Hi. How are ya?
I'm good myself, little tired but I'm ok.
So anyhoo, here in Japan convenience stores (heaps of those here!) sell toys kinda like Kinder Surprise but only better. For example
Thunderbirds toys, mini diecast cars, Ultraman toys, etc.
And they usually come with some kind of sweet stuff like a couple of chocolates (called choco here), or just some plain sweets.
Collecting these toys which are in a series, 'collect all 12', is big business 'cause Japanese people just love collecting junky toys. And what these companies do is make one of the toys in the series rare so that people keep on buying their product until they get the complete set (you don't know what you have bought until you open the box you see)...crafty huh?!
Anyhoo, recently I bought one of these junky toys. It was a New Thunderbirds plastic model of TB1...very nicely made model, and made in China of course. And inside the box along with the model was a sachet of some blue powder. 'Groovy' I thought, 'some kind of powder candy'. So I tasted a little sample of it and it turned out to be washing powder!
Now is that weird or not! I didn't know it was washing powder 'cause the sachet was all in Japanese. Or more specifically, kanji (Chinese characters), which is a turkey of a written language to read.
Ah the kids of today...not satisfied with candy, they need washing powder...damn straight they do!
Yeah, so that's my story eh.
Nice talkin' to ya.
Bye then.