Monday, October 15, 2007
-posted by Anonymous at 9:27 PM
Friday, October 12, 2007
Meet at station control of Eunos MRT at 9.30am on Monday.
10am to 12 noon: ECP-ing, you may bike, play beach volleyball, beach cube etc.
12 noon to 2pm: Lunch, venue TBA on the day itself
2pm to Approx. 6pm: Zong Ying's House
After that: TBA
Instructions for Logistics IC: Buy snacks, drinks and other stuff, get the receipt and claim from Yi Tyan
Instructions for Games IC: Bring the necessary stuff for ECP like balls, cubes etc
General Instructions: Do not wear jeans. Wear loose clothing and bring change if you think you will get dirty
Since Mr Lee said Honorary members of 6K will come on their own, so I assume he does not object to you all inviting them? (I take no responsibility if he does mind... do exercise discrestion)
Ok See You All There!
Yong Lin
SQ888
-posted by 07S6K at 10:23 PM
Monday, October 8, 2007
Japan teen in historic Rubik win
 It was the 25th anniversary of the first Rubik's world championships |
Yu Nakajima, 16, took home 5,000 euros (£3,400, $7,000) after winning the main event of the three-day tournament.
Nearly 300 contenders from 33 countries tried their hands - and feet - at the puzzle, some completing it blindfolded.
Hungarian architect Erno Rubik invented the cube in Hungary in 1974. More than 300 million cubes have been sold since.
Puzzling success
Nakajima solved the classic 3x3 version of the six-coloured cube - which has nine squares on each side - with an average time of 12.46 seconds in five attempts.
I'm glad the cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm 
Rubik's Cube inventor
US contender Andrew Kang took second prize and Nakajima's countryman, Mitsuki Gunji, came third.
None were able to beat the world record of 9.86 seconds set by French cube enthusiast Thibaut Jacquinot in May.
The competition marked the 25th anniversary of the first Rubik's world championships, also held in the cube's birthplace, in 1982.
Mr Rubik, 63, made a rare public appearance at the championship to give out the main prizes at a medal ceremony.
"I'm glad the cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm," he said.
Although Mr Rubik invented the puzzle in 1974, it was not available outside Hungary until 1980.
It has been listed in the Oxford English dictionary, inspired a stage play, a TV series and, the Rubik's company claims, its success contributed to the reform of Hungary's communist economy in the early 1980s.
Rubik's also says the puzzle sparked a divorce in 1981, when a German woman complained that her husband spent more time with his cube than with her.
Following the success of the cube - which is said to have 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations - Mr Rubik invented several other mechanical puzzles, including Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Clock and Rubik's Snake.-posted by 07S6K at 11:47 PM