A Visit to the Singapore Discovery Centre

Previous weekend, I visited the Singapore Discovery Centre (SDC) together with a group of bloggers via a bloggers’ SDC preview tour jointly organised by omy and SDC. Starting this November all the way till January next year, the SDC has an interesting line-up of new events, programs and activities which were showcased during the tour. You can find out more about them HERE.

Without further ado, check out the photos below. 🙂 (Note: the photos are all taken by my colleague, Corrinne Quek who went with me for the tour and not me as I was holding onto the video camera)

Let’s start with the mainstay exhibits in the SDC. These are mainly interactive installations, made to foster greater awareness among Singaporeans of our heritage and identity.

Corrinne secretly taking a picture of me to admire

Listening to coffeshop talks recorded by heartland Singaporeans — Listening to "coffeshop talks" recorded by heartland Singaporeans

Yongwei excited to see his first loves photo — Yongwei excited to see his first love's photo

An interactive interactive which you play with your feet

Mood ball - colour will changes at intervals

Getting into position to design future Singapore in the Visionarium

Hard at work rebuilding Singapore — Hard at work building future Singapore

Mesmerised by the final future Singapore design

The floor really trembled when the blast goes off

SDCs mascot - Little George who is er... not quite little — Meet SDC's mascot - "Little George" who is er... not quite little

Next up, we visited the newly unveiled X-factor Singapore exhibition which was just launched on 14 November. It seeks to highlight Singapore as an X-factor City and showcase how we Live, Work and Play in Singapore in the next 10 to 15 years via interactive and experiential ways.

The brand new X-factor exhibits

An exhibit that toys with mirror reflections

yellow installation — Yellow wall installation

An exhibit which you have to lay down to view

Tulip-like installations to poke your head into

A blogger taking a SDC Neo-print of himself — A blogger taking a "SDC Neo-print" of himself

You can email the final image to yourself on the spot

Printed messages on all 4 walls, ceiling and floor

After that, we rest our feet as we stepped into the SDC’s iWerkzs theatre to catch the 3D movie – Fly me to the Moon. The animation has a storyline which is obviously targetted at young children. It is about three little houseflies who made a trip to the moon and back onboard Apollo 11. This is only the third time I am catching a 3D movie, and though it’s always refreshing to see the animations come to live in 3D, right in front of you, to be honest, it still makes me a little nauseous after a while. Maybe I am too old for this, haha.

After the 3D movie, we took a quick bus tour of the SAFTI Military Institute (SAFTI MI), followed by a foot tour inside the Army Museum.

The Army Museum - reminds me of reservist which I hate

Mini Carol, confused about how he should feel towards NS

What caught all their attention? (see next picture)

Inside the Confidential Ops - simulation of hijacking incident — Inside the "Confidential Ops" - simulation of hijacking incident

Finally, to end the long full day tour, we headed back to the SDC to try out the 4D simluator rides which has not been officially launched to the public yet. More information will be made available by SDC in early Decemeber. Do stay tuned. I find the ride quite interesting. I have one advice for the ladies who want to try this ride though – try not to sit in the front row if you are wearing skirts as the fan gets really strong during the ride. :p