireworks lasted about a sub 6 minutes to...

Welcome 2018! How to make better resolutions in the new year

Howdy! It is time of the year again where we look back and reflect on the year 2017 to pass. As we welcome 2018, it is also the time where we do a reality check, look back on your accomplishments and setting new plans and resolutions for the year ahead. Lets talk about making good resolutions. How to...

Song Heng Fishball Noodle Telok Blangah Crescent

Song Heng Fish Ball Noodles is a hawker store located at the Telok Blangah Crescent NEA hawker center. They serve light noodles with good quality hand-made fishballs. Furthermore, a typical visit to Telok Blangah Crescent will see long snaking queues in front of their store unit (#01-124). Also, notably, they are opened only during the morning to lunchtime...

Wow Wow West Western food at ABC Market

Wow Wow West ABC Market Western food store is an independent western cuisine hawker store serving an assortment of grilled and fried dishes. They are known for their value for money western fare with sizable portions. The store is physically located at the rear end of ABC Market. This part is on the inner far end beside...

2XU Compression Run 2018 Race info

2XU is returning in early 2018 with their compression run. The 2018 run will be held at the F1 Pit Building on the Sunday, 8 April 2018. The event brought to you by Pink apple SG will see runners pound on the tarmac again through the scenic Marina Bay area with distances ranging from 5km to a...

Dining at Kim Dae Mun Korean food outlet

Tucked in the basement of the Concorde hotel Singapore (beside the Istana) along Orchard Road is Kim Dae Mun, a small gem of an eatery serving authentic and very affordable Korean food. Though labeled as a Korean food place, I find the term "Korean dining outlet" more fitting for the setting. You can enter the outlet via a...

Sungei Road Katong Laska at Jalan Berseh off Jalan Besar

Sungei Road is a place known as the one-stop place in Singapore for hardware and DIY products. But tucked in a HDB coffee shop surrounded by its resident HDB estate is a foodie gem. A store who survived and tested the perils of time, dishing out authentic Katong Laska, a Singaporean timeless favorite. The Sungei Road Katong...

Exploring Don Don Donki (Don Quijote) past midnight, Japanese discount chain in Orchard Central, Singapore

People in Singapore adore the Japanese culture, with the influx of Tokyu hands, Uniqlo, Daiso and Mini-so, the Japanese retail invasion doesn’t look like it is set to stop. Starting this month, Singapore welcomed their newest 24-hour Japanese retail store right in the heart of the Orchard road shopping district. Come Don Don Donki! Don Don Donki, also...

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Ben Thanh Market and Vietnamese Water puppet show

Ho Chi Minh City is a vibrant city full of happenings all day. Moving onto additional explorations, lets take alook at some popular shopping and leisure options the city has to offer. I shall cover the Ben Thanh Market, as well as traditional Vietnamese Water puppet shows for entertainment. Ho Chi Minh City Food streets If you are looking...

Ho Chi Minh City War Remnants Museum, Cathedral and Saigon General Post office

Continuing on my adventures in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, my exploration now focuses more on the history of the city. This is namely on war museums (War Remnants Museum), historical buildings of interests such as cathedrals as well as shopping locations. Significantly, Ho Chi Minh City is also the tourist destination of choice for roughly 70% of...

Ho Chi Minh City hall, Independence Reunification Palace, Vietnam

MossssssaHo Chi Minh City is Vietnam’s financial center and the country’s economic heart. While Hanoi is the center of government, littered with assortments of official government buildings lined with rows of patriotic Vietnamese flags, it is more prim and proper business here. Money is on the minds of everyone here in Ho Chi Minh City, the city...

Cu chi tunnels, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

The Vietnam war was one of the less glamorous part of Vietnamese history. The Vietnamese communist forces in the late 1940s began digging a network of tunnels under the jungle terrain of South Vietnam near Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), during their war of independence from French colonial authority in the 1946. After the end of the war against...

Travel Guides

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....

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How to install and run a local Deepseek R1 instance

This article teaches you how to quickly install, setup and run DeepSeek R1 large language models (LLMs) in under 30 minutes on your local...

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