Soduku and life...

I like playing soduku...
I like the feeling of completing a task...

I have always been playing this number game alone...
afterall this is quite a self absorb game...
Hence, I never know how good I am or how fast compare to others...

Yesterday, after a little competition with my friend LQ...
I realise...
I am extremely slow...and actually the worst kind of player...
Completely systemless...and impatient...

So she show me her trick...

1. Start from the top box...and go thru number by number from 1 to 9
2. Every new number filled up will give clue to more number
3. If some area is stuck...MOVE on and go to other numbers...dun waste time thinking...
4. Always scan thru and repeat scanning process of possibility from 1 to 9 again...

Very systematic and orderly and efficient.

While me, my style is...

1. Stare at the block of numbers...randomly
2. Here and there and everywhere...to check for number to be filled up...in no particular orders
3. Gets frustrated if i am stuck, and at some point will STARE at the numbers as if I am thinking...and waste time.
4. After the idling...I resume my task...and go thru all the inefficient way all over again until all the boxes are filled up.


I realise the way I solve soduku is the same as how I live life...
I am distracted and do not follow a system.
I do things spontaneously and randomly...
And this actually makes me horribly inefficient...

But the good thing is...though I am really slow...I enjoy this game as much as those who finish this in 5 minutes...

Like life...it is not about the quantity...but how much I enjoy while I am solving it.