Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The great medieval movie, The Princess Bride

  "The Princess Bride" is a fairy tale movie, made in 1987, and directed by Rob Reiner. Some scary parts were in the movie, so I could call it a thriller, but I think this is a romantic fairy tale.

  This movie is kind of medieval. A castle, a beautiful princess, a king, and someone who loves the princess. The princess is Princess Buttercup, played by Robin Wright. The man, who loved her is Westley, the man in black, played by Cary Elwes. There is Prince Humperdink, who tried to marry the princess by force. There were three people who took the princess with the boat: Fezzik is the huge Giant, Andre Roussimoff, which was a real wrestler. Inigo is the Spanish knight whose father died by the six fingered man, Count Rugen. And there was Vizzini, who was smart but died because he drank poison. There was Miracle Max, who cured Westley. These entire characters were in a story. A grandfather (Peter Falk) read his grandson (Fred Savage) the story, which the title is "The Princess Bride."

  This movie has many unique settings in it. The house of Miracle Max seemed to be a medieval hospital. There was a very big machine in the Pit of despair. It made Westley unable to move, because it took fifty years of his life. There was a dangerous forest that has a fire swamp, quick sand, huge rats etc. It is the Forest of Thieves. In the sea, there were the shrieking eels. These are the unique settings in the movie.

  This movie was quite fun because there are two worlds. The modern one and the medieval one. A grandpa reads his grandson a book. There was a princess who gets caught but was protected by Westley. Westley seems to have leadership qualities because he has the will to protect the princess. Things go right and wrong in the movie, but in the end everything goes fine. Inigo kills the six fingered man, and Westley gets back some of his power. The princess survives all of this dangerous adventure. So I learned a lesson that I can survive WITH protecting the other person. Great movie it is!

My brilliant 30-day goals

  I have three goals that I truly want to achieve. One is knowing about Japanese trains. The other is gaining weight. And the last is trying to solve the Mega minx. All three of them are my goals that I am willing to do not only in here, but outside.

  The first goal is knowing about Japanese trains on the internet. I can't go to Japan during GLPS, and I don't even have time going there! So I will go to Japan indirectly. I will find about Japanese trains. I have been finding about Japanese trains in an internet blog named Choi Yeon Soo's train story, which is closed recently. I saw many gorgeous Japanese train pictures in that blog, and started to think that going to Japan is not a very bad idea. I found about train models that were very realistic, and saw a subway with two Greencars. A Greencar is a higher-class seat only in Japanese trains. This picture is not a Shinkansen or KTX; it is the greencar of a subway.

 
  The second goal is gaining weight. I am forty kilograms, and my arm is too thin that I can directly touch my bones with only 'skin covered.' I am light since I was young, so I want to eat food that has a lot of fat. I have to do something opposite when fat people try to diet. So I will eat many hamburgers and junk foods (am I crazy?), and try to be 'fat', not 'skinny.'

  My last goal is trying to solve the mega minx. A mega minx is a dodecahedron with twelve pentagons, twelve colors. It is similar to the 3 by 3 Rubik's cube (which is popular), but has many sides. I first tried to solve it and it easily solved at the first part. But in case that it has twelve sides, I had to think a lot; how to match the upper sides. There are more harder dodecahedrons than the mega minx; giga minx, tera minx, peta minx etc. I now have to see the algorithms of the mega minx in an internet cube cafe that I am in.
Here is the picture of a peta minx.

 
  So these are my three brilliant goals that I want to achieve during GLPS. I like trains, gaining weight, and solving hard Rubik's cubes. Although I couldn't perfectly achieve these three goals, I have the will to do these three brilliant goals.

Friday, July 26, 2013

My triple mysteries



  Hello, my name is Timothy Ahn, and I would like to show you my three mysteries.I have three lists of mysteries, and I would like yourselves to be interested in my three mysteries. The hint: I really like Rubik's cubes and Cast puzzles.
This picture is a cast puzzle, named cast helix. You have to put out the ring from the star-like plate. It is level five so If you are interested, try it!





  The first list says 'four years.' I am NOT four years old, indeed. I am not a fourth grader in an Elementary school. I don't have a pet that is four years old. Then, what is the 'four years?' It means that I've been wearing only two Swissflex glasses four four years straight. Swissflex is a glass company that flexes very well, and I have been wearing only two of that company's glasses for four years.

  The second list says'10&7.' What does it mean? I don't have younger brothers that are 10 years old and 7 years old each. I don't do something ten times and seven times each in one day. Then, what does it mean? It is the number of my cubes and cast puzzles. I have ten cubes and seven cast puzzles. I like both kinds of puzzles.

  The third list says 'RRR.' What does RRR means? It doesn't mean Right Right Right. It is not even the sound of a phone ringing. It is not the sound of vibration. Then, what?????
It is the name of the video that I sometimes watch; Ran ran ru. There are over hundred kinds of Ran ran ru videos, but I know two videos that have really good songs in the video.

  These are my three lists of mysteries. I have more things that are unique, and can make them into a mystery.How was the 'three mysteries?' It might be unexpected, but all of the three mysteries have a truth. So these were my fun triple mysteries.