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Monday, September 29, 2008

One day before school holidays..

Last friday, 26th September 2008.

It was the last day of school before 1 week of school holiday for raya..

Everyone looks so relaxed after school...the students were playing some card game...
They were playing UNO card game...
While I was walking around the school...I could find a lot of people cubing..




Some students were playing basketball..



And for those that were not in the basketball game... they spin the ball !

While in the scouts den, some of them were playing monopoly...
Few hours later, I sense that there would be a great storm coming...

Look at the dark clouds !!
Few hours later, HEAVY RAIN... VERY HEAVY !! But the photo do not look as if the rain is very heavy..


In the school bus, traffic jam !! Reached home around 7.30pm... quite late..


-The End-

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Reptiles Exibition at One Utama...

Thursday...(25th september 2008), after school, my friends and I went to One Utama....


While walking in One Utama...we saw this...
It gave us an idea of what to spend our day on....Reptiles Exibition..RM5 per person. The guide explaning about the exibition..
Crossing the bridge....a whole new world out there....

It is a jungle out there !
Entrance.....

Some of the "reptiles" ....

I didn't knew that bird is counted as a reptile ... =P

One of the snakes...

This is the largest snake in the exibition...

They feed mices to some snakes...

oh no...like in the movie "Black Water"...

This reptile looks so bossy...

Bull frog !

Tortoise General !!

Spiderman !!

Fox : Hey...what are you doing here? This is my territory !

I am taking photos...

My friend, Tan Boon Lye, taking photos too...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the exibition, I passed by Action City store and solved their cubes(display)... haha =P

-The End-

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Stopped practicing 3x3x3 cube for almost 3 weeks...

I stopped practicing 3x3x3 cube for almost 3 weeks...then I started practicing it again yesterday...and today I got a new personal best average for 3x3x3 cube... 10 of 12 : 30.41 seconds. Broke it around 6.00pm 21st September 2008. (It is also my 120 days of cubing) After aiming for sub 30 (10 of 12 solves) for almost 1 month+...finally I got it on my 121 days of cubing..average 10 of 12 : 29.29secs . Broke it around 8.05pm 22nd September 2008. Next aim...sub 25 (10 of 12 solves)...
Broke new record again...10/12 : 28.93s ... Broke it around 6.45pm 29th September 2008..WOOHOO 27.00 seconds average 10 of 12 !! Broke it around 4.20pm 30th September 2008.. 2 more seconds away from my aim (10 of 12 : 25.00 seconds).. !!
Just changed to cross on bottom on 2nd October 2008(Night). Got my first sub 20 seconds single solve... 19.79 seconds !! Non-lucky !! 11.xx seconds for cross + first 2 layers and 8.xx seconds for last layer, got a V-permutation.... After training 1 day+ of cross on bottom, broke my single solve record for 3 times in a day, one month+ ago was 22.70 secs, then now broke 22.65 secs, then 21.67 secs and finally 19.79 secs ! Quite a good average too... Broke it around 9.55pm 3rd October 2008(132 days of cubing).
New 10 of 12 record !! After changed to cross at bottom for almost 1 week..finally broke my new 10 of 12 again (10 of 12 : 26.60 secs). I was having some warm up solves before this, after that I timed myself for the sunday contest..and I broke my average 10 of 12 in sunday contest ! Broke it around 1.00pm 12th October 2008(141 days of cubing).

Just trained for 20 minutes today and suddenly got an average 10 of 12 and single record at the same time !! Single : 19.01 secs and 10 of 12 : 25.67 secs !! 0.67 secs away from targetted average(25.00 secs) !! Broke it around 7.00pm 14 October 2008(143 days of cubing).

Just broke my new average 10 of 12 again.. !! 10 of 12 : 25.17 secs...broke it in sunday contest.. Broke it around 1.30pm 27 October 2008(156 days of cubing)..but can't train much now..SPM coming..so won't have much improvements from now till december..
My first sub 25 average !!! Yay!! 10 of 12 : 24.14 secs !! A very good average too.. my previous average record was 25.17 secs and this one is 1.03 secs faster than it !! Next target 10 of 12 : 20.00 secs !! Broke it around 10.55pm 4th November 2008(164 days of cubing).
Now I can easily get average 24.00~25.99 seconds....today just broke new 10 of 12 : 23.64 secs...Broke it around 3.15pm 6th November 2008(166 days of cubing).

Based on the speed...it reminds me of Erik Akkersdijk saying about the "basic speed" one possess. He is telling us about what he think about the speed that fast cubers can obtain when they are introduced to a new puzzle. He refer it as the "basic speed". Saying that why we cannot judge on how long have you been introduced to the puzzle, but also the "basic speed" you have. The "basic speed" consists of a couple of things :

-our fingerspeed

-our mental speed (lookahead)

-our ability to tackle new problems

-our ability to apply known principles to new things

-other things we gained by experience

All of these skills are gained when we practise and play with cubes.

This is what I had read from http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6391 .

It is very true..