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Back to blogging...After a long wait. But, not self-inflicted. Temporarily was this service shut down and now following its restoration, I am following suit. Rubiks cube, anybody wrapping their heads around this? Do not be blinded by the colour squares that pop up everywhere precisely where you want it not to be. Whoever says cubing is easy should be thrust a Rubik instead of a number.

In other matters, Johnson is in a desperate mood to break any person who dares to stand in his way to hitting the stumps, failing which he will do it verbally. If actions fail to speak louder, then words will, by default. AAP is desperately trying to grab attention to its antics, the only thing they have forgotten is that their antics have already been taken note of. They should be made to read the newspapers first, as eminent writers cringe about the loss of reading habits. And movie stars too,for, for any youth and below, the only bamboo product they pick up after bed-rise is the supplement providing the life-and-death news of who Rajni is slated to act with in his next foray.

Elsewhere, the NBA All-stars game is being played with none of the Indians understanding the nuances and intricacies of this beautiful game where players look like giants from another planet and the fight for a ball to be put in a hoop. Barcelona decimate Rayo Vallecano to make us think why not give the league title to them, yet again. Facebook buys Whatsapp for a measly 19-billion dollar deal which got us thinking as to why Zuckerberg could not just renew his Whatsapp subscription with a costly 1-dollar per year. Our Finance Minister, Paneerselvam releases the financial budget for Tamilnadu which we students dutifully read during lecture hours, primarily because even these seem brilliant compared to the lecture drone.

Ending this with another tip of cubing: Do not ever make the mistake of gifting it to a person, not on his birthhour not on his deathhour and not any hour in the middle. If you already did, then redeem yourself before its too late. And by the way solving the cube is just formula-memorization and dedicated application. RUR'URUU is the first step:P.


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