Weekend Toys and Antique Bazaar @ Far East Sqaure

Your favorite super heroes like Optimus Prime from Transformer, Skywalker from Star Wars are all there. So are things that u don't believe you can see them again, like old school iron, vinyl songs, vintage coka-cola bottles.

If you have time to spare on a lazy Sunday, why not pay a visit down to Far East Square, where the weekly toys and antique bazaar is held. Lots of collectible toys and antiques you can find there, @ discounted and bargainable prices too.. Check out some of the pics below.












































WhO: China Square Central Toys and Antique Bazaar
When: Sundays late morning till late afternoon (around 5)
Where: China Square (near chinatown opposite hong lim complex)

Verdict:

Toys collectors, movies, anime and comic fans you have just found your haunt! Theres so full of bargain and undiscovered gems in this place I guess you can spend a hour or 2 here. Oh and bring cash there, because the merchants there normally do only accept cash. Ladies if you need a gift for your bf, why not make a trip down there and get something for him? Guys, all i can say is, relieve your childhood fantasies here. Iron man, hulk, spiderman, batman, cloud, stephiroth.... May the force be with you all.

Relax, away from city life @ Farm Resort

YOU deserved a break, away from the buzz of city life. YOU want to smell the fragrance of the flowers and fertilizers, YOU want to inhale fresh clean air and YOU want to dine the freshest food with your loved ones.

Well, D'Kranji Farm Resort provides a suitable avenue for family and friends to getaway! Advertised as Singapore's first Agri-tainment centre, you can

• pamper yourself with spa treatments @ their spa centres
• take a lazy stroll across the plantations and admire the scenary
• hang around the beer garden and listen to live band performances
• sample locally grown produce at the agri-retail kiosks

Who: D'Kranji Farm Resort
Where: 10 Neo Tiew Lane 2, Singapore 718813 (near Sugei Buloh Nature Park) Nearest Mrt @ Kranji and Choa Chu Kang

Rates: TBA

Link: www.dkranji.com.sg

THRILL YOURSELF @ GX5 - Extreme Swing

Located right next to GMax reverse bungy, GX5 - Extreme Swing offers the ultimate "viking ship" experience. For those who feels that their heart cannot take the pounding of the GMax, you guys can try GX5 too!

The "flyers" feel the sensation of a short free fall and then a rush of adrenalin as they fly out over the Singapore river. They then swing backwards and forwards over the Clarke Quay flight path before returning safely to the launch position.

The GX-5 promises to give all tourists to Singapore a fantastic experience and a whole new perspective on Clarke Quay. Why just visit Clarke Quay when you can fly over it!

Pics coming up!

Who: GX5 - Extreme Swing
Where: Clarke Quay
Rates: $40 per person

Link: Here

Alternatively, try out The GMAX reverse bungy.

THRILL YOURSELF @ GMAX reverse bungy jump

This is another great way to end your weekends on the high note. Gmax reverse bungy.

I think you can literally see god with this one. oO 60m into the air @ 200kph and 5G force, reverse bungee jumping is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Nuff said, let the pictures do the talking!

Who: Gmax Reverse Bungy
Where: Clarke Quay
Rates: $40 dollars per person
Opening Hrs:

Monday to Thursday: 1pm until 1am
Friday: 1pm until 2am.
Saturday: 12pm until 2am.
Sunday: 12pm until 1am.

Verdict: Ok I haven try it before ........ haha. Maybe one day... Anyone can comment on this death-defying, balls-shrinking experiences?

Link: click here =)

Alternatively, you guys can try the GX5 - Extreme Swing.

Boardgaming at Board Games Cafe

This is an interesting way to settle your saturdays afternoon in. Think about it. A group of 5 -6 friends coming together to laugh at each others' stupidity, eying at each other and hatching evil plans to thaw the others, team-bonding and learning new games, cummon how boring can it get?

Currently there are a couple of prominent board games cafe in Singapore, such as Settlers Cafe, Mind Cafe, Pit Stop Cafe and decoders Cafe.

Alternatively, if you want to read up on what games are interesting, click here.

**The following rates are charged according to pure boardgaming only. For food, packages and promos, can refer to the links below.


Who: Settlers Cafe
Where: 3 outlets (SMU, holland Village and Central, near Clarke Quay)

Rates:
9 dollars per hour for 2 guests
15 dollars per hour for 3 - 6 guests
$2.50 per hour for each guests after the 6th

Verdict: Imho, i still prefer Mind Cafe and Pitstop Cafe over Settlers due to their pricing strategy are rather inflexible. Also, the competition in this business to dominate the best locations in the town area are so fierce that they are all "strategically located" among each others. Gameswise, we feel that they have quite a comprehensive range of favorites such as Bang!, Snortas, and such..

Link: Clink here.

Who: Mind Cafe

Where: Bugis Purvis Street, Prinsep Street (opposite Parklane and SMU), SAFRA tampines and
Boat Quay
Rates: If I remember correctly, it is $3 for the first hour and $2.50 for every subsequent hour per person. Can anyone correct me on this?

Verdict: We kinda patronise Mind Cafe quite often because they have the most comprehensive set of games to try out. Try Mind Cafe @ Boat Quay, the room is the biggest there, 3 floors, in fact. More seats to choose from. There you can find more long strategy games such as Shadows Over Camelot, Arkham Horror and such.

Link: click here.





Who: Pit stop Cafe
Where: Circular Street (dunno where? Its somewhere near Boat Quay where the infamous stretch of pubs lies. Still dunno? Click here)
Rates: $3 for the first hour
$2.50 for each subsequent Hour

Verdict:
Its pretty hard to find this cozy little outlet amidst the pubs and eateries. Nevertheless, guys, this is my personal favorite. I'm seriously wondering if the complementary cute penguin water dispenser at every table, friendly and approachable staff are the best things @ Pitstop. However the games available there are lesser compared to Mind and Settlers Cafe. If you need help on hardercore games like Power Grid and Princes of Florence, sometimes no one there can teach you the rules though. Oh and lastly, try sitting at the balcony. Although they are abit squeezy, but more importantly, YOU CAN ESCAPE THE SCREAMS AND SHOUTINGS FROM THE TABLE BESIDE YOU!

Link: here

Cummon, board gaming is not outdated yet?! Here we still love our Citadels, Ugly dolls and Taboo everytime we visit our favorite boardgame cafes!

Tag paintball

Guys and gals, time to get adrenaline pumping into your weekend. Something you can run, sweat, dart, shoot the person you don't like and curse at your team-mates without them knowing (eerr cause they are probably so absorbed into action as you do.

My experiences are, firstly paintball is very fun. And yes, they DO hurt when the balls hit you. Hmm i believe generally guys will enjoy more than gals cause theres alot of running and shouting going on. I feel you need to have at least 10 pples in order to split in two teams, otherwise abit no point. Oh and also, its not really like in the army you need to do some cool fire movement. Here you dont really wanna get hit so most of the time you'll be hiding behind the cover. All in all, its still one of the coolest thing you can find in urban Singapore.

Well they are a couple of places where u can play paintball:

Red Dynasty Paintball






























Operating Hours: 9am - 9pm (weekdays)
9am - 7pm (weekends and holidays)

Where: Yishun Bottle Tree Park

Rates: 10 - 50 dollars per person

Verdict: I went to red dynasty before, pretty cool, the guys there are friendly and play competition paintball i think. Get the 50 dollars package no doubt, cause you would wanna spam the "bullets" like no tommorow.

For more info, check out www.weplaypaintball.com


TAG Paintball
Operating Hours: 9am - 5pm (day)
5pm - 12am (night yes you can play in the night if you want to)

Where: Yishun Country Club

Rates: 1000 paintballs - $ 250
For every subsequent 1000 balls - $200

For more info, visit www.paintball.com.sg

Verdict: For TAG, you need to have at least 6 people to qualify. Also, you need to pay a entrance fee of $15 dollars for day and $20 dollars for night. The gears, objectives and settings are pretty much the same as Red Dynasty.

Interesting brainteasers you can dumbfound your friends when u meet up

Yooohoo, alright first thing first I'm not the one that come up with the questions and solutions. I'm not totally sure where some of the questions originate from so if you know the sources kindly let me know. I'll love to give credit to them. Also, you are very welcomed and encouraged to post your solutions and more questions here so our fellow netizens can discuss and share ideas on the respective questions.

5. What is the largest possible number you can write by using just 2 numbers, without any mathematical symbols? courtesy of www.justriddlesandmore.com

4. Ok you have 12 bags of coins. The number of coins in the bag are random and one of them contain a bagful of fake coins. The real coin weighs 12grams while the fake one weighs 11. So how many times do u need to use a weighing scale to determine which is the bag with the fakos?


3. Another gold coin question. This time u have 8 bags. One of them are fake (yea -_-) The fake ones this time weighs heavier. Try to figure out how do you manage this time using a balancing scale. You can use the scale 3 times. No more.


2. There are 5 greedy pirates who found a chest of 1000 gold bars. These five pirates are ranked by seniority, the most senior one being pirate #5 and so on. And so, being the most senior pirate, he can propose a plan to split the gold bars among them. Of course he can give more to himself and the rest smaller amount. But if more than half of the pirates refuses the plan, he will be killed and the proposing starts all over again with the next most senior guy. So how mr #5 go about getting as much gold for himself and is still alive to enjoy it?

Assume that the pirates are all logically sound and smart fellows, can someone propose an explanation why mr #5 can get alot of gold bars?



1. ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA
THE HARDEST LOGIC PUZZLE EVER

“

Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are 'da' and 'ja', in some order. You do not know which word means which.

”

Boolos provides the following clarifications:

“

It could be that some god gets asked more than one question (and hence that some god is not asked any question at all). What the second question is, and to which god it is put, may depend on the answer to the first question. (And of course similarly for the third question.) Whether Random speaks truly or not should be thought of as depending on the flip of a coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely. Random will answer 'da' or 'ja' when asked any yes-no question.

Courtesy of Wikipedia.org. For more info on this, click here. (warning: solutions are there too.)

Night Safari

Honestly, its been ages since I visited this "tourist hotspot" Well the last time I went was like, erm secondary 2? Went there with my gf couple of months ago, and was kinda impressed.

Operating Hours:

Park opens from 7:30pm - 12mn daily
Restaurants and Retail shops open from 6:00pm daily
Last admission is at 11.00pm

Admission Rates:
Adult S$22.00
Child (3 to 12 years old) S$11.00

All prices include 7% GST
Please purchase your tickets at the Night Safari ticketing booth
Prices quoted are subject to change.

Parking charges:
Car S$3.90
Bus/Lorry S$4.90

Parking charges are per entry basis. No grace period.

(Electronic Parking System. Please insert your cashcard with sufficient funds into the vehicle's I/U unit when exiting the carpark.)

Tram Ride:
Covering 3.2km, the tram ride takes about 45 minutes to complete, has live commentary and one stopover at East Lodge.

Each tram ticket is limited to one ride/round within the park.

Starts from 7:30pm.

Charges:
Adult S$10.00
Child (3 to 12 years old) S$5.00

For more info, you can visit www.nightsafari.com.sg


Anyway here is the verdict:

Well the entrance fee is pretty costly, and it excludes the tramride that brings you around the safari. I would recommend everyone to take tramride though (costs 10 dollars per pax). With live audio commentary as the tram brings you around the park, you can enjoy the cool breeze of the night as the tram passes through the various attractions. The highlight i guess would be when the tapir, deer or mysterious swampthing of the night stroll past the tram nonchalently. Its just beside you man! No flash photography though, which also means you cant really take much photos.

Oh yea, and be sure to take a walk across the park too. The warm, low lighting across the safari provides quite a romantic avenue for couples to spend their evening too.

Also, please make sure u visits the "bat's den" too. There u will come into close no holds bar contact with the BATS. Not to worry, they are just fruit bats and probably, most probably wont bite you. Guys, hold close to your gals.

Overall its a positve experience. (though most of the times the animals are pretty lazy and some have gone hiding). Quite impressed with how the guys have revamped Night Safari, and the service there is excellent. If u have the time and the spare cash why not? Its nice!

about this webby

Yea another mindless weekend stuck in perpetual boredom, can't your hands off the msn/ps3 but you know u should darn well meet some friends and go out and have fun. Well if you are like me, lets makes our weekends a little more fun and interesting to endure. Contribute ideas, exciting places and events our fellow netizens can share and discover. WEEE!

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Ahgoh