Monday, 5 November 2007

An UNO game

In an UNO game, there are 56 cards and instructions.
1) 10 cards--numbers 0 to 9(red)
2) 10 cards--numbers 0 to 9(blue)
3) 10 cards--numbers 0 to 9(yellow)
4) 10 cards--numbers 0 to 9(green)
5) 4 skip cards
6) 2 draw four cards
7) 2 choose colour cards
8) 4 draw two cards
UNO cards can be used to play an UNO game, a stress game and a snap game.

Sunday, 4 November 2007

Information on small islands in Singapore

Pulau Semakau
1)Pulau Semakau was home to a small village community.
2)Pulau Semakau is Singapore's first offshore landfill and now the only remaining landfill in Singapore.
3)The Semakau Landfill covers a total area of 3.5 square kilometres and has a capacity of 63 million m³.
4)Semakau Landfill is filled mainly with ash produced by Singapore's four incineration plants, which incinerate the country's waste, shipped there in a covered barge (to prevent the ash from get blown into the air) every night.
Sentosa
1)Sentosa was once known as Pulau Belakang Mati, which in Malay means the "Island (pulau) of Death (mati) from Behind (belakang)".
2)During the Japanese Occupation, under the Sook Ching Operation, Chinese men who were suspected, often arbitrarily, of being involved in anti-Japanese activities were brutally killed.
3)

Sentosa can be reached from the Singapore mainland via a short causeway or Cable Car, which originates on Mount Faber and passes through Harbour Front en route.

The island is also accessible by the SGD$140 million Sentosa Express monorail, which has four stations on Sentosa. Opened in 15 January 2007, the terminus of the line is at the VivoCityHarbour Front MRT Station of the North East MRT Line. The journey takes four minutes. The Waterfront Station of the monorail is expected to open in 2010. shopping mall on the mainland, which is in turn served by the served by the Harbour Front MRT Station of the North East MRT Line. The journey takes four minutes. The Water Front Station of the monorail is expected to open in 2010.

4) Attractions in Sentosa:

Carlsberg Sky Tower,

Butterfly Park and Insect Kingdom,

Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon,

Songs of the Sea and more ...

Jurong island

Jurong Island is a man-made island located to the southwest of the main island of Singapore, off Jurong Industrial Estate.Construction of underground rock caverns to store crude oil, condensates, naphtha and gas-oil is expected to start in late 2006. Work on the caverns is expected to be completed by 2009. Total underground storage capacity could reach up to 3.2 million cubic metres. In the first phase, the caverns will have a storage capacity of 1.47 million cubic metres.