Wondering if anyone reads this

Hello world!

OMG such a long silence. Who's still reading this blog?

Gathering Plans

*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

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

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

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

Hari Raya!!!

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

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!!!

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?

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.

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

It is amazing what Hollywood comes up with, sometimes.

On Beauty

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. =)

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.

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?

Presto And His Hat

A Pixar short film. Love the rabbit.

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.

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...

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.