Water Balloon

Yes, water balloon. One of the most famous games in a park party or beach party are used by water balloons. Water balloon are used as a grenade like that you throw to people for the game called water balloon fight. Some use a launching device for long range attacks. The design of the water balloon hasn't changed since its first launch of the products. The inventor of this product marketed as a water grenade for children to use instead of violence. The water balloon are made up of latex like plastic that are fragile if hit into a hard surface.  Water Balloons are usually smaller than regular air balloon if it was inflated.

In my opinion, I am impress to the one who invented this product. I can say it was a success since everyone in all ages uses water. Although, when playing water balloon fight, you got to have sportsmanship. People these days uses water balloons as one of their pranks. In conclusion, this is a must buy for those people looking for a game for their party.

Christmas Parol (Christmas Lantern)

Its a tradition for Filipino people to have a Parol or Christmas Lantern every Christmas. You rarely see Filipino house that has no Christmas Lantern. Parol is an ornament usually star shaped decoration that represents the star that was seen by the three kings before Jesus Christ was born. It symbolizes as the victory of light over darkness and its a superstition of having a good Christmas when you have it somewhere around your house. Parol are usually made up of bamboo and paper called Japanese paper. People make different sizes of parol. I have seen Parol with regular paper and I also have seen parol with Christmas Lights around it to lighten it up like a star. It was originated in 1928 and was made by Francisco Estanislao. Back in the day, Parol are just shaped as a simple star with Japanese paper covering the bamboo shaped star. In the new era Parol, the materials range from plastic, shells, glass, beads, foil, feathers, hemp, leaves, seeds, soft drinks straws, wood and even metal. As I have mentioned above, they have incorporated Christmas lights inside or outside the Parol.

The design perspective has grown so much since the original product. Some designers included the parol to be part of what the Philippine people called dancing Christmas Lights. Also sometimes, there are competition of who has the largest or the most beautiful parol in the country. In my opinion, I love the Parol idea just to pay up respect to the Filipino tradition. I also like the idea how it makes a certain house beautiful when it has Parol as a decoration.

RubixCube

I consider rubik's cube one of the most annoying toy ever. I am very bitter about it because I couldn't solve it. Rubiks cube was introduced to me by my cousin about 8-9 years ago and until now I have no idea what the technique is to solve it.

Since I couldn't solve this toy, I did a little research about it. Rubiks cube is a 3-D puzzle like toy. Its original name is called "magic cube" by a Hungarian sculptor. This was made by a professor named Erno Rubix to teach students about 3D-art. As years pass by, it was nominated as the toy puzzle of the year in the 80's and also was named the most top selling puzzle game by 2009.

A Rubik's Cube consist of 6 sides that has different color every side. The colors that is involved in that cube are red, blue, yellow, green, white and orange. The game works by pivoting and enables it to turn independently to match the right color in each side. Many has been successful in solving the cube and many have been annoyed and stop trying to solve it. Some people took it to the next level by joining every single contest or tournament to see how fast each contestant can solve the Rubik's Cube.

In conclusion, I like the rubiks cube idea. It helps a person's problem solving skills but beware as it will get annoying and very frustrating if you cannot figure out how to solve it. So for those people who gives up fast like me, don't buy the product but if you love solving problem and thinking hard to solve it then this is a must buy for you.

FujiFilm Instax Mini 8 Polaroid Camera

Wow. Just Wow. Besides my DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, Instax Mini 8 Polaroid  was one of my favorite camera ever made. Let me explain a little information I know about Instax Mini 8 polaroid. First of all, it is a shoot and print type of camera. It is an instant develop print like an old school polaroid camera. This camera are ideally for hipster people only. Although some people who are not hipster has it as well.  This camera also brings back the old day where it can be printed to a retro picture look.

This camera has various type of color. So far I have seen, yellow, green, white, pink, blue  and of course black. Maybe there are other colors that I haven't seen before. Fujifilm designed a couple of Instax Mini in the past. This version, the Instax Mini 8 is a little bit slimmer than the old Instax models. Around the lens area, you can be able to adjust how bright or dark the background will be. Also, like regular cameras Instax Mini 8 needs battery to be able to work.

There are five different exposure to choose from; indoor nights, cloudy that has shade, Sunny but slight cloudy and lastly sunny and bright. Fuji Film also added "High key mode" where I can shoot photos with higher brightness and a softer atmosphere. In this camera, trial and error is not a good idea because it cannot be edited once the picture is being printed out and most likely the expensive film will be wasted.

In conclusion, I say this is a must buy. It is very simple to use but you will have to understand it very well to perfect it. Although, this is an expensive toy its a great experience to have it with you when you go to beautiful places to take pictures. The camera itself cost around 80-100 dollars but the film are more expensive if you calculate all the expenses you will have to spend in the future. The film cost 15-20 dollars for 10 shoot of film only. Other than that, if you want to turn back the time and try how it feels to have a retro perspective once again, this is a cool toy to have.

Ukelele

Most of the people spells this instrument as "Ukelele" but its really spelled as "Ukulele." Although it works either way. I am that type of person who loves music from an instrument but I don't have the talent to learn it. Ukulele is in the family of musical instrument with strings but this one only has four strings play for. Its tune sounds like a guitar but Ukulele has a little bit of high pitch than guitar. Also, Ukulele usually are a lot smaller than a guitar. Most of the people assume that this instrument originally came from Hawaii because of all the movies and commercial with the instrument but it is originally from Portugal.

 

Ukulele are usually made out of wood but in some cases plastics are mixed as their materials used to make this product. Ukulele price range about 50-100 dollar depending on the quality of it and the sound. I personally like this better than a guitar because of how it sounds. It calms/relax me down whenever my girlfriend plays it. Also, It can be carried anywhere and would not be worrying about the weight of it.

Pop Funko NBA collectibles

Funko Pop are just made for collection purposes only. As a NBA fan, I wanted to have this as my collection. The funko pop company not only have nba action figure but many other characters as well. They made a replica look alike in every sports player, anime characters, celebrities, cartoons. Funko made all of its characters have a bigger head proportions than usual figures. Also, funko are known for toy collectibles to have a dark circle black eyes. Each figures stands 3.5 inches tall and all have same stand up basic pose with the figures arm at the sides and holding a basketball on their right arms. Not only they try to make a replica look alike of each player but also have their designated team/team color, name and jersey number. These two figures shown were one of the first batch of funko pop nba released by the company. The company only made top players of the nba as their first batch of collectibles to see if sells big. These figures can only be found in some comic stores but most of the time it only sells on ebay or any other online stores. Each figures only sells for 10 dollars or less. I think this is a must buy for those people who are nba fans and would like to have their favorite player in their collections. There are 18 Funko Pop collectibles at the moment so you "gotta catch them all."