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.... ^.^

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. It 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 it can be considered as a FAIL...or WIN depends on how you look at it. 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

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

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.

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.