5x5x5

After getting the Rubik's 5x5x5 for about a month, finally I picked up my mind and dedicated 4 hours straight into solving it over the weekend.

The trick is to reduce the 5x5x5 to a 3x3x3. It is not as hard as I thought, although at certain stages there are steps that definitely need to be memorized, and I simply looked them up online. It was quite fun, but I think I won't do it again...solving the 5x5x5 once is enough. I'll continue to work on my goal of solving a 3x3x3 under a minute.

Geocoding on HK Maps

Finally I am able to locate my HK home on Google Maps!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=238+king's+road,+hong+kong&ie=UTF8&z=16

Yeah, Chinese works too:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=zh-TW&geocode=&q=%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E8%8B%B1%E7%9A%87%E9%81%93238%E8%99%9F&ie=UTF8

And the driving directions somewhat works...still plenty of work to do.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=238+king's+road,+hong+kong&daddr=mongkok&ie=UTF8

Stumbling on Happiness

Gloria borrowed this book from library today. Like the author said, on first glance I thought it's one of those self-help book. I flipped a couple pages, and it has already caught my attention. Seems it's actually about the study of happiness from a Harvard psychology professor. The mere existence of a quote from Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics) on the cover makes it worth reading.

Coincidentally, I was just reading 壹週刊 and 李碧華 mentioned this book in her column "有 一 本 書 《 Stumbling on Happiness 》 （ 《 快 樂 為 什 麼 不 幸 福 》 ） ， 由 在 美 國 哈 佛 大 學 任 教 授 的Daniel Gilbert （ 吉 爾 伯 特 ） 所 著 。 「 英 國 皇 家 學 會 科 學 書 籍 獎 」 之 得 獎 作 品 。 內 容 是 以 科 學 角 度 探 索 人 們 如 何 追 求 快 樂 。 還 沒 讀 過 這 本 書 ， 只 是 書 名 吸 引 了 我..."

So it will definitely go on my reading list now.