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13
Sep 10

Sink your teeth into this yummiest 20-inch pizza!

Loui's Pizza

 

One slice of it is bigger than my face!

Loui's Pizza

 

It’s one of the thinnest pizzas you can find in Singapore and, yet, you don’t feel like it’s just fluff. Maybe because it’s so huge. Two slices of it was enough to make my stomach raise the white flag.

I wanted to squeeze even more in but then my stomach threatened to raise the red flag.

Thin, incredibly crispy, and a mind-blowing explosion of taste is what describes Loui’s 20-inch pizzas. Those of you who love to see streaks of melted cheese stretching off the sides would be disappointed because Loui’s pizzas are not like that.

But the taste is really good. We ordered Pepperoni and Magherita.

The Pepperoni was the crowd favourite because it’s juicier and, well, the taste of pepperoni is always more exciting than just plain minced meat.

 

Loui's Pizza

 

But I enjoyed my Magherita equally because of the pleasing fragrance of basil. There’s not as much meat on the Magherita as advertised in the menu photo but I liked it just fine. I would eat it again!

 

Loui's Pizza

 

The bad news is that Loui’s Pizza is located in Universal Studios Singapore, so you have to pay money to enter the park in order to eat it.

The good news is that you can enter the park for S$5 on Fridays and Saturdays after 7 pm.

The bad news is that the restaurant is horrifyingly crowded during those times.

We were there on a triple-whammy berserk night. It was the Hari Raya Friday which coincided with school holidays and was a long weekend to boot.

It’s a large restaurant with both indoor and outdoor seating but it was packed and there were heaps of people standing around waiting for tables, just like in food courts.

 

This was later in the night when the place was less crowded and we finally managed to get a table, at 9 pm:

Loui's Pizza

 

The park closes at 10 pm. (But we didn’t get chased out of the restaurant until 10:15 pm.)

It was worth the wait, though.

And also worth the S$5 entrance fee, although it was free for us since we have a Universal Studios Singapore annual pass.

It’ll be ideal to visit the restaurant during non-peak days/hours when there isn’t a huge crowd, but that’s when the park costs S$72 to enter. That’s why you need an annual pass! =D

 

Loui's Pizza

 

Loui's Pizza

 

The 20-inch pizzas cost S$32 each, or S$7.80 a slice.

Each whole pizza is cut into six slices. Two slices (or 1.5) can feed a regular adult female. Three slices (or 2.5) for a regular adult male.

 

Loui's Pizza

 

Loui’s NY Pizza Parlour is located in New York, Universal Studios Singapore.

Loui's Pizza

Love, Sheylara
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11
Sep 10

Gamer Girl Friday

 

In a great show of unpredictability, I am once again publishing two issues of GGF in a week.

Exciting times with exciting games call for very excited gamer bloggers who show a blatant disregard for convention, ceaselessly publishing random mini reviews of games they haven’t even finished playing in their entireties.

That’s me. (In case you’re not getting my self-disparaging humour. In which case you probably don’t know what self-disparaging means. In which case never mind.)

But forget all that for a bit. Let’s talk about games!

 

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Puzzle Agent HD (US$6.99)

Puzzle Agent HD

 

You know a game is good when, just one minute into the game, you’re already dreading the end. Puzzle Agent, a puzzle adventure game in the style of Professor Layton and Jim and Frank Mysteries, impresses right from the start.

The dialogue is witty and sarcastic, often raising quiet chuckles. The voice acting is top-notch, fleshing out the personalities of each character satisfactorily. The music and sound effects are worthy of Hollywood A-list scores. The plot is intriguing and not insulting to the intelligence like the aforementioned games. The grungy comic drawing intensifies the surreal and suspenseful atmosphere as it drives the plot along.

Yet, the game is not without its shortcomings.

You play as Agent Tethers, an FBI agent from the Department of Puzzles Research (which, by itself, offers quite a few joke opportunities). You’re sent to the boondocks to reopen an eraser factory that has been mysteriously shut down. The President of the United States needs erasers to fix his mistakes.

So you solve puzzles along the way to get to the bottom of the main mystery (why the factory shut down). The puzzles are good. There are downright easy ones and there are challenging ones I couldn’t solve without invoking a few hints, although some of that could be attributed to the failure of the game to provide succinct clues.

Some of the clues could be interpreted in different ways, or don’t make sense immediately, thus resulting in numerous possible answers. This makes the gameplay frustrating because you can’t get perfect scores when the rules don’t make sense.

Worse, you get long instructions on separate pages from the puzzles, forcing you to flip back and forth between pages to refer to instructions or clues.

Then, to add a cherry bomb on top of all that, the puzzles do not have a notes feature like in Professor Layton and Jim and Frank. You can’t make notes on the screen and have to work everything out in your head. Not very friendly for visually-inclined people.

 

Puzzle Agent HD

 

Still, those are shortcomings I can live with, although I hope to see improvements in the next installments. You get the feeling that a sequel is in the works because this particular adventure doesn’t wrap up nicely. By the end the game when your superior congratulates you on a job well done, you still haven’t solved one big mystery.

I guess I have mixed feelings about this game.

If I could compartmentalise my brain, which I did in order to enjoy the game, I would say I got a few pleasurable hours enjoying the story, the drawings, the voice acting, the humour and most of the puzzles.

 

Puzzle Agent HD

 

There are only 37 puzzles in the game (I might have missed out some but that’s not too likely because I was very thorough in my search for the optional puzzles hidden in the environment.) That, together with the lack of a satisfactory ending, makes the US$6.99 price tag very unsatisfactory.

On the other hand, I would pay that amount again just to enjoy the drawings and dialogue, although the game could be bigger. There were many more spots drawn on the map that gives the impression that it would be a longer game but the game ends before you even get to see them. It’ll take three to six hours to complete the game, depending on your play style.

Like I said, mixed feelings. But the bottom line is that I don’t regret buying it and would buy it again given a choice.

 

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Success Story HD (US$4.99)

Success Story HD

 

I keep telling myself to stop buying time management games but, for some reason, I keep buying them. Success Story is a bit different from the other titles I’ve played (Are You Alright, Supermarket Mania and Airport Mania). It doesn’t require you to send your toon zipping off in six directions at once, so it’s not as frustrating.

All you have to do is make burgers. If your customer wants a cheeseburger, you tap a meat patty, then a slice of cheese, and you’re done. Of course, it gets tougher and tougher. Between serving burgers, you’re servings desserts but those are easy. Just tap all desserts that pop out onto the screen. I think they’re there to distract you from your burger-making.

It’s addictive, but I think it can be cheaper. Success Story has about 46 stages but the stages last shorter than other time management games. And the background story is rather idiotic. About humans vs. robots in the service industry and sabotage. It’s very similar to Supermarket Mania. I don’t think they’re made by the same people, though.

Success Story is a good game to train your reflexes and it’s quite fun, although it feels a bit repetitive after a while, even if the stages get tougher. The “upgrades” aren’t as exciting as those in other time management games.

If I had to choose again, I would only buy it under US$2.99.

 

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The Mystery of the Crystal Portal (US$2.99 till Sep 13 | US$4.99 Usual)

The Mystery of the Crystal Portal

 

I love this game, although I’m annoyed at having paid US$4.99 for it and finding it on sale shortly after.

It seems like more hidden objects adventure games are being made these days, which is good because I enjoy them. Crystal Portal is less adventure and more hidden objects, although it’s a fresh spin on the hidden objects genre.

You’re shown grayscale pictures of the objects you’re supposed to find, instead of words. And you must search for them in groups. Successfully finding each group of objects unlocks more groups till you find the final key object in that zone to move the story along.

That’s pretty fun, but the game forces a lot of random tapping because you’re not always told which objects will open up a group that shows the objects you must find. Also, previously inactive objects secretly become active after you complete certain groups, so you must keep tapping the same stuff over and over again to see if they become active.

That’s a major flaw in the game design that can be overcome by giving the player more visible clues of which objects are the “group indicators”, so to speak.

But the graphics is lovely and objects get animated once you complete a group, which is just cosmetic but adds to the experience.

There are six different maps. Completing one map gives you a challenging (and fun) puzzle to solve. The game could be longer, though. There’s only about three hours of gameplay. But it’s enjoyable, all the same, if you can forgive the need for random tapping.

 

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Millionaire Tycoon (US$0.99 Sale US$5.99 Usual)

Millionaire Tycoon

 

This is a board game which combines Monopoly with sabotage elements. I bought it for my iPhone more than a year ago and stopped playing it until recently when Nanny Wen discovered it on my iPad. (The game is optimised for both devices.)

Watching her play it made me want to play it again, so I bought two more expansions at US$0.99 each.

The original game comes with four game boards while each expansion has three new ones each. But the gameplay is basically the same for all. The differences are the cities and the size of the boards. (Singapore is available in the second expansion!)

You walk around a board buying property, taxing or being taxed as you land on each other’s properties. Many items can be bought to control the game or sabotage your opponents, such as forcing someone’s property to go on auction, or putting arrows on the board to force opponents to walk towards your expensive hotels.

There are many little surprises in the game which makes every game different, therefore infinitely replayable.

The Goonfather says Millionaire Tycoon is the English version of 大富翁, which is a Chinese imitation of Monopoly. It’s highly fun, therefore highly recommended!

 

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Yes, I caved in and bought seven more games this week alone depsite saying last week that I won’t buy anymore games this month. What can I do? The developers just won’t stop making games.

I still have three more games in the wings I bought but haven’t tried out yet.

I guess Gamer Girl Friday is going to remain a dedicated iPad games reviewer for some time to come, until something more exciting comes along.

Love, Sheylara
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10
Sep 10

Gamer Girl Friday

 

Isaac Newton’s Gravity HD for iPad (Free 7 levels | US$9.99 100 levels)

Isaac Newton's Gravity HD

 

You probably need to be an Isaac-Newton-calibre geek to enjoy this game thoroughly. As much as I like puzzles, I was stumped by Level 2. Okay, I’m stupid that way. I failed physics in secondary school.

But the Goonfather turned out to be a geek worthy of being a museum exhibit. He was the one who discovered this game and bowled through all 100 levels in, like, three days, all the while lamenting, “Oh no, I’m reaching Level 100 soon, then there’ll be no more to play!”

He started this dramatic lamentation as early as Level 30, compelling me to give him dirty looks combined with eye-rolling (no mean feat, that, I can assure you).

Isaac Newton’s Gravity HD is quite similar to Sierra’s Incredible Machine series of ancient times. I tried those before and remember faring better (at least I completed more levels). Maybe because there were cuter items such as toasters and goldfish bowls which you can use to achieve your goals, hence motivation.

(Actually, I don’t even remember about the toasters and such. The information came from the Goonfather. The fact that he remembers the details of such an ancient game series is testament to his geekhood.)

In Gravity HD, I suppose the cutest items are eyeballs, which is the extent of it. You get a bunch of sticks and balls and blocks to achieve the same goal in every level: To get a big red button pushed.

A ball or cart will pop out a hole and it’s your job to use those sticks and stuff to help the ball or cart manoeuvre its way towards the big red button.

It is harder than it looks at first glance. I mean, to my own defence, I have never been stumped at Level 2 of any game in my life.

Okay, fine. Physics just isn’t my thing, okay?

 

Isaac Newton's Gravity HD

 

In this level (above), for example, a ball will shoot out the hole in the middle. Before you start the ball rolling, you must arrange an assortment of items given to you in such a way that they will propel the ball upwards, past all the obstacles, to reach the red button (top left corner).

I think the physics engine is brilliant. The energies and motions caused by the items interacting with one another are very realistic. It’s fun to watch the Goonfather solve the puzzles. I get to enjoy someone else’s fruits of labour.

It’s cool to see how the button gets pushed but it’s very hard work getting there. Some of the solutions are so whacked out you’d never think of them in a million years, so I conclude that the Goonfather must be truly whacked out to have thought of them.

He gives the game a 4.5 star rating (out of 5 stars). I give it a looney bin rating. I think you need to be one in order to complete all 100 levels of the game. Wasn’t Sir Isaac Newton a bit of a looney bin himself? Reports say that it’s because of mercury poisoning from his alchemical hobby, but I think it’s the apple that fell on his head that did the trick.

In all seriousness, though, I think this is an absolutely fantastic game, although the US$9.99 price tag seems a bit excessive. I suppose it might be worth it if you spend, like, 30 minutes to solve each level but I don’t know many people who would have that kind of patience.

For the more impatient, you have hint points to purchase hints from Isaac Newton himself but those are limited. He is quite selfish in that regard. Each hint only places one object for you, then you need to pay more points to reveal the next step.

Oh, there’s also a level editor where you can create puzzles for other people to get whacked out over. If you’re not the sadistic sort, then just log in and play other people’s levels. There are currently more than 700 levels created by the community.

Oh, joy.

Now, the Goonfather did the most amazingly generous thing. He screen-printed his solutions to all 100 levels for the purpose of rescuing cute damsels in distress who have run out of hint points. If you’re not a cute damsel in distress, I guess you can’t look. Bummer.

 

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Love, Sheylara
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9
Sep 10

By popular demand, here’s another manga post (probably my last one).

I stopped sharing about my manga drawing classes because our Japanese manga teacher quit after three lessons. He couldn’t take the stress of not being able to communicate with his students.

I hope it’s not because he’d read my previous posts about him:

 

Lesson 1: Amused by Japanese Manga Teacher
Lesson 2: Another fun manga drawing class

 

I would like to think not, since he doesn’t read or speak English that well.

I did actually enjoy the communication barrier. It was fun and interesting. I guess it’s because I never took this course very seriously, only doing it for fun with no intention of becoming a manga artist, having no talent nor great passion for drawing.

Perhaps a more serious student would have been put off by communication issues, so I guess the school should really hire teachers who can speak English.

But Manga Sensei did put in a lot of effort to prepare his lessons. I believe he translated his instructions into English using a dictionary, often resulting in some ambiguity. He wrote them on the whiteboard and read them out to us.

 

Manga drawing class

 

Drawing styles of various hairstyles

1. The short hair draws the thorn.

2. The hair of semi length and length takes care not to turn in an unnatural direction considering gravity.

Example 1: The hair places to the head by gravity.

Example 2: Gravity is disregarded.

 

This was the sheet we were working on:

Manga drawing class

 

We were supposed to copy the top row onto the bottom row, with the head outline already drawn for us. The rightmost column was for us to draw our own faces and I totally disregarded the fact that we were supposed to be drawing males for this exercise.

Anyway, being androgynous is quite the trend these days.

Right. My 3/4 profile totally sucks and my toon has alien eyes. But you’ll still love me despite my shortcomings, won’t you?

Our third lesson was fun. We learnt how to draw expressions — my favourite thing in manga.

By this time, we were getting a bit more advanced. We didn’t have faint lines to trace or face outlines to guide us anymore. This time, we had to copy from scratch.

It was a bit daunting after all the previous handholding. But I was already dreading the day we would be forced to graduate to drawing originals without having anything to copy.

 

Manga drawing class

 

Manga drawing class

 

Manga drawing class

 

Anyway, the last useful lesson Manga Sensei imparted to us was this:

 

When letting one’s feelings show it is more effective when a peculiar mark to the expression and the cartoon is put. It is called MANPU in Japanese.

 

He wrote and drew all these on the whiteboard and I copied them onto the back of my worksheet.

 

Manga drawing class

 

I like this! I remember always being amused and tickled by cute manpu when reading manga.

After this class, we never saw Manga Sensei again. We’ll probably never see him again. It makes me sad.

I didn’t attend our fourth lesson because I was sick, but Minou attended and she SMS’ed me after class: “Our teacher has given up and returned to Japan.”

There was a relief teacher that day, a Singaporean who will take us until the school finds a replacement from Japan. That will take at least two months, says the school.

Our relief teacher may not be an authentic Japanese manga artist but I think he is more than capable of taking a class of our level (sub-zero). Since he can speak English, our classes make a lot more sense now.

 

Manga drawing class

 

Of course, that also means there aren’t any amusing incidents to report, which is why I probably won’t be blogging about my classes anymore.

The most amusing thing that happened was at the last class. I am three lessons behind Minou and friends because I keep having events and overseas trips, so I was on my fifth lesson when they were at their eighth lesson.

(The classes at Inoue are very flexible. You pay for eight lessons and show up when you can. After using up eight lessons, you decide whether to continue. Each week, the teacher makes notes of your progress and continues where you left off, so everyone in each class can be at different stages.)

On Minou’s eighth class, they were supposed to have a test. They were told about it only during the seventh class, which stressed them out a lot.

They were dismayed when our teacher announced, “It’s time for your test now!”

They were hoping he would have forgotten.

Conversation as follows:

 

Teacher: It’s time for your test now!

Minou & Friends: Eeks! We were hoping you’d forget!

Teacher: Don’t worry, it’s very easy.

Minou & Friends: Really must test ah?

Teacher: We need to gauge your standard before we can proceed.

Minou & Friends: Can it be an open book test?

Teacher: Cannot lah! O_o

 

I was very amused by all this, mostly because I wasn’t involved in the test and had the luxury to be gleeful about it.

 

The test:

Manga drawing class

 

Within 1.5 hours, the student must draw five things: One full frontal body, one half frontal body, one half side body, one half back body, and one half 3/4 angled body, all with facial features and hair and clothes, the whole works.

I guess it’s rather easy if you practise your lessons at home diligently. I think none of us practise at all. =P

The one and only guy in our class failed the test.

Minou and friend passed.

I am considering playing truant on my eighth lesson.

Oh, I found interesting similarities between both our manga teachers! They both like to wear hats/caps and they are both ambidextrous!

 

Manga Sensei using left hand:

Manga drawing class

 

Manga Sensei using right hand:

Manga drawing class

 

Relief Teacher using left hand:

Manga drawing class

 

Oops! Just realised I don’t have a photo of him using his right hand.

His told us he was born left handed, but his mum made him learn to write using his right hand. So, now, he uses his right hand to write and his left hand to draw.

His explanation is that because the left hand uses the right (creative) side of the brain, it’s better to draw with it.

(I found a useful article about brains and artists if you want to read up on it.)

Anyway, I like our new teacher as much as Manga Sensei, for different reasons. Our new teacher is very dedicated. You can feel that he really wants people to become better artists.

And he’s very talented! He’s always showing us how to draw stuff, but because he’s at the other side of the table, he’ll draw them upside down so we can see the right side up.

 

This is him showing me how to draw guidelines for a full body:

Manga drawing class

 

Well, as much as it’s kinda fun now, I don’t think I’ll be continuiing my lessons after my eight sessions are up. I find doing the worksheets fun because it’s all copying. But I don’t think I have the patience or interest to practise regularly until I’m able to draw my own stuff. I like drawing faces but I find drawing bodies and hands and feet very tiresome.

Guess I won’t be producing my own manga in this lifetime.

Back to drawing stick figures!

Love, Sheylara
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Categories: Miscellaneous
8
Sep 10

Since it’s coming to lunch time, I shall try to whet my appetite by talking about food.

(Probably not a very good idea.)

Japanese Food

I wanted to blog about this coffeeshop Japanese stall in Ang Mo Kio that the Goonfather accidentally discovered not so long ago. It has the best omu rice in Singapore and pretty good ramen.

I only managed to try it once and now, I just found out IT HAS CLOSED DOWN. WHY!!? How can they tease us like that!

Look at this.

Black pepper beef omu rice

Black pepper beef omu rice

Black pepper beef omu rice. This was what I ate and it was fantastic. I hope they just moved instead of closed down. But how am I going to find them?

The chicken katsu curry omu rice is the one the Goonfather loves.

Chicken katsu omu rice

And the scallop ramen.

Scallop ramen

Here’s what the stall used to look like:

Japanese food stall

If you see any stalls that look like this, tell me! =)

Korean Charcoal BBQ

There’s this huge restaurant in East Coast Parkway that we’ve wanted to try forever but never got around to until recently (when the Goonfather started watching Korean drama) because we always eat at Waraku just beside.

Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ

There are three outlets. We ate at the East outlet.

It was interesting. I like how, before we’ve even settled down properly, we already have a whole table full of food.

Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ

We ordered the buffet set. Four kinds of meat (just keep ordering until you’re happy) and free-flow side dishes (which is all the little bowls and dishes you see on the table). Our meal came up to about $45 each after taxes.

I like how the waitress cooks for us so we can concentrate on eating. She comes to our table periodically to flip meats, serve them, or add more onto the grill.

What the Goonfather likes is that they serve you fresh vegetable leaves with raw garlic and chilli padi. You’re supposed to wrap your BBQ meats with the leaves, add chilli and garlic and sweet sauce.

Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ

Quite interesting, but I think I prefer the meat alone.

We also got heart-shaped watermelon pieces as part of the package.

Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ

The place was quite empty. I enjoyed being able to dine in a quiet, super spacious restaurant. But, to be honest, I think the quality of the buffet is not worth $45.

Maybe it’s a place more suitable for rich folk who can go there and order wagyu and black angus without batting an eyelid. Maybe those will be worth it. One plate of those already costs more than our whole buffet, hehe. =P

I’d rather go eat at one of those Chinese-run Korean BBQ and steamboat stalls you can find easily in Geylang. I think some of them have better-tasting food and they’re cheap.

Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ is at 1018 East Coast Parkway.

Taiwan Porridge

Many people are falling sick over and over again recently, so here’s some sick people food. (Just don’t go when you’re contagious and spread your germs all over the place.)

My friends and I enjoy going to Quality Hotel for supper once in a while. There’s a Taiwan Porridge Buffet at Quality Cafe which is cheap after 10 pm ($8++ weekdays $9++ weekends). Before 10 pm, it’s $11.80++ and $13.80++.

And it’s good!

Well, it’s a buffet. There’s a huge variety of food for you to choose from. But I think they’re mostly wasted on me because I love the cheapest food with my porridge, like preserved beancurd and pickled vegetables.

Porridge

Porridge

But I still like going there. I like having choices and eating a bit of this and a bit of that.

Porridge

Porridge

Actually, if you don’t mind spending a bit more, the dinner slot is worth going for (6 pm to 10 pm) even though it’s more expensive. They have kueh pie tee during that time and it’s very good!! (And a few other extras… I can’t remember what.)

We once entered the restaurant at 9:30 pm. We couldn’t wait till 10 pm cos we were all starving. And because the kueh pie tee was only going to last for half an hour more, we kept ordering that nonstop.

It was top-notch kueh pie tee. The cup was very crispy and the ingredients had just the right proportions so that the taste blended very nicely.

Anyway, maybe it’s a good idea to eat more porridge nowadays. If you’re falling sick easily, eat more simple stuff to keep your health up!

(Yeah, we all know but we don’t listen!)

Quality Cafe is at 201 Balestier Road.

Happy eating!

Love, Sheylara
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Categories: Food