are you smart enough to solve the puzzle?

so, you've been offered to solve this quiz created by Einstein before. and well, let me share with you on how to solve the matter step by step. thank me later for understanding this, if you didnt.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here’s the question: Who owns the fish?

1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The green house is on the left of the white house
5. The green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

you should start putting things in table. it will make things easier for you. let's start with those straightforward clues.
8. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house



we know what green house is on the left of the white house (point no.4), so we need to figure out whether white house is located at the far right, or second from the right. for that, we need to scan through for more clues. and you'll come to: 5. The green house owner drinks coffee
this means green house cant be at the middle, and since it has to be located left of the white house, it becomes:



point no.1 tells us that Brit lives in the red house, so we're only left with 'yellow house' for the 1st house, and red will be house no.3
and we should just need to fill in the rest clues into the table.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill



We're left with this clues:
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pet = either House 4 or House 5
3. The Dane drinks tea = House 2 or House 5
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds = House 3; House 4 or House 5
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer = House 2 or House 5
13. The German smokes Prince = House 2; House 4 or House 5

So, here's the solution in sequence:
1) We're wondering what does Norwegian drinks (either tea, water and beer left). Tea is out as it's for House 2 and 5; cant be beer as the beer drinker smokes Blue Master), thus, it's 'Water'.
2) The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water
3) The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
4) The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. Well we were wondering if beer is for House 2 or House 5, but since House 2 smokes Blends, we're only left with House 5.
5) Tea is the only left-out, so it's for House 2 and that means we find out where Dane stands.
6) The German smokes Prince -> only House 4 left for this clue.
7) The Swede keeps dogs as pets -> only House 5 is available for Nationality

Last clue, but not least: 6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds -> we're left with House 3 for Pall Mall smoke, and there goes Pall Mall and Birds.

So, who keeps the fish? I guess you know now.

why the heck did i frantically look for flight ticket and go home?

i was rushing back to my home yesterday. home in here means 'real home' in medan. and now i'm stuck at the airport waiting for my flight to singapore and after changing enough money to buy mcD, here i am wondering what to do in the next 3 hours before my flight. i didnt sleep well yesterday, i'll probably be a mess tomorrow. duh..

it was actually my trip to bid the last farewell to my grandma. she's been sick for a year. colon cancer. bedridden for a year. and she's been mute for a year too. ermm...my cousin told me that actually to date, it's been 1 year and 11 days to be exact from the day she was sent to the operation room. so she's been fighting her cancer for the past 1 gruesome (to her) year. why gruesome...she was a restless person, walked more than i did in a day, and always talked..even to nobody. so, being bedridden and mute totally takes away her, basically, life. the cancer grew again few months ago. bigger, and eating her alive, literally. her condition had been bad to worse. our family doctor has been telling us this, but all the cousins decided to prolong her life, save her as best as they could. but the time is up. and this time, it's for real.

"1 week, the most" that's what the doctor said. and to make things worse, he told me that it might be less than a week this morning. my grandma body cant take in anymore meds. nothing helps her. she has another tumor/cancer at her left lung now. she has trouble catching her breath. her kidneys stop working (they produce less than 400ml of urine in 3 days) and it means her kidneys cant detoxify anything now. albumin injection doesnt help as her body cells dont really respond to it anymore and now she's swollen, here and there. dialysis might help to detoxify her body, but doctor said that it was going to be painful and she might not be able to take it. so, there's no point and he asked us to just let her go, peacefully. well, he said that my grandma would just stop recognizing everyone, and maybe in coma for a while and just..gone.

that's why my cousins and i were back, to bid our farewell while we still have the chance.

so, this afternoon, before i knocked-off, i was given a private time to have a talk with my grandma (or, it was just me talking and she just listened and blinked her eyes -- which means 'yea, i get it.'). i didnt have anytime to rehearse or to compound anything in order to say to her. and i just started very idiotically by telling her "hey, i miss your fried sweet-potato cake!" and i kept going on with the list of her specialties (food, of course). and how grown up i am now that she didnt need to worry about me anymore. then...i apologized for my wrong doings to her, if any. (then the maid came in interrupting my session and i said, "OUT!!") then i went on...telling her i was glad having her as my grandma. last but not least, thanking her for everything..for giving me my mother and my cousins; and sealed my speech with, "yes, i will miss you, but dont worry, we'll be alright and we love you. i love you."

she waved her hand, bye-ing to me and i was such a man. left the room and rushed to bathroom to, i'm-not-sure-how-long, cry.

why the hell do i need a break from everything

it seems that everything is not going according to what i had expected them to be (well sometimes yes, but most of the time..no). so you know, when you expect something (good) to happen to you and if it doesnt, you'll be dissappointed. multiply it by 100x, and it means a hundred of disappointments. not to add in some mishaps that happened to you unexpectedly, it just amplifies the bad luck to BAD LUCK, in capital words.


i've heard enough bad news lately. i've had enough concerns lately. i've experienced bad things lately. i've been badly treated lately. i've been dissapointed lately. and i've been mad a lot of times, lately. so, have you ever felt like your guts is twisting out of sudden? you then remember that you didnt take any stale milk or some leftover meal that you managed to dig out from fridge after it almost became fossils. and minutes later you find yourself inside the toilet with your face just half a metre away from the toilet bowl vomiting...nothing! well, yeah, it happened to me last tuesday. and i decided to take a day off on wednesday and pray to nemesis that everything will be balance, again. it was probably, over-depressed, momentarily. heck i know about it.


the good thing is, i always believe in law of attraction. alright, for you who happen to have no idea about what 'law of attraction' is, it's like....things will happen if you believe in them. continuously of course. or let's say, 'have faith'. so, it works like this. when you truly believe in something and works towards it (or them), keep believing that it will happen and make sure that you stay put to your positive attitude; the world will somehow shift its molecules and atoms and whatsoever things it has to turn your wishes/hopes true. i wont put my head on the table and guarantee you 100% that it works, but..it happened to me before. so, i..believe..that whatever wishes i have that i always keep in my mind and truly pray for them, will again be granted. sooner, or later.


so, yea..why i said it was a good thing that i believe in law of attraction? it reminds me to keep afloat whenever i'm drifting to the other end (negative thinking, depression or whatsoever). bless me!


the hell i need a break from everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. but i cant. YET! i will. one day i will. the first thing that came to my mind is to take a break from my job and catch the next flight to, far far away island and live there for maybe a month or more to renew/retouch/redo/rewind or whatever re- re- re- myself. and after that session, i will come back to my life and, voila! everything is good again, or better. but i cant. i dont have the money, i dont have the time, and worst...i dont have the guts. F me!!!

goodbye friendster!!!

Well, it seems like aeon ago since the last time i bothered about friendster. I finally decided to really cancel my friendster account and leave it to Flinstones. Thus, i have no choice but to start my rambling media elsewhere (blogspot..where else..duh). And if it still works, here's the link for my previous notes:

http://gohcuk.blog.friendster.com