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Once upon a time, someone told me that if you can make one thousand paper crane within a year, your wish will come true.

“One thousand?” I asked. That’s an expensive price to pay just to have your wish granted, isn’t it?

Well, not really. If you look at the task from different point of view, that’s equal to less than three cranes per day. If you can fold three everyday, you’ll finish one thousand before the year is over.

The beginning

The real question is, will your wish really come true? I tried to find out the answer and live up to the challenge back when I had all the time in the world. I failed. I stop after few months at the count of four hundred something. The reason: there was no more paper to fold. (And everybody was complaining about the piles of cranes that invaded their space )

Anyway, that was the beginning of my obsession to origami. Since then I study different models to fold and almost always know what to do with every small piece of scrap paper that I encounter in my spare time.

Paper folding is one of my ways to get temporary bliss within the chaos of everyday life. Shaping the piece of paper into one form will filter out the noise from all around you. But don’t just take my word. You should try this amazing art yourself.

Back in my four hundred paper cranes day, origami sources were hard to find. My only hopes are public libraries or similarly obsessed friend who just got back from abroad. Now things are better. Here are few places that you can visit to start:

1. Origami Club
2. Paper the World
3. Origami dot com

I deliberately put no picture of the sites. Visit them and be surprised.

Image credit: Lok_lok05, Origamiancy

I found this by accident and the simple descriptions is very logical.

Lighten up, guys. Don’t be too serious! ^_^

A man walked into an antique shop and seemed to be fascinated by the big glass display. There were three items which looked like human brain inside it. So, he asked the shopkeeper curiously, “Are these human brains you are selling?”

“Yes, Sir.” The shopkeeper replied. “Rare collectible items if I might add.”

“Really? But the price tag is a bit pricey, don’t you think?”

“Worth every penny.”

“I see. So, whose brain is this?” Asked the man while pointing out to one ‘item’ tagged one hundred thousand dollar.

“That’s Newton’s”

“Newton as in Isaac Newton?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Wow…” The man was more fascinated. He then asked another question, pointing to the second one, “And this one, the one priced at five hundred thousand dollar?”

“Einstein’s”

The man’s jaw dropped. His eyes almost popped out of his head. After a few moments of shocking silence, he speechlessly pointed out the third brain, wondered whose brain was that, expected to hear the greatest name in history of human kind. The third brain was tagged a million dollar.

“That one sir, was my mother in law’s.” Said the shopkeeper.

There’s a long moment of silence.

The man confusedly asked, “Why is your mother in law’s brain more expensive than Einstein’s?”

The shopkeeper answered, “It’s in mint condition, Sir. Never had been used.”