My favorite kimono gets fifth place!

Kimono Salone organized a kimono exhibition in Coredo Muromachi in the weekend. They had a poll of visitors to determine which kimono ends up as an overall favorite. My personal favorite was number 65 that discreetly exhibited a musical theme and the kimono ended up as number five in the overall competition. I am proud I have acquired a bit of taste in the Japanese sense of beauty :)

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Where will you get a good TV?

I am looking at the reports for TV sales for the last quarter of the last year comparing it to the previous year. What most analysts are interested in is the amount of shipments and how good LCD compared to other technologies is doing and why there is a little decline in TV shipments and things like that.

I am looking at it and I am feeling very sad. Here is why. The best TV manufacturers are historically Japanese. We may argue about it all day long but you would never call a Sony TV set “bad”, would you? Same goes for Sharp. The best two manufacturers of TVs in history of flat panels. And so I am very sad to see how they keep shrinking away under the pressure of their cheap-junk-TV competition. Sad, sad story. Where will you get your TV in 10 years if all you will have is junk, eh?

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