UGS 2nd Anniversary Gathering

So, the Undergroundsquare forum finally turned two, and to celebrate, a gathering was held. After much discussion and negotiation, finally my place was decided to be the venue for the gathering. Thus, on that fateful Sunday afternoon, 12 UGSers in total converged at my house. Yes, 12! I guess that’s a record for a gathering held at a UGSers house so far.

Anyway, as with most UGS gatherings, this one beginned rather haphazardly, without much plan or idea of what to do. And since thinking on an empty stomach was just too demanding, we ended up eating. Well, thanks so much to everybody who brought food. Firstly, thanks to Kenny for treating us to pizza. And then, thanks to Nicole for the lovely brownies, and to Tay for the nuggets, and to Daniel for the non-halal protein. And thanks to the rest who brought the crisps, I think we had 7 tubes of crisps there. Haha.

As for what happened after that, I’ll let the photos do the talking.

The people who came earlier get to pose for photos with my brother, who somehow got named as UGS mascot. Hmm.. And see how the pillows always get molested when these people come over.

The guys were ogling at Tay’s Macbook I think. At one point, Cedric was trying desperately to stop them from gathering around the Macbook and go and eat. He sat beside Tay, struggling to reach the Apple shortcut keys for shut down while Tay was restraining him. So, me being Apple illiterate just did what I could and just manually closed the laptop.

What happened here was Sam was taking a photo of a flower arrangement my mom did. And so, Ced wanted to take a photo of her taking the photo. Then, Kenny wanted to photograph Ced taking a photo of Sam taking a photo. THEN.. I decided to photograph them all, but it didn’t turn out as they didn’t manage to do what they set out to do. Instead, I got a photo like this, everyone laughing sheepishly and caught red-handed with cameras in hand.

There was conversation at the dining table. And laughter. And gossip. And what else? Daniel says he likes this photo because he looks weird in it. What say you?

Things got a bit dull and the cards were pulled out and put into use. My brother was losing badly, no thanks to people who kept peeking at his cards and my brother’s method of letting cards slip from hand being partly to blame.

Then the card players moved away from the area to play elsewhere and the “Jenga” players took over the space. Now that was quite fun. The ceiling fan was set to the maximum speed since it was pretty hot, and it added an element of fun. Not to mention, a few “Godzillas” who pounded on the floor planks to shake things up.

Paul came up with a structure, the base compromised entirely of red blocks, the middle part being blue blocks and the top being yellow blocks. And then to make it tougher, he put all the blocks out of the straight-up alignment. Now that was challenging but fun.

Things were looking perilous when the base was left to just ONE red block.

The fun ended when it all came tumbling down…

Some of the more adventurous UGSers decided to play a game of Twister. But all three of them being rather fit, the game would have gone on forever if nobody quit.

Hmm.. something about this photo reminds me of another photo taken at the gathering at Kenny’s house..

And lastly, before everyone went back, group photo!

Well, thanks so much to everybody for showing up and making the gathering so memorable. And thanks to all the Undergroundsquare members for making UGS what it is today. And last but not least, special thanks to the founders of UGS, Kenny and Cedric, if not for you two, there would be no UGS.