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Sing 50 Concert at the Sport Hub National Stadium

Sing 50 concert is a celebration of 50 years of Singapore Music. Held at the Sport Hub National Stadium, the concert was touted as one of the country’s biggest concerts, and a grand birthday gift to Singapore’s golden jubilee celebrations. Co-organised by Singapore Press Holdings Limited and held at the start of the National day weekend on...
Running Routes

HSBC Tree Top Walk and Macritchie Nature Reserve Singapore

The HSBC Tree Top walk is an attraction at the Singapore MacRitchie nature reserve. It is essentially a 250m long freestanding suspension bridge located in the heart of the Singapore central catchment area. Getting there With its central location in the catchment area, the Tree top walk is only assessable via internal dirt and gravel trials within the nature...
Events

Koala Mania at the Singapore Zoo.

Koala Mania is a hot new exhibit up since this May at the Singapore zoo. Situated at the Zoo’s Australian zone, it’s a permanent exhibit showcasing 4 Koalas on-loan from Australia. The zone enclosure is an open compound allowing you to see and interact up close with native Auzzie animals such as Emus, wallabies (no adult kangaroos...
Events

DreamWorks Animation: Journey from sketch to screen. The Exhibition at Art Science Museum

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the animation powerhouse founded by Steven Spielberg, David Geffin and Jeffrey Katzenberg? The DreamWorks pictures exhibition: Journey from sketch to screen at the Art Science Museum is an animation showcase, bringing to you the making of Blockbuster movies such as Shrek, How to train your dragon and Madagascar....
Events

SG50 Rebuild Your Memories Lego exhibition at Raffles City

Rebuild your memories is an exhibition and initiative brought to you by Robinsons as part of their SG50 efforts to bring back old memories of Singapore. The display in Raffles City is a small mini-exhibition featuring eight original works from LEGO builders in Singapore. Rebuild Your Memories Exhibition overview The displays The encased models on display range from symbolic statues including...
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The Deep exhibition at Art Science Museum

“More men have walked on the moon than have dived to the deepest part of our oceans.” – Dr. Cindy Lee Van Dover If you like exploring the creatures of the dark unknown, “The Deep” is a natural history exhibition held at the Art Science Museum Singapore showcasing creatures of the deep sea. The sea and oceans covers...
Site Updates

Planned downtime with new drives for ShaunChng.com servers.

You may notice some downtime over the last weekends, the 15k RPM SAS drives running on the server running the site has failed after trusty continuous operation for 7 years. So I took the time to replace the drives, particularly on the database servers and took the opportunity to upgrade the Operating system which the site runs...
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SG 50 Singapore Youth Festival Art exhibition at Raffles City

The Singapore Youth Festival Art exhibition is an SG50 art initiative supported by Ministry of Education. It saw the art contributions of several students and schools revolving about Singapore’s SG50 theme to showcase uniquely Singaporean memories. The exhibition Lions! The Gallery This can include items or scenes we all come to know off, such as food, iconic landmarks and scenes of...
Japanese

Dining at IKOI Japanese Restaurant at Hotel Miramar Singapore

IKOI Japanese Restaurant at Hotel Miramar is one of the few small dining gems you can find in southern Singapore. Geographically located along Havelock Rd, it not too far off the Central business district. Moreover, it is one of the hotel restaurants in the 3-star Hotel Miramar. Large Menu Choices Tucked on the first floor by the main...
Events

Campus Game Fest 2015 at ITE College Central

The Campus Game, Arts, Media, Edutainment (GAME) Fest 2015 is an initiative spearheaded and organised by the Singapore CyberSports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA), Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and produced by Wolong Ventures. Held at the ITE college central, the three-day festival running from the 26th- 28th June is open to the public, and is an...
Events

28th SEA Games Closing Ceremony

Today marks the closing of the 12 day 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) games event held in Singapore from the 5th to 16th of June. Celebrated in the National stadium at the new Singapore sports hub, the ceremony saw a sell-out and oversubscribed crowd packing the Stadium to the brim. Similar to the opening ceremonies, entering the...
Singapore

Universal Studios Singapore Ancient Egypt and Sci-Fi City

Following on my tour through the Madagascar, Far Far Away and the Lost World regions of Universal Singapore, this part of our explorations covers the last two sectors of the park. Moreover, this two said sectors are home to my personal favorite rides in the theme park. Lets take a look at the Universal Studios Singapore Ancient...
Singapore

Universal Studios Singapore Jurassic Park Lost World and Water World

Let go on exploring two other well-themed and action packed sectors in the park. For this part I shall touch on Universal Studios Singapore Jurassic Park Lost World and Water World performance. The Lost World As John hammond would exclaim- Welcome to Jurassic Park!. Without a doubt, no Universal theme park is complete without venturing into their Jurassic park...
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Universal Studios Singapore Theme park Madagascar and Far Far Away

Continuing on my exploration from the Hollywood Boulevard and New york stretch of Universal Singapore. The theme park comprises of a number of individually themed park sectors, each with their own unique rides, food stalls and entertainers. Let's check out the more family-orientated side of the park, cue the toony and fairy tale regions of Universal Studios Singapore...
Singapore

Universal Studios Singapore Theme park Hollywood stretch and New York

Universal Studios Singapore is part of Singaporean master plan to establish the country as a world-class and major tourist destination in Southeast Asia. Part of this plan comprises of two new integrated resorts. This comprises namely the Marina Bay Sands Resort in the Singapore Central business district and the Resort World’s Sentosa. The latter is run by...
Events

28th SEA Games Opening Ceremony

The SEA Games is Southeast Asian (SEA) is a multi-sport event between 11 participating countries in SEA themselves organised as a biennial event. The one in 2015 is hosted by the city-state of Singapore and is the fourth time Singapore had hosted the games and the first time since 1993. The one opening on 5th June will...
Events

Inaugural U Creative Summit with Jake Parker in Singapore

Jake Parker presented a short presentation on his professional life, works and a short introduction into his life story as an illustrator and concept artist. Jake himself has works with Marvel (Rocket raccoon series), Blue Sky Studios, Disney Animation and Warner Brothers Animation. The event was hosted by NTUC in partnership with Lasalle College of the Arts,...
Events

28th SEA Games Fireworks and Sports carnival

Leading up to the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games is a sports carnival held right at the OCBC square at the Singapore sports hub. The localised event comprises of various booths, merchandise stores and a live stage (with live performances almost daily), filled with events leading up to the actual opening ceremonies of the SEA Games. Here you...
Art

Artwork- Robot mech

A bipedal robot mech sketched during my free time today.
Australia

Gold Coast SkyPoint Observation Deck

The Q1 building is one of the few tallest buildings on the Surfer’s Paradise skyline and currently the tallest building in the Gold Coast, even overlooking the Soul tower. The building architecture itself is rather unique too, shaped to withstand the strong regular cyclone winds originating from the east. So it makes good sense to put the...
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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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Events

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Lights by the lake 2024 Jurong lake gardens

Let’s take a visit and explore the Mid-Autumn Lights by the Lake 2024 at the Jurong Lake Gardens. The event offers a Singaporean celebration...

Singapore Night Festival 2024

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Cable Cars A Ride Through Time at Vivocity Mall

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Singapore Garden Festival 2024

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European

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...

Sheng Ji Fishball Noodle Bukit Merah

Asian

Yat Ka Yan Dessert (Fortune Centre)

Asian

Kheng Fatt beef noodles Golden Mile

Asian

COCA steamboat

Buffets

Mio Fine Foods Neil Road

Japanese

Food for thought National Museum

Western

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