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A stimulating spread of brewing workshops, home roasting demos, flavour profile discovery classes, café talks and coffee degustation sessions await java junkies at Singapore Coffee Festival (SCF) 2017. Singapore’s only coffee-centric festival will also play host this year to the electrifying Singapore Aeropress Championships 2017, organised by Common Man Coffee Roasters, as well as the largest-ever Barter Market, a unique cashless bazaar featuring more than 20 local makers and artists and presented by urban artist Sam Lo’s Indigoism outfit. The four-day festival, which debuted as a sell-out event last year, returns on  Thursday, 3 August to Sunday, 6 August 2017.  at spacious seaside venue Marina Bay Cruise Centre. Organised by The Straits Times (ST) and presented by DBS, the festival is also supported by several sponsors including Family & Tech Partner Singtel, Premium Coffee Sponsor Nespresso, Official Cruise Partner Princess Cruises, Wildlife-friendly Coffee Partner Mandai

National Day Parade Singapore 2017 held in the beautiful Marina Bay area. This year got nice drones dancing in the evening sky to form pictures. All time favorite item of  NDP parade 2017 would be the nice fireworks lighting up the sky. Awesome! We love Singapore. Happy Birthday Singapore! Check out the videos! Dancing men in the sky using drones!

I Light Marina 2017 is the leading lights show in Asia. With 20 sustainable light installations, it would an interesting sight for your eyes. The light show starts from 3 March till 26 March 2017, 7.30pm to 11pm on weekdays and till 12am on weekends. Location: Marina Bay area near to Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Fullerton Bay Hotel area. Go check it out! There is a website : www.ilightmarinabay.sg/discover/installations For food and activities : www.ilightmarinabay.sg/discover/festival%20Map Celebrate Beauty, Arts and Beautiful lights in Sunny Singapore! Mrupupup's views: Loved the colourful 'Strips of light' section, Merlion in neon light up, and the Happy Balloons of Giant Whale & Scary Spider (at the stadium area)! Light Strips! Merlion in Neon Lights Scary Spider and Giant Whale 

All thanks to the Science Centre. Got to experience Science Centre Singapore - Marvel's Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N new exhibition show, Snow City and Omni Theatre. Pretty fun thing to do on a weekend, Bring the kids, they would love the Science Centre! The Marvel exhibition is a great show. It has an interactive component, you can see many figures from Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America's movie stuff and much more. I totally enjoyed the exhibition and I got to fight the evil guys using the app. I was totally fascinated by the HULK show whereby he would get really angry and become a huge beast! The Iron Man interactive experience was cool whereby kids (and also adults) get to wear the Iron Man suite (interactive fun) and fight the bad guys! Shoot them down! Haha ! Other stuff Mrupupup went were the Snow City and the Omni Theatre, which were fun too! Marvel Avengers exhibtion till 30 March 2017, 10am to 6pm. Singapore Science Centre. $30 (Adult), $25 (for Singaporean and PRs

Mruupup went to the Singapore Garden Festival (SGF), Asia’s premier tropical garden and flower show which is returning for its sixth installment from 23 – 31 July 2016 at Gardens by the Bay. The nine-day event is the largest show to-date, spanning 9.7 hectares across The Meadow, Flower Dome and Bayfront Plaza. SGF 2016 is set to mesmerise, surprise and wow visitors! Mrupupup went to check out this flower show. Loved flowers and this show has a visual fiesta of exquisite garden and floral displays, this year’s SGF will feature a host of exhibits and activities including:  15 Fantasy and Landscape Show Gardens featuring approximately 80 sqm creations by top award-winning gardening luminaries from around the world. This year’s festival will feature landscape and garden designers from Australia, China, France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America  14 Floral Windows to the World featuring colourful and vibrant

SINGAPORE WELCOMES THE GLOBAL RUGBY FAMILY  TO THE 2016 HSBC WORLD RUGBY SINGAPORE SEVENS ·         23 rugby nations gathered in Singapore – 16 world’s best for the HSBC World Sevens Series and seven including host nation taking part in South East Asia 7s ·         Rugby legends like Waisale Serevi, Ollie Phillps, George Gregan, Stirling Mortock are among the 5,000 overseas visitors in town for this week’s global rugby celebration April 2016 – The world’s best rugby teams have arrived in Singapore and are ready to rock, ruck and rumble at the 2016 HSBC World Rugby Singapore Sevens.  The festivities kick off with an ancillary tournament, the South East Asia 7s, on Friday, 15 April 16, at Yio Chu Kang Stadium with seven countries competing. Southeast Asian Games champion, Philippines, will take on Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Brunei and two Singapore sides in the men’s competition, while the women’s tournament features favourites Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indo

The DBS Marina Regatta is back, and this time, it is bigger and better than ever. This year’s regatta holds special significance with the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games (held in Singapore) to bring the best of the region’s sailing and dragon boating teams to Marina Bay in celebration of SG50 (Singapore is 50 years old).The Regatta spans three weekends, enabling even more people to join in the fun. Each weekend will offer something different for the community, including those who live and work around the Marina Bay area, sports enthusiasts and families. DBS Marina Regatta Festival Highlights Weekend 1 (30-31 May 15) Paddle for Good Weekend 2 (6-7 June 15) Best of Southeast Asia Sports Weekend 3 (13-14 June 15) SEA Games Sailing @ the Urban Beach Highlights • Paddle for Good • Asian Drum Challenge • Asian Songwriting Challenge  • Dance & Cheerleading Challenge • DBS Movies by the Bay • Cycle by the Bay • Bumboat tours • Amazing Race • Arcade Games/ Kinect • Regatta Cosplay

Mrupupup was at the Singapore Jazz Festival 2014 held at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel Main Event area - March 2014. The event was great and the jazz music was smooth flowing. Loved the jazz music especially from Gregory Porter and his band. Mr Sato the saxophonist for Gregory Porter's jazz band earn more claps than Gregory Porter himself. Singapore Jazz Festival 2014 was the best with the backdrop of the beautiful city skyline, flow of drinks, people chilling to the music and the jazz was absolutely world class. Mrupupup felt like he was in some jazz bar in New York when Gregory Porter sang about Harlem. Great music and great jazz. Singapore music scene is going to be one of the best in Asia. Bring back the soul music to Singapore. Oh yeah !        

I Light 2014 Singapore will be held at the Marina Bay Waterfront area. There will be various interesting light installations and some are interactive. For example, like a 'mimosa' plant type of lighting which interacts upon contact. The organisers were briefing us today that I Light will be a very special light installation festival and the designers would come from many countries. Mrupupup is looking forward to the light installation from Chile - glowing and will be beautiful to remember lives lost in an earthquake. Mrupupup has been to the Sydney Light Festival, Kobe luminaire and Osaka Light Festival, but Singapore will be home ground for Mrupupup. Looking forward to the I Light Marina Bay! I Light Marina Bay - 7 to 30 March 2014 - Marina Bay Waterfront Area Singapore - Free Admission - 7.30pm to 11pm.