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  • Singapore: Nice Pancake At Hoshino Coffee, Plaza Singapura

    Singapore: Nice Pancake At Hoshino Coffee, Plaza Singapura

    Singapore: Nice Pancake At Hoshino Coffee, Plaza Singapura – What to do after a tiring walk in the mall? Of course it’s take a break, sit down for a high-tea with some nice beverage and light bites. Mom and I came across of this Hoshino Coffee at new wing of Plaza Singapura and we went to have our feet rest.

    The wait was not fancy because it took about 15 minutes for us to get a place. The queue was long and people in the didn’t really seems want to get out of their comfy seat. Anyway, skip the rambling on the queue thingy and let’s get into food.

    It’s a Japanese brand cafe serving pancake, some desserts and also pasta too! So wanted to try them all but my stomach was pretty full over the lunch. I ordered their recommended Scuffle Pancake With Chocolate Banana and Softee (another option instead of softee is cream) at S$13.

    And then we also ordered a cup of in-house special Hoshino Hot Coffee at S$5.

    The coffee, the fragrance very nice, the taste very smooth. Not a very coffee guy I am, but I still like it.
    Nicely presented pancake.

    Overall, it was a good resting place for us. The pancake was nice, pretty sweet and the warm pancake serve with softee ice cream and chcolate banana and a little bit of honey was just delicious for me. Yums. By the way, it’s my first time eating such pancake. Haha.

    Hoshino Cofee 星乃珈琲店68, Orchard Road,
    #03-84 Plaza Singapura
    (Atrium @ Orchard)
    Singapore 238839
    Telephone: +65 63383277
    Opening Hours: 11.30am – 9.00pm Daily


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  • Sunrise: Good Morning Singapore Straits From Marina Bay Sands

    Sunrise: Good Morning Singapore Straits From Marina Bay Sands

    Sunrise: Good Morning Singapore Straits From Marina Bay Sands – The hotel room at Marina Bay Sands has a good view of the Singapore Straits and you need not be surprise with all the ships parking in the middle of the sea. Come on, this is Singapore, one of the busiest port in the world. Guess that breaks the beauty of the straits. Anyway, you can get a good view of sunrise from here but then the weather has been naughty. There’s no clear blue sky, a little bit of cloudy, and here’s what I’ve got.

    Overlooking Gardens By The Bay.
    Ships and the shy Sun.

    At least it’s better than the second day which I got nothing because of rain and I am pretty happy that I’ve got the photos! Yay. Lovely, still, right?

  • Singapore: Day 1 At The Marina Bay Sands Resort

    Singapore: Day 1 At The Marina Bay Sands Resort

    Singapore: Day 1 At The Marina Bay Sands Resort – Singapore, oh Singapore, it’s like my another home now. I was there like 2 months ago! And now I am there again. It’s my fourth time in Singapore for this year and in my mind, Singapore is just another part of Malaysia. HAHA.

    Entertainment on the Aeroline coach. I guess I almost finish all the movie available.

    I was very excited to go Singapore this time because my exam is over, I have no stress of assignment and the best part is to swim at one of the awesome-mest and tallest swimming pool in the world (at 57th floor of Marina Bay Sands Resort Singapore).

    The trip to Singapore via a comfortable coach was tiring and long because of the freaking delayed at the immigration. Upon arriving at Harbour Front at 4pm, it took several change of subway to reach the Bayfront station (Harbour Front >Outram Park Interchange > Raffles Place Interchange > Marina Bay Interchange > Bayfront). Luckily, my brother guided me or else I will be spending extra time looking at the maps.

    Interesting decor hanging at the atrium.
    Marina Bay Sands.
    The view from the hotel room. Lots of vessels on the Singapore straits.

    Parents were there earlier already, dropped my luggage and first thing was to eat to cure my freaking hungry stomach. My first meal was on the bus, the second meal is at the Rasa Pura food court of Marina Bay Sands, after meal and it’s swim time! This one was fun because this was long-waited for me. Visitors have to pay S$20 to visit and you can’t go to the swimming pool!


    It was windy, chilly and I have no idea where the sun was. A toe into the water brings a series of chill up to my body. A quick dip into the water send of a shivering all over me and after a while, I got comfortable. It’s 57th floor and no doubt that it’s windy up there. The view was just magnificent, it’s crowded with kids, babes, uncles, and aunties, it’s so different from the busy city life of Singapore’s CBD, this is call resort.

    Pepper Lunch, the same thing I ate when I was a t Rasa Pura 2 months back. =.=
    Brother.
    Singapore, same shot everytime. This time with a proper camera, my Canon 60D.

    Just a quick dip into the water then went to Rasa Pura again for dinner, nothing much cheap in MBS and that’s why the food court again. Window shop around Marina Bay Sands, visited the Louis Vuitton again, take photos of the Singapore’s city scape again (I’ve been doing the same thing everytime I go to Marina Bay Sands), and then I went to the swimming pool again with my brother, (again).

    Ze swimming pool at night.

    Night time was fun because of the awesome night view, but it’s even colder than evening. I wonder why there’s no heater in the pool, perhaps to shoooo people away from it I guess.

    Pool closes at 11pm and we went back to the hotel room to call it a day.

  • Sunset: Singapore City

    Sunset: Singapore City

    Sunset: Singapore City – Travelled light and did not bit any big camera with me, the Panasonic Lumix LX5 is still bulky to fit into my jeans pocket so I only had a Samsung Galaxy S2 with me when I was in Singapore. So yeah, I found out that from Marina Bay Sands Boardwalk, you can get a little view of sun setting into the skyline of Singapore City. So yeah, again, the effect is kinda cool, when there’s blue sky and nice twilight.

  • Singapore: Ippudo Ramen, Mandarin Gallery

    Singapore: Ippudo Ramen, Mandarin Gallery

    Yeah, the shop front.

    Singapore: Ippudo Ramen, Mandarin Gallery – This ramen is a bomb! Not the price, but the taste! It’s better than a lot ramen I had in Kuala Lumpur, or Penang. I don’t think Penang has good ramen, maybe Kuala Lumpur. Located at Mandarin Gallery, Orchard Road is this Ippudo Ramen restaurant. Upon arriving, I already see a long queue outside the restaurant waiting to be seated.

    The queue. So hungry wheyyyyyy.
    The interiors, not really a big restaurant.

    Well, it took us about like 20 minutes to be seated and we ordered right away. Brother did the ordering for me as he went there a few times. The place is not an ideal for chit-chating as it’s quite noisy and has some music playing on which the it’s not those soft and sentimental music.

    I am so sorry for forgetting about the food name, but please allow the pictures speak for it. =)

    Appetizer: Cucumber!
    Appetizer 2: Curry toufu with dry noodle. This one is very yummy, it’s curry powder sauce.
    The ramen, special soup, with tamago, cha shu pork, garlic, and lard. The soup is simply awesome but it seems like there’s a lot MSG which makes me thirst after that.

    Do you like ramen? Come share your favourite place for ramen.

    Ippudo
    333A Orchard Road
    Singapore 238897
    6235 2797


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  • Singapore: DBS Sailing By Marina Bay & Eason Chen’s DUO Concert

    Singapore: DBS Sailing By Marina Bay & Eason Chen’s DUO Concert

    Space ship hotel and casino – Marina Bay Sands.

    Singapore: DBS Sailing By Marina Bay & Eason Chen’s DUO Concert – Two weeks ago, I went to Singapore to check out…….. the Eason Chen’s DUO Concert! It’s the second time Eason Chen had the DUO Concert in Singapore, DUO Concert have been running for two years already, I guess Eason still haven’t earn enough $$ from it. O.o

    The sail with DBS logo.

    Brother and his lovely girlfriend.
    Brotherhood! =D

    So Singapore, I came again! Something special for me this time because I went on on a sail ride on the water of Marina Bay! It’s fun because not many get a chance to sail on the bay and really need to thanks my brother’s girlfriend who is an employee for DBS Bank. It’s a special sailing event for DBS staffs and their family and friends only, so here we were on the sail. It was pretty windy that evening, so the sailing was pretty fast and fun.

    Ticket collection.
    Storm coming!
    Me… Haha.
    Waiting for Eason.

    Unfortunately, storm came and we had to go back on shore quickly. We could heard Eason doing his rehearsal by the bay! Free songs before the concert started. Storm came and thunder rumblings around the sky of Singapore, heavy raining of cats and dogs from the heaven, it postponed the concert. Sucks. It’s a rain or shine event, located right outside of Marina Bay Sands, the stage overlooks the Singapore city but my free standing area was not favouring. Sucks again.

    Woooo, Ahhhh, Yooo, EASOOONN.

    Rain or shine, it supposed to start at 8pm, but no idea what the event organizer was doing and delayed till 9++pm, queued an hour of it and that’s really bad. Eason came and started singing, some funny interaction between him and us, but then I saw the crowds at there were like not really high at all, feel sad for them lo. I heard that many of the people who came got free tickets from the casino as a reward, I wonder do they know who is Eason Chen or not. LOL.

    After all, it was just OK-good concert to me, not because of the rain, but the crowds and the standing location, not forget to mention the event organizer too, lousy. Forget about it, I met Eason, and I sailed on the Marina Bay, the trip was good.

    ………………………………….So, yeah.

  • Hong Kong: Street Photography – Causeway Bay 铜锣湾

    Hong Kong: Street Photography – Causeway Bay 铜锣湾

    Hong Kong: Street Photography – Causeway Bay – Picture speaks a thousand words. Throwing up a lot photos taken during my trip to Hong Kong last December at Causeway Bay, the vibrant and happenings shopping district. =) I love Hong Kong, I love big city.

    MTR Central Station.
    Look at the number of people on the street. Somewhere around Times Square.
    World Trade Centre with shopping mall below.
    Hennessy Road as seen.
    Night is prettier than day at here, it’s so bright and ‘sunny’!
    Wayfinding pole.
    Middle of the road.
    Simply awesome street food. I like curry fish ball and 牛什.

     

    Hello Aunty!

     

    Bonjour, a cosmetic chain store in Hong Kong.
  • Hong Kong: Big Buddha, Toufu Fa, Lantau Island

    Hong Kong: Big Buddha, Toufu Fa, Lantau Island

    Hong Kong: Big Buddha, Toufu Fa, Lantau Island – One of the cool place to visit in Hong Kong is Lantau Island where the Big Buddha statue is. It’s not only just visiting the statue, you can get some nice moment off from the vibrant busy city life of Hong Kong.

    You can take the MTR to Tung Chung Station, then do some shopping at Citygate Outlet, then you can pick to use the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car or go up by bus. It was a super long queue at the cable car station and we bought a package of going there by bus and coming back by cable car. It’s cheaper and faster too.

    We did some shopping at Citygate, there’s many brands at there, selling at a discounted price. Then we took the bus to go see the Big Buddha statue. It took us about 20 minutes ride to there. It was nice to look at the scenery around.

    Big Buddha is situated on top of a hill, it’s huge and very beautiful. One must not miss is the 山水豆腐花 Toufu Fa, the beancurd toufu far is so smooth and mouth-watering. It’s a bit different with ours as it has ginger in it.


    After touring around Po Lin Monastery (official name), we went back down through the cable car. Aduhainya, we queued 40 minutes for the cable car!

    Fun, but won’t visit the Buddha again, maybe next time can go there for hiking!

  • Hong Kong: Apple Store, Central 中环苹果店

    Hong Kong: Apple Store, Central 中环苹果店

    Hong Kong: Apple Store, Central 中环苹果店 – Let’s fly to Hong Kong today and check out the Apple Store located at Central area of Hong Kong Island. I’ve been to one at Nanjing Lu and another one at Pudong, Shanghai, both of them are very cool.

    Actually, most of the Apple Store around the world looks the same, they have the same interior layout, the famous glass spiral stairs, and what’s difference is the language and visitors. It’s Hong Kong and it’s Chinese all around. Same as the two stores in Shanghai, this one in Hong Kong was very crowded too!

    I feel that Apple Store is one of the attractions in Hong Kong as there’s not much Apple Store located in Asia.

  • First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas – Publika, a mixed development mall + office + residential located at Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur is a very cool place. I went there for the very first time last week for dinner and to check out that place as I’ve heard friends telling me that the place is cool. Yes, indeed it is.

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    It’s a very artsy mall which houses many cool and nice cafe and restaurant. The interiors of the mall is decorated with various arts pieces that also serves as furniture. If you are a designer, sure you will like that place, touching, taking photos and enjoying the place.

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    First Time: Pubika @ Solaris Dutamas

    Unfortunately I did not bring my DSLR with me, or else I would have busy shooting. Anyway, will go back again, eat and to see. =)

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