Recommended place for singing Japanese Karaoke

There are tons of places for you to sing Karaoke in Singapore. And the famous one's would include places like 'K Box' and 'Party World'. However, if you want to sing Japanese Songs, you will release that those places have limited number of Japanese Songs. Worst of all, those Japanese songs outdated. Therefore, I am going to recommend to you a Karaoke place where you can find tons of new Japanese Songs.

The above would be a photo of the exterior of the Karaoke place.

The name of this Karaoke place would be 'Cash Studio'.

The above would be photos of one of the Karaoke room of the place. They are using a Karaoke System known as 'Dam' at this place. In fact, when I went there for a Karaoke session a few days ago, I managed to find a lot of new Japanese Songs to sing over there. For example: Namie Amuro 'Tempest', Ken Hirai 'Itoshiki Hibi Yo', EXILE 'Tegami', Keisuke Kuwata 'Early In The Morning'... etc. They also have a large collection of anime songs over there too.

Actually, dispite of all the new songs available over there, I still love 3 songs sang
by Momoe Yamaguchi. The title of the 3 songs are 'Ii Hi Tabi Tachi', 'Aki Sakura (Cosmos)' and 'Sayonara No Mukou Gawa'.
Note: If you decided to visit 'Cash Studio' for a round of Karaoke Session, I would highly recommend you to visit the website of 'Club Dam' and start looking for the request numbers of the songs that you wanted to sing beforehand.

* Click here for the website of 'Cash Studio'.
^ Click here for the website of 'Club Dam'. (In Japanese Only)

Words by Nekyouto

Although I am not devoted to my religion, but I believe in 'Retribution'. The following would be some scenarios that has strongly reflected that 'Retribution' really exist in this world.

• Just look around the world that we live in today. The occurrence of a strange phenomena tend to increase over the past few years. For example: Snow started to fall in US starting from last week, Sakura flowers started blooming in the city of Tokyo,Japan a few weeks ago, etc. These phenomena were probably caused by the global warming effect. And who had created the problem of global warming? That would be us, humans, living and biting off every single part of this world. Although it's too late for us to stop global warming, we can at least try to reduce the speed of global warming from deteriorating. The following would be some of my suggestions.
  • Stop relying on Air Condition too much
  • Take Public Transport as frequent as possible and try not to own a Car
  • Try not to take too many plastic bags, and even if you take 1, try to recycle or reuse it
  Mark my words, if we don't try to do our part now, the weather around the world would be changing drastically.
• I'm pretty sure that every being on this planet has its own 'safe boundaries'. Take note, the meaning of the words 'safe boundaries' here is equivalent to a person's acceptance limits. If someone step beyond your 'safe boundaries', you will tend to fight back. For example, in Hokkaido,Japan bears started to appear in main cities. The main reason behind their appearances would probably be due to the fact that their natural habitat have been destroyed by us, humans. I admit that I wasn't a great student when it comes to the subject of History. But if you have been reading about the history around the world, most of the dynasty tend to fall due to the fact that they have cross the 'safe boundaries' of the people of the country. Most of the dynasty tend to fall because of their cruelty acts and incapability of fulfilling what the people really need.
• Retribution also plays an important role in our daily life. For example: not taking good care of your personal belongings would cause it to spoilt easily, walking too fast without taking a closer look at your surrounding or where you are going, food wasting, etc.

I'm not trying to change the way you are thinking, but I hope that you should try to remember that 'Retribution' do exist in this world.

* Click here to find out more about the snowstorms happening to the US now.
^ Click here to find out more about Sakura Blooming in October 2011.
~ Click here to find out more about Sakura Blooming in October 2011.
** Click here to find out more about bears attacks in Japan.

Walkaholic

one of the words that describe me the most. To a certain extent I think that, I have been walking too much. :P Some even gives me nickname as I have been walking too fast... =='''

Image taken from Wikipedia.

Hey, but walking is a good form of exercising. :D
According to Health Promotion Board of Singapore, by making frequent walks,
it can help you to lower your blood pressure and blood cholesterol.
It can also burn calories and manage your weight, while relieving yourself
from stress and anxiety.

Most importantly.... its free.
Probably because of the amount of issues that the local transportation have,
or probably because I am not financially rich, I will try to do some walking
whenever I'm free. I remember the days whenever I have insufficient amount in
the transportation fare card, I will do crazy walks like from Dover MRT all
the way to Tiong Bahru MRT. Or probably interesting routes like from the
old site where Republic Polytechnic was to Bugis MRT station or late night
trails stating from Somerset MRT to Tiong Bahru MRT. The sights that
you are getting from these walking trails never fail to amaze me. :D

So what are you waiting for, Let's do some walking now. :D

* Click here to access the article by Health Promotion Board on the topic of Walking.

A not so circular Circle Line

Close to 2 - 3 weeks ago, a festival was held at Holland Village MRT station with the grand opening of the Circle Line.

Image taken from the SMRT Website.

But what is so special about this Circle Line?
Rather then discussing how convenient the Circle Line is, I am going to talk about something else.

As most of the train stations belonging to the Circle Line were underground stations, it isn't a difficult task keeping a look out for a long flight of stairs to climb. Although I don't think that the flight of stairs were long enough, but making an effort climbing up and down the stairs can be a good form of exercising also.

* Click here to take a look at the list of MRT train stations in Singapore.
^ Click here for the attractions located near each and every one of the MRT stations along the Circle Line.

A paradise for Geeks?

Sim Lim Square would probably be the best place to source for all the computer parts and accessories that a Geek would need. Besides for all the computer related products, they also have 3 levels of shops selling all sorts of electronic products ranging from tv to music/video players to cameras, you can find all these electronics products in one building. Isn't that convenient?

Pictures of Sim Lim Square.

Some info:

• Try to ask around for the price of the same product first before making an purchase
• Try not to go there as an individual (Chances that you get con can be pretty high, unless you know the shop owners pretty well)
• Sometimes, Cash payment can help you to get more discounts

* Click here for the website of 'Sim Lim Square'.
^ Click here for the location of 'Sim Lim Square'.

CNN GO - World's 50 most delicious food

Every now and then, we will see articles on the top 10, top 50 or even the top 100 food in the world. It can be articles of the most delicious, the most scary, the most healthy, etc... As for this time round, I am going to share the world's top 50 most delicious food by CNN GO.

Image taken from CNN GO website

Note: I'm not sure how CNN GO came up with the ranking, probably by voting?, but you can definitely find new dishes to try by going through these lists. :D

* Click here to access the webpage of CNN GO - World's most delicious food.

An exercise for everyone :D

Although most of the time I prefer to cycle or walk around the streets, it doesn't mean that I would't try types of exercise. :D Ever since they added a new Safra centre in my area, I would spend a bit of time walking to that place and chill out on a weekend afternoon.

Safra Mount Faber, but what are the things that you can do at Safra Mount Faber?

As I wasn't a good swimmer, I would go for a few rounds of bowling whenever I was free.

I must admit that I wasn't a Pro but I do enjoy Bowling. :D Similarly, its a sport that both the old and the young could enjoy playing. :D Based on my past experience, playing bowling at Safra Mount Faber can be quite stressful sometimes, especially when you are playing next to a group of bowlers that keeps on getting a 'Strike' or a 'Spare'. And their average age was above 60s or 70s. Whahahahaha.... :P Either ways, its still a pretty good way of exercising and killing off your boredom. :D

Some extra information about Safra Mount Faber:

• You can customise your own bowling ball over here
• You can also rent a locker to keep you stuff at the Super Bowl also

* Click here to find out more about Safra.