Happy Mid-Autumn Festival - Have a can of Guinness

Bring back some memories regarding this festival. Have a lantern walk together with my son.

Cow Head or Cow Dung?

Cow Head or Cow Dung? :)

Servicing my car at Toyota Service Centre, Cheras

Currently servicing my car at Toyota Service Centre, Cheras. Pretty upset as appointment was set at 2pm but were only attended till 2:45pm. Used to be better when waiting times were around 15 mintues.

Also seems to have some difficulties posting at my main blog http://wisepawn.gilachess.com

Sudoku Competition Tesco Johore Bahru

According to www.sudoku.com.my, there is aSudoku Competition happening at Tesco, Johore Bahru. To bad there is not enough publicity about it :(

Clueless Malaysia Education Ministers

I normally do not want to write about politic but I am really dismayed to read about the policy change about teaching science and mathematic subject in English.

Over the past 30 years, many rubbish policies had been implemented resulting the deteration of standards in our education level.

My son is study in standard one and he will be suffering from a policy that had been proven wrong for the next 3 years, what on earth that our politicians can made such a brainless decision? Malaysia BOLEH!

Over the weekend, I watch my wife teaching my son the mathematic subject, once again, I am shocked at the way mathematic had been manipulated to such a way that a simple 1 or 2 steps calcuation required 4 to 5 useless ways. OMG.

Daily Dose of Sudoku

There are many websites provide daily Sudoku puzzles but one of my favorite is New Straits Times.
I like the site as it provide many options for users to select. You can also print it together with the answer just in case you can't finish it the same day.

The only short coming is that the webmaster didn't bother to remove a link at the bottom of the screen for something that was year ago.

Sudoku GrandMaster

In the games of Chess, or some other competitive games, title is given to players whose skill has reach a certain level. eg. master or grandmaster.

How about Sudoku? Sudoku Grandmaster!
Sudoku Grandmaster is not a title, it is a magazine for Sudoku lovers. It say "Warning! Contains Serious Sudoku"; Not suitable for Beginners!

The magazine is published in UK by Bromleigh House and price at 2.25 pound. In Malaysia, I have only seen it in Popular Book Store.

Sudoku Solver

One of the resources available from the Net is Sudoku Solver. It is a program that will solve the Sudoku puzzle when the initial setup is entered. It is an interesting programming skill test but personally I think it is quite simple to program even through I had not been doing computer programming for many years!

I think it is not good for the games as it take away a lot of fun and encourage people to take a short-cut rather than trying to learning the necessary skills. It also encourage cheating in competition that is conducted on-line; The organizer will not know if the puzzle was solved using a program. The on-going BRANDS Sudoku Challenge is a failure if the organizer don't take into considerations. Kiasu people might use Sudoku Solver to qualify for the Final/Selection.

Sudoku or Soduku?

If one searches the Net, he will find that there are at least 2 different spelling regarding this game! Some uses Sudoku, some uses Soduku but they are both the same.

There are many on-line information and resources one can use regarding this game, one have to make use of both the words in order not to miss out good resources. For example one of my favorite on-line Sudoku is http://www.soduku.org You will find a lot of sudoku puzzle ranging from easy, medium, hard and insane!

My 1st post in Blogspot

Hi

Create this blog for writing something about sudoku. My other interest is about Chess. I have a blog regarding Chess at http://wisepawn.gilachess.com

All comments regarding Sudoku and Chess are welcome.