Friday 9 June 2006

Pic of the day: No wonder it didn't fit in the mailbox.

Postal surprise

When I came home from work today, I found a slip in my physical mailbox. The mailman had not been able to deliver a packet because it was too large for the box.

I was like what?? because the only box I expected was 2 CDs from CDJapan.co.jp, my trusty source of anime soundtracks and general Jpop. I buy these although I could just have downloaded them on the Net. It is expensive but still within my working-class income, and it's not like I buy these every week. Perhaps five a year or so. This was one of the few cases that I had ordered two (the intro and end soundtracks for Kage Kara Mamoru and Aa! Megami-sama ~ sorezore no tsubasa). I wondered if somehow they had made the package twice as big as for a single CD, which seemed like horrible overkill, as there would be room for a dozen or so of them in one.

It was indeed the CDs from Japan. As you can see on today's picture (which incidentally was taken tomorrow, as I fell asleep in the afternoon today again), that was a very long package for two CDs! I had a suspicion on seeing it, and of course was proved right. There was a poster in it. Unfortunately it is a big poster of the singer Yoko Ishida, who is cute enough but ... it would just feel creepy to have a poster of a real woman on my wall, don't you think? Like I was a kind of stalker or obsessive fan. I did not even recognize her name, and would surely not have looked repeatedly if I had met her in the street. Well, she is kinda cute, but given the fierce competition here, she just doesn't stack up. Particularly the recent influx of black girls are incredibly good-looking, but the locals are also top notch.

OK, back to the matter at hand. The CDs have come, and a poster I did not ask for. Yay. If they had not sent the poster, even more yay. There is probably a lesson to be learned from this. Like "less is better", in which case I better stop now...