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Vancouver Chinatown, Gastown and Canada Place

Synonymous to Vancouver is Chinatown, a historical site dedicated to the large Asian population residing in the city and one of the most Asian-friendly cities in the world out of Asia. If you are looking for authentic Chinese food, bargain deals, shops and souvenirs in town, Chinatown won’t disappoint. A key place to visit here will be...
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Vancouver City, Vancouver Waterfront and Olympic village

When I first visited Vancouver city almost 20 years ago, I fell in love with the city given how friendly, open and cosmopolitan the city is. It has a rather laid back atmosphere with a pace of life far more relaxing than Singapore. I was fortunate to be able to pay the city a visit again early...
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America’s Car Museum, Tacoma, Washington

America's Car Museum is a private museum Museum in Tacoma, Washington dedicated to the love of the automobile. Home to the world's largest private car collection and some 500 automobiles right on site it is situated adjacent to the Tacoma Dome, 2012. Most of the cars on display were donated by the family of Harold LeMay as...
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Mount Rainer National Park in Washington

Mount Rainier, also known as Mount Tahoma is a 4,392 m tall large active stratovolcano located in the state of Washington. It is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world and the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest located 87 km southeast of Seattle. Getting there involves a 3 to 4...
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Seattle Space Needle, with Day and Night panoramas

The Space Needle, an icon of Seattle and a designated historic landmark of the Pacific Northwest. The observation tower in Seattle, Washington at the time of construction in 1961 was the tallest building in the West, surpassing the Smith Tower across town that held that title since 1914. Owned by the space needle corporation, construction started on...
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Seattle EMP Museum, Galleries and Star Wars and the Power of Costume

The EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum is a non-profit museum located at the Seattle centre adjacent to the iconic Space Needle, it is a rather oddly spaced museum cladded in shiny silver and purple signaling you that this is not any other ordinary building sitting right here in the heart of downtown Seattle. The exterior of the...
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Aviation at Seattle city, the Museum of flight

In addition to the Boeing factory is a prominent aviation museum home to many historic and modern airplanes. Known as the Museum of Flight, the museum, established in 1965 is a private non-profit air and space museum located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field), in the city of Tukwila, just south of...
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Lee Kuan Yew and Us Memory in Print Exhibition at Plaza Singapura

Lee Kuan Yew and Us Memory in Print is a traveling photo exhibition organised in collaboration with Lianhe Wanbao and freelance photographers. It was opened by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Finance, on 1 August 2015 at Big Box in Jurong and now is on it's leg in Orchard at Plaza Singapura Mall....
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Aviation at Seattle city, the Future of flight at Everett Boeing factory

Seattle is known as one the few main aviation hubs of America, particularly the home and Headquarters of one of the most prominent modern aviation powerhouses- the Boeing company. Located at Everett, Washington, the Boeing factory (as known as the Future of flight) is also home to Boeing's assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777 and the...
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The first original Starbucks at 1st & Pike Place Market

The name Starbucks is synonymous to almost anyone in any developed world, but what makes this particular store at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States more special is that it is the first ever Starbucks in the world. Opened in 1971, the store has kept its early appearance complete with the two tailed mermaid...
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Exploring Seattle City, downtown and Pikes place

I was around visiting the Emerald City over the past week and got an opportunity to explore downtown Seattle there. Seattle is often touted as the silicon valley of America’s North West, being home to Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile, Boeing and the birthplace of Starbucks. Located in Washington state, north of California (and not to be confused with...
Blog

Massive North America trip update coming up!

Am back from a 3 week overseas trip to Washington State and Vancouver Canada! Being hosted by my overseas friends there. The trip was exciting, Seattle was awesome with rich aviation history and Washington with Mount Rainer offers fantastic mountain driving roads, I even had coffee first Starbucks in the world! Vancouver is bustling with life and...
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Handy tool to calculate and score your IPPT (Individual Physical Proficiency Test)- myIPPT.com

Tiny little gem finds on the internet are always worth sharing, this time; it’s a rather handy and unique IPPT scorer and calculator (accessible on myIPPT.com) based on the new IPPT scoring standards. This IPPT calculator not only just calculates your IPPT total point scores and determines your corresponding award/cash returns for you from your given number...
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Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) 2015 Performances & Artist Alley

Performances No STGCC is complete without their trademark center stage performances, including FightSaber SG trademark Light saber fight choreography. Rie Yunohara from Miyazaki, a member of the All Japan Idol National Team Japan was on stage too. You Yanase brought her harmonious "Wa" style of music in her maiden STGCC appearance right here. Tam (Tamusic) rocked the tunes...
Events

Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) 2015 at Marina Bay Sands

The Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) is back for its eighth year, this time running on 12th and 13th September 2015 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Sands Expo & Convention Center at Marina Bay Sands Singapore. The convention combines the best of pop culture from East and West to Asia, uniting the worlds of comics,...
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Lego Halloween Mini figures Series 14- Identifying the blind packs

This month saw the launch of the 14th series of the highly collectible Lego Mini Figures (minifig). With each series, you get 16 unique figures following a specific theme, with the last one being the second series of the Simpsons minifig line. The figures are sold through stand up boxes containing 60 mini figures each, where there...
Current Issues

The UOB ONE Savings Account, comparison with the OCBC 360 offerings

UOB definitely got everyone’s attention with the recent introduction of an elevated interest savings account plan. The UOB ONE Account is a pretty attractive plan on paper with a maximum possible saving interest rate “up to” 3.33%, the highest offered by any bank in Singapore to date. Standard Charted first started this with their bonus saver accounts,...
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Vote responsibly in the upcoming Singapore general elections Sept 11th.

With the upcoming Singapore general elections scheduled on the 11th September, the question on everyone’s mind is the decision of your vote to see Singapore for the next term. As with any responsible voter, one ought to choose your leaders wisely based on their capabilities on top of their promises to bring Singapore forward as a whole,...
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Blackberry Venice & Specs- an upcoming Blackberry phone you might actually want.

Phones with built-in hardware keyboards will always have a place in my heart and really are nostalgic. It reminds me greatly of the old O2 XDA series of Windows phones I used to own. If such hardware keyboard phones are to your liking, Blackberry's new QWERTY slider, the Blackberry Venice is one phone worth getting excited about....
Events

Disney Infinity 3.0 New Toybox- Toy Box Takeover and Racing Speedway

A unique selling point of Disney Infinity over competitors like Amiibo and Skylanders is the enhanced Toy Box Mode, offering family-friendly gameplay through platform, racing and farming simulation mini-games. These activities as claimed by Disney aims to inspire players to create their own virtual worlds online in the Disney Infinity Toy Box. In a nutshell, the Toy Box...
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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...

Belkin BoostCharge portable Magsafe 5k charger review

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Belkin 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad review

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 unpacked

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Food and Beverage Expo 2024

The APAC Food and Beverage Expo 2024 is currently on now at the Singapore Expo. This annual event features a diverse array of local...

Lights by the lake 2024 Jurong lake gardens

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Singapore Night Festival 2024

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Cable Cars A Ride Through Time at Vivocity Mall

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