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SKY BEASTS: THE SCREAMING SKY Trailer

‘It’s in your mind!’ Sky Beasts: The Screaming Sky is a 2023 Malaysian sci-fi horror film about a group of terrified people trapped in a building who confront paranoia and mind-controlling aliens in a desperate fight for survival. Directed by Feisal Azizuddin and starring Grace Ng, Mia Sara Shauki and Kent Tan.

SKY BEASTS: THE SCREAMING SKY Trailer

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THE SCREAMING SKY aka CEREBOH (2022) Reviews of sci-fi horror

THE SCREAMING SKY aka CEREBOH (2022) Reviews of sci-fi horror

The Screaming Sky is a 2022 Malaysian sci-fi horror film in which the world has been overrun by mind-controlling aliens called Sky Beasts. Six people hide out in an abandoned building. But when one of them is exposed to the aliens, paranoia among them proves to be just as deadly as any threat from the sky… Directed by Feisal Azizuddin (Kabus; Suraya) from a screenplay written by Chong Keng Fatt.…

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How to Validate Your Startup in 48 Hours or Less with Grace Ng

By Samantha Scott

This afternoon, Grace Ng, Co-founder and Creative Director of Javelin.com, taught an informative session on how to test startup ideas.

Ng guided attendees through the process of startup creation, using her own stories of success and failure as a template. She detailed her first attempt, a photo Q&A application that would allow users to ask who or what was in the picture (also attempted by Stanford students and more recently, the founder of Twitter). A lack of thorough testing and little validation led to the app’s eventual failure. Ng then transitioned into the proper startup creation process and finished her talk with a tangible example: a new, and increasingly successful venture that connects startup creators with UX designers.

Key Components to Successful Startup Validation

MVP (minimum viable product): experiments that require the least of amount of effort and yield the most feedback

Pivot: the ability to change an element of your hypothesis; alter your strategy to better-fit customer need

Deliver Value: hone in on the element that matters to people

Early Adopters: those who want or need this product

How Do We Put These Key Components into Action?

STEP ONE: Define your hypothesis

Specifically, define the customer problem hypothesis: identify the customer, figure out his or her problem, and come to a solution.

STEP TWO: What do you test?

What must we learn? What are the core assumptions (behavior, mentality or action that needs to happen in order for the hypothesis to be true) of our business.

Prioritize: Identify which assumption is the riskiest, the one that is most unknown and most crucial to the business. If this assumption is invalidated, the business will not succeed.

What do we build to test? 

Exploration: reproduce the problem

Pitch: collect currency

Concierge: deliver customer expectation

STEP THREE: Get out of the building and conduct your experiment!

STEP FOUR: What did you learn?

Analyze these results. If validated, move forward and test the next riskiest assumption. If invalidated, pivot the hypothesis. Measure results utilizing the minimum success criterion: the weakest outcome you accept as validation.

Throughout her talk Ng stressed the importance of the customer saying, “don’t worry about competitors -- it’s customer behaviors that matters.” Further she noted that successful validation, “enables you to solve bigger problems -- problems that matter.”  As far as the process of experimenting, Ng advised to keep experimenting, develop a cycle to build, measure, and learn.

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Saur

Read 'Saur', a story by Grace Ng about a dinosaur brought back from extinction

This piece was written by Grace Ng, FASS + USP, Year 1.

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SAUR LABS BREEDS WORLD’S FIRST “NOUVEAU DINOSAUR” Home-grown biotech laboratory reverse-engineers dinosaur from bird genome

  SINGAPORE, June 18, 2023 – SAUR Labs is pleased to announce the success of the Nouveau Dinosaur Project, a research initiative with the goal of genetically engineering a dinosaur.

After ten…

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7 Huge Mistakes To Avoid As A Lean Startup

By Grace Ng (Director of Product Experience, Lean Startup Machine)

There are so many nuances to the Lean Startup methodology that it’s easy to think you’re doing it, but you’re not.

Many make the mistake, thinking “Of course I talk to people before I build. That makes total sense. I’m lean.” Although, the concept is easy to understand, it requires self-awareness and an objective mind to effectively maintain it in practice.

I especially emphasize the importance of properly structuring interview questions to get reliable data, and avoiding the traps of confirmation bias. I emphasize these as the foundational structure to starting out lean because this is where I tripped up myself.

For the full article, click here. 

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Grace's Five Minute Poetry - 15/6/11

Grace's Five Minute Poetry - 15/6/11

VEGETABLES

The vegetables are never good enough for you.

Your face hidden among the green leaves (though you say they’re not really green) Eyes peeled and ripe, staring glossy at each cancerous spud and ravaged hole

We should’ve gone to FairPrice, you say Your lip curls like a leaf as you pick at the stalks with a skeptical finger scratching away cocoons of dirt leaving raw gashes on their skin

[THIS NEEDS AN ENDING]

—

YELL

I am raw.

I am small.

I am tired.

I wish I could do more I could say more I could be more

But all I am Is a red Fading scratch In your throat.

—

DISSECTION

I would like to be a telepath Maybe I’d be able to read the lines crackling your lips in your crumpled paper smile

But then again wouldn’t it be easier to crack your skull with a screwdriver and trace the cracks of your brain part them with my fingernails suck out the organic ooze

and watch your eyes fully open for the first time in the way only fear can?

—

PREDATOR

Do you know why we have bloodbanks? Because everyone’s scared of being bled

out in the corner of an alley while the world ambles by licking its crooked teeth

saying it’s just the natural order of things.

—

I DON’T KNOW

I wish I knew everything That I could rest my eye on the smallest speck of dust floating in the air and from there draw lines flowing with light connecting one thing to another and another like a constellation sprawling the world

but my head would explode so I’ll just settle for tracing the stars in the sky

— OUTSET

You start off tired Your innards scream before you even move

Halfway through You stab yourself in the leg with a knife So you can feel like You’ve actually gone somewhere.

— SPACE

the carriage is empty we sit a seat apart cold clammy plastic under our knees

“why won’t you tell me anything” i say but my voice is a pipedream fading into the air

as the train rocks us like coffee beans in an empty can