I don’t like baby doll. So when my parent gave me that hard-case-baby-pink-doll with mechanical blink eyes and exasperating cry, I immediately put it away from my bed. It smell bad. I don’t like plastic odor. I felt so upset that they bought me that toy. I thought they knew that I only want a teddy bear doll with soft skin or a little car toy than a rigid, smell, mechanical doll which isn’t hug able like that. I left that doll untouched for days, until one day its mechanical blinks and cry intrigued me.
Why it can blink and cry like that? I flipped the doll up and down and pulled its pacifier ins and outs, over and over to let it blink and cry continuously. I wonder, where did the crying sound come from? I pulled the battery compartment at its back and found a transparent mini disc inside. Then with great wonder, I examined it and saw a soft-white track inside the disc. Could it be a tape trapped inside the disc? Daddy had a lot of cassettes and music came out of it. But where is the head? I know what tape player’s head looked like but there was none like it in the compartment. Or is it possible that the sound stored in all area of the disc? In this transparent area?? How? Is that possible? Where did it hide the sound?
But the little me can’t find any satisfying answer to that. So I kept the mini disc with me wherever I go and admired its magic. A transparent mini disc that hides sound inside it.
