Types of Darts Games

Diu Diu Diu!

Dun get me wrong, this is not a post about cursing in Cantonese. That is to replicate the sound of a dart hitting the 'triple' portion on a DartsLive machine. It's a very satisfying hit, and something that I wish I do more often.

dartboard, not actual size

So the above is how a dartboard looks like, and let me explain it a bit more. The points are based on the numbers you see on the outer most. 

To score, you'll have to throw the darts within the circle at the beige or black areas. Then the outer most ring of green and red that you see just below the numbers, those are worth double. The inner ring of green and red, those are worth triple, cos so damn tiny. The electronic board goes 'Diu Diu Diu!' when you hit. Finally, the bullseye right in the middle. Green portion is worth 25 points, Red is worth 50 points! For the electronic version, the whole area is worth 50 points regardless of the green or red portion.

1) Count-Up

most brainless rules

This is the easiest game to pick up, just get the highest possible score! You see, after 8 rounds people can get 1091, easy-peasy! In fact, I'll proudly tell you my highest score after 8 rounds is... 651.

Not that easy la, to get over 1000 points, you'll need to hit many triple 20s. Even pro players miss once a while. Frustrating but challenging. For me is just frustrating though. Sigh....

2) 01 - 301/501/701

think of this as opposite to count-up

This is what everybody plays, cos it seems easy at first glance. If you use the point scoring guide at the start of this post, you simply need to score as high as possible to reduce your total points to zero. Until you get to the lower scores, and then you need to score exactly ZERO to win. Exact. No chance given if you overshot.

The pros even more showy, they are not allowed to hit the actual number to end the game. E.g. If they are left with 10, they cannot hit 10, must hit double 5. Wtf right. Hit 10 considered overshot, go again after your opponent. As good as losing. Really. I dun friend many people because of this rule liao.

3) Cricket - nothing to do with aiming at an insect

This is one high-level game. Must think of strategy, must be accurate, must be brutal. You see, you're only allowed to hit numbers from 15 to 20. And you need 3 hits to 'open' the number. 4th hit onwards will be to start earning points. The number is 'closed' once your opponent also has 3 hits on that number. Complicated much?

This game is all about attack and defence. And if you can't hit the triple segments on board, dun challenge and opponent who can! Confirm guarantee chop you'll lose with an embarrassing scoreline...

And then you'll try to bully many other lower level players to feel better of yourself, while ordering more drinks to soothe your frayed nerves. And then losing to said players cos you drank too many pints of Guinness cos it is St Patrick's Day, and then you start punching and kicking the machine, and then get kicked out of the darts pub. Pui. Wait, what was I saying again? Oh ya, Cricket.

This is a really good game to train your accuracy, I highly recommend despite being kicked out of the pub losing the game to lower level players.

So all in all, these are the basic games that the current soft-tip darters are playing. If you need darts, do go to Carousell and look at BargainDartSeller's listings, value for money!


Signing off,
KJ

Fun fact: Darts is all fun and games until you lose, then it's war.

Delicious Fleshy Ba Zang

Happy midweek everyone! 

It has been a while since I looked at my blog, which is probably why the weekly count dropped from the usual 10 views to only 3. I wonder why my viewership so low, I even added skimpily clad ladies in all my blog posts. I thought that would draw in the audience. Unless of course my friends are gay and they prefer my scantily clad pics instead. Regardless, I got to pull my socks up if I need more readers.

done

Groan all you want, my age says I'm allowed to start cracking dad jokes. 

I like to wish everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival, and here's hoping everyone managed to get your own Dragon Boat. The origins of this festival can be found on Wikipedia so I will not go into it too much, since I'm pretty sure we learnt about it way back in early childhood education. Mostly I remember it because of the wide variety of 粽子 (glutinous rice dumplings) that I got to eat. I dun think it's gluten free, so probably not that popular with the modern day whiners gourmands.

there are even more varieties than this

Hopefully the stall owner or helper is slightly attractive to help you choose the best possible stall to buy from. I mean, I was drawn to this particular outlet because the food was visually appealing.

Looks deliciously fleshy right? That's why I patronised the stall. For the 2 Ba Zhangs. If you haven't had the chance to try any, and also think life is like a box of chocolates, just order one of each flavour at your nearest ba zhang stall. The variety of tastes will surprise you, and more surprising than waking up sober beside your one night stand with her make up removed. Kudos if you noticed a pause between the previous sentence and this one, it's because I had a flashback moment. Pui.

Anyway, I have to blame watering holes for putting me in those situations in the first place. For example, a prime culprit would be Al Capone's Ristorante & Bar at SCAPE. Go look at their menu in the link above. Buay tahan (can't take it) leh. How can you serve 3 bottles of Heineken at $13 nett? There's no way i will know when to stop ordering...

I can't even remember ordering the fires!

Not to mention a full pint of Guinness at $8.80nett? Or even worse, bundle it together with a lamb shank and only charge $25 nett? Simi sai... How can you expect people to stay sober and make sound judgements when picking up girls there? Wake up your idea hor, cheap drinks means bingeing without burning your wallet. So evil.

After bingeing, I needed to eat food at a place where I had to work out a bit in order to consume it. No, not at a juice bar in a gym. So I remembered this Japanese restaurant beside Zsofi at Dunlop St. Seiwaa Singapore is a place where you can cook your own Okonomiyaki to impress your date. And it comes with instructions so you dun have to feel paiseh. Good thing I do cook in my spare time so that skill-set came in handy.

Before

During

very professional

Completion

Try saying that does not look appetising! Of course I may have had help with the garnishing, but I'm a decent cook ok. And it actually tastes good, especially with an array of condiments on your table to tweak the taste to suit your palate. Side note to the ladies, I'll also whip up a delicious breakfast for you in the morning. Wink wink. Yes I know the hard-selling isn't working, stop laughing at me.

We also ordered the Monjayaki, which is pretty much the same thing, but with gravy.

I've added the pics of the cooking process in sequence. Which wasn't cooked by me, I'm not that good. There's even a short video that I took of the staff cooking. Let me figure out how to load on YouTube and then link it here. I did put in effort to sample it while it's still hot, so I could taste the full flavour of the dish.

serious food taster

I'll have to say, the house sake Monjayaki tasted great, especially with the house sake added cheese. You will be shovelling it repeatedly from hot plate to mouth.

So there you have it, a short review of the weekend I had. I did burn off my fats with an intense Sunday morning soccer session, and I even knocked in 2 goals for once. Heck, the first would have been a really spectacular overhead kick but I missed by inches. 

Back me up on this, guys. You know who you are, you were just as amazed as I was.

Signing off,
KJ

Fun Fact: Morning surprise after one night stands are a leading cause of heart attack for both genders, especially after sobering up.