BITES.




A delicate pop-up card @ Kinokuniya with Hello Kitty characters on a traditional Hina Dolls Altar. Nice. But this costs close to 8 bucks.



Got the head.

...

Erm...

Wonder if anyone collect stickers in sticker books before?

You know..

Those themed stickers booklets produced to lure unsuspecting consumers to dutifully complete them for a sense of fictitious accomplishment? It was real hot in the past isnt it?

I recall having one on Street Fighters and another on Barbie. I managed to complete the Barbie one. It became an obligation to complete it once you started. The problem was... repetitive stickers became common as the booklet began to be filled up.

Well.. as a kid... it was a provoking challenge. But once the task is completed, the feeling is just... NOTHING.

Of course, it seems childish now. Being able to "see through the marketing stunts of the conniving businessmen"?

But maybe we are just the same. That compulsive behavior of getting things done just stays.

It's just like waiting for a bus while you are running late...
You've waited for some time and you start thinking ...

"Oh Gosh... I am so late. Should I just take a cab?"

Then you think again...

"Maybe I should just wait a little longer. It's going to be here any moment."

Then, as you ponder over it... ten or twenty minutes went by.. Still.. no bus in sight..

Would you go

"Heck. Cabbie here I come!" or
"I've waited for so long. My effort will just gone to waste if I take a cab now."

Either this or that...
If the bus comes...
The former decision will make you swear for not waiting.
The latter will make you feel relief - A sense of "my patience has pay off"

BUT the truth is... you have just wasted too much time doing the waiting. You think you have achieve something but in the end you are outsmart by yourself - The fear of failing yourself after the amount of effort put in.

To some extent, it's like the stickers.
The issue has never been the booklet.


It's just you.