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Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridge adventures

Imperial War Museum Duxford is a vast educational museum and live airfield devoted to British Aviation located in Cambridgeshire, England. It is operated in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Duxford Aviation Society. It is home to a vast selection of nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition buildings. This...

Fixing infinite boot loop between Windows 8 boot loader and GRUB

Going in addition to my previous blog post of installing and running Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) on your x86 based system. I encountered an interesting infinite boot loader loop problem evident only if you install your Linux distribution (and GRUB) on top of a Windows 8 system using the new Windows 8 radical boot loader. This...

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) on PC (x86)

The idea of Windows 8 running on ARM based tablets is unreal, but the idea of running Android on x86 based PCs is even cooler. Knowing the crazed Android platform developer and supporter I am, what's the least I can do than to get it running on my x86-based tablet PC? You can start off by grabbing the...

Windows 8 test drive on consumer preview build

When the Metro interface was first announced for Windows 8, I had the humorous impression of it being Windows Phone for PC. We've seen the Metro interface already being implemented on the Xbox and the Windows Phone platform, knowing Microsoft's enthusiasm on this rather unique interface, it will be only a matter of time before it finds...

Snowy greetings from Cambridge!

2011 turned out to be pretty much a snow-less year, with the Christmas period surprisingly devoid of any snow, considering how it usually comes in early December for the last 2 years. And before you can call it spring, it's snowing in Cambridge today! Strangely, nearly 2 months later than usual. The weather here in the midlands...

Happy 2012 Lunar New Year of the Dragon!

It's the Chinese new year and of course no new year celebration to welcome to Lunar new year is complete without the inclusion of food! And lots of them. This year's celebrations was held at the Queens college junior combination room. I've never been to Queen's JCR before, only their halls for formals and apartments of friends...

World of Warcraft chilling in the new January

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. It was the December holidays, stretching all the way to January at least before the start of the upcoming Lent university term. With Portal, Skyrim, and TF2 boring me out these days, why not get back onto some RPGs like World of Warcraft? Well as you should...

That’s all for 2011 Hello 2012!

Happy New 2012! A whole new year, a whole new area of possibilities! The fireworks at London was fantastic even when viewed on the TV as broadcasted by the BBC. The sparkles lasted just over 12 minutes right after the midnight chimes of the Big Ben. It was a grand display of over 12,000 fireworks, producing 50,000...

Merry Christmasy from (not too cold) Cambridge!

And so it's December and time for a much needed blog post on the happenings so far here. Guess I was just too busy with stuff and the end of the that I had not found much time to share the happenings here as of date. The sad fact is that there is actually quite a lack...

Ahhoy! My third engineering year in college

And heyho! Summer break's over, it's the my third year in college and the start of Michaelmas now. A whole new world of exciting studying, homework-rejoicing and sociallife-killing fun awaits! Oh bummer. Third year engineering here in Cambridge is where the specialization in your field actually starts, as you actually get to learn what you (or for most...

Start of University 3rd year, H&M Singapore & Cancellation of Night Safari Halloween Horrors

Hey hey, I am back in the United Kingdom just at the start of my third year in college. My 2nd year was fairly good given my various commitments during school term, but otherwise still mostly study study study. I guess my year 1 made me better prepared for year 2, not only in terms of the...

Activision’s Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure

Tryouts were on tonight at the Hilton Singapore for a media showcase of Activision's newest cross platform action-fantasy adventure game- Skylanders Spyro's Adventure. As with all adventure games, gameplay involves controlling your character through a full 3D universe, with various baddies to beat and areas to explore. The game takes a different path of the Spyro franchise...

Cedar Point, America’s roller coaster kingdom, Sandusky Ohio

Cedar Point, the name synonymous with almost any theme park goer or thriller seeker around the world. With more than 17 major roller coasters located in the theme park, it is literally America's roller coaster capital, spotting the world record for the most number of roller coasters in one park itself. Notable high profile coasters here will...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Located in the Pennsylvania state, downtown Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh. It is colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle and is officially the central business district of the region. The city is the headquarters to several major global financial institutions including PNC, the nation's 5th largest bank, as well as the...

Miami Florida, South Beach and Aventura mall

Miami, Florida is a Resort City located in the Miami Dade County, Florida. It is incorporated into the United States on March 26, 1915. You should be no stranger and familiar with the typical beach and resort style setting of the area which the city is popular for. The municipality is located near the southern end of...

Universal Studios Orlando, Florida

This post covers my day trip to the Universal Studios Florida. The "studios" portion of the park is one of the 2 universal parks in the Universal studios Resort. It is located just north west from downtown international drive and a short 10 minute drive just off from there. The Universal Studios itself too is well served...

Islands of Adventure, Orlando Florida

The Islands of adventure is one of the two theme parks located in the Universal Florida Resort. Instead of having one big park which is impossible to cover altogether in one day, the park is split into 2 different independent parks, one the Universal Studios Orlando featuring various film related rides, theaters and production elements and the...

NASA – Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida

The NASA Kennedy space center (KSC) is a space launch facility for every United States human space flight since 1968. It is located on the Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida with both public and off limit space facilities. Given the need for remote launch sites literally in the middle of nowhere with minimal rainfall and always-clear skies...

Orlando Disneyland Hollywood (MGM) Studios

The Disney Hollywood (MGM) Studios is one of the 5 theme parks here in Walt Disney World Orlando, Florida. Parks here include the Epcot, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach water parks and the Animal Kingdom Zoo on top of the flagship Magic Kingdom park. All these parks span a huge area in this Disney world and are...

Orlando, Florida and Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort

My journey to Orlando begins with a flight on 17th June from Washington D.C. It's a connecting domestic flight, so no passport immigration is required for internal travel, unless if you wish to use it as a proof of ID at the counters, which can be alternatively by done with your national identity card too. TSA and...

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Technology and Gadgets

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...

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Singapore Night Festival 2024

Singapore Night Festival 2024

Singapore Garden Festival 2024

Food Reviews

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...

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