Welcome back! Unfortunately, due to personal issues and my busy schedule lately, I have to cancel the last episode, "Evolving". This marks the end of my podcast. But don't you worry, because I'll make a brand new podcast in the foreseeable future! So goodbye for now!

Welcome back! This is the last episode of my mini-series, "The Hobbies". Stay tuned for the next episode next week!

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One of my favorite hobbies is solving Rubik's Cube. I first learned about it when I was about 3 years old. Back then, my parents were introduced to the Rubik's Cube by an acquaintance, so they bought me one. To be honest, I didn't even know what it was back then, just remember it was colorful and looked really nice. Of course, there were only a few people who could be able to solve a Rubik's Cube without having to learn how to solve it. But unfortunately, I was not one of them. Plus, I was just a 3-year-old kid. So what did I do? I threw it on the floor, and somehow it broke into pieces. And from then on, my parents never bought it for me again, until I bought one for myself 12 years later. When I transferred to a new school, I saw a lot of new friends messing around with Rubik's Cubes. And in the end, I decided to learn how to solve it.

I had to sit in front of the computer for hours just to learn about Rubik's Cube, and I finally understood why my friends loved it so much. “Solving Rubik's Cube will help us reduce stress after work, increase reflexes and our memories will be significantly improved.”, as said on the Internet. I also found out that there were many different types of Rubik's Cubes, with many different colors and structures. So I spent a lot of time just learning how to solve it in many different methods as well.

Gradually, I started to enjoy it more. But that didn’t mean I started with the hardest thing. On the contrary, I started to learn how to solve the simplest Rubik's Cube - the 2x2, also known as the Pocket Cube, due to its smaller size compared to the original one. After a very long time, through endless practice, I became the fastest 2x2 Rubik's Cube solver in school, in just about 8 seconds. My Personal Best is currently 0.89 seconds, whilst the World Record is 0.49 seconds! Very close indeed.

Then, I started to learn how to solve the 3x3 – the original Rubik’s Cube. Due to a completely different structure from the 2x2, I actually had to learn how to solve it from scratch. And it indeed took a very long time for me to learn how to solve it. My first few solves was around 40 seconds, which was unacceptably slow. So what I did was try to look it up online, watch some tutorials on YouTube about how to solve it faster, learning some new algorithms. And then finally down to 30 seconds, 20 seconds, and finally my current Personal Best - 13.38 seconds. The current World Record was way faster than me – 3.47 seconds. I still need to learn a lot.

After that, I decided to learn how to solve other types of Rubik’s Cubes as well, most notably the Pyraminx – which was in the shape of a pyramid. It might sound difficult to solve, but in reality, it was much easier to solve than the regular 3x3 itself. On my first try, I got around 17 seconds. But it was just lucky since the next solves were much slower – around 1 minute or more. So I decided to learn how to solve it properly, and then I got my Personal Best – 9 seconds. But it was still much slower compared to the current World Record – 0.91 seconds. I also tried to learn how to solve other types as well, such as the 4x4 or so. But since those were so difficult, and I was too lazy, so I turned down the idea.

Nowadays, I’m not that crazy about Rubik’s Cubes as much as I used to anymore, since I’m so busy with my work at school. But when I got my hands on it, it brought back so many happy memories with my old friends back in the day…

Welcome back! In the last episode of the mini-series "Growing Up", I'll be talking about 3 years at high school, my personal thoughts, my new friends, my achievements, etc. Everything about them will be revealed!

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Welcome back to my podcast! In this episode, I'll be talking about my last year as a secondary school student and everything: my first impressions about the new school, making new friends, my first love, etc. Everything about it is gonna revealed in this episode!

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Welcome back! In this episode, I'll be talking about my life when I got into primary school and my first 3 years as a secondary school student. Enjoy!

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I was born in 2005. Yes, I'm old now. It's just crazy how time flies so quickly. I still remember some old memories in my head, though they're not 100% correct. But at least it's very close to what I can still remember. And this is the first episode, "THE KID".
My mom told me I was a pretty fat baby back then. There's even a picture of me as a baby, which I still keep in my bedroom. She even made a joke about my weight, stating: "You were so fat, that no one could hold you in their arms, even your dad." I don't know if that's true or not, but to be fair, I was really fat as a kid. She also said that when they brought me back home after a few months at the hospital, everyone was surprised at how fat I was. Looking back now, it does hurt my feelings.
She said that the first time that I shat myself, she took the shit and rubbed it on the wall. It's really weird, and disgusting too. To this day, I still wondered why she did that. I once asked my dad, and he said it was part of our culture. It's pretty disgusting for sure, but people believed that it would bring good luck to their families. It's pretty weird, right?
Anyway, since then, I started to learn about what family was. The first word I ever said was "Dad". Pretty crazy, right? To be fair though, I'm much more closely to my cousin. I still keep in touch with him, even though he's in Laos now, and the fact that we've been so close for nearly 15 years. I consider him my best friend ever. Honestly, if we were getting older in the future, we could still think of the jokes and the good old memories that we did together when we were young and still laughed off it. I had mad respect for him, for what he had done to my life.
Now let's talk about my parents. I swear to God, they were much more different back then. They treated me well, but they were so strict too. Typical Asian parents. But I know that back then, they loved me so much, and I can somehow feel it. But now they were just mad at everything I did. That did affect my childhood a lot, especially some of my first years at kindergarten.
You may find it weird, but I went to 3 different kindergartens when I was a kid. Yes, I went to a different one after each year. I had absolutely nothing in my mind when talking about the first one. Possibly because I was too young, or it just didn't make any impression on me. So we'll skip that one. The next one is kinda interesting. My dad told me that on the first day, I was crying my eyeballs out. I was so scared because my dad's gonna leave me there - a place that was new, strange, and quite scary. I still remembered that I was so scared of the new teachers that I couldn't talk with anybody. I just sat alone like a pile of crap in the corner of the room, while everyone else just chilling. I was so scared and confused at the same time. I couldn't even talk with anybody. Thank goodness, I was transferred to another kindergarten for the third time. But it was different. I joined many fun activities there, like dancing, singing, reading, coloring, etc. Everything was just so fun. And most importantly, I got my first friends. That was no doubt my biggest achievement as a kid.
To sum it up, I just wanna say that we all love ourselves as kids. The world was just so different back then. It didn't get spoiled by the Internet, smartphones, or anything bad at all. Kids were just so innocent and enjoying their lives, which is an extremely rare thing now. If I got a wish, I would be happy to be young once again and just enjoy the nostalgia. But little did I know back then when I went to primary school, everything changed hard...
In the next episode, "Growing Up pt. I", I will be discussing my life when I went to primary school, about my friends, my achievements, and everything untold will get revealed.
See you next Saturday!

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