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Watanabe Coffee place is a Japanese theme café with Japanese style coffee and desserts. If you like matcha 'green tea' stuff, well this is the place to enjoy matcha and plenty of desserts. Watanabe Coffee opened at Shaw Centre Orchard Road on the ground floor, just next to Isetan Scotts. The place also sells spaghetti, matcha pudding, ice cream, matcha parfait and Shibuya bread toast. Mrupupup ordered the Japanese matcha green tea latte and their swiss roll filled with coffee and caramel. Both orders came up to about $15. The cake and green tea latte were alright. Quite expensive for dessert and coffee, but you are in Orchard Road so expect prices to be steep. Watanabe Café décor looks like a warehouse. Do take note the place gets crowded and try your best not to sit under the spotlights which made Mrupupup hot and uncomfortable in the café. The spotlights were located at one corner of the café. Super bright spotlights! Anyway, enjoy your day at Watanabe Café and enjoy list

Mrupupup was invited to attend the great concert by J-pop Queen Koda Kumi at Scape Orchard (yeah 1 night performance only). Part of Koda Kumi's Asia Live tour of Asian venues, Koda Kumi delivered her concert with much power, high energy and she sang many beautiful Japanese songs. Mrupupup loved her voice in her slower songs like "Walk of My Life" - her latest song. Great night of music and got many Japanese fans in Singapore. Singapore was only one of the two venues in Asia as part of her tour (the other in Taiwan). Her powerful voice and all action dance.Wow! Koda Kumi!                   Live Koda Kumi in Singapore - Powerful    

Mrupupup attended the official launch of the Singapore Cable Car Sky Network and the new Sentosa Line. Quite a good event with free cable ride on their new Sentosa line cable car across the Sentosa island. Got a nice garden party with yummy food! The new Sentosa's Skynetwork Cable Car  started from June 2105 and it will let you soar high above the destinations through the sky on the most scenic highway in Sentosa island.  Fly high above the jungle, sand and sea on the new Sentosa Line. You can choose your stop at the Merlion station, Imbiah Lookout station and Siloso Point station to enjoy the sandy beaches, Underwater World Singapore, Madame Tussauds, Megazip Adventure Park, Skyline Luge Sentosa, 4-D AdventureLand, Tiger Sky Tower, Universal Studios Singapore and the S.E.A. Aquarium. Prices range from $5.50 to $13 depending on age and whether you are tourist or local citizen. Add $10 to enjoy unlimited one day rides and free guided back-of-house tour. More information from th

Mrupupup attended Singapore’s Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM) concert, performing one of the most ambitious pieces of classical music, Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony or “Symphony of a Thousand”, live in Singapore as a tribute to SG50. Great performance and even got "Majullah Singapore" (National Anthem of Singapore) as a final encore. Thanks to organisers for sponsored tickets - 11 July 15 concert.   Featuring no less than eight local and international vocal soloists, four large choirs (including three from Australia), a children’s choir, large symphony orchestra, separate brass ensemble and an organ, this is only the second time the symphony performed in Singapore’s history.     The monumental piece started with a medieval Pentecost hymn and culminated in the closing scene of Goethe’s Faust, drawing together fundamental philosophical ideas of Western history. Mahler wrote this immensely moving and spectacular symphony as a “gift to the entire nation” for his bel

Good day and hope your week is great with photography.   Got invite to Sony Electronics' launch of its two most advanced and versatile cameras from the Cyber-shot™ RX series – the compact RX100 IV and high-zoom RX10 II – here in Singapore. Event held at Swissôtel The Stamford, level 69.   Announced globally just this month, the Cyber-shot™ RX100 IV and RX10 II cameras feature the world’s first 1.0 type stacked Exmor RS™ CMOS sensor with advanced signal processing, allowing both cameras the shooting capabilities to capture fast-moving objects. They are also the first Cyber-shot™ cameras to offer 4K movie recording, so videos are guaranteed to be crisp and sharp, with every minute detail captured. With cutting-edge new functions – including up to 40x super slow motion, and an ultra-fast Anti-Distortion Shutter with a maximum speed of 1/32000 second – you can be sure to be right at the heart of super-speed shooting.   Imaging beyond our eyes - Launch of Sony's Cyber-sho

Singapore is one hot country, I mean the weather. Mrupupup got no choice but to rest at a café in Vivocity to escape from the heat. Using promotion 1-1 offers (two cakes at $10), Mrupupup had a great time eating up two cakes from Bakerzin café at Vivocity (level one near to CK Tangs store). The two cakes were New York cheesecake and Chocolate cake with ice cream. The New York cheesecake was awesome. Loved the melt in the mouth feeling of the cheese. The cake was not too sweet but flavourful. Very yummy! The chocolate cake was not too sweet, but Mrupupup got a sweet tooth so did not like the slight bitter taste of good quality chocolate used in the cake. But it was nice also! The Bakerzin café was so bright in the day time afternoon that Mrupupup had to wear sunglasses to shield off from the afternoon sun's blazing glare. Ok, back to the cool interiors of Vivocity mall after eating the yummy cakes.

    As part of the run-up to this year’s DBS Marina Regatta 2015 happening soon,  Mrupupup went to  an exclusive  Urban Farming Workshop.    DBS Regatta will be held over three weekends in 2015: 30/31 May 15, 6/7 June 15 and 13/14 June 15. There will be many fun-filled activities for all ages at Marina bay and one activity is urban farming.   Always wanted to grow own salads and herbs at home. Thanks to DBS Bank, Mrupupup joined in an exclusive Urban Farming Workshop where  Mrupupup learnt how to grow nature's own food within the confines of home and office spaces .   As part of the run-up to this year’s highly-anticipated DBS Marina Regatta 2015, Mrupupup got an exclusive preview of the urban farming activity to be held. The workshop was conducted by Social Enterprise Edible Garden City and Mrupupup enjoyed the experience and joys of urban farming (Mrupupup touched the soil and seeds)!   Workshop included: ·          Learning about the different types o

Mrupupup bought a pint of Udders Ice Cream from their Serangoon Gardens outlet - My Village at Serangoon Gardens shopping mall 1st floor. Review - Thumbs Up! The Chocolatey Kity Kat flavour was great! - Nice smooth chocolate taste (not too sweet or bitter) - Not like those cheap local brand ice cream which can give one a bad after taste - Big chunks of kit kat wafers - Sales staff gave Mrupupup dry ice to keep the ice cream cold for one hour - Price wise about $11 was ok (Classic ice cream price) Udders got other price points for their pint like around $14 and $15 for those flavours with alcohol taste - Udders outlet was pack with many people - Udders gave free sampling till Mrupupup chose the chocolate flavour   Can see big chunks of Kit Kat Wafers - Yummy!  

Mrupupup went for a staycation (mini holiday in Singapore) at Amara Sanctuary Resort in Sentosa Island Singapore - 1 Larkhill Road Sentosa Mrupupup's Reviews: Good Points - Good view from the room window of South China Sea and ships - Great Gym (24hrs) Mrupupup had solo access to the gym as nobody was around 10pm at night - Nice place with lots of nature like trees, Hornbill bird, Peacock, pandan leaves, frogs, fishes, etc. - Nice infinity pool on the fourth floor - Near to the Palawan beach Bad Points - Poor front desk service - Check in later (30 mins later than 3pm check in time) - Nobody picks up the phone at the front desk - Made some groups of people angry because of the late check in - No free internet in the room - Rooms can be old - Old Sony TV with poor image quality (not flat screen) - Can be quiet at night (if you like to be left alone) - Constant peacock bird making noisy calls (if you don't mind sleeping with loud calls in the day time), at nigh