I'm feeling a bit better now after two days of slight fever and colds. I went out with my family to do some pre-Christmas shopping. We also visited the small Macau exhibit at the Podium since we're planning to go out-of-the-country hopefully toward the end of this month.
Since I don't have the luxury of time to enroll myself in photography classes, I invest on some reading materials in the mean time. I bought three books on photography - The Digital Photographer's Notebook by Kevin Ames, The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby and Photos: Style Recipes by David Matheson et al. I just realized that I got a good set. They all serve as manuals for the different stages of imaging. I have one for the shooting, for the post-production, and finally for making the photographs pieces of art. I can't wait to get my hands on them and start gaining those photography knowledge.
Disclaimer: If you have a colorful imagination or find morbid thoughts offensive, I suggest that you do not, I repeat, DO NOT CONTINUE READING THIS ENTRY. Don't tell me I didn't warn you. :)
We also started looking around for potential Christmas gifts especially for the kids. As I was browsing around the toy store, I was reminiscing the days I was a kid and wanted lots of toys. Most of them, I got. My day-dreaming was cut short by two dolls that I chanced upon. Toys today are getting weirder and weirder. For example, would you get your child a doll that's called BABY ALIVE?!
As I read the details on the box, It became clear to me how it got its name. According to the label, it "really 'eats' her doll food and 'poops'! What?! Did I read that correctly? I suggest that if you're getting your child the BABY ALIVE doll to grant yourself a reprieve from parenting duties, you better think again. This doll sounds more like a responsibility. How on earth can you expect a child to clean up after the mess of this lifeless (oh I'm sorry, lifelike) piece of plastic?! Don't tell me this doll won't stop screaming until you feed it its "doll food"! Not far from the display rack where a number of Baby Alive dolls were situated, I found the disposable diapers AND juice mix for this doll from hell. Manufacturers really come up with "cool" ways to earn profit.
I thought I was done with creepy dolls, but NO! A few minutes after, I see another doll as creepy as the previous one. Though I wasn't able to get the name (I didn't bother to), I took a picture of it:
If the other one acts like a real baby, this one "looks and feels like a real baby." Wouldn't that be like touching a dead baby?! I'm sorry for the gruesome allusion, but I just don't find it cute. Wait a minute. If it looks like a real baby and feels like a real baby, was it made from a real baby?! Waaaaah! With all these dolls, looks like Chuckie Doll is doing a comeback! I better end this post before I regrettably stir up imaginations.
I told you do not continue reading this post. Hehehe!
I better sleep now. I'm scheduled for a check-up in a few hours.
