attempt # 1

I was once again blog hopping when I encountered this website. The self portraits are really nicely paired with poems.

The poems, called cinquain, got my attention. The five line free verse seems so candid and real I decided to create my own. Sorry this is a poor attempt at poetry. I may have studied comparative literature in college but for the same reason I didn't finish it.

fleeting
pessimistic dreamer
looking in, up
around, everywhere
perplexed.

comments are welcomed.

rubiks

My officemate brought his rubik's cube today. It reminded me of lots of things. During my childhood, my uncle Ben has one, and he teached me how to solve one side of it. I never thought about it other than solving a single side of the puzzle.

When I entered college, one of my friends showed me how to solve the entire puzzle. There is a certain combination of steps that will eventually lead you to get the puzzle to be completed. He said he found the solution from the puzzle by buying a cube himself. The cheat sheet was greek to me. Good thing allan was a really good teacher and I tried solving it and after a few days I was able to solve by my own. The trick is memorizing the entire combination. All of my housemates got hooked, and even my boyfriend learned how to solve it.

I never knew there are different kinds of algorithms and permutation involved in solving it. There is are different kinds of puzzles other than the usual 3 by 3 by 3 . Ernő Rubik was really way too intelligent for me. There's too much to know about it I think you need to read this.