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Monster Jam Monster Trucks Singapore

Fancy Monster Jam Monster Trucks in Singapore? Picture a monster truck flying through the air ripping through the dirt track with nitro methane exhausts blasting together with the roar of a stadium cheering crowd? That’s what Monster Jam was like tonight at the Singapore Sports Hub for a one-night only event. For the first time ever in...
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Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 4 (T4) Sights and Walk through

Changi Airport, Singapore’s main and busiest international airport has a new 4th terminal under its management. Terminal 4 is its latest gem to date. I was there to check out what is new about the airport before its official opening. It is situated south of the current Changi airport Terminal 2 and beyond the SATS Inflight catering...
Sports Gear

Buying bargain running shoes in Singapore (Old models, online Amazon)

Proper running shoes are an indispensable part of a runner’s arsenal. It is something which you should not cut back on. A good and fitting pair goes a long way into preventing injuries down the road. I always recommend runners that it will always be better to spend your money on good pair of shoes than a...
Western

Mariners Corner Western Restaurant at Maritime House Cantonment

Update: Following the refurbishment of the Maritime House Cantonment, Mariners corner had shifted to their new restaurant location at Clementi Sunset way (Blk 10 Clementi Street 12). You can read more of their new restaurant here. Located along Cantonment Road, Mariners Corner Cantonment Restaurant at Maritime House is one of the few surviving family-run homely restaurants today serving...
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A&W fast food chain returning to Singapore

A&W was one of the fast food brands I grew up with as a kid, as such when the last A&W restaurant closed in the late 90s at Lau Pa Sat market, it felt that part of my childhood also left with the franchises. Not for long now. In a July media press release, A&W CEO Kevin...
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Singapore Amazon Prime Now Online Shopping

There had been a lot of buzz about giant global online retailer Amazon coming and operating in Singapore, with great hype since the tech giant broke official news of entering the SEA market. Amazon's intent was largely verified with massive employment ads employing for a Singapore-based regional headquarters over a year ago. Following a line of delays...
Events

Maker Faire Singapore 2017

The Maker Faire is a celebration of the maker movement that is to celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. This involves the gathering of like-minded people who share the interest of creating and inventing stuff in a family-friendly showcase of inventions, creativity and resourcefulness. Historically, the first ever Maker Faire was held...
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Apple iPhone 8 Expected Features

There is plenty to be excited about the new iPhone 8, marking the 10th anniversary of the iPhone when it was launched in 2007. The phone is expected to launch around September this year, with a combination of an upgraded line of iPhone 7s. Here is what we can expect from an engineering review of engineering samples: New...
Technology

Singapore First Apple Store at Knightsbridge Mall Orchard

Apple is known for their highly desirable line of consumer products, as well being known for situating their stores smacked right in high pedestrian traffic shopping districts in major cities. Despite selling their products in the Singapore market for over 20 years, Apple didn’t saw a need to enter the Singapore market by themselves, until now. Looking back,...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8, phone design and what to expect

Following the explosive failure of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 last year with their battery quality issues, Samsung has rather big shoes to fill with its successor to win back consumers trust. While Samsung has reassured us of their new commitments in producing phones now with more stringent battery quality checks, by putting their new flagship in...
Museums

Old Ford factory- Synonan gallery: Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legacies

Getting there Perched on a small hill by the Bukit Timah hill view area is the site of the Old Ford factory. The old former factory used to be an actual busy manufacturing plant, well served by the adjacent railway for resources and shipment of cars, part of the early “industrial” years of early Singapore manufacturing. Built in...
Western

Burger Up Classix HillV2 Mall

Burger Up Classix is a small burger joint located at the new Hill V2 mini mall along Hillview rise just off Bukit Timah road, the closet old landmark in the vicinity will be the Bukit Timah rail mall. Surrounded by private condominiums in an expensive neighborhood, Hill V2 is a mixed residential commercial outlet. Technically it is...
Japanese

Imakatsu Singapore Japanese restaurant, Star Vista

Imakatsu is one of the few Japanese casual dining restaurants located in the Star Vista Singapore serving premium Japanese cutlets. The restaurant setting is typical Japanese-zen, with wood cladded walls, cutlery and soft ambient music. In place of floor Japanese-style cushions, patrons are seated with western-style upright tables and chairs. Service was responsive, fast with staff dedicated...
Gadgets

One Plus 5 dual camera phone

The One Plus 5 is promising 4G LTE phone which blends both design style and good specifications to good. It is one very sleek phone I can say which puts the design element up there with benchmark leaders Apple and Samsung. I was awestruck by the number of Chinese branded phones now popping up all over the...
Gadgets

Nokia 6 mid range Android phone

Nokia had once been a brand synonymous to phones in the late 90s, with more than 70% of the world’s market share at its peak under their belt, the Finnish brand was the go-to phone of any mobile warrior. Fast forward after 20 years of absence plagued with closures and takeovers, the Nokia brand aims to grab...
Computers

How to reduce/shrink Linux XFS volumes in LVM

XFS is the default file system on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 as a very viable alternative to ext3 and ext4, particularly with awesome new freeze and snapshot features of xfs (xfs_freeze, snapshot, xfs_unfreeze, delayed allocation, etc). However, unlike conventional ext containers, a major limitation of XFS is inability to shrink or reduce this file system container....
Site Updates

New site design and layout in the works

A site design revamp on the works. As the world of internet consumption changes with more than 70% of today’s web traffic are consumed on mobile devices, such as tablets and phones, this current Orangy site design, which had faithfully served the site for almost 15 years is going to be decommissioned with a replacement. As such,...
East Asia

Tokyo Dome City and LaQua Luna park, Tokyo Japan

Tokyo Dome City is a massive open concept mixed-use shopping mall and theme park located in the heart of busy Tokyo city. In addition to an attached amusement theme park, it comprises of an events space housing the world's largest roofed baseball stadium, a shopping mall, spa and fitness center. It is easily accessible it by travelling...
East Asia

Fuji-Q highland Themepark, Yamanashi Japan

Fuji-Q highland is a Japanese theme park located not too far from Tokyo at Yamanashi, getting there involves about an two hour bus ride from Shinjuku central bus station, served by Kieo/Chūō Kōsoku bus services costing about 7800 yen for a return trip. You can purchase the bus and park tickets at an inclusive discounted fare on...
East Asia

Nagashima Spa land in Kuwana, Mie, Japan

Nagashima SPA land is a theme park not too far off Nagoya Japan in in Kuwana, Mie. With a large number of roller coasters, a waterpark and hot spring resort all within the theme park grounds by the Ibi River bay, Nagashima spa land is synonymous to almost to like the Cedar point of Japan- the park...
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