To be precise, how many people do we need at the end of the cashier?

In Big Bazaar, a large supermarket for middle-class consumers in India. At the end of the cashier found three boys waiting to pack my groceries in a bag. Note that they do not deal with any cash, as there was another lady to take care of that.

How many people do we need to fulfill a task and how are tasks distributed?

For the past two three years, there has been a trend of purchasing a canvas-cloth shopping bags in Japan, in order to reduce number of plastic bags handed out from the retail. People call them as Mai-Baggu, which is literally meaning my bag.

While such a superficial excuse goes around to encourage us to buy another bag, there’s a complete eco system we can find here in the market of Bangalore. Vegetables are brought in with these bags made out of shredded vinyl. Once emptied, they are folded and put together for the next use. It shows that what we need is some kind of a standards to define the specification of the bags so any bag will function the same manner. Perhaps it is also about abandoning your ownership towards the bag. Which lets you to settle with any of the bags you can have in your hand.

Having that in mind, perhaps the Japanese should think whether doing this Mai-Baggu campaign really makes sense. If it does not, then the next thing that needs considering is are we ready to sacrifice the sense ownership in the name of sustainability.

Early this year in Japan, there was a great dispute about one of the Olympic athletes and their ethics on how they should wear uniforms. A teenage snowboard player has worn the national uniform pants so loose that his boxers showed. I did not quite see it as a big issue, it seems like awfully a common thing to do. But some people found this very offensive and considered as a shame for the nation. He had to publicly apologize on TV a few days after his departure from Japan. He was crying and seemed shocked of the influence he has had.

Artifacts we wear or use, their have presumptions on how we use the items and how we should wear them. Wearing them so loose means that you are trying to stretch the way of use beyond those presumptions. And this sign, is often considered unconventional and results in raising eyebrows of some.

Now, I have seen in many countries where boys wear their uniform pants loose with their boxers exposed; Recently in Bangalore, I have seen teenage boys on the street obviously on the way to school wearing their backpacks loose. Now their bag containers were dangling and they did not look quite comfortable carrying that way. I am assuming that the only explanation I could find is that they are trying to take this ‘loose wearing’ their own way. Could my interpretation be true? Or was there any sign I’ve missed?

As we encountered several blackouts in Bangalore, I realized a large noise of the motor running outside every now and then. The motor shows that whether it is a light or a microwave using, the electricity is something that is generated and provided locally, and should be spared.

Some things, should remain noisy.