Let's Talk About ItApril 30, 2008 3:31 am

The World Cuisines Show 2008 @ Singapore

   
SINGAPORE - The World Cuisines Show 2008 (WCS ‘08), to be staged in Singapore from July 25-27, 2008, is a global marketplace where countries around the world gather under one roof to showcase their national cuisines and cultural activities. National tourism authorities from more than 130 countries have been invited to participate in this inaugural international event.

Globally, gastronomic tourism is coming up as a form of special interest tourism in which food and beverages are the main motivating factors for travel to a desired destination. Studies have shown that food plays an important part in the holiday experience of travellers, consciously or unconsciously.

Tourism authorities around the world are recognising the potential of gastronomic tourism as a powerful tool to identify and promote places, regions or entire countries.
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Best of SingaporeApril 27, 2008 8:14 am

Biggest Mall: Vivo City

 
 
Vivo City is the largest shopping mall at the HarbourFront precinct in Singapore. Opened on 7 October 2006, it marked the completion of the main structure by a topping-out ceremony on 18 April 2006 and was officially opened on 1 December 2006. Derived from the word vivacity, VivoCity, according to Mapletree Chairman Edmund Cheng, "evokes a lifestyle experience that is modern, stimulating and accessible to everyone, a place bubbling with energy and flowing with vitality". At the end of the first week of operations, the mall had received nearly a million visitors.
 
VivoCity was built on the site of the exhibition halls of the former World Trade Centre, now the HarbourFront Centre. VivoCity has 1,500,000 square feet (139,000 m²) of gross floor area and 1,100,000 square feet (102,000 m²) of retail space, larger than Suntec City and Ngee Ann City, the former of which was the largest prior to VivoCity’s opening. It was designed by the renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Mapletree Investments is the developer of the S$417 million complex. 
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Let's Talk About ItApril 26, 2008 6:04 am

Excellent Acting and Shape

Fiona Xie Wan Yu was spotted by talent scout at age of 15 and since then started modeling for numerous print and TV commercials in Singapore and Hong Kong.

With her beauty and nice body figure, Fiona was easily noticed by the TV viewers and rise rapidly in popularity. In the same year, she won the Best Newcomer and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes at the Star Awards.Fiona Xie was voted FHM Singapore’s Sexiest Woman of the Year in 2005.

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Best of Singapore 4:33 am

Weenamkee, Yummy!

I haven’t been to Singapore yet it seems that I do have an added reason why should I see myself enjoying their country.

  

Hainanese chicken rice is a Chinese rice dish most commonly associated with Malaysian cuisine or Singaporean cuisine, although it is also commonly sold in neighbouring Thailand, and found in Hainan, China itself. So-called due to its roots in Hainan cuisine and its adoption by the Hainanese overseas Chinese population in the Nanyang area, the version found in Malaysia/Singapore combines elements of Hainanese and Cantonese cuisines along with culinary preferences in the Southeast Asian region. The Hainanese chicken rice originated from China, and is Chinese in origin. 

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Let's Talk About ItApril 24, 2008 11:15 pm

Singapore: Geography

 
 

The geography of Singapore is marked by a small, heavily urbanised, island city-state in Southeast Asia, located at the southern tip of the Malayan Peninsula between Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore has a total land area of 699 km² and 193 km of coastline. It is separated from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor.

Singapore’s main territory is a diamond-shaped island, although her territory includes surrounding smaller islands. Singapore is slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington DC. Of Singapore’s dozens of smaller islands, Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the larger ones. Most of Singapore is no more than 15 meters above sea level. The highest point of Singapore is Bukit Timah, with a height of 164 m (538 feet) and made up of igneous rock, granite. Hills and valleys of sedimentary rock dominate the northwest, while the eastern region consists of sandy and flatter land. Singapore has no natural lakes or rivers, but reservoirs and water catchment areas have been constructed to store fresh water for Singapore’s water supply.

Singapore has reclaimed land with earth obtained from its own hills, the seabed, and neighbouring countries. As a result, Singapore’s land area has grown from 581.5 km² in the 1960s to 699 km² today, and may grow by another 100 km² by 2030.

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