One Year of Cubing: the Anniversary Post
Whew! I can’t believe that it has been a year already since I solved my very first Rubik’s Cube! It was a crazy but fun journey whenever I look back at my good ol’ speedcubing days. I met a few speedcubers, travelled several dozen miles to get or sell the hottest puzzles and impressed a couple of girls along the way. It was also the very same passion that sparked the creation of this blog site, the lame videos on my YouTube Channel, and prompted me to do a demo on a friends birthday party and several more embarrassing situations I’d rather charge to experience a.k.a. forget.
I love lists and I know you love ’em too! So here are some interesting trivia after 12 months of speedcubing:
- 16 – the number of Standard 3×3’s I currently have, not counting the ones I gave away.
- 77– video tutorials from speecubers around the world. From Nakajima, Badmephisto and Erik Akkerdjik, I got them all here.
- 19.93 seconds– the fastest I’ve ever recorded for the 3×3.
- around 30+ seconds – my current estimated solve time. Could be worse!
- Eight– the number of people I taught how to cube: Marvin (42.5 sec.) , Charm (1:12:35) , and RJ (1:15:46)were the fastest.
- 3– the number of 2×2 cubes in my collection, not including the mini-siamese cubes I got from my friend from the Middle East.
- Zero – out of the three possible competitions I could’ve possible joined. Don’t ask.
read something interesting lately?
Our uncle once visited us for a while and he carried something around, which caught my eye. A few months ago, all I was reading was chapter after chapter of eye-bleeding Saunder’s Review book for NCLEX and strangely enough, this book (or guide, bwahaha!) was very… uhmmm.. refreshing (?) indeed. Here’s the scanned cover by the way:
History of Torture
Uhmmm… didn’t I tell you it was refreshing? LOL! Check out the last line after the authors name: ILLUSTRATED! Yep! It was indeed illustrated, but it’s definitely not the “encyclopedia” type book that has very detailed captions under each picture. Instead, this book is a compilation of all the known and documented types/ methods of torture dating as far as the start of modern civilization. John Swain also included newspaper (?) clippings and articles from old books and literature of the same theme and sort of put them all together in this book. Yes it was kinda odd seeing old drawings (yes, drawings not actual people getting dismembered) of these torture devices but it was kinda small and some pages even had 3-4 small images packed in one teeny pocketbook-sized page. (I’m sorry I didn’t get to scan some pictures but the cover pics looks exactly what was inside, besides, the book was already too frail to be flipped wide open and sandwiched between the scanner. Maybe this very book was already used for torture in some ways like making students balance it with their arms spread out… Sinister!)
To be honest, it was a good read, though I didn’t get to read it cover-to-cover because of the very small text (around size 7-8 ) and a classic font. Though this yellowing beast will make your eyes tired after a while, it still a haven of torture stuff, you haven’t even dreamed of. (but others did even thousands of years ago.) This proves that the human mind is capable of many things, even how baleful or evil they may be…
Edward Cullen who?
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