The New Hereen Shopping Experience with Robinson

Many of you had fond a very good memories with 'The Hereen' which is located at Orchard, Singapore. You might remembered the hare days where the HMV flagship store was occupied from Level 1 to Level 3.

You also remembered that the basement 1 used to have Marche. You also remembered you loved to eat Pontian Wanton Mee at The Graffiti café in Level 5. After which, you will head over neoprint shop (Japanese instant Photo Booth ) to snap photos with your friends and edit it with cool features.

Local popular fashion stores like FLESH IMP and NUM are found here as well. But the glory days came to the end and once a popular hangout shopping mall for youth became a ghost town. The Hereen Management tried so hard to revamp the mall but due to strong competitor with the new mall opening around the Orchard district they had failed again.

Singapore local departmental Brand, 'Robinson' took over The Hereen Mall and they revamp the whole building and becoming their upcoming Fashion and Lifestyle flagship store in Orchard! This year Robinson also celebrating it 155th years anniversary in Singapore!

This will be the Robinson latest attraction with their new 180000 Square feet flagship shopping experience at The Hereen.

You would definitely love this new Robinson at the Hereen! At the Robinson, you will be able to find many exclusive brands which only available in the Hereen.

Come on down and have a great shopping experience at Hereen with Robinson now!

100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo (Malaysia)

Many of you knew that Animation International had hosted '100 Years Before the Birth of Doraemon' 你睇!! 多啦A夢嚟啦！誕生前100年祭' in Harbour City, Hong Kong last year! Many hardcore fans could not able to travel to East Asia, Hong Kong to visit to the exhibition.

Even some of you took part in Doreamon blogging contest (Included me. You can read my contest entry here) to win ticket to Hong Kong to visit the exhibition but could not won it and felt disappointed.



Good news to Doraemon fans staying in South East Asia! Animation International (M) Sdn Bhd is going to host '100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo' in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo will be held at Viva Home Expo Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 14 December 2013 to 23 March 2014.

From this exhibition, you will be expected similarity Doraemon layout like the one you read online or visited in Hong Kong.

I will be heading to Kuala Lumpur and experience myself with Doraemon!! Stay tune to my blog for the full coverage of 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo! Hopefully I could take exclusive photos and share with everyone!

Detail of 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo
Ticket Pricing: RM25 (ADULT) RM15 (Children)
Nearest Metro: Miharja LRT station
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You may want to click and read my English version of 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo (Malaysia) here.

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You may want to read my Chinese version of 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo (Malaysia)/ 你可以閱讀我的中文版本的哆啦A夢誕生前100 年特展覽會（馬來西亞）。Click Here

Downtown Line Stage 1 Open house 2013

On the 7th December 2013, Singapore's newest fifth train line, Downtown Line 1 hosted the Open house to the members of the public before the official commerce on 22nd December 2013. The new Downtown Line managed by SBS Transit.

For the first time, the Downtown Line trains will carry the Land Transport Authority (LTA) logo as the trains owned by the regulator, LTA.

Downtown line 1 consists of 6 new stations. The 6 new stations are Bugis (Connecting to East-West Line), Promenade (Connecting to Circle Line), Bayfront (Connecting to Circle Line Extension), Downtown, Telok Ayer and Chinatown (Connecting to North-East Line).

I headed down to Downtown Line 1 Bugis station for the open house. Within the far distance, you could able to spot the Rail Transport Logo. Their facade wording are big and clearer signage compared to the existing train station.

There are live performance line-up especially for the members of the public to join in the fun and celebrate the new downtown line.

If you could noticed, Downtown line used the different ticketing gate which is similar like the Korea railway.

When you step into the train platform, you will see many big and clearer signage that indicated your direction especially when you are in the interchange station. It also shown the next station that you are heading to in case you went to the wrong platform.

It also indicated 4 official languages, English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil language for the emergency signage.

When you stepped into the downtown line train, you will the seat are more wider. If you intend to sleep at the RESERVED seating, you have to think twice as the seat are more colourful and the font are huge enough to embarrass yourself if you did not give up your seat!

The train also equips  with the station indicator. This station indicator are slightly better compared to the existing East-West and North-South Line as it indicated which station direction you will be heading to.

This train also equips with LCD TV screen. Most likely for advertise use purposes in the future? If you have any idea, you are welcome to share with the viewers!

The con part for this downtown line will be the LCD screen in the middle of the train. As it blocked by the handle pole. Perhaps the authority could lower down LCD screen so that it could be more visible to the commuters.

To Celebrate Downtown Line 1 opening, commuter can travel for free all-day from 22 December 2013 to 1 January 2014.

For more information on the free ride on Downtown Line 1, you can logon here.