No trip to Dubai is complete without spending a day at the Dubai Mall. Calling your mall establishment the "Dubai Mall" (Or the mall of the Dubai) does come with raised expectations of what to expect, being it to live up to it's name as a "national mall" or sort. My day there begins back out into...
There are many modes of transport around Dubai, with the usual bus, trains and taxis, with the latter being my personal favorite due to the sheer number of them on the streets. You can never get along walking along the streets without a taxi finding you in less than a minute. And mind you, the taxis here...
Trip date 24th-28th September
My trip to Dubai last year was part of a multi city stop over from Singapore terminal one onwards to London United Kingdom for my upcoming college term via Dubai flying Emirates. Emirates have very good airfare rates with the exception of rather picky baggage allowance for these stopovers in Dubai, presumably beckoning you...
Behold, a massive photo update of my recent trip to Dubai last week. It took my sometime to get all the photos uploaded and captioned while settling into my new room here in college. School starts tomorrow for me and it had been a really busy week settling uni administrative stuff as well as managing the freshers...
So what did I do for Halloween this year, well I made my own costume this year, 2 in fact. I had quite a number of parties to attend this year, so I figured I diversify my arsenal a li' ol bit. I made a Half-life zombie costume using a bloodied labcoat and shirt, coupled with my...
As part of my university internship and industrial experience requirements, I spent the last summer back in Singapore working 8 weeks from the 26th of July to the 17th of September. I've got the opportunity to work on improving a large caliber weapons system currently actively employed in the Singapore Armed forces.
The organisation is no Stark...
Rydal is a small nature area close by are Grasmere to the north and Ambleside to the south-east. It is home to few interesting attractions, we have the Rydal water, which is an enclosed lake by a small wooded area overlooked by a fell, the Rydal hall and mount which are historical houses. You can stop by...
Keswick is a market town and civil parish within the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It is largely a rather developed town with a population of about 5000. It is situated just north of Derwent Water, and a short distance from Bassenthwaite Lake, and about a 90mins drive north of the town of Windermere.
We arrived by...
Glenridding and Ullwater are one of the must-visit sites in the lake district. Without transport, it's isolated location gives it some degree of challenge in getting there too. A single public bus services, served by stagecoach departs to Glenridding 3 times daily excluding weekends. Visitors will have to endure roughly an hour long trip by bus through...
Ambleside is a town in Cumbria, in North West England historically within the county of Westmorland. It is located not too far off the city of Windermere at the head of Windermere and within the Lake District National Park. The "mere" in Windermere here means a long, thin lake, which is also England's largest lake.
Many regular public...
Trip date 11-12 June 2010
My trip to the Lake district is a continuation of my previous trip from Alton towers at Uttoxeter near Staffordshire. Our journey there requires a single change of trains (from the Virgin express) to the internal First great western trains at Oxenholme station. The Virgin trains are Alstom liners, all loaded with tech...
Altontower Mini (Extraordinary) golf- Trip date 11th June 2010
An idiot’s way to playing golf in a whacked out world is what miniature golf have to offer, (well not in a bad way of course), often with many interesting challenges and finds too. The Alton towers mini Extraordinary Golf one is no exception either. It’s a fairly new...
Trip date 11th June 2010
The Alton towers waterpark is one of the main attractions in Alton towers itself. It is a standalone attraction located right inside the splash landings hotel. The hotel is one complimentary to the water park and is one of the 2 hotels which is owned and serves the Alton parks directly.
Both the...
Trip to Alton towers theme park (10th June 2010)
Alton Towers is one of the few must visit places in the UK for thrills and fun, well for at least a theme park fanatic like me at least. It is a theme park and resort located in Staffordshire, England and is the second most visited theme park in...
The National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA), Gold award holders alumni (GAHA) 15th anniversary dinner was on today. Held at The Pines, (previously known as The Pinetree club), it saw the reunion of the gold award holders over a lush 15 years of history in the presence of Mr Mah Bow Tan as the guest of honor. Dr...
Aha, it's finally done. Behold, one of the largest updates to the photo galleries in a long time. The UK photo gallery has been online for sometime since early this year, but I’ve not actually found time to update anything nor caption any of the photos till my breather time this summer holidays.
Thankfully for that done now,...
Upon my return back to Singapore for the summer holidays, the Marina bay sands resort is one of my few places must visit places before I head back to the UK for my next university term. I remembered passing by the ECP from the airport ogling at the newly glass-cladded monstrosities, standing on a once large undeveloped...
A HD video I got compiled from last Monday's celebration of the national day parade 2010. Celebrating Singapore's 45 years of independence.
The video essentially starts after the National anthem and lasts through the whole 5 minute firework show, ending with the president's leave from the Padang.
Happy 45th birthday Singapore! And so, I was at the national day parade (NDP) tonight. I was fortunate to be invited to watch it today at a rather short notice thanks to an ex-classmate of mine who knew I was around town and happened to have an additional ticket at the last minute. :3
This was of course...
As what Tychus Findlay would say "Hell, it's about time". Yes indeed, with 12 years in the waiting since 1998, Starcraft 2 is finally released and in the hands of gamers as part of a 3 series story starting with the Terran campaign- "Wings of liberty". The official launch party in Singapore was on today afternoon at...
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...
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...