The next time you're at National Bookstore check out the Kaisiqi metal puzzles (only PhP 25). They've devoted (at least in the branch I went to) an entire island to the toys, so it's pretty hard to miss.
There are about ten different puzzles-- basically 2 identical pieces of stubbornly interlocked and hopelessly tangled hardened steel in various shapes (I bought the one that look like a pair of eights for infinity and beyond!). They look deceptively easy and innocent enough, but I'm wrong.
I wish I could tell you the secret of how to solve the Kaisiqi puzzle, but I've locked and unlocked the damn thing about ten times already and I still can't get the underlying principle. I twist and turn nonchalantly and the whole thing comes off on its own accord. When I concentrate all my powers, the metal pieces stays impossibly tangled.
Sometimes I think I'm just tugging. Must exercise the right brain hemisphere more.
There's one thing though: the Kaisiqi puzzles are made in China. It may mean nothing, but history has taught us that the poisonous melamine in milk came from China, that China-made toys were tainted with lead, and quite recently, Chinese rice has been deliberately faked by contaminating it with plastic resin.
At the back of my evil hypochondriac mind, I'm thinking the damn metal puzzles are tainted with radioactive material. Which is why they're so cheap. Every time I toy with it for a couple of minutes, I have to go to the faucet to wash my hands feverishly--which, should the metal toys prove to be radioactive after all, I know is quite pointless
Actually, the very chair we're sitting on can contain some radioactive material, as do the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the consumer products we buy. I wonder how do we know whether something has unsafe levels of radioactivity. I'm dying (pun intended) to have the Kaisiqi toys tested, and if they're clear then I'll buy the entire series and wrap it up for Christmas, never mind if it's still nine months away. If we happen to share some kind of affinity and you're reading this, then you already know what you're getting.
P.S. I'm uninspired. I should have have watched Disney's Tangled.
There are about ten different puzzles-- basically 2 identical pieces of stubbornly interlocked and hopelessly tangled hardened steel in various shapes (I bought the one that look like a pair of eights for infinity and beyond!). They look deceptively easy and innocent enough, but I'm wrong.
I wish I could tell you the secret of how to solve the Kaisiqi puzzle, but I've locked and unlocked the damn thing about ten times already and I still can't get the underlying principle. I twist and turn nonchalantly and the whole thing comes off on its own accord. When I concentrate all my powers, the metal pieces stays impossibly tangled.
Sometimes I think I'm just tugging. Must exercise the right brain hemisphere more.
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Did I tell you they're just PhP 25? I should have bought two then, or three, or four (they'd make perfect Christmas gifts--I can go like, Here, I have a gift for you. Go knock yourself out). The solitary puzzle I bought is still puzzling as hell, so it's pretty safe to assume this Kaisiqi will pay for itself for the months to come. In other words, sulit.There's one thing though: the Kaisiqi puzzles are made in China. It may mean nothing, but history has taught us that the poisonous melamine in milk came from China, that China-made toys were tainted with lead, and quite recently, Chinese rice has been deliberately faked by contaminating it with plastic resin.
At the back of my evil hypochondriac mind, I'm thinking the damn metal puzzles are tainted with radioactive material. Which is why they're so cheap. Every time I toy with it for a couple of minutes, I have to go to the faucet to wash my hands feverishly--which, should the metal toys prove to be radioactive after all, I know is quite pointless
Actually, the very chair we're sitting on can contain some radioactive material, as do the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the consumer products we buy. I wonder how do we know whether something has unsafe levels of radioactivity. I'm dying (pun intended) to have the Kaisiqi toys tested, and if they're clear then I'll buy the entire series and wrap it up for Christmas, never mind if it's still nine months away. If we happen to share some kind of affinity and you're reading this, then you already know what you're getting.
P.S. I'm uninspired. I should have have watched Disney's Tangled.
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