March 2019 - You Write

Francis’ Rules for Sudoku

March 29, 2019 FLAI40 3 comments

The book “Sudoku - Explaining the fifteen steps of Francis’ Rules for Sudoku” was first published in 2006. Since then, another book “Sudoku is Fun: Taking the Francis’ Run” was published later in the same year. The preface to the first book reads thus: “If you are into solving Sudoku challenges, this book should be read. It illustrates how you can apply Francis’ Rules to shorten the time taken to obtain a solution to any Sudoku challenge. “If you are not into Sudoku Challenges, then you are missing out on an opportunity for the development of your brain power to […]

Life - What’s That?

March 13, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Understanding Life What is the Purpose of Life? by Sadhguru 1,650,499 viewed as at 12 Mar 2019 Take 13 minutes to listen to what this guru says regarding the purpose of life. This video has over one million six hundred hits and thus deserves our consideration, regardless of what religion we belong to. What is Life, Actually? “If you figure it, you will see that the most important thing that is happening in your life right now is that you are alive - nothing else. Not that the stocks you hold have gone down, not that your love affair has […]

SingUP 08 - A Story - Chapter 1: Ken Lo

March 1, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Let us start with the introductory booklet for this story. The introductory booklet on an A4 page is shown below. To turn the A4 page into a book, we need to fold the page on its width twice over. Then, open up the page again at its half-page mark and using a pair of scissors cut the middle portion of the page at its folded end as indicated in the photographs below. Then fold in the paper as shown into a booklet of six pages with the front and the back covers. Ken Lo - December 1952 “Let us never […]