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The little Japanese Ramen eatery, Keisuke Tonkotsu King Ramen, satisfied a huge craving of Mrupupup for Ramen (Japanese noodles). The little squeezy 18 seater ramen shop is located at Orchid Hotel Singapore, 1 Tras Street, along Tanjong Pagar area. Daily queues of at least 30mins are common for the evening meal at Keisuke Tonkotsu King Ramen. Mrupupup ordered the ramen (about $14) per bowl and slurped it all up. The unique thing about this shop was that it serve boiled eggs and customer could have as many eggs one could eat. The ramen was very good with a delicious soup base, golden egg yolk and nice piece of pork char siew. Non- spicy version   Spicy version of ramen     Unlimited servings of eggs and bean sprouts   Quite a squeeze in the ramen shop   Nice Golden egg yolk   Old pictures deco   King of Japanese Ramen  

The month of June & July 2013 was the dry season in Southeast Asia region. With the burning of farmland in Indonesia (Sumatra), Singapore faced a haze that was very high in the PSI Index of between 100-380. The PSI index was recorded at the highest of 371 in June 2013. The air was choking and the smell was bad. Mrupupup faced uncomfortable days out in the open. One could walk a few steps and would be hit by the bad air which caused eyes to tear and choking cough to occur occasionally. Hope the rains come to Singapore to cool the air and bring relief. Along Serangoon Road with grey skies     Along Chinatown area with many buildings clouded by the haze

Mrupupup felt that Punggol Point has the best sunrise spot in Singapore. Punggol point/ Punggol Beach is located near to the north east point of Singapore.  If you are keen on viewing the golden 'egg yolk' moment of the sunrise, do visit Punggol Point area beginning from 6.50am whereby the sun slowly rises. You will witness the magical moment of the sun rising above the horizon. Do check out the below photos of sunrise at Punggol Point area. Tugboat & sunrise Punggol Point Bikers viewing the sunrise Golden egg yolk sunrise @ Punggol

Mrupupup purchased two durian puffs from Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore. Two small durian puffs costs $7. So expensive! Like eating two plates of chicken rice but very much smaller in size, haha! Ok, the durian puff was delicious and very filling. The durian puff had a generous amount of durian mousse! Very yummy! If one needs to satisfy a craving for durian, just go buy the durian puff and one piece would be enough because there was so much durian filling! Goodwood Park Hotel also has the durian fiesta till July 2013 - got all things filled with durian like cakes, pastries and of course the durian puffs!   Durian puffs in a box waiting to be eaten     Goodwood Park Hotel     Side view of durian puffs     Thick amount of durian filling     Durian puff came in a nice bag     Durian cakes and other pastries price list      

Mrupupup won the privilege to dine at the very best dining place in Singapore - Restaurant Andre. This very high end dining place is located at 41 Bukit Pasoh (a single shophouse next to New Majestic Hotel - in Chinatown area). Mrupupup won the 'most liked' photograph contest at the DBS Marina Regatta 2013 and would like to thank the sponsor of the prize (DBS) for allowing Mrupupup to have a dinner meal for two at $298 ++ per person (ultra high end!). Restaurant Andre is one of the premier restaurant in the world and ranked among the top 50 dining places (ranked #38 in 2013 http://restaurantandre.com/accolades/  ). Art and philosophy play important roles in Chef Andre Chang's dinner dishes. For the dinner meal, the dishes came in eight 'octaphilosophy': pure, salt, artisan, south, texture, unique, memory and terrior. Besides excellent food dishes coming in an art form, Restaurant Andre has one of the best service staff in Singapore. The service staff welcomed Mrup

MOST LIKED PHOTOS REVEALED FOR SINGAPORE’S FIRST COMMUNITY GENERATED STORY USING INSTAGRAM AND VINE ***   Over 3,000 photos and videos of DBS Marina Regatta 2013 posted on popular social media platforms over two weekends DBS Bank revealed the three most liked photos of Singapore’s first community generated story using Instagram and Vine , held during the DBS Marina Regatta 2013 which were posted on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Vine and Twitter. Phoneographers demonstrated their mobile photography and videography skills on a wide variety of subjects at Singapore’s biggest water sports festival which spanned two weekends, starting with the Dragon Boat Races from 18-19 May, and concluding with the Bay Festival on 24-25 May 2013. Phoneographers had the opportunity to capture exciting races where more than 130 international and local teams paddled against one another in the waters of Marina Bay. They also recorded festival-goers taking part in fun-fil

Mrupupup was invited a blogger's preview of the latest art work at the Night Safari Singapore. Night Safari’s Art Seen & Herd! exhibition was officially unveiled to the public, in celebration of World Environment Day 2013. Visitors to Night Safari were treated to a visual bonanza as four of Singapore’s street artists unleashed wild artworks inspired by threatened animals to spread awareness about poaching and the dwindling wildlife population.   All photos & opportunity to photograph the event are to be credited to Wildlife Reserves Singapore. Thanks to Wildlife Reserves Singapore for the invite!  The four artists - Michael Ng (‘Mindflyer’), Samantha Lo (‘SKL0’), Luthfi Mustafah (‘The Killer Gerbil’) and Eman Jeman (‘ClogTwo’) - also shared the inspiration and ideas behind their works, as well as the conservation messages that they hope to convey to visitors. Animals featured in the exhibition are often hunted and farmed to feed continuing consumer demand for anima