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             Hida Furuakawa, in Gifu prefecture, is a few train stops away from Takayama where Mrupupup was staying. Hida Furukawa is a nice Japanese town. A quiet town when Mrupupup visited in early December.               The interesting part of Hida Furukawa was the nice stream running through the town. As it was close to winter, the carp fish found along the river canal had been take away for hibernation. With the nice carp fish, the canal would be a great sight. Think this Hida Furukawa town, although small in size, was beautiful.              Take a stroll along the town, one could find peace among the houses and temples. Mrupupup bought a nice Japanese snack and matcha (green tea) ice cream to eat while sitting along the river canal. Mrupupup just felt in peace within this place....

                Takayama in Japan is in the mountainous region. Mrupupup went to Takayama from Singapore. Mrupupup took a flight from Singapore to Nagoya airport. Then from the airport change the voucher of the Takayama Tourist pass for unlimited train travel. The voucher was changed at the Nagoya Train information counter at Nagoya Train Station area (a bit hard to find). If you get lost in Nagoya Train Station, just ask and the railway people would direct you.                 After changing for the 5 days Takayama Train pass, go take train to Takayama (about 1 hour 30 mins from Nagoya). Alight at Takayama train station, Mrupupup went to Washington Plaza Hotel Takayama. This hotel was very convenient as it was directly opposite the Takayama Train Station. The hotel was ok, but the hotel staff were a bit not friendly though. The room was...

Locals and international visitors could look forward to fresh and immersive experiences at the Singapore: Inside Out and Singapore Takeout showcases. Singapore: Inside Out, a multi-disciplinary travelling showcase featuring Singapore’s contemporary creative practitioners, open from 27 November – 6 December 2015 for a homecoming run after having toured to Beijing, London and New York. The Singapore Takeout is all about Singapore’s heritage food cuisine as it pays homage to Singapore’s culinary talents over two weekends – 27 to 29 November and 4 to 6 December 2015.  Beyond the creative and culinary showcases, there is also an array of festive experiences to look forward to, marking the year-end season while celebrating Singapore’s Golden Jubilee milestone.  Singapore: Inside Out – The Homecoming Finale Curated by award-winning Singaporean architect and artist Randy Chan, Singapore: Inside Out encourages the discovery of new perspectives of Singapore through archite...

Hellos! Got a nice information to share with you today. Mrupupup found a website that allows cash back to the purchases you made with online merchants likes Lazada, Groupon, Taobao, Expedia and many more. The website is know as https://www.shopback.sg . Pretty interesting website - allows you get cash back to your bank account - key point! Click on any store in the https://www.shopback.sg  website. Shop as usual on the store and make a purchase (think I like Expedia - going for December Holidays!). Here's the interesting part, you can get cashback in your shopback account within 48 hrs. Once you hit $10 (minimum to redeem) in your cashback, one can cash out to your online bank account or Paypal at the end of each month! Think Expedia booking for flights and hotels or shop for stuff at Lazada can easily hit $1000. So with cashback you can get some discount back in the form of cash instead of some vouchers which may need minimum spending to qualify for discounts....

THE INCLUSIVE INTERACTION 3-9 DECEMBER 2015 | 10AM – 7PM | HELD in SINGAPORE NATIONAL STADIUM - GATE 22 - INCLUSIVE STRONGMAN BOOT CAMPS . SPORT TRYOUT . THE DISABILITY EXPERIENCE The Inclusive Interaction is an initiative by ActiveSG and Society Staples to foster interaction and integration opportunities between society and Persons with Disabilites (PwDs) through a series of the APG Experience Tour Stations as follows : (I) Inclusive Strongman Fitness Boot Camps [Special Mass Boot Camp Sessions] Special Sessions on 5 December 2015, 5pm | 6 December 2015, 10am and 5pm Both public participants and PwDs will go through an exciting 90min session having fun flipping tyres, running with sandbags, performing log presses, pulling/pushing sled and doing the farmers’ walk.  Pre-registration for these special sessions is required on myActiveSG.com.  (II) Adaptive Sports Tryout Stations (a) Inclusive Strongman Stations : 20m Sandbag Run / 80kg Tyre Flip / 20m Farmers Walk / 10m...

Do check out the SMTOWN the Stage Movie (documentary). Very nice and thrilling show (because of the fast paced hip hop dance). Mrupupup saw this documentary movie which described the lives of the Korean singing and dance artiste in the Korean music industry (SMTOWN).  The  documentary presents footage from Korea's SM Entertainment's recent worldwide concert tour, " SMTOWN  Live World Tour IV" in Korea, Japan, and China and  features Korean superstars & groups like  BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls Generation and Red Velvet. One could see many things like backstage action, how they trained for many years to be famous, how trainees need to train on and on to get at least a chance to be on SMTOWN Stage. One Korean Group trained in dance steps and lyrics for two years to debut one single Korean song. Wow, two years the same song on and on. Very nice show and Mrupupup thinks only Golden Village Plaza Singapore and GV Tampines are showing this movie in their ci...

Mrupupup encountered a very nice innovative Malay food stall selling Mee Rebus, Mee Soto and other nice Malay dishes. The dishes had nice sounding names that Mrupupup needed a fellow patron in the long queue to explain the names of the dishes. Mrupupup in the end tried the Mee Rebus 'Tarik' (costs $4.80) - a hybrid of satay meat and sauce together with the Mee Rebus - thick gravy with mee, lime, onions, green chilli and an egg. Very nice dish! Mrupupup never tasted this type of thick gravy Mee Rebus with Satay Sauce and Satay chicken meat. Super yummy. The "Yunos N Family" stall got a queue during lunch time and stall at Blk 724 Ang Mo Mio Avenue 6 Hawker Centre. See the satay sauce and satay chicken meat in the Mee Rebus Tarik Gravy- Very Nice