Monthly Archive for November, 2007

Eurotrip Part 2: VENICE BABY!

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Pau
on November 27, 2007
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A couple of things about Europeans:

  1. Apparently, cooking food for breakfast is like a national crime over there.
  2. But not slowing down your vehicles when pedestrian tourists are crossing the street is like a national sport.
  3. In Europe, you can find people who actually don’t like Chinese food.
  4. And lastly, they seem to have such a thing as a handshaking competition over there:

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Eurotrip Part 1: ROME BABY!

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Pau
on November 26, 2007
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I’ve actually been back for a week, but it took this long to post the photos of the first leg of our Eurotrip because trying to sequentially arrange photos from four different cameras which are set to three different timezones is not fun. Also, since our internet at home chose this time to take a break, I really didn’t have a choice on the matter.

Anyway, Europe.

We touched down in Italy around lunchtime on Nov 7, 2007 and we hit the ground running. It was still too early for us to check in at the hotel so we had no choice but to start our tour while wearing the clothes we’ve been wearing for the past 20 hours or so. So we were brought to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City where we took pictures of marble penises and upskirt shots of some other Roman statues.

The weather was perfect—not hotter than 14 degrees Celsius and not colder than 8, and the food was fucktastic. Granted that for our first meal in Europe, we had to share one panini between the six of us because none of us could quite get the hang of spending the equivalent of Php250 for a sandwich, it was still awesome to be eating genuine Italian food.

Other notable places featured in the pictures are the Colosseum, the Spanish Steps, the Fountain of Trevi, and the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi.

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Professor’s Cube — SOLVED!

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Pau
on November 2, 2007
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Around 13 days after I bought a Professor’s cube, I have finally solved it.

But don’t expect to see a video of me solving it anytime soon because I don’t think I can do it again. I kinda relied heavily on pure dumb luck in the home stretch.

And about the time? Gee I don’t know. Let’s see, I started solving it around 11:30PM last night. Then I hit a wall around 1:00AM so I decided to go to sleep. I woke up around 6:30AM, dicked around with the cube for about half an hour, then I was like HOLY CRAP HOW DID I DID THAT?!

In many ways, solving the 5×5 cube is a lot easier than solving the 3×3. It’s a lot more intuitive, and since you have more room, you can experiment more with your moves. The final stages however, require that you know how to solve a 3X3.

The best part of this whole experience was that I didn’t use any internet tutorials to solve it. (Actually, I searched and searched for a tutorial on how to solve it, but I couldn’t understand any of them. Because I can’t read.)

So allow me to brag a little. Because I’m insecure like that and I need affirmation:

Professor's Cube

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