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Aside from watching Nip/Tuck and its gratuitous sex scenes and Rescue Me and its gratuitous coke snorting scenes, I have started practicing my origami. This is my first attempt at kusudama and have found it impossible to finish - well, obviously possible after practicing many, many folds of paper later which I have yet to achieve - I simply couldn't put the last piece in without ruining the rest of the ball and had to cheat by using bits of sticky tape in places that wouldn't stay put. I won't show you that spot and instead offer the impressive side that's nice to look at.
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I have a fascination for Japanese products. I think it's mainly the thrill of trying to find out what strange consumer product might be inside the Japanese character covered cellophane and what it does. I love coming across brightly colored packaging with quaint drawings and trying to decipher what the actual product is by pressing, shaking, feeling it up, then finally gauging it by what section it's in (toiletries, kitchen, stationery), then looking for illustrations on how to use the product. You can find really absurd things from armpit wipes, children's cotton buds for cleaning their noses to moisture sucking devices to keep mold from growing on your shoes and clothes, the last one not being so absurd but rather useful in humid climes. I could spend hours in a Japanese market just perusing products like these.
The Japanese have an ingenious way of creating and designing things - they think of the most simple, yet brilliantly useful thing that you really don't need, but upon seeing it and thinking about the concept, you simply must have it if only to see that it really works as shown in the pictures. I think they ought to branch out and co-opt an infommercial channel and sell things like contraptions that literally suck sticky stains out of upholstery by just leaving it there for a few minutes, or a bento box meal that will cook itself by sunlight streaming in from a hot kitchen window. They would make so much money, given they employ a properly clever translator of Japanese phrases, of course.
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