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@ Niphy: OMG! You have a rubik's revenge! *snatches off Niph and runs away*

@ B&B and Elfy: Yeah, it's seriously easy when you know the combination of turns. Actually, i don't think that intelligence is really required... I think for the 3x3 there are only about 7 or 8 combinations to remember. Anyone with half a brain could do that, considering even I managed to remember them all in about half a day. I could probably solve the first side without the turns (though later i found out that they do it in the same way as me), but I could never solve the whole cube, though. :S
I hope to bug my mum to get me a 4x4 by saying that it's veeeery educational.

OMG. My grandparents just bought me loads of chinese maths books for year 8 and 9. I almost died doing questions 20 onwards on the FIRST EXCERSISE. scream

O.O I just remembered I have a piano exam tomorrow.
Which means I'll be missing the team Maths Challenge thing.
WTF?! I'm the only person in my group in set 1 maths!
We are so going to lose considering the person I'm paired up with kinda sucks at maths... and she'll be on her own.
Oh well. She could always borrow brainpower from someone else in our team.
BUT WTF I HAVEN'T EVEN PRACTICED MY SCALES!!!!!

Mini, rubik's cubes became really popular among school kids just like, last year.
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My older brother taught me how to solve a rubik's cube.
4laugh

niphy has two darling babies?
. w.
yay ipod touches. <3

Have you been to the selective schools? Well, the top ones, anyway. The top in NSW, James Ruse, there are people just sitting around at recess and lunch fiddling with rubik's cubes and calculators. CALCULATORS.

True story.

The examiner was really nice ^.^ He told me when I got questions right ^.^
But the nice ones are usually only nice because they feel sorry for you...
So they give you bad marks...

@ Elfy: You can just search "how to solve a rubik's cube" on google, then like 10,000,000,000,000,000 solutions come up. Personally I prefer the ones on scribd where it's written, but there are always the ones on youtube and stuff if you prefer a visual guide...

@ Fwoom: Unfortunately, my logic skills score -10. I suck at things like Rubik's cubes. And even if I did finish it, I would forget how I managed to do it.

james ruse kids are geeks anyway.
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OMFG! I went into Tesco's (for you non-UK-ians, it's a supermarket) with my boyfriend and the guy at the checkout counter was like, "do you have children?" and when we said "..no...." he asked "Oh, just married then?" -__-;; it was so uncool! xD;

Niphy does not have children. Niphy does not even like children. Let's get that cleared up..

7 steps for a 3x3x3; 9 steps for a 4x4x4, it's all easily learnable, although I find it's easier to get someone to teach you rather than learning from instructions 'cause they can be difficult to decipher for novices..

@B&B - 'Boi'? -raised eyebrow- (in my head that stupid Estelle song: "YOU'LL BE MY AMERICAN BOOIII, AMERICAN BOIIIII" xD); but in seriousness.. I adore him. To bits. He's gone home for the day & evening (cause he lives in greater London) & I miss him so much, it's ridiculous. Sending e-hugs to him. <3

@ Niph: *Almost chokes from laughter at the Tesco's incident* -do you really look that old?! Maybe the stress is getting to you.
But what kind of weird guy at a checkout asks if you've got children, anyway?
I do recall being in an airport in China, and this little boy comes up to me and addresses me as if I'm a 30-year old and asks me to help him reach a box of sweets stare . It was not fun.

And with the rubik's thing, it is easier to get someone to teach you, but not many people are willing to sit with someone for like an hour, teaching them all the turns and stuff...

For some reason, every time I hear that "American Boy" song, I think of reading Bleach. I have no idea why, maybe it was on the radio while I was reading Bleach or something... It's just weirdly imprinted into my mind.

@ Elfy: People in our school don't tend to mind. Nobody really is labelled a geek. We tend to think of those people like: "OMG! I hate you! You got 1% more than me in the chemistry test!! You must be a genius!" (sarcasm, of course), not "OMG, what a geek". In other words, we are very competitive, especially in our little circle of Asians ^.^

For some reason, different races in our school don't really mix. There's kinda groups of people from different continents. If you come here, and you're Chinese, you will automatically go to the group of hyper-active and uber-random Chinese, Thai and Korean girls who go to the music block every lunch and teatime under my command (that's us xD). If you're European, Australian or American, you mix with the other European, Australian and American people, etc etc.

Speaking of school, we were watching a film in the common room, and it was rated 15 or something, and we had just got to the gory bit where someone's being murdered, and the teachers obviously heard the scream because our head of year came in, and we just about managed to switch it off. She was like "what on earth are you doing in here?" in an exasperated voice, and no-one wanted to explain that we were watching a gory horror movie, so someone shouted from the corner: "we're watching DAYTIME TV!" Everyone was laughing so hard xd .

For those non-Brits, it's kinda a joke around here that daytime TV in Britain really sucks, and it's full of those cooking programmes and "how to be a housewife" programmes, and pointless stuff like Cash in the Attic (a programme where people auction off random bits of old furniture and stuff in their house and see if the money can be used to pay for holidays and the like).