The Undergroundsquare Blog

Gathering Plans

2008-11-16T17:57:00.003+08:00

*Looks down at Josh's cracker advertisement*

Oh, this blog has evolved. Really really evolved.

Anyway... it's the end of the year. School holidays have started for most of us and as UGS tradition dictates that we have Gatherings and if possible, multiple gatherings.

Now the only problem is that, unlike 2-3 years ago, when we called for a gathering, the only problems we had were parental permission [in my case] and transportation [because we were poor underaged people].

This time, the biggest problem is that our members are NOT IN KUCHING.

Majority of them are in KL, a few in Australia and the rest sitting for examinations here. The rest of the rest still can't drive but that isn't that big a problem.

So, I've taken to the job of port mistress of the UGS dock. I've even drawn up a calender marked with all your individual arrival and departure dates. But, my credit is running lowwwww, and you guys aren't online as often as before [Or maybe that's just me]...so...

Please please please leave a comment, tell me when you're going where and when you're coming back.

Those that I dunno anything about yet are...

Cassandra

Jylene

Jeryl

Ling

Ravin [When was the last time you attended a gathering huh?]

Ben Ong

Ben Baru

Angel

Danny

Eric

Nicholas

Andrew

Dwen [Your NZ dates]

Paul [Your date of return]

Joshua Lim

Comment now. ASAP. Sms me if you don't want everybody to know of your comings and goings.

-Portmistress Sam.

Randomness

2008-11-15T13:23:00.001+08:00

Danone's new imported product! Jacob's very own crak!! You damn right better believe it. The original Jacob's crak's for everyone's eating pleasure.

Sungha Jung

2008-10-22T18:31:00.000+08:00

The kid's so small his nose touches the guitar when he looks at his right hand. Can you say ... cute?

Teh US Financial Crisis

2008-10-09T12:04:00.000+08:00

As explained to a 14 year old . With Pokemon cards.

Hari Raya!!!

2008-09-27T21:23:00.003+08:00

This blog is very dead.

The forum is very dead.

Exams are upon US!

*looms*

But Hari Raya first!!!

Happy [Early] Hari Raya to all the Muslim UGS-ers [Erna, Dwen...That's...it?] and everybody else who actually still visits this place!

Gathering in plans.

Contact Ced or I for more details if you're still around Kuching.

[I should turn this blog pink just to see if anybody would notice Hehehe]

[*Rubs hands together*]

20 Fun Things to Do in the Elevator

2008-09-05T17:22:00.001+08:00

I found this a feli's blog...hilarious!!

1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag, peer Inside and ask "Got enough air in there?"

2) STAND silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off.

3) WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open themselves.

4) GREET everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral.

5) MEOW occasionally.

6) STARE At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: "You're one of THEM" - and back away slowly

7) SAY -DING at each floor.

8) SAY "I wonder what all these do?" And push all the red buttons.

9) MAKE explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

10) STARE, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce: "I have new socks on."

11) WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: "Is that your beeper?"

12) TRY to make personal calls on the emergency phone.

13) DRAW a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers: "This is my personal space."

14) WHEN there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn't you.

15) PUSH the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.

16) ASK if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones.

17) HOLD the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say "Hi Greg, How's your day been?"

18) DROP a pen and wail until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream: "That's mine!"

19) BRING a camera and take pictures of everyone in the lift.

20) PRETEND you're a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers.

21) SWAT at flies that don't exist.

22) CALL out "Group hug" then enforce it.

hiatus

2008-09-05T15:11:00.003+08:00

as some of you probably already know...

agathe of stylebytes is back!!!!

http://phiary.com/diary/stylebytes

for all of you who don't know whom i'm talking abt....just carry on with your lives.

agathe is backkkkkk yayyyy!!!

A DSLR That Shoots Video

2008-08-30T20:12:00.002+08:00

The Nikon D90. Only DSLR that does this at the moment, with all the exposure and depth-of-field control of an SLR camera. About $1300 and I'd say Nikon has the early score against Canon's EOS 50D.

Nice, much?

How To Draw Anything In One Step

2008-08-27T22:32:00.009+08:00

An ingenious solution to most drawing problems. In one step.

You may be asking, "How could you possibly learn how to draw anything and everything in just one step? Are you a moron?" And if you are, there is no need for childish name-calling. Let's be civilized adults here.

Follow along as I teach you how to draw everything, in this tutorial.

The Step?

Draw a dog covering the thing you can't draw.

Genius.

W

2008-08-23T19:57:00.001+08:00

It is amazing what Hollywood comes up with, sometimes.

On Beauty

2008-08-18T18:26:00.001+08:00

The Olympics So Far

2008-08-11T23:06:00.006+08:00

Everybody's going to be talking about badminton in a bit, so let me weigh in with the sports that I'm watching ~~alone~~.

Choi Min-Ho is GOD. I am in awe of the Judo he plays. The above throw is a te-guruma, or hand wheel, and he managed to pull it off even though Ludwig was sprawled forward. My jaw dropped open throughout the entire thing.

Oh, and it turns out Bill Gates likes Badminton. Cute pants. Hehehe.

Masato Uchishiba won the 66kg class last night, apparently by landing on the Frenchmen's head, and then choking him. Poor Darbelet tapped out. A great bunch of the Thomian judokas were talking about it this morning, and I wondered aloud how the poor guy felt winning like that.

Tonight's match (74 kg) was won with a 13 second morote-gari (double handed reap). Both Elnur Mammadli and Wang Ki-chun are 19.

Sweet. =)

Acheiving Your Childhood Dreams

2008-08-08T19:32:00.004+08:00

As of writing, the following video has 6,065,672 views on Youtube, and 20234 ratings, all of which are 5 star. The lecture is an hour long, and it is so moving and so powerful you don't really know whether to laugh or to cry.

This is Randy Pausch's last lecture, and he opens with pictures of the tumours in his liver. He is going to die, and he knows that.

Watch it.

Olympic Hopes?

2008-08-07T13:01:00.002+08:00

It's the eve of the Beijing Olympics, everybody is watching that city with anticipation, some even holding their breaths.

They've promised a spectacular visual feast and all the countries have promised to outperform each other in the competition.

Malaysia is sending a relatively small team hoping for one medal of any colour from whatever event they might garner it from.

China is aiming to prove their dominance.

America is going to defend their Champion title.

Who are YOU rooting for?

Presto And His Hat

2008-07-20T22:08:00.001+08:00

A Pixar short film. Love the rabbit.

Dr Horrible

2008-07-20T10:36:00.002+08:00

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog is a wonderful piece of work.

There are three acts at the moment, and it's incredibly, incredibly funny. Joss Whedon (the guy behind Buffy), on the reasons behind this little project:

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

It's GOOD. And it's one week only. Go watch an evil genius in action and sing-along to his freeze ray.

Woohoo.

PS: and you did not hear wrong: the evil leader of the League of Villians IS a horse. Hehehehe.

of singers and songwriters

2008-06-29T20:41:00.004+08:00

my boyfriend and i were at kl urbanscapes the other day and we were watching the acoustic liveshow of mia palencia(she's a local artiste fyi) and we were planning to leave right after. Then the presentor got on stage and was ranting about the next artiste, yuna...whom he described as very talented and when he first heard her, he almost cried. curious to see whom this uber talented girl was, we stayed. yuna, got up on the stage with her guitar, clad in a tudung(head dress) and tee and what not, took just one minute to introduce herself and started playing right after. once the first line of the first song she was playing was sung, my boyfriend and i were mesmerised by her voice. it had this calm to it and this raspiness....and it was...amazing. we sat throughout her entire 5 songs(and additional 1 as the crowd asked fr an encore). she's somewhat like a malaysian corrine bailey rae crossed with meiko, with an edge. it's nice to see that the malaysian music scene has evolved and i'm very happy that theres an abundace of talent in today's young malaysian artists.

copy and paste this!

http://www.myspace.com/yunaroomrecords

sorry, blogger is being a bitch and wont link this for me. bitch.

i couldnt really find good videos of her in youtube. it pales in comparison to her live show but her myspace has pretty good recordings of her. i like backpacking around europe and deeper conversation is a crowd fav. check it out! good shiz...

Seadragon

2008-06-20T22:33:00.001+08:00

I want to do this when I grow up. Oh My God.

Check out Photosynth here. Seadragon is going to be one hell of a project. Watch it.

my humps?

2008-06-07T10:51:00.004+08:00

watch this! alanis morissette's version of my humps.

Snippets from UGS gathering 24 May 2008

2008-05-28T21:32:00.007+08:00

Over dinner at Pizza Hut:

Ced: Hey Sean, you can come over and join us, we talk about intellectual topics *cocks eyebrow and grins*

Horng Eng, Former Head Girl of her school in Form 6: I want to be a No-One in uni

Daniel hacks vigorously into pizza with the pizza-cutter,
Wen Qi: Future dentist! *grins*

At Ced's place:

Ced: Is the photo of me as a nerd still there? *Grabs framed photo of a younger, bespectacled Ced on the piano and hides*

Playing Taboo:

Someone: Hot guys…
Daniel: Gay

Zhe Rong: This is the character of bla bla bla in Bleach….
Joshua: Gin!
Ced: And how many people actually do watch Bleach?
*Zhe Rong, Joshua, Sam raises hands*

It was a Taboo game unlike any other we had thus far. There was boy and boy, whispers, stiffies, boy and boy on honeymoon, dominatrix, boy and another boy on date, touchdown, negligee..... Oh yeaaaa

Group photo time:

Sam: Sounds like a bomb detonator (referring to her new Canon dSLR set on self-timer)
Camera proceeds to take three photos in succession, crowd stares in awe
Repeats, in faster succession on second time
Ced: Okay, let’s do crazy shots
Laughter ensues as crowd attempts to change poses in split seconds

Thus ends this post with no photos because... the photos are with Sam, bug her for photos. So, yea, use your imagination. Imagine.... ^.^

Maiden post :FAIL IS TEH NEW WINZ.

2008-05-22T10:46:00.008+08:00

According to Wikipedia: Failure (fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. may be viewed as the opposite of success.

Do you know why human is known as the greatest creation of god?

Because the way human fail themselves is so GODLY, its actually looks...BRILLIANT. Our ability to fail in every single field, profession and practically EVERYTHING is a WIN for us human!!!!

(heck, the fact that we spend our time finding stupid pictures and captioning FAIL on can be considered as a FAIL...or WIN depends on how you look at . Enjoying humor however, THAT'S DEFINITELY A WIN.)

All FAILS are courtesy of Failblog and English Fail.

Ps: Initially I was thinking of posting a more useful and intelligent post...to start my maiden post like this can be considered as FAIL and WIN at the same time. So people, izzit a FAIL or a WIN?

Bill Gates

2008-05-21T15:48:00.004+08:00

I bet all of you know this already, but it doesn't matter if I announced it here once again. For the first time in Malaysian history, since the 1998 Twin Towers (prehistoric news, that), we appeared on internet news tabloids around the webosphere. Malaysia is once more put on the map of the world, albeit a brief few seconds.

Apparently Bill Gates (Microsoft's founder and Galactic Emperor) appeared for a short speech in Kuala Lumpur during the World Congress of Information 2008. This is nothing unusual except for the way he did it: he appeared using a 15.1-foot holographic projection.

Mass hysteria ensued as the high-definition specter gave a speech that technology is, in fact, the future. Said the chairman, "There are one billion people who have a personal computer each but there are five billion others who don't. Microsoft also wants to reach these people." Reports state that many of the 400 strong audience bowed in worship to the Emperor.

I Stick My Tongue Out At Sam

2008-05-19T09:33:00.001+08:00

Where are the Buggers

2008-05-18T21:11:00.003+08:00

..........BUGS, what once was a thriving blog that had THIS [Read: Bigger than your nose] much potential and activity has become .... a blog akin to squashed bug. Literally. Standstill. [Apart from Tze Lun's review =P ]

So, WHY are the BUGGERS all not Bugging in BUGS? There are 19 authors in this blog. Surely SOMEBODY has the time to ..... add in something interesting. Or Uninteresting if need be?

[According to the order in the Permission List]
Zhe Rong
Studying Translation in USM, Penang.
Speaks too many languages.
Updates HIS blog frequently.

Sze Howe
Studying in Perth and Working as well.
Is a pea. Is a FO. Is never online.
Updates his blog once in a year few months.

Crystal
Studying in Singapore.
Hasn't talked to me for ages and seems to be having TONS of fun in Sg
Updates her blog Regularly.

Daniel
Currently doing nothing but got his JPA scholarship and will be leaving soon.
Is still ~~gay~~ happy all the time.
Updates his blog Semi-regularly

Danny
Studying in Swinburne.
The last time I saw him was during Debate comp.
Does not update his blog regularly.

Andrew Ho
Studying Form six in Kch Town No1.
I have neither seen nor heard from him for AGES.
Has no Blog anymore.

Joshua
Just finished Matriculation in Labuan.
Is still the same Gamer [Or so I think]
Hasn't updated his blog for 4 months.

Kenny
Studying in HELP, KL.
Lawyer in the making. Always incredibly Busy ~~socialising~~
Updates his new blog pretty regularly.
[BTW KENNY. You're technically not even part of BUGS now since you changed your Blogger Profile]

Sean
Studying in GRSS.
Has he ever gotten around to making his first post?!
His blog is darn ignored most of the time.

Paul
Studying in Swinburne.
Very Very Very busy guy from what I heard. I'm not surprised.
His blog seems to be inactive at the moment.

Me
~~Not~~ Studying in St Mary's.
Has finger in too many pies.
Updates my blog...whenever I can.

Cedric
Studying in St Thomas.
Judo-ing the other half of the time.
Updates his blogs semi-regularly.

Aldrin
Studying in Swinburne.
Doesn't have internet connection in his apartment.
Updates his blog once in a ~~year~~ few months as well. Peas *Shakes head*

Regina
Studying in Melbourne.
Used to study where Kenny did.
Inactive blog.

Jylene
Studying in KL.
Seems to be DARN happy from what I can gather.
Updates her blog Semi-regularly.

Tze Lun
Currently ~~playing with amazingly adorable kittens~~ Working in KL
Was sighted in KFC by ABKK.
Updates his blog Semi-regularly as well.

Adrogynous
I'm firing a big blank here.
Someone remind me who this is?
I feel so bad. I didn't forget you on purpose I swear!

Wen Qi
Studying in Nottingham U. in KL.
Used to be the MOST ACTIVE BUGGER.
Updates her blog semi-regularly tooooo.

Tay
Studying in St Thomas.
Haven't seen or talked to him since last gathering.
His blog is inactive.

So anyway. 19 Buggers. MIA people. Where ARE YOU?
Come. Back. And. POST!!!
Sam wants BUGS to be active again.

Speed Racer

2008-05-10T18:43:00.004+08:00

Seeing that it has been a while since anybody updated BUGS, I'll attempt a kick-start.

Speed Racer the movie was very recently released in the cinemas, and I managed to catch it not too long ago. I wasn't too keen on it at first. I've watched the original Speed Racer cartoon before (yes, I'm old) and it wasn't particularly exciting, so I wasn't expecting anything more from the movie this time around. Also, I had serious doubts of how the movie producers could take a theme like Speed Racer and effectively put it on the big screen. After all, Speed Racer wasn't known for its depth or storyline (read: there weren't any).

What I didn't realise is that Speed Racer the movie is produced Wachowski Brothers, the duo who created The Matrix Trilogy. The end result?

Quite a brilliant piece of cinematography. If you read reviews on this movie, you'll find that it wasn't very well received. Most critics gave it a mediocre score. I'm here to drop my 2 cents on what I thought about it.

I'd say, if you were to rate Speed Racer by its depth of its storyline, it'd probably fare quite badly. In all honesty, I would give it a one. Out of ten. It lacks character development. It lacks a proper storyline. It lacks the human touch.

Probably more than half the film is the result of computer-generated imagery. Half the audience in the hall I was in actually laughed in the few opening scenes because the CGI was taken to the extremes - the colour palette was brighter and more colourful than a bag of jellybeans and the law of physics was as chaotic as a monkey stampede. All these could be a very potent recipe for disaster. Could. Because the Wachowski Brothers managed to pull it off.

As cheesy as it sounds, Speed Racer was pretty engaging. What made it so odd, also made it special. The effects were funky. The action was fast-paced. The cast was solid.

The movie is not for everyone, that's for sure. It's quite unlike anything I've seen before. From a pure cinematography standpoint, Speed Racer is amazing. The same can't be said about the storyline. But that doesn't mean the movie is not engrossing. It has a very strange way of catching your attention, and it doesn't let loose of it easily.

If you're looking for a serious, intellectual movie to catch - avoid Speed Racer at all cost. You'll find nothing like that there. However, if you wouldn't mind being dragged into a bizarre world of physics-defying cars and incredibly saturated colours, check Speed Racer out.