From Girlybubble: What the heck, it’s an orgy of stuffed pandas all coalesced to a chair? Now that’s something you don’t see everyday, and nor will you ever. More »

From Girlybubble: How this is any different from Post-Valentine’s Day Hello Kitty gifts to yourself, I haven’t the slightest idea. All I know is, there’s a lot of time and cute Hello Kitty stuff coming out between now and the next Valentine’s Day. In fact, there really isn’t a reason why to be specific about when to get yourself Hello Kitty gifts. You and Hello Kitty are worthy, year-round. Below is a few of my favorite picks of the Hello Kitty stuff litter: More »

From Girlybubble: The Rirakkuma travel passport organizer is something I definitely need in my life right now. In the past few years, I’ve become something of a jetsetter — not because I’m living the high life or anything. For some reason or another, a reason to travel always comes up whether I like it or not. So far, the reasons have been good. What’s not good is that I set back every airport traveler behind me a few minutes because I’m always the irritating person who’s fumbling for a boarding pass or an ID. More »

From Girlybubble: Meet Mamegoma, San-X’s bean seal. You might ask what a bean seal is, and I’ll tell you. It’s a bean-shaped seal. I know, such a tough concept to grasp, but when you feast your eyes on the cuteness that is Mamegoma, you’ll understand all that is bean seal. More »

From Girlybubble: What was supposed to be an Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday as Princess Ann appreciation post has now turned into me coming across Korea’s version of the Blythe Doll, the Pullip doll. So far to my knowledge, there exists three Audrey Hepburn Pullip dolls, a Breakfast at Tiffany’s Holly Golightly doll, a Sabrina doll and a Roman Holiday Princess Ann doll. More »

This is a cool looking themed shelf and table designed after Nintendo’s Mario’s world. More »

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From Girlybubble: Japanese illustrator Mokaffe really loves combining two of the things I love the most into her illustrations: dessert and girly art! A lot of my favorite works by her involve dessert. Not that you’re surprised or anything. For the record, I’ll have you know that I do not drool over my laptop all day or lick my screen all day. You might want to restrain yourself when you see these babies: More »

A man in Hong Kong who has been fed up with living in cramped places, decided to make a home where you can literally transform the rooms. More »

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How do you eat potato chips and use the keyboard at the same time? This question has plagued computer uses since the computer was first invented over 200 years ago in German. In fact some of the first computer cards ever made were stained with chip grease by the early programers. Luckily the Japanese have a solution. More »

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Japan is known for their unique love hotels. What’s a love hotel you ask? Well, it’s a hotel especially made for couples to have some alone time to do things lovers do (I’ll leave that to your imaginations). More »

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Scandinavian furniture store Ikea is releasing a new line called CHARLOTTA. It will contain designs by Åsa Ekström, whose influences come from manga. More »

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Even though cats have destroyed more Japanese homes than anyone cares to admit (that’s what you get for making your walls out of paper!) the Japanese just can’t get enough. Which is why I’m about to fill your daily cup of ‘cute’ until it overflows. More »

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From Girlybubble: I must admit, I love dressing up my tissue boxes/rolls up, but it’s not like a daily thing I do. I’ve had this little guy up here for so long that one of his eyes came out (which explains the tiny heart sticker patch haha). Although I don’t collect tissue covers, I like giving them out as gifts. If you’re looking for something fun and quirky to give to someone, I think these are perfect (the reasonably priced ones at least). More »

The idea that Japanese homes are small is a bit wrong. Japanese homes and apartments located within big cities are small (and expensive!). The real untold story in Japan is about their really weird sized and shaped home. For example this really skinny house. More »

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ABPOS is a chronic condition in which too many awesome blog posts get blogged from the previous week. So many, that they can’t fit on the main page. It helps if you take the load off by checking them out. More »

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Say what you will about Japanese pop culture, but you have to admit that Japan has a long history of producing very talented artisans and craftsmen. Now what I enjoy is when someone combines (the rather soul sucking) modern pop culture with traditional artwork, producing something insane. Like what you’d get if you painted all 150 Pokemon in a more traditional style. More »

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Besides my ongoing series on the impending “Robot Rebellion,” I’ve also been taking time to point out the brewing “Giant Robot Statue Cold War” that’s going on in Asia right now. Before it was just Japan and Korea, but it seems Taiwan has just entered the race. More »

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From Girlybubble: Korean artist Jin Young Yu is a woman who prefers to be a homebody instead of going out. When she does go out, she likes to remain unnoticed. Her haunting work mirrors her quiet personality. Her translucent sculptures represent “invisible people” who blend in with their environment to “climb into a space of their own and reject other people’s intrusion.” More »

Tired of a snowman being the best your local winter has to offer? Well why not take a trip to chilly Asia and see what kind of snow and ice insanity is being built over here. If you like Chinese food you probably want to head on over to Harbin, China for the 26th Annual Snow and Ice Festival. It’s where you can see crazy things like the picture above. More »

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If you like to drive out of the ordinary cars, or like to ride shotgun, or even just watch them in action, this is my gift to you. Toyota has been a long standing name in the automotive industry since it’s inception. It represents style, performance and reliability and it looks as if Toyota striving to keep that reputation. Pictured above is the creator of MR2s himself, “MR2 creator guy” (let’s just stick with that, his name is Hiromu Naruse but it doesn’t sound as cool). More »

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