Pearlywerkz - Singapore Beauty and Lifestyle Blog: Uncle Ringo

March 2016 Blog Updates

alvinology media 3/23/2016

Its the Month of March 2016 and in a few days time we will march on to the month of April. This month, we bloggers seems to be plagued by the hoo-ha over IRAS's sudden need for us to declare income tax for sponsored products and services when we are not even paid for doing them. I shall leave this to another day when I finally have the time to sit down and ponder over it.

March seem to be a rather busy and fast month where I largely celebrated my childhood times once again. Of special mention is my invitation to Uncle Ringo, where I get to play 10 different Carnival games.

My husband and I also took this opportunity to visit the 25 light installations over at i-Lights at Marina Bay for the second time since it started. If I had to compare, I feel that this year's installation is a tad disappointing as most of the installations was either too difficult to understand, already spoiled by the time we were there, or not set up yet.

I was very blessed this month by my blogger friend Danessa to be able to bless Tracy and her friend Rose with 2 tickets to the Disney on Ice Festival, where once again, we got to be a child at heart seeing our favorite Disney characters come to live. I've always wanted to watch this, so count my blessings! What felt better was the ability to be blessed, and also bless others. The show have ended but you can read about it on my blog.

Meanwhile, new stocks for my health tea sponsor Hi-Tea have arrived so you will be expecting more reviews of their loose tea on the blog. I feel very blessed to be sponsored this healthy beverage. The Hi-Tea giveaway is finally going to happen too, as the giveaway stocks have arrived now. I know I've been talking about it for the longest time.

Additionally, I will also be giving away a bottle of the Kainda delicate garment soak which I had reviewed last month.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to some people whom I had met recently. This round, I thank WOM PR group and Originlly US/Alvinology Media for all the recent event invitations such as the Times Waterway Point Official Opening, Perrier's Masterclass Event, Asus Zenfone Zoom and Asus Zenfone Max event launch, and opening this new door for me to have a chance to attend all these interesting and some eye-opening events that you had been seeing recently on my blog. Watch out for more great stories, as I unveil them under the lifestyle section of my humble blog.

Stay tuned for up-coming reviews which includes the opening of Sophisca's latest outlet in Marina Square which I've attended over last weekend. I've seen their candy store in Taiwan when I visited them years back, but this is the first time I see their store in Singapore.

You should also be expecting a review of the Expression's Lavender Slimming Oil (oh it smells so good).

Don't miss out on the ASUS Zenfone Max which I am currently snapping away on, so stay tuned for those.

By the way Pet Expo 2016 is also happening this weekend at Expo Hall 7, from 25 - 27 March 2016 11am - 8pm. Ticket is at $4 per adult, free for children under 12 and free for your furkid, you can purchase online or at the booth at the entrance itself. I'll most probably be dropping by with my furkid on Good Friday, so see you guys around if you are heading over too.

Last but not least, I thank all you wonderful readers for hanging around my blog in one way or another, supporting my journey thus far. Do follow me on my Instagram and Facebook page at Pearlywerkz.

Feel free to drop me an email me at pearlywerkz@outlook.com if you have any questions or feedback for me.

Be Confident, Be Yourself.

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Event Review: 10 Carinval games you could try at Uncle Ringo

carnival 3/17/2016

" In my soul, I am still that small child who do not care about anything else, but the beautiful colors of a rainbow." - Paphia Ghosh

Everyone has an inner child that lives within them. When we were young, we pester our parents to bring us to these carnival games which we often didn't know what we were doing, but merely going with the flow, joining other kids for some fun.

We want to have a go at everything, hit every tin can, shoot down targets and take a magical ride on that moving horse carousel and go a fairy tale adventure on that mini Ferris wheel, while our parents looked at the innocent us having the fun of our lives.

To begin your magical adventure, proceed to the booth and purchase your Uncle Ringo access card at either $22 for a $20 card or $50 for a $50 card at the ticket booth. This card grants you access to your fairy land carnival games and rides around Uncle Ringo's territory.

We had $50 worth of credits in our card, so our strategy was to maximize the number of games we could play judging by the difficulty and cuteness of the toy. Each game was at $5, meaning we could try our hands on 10 different games if we just had one go on each of them.

Game #1 Toss the ball into the color cup

To access what I wish to play, I usually judge by the toy that was given and the difficulty level of the games. I thought this looks pretty easy. All I have to do is throw the yellow plastic ball and if it lands on either of the colored cups I'll get something. Tried my hands on the ball and it quickly bounced off. Tried the second one... bingo it landed... but on a "colorless" cup. Dang... in the end I got nothing after 3 tries.

Game #2 Roll the Ping Pong into the right tray

We went on further to try our luck at this game. I really loved the Stitch toy and I did not mind even if I get a mini Stitch too. For this game you have to release the ping pong ball on the acrylic plastic and allow it to drop into the slots. Most of my balls ended up in the "0", hubby's ball ended in one of the small numbers so I went off with nothing.

To console myself, I asked my hubby to take a photograph of me with the lovely Stitch toy. I was practically grinning because I told the store attendant that I am consoling myself, since I didn't win the toy, at least let me take a photo for memory sake.

Game #3 Roll the ball into the right hole

Next up, we tried another rolling ball game. These balls actually lights up when you tap them gently on the table. So we tried our hands on rolling the ball to the holes. Hubby's ball kept on falling back down so he tried again and again. Mine kept going to the number "5" hole. In the end, we didn't accumulate enough points to redeem anything as well. So sad.

Game #4 Hit the target

I used to play the archery when I was back in my secondary school days and I did fairly well shooting targets and balloons. You can imagine my disappointment when I realized that this one was a throwing dart and had no bows to it. I "complained" about the wind conditions and then ya, it landed on nothing on the first try, hubby tried two and landed close but still got nothing and finally my last dart landed just in the red card.

See my winning dart? So lucky! Haha, I won a small duck toy for this lucky shot.

Game #5 Smash those ABC blocks

Minons Minons Minons! Plenty of them here. This game does not looks as easy as it seems. You need to hit the tray of blocks down not just for them to land on the tray, you have to hit them off the tray. Although the baseball has some weight, it was quite difficult. So we went off empty handed yet again.

Game #6 Smack the metal tins off

Looking at the light weighted black sacks, I already knew how hard it would be but I decided to let my hubby give it a go at this.

You are only provided with 3 black sacks and you have to hit all the heavy tin cans down. Well, no luck for us for this game either. We didn't win anything.

Game #7 Toss the ball into the milk bucket

Tried our luck to toss this base ball into the "Milk bucket". I tried one and my ball didn't even went near. Hubby tried it and managed to get one ball in. We got a small Minon toy from his win.

Game #8 Make your ball stay within the Lobster Pot

For this Lobster Pot game, all you have to do is allow the ball to land in the bucket and not let it bounce out. You have 2 tries for it, but it is so difficult to do. We didn't manage to win anything from this game either.

Game #9 Smash those milk bottles off

I see the black sack again. Tried my hand at this, I managed to drop the top most milk bottle but only onto the tray. We almost got all the milk bottle down but tough luck. Went off without anything for this as well.

Game #10 Toss the hula into the squares

The hoops looks big but it is not easy to get them into the square blocks. Most of the time you will not even get close to the block but have the hula hoops flying all over. A tough one indeed.

Standing in front of the scary UFO spinning ride that some of the bloggers were ridding on. I dare not take rides with heights or seems too adventurous.

There are many other stores that offers other kinds of games and rides available at Uncle Ringo, if you are interested, do give them a go.

Here's a last shot taken with the rest of the bloggers who were there, Francis the guy in spectacles and Uncle Ringo himself, the one in the center with the brightest smile. Oh, you may have a go at the bumper car ride too! These are rare finds nowadays.

Thank you Francis and Uncle Ringo for the kind invitation to relive my childhood once again. My hubby and I had a great time before we proceeded on to tour the Marina Bay i Lights. I will cover i Lights in a separate post as this post is way too long. Till then...

Uncle Ringo is at Marina Bay Sands together with i lights Marina Bay, happening till 27 March 2016 happening daily, so do catch them while you are on your way to visit i lights.

Disclaimer: I was invited by Francis and Uncle Ringo to this event and sponsored $50 credits for the carnival games, solely for the purpose of my review. Review is truthful, honest and based on personal views. No monetary rewards were received for this review.

Be Confident, Be Yourself.

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Diary Post: Happy 50th Birthday Singapore and our dating places

Asian Civilisation Museum 8/10/2015

When it comes to red and white, what are you reminded of? Sk-II Stempower? Just joking! But really its a popular product and its red and white too. So why not? Maybe you should just go to the page and grab one bottle to pamper yourself for partying so hard, in celebration of the nation's post birthday!

Its the nation's birthday. Singapore is 50 years old this year. Its our Jubilee and we are having a long weekend. Its great to check out some of places which you have not been to, and is now FREE! That's what myself and hubby did. Cheapo? No... we're just typical Singaporeans.

So he dig me out of bed on day 1 of the long weekend, and told me that he wanted to watch the Singapore Aerial display as they are having their rehearsal. So there we are...

Look at the gloomy skies thou, we didn't catch much of the action in the skies. Soon there was a downpour and we decided that we should just go find some food nearby. We headed for the Marina Square food court where we had our favorite Indonesian food.

We took wefies, and revisited some of our favorite places along Marina Bay.

Spot the Fullerton Hotel, The bridge before the Fullerton, views of the Art Science Museum, Marina Bay Sands and other buildings along the busy Singapore districts. These places brings back happy and sweet memories where we took our pre-wedding photo-shoot back in 2009.

We took the opportunity to visit the Asian Civilization Museum where they showcased a time capsule uncovered. Its called, Unearthed, Singapore at 25. Wonder what's Singapore like a mere 25 years ago? Look at some photographs which we took of the items. Are any of them they familiar to you? Maybe you can keep one time capsule at home and pass it down to your children when they grow up too. It will be fun to put together items.

This exhibition displays the contents of a time capsule buried in front of the Empress Place building on 29 December 1990. Objects include first National Service mobilisation, development plans from the 1970s, military medals, stamps, public phone cards, a very young SINGA, the courtesy mascot, and even a poster of Ah Meng, ambassador for the Singapore Zoo. Come experience the sights, sounds, and thoughts of Singaporeans of 25 years ago. ~ Credits: Asian Civilisation Museum

There are some other exhibitions happening at the same time as well, we managed to take a quick look and snap some photographs along the way as we've seen some of them on our previous visit. We left soon after and proceed on with our exploration.

We walked around Uncle Ringo and looked at some of the activities that the children were busy with and was rather fascinated by the Journey of Thrills. It cost $7 for 2 rounds which took around 10 minutes or lesser. Would you pay for such rides for the sake of the experience for your child?

The all time favorite bumper car, where we spotted a long queue behind the ticket booth.

We walked around for a little and explored Marina Bay Sands but... we didn't manage to hang around long enough to wait till the fireworks, as the rain was coming on and off, we got our shoes all wet and clothes partially wet. Even though we had our umbrella with us, it didn't help much. We decided to head home after that.

It was a day of fun exploring the Marina Bay area and we hope that we'll be able to find time to do more of these exploration trips soon!

Hope you find some dating inspirations and things you can do on your next date! It really depends on both of your interest but there are places in Singapore which you can go round exploring with your loved ones.

Cheers,
Pearly

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