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Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant @ Little India, Singapore

While I was in Singapore, I met up with Nicolepoopoo and she wanted to try indian food for dinner. As I wasn't familiar with Little India area, we decide to do a search on the computer for a restaurant to go to. The restaurant of choice? Sri Kamala Vilas Restaurant, which is practically everywhere we go. There's a total of 2 →


Portraits 2010 #10: Serene Heng

Another bridal themed shoot. Shot indoor mostly due to rain.


Song of the Sea @ Sentosa Island

After the visit to the Universal Studio Singapore, we decided that since we still got time and since we're in Sentosa Island, might as well not waste the opportunity to head down to the Beach area to check out the Song of the Sea performance. It's held nightly at 7.45pm and 8.45pm rain or shine. Yup, even if it's raining →


Standard Chartered’s Little Champions

It's a Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for children in Asia to be escorts to world-class soccer players at the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League matches which are watched by hundreds and thousands of people worldwide. This is historic as it's the first time children from Asia and Middle East have the opportunity to be player escorts at the UEFA Champions League matches How to →


Onward to Vientiane!

The Opening ceremony's about 24 hours away. If you're seeing this page, that can only mean one thing. I've gone to Laos and for the next 2 weeks. I'm going to be there cheering the Malaysian team on, irregardless of how many medals they are bringing back. An estimate of 300 to 400-member Malaysian contingent is already there getting themselves used →


FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009

Was at the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup recently, must say that I have no idea who is who in the swimming world but I'm not there to try and know the people there. Just snap some photos and sharing here. There's a lot more photos after the jump. Feel free to comment on them. More on my flickr.


Official Photos from The Nuffnang Bloggers’ tour of Singapore

Following suit from the Nuffnang Awards, the Bloggers from outside of Singapore was given a tour of the island city to the various parts to soak in the cultural and technological extravaganza. Following are photos from the tour. Sorry if your photos are not in here as I could only go into the tour with 2 groups and could not join →


Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards Official Photos

The weekend was abuzz with activities as bloggers from Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines gathered in Singapore with the Singaporean bloggers for the biggest blog award ceremony the Asia Pacific region has ever witnessed. Here's the first set of some of my fav. moments from the Blog Awards not necessarily from the award itself but also the camwhoring moments. The official photos →


Malaysian Bloggers Jumping into the sunset

What do you get when you have a nice sunset in the background and a bunch of bloggers with some time to waste? Blogger's Jump Photos of course! These was shot a day after the Nuffnang Awards and it was towards the end of the tour when we decide to take a break and shoot some landscape. The opportunity was there →


The Sultan of Selangor Cup: Singapore vs Selangor

If you've been following local football since the good old days when Singapore was still part of the M League and Malaysia Cup series, you'd know how strong the rivalry between Singapore and Selangor is. Each game held at the various stadiums are constantly packed with people. These days, the only time we see these two teams battle it out is →


Red Bull F1 Party @ Sentosa Island

I've been bugged to post up photos from this event for quite some time now and since I have some time at the moment, why not post it up and make everyone happy right? It's the Red Bull F1 Party at Sentosa Island and I'll just let the photos do all the talking here. If you spot yourself in any of →


Yam Char Restaurant @ Chinatown, Singapore

This should have been posted long long ago but due to the terrible connections at some of the places I ventured to, it's hard to do so. Some time back, I ventured to this place in Chinatown, Singapore in search of lunch. You know how much I love my Dim Sums and how I want to finally be ordering food →


President Star Charity 2009 and Coco Lee

Had an opportunity to work with the Mediacorp artistes at the just concluded President Star Charity 2009 event that was broadcasted Live on TV. Not sure how many of you caught the show, ain't familiar with it myself as I'm not familiar with local TV scene. Nevertheless, the experience was fantastic. The journey started yesterday when I stepped into the studio →


Up-Close and racing with Sébastien Buemi

Previously, I posted photos of Jaime Alguersuari of Scuderia Toro Rosso, this post is about his team mate, Sébastien Buemi. Also taken at the same location, Sébastien carries himself in a more confident manner throughout the day, even at the Red Bull party (that'll be another story for another post). So without much needed introduction, here's some photos taken from →


Up-Close and Racing with Jaime Alguersuari

He might not be in the fight for the top spots in Formula 1, but nevertheless, he is one of the 20 that's lucky enough to race competitively in the Formula 1 race. Jaime Alguersuari took some time off his busy schedule to meet with Scuderia Toro Rosso fans prior to the Singapore GP and race around a few laps at →


Mercedes McLaren F1 Drivers

The whole week, the whole of Singapore was abuzz with F1 activities from the driver meet the fans session to media interviews. One of the team that was busy going all over town attending such functions was the McLaren F1 team. I'm no McLaren fan but who would reject opportunities to meet these drivers face to face right? The McLaren trip →


LA Laker’s Jordan Farmar

Those that knew me long enough knows that I'm a huge fan of the LA Lakers, I practically grew up watching the team battle it out day in and day out under Magic Johnson before his tragic retirement due to HIV. From then, there was a slump in form before Jackson came in as the team coach and brought the franchise →


1 Week to Singapore GP

It's 1 week to the Formula 1 Race in Singapore. Not sure about you but I'm excited about it. Having been to the one in Sepang, I'd love to experience the race in another country, in this case, it's Singapore! I've been working like a dawg lately as there's bills to pay and all that mumbo jumbo but at the moment, →


Balestier Bak Kut Teh @ ION Orchard

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my pork, and one of my fav. pork dishes are the bak kut tehs. Tell me where the best Bak Kut Teh place is located and I'll try to make it there to give it a try. One such place I was recommended to try out in Singapore is the Balistier →


36th Taekwondo National Championship 2009

The following series of photos are shot at the recently concluded TKD National Championship. It's been awhile since I last went for a competition and it felt great being in an arena packed with young TKD exponents battling it out with one another. Bring back good ol memories of how crazy it was in college when every free time the few →


Midnight Rugby 10s

Recently, I attended this unique Rugby match that was played from sun down til, well, very late. The name of the event's known as the Rugby Midnight 10s where as you guess it, teams play rugby at midnight. It was an interesting concept and was told that this is the 2nd year it was held. The Winning purse is USD11,000 which →


Marché @ Vivo City

It's been awhile since I last ate at Marche, it was so long ago that I can't remember what I ate there but I'm sure the one I had at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara is similar to the one at Vivo City. It was a nice day when I could spend a nice quiet day and head to somewhere nice →


The Great Singapore Sale 2009

It's that time of the year where my baby's sense of logic goes out the window. Only this time of the year, between the 29th of May to the 26th of July. Everywhere she turn, she see the word BUY BUY BUY flashing before her very eyes. It's that time of the year where all guys dread and all girls →


Singapore River Fesitval & Nuffnang SG Pajamas Party

This is a photo heavy post.... wait... all my post have loads of photos... oh well... Went with the Nuffnang Singapore Bloggers and the Nuffies on a tour of the Singapore River Festival when I was at Singapore. Quite an interesting adventure walking from Clark Quay to Boat Quay to catch the boat for the boat ride after watching the →