teamboat was founded in 2002. the exact date is not known, but the formation of teamboat took place during a warmup
session before rugby training began. it all began when roland played a game of random team on battle.net
before training. relating the experience of the game to daniel, roland talked about him having a
horrible partner who referred to the unit "steam tanks" as "steamboats". daniel then had a brainwave, and
the two of them decided to create accounts called teamboat1 and teamboat2: the name thought up due to daniel's fascination with food and warcraft.
guanghao joined shortly after the formation of teamboat, due to the need for intelligence to balance out the
gluttony in daniel and good looks in roland. together, the trio have accomplished feats such as making
seoul garden move out of j8. armed with their passion for food and good recommendations from guanghao,
teamboat strives to test (and at the same time, destroy) all buffets in singapore.
currently, the strength of teamboat stands at 3: daniel, guanghao and roland. there is, at the
moment, only 1 associate member: clement.
layout and coding done somewhat by roland
best viewed in 1024x768
even though i use 1280x1024 =p
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
war of the worlds
so my dad brought back the dvd copy of "War of the Worlds". spent tonight watching it together with my beloved durians!!
so i think the movie was not too shabby. it was action packed and all. but to those people who have not watched it yet: please do not go in expecting realism. it's a sci-fi movie, not some documentary on nature. meh.
so anyway. a few questionable parts about the movie.
- EMP wiped out every electronic device, yet there was a person using a digital video recorder to record the alien tripod thing coming out from the ground? - aeroplane crash, everything is wiped out, only to find that the van was still working. that's lots of luck there, lol. - aliens conquering the earth only 1 million years after the buried the machines. wow i mean they're so sophisticated yet do not bother to conquer the earth 1 million years before where there was no resistance? dumbasses. - why do girls scream so much??? i wanna strangle dakota fanning (it's her right?) - how do you incinerate someone without destroying their clothes?! O.o
but as i said, it's not a movie for REALISM.
ok anyway. parts i liked about the movie. i loved the action, the suspense. the large and beautiful scenes in the movie such as the fighting, the "bloody plants" filled land and stuff. and i liked the way the tripod was near the lake. it had this kinda nice feel to it. like u know. lakehouse + monster + invincible good guy = fun.
oh and to those who think that the ending totally sucked: think again. this movie isn't all about action. it's supposed to set your minds thinking too. lets look back. isn't it ironic that even though man "conquered" nature (look at all our research, our languages, our inventions etc.), it is at the end that nature protects us? it is the little things in nature that we have to appreciate. that's what the story is heading towards. oh yah it was the kind of happy ending film, and the ending was too abrubt. but hey, i got some stuff out of it, and i'm happy. so guys, treasure nature. yadda yadda cliché stuff. but still, please try to do the "3R"s - Recycle, Reuse, Resmth. and stuff lah!! don't waste electricity by blogging at like 12am. and don't take too long to bathe. hahahah.
8/10.
oh and if you haven't watched the movie, please do not read the last 7 paragraphs. thank you.
