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The Christmas festive season is here in Singapore! This would be a Happy Blog Post!   Mrupupup attended the light up of the Christmas Charitrees 2013 along the Waterfront Promenade, Marina Bay.    Christmas ChariTrees @ Marina Bay is a unique event by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) & Community Chest. Launched in 2011 and now into its 3rd year, Christmas ChariTrees @ Marina Bay is a good platform for companies to express their corporate social responsibility during the festive season.   The theme for this year’s Christmas ChariTrees – Story Trees is about the touching and uplifting “Story” of struggles and triumphs in overcoming individual challenges. “Story” served as ideas and inspiration for each uniquely designed and handcrafted decoration by the students from LASALLE College of the Arts.   Mrupupup loved the very well designed trees and also enjoyed the music by the Military Band on site - beautiful Christmas songs played by the band.   When & W

Mrupupup attended the Philips launch event of their smart lighting system known as HUE. Super cool lighting! HUE makes use of mobile apps to programme the light system. Mrupupup was amazed that with the touch of a few buttons on the mobile device one can programme the lights to come on automatically at home or office. Mrupupup also loved the colours! Check out the videos and photos of the launch event at Old Parliament House, Singapore. Well, Singapore is among the first countries to know of the new HUE Lighting System by Philips - knowledge brought to you early by Mrupupup. Cheers to good Smart Lighting HUE. Philips helps to improve people's lives through meaningful innovation in Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. HUE the personal wireless lighting #Philips #hue   Trying out the HUE system   Loved the glowing effect of HUE   Many Many colours   Trying out the lights     HUE the star item!     With a light touch of the finger on the

Mrupupup won at the Sentosa ‪#‎HappyIsland‬ Instagram contest! Mrupupup submitted a nice photo of the sunset over the Keppel Bay area. Well, this photo was photographed while seated in the Sentosa's cable car hovering over the Keppel Bay. Pretty happy got the third prize of 1 night stay at Shangri La's Rasa Sentosa Hotel and two all day Sentosa Play Passes which would entitle Mrupupup to visit the Merlion, Tiger Tower, ride the Segway and many more. So Happening! Thank you very much @ Sentosa!  Mrupupup's skill at photography is getting validated and appreciated! Very Good!  If you need a photographer, do email Mrupupup - mrupupup@gmail.com . Do check out the other photographs, just follow the #HappyIsland on Instagram – http://instagram.com/ Sentosa_Island @Sentosa_Island

Mrupupup got invited to the Singapore Wine Festival 2013 held at the old Customs House area located in the Marina Bay Area, 70 Collyer Quay. Singapore Wine Festival had major sponsors like DBS Bank. Mrupupup's ticket which costs $45 per piece was sponsored by De Dietrich. Mrupupup in this Wine Festival had a chance to sample major wines like Rose, Red Wines, White Wines, Sweet Fruity Wines, High class water Perrier, Riesling and even a Champagne!     Singapore Wine Festival 2013 had over 50 stalls with many types of wines from Australia and many European countries- France, Germany.      Mrupupup saw many people enjoying themselves with samples of wine and nice conversations along with the drinks.   For a weekend afternoon, Mrupupup had a nice time savouring the wines from many parts of the world. Mrupupup only liked the sweet fruity Riesling wine.      Cheers to a Wine Drinking session! The ticket came with a wine glass.     This

Mrupupup discovered new fashion and Oishii Japanese desserts at the event held in the Japanese JRunway Store - Plaza Singapore #01-54. Well, Mrupupup had a nice Japanese cake and ate it! Mrupupup loved Japanese things! Loved the Japanese cake dessert which came in a beautifully wrapped box. Mrupupup impressed with Japanese culture! Oishii at JRunway was a nice event and Mrupupup got to understand more of Japanese fashion, sake, desserts. Pretty good way to spend an evening in Singapore. JRunway Store Plaza Singapore Oishii Event     Presenting the Japanese Cake Desserts     Happy Host for the Event - things she likes Japan     Ladies in Japanese Dress     Nice Japanese Cake Dessert - Very Well Wrapped!      

Singapore Science Centre has opened a new Dinosaurs exhibition on 24 Oct 2013. Mrupupup was happy to get invited to see the preview of the dinosaur exhibition - thank you organisers. The exhibition named "Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals" is at the Singapore Science Centre (The Annexe) till next year February. Mrupupup was totally amazed by the huge dinosaurs exhibits and fossils specially curated by world renowned palaeontologist Dr Jack Horner. Dr Jack Horner is the man behind the 'life like' dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park. This showcase of fossils and dinosaurs is the first time in Asia. Mrupupup loved the T-Rex dinosaurs which came with motion and real sounds (which Mrupupup captured in the video below). There are other huge exhibits of Argentinosaurus ( a huge plant eating dinosaur with long neck), Giganotosaurus (a carnivore dinosaur) and 10 animatronics animals from the Ice Age depicting scenes of their habitats. Go see the exhibit a

Mrupupup enjoyed the Costa Coffee at the second floor of Plaza Singapore. Costa Coffee was created in London by two Italian immigrants as so the story was told on the wall of Costa Coffee outlet. Well, Costa Coffee was good and fragrant. Mrupupup ordered the cappuccino and latte. Both drink costs $5.80. The beautiful thing was the nice Costa sign placed onto the cappuccino drink. made the coffee drink much more nicer. The environment was very vibrant for a Friday evening, people were just talking and enjoying their coffee into the night. Very nice, Mrupupup felt happy with coffee.