With the upcoming summer Olympic games and Singapore playing host to the Youth Olympics in 2010, I was just wondering have I ever taken any Olympic-related pictures anywhere?
Umm (running through album pages)…here it is!
The statue of Paavo Nurmi, standing outside the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.
Paavo Nurmi, one of Finland’s greatest long-distance runner, won 9 golds at the Olympics in the 1920s and set more than 20 world records. Wow!
1. Get one index card (or cardstock) and a pair of scissors.
2. Fold it in half and crease the fold.
3. Position the scissors at the fold.
4. Make straight cuts but don’t snip right off the edge.
5. Flip (towards you) to the opposite side and be ready for another round of cutting.
6. Cut on the middle of each strip. Again, don’t cut right through the end.
7. You’ll get a zig zag like this.
8. Go back to the fold, skipping the FIRST and LAST strip, trim off the fold on all the remaining strips.
9. Open up and you’ll find a hole that is indeed big enough for you to make your way through from the head down or from the feet up.
This is adapted from Dr. Robert Krampf’s science experiment #11 on the science of topology.
Tips:
If you cut narrower strips in step 4, the hole gets even bigger. And if you accidentally snip off the first or last strip, you will have cut yourself a paper streamer.
Say if you (ever) have to entertain someone with a simple trick or make a paper-party-necklace, you know what to do!
Meet Carminita, a little matryoshka doll I ‘adopted’ recently. Isn’t she sweet? Even hub couldn’t resist taking a closer look at her. She and her other friends are designed by Rosy and you’re all cordially invited to visit them at the Micasita house.
It’s described as an unwoven cloth with crushed fine peach seed to remove soil stains on vegs and pesticide residues on fruits. Not meant for other cleaning jobs.
The sound of peach seed was what drew me to this sponge and not its shape.
I’m currently using this as a scrubber for step no. 5 in the vinegar wash.
Email this to a friend
