Good Lord. These are the yoyos that Luke Skywalker plays with. That cost as much as Han Solo's ransom too.

My second stop was the provision shop downstairs. They had the clone of the Super Yoyo, also coincidentally called, Super Yoyo. The packaging was the same and it had the picture of the main character, Shunichi

Isaac was very specific about which Super Yoyo he wanted. It had to be Shunichi and preferably blue.

This is a boy who has trouble remembering his ting xie (Chinese spelling) but can remember a Japanese anime character's name.

I stood at the provision shop looking at the pirated, er, OEM version of the Shunichi Super Yoyo, nestled amongst the fake Pokemon cards and the Changing Robot (a.k.a. Fake Transformers) toys, and wondered.

"Should I get this one, which costs $4.90, or should I get the original one, at $24.90?"

Crucial life decisions indeed

In the end, I decided that my boy was too short to play a yoyo effectively anyway, and he was not planning to go professional any time soon (maybe after Primary 3), so the $4.90 cheapo edition would do.