Category: Fun Places

The Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival is back with an exciting weekend of offerings for the young and old. This year, visitors gets to experience releasing of sky lanterns, laser show, mooncake tasting, lantern-making workshops, storytelling of Mid-Autumn tales, alfresco concert performances and more.

Release of Sky Lanterns

The organizers will be releasing three 1.2-meters sky lantern helium balloons for the very first time on 7 September 2019 at 7.30pm. These sky lanterns will continue to hover above the event area.

Laser Show

Also happening for the first time on both days at 7.15pm and 8.15pm, this 3-minutes outdoor laser show is a symphony of color visual projections, laser beams and mist effects set to a moving orchestral soundtrack telling the story of the origins of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Alfresco Evening Concert

There is also an evening concert happening from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on both nights. Concert highlights include an interactive drama performance on the legends of Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese belly-dancing, live music performances and more.

Game Carnival & Snacks

Simply collect an activity passport, play the games at the carnival to collect stamps and win a mystery prize. There are also traditional local snacks including mee siam, curry puffs and more available for sale.

The carnival starts at 11am on both days and end at 7pm.

Workshops

There are also workshops to teach visitors how to make sky lanterns, flower sculptures, mooncake box, Jade rabbit mooncake, Snow-skin mooncake (S$5 per pax), paper lantern coloring workshop and more.

For details of workshops, click here.

Wan Qing Mid-Autumn Festival
When: 7 & 8 September 2019, 1030hr – 2100hr
Where: Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
Cost: Free Admission

Images from Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

This year’s Halloween is going to be special with Asia’s first ever zombie survival game that will happen on 26 October 2019 at the National Stadium.

During this day, the National Stadium and the area outside it, will be transformed into a mega play area with zombies taking over the land.

How to Play

Most of the players start as survivors. They run around the premise completing quests sent to them via a mobile app to earn virtual coins. These coins can be used to purchase items from a black market within the game.

However, they have to do all these while avoiding the zombies. Once a zombie tags a survivor by touching him/her, that survivor has to hand over his/her dog tag to the zombie. The survivor then proceeds to a makeup room to get a zombie makeup done and continue the game as a zombie.

As time passes by, the zombie hordes grow and surviving gets harder. The aim of the game is to survive not being tagged by the zombies during the 3.5-hours play time.

Zedtown App

This is the handphone app that survivors must download to play the game. At the beginning, survivors must choose a team to join and to complete quests as a team. (Think Pokemon Go teams)

This handphone app also gives real-time updates of the zombie and survivors count.

Here’s the official trailer to get you excited:

Zedtown Singapore
When: 26 October 2019
Sessions: 12PM & 6PM
Cost: Individual survivor ticket – From S$60

Ticket details, click here.

Images from Zedtown

With the latest anime One Piece: Stampede hitting the big screen on 5 September 2019, Golden Village (GV) Cinemas will also be introducing a limited edition of one piece stampede collectible cups and chopper popcorn bucket from 31 August 2019.

The One Piece Collectible Cups retails at S$24.50 comes with either the  Luffy or Chopper topper. It will also come with a complimentary large drink.

The Chopper Popcorn Bucket, on the other hand, is priced at S$49.50 and comes with a large popcorn and large drink set.

Due to overwhelming popularity of its S$1 for 1 hour promotion, Karaoke Manekineko Singapore has extended this offer till 31 August 2019.

For this limited period of time, each person just has to pay S$3 nett during weekdays or S$6 nett during weekends for a 3-hour block karaoke session at its *SCAPE outlet.

This offer is however limited to at least 3 guests per booking and no extensions are allowed.

Karaoke Manekineko Singapore (*Scape Outlet)
Where: 2 Orchard Link #03-05
Promotion Period: Till 31st August 2019
Opening hours: 11am – 3am
For reservations: 6755 3113

#ManekinekoSG #Karaoke #JapaneseFamilyKaraoke #CrazyDeal

To celebrate the Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund marking its 10th anniversary, the Jurong Bird Park will be offering free tickets to all Singaporeans, Permanent Residents (PRs) and workers holding an Employment Pass (EP Holders) from 6 September 2019 to 15 September 2019.

However, there are eight gated zones that charges a nominal entrance fee from S$2 to S$4.

These include the Indoor Penguin Coast (S$2), Waterfall Aviary (S$2), Wings of Asia (S$2), Lory Loft (S$2), Parrot Paradise (S$2), High Flyer Show (S$4), Birdz of Play (S$4) and Kings of the Skies Show (S$4).

Coupons in sets of $10 will be available for purchase on site.

Free Admission to Jurong Bird Park

When: 6 Sept – 15 Sept
Opening Hours: Daily, 0830hr – 1800hr (Last entry: 1730hr)
Where: Jurong Bird Park (2 Jurong Hill S628925)
Cost: Free

Images from Wildlife Reserves Singapore

Many companies were very creative to blend in their marketing promotions this year in conjunction with National Day.

However, Durex Singapore might be the smoothest when it comes to stealth marketing.

Here’s their cheeky Facebook post:

In case you can’t see it:

Singapore’s birthday is right round the corner and what better way to show your love with a red box of Durex.

To the uninitiated and pure, red is considered one of the official colors to wear during Singapore’s National Day. Durex Singapore is taking this chance to plug it’s red condoms.

Well played.

However, this is not the first time Durex posts tongue-in-cheek posts on its social media. Previously, when South Korea celebrity couple Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo announced their split, this was Durex’s response:

We are excited to see what the team from Durex will come up with next.

It’s been almost 4 months since the Pokémon Center Singapore opened. Come National Day (9 August 2019), the store will also be selling brand new Generation 2 plushies from the Johto Region.

This Pokémon Fit soft toy collection is also known as the sitting cuties collection overseas. It features palm size Pokemon in their sitting position.

Besides the 127 new plushies in this line, fans will also be able to pick up all 27 forms of Unown. Each Pokémon Fit plushie retails at S$19. While stocks last.

Generation 2 Pokémon Fit Plushie Sale
When: 9 August 2019, From 1000hr
Where: Pokémon Center Singapore
Cost: S$19 each

#Pokémon #PokémonCenterSingapore

Starbucks really loves Singapore.

After introducing its limited edition National Day menu, it now has some really cute looking merchandise.

Starbucks Dragon Playground Cold Cup (S$29.90)

A cold cup with dragon playground design on the lid. This 470ml cup comes with a reusable straw.

Starbucks Singapore Globe (S$39.90)

This exclusive Starbucks globe features the Merlion.

Do take note the Starbucks Singapore Globe is only available at these locations:

• Airport Terminal 1 – 4
• City Square Mall
• ION Orchard
• JEM
• Jurong Point
• Liat Towers
• Marina Bay Sands
• NEX
• Northpoint
• One Fullerton
• Paragon
• Plaza Singapura
• Raffles City
• Resorts World Sentosa
• River Safari
• Sentosa (Imbiah Lookout & USS)
• Suntec Convention Centre
• Tampines Mall
• The Central
• The Fullerton Waterboat House
• United Square
• VivoCity
• Westgate

Reusable Bag (S$15.90)

Everyone is going green these days. This Peranakan-inspired design bag is reusable and environmentally friendly

National Day Water Bottle (S$22.90)

This water bottle with Singapore inspired prints can hold 470ml of liquid.

Vintage Tiles Mug (S$20.90)

The Singapore National Day vintage mugs (400ml) come in two designs.

Images from Starbucks Website

Have you ever had the experience of trying to remember your loved one’s grave at a cemetery to no avail?

This problem will soon be history because an ingenious Singaporean has coded an app that allows Muslim families to locate their loved one’s site.

Pusara Checklist is the name of this Community-driven cemetery directory app that aims to help ease the search for information of the deceased.

It serves as a centralized public storage for keeping deceased-related information in place. Users can search for information such as name, grave address and/or death date via the search and filter functions.

There is even a Google map function to help you get to the actual site.

 

Pride as the expert for sleep, US premium mattress brand Simmons just rolled out a novel nap service at its new flagship store, Simmons Gallery at the Capitol Piazza.

This nap service, called 45winks, allows patrons to nap for up to 45 minutes in one of its three private suites. Patrons can also choose the firmness of their mattress. For ultimate comfort, Simmons will also be providing luxurious pillows and bed sheets, similar to the ones in Marina Bay Sands.

Pyjamas, scented eye mask, bedroom slippers and light refreshments are also provided.

The price for this 45-minutes experience is S$90. After which, patrons who are still sleeping “would be gently woken up”.

Simmons is currently having a half price promotion from now till mid-July.

45winks @ Simmons Gallery
Where: 13 Stamford Road, Capitol Singapore 178905 #B2-40/ 41/ 42
Cost: S$90 (S$45 promotion till mid-July)
Operating Hours: 1045hr – 1900hr
Hotline: +65 6385 3966
Online Booking: https://45winks.simmons.com.sg/#contact-us