Thursday, February 4, 2010

SEA Forensics 2010: Supreme Nerdery

(Less of an actual Tournament post, actually, but I'm tagging it that because it's actually somewhat related.)

Thomas and Stephen are being hosted by me for the 32nd SEA Forensics tournament this year, and yesterday after the events were done, went over with their merry HKIS bunch to KLCC. They came back home (home being Casa del Ruslan) at night, brandishing... A jigsaw puzzle.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="SO MANY PIECES"]SO MANY PIECES[/caption]


It's a Studio Ghibli art puzzle, apparently, of an anime film called Laputa: Castle In The Sky. (Me: "'Laputa', doesn't that mean whore in Spanish?") It's not a particularly difficult one either, by real standards at least, but 300 pieces are still pretty tough, hey. I'm pretty certain 200 of those were just plain blue, or plain dark blue, or plain is-this-blue-or-dark-blue? Thomas, Stephen and I immediately started on it, because we're just cool like that.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="We later discovered that the uneven carpet was probably not the ideal surface for this."]We later discovered that the uneven carpet was probably not the ideal surface for this.[/caption]


Except Stephen pussies out twenty minutes later, lying down on the couch instead dictating orders to me and Thomas. Then he just goes to sleep. Crucially, he doesn't get up until eight hours later, despite constant urging to, y'know, sleep in the bed kindly provided to him. No, the famous red couch™ at home is well-recognized for its comfort.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Fifteen minutes into the puzzle."]Fifteen minutes into the puzzle.[/caption]


[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Five minutes later."]Five minutes later.[/caption]


Thomas begins to realize the therapeutic side-effects of doing this jigsaw puzzle halfway in. In other words, he gets crazy.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Pictured: getting crazy."]Pictured: getting crazy.[/caption]


And then the ever-lovely Roslyn comes home and she too discovers the magic of jigsaw puzzles. I still don't understand it, I don't, and... uhhh yeah I watch them as they gain euphoria fitting individual pieces of the same shade of blue via process of elimination.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="ONWARDS, SOLDIERS, THERE ARE GRADIENTS OF BLUE TO SNAP INTO PLACE"]ONWARDS, SOLDIERS, THERE ARE GRADIENTS OF BLUE TO SNAP INTO PLACE[/caption]

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