Sunday, November 16, 2008
Gathering Plans
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sungha Jung
The kid's so small his nose touches the guitar when he looks at his right hand. Can you say ... cute?
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Hari Raya!!!
Friday, September 05, 2008
20 Fun Things to Do in the Elevator
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
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!!!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
A DSLR That Shoots Video
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?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
How To Draw Anything In One Step
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.The Step?
Follow along as I teach you how to draw everything, in this tutorial.
Draw a dog covering the thing you can't draw.Genius.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Olympics So Far
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. =)
Friday, August 08, 2008
Acheiving Your Childhood Dreams
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.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Olympic Hopes?
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?
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Dr Horrible
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.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
of singers and songwriters
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...
Friday, June 20, 2008
Seadragon
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.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Snippets from UGS gathering 24 May 2008
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.... ^.^
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Maiden post :FAIL IS TEH NEW WINZ.
According to Wikipedia: Failure (fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.
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
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?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Bill Gates
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.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Where are the Buggers
..........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.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Speed Racer
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.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
I Don't Understand Wine
This is the first time I've ever seen an actual hands-on show of all those weird things they call wine at wine testing events. Notes of early plum and smoky aftertaste? The only thing I get from wine is a burning warm feeling at the pit of my belly (and I'm saying that as a GOOD thing).
So.
Watch and learn. Totally cool way of looking at wine tasting.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
How to Prepare for a Deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan
Taken from A Soldier's Thoughts
1. Sleep on a cot in the garage.
2. Replace the garage door with a curtain.
3. Six hours after you go to sleep, have your wife or girlfriend whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble, "Sorry, wrong cot."
4. Renovate your bathroom. Hang a green plastic sheet down from the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to chest level. Keep four inches of soapy cold water on the floor. Stop cleaning the toilet and pee everywhere but in the toilet itself. Leave two to three sheets of toilet paper. Or for best effect, remove it altogether. For a more realistic deployed bathroom experience, stop using your bathroom and use a neighbor's. Choose a neighbor who lives at least a quarter mile away.
5. When you take showers, wear flip-flops and keep the lights off.
6. Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and dump dirt on your head.
7. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it on "HIGH" for that tactical generator smell.
8. Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch and then show a different one.
9. Leave a lawnmower running in your living room 24 hours a day for proper noise level.
10. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
11. Once a week, blow compressed air up through your chimney making sure the wind carries the soot across and on to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.
12. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.
13. Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a saltine cracker.
14. Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator. Then serve some kind of meat in an unidentifiable sauce poured over noodles. Do this for every meal.
15. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get to the shower as fast as you can. Simulate there is no hot water by running out into your yard and breaking out the garden hose.
16. Once a month, take every major appliance completely apart and put it back together again.
17. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for five or six hours before drinking.
18. Invite at least 185 people you don't really like because of their strange hygiene habits to come and visit for a couple of months. Exchange clothes with them.
19. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.
20. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them.
21. Keep a roll of toilet paper on your night stand and bring it to the bathroom with you. And bring your gun and a flashlight.
22. Go to the bathroom when you just have to pass gas, "just in case." Every time.
23. Announce to your family that they have mail, have them report to you as you stand outside your open garage door after supper and then say, "Sorry, it's for the other Smith."
24. Wash only 15 items of laundry per week. Roll up the semi-wet clean clothes in a ball. Place them in a cloth sack in the corner of the garage where the cat pees. After a week, unroll them and without ironing or removing the mildew, proudly wear them to professional meetings and family gatherings. Pretend you don't know what you look or smell like. Enthusiastically repeat the process for another week.
25. Go to the worst crime-infested place you can find, go heavily armed, wearing a flak jacket and a Kevlar helmet. Set up shop in a tent in a vacant lot. Announce to the residents that you are there to help them.
26. Eat a single M&M every Sunday and convince yourself it's for Malaria.
27. Demand each family member be limited to 10 minutes per week for a morale phone call. Enforce this with your teenage daughter.
28. Shoot a few bullet holes in the walls of your home for proper ambiance.
29. Sandbag the floor of your car to protect from mine blasts and fragmentation.
30. While traveling down roads in your car, stop at each overpass and culvert and inspect them for remotely detonated explosives before proceeding.
31. Fire off 50 cherry bombs simultaneously in your driveway at 3:00 a.m. When startled neighbors appear, tell them all is well, you are just registering mortars. Tell them plastic will make an acceptable substitute for their shattered windows.
32. Drink your milk and sodas warm.
33. Spread gravel throughout your house and yard.
34. Make your children clear their Super Soakers in a clearing barrel you placed outside the front door before they come in.
35. Make your family dig a survivability position with overhead cover in the backyard. Complain that the 4x4s are not 8 inches on center and make them rebuild it.
36. Continuously ask your spouse to allow you to go buy an M-Gator.
37. When your 5-year-old asks for a stick of gum, have him find the exact stick and flavor he wants on the Internet and print out the web page. Type up a Form 9 and staple the web page to the back. Submit the paperwork to your spouse for processing. After two weeks, give your son the gum.
38. Announce to your family that the dog is a vector for disease and shoot it. Throw the dog in a burn pit you dug in your neighbor's back yard.
39. Wait for the coldest/ hottest day of the year and announce to your family that there will be no heat/air conditioning that day so you can perform much needed maintenance on the heater/ air conditioner. Tell them you are doing this so they won't get cold/ hot.
40. Just when you think you're ready to resume a normal life, order yourself to repeat this process for another six months to simulate the next deployment you've been ordered to support.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
You've Been Cute'd
You know the bimbo post I did a few months ago? I've just found the ultimate QUEEN of bimbowhoring, and the thing is ... I don't think she's even Asian.
It's a mixture of annoying-ness and cuteness, and, trust me, the guys won't be able to take their eyes off her.
She's hot. And cute. And has very bad Japanese. One Youtube comment:
I think she just said:
「食堂、食べたい。」
"I want to eat a cafeteria."
I can't stop laughing. Go to her Youtube profile for more videos.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Finality
Rexy Mainaky. The guy responsible for bringing Malaysian Mens Doubles up to a respectable level...actually...not only respectable, but pretty much elite.
And then it was like a switch was flipped and everything started going downhill. If put into a graph, it might be a ninety degree angle!
In Doha, he told his
BAM "talked" to him. KKBH played for their
Then...KKBH and the rest lost again. And again. And again. And again. AND again AGAIN. Therefore, now we have This!
A semi-definite resignation from a heartbroken, frustrated Rexy. Again.
Then told that he should not step down as he had done exceptionally well to raise the standard of the Malaysian doubles since taking up the job in 2004, Rexy said between sobs: “I have given my very best in coaching the Malaysian team ... I have done everything I could. Day in and day out I have worked hard with these players ... but I feel like I have failed them.
“I just do not know what else to do. Now, I just do not feel like coaching.”
Shows that he can do what KKBH can do too= Berepetitive in things that throws BAM into a state of flurry. Add in the recent problems with BJSS, the "truth" behind Li Mao's departure and the various politics within BAM itself...
What has Badminton come to? And now that Rexy is (Possibly) leaving, what will Malaysian Badminton become?
[Chong Wei is the only survivor in the finals of the Malaysian Open. Oh PLEASE may he win tomorrow against Hyun Il. Please please please please please. WMC's match today was heartbreaking. She had this nice chance in the first set and totally fell apart in the second.]
Sam is hoping.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Something "Big" Is Coming To Town
Recently, I checked The Spring's website to see how's it like since it's been opened. Since I was not and am not in Kuching to have a look around the newest shopping mall in Kuching. Something caught my eye, in a very big way.
This may not be the best donuts available in Malaysia, I am still partial to J.Co Donuts, but this is almost just as good. Finally, there shall be donuts worth lining up for in Kuching. My goodness, I can only imagine how long the lines would be on the first day this place opens.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Photogenic Much?
Daniel here.
Our dearly beloved BOZZ told me that he is not photogenic and appears terrible in pictures and would like all pictures ever taken of him burned (added that for exasperation).
And we all know im a.....tiny......tad bit infatuated obsessed crushing on liking him... so I took a lot of pictures of him that New Year Eve night. For what purpose, you are better off not asking.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Get the picture?
Do you see a flawed photo, colours that are not outstanding, bad lighting, bad composition?
Do you see something that makes you hungry?
Do you see a tomato that’s different among others?
Do you see what I see?
One photo, so many different possible opinions. A photo may invoke feelings in you, draw thoughts from the depths of your mind, or just be outright ignored. But when it comes down to it, it’s just a photo. It’s just whatever you make of it. Rather like life isn’t it?
On another note, another photo that would look more familiar…
Now what do you see?
Just a big group of people you do not know? Friends? A rather happy looking crowd of people? Absence of people that should be there? People you are surprised to see in the photo? Forced smiles? Good times? Cliques? Just memories?
This is the photo that represents Undergroundsquare for what it rather is like these days. I will leave you to think what you make of it.