Water in a Tubelight

Captured on the train while coming back to campus. There's water in the tubelight, and its a wonder how the tubelight hasn't short-circuited yet. Here's 'Nisarg Saundarya' (Nature's Beauty) for you VAB, not outside the train but but right inside it........ :)

Cube Hunt

Puzzles have always fascinated me right since childhood. I have solved a variety of puzzles available at the local toy shops back home. On the second last day of college before a Diwali break, I was in a friend's room chatting with him when I saw a puzzle there which I had been unsuccessful at solving a long time.

The Rubik's Cube, one of the oldest puzzles available and also one of the most popular, was lying on his desk. Suddenly, my interest in it was rekindled, and I just had to buy a cube and learn how to solve it.

As soon as I got home, the first thing I did was get myself a cube from a local fair. The cube wasn't of a very high quality, but was decent enough to learn how to solve.

Jump to a month later.....

I had bought a cube but due to the busy exam schedule, I hadn't got an opportunity to actually analyse and solve it properly, though I had tried to play with it for a couple of minutes whenever I got the time.

Finally, after trying repeatedly to unsuccessfully solve the cube, I turned to Google™ for help. Finding a tutorial was simple enough. During the journey back home, I finally learned to solve the cube, but was still a little shaky.

During the vacations, I could finally perfect my technique but ended up spoiling the cube in the process......

Here's where the cube hunt began.....

I wanted a cube that was of a better quality that I already had. The first place I thought of was the toy store from where I used to buy all my puzzles a long time ago. However, unfortunately, the store had only one cube, but that was of a very low quality, compared to my cube.....

I tried going to a few more shops in the vicinity, but there I had trouble even getting the shopkeeper to understand what a Rubik's Cube is.

I had to visit my relatives in a neighbouring town. I tried visiting all the major shops there too, but to no avail....

Finally, there was one last shop left which I thought might be having a good cube for sale.....

I go there and find that all their cubes were sold out just two days ago. I asked the shopkeeper when new stock would arrive, and he told me that I would get a cube in a week....

Now the problem was that the vacation was almost over, and I had to return two days later, and hence my dream for a better cube remained a dream.

Hopefully, I will be luckier next vacation and will finally be able to procure a cube, and continue learning to solve it faster than the basic method I am now familiar with.

Until I get a new cube.........