Need Past Issues? LOVE US, “LIKE US” MICA (P) 144/08/2012 WEEKENDER www.facebook.com/ www.facebook.com/ weekendersgp weekendersgp NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2012 YOUR INSPIRATION TO A WEEKEND FILLED WITH FUN AND HAPPINESS DELIVERED FREE TO YOUR HOME INSIDE... >> TURKEY 06 BRIYANI, ANYONE? Join Goodwood Park Hotel’s merrymaking with their localised take on the traditional Christmas turkey dinner. ALL HAIL 07 THE KING OF TIRAMISU Try this decadently rich tiramisu recipe with a local twist. Learn how to mix the freshest D24 durians into this traditional Italian recipe. By LESTER J WAN A BALL OF A 08 TIME! Singapore’s netball THE HOLS co-captain Micky Lin shares tips and encourages all to try netball. Also, win tickets to the Nations Cup 2012! SAVVY ABOUT 11 SEVILLE OF FUN Tapas, flamenco, siesta WELCOME TO THE HOLS OF FUN! TEMPTATIONS and fiestas. Seville is everything you’d want on a ARE ON THEIR WAY WITH MYRIAD THINGS FOR trip to Spain. Travel blogger Albino Chua savours the YOUNG PEOPLE TO SEE, DO AND PLAY THIS splendours of Seville. HOLIDAY SEASON Like our page on: • Page 2... facebook.com/weekendersgp For a pdf copy visit: www.facebook.com/weekendersgp 02 • WEEKENDER • NOVEMBER 16 - 22, 2012 YOUR INSPIRATION TO A WEEKEND FILLED WITH FUN AND HAPPINESS For a pdf copy of Weekender OVER STORY visit: www.facebook.com/weekendersgp C • Continued from page 1. GET LEGO-RISED Why travel across the Causeway, when we READ, EAT, SEE, JUMP, RUN, SING, have The Art of the Brick at ArtScience Museum? New York-based artist Nathan DANCE, FLY, PARTY, PLAY AND Sawaya’s works use Lego bricks as the sole medium. Hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks are used in this visual spectacle of EXPERIENCE. WHATEVER PIQUES stunning sculptures. Listed as one of CNN’s 12 “Must-see Exhibitions”, Sawaya aptly YOUR INTEREST, YOU WILL describes his works as “fundamentally, re- imaginations of the world”. 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Selected children’s works will be sold through a public auction on Nov 23 and proceeds raised will HANSEL & GRETEL MUST be donated back to the Children E SEE of Care Club, Prison Fellowship 22 Nov-5 Dec, various timings, $44-$69 Singapore. Poor Hansel and Gretel. Their new pop-star- they’ve ever seen. Fences of Marina Bay Link Mall wannabe stepmother thinks that the family fishball sticks, walls of kueh budget is too tiny to support a household of lapis, and roof tiles made of kaya toast! Little EMPOWERING BETTER four, so she’s decided to let them go. Their do they know that the homeowner is a batty, LEARNING FOR TEACHERS AND henpecked father doesn’t quite agree, but flamboyant witch, mysteriously known as STUDENTS even he’s feeling the pinch in this new ‘the Chef’. Will Hansel and Gretel realise in 3 Dec, 9am-5pm, $180 (10 per cent economy! So the brother and sister pair time that they have jumped out of the frying off for Education Services Union are abandoned in the jungles of Mandai, pan and into the fire? Will their father stop members) to fend for themselves. There are strange making goo-goo eyes at their stepmother At this workshop, educators learn cries in the dark, and eyes glowing in the and start looking for his kids? And what that teamwork in the classroom bushes.