Escape from the Werewolf Village- Real Escape Game (REG)

You might have heard of the game concept of players being locked in a room and they have to explore the surroundings and solve a few puzzles in order to escape. Such games requires players to be really observant and be good in analytical thinking skills in order to solve the puzzles and challenges in a limited period of time.

There are certainly more and more such game concepts coming up in Singapore like Lockdown.sg, Xscape Singapore and Real Escape Game .

The session that I went to was the Escape from the Werewolf Village hosted by  Real Escape Game .

It was a SAFRA halloween event.

A cute Halloween ghost was present at the SAFRA halloween event. =D

Back to the game...

Here's the trailer:



There was a SPH Razor TV feature on the game as well:



When you think about werewolves, it usually comes with the thought of Vampires and pack of werewolves, thanks to Twilight. haha~ but there is NO vampires in this game.

However, according to the rules, I'm not supposed to leak too much of the game information for the future participants to enjoy.

I will share a little about the game though.

We were grouped into teams of about 6. In my case, 3 pairs of strangers were grouped together.

When the game starts, it will be a mad rush of splitting the roles amongst us and exploring the room for clues and solving the puzzles. We were all first timers in this game but worked pretty well to get the puzzles solved. If we were stuck with certain puzzles, we rotate the puzzles for someone else to do (new brains, new  thought direction).

Honestly, the puzzles were tough, the time was short and it seems like everything was working against us. You can literally feel your adrenaline pumping throughout the game.

But in the end, we cracked each and every clue and with minor hints from the really nice and helpful facilitators. =D  There were about 8-9 groups in my session and only 1 team got to escape from the werewolf village. According to the reviews, only about 8% were able to solve the clues. How cool was that?

And here I end of with a victory photo of me and my teammates.

 Looking forward to "Escape from the Bank" REG

Trailer for Escape from the Bank:

My Birthday Celebration 2013

I recently celebrated my birthday this year.

I was contemplating on whether to take leave that day since it was my day afterall.
But with much persuasion from my hubby, I didn't as he was on course and there wasn't much to do by staying at home either.

First thing I received was a call to me to confirm my availability for a courier. I knew something wasn't right then when he asked me to go to work! haha~

It was a lovely set of 12-coloured roses in a banquet. Aww~~ this is the 2nd/3rd banquet I got from him since we were together for ~9 years.haha



And usually, it is not me to announce my birthday to the world except for my closer friends/colleagues, my colleagues got to know about it and celebrated it for me in the afternoon.







Such lovely colleagues right??!?!

For dinner plans, me and my hubby went to Madrina Pizzaria under a colleague recommendation for great pizzas.

Address:
Madrina Pizzaria
3 Queen's Road
#02-141

It is situated under a block of HDB flats in Bukit Timah and has a rundown outlook.

But don't be deceived by the looks of it, once you walk in, the place looks totally different. The restaurant has the look of an underground cellar. FULL of different brands of beer and alcoholic beverage.




The owner of the restaurant was really friendly and recommended us a Anker Boscoli for a sweet beer.
It is a fruit beer by Brewery Het Anker. It is a white beer with added natural fruit juices with 3.5% alcoholic content . It was very light and tasted great.

The owner told us the story of how he had such a vast range of beer. They started serving pizza and pastas a few years ago. He loved to drink so after the operating hours, he would stay in his shop with a bunch of friends to drink and only leave the store at about ~4am. And because of his love for beer, he decided to bring in more and more varieties to put in his store for his after hours drink. That was how the vast range came about. They are also now a supplier to different events that require a range of beer.

Back to the food...

We ordered a half and half pizza (meaning 2 different pizzas on the menu but just half of each on 1 pizza) and a pasta. So glad they have such an option for us to have 2 different pizzas in 1 (of course you top up ~$4 for this). The food is freshly made and over baked in an oven you can observe from the dining area.

THE FOOD WAS HEAVENLY! I'm honest! The best pizza I have eaten here in Singapore.

The pasta was an anchovies pasta. They were generous with the herbs, in which some of them I can identify is caper and rosemary. The rosemary stalks were FRESH not the dry bottled ones that we usually see in the supermarkets.

The pizza was thin crust with a-half beef salami and a-half pesto chicken. When you bite into the pizza, the taste of herbs,the warmness of the pizza lingers in your mouth and you crave for another bite.



I had a great birthday celebration this year.

In fact, I had a few other celebrations that my friends treat me to but I didn't take a photo of them due to my ever-so-hungry (greedy) nature. I tend to eat the food once it is served =( so no picture evidence =(

What to do with soon-expired rolled oats? Homemade Granola Bars!

I recently had some rolled oats that were going to expire and had to use it real fast.

I decided that I could make some homemade muesli bars that could be taken for breakfast.

So I searched the internet for great and easy muesli recipes and found this. A really simple recipe.

You can view the youtube video here.



But I had some ingredients (butter, brown sugar and chocolate chips) that I didn't have and I modified my recipe.

2 1/2 cups (230 grams) old fashioned rolled oats

1/2 cup (80 grams) whole almonds, coarsely chopped

1/3 cup (113 grams) honey

1/4 cup canola oil

1/4 cup (50 grams) packed white sugar

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 cup (60 grams) dried cranberries, coarsely chopped

I followed the methods given and tightly pack the mixture together. 
it looks perfect~ A mega huge muesli bar waiting to be chopped.

After 2 hours of refrigeration, the mega bar was chopped and it looked pretty decent and looked store bought.

But tasting it was the best experience ever............

Because I substituted the butter for canola oil, the canola oil taste was soooo over powering! It was YUCKY! The taste comes to my mind as I am writing this =X

But the areas that I did not mix well- meaning the parts with little oil was yummy!!!
I really should have used butter instead of the convenient oil substitute =x (use a 1/4 cup butter if you are going to use the above recipe)

So the bottomline is, don't be a lazy bum and not use butter if you don't have it at home. Don't even make it if you don't have butter. Go out and buy one before you make your own homemade muesli's. Nonetheless it was a good experience. We were born to make mistakes so that we learn from it. =D

I will try it again soon and post my updates.

Thank for reading!