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Mrupupup attended the Gala Premiere of Ilo Ilo  爸妈不在家. Great acting from the cast and very honest portrayal of a family life in Singapore. Ilo Ilo won the the Cannes Award 2013 for Director Anthony Chen, the very first Cannes Award for Singapore. Mrupupup felt proud to watch the movie Ilo Ilo and Singapore has great talents! Good Job! This is what I call a gala premiere with the Singapore President gracing the occasion at Marina Bay Sands Theatres. The event also had many celebrities : Glenda Chong (TV news reader), Ivan Heng (Director for dramas/plays), Pierre Png (TV actor), Eunice Olsen (famous celebrity) and many more. Ok, enough names dropping, go watch the Ilo Ilo movie which opens in Singapore on 29 August 2013 and be surprise to see the Singapore in the 1980s and 1990s. Enjoy! Ilo Ilo Movie Premiere at Marina Bay Sands Theatres   Cast and Director Anthony Chen   French House of Remy Martin giving Director Anthony Chen a gold plated bottle   1 year baby

Mrupupup attended the movie premiere of the new 3D movie Percy Jackson : Sea of Monsters at Shaw Lido Theatre. The movie was an adrenalin rush because it got many action scenes. Mrupupup felt the movie was ok and more suitable for teenagers. The story is about a young boy with greek god super power and his friends trying to save the world. The movie got many special effects. Percy Jackson is like a Harry Potter and would not be able to die. Percy Jackson would travel to an exotic location of where there is a special cloth named as Golden Fleece and try to steal it away from a Cyclops (one eye monster) in order to save a young lady which was protecting the village from destruction. The whole story ended on a positive note and no good guys die. The move will release in Singapore on 29 August 2013. Have fun watching the movie and enjoy the action scenes.   Movie trailer  

Mrupupup on one fine weekday evening walked to Jollibee to try out their popular chicken and other fast food items on the menu. The Jollibee Singapore is located at Lucky Plaza #06-048A (at Orchard Road). Ok, the queue was crazy but not as crazy as it first opened. Mrupupup queued for about half an hour during that evening. This Jollibee Singapore outlet is said to be the busiest outlet in the world. Jollibee is from Philippines and has established over 800 outlets in the world. Well, the food seems appealing to everybody. Mrupupup tried the ChickenJoy consisting of two pieces of chicken, pack of rice and potato sauce ($6 plus), spaghetti (apparently it is quite famous and popular) about $4. Both food items came with a soft drink. The chicken was good, tender and not too oily (like KFC) and quite juicy. Mrupupup also first time tried chicken meat with rice, normally eat chicken with french fries or mashed potato. The spaghetti was interestingly sweet and nice but the portion was quit

Mrupupup attended a team building session using Laser Quest. Wow, really fun to do shooting using infra red weapons. First time laser tagging people! Really fun hitting targets behind tall cushions and moving targets. Great way to build team bonding by working as team to accomplish the missions. The laser quest weapon was heavy and one needs to wear a 'tag' of red bulbs around the head. Once you got hit, the laser gun would announce "Man Down, Man Down!" If you hit somebody, the weapon would signal "Good Hit!"       One needs to hide behind large cushion 'boulders' & engage in the mission to overcome the other team. If possible, do wait patiently and don't get hit.     The Centre of Performance Transformation (CPT) team at NSRCC (located at Changi Coast Road) went through the safety rules for Laser Quest. Mrupupup liked the CPT team and they could be quite humorous in giving out the instructions.     Need to

Thanks to LG. Mrupupup got to try the newly launched LG Pocket Photo Printer.    Good points of LG Pocket Photo Printer 1. Very light weight - about a mobile phone weight - 215g 2. Easy to carry with a pouch 3. Can use Bluetooth, NFC technology and wireless printing. Use smartphone. 4. Zink's inkless printing technology which touts longer image 5. Small image print out which was cute 6. Resulting printout measures 5.1 x 7.6cm (that is, 2 x 3-inch), which is perfect for sharing and displaying .6. Great photo apps to touch up & need to download app "LG Pocket Pinter" from Google play store or apple store 7. Two colours - Silver or pink   Not so good points 1. Installation took some time 2. Cannot figure out the different colour lights on the side of the pocket printer 3. Image was good but can be clearer 4. Not cheap - $199 for LG Pocket Printer from stores & pack of Zink media photo paper for 30 pieces costs $15 ($0.50 per piec

Mrupupup going to tell you a store where it sells egg tarts. Fancy Delight sells all sorts of egg tarts which come in many flavours: strawberry, apple cinnamon, banana, durian, orange chocolate, kiwi and many more. Mrupupup went to the Nex mall at level 3 near to NTUC. Shusssh, don't tell people that the egg tarts are nice. The egg tarts comes with wholesome soft sweetness with many flavours and the crust tasted good. Think don't eat too many egg tarts, too many eggs for the week means high cholesterol. Mrupupup likes the orange chocolate egg tart! Another secret - Fancy Delights sells the egg tarts at a much cheaper price of $1 per tart  between 9pm to 10pm in order to get rid of stock for the day. A money saving tip! If cannot wait, just get one egg tart at $1.40 or better still just get a box to share. Yummys!!!    

OKG Express - Old Kim Guan served 'home cooked' Chinese food at Nex Mall, #01-58 (near to UOB Bank). Indeed, Mrupupup felt that OKG Express lived up to their tag line of  "the good old taste of home cooking". Mrupupup tried their curry chicken, preserved vegetables with pork, lychee lemon tea drink and chin chow drink. Mrupupup got to say one thing - OKG served up very nice and fragrant rice. Without excellent 'fluffy' rice, chicken curry would not taste nice no matter how good it was. Well, with very good rice, the chicken curry ($5) was a good match with tender chicken wings and curry sauce that  was not too spicy. The 'Mei Cai Kou Rou' - preserved vegetables with tender pork slices ($3.80) went well with the chicken curry. Mrupupup felt like some person's mother cooked at home for the two dishes. Mrupupup preferred the chin chow drink ($1.80) over the more expensive lychee lemon tea ($2.80) for it was a bit too sweet (think OKG used canned lyc

With much pride, Mrupupup attended the National Day Parade 2013 (NDP). Thanks to Today Newspaper managed to get tickets to the actual parade on 9 August 2013.  In Singapore, one needs to be very lucky to attend the actual birthday celebration of Singapore's birthday on 9 August every year. Mrupupup had this rare chance to attend the actual parade for NDP 2013. Mrupupup's feedback of the parade: fantastic and superb! Mruupup loved the musical style format created for this year. There were many personalities on stage for NDP 2013- Gurmit Singh, Vernetta Lopez, Sebestian Teo, Vocaluptous singing group, Ah Boys to Men stars, Under One Rood- Moses Lim and Dolly, Shimona Kee (singer). Besides the musical format, there were sports personalities, army & police hardware on display, fighter jets, navy boats, spectacular fireworks, and even the 'immobile' Merlion appeared on stage (really made me laugh!). Overall, it was a great NDP 2013 and Mrupupup would remember this NDP

That Girl In Pinafore (A Singapore Love Story) - 我的朋友，我的同學，我愛過的一切 is a very nice locally made movie about life in the 1980s and 1990s of Singapore. Mrupupup was invited for the movie gala premiere at GV Vivocity. Mrupupup enjoyed the movie very much. The songs played in the movie were from the Chinese 'Xinyao' music era in Singapore. It was the glorious times in Chinese music in Singapore. The 'Xinyao' songs at that era were all so beautifully crafted. Loved the replaying of all the popular 'Xinyao' songs in this movie.  The movie was about a love story between a poor boy and rich girl. The storyline was nice. At the end of the day, the movie ended tragically for one of the character. Well, a decent movie storyline always would have a tinge of sadness, for life is never perfect. This movie has local stars like Daren Tan 陈世维, Julie Tan 陈欣淇, Jayley Woo Jiaqi & many more. If you are a Singaporean, go watch the movie which was released on 1 August 2013. If