21-05-07` settlers' with lpq, hky

lpq, hky and i went settlers' cafe today!

hky is ga-ga over the Mc shrek's hairband! she wanted to get 2 but the evil lingy stopped her from the charity (simply because she needs to save herself first from poverty).

as guided by the previous trip, i followed roughly the same route. that is go to a bus stop which has bus 12 and to katong's settlers' branch. was deciding upon branch clark quay and katong but in the last few moments before meeting up, fret that it was packed, i looked upon the website to check for the tele nos. of clark quay in order to make any reservations / vacancies available. it was only then i found out that monday (which is today) happens to be its off day. so ta-da~, no choice but to katong.

the journey was long and the sun was BLAZING hot. we missed 2 buses because of our stupidity. since bus 12 and 32 both goes to settlers', we were figuring if they happen to stop at the same bus stop. while checking out at the bus stop of 32, we missed a bus 12; while we were looking at details of bus 12, we missed bus 32. tough luck eh!

lpq was waiting there for years!

finally.. at settlers', we took up the students package. $6 / pax, 2 - 6pm (we started at 3 plus), free flow of drinks of the day and games.

these are the games we played:

Reflex

players were given a stack of cards. each player is to open one card and place it in the center. if two cards of the same picture (jam / peanut butter) were to appear one after another, the first person who slammed her hand on the cards and called out 'double-decker' will collect all of the cards at the center; the same goes for the cards of the same picture with a different one in the middle as 'sandwich'. a card with a picture of a thief will requires us to shout 'catch thief'. i presume all of us had equally poor synaronising skills, thereby it had the 'monopoly' syndrome whereby its never-ending. at the end of the day, we had red palms and lots of attention of others from the slamming of tables.

Zug and Tag (something liddat)

the game consist of a map of US, like New York, Chicago, New Orleans, etc. the tickets shows the link between the places and the tracks are colour cooded. the players are supposed to travel from one place to another by building railways drawing 2 colour codes from either of the 4 stacks. if the track has been used by a player, even if the rail connects u to the place u desired, it cannot be used again.

rather a complicated game. but hky loves it! i was yawning partly because i was lagging behind. haha

Taboo

each were given a card and describe the term etc without using the 'special related' words indicated. hahas, but the no-rules gang (us) seems to translate some of the forbidden words into mandarin. the excellent answer of all times - lpq:"this describes hky.", i gave an immediate ans "LAZY" and BINGO!!! it was lazy! so we know how is hky like to us. the most important / identifying trait!

Uglydoll

the cards are of pictures of cute monsters! and i mean real cute! (pictures as evidence). the cards are turned with the pictures of various monsters down on the table. the cards are laid on the table and given a 'clean shuffle' (that is the mahjiong style). each player is supposed to flip a card at a time and once 3 cards of the same monsters appear (they look alike, if u had notice!), the person who spotted it and slam / grab the cards on the table will take it. if she is not quick enough to collect all 3, other players are open to 'snatch' the card by slamming, grabbing etc. i tried feiging the slamming action in several occasion and the rest kena tricked! wahaha! a very fierce game that is potentially damaging to friendships! LOL

sorry for the blur image! my hand goes jelly-wobbly after the slamming and grabbing!

capturing the monsters in action. can u guess who's hands are those?

we saw the plushies keyrings of the uglydolls in a shop at parkway parade! awww..~ love 'em to bits!

Lobo 77

each players holds 4 cards and 3 tokens. the rule of thumb here is - the numbers of the cards toll up after rounds by each player cannot exceed 77. the last one who place a card that exceeds 77 kenna 'BOMBED!' and loses her 3 tokens to the previous player. the player who had the numbers added to the mutiples of 11 (e.g. 11, 22, 33, 44 etc) loses one token to the previous player (a rule which we totally forgotten until very much of the game when hky 'caught' me red-handed). a player is considered lost when her credits go beyond the negatives. the numbers includes 0, 2, 5, 10, 44, 66, 76, -10 etc, and power cards like reverse, x2 (the next player has to draw 2 cards and place 2 cards with them added to the center lot) quite a mental game which requires the help of the lady luck. our dear hky goes negative 22! LOL. she swore to get her revenge the next time! hence its marked as a 'must-play' for our next visit.

the legendary lobo77!

the deadly 76. because whichever card u place after that gets u 'BOMBED!" sadly, hky didn't get the chance to put this card to good use because she will get herself 'grilled' first before killing others.

we had the famous katong laksa for dinner. hky insist on goin to the one with most pictures taken with celebrities (one with martin yan). well.. ifs nice :)

headed to parkway parade. settlers and parkway is only separated by a roxy plaza! definately a shorter and more convenient route! over at the timezone, lpq and hky played a stimulator kind of ride, the one with vibrations and banging everywhere with a screen infront. the best thing of all is its price - $3 for 2 person! they survived without vomiting the laksa. haas. i'll give it a go the next time!

looking forward for more outings!