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on RULES and SHORTCUTS

I was riding on the bus on my way to Tiaong, Quezon to visit my sister. Times like this is a moment of enlightenment. In the bus, cold, nothing to do, rain pouring outside. What could this situation make you do? Sleep? Talk to the old woman next to you (maybe that's a good idea)? Eat? But I just don't want to do that in this particular moment. I suddenly remembered, I haven't touched my Rubik's cube for a couple of days now. So, ginkuha nakon ina sa bag nakon. For some reason, I just packed it up this morning, Right before having lunch with a bunch of policeman who left me for a while to respond to something...and then came back. So I was holding it. I unsolved it and then solved it. And this idea came to my mind. What will happen if I did not follow all rules in solving the first layer? So I did. After creating a cross (with a shortcut that I've learned from observing my tropa E.Sanchez), I turned it upside down and started to solve the edges. It p...