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Mari-Brand

semi-x-posted at Tachikomatic Days.



I headed down to BasheerCityRoom today with Sim in order to catch PlushismxMari-Brand's exhibition: Lush Plush Express.

It was fairly empty when we got there - in terms of both personages and plushes - cleaned out by overzealous zakka lovers I supposed and we ooh-ed and ah-ed over the lovely handmade goodies.

Mari-san was engrossed in making little Chikus (rabbit-birds) when we arrived so we initially contented oursevles with just puttering around and squee-ing over the sheer cuteness of her works. I didn't bring a camera along so no pictures of the place. D:

We finished picking ou the apples that we wanted (I WANT MOAR) and I picked out a Chiku and two postcards (I WANT MOAR) and then we wanted to pay. So I apprehensively went up to Mari-san and asked if we could pay.

She's the most adorable and humblest and nicest person ever - I don't think my frazzled mind can come up with a suitable adjective for her in the English language. After telling us that she can't speak English, I tried to speak to her in Japanese which er sadly kept on alternating between polite and casual forms and got the usual "your Japanese is very good!" from her. XDXDXD So I did the "ahhh no it still has a long way to gooo" reply (my computer is down, using another computer so no JP IME so TRANSLATED ENGLISH FOR NOW).

While she was making the invoices out, I chatted with her a bit! She asked me if I studied Japanese and I replied that I was studying it at the moment and etc, I told her how adorable her ringos were and then she asked if I'd been to Japan to which I very happily replied "YES! 5 TIMES!"

Actually I don' think I've been there five times. Four actually. I think. I can't remember. Not enough, though. XD

And she replied with honest amazement and a tinge of bemusement "5 times!! That's great!!" She asked me which parts of Japan I'd been to and I told her etcetc... Then I found out that she lived in Tokyo to which I said "Sugoi desu ne~~" which might have meant "you're awesome for living there (high costs, rate of being successful)" or "ahh tokyo's a wonderful place" - ah the ambiguities of Japanese - and she stated the town/area she stayed in (which I forgot, which might be good because people might stalk here LOL) and asked me if I knew where it was.

She also asked if Singapore had these kinds of zakka-ya (zakka shops) and I said, "not really O:". I'm sure we don't have many, if any at all. If we do, please enlighten me!

Oh man, talking to her was really nice. It made up for my horrible show at this afternoon's Japanese 2 skit presentation. I'm happy that I understood what she said and most importantly, she understood everything I was saying! Which means that something must be going right!

So anyway, we went and paid for our purchases and said good bye (FULL BOW FROM HER OMG) and left very happy people!

HERE'S MY BAG OF LOVELY ZAKKA.



Some huge images behind the cut. Not dial-up friendly!
( Ringo~ Ringo~ Ringo~ Ringo~ Ringo, daikazoku! )

I'm trying to wrangle more people into going down with me this Sunday before she leaves and before the exhibition closes so I can coughbuymoreplushescough say goodbye to Mari-san and take a few photos of the place and with her! :DDD I want to leave her a note too!

You can still visit Mari and Mari-Brand until Sunday! Details are on the above poster! Please do consider taking a look. She's a lovely person and her kind and meticulous personality certainly shows through her painstaking work!