Friday, November 05, 2004
Mika Nakashima

Now,isn't this a lovely sight or what?I wanted to download it onto my mobile as my wallpaper but the size was evidently too large (either that or the format wasn't "supported".Whatever that means.) so I couldn't get it done.Her name is Mika Nakashima but more on that later.This is only the second time I am posting directly from the office this week...because obviously it's a Friday.And Friday is no-work day.Let me get a couple of things out of the way first.

Prof X has/is going to tender his resignation as he has (finally) found a greener pastures outside in the form of a good-paying job at HSBC.Congratulations to him and his newfound position. and financial clout.Goodbye to knocking off at 6 and playing X-Box at home.Such is the life of private sector executives.may our paths cross again sometime in the future.So another one bites the dust.And the number of familiar allies grows thinner and thinner as The Brotherhood slowly takes over.I still have not talked to any of them.I don't intend to really.My annual report actually requires me to liaise with them and Dazzler had asked me how come this year I haven't approached them.Well...

Anyway,this again leaves me demoralised for the rest of the week(lucky it's already the end of this particular 7 days).How did that old man,Prof X,do it before me?By all accounts,actually he's being much more proactive than me in looking for jobs and has more connections.But when the news came,it still came as a major surprise.But Psylocke must be much more depressed than me in any case.It seems everyone who sits beside her leaves after a while.Summer Breeze and now Prof X.I told her to speak more to Sabretooth and she gave me a wide-eyed look.Hmmm,so the new and old fraternities still ain't exactly on buddy-buddy terms eh.Comes as no surprise.

Job satisfaction is an all-time low at the moment.Prof X is gone.I can't find anywhere to go.The reports I write are about as valuable as toilet paper.I told Jubilee that I'd much rather be doing something tangible right now.A shipping logsitics executive,for example,gets satisfation from a job well-done supplying his vessels with all necessities for its crew and the efficient and correct loading and unloading of goods.A marketing executive gets his satisfation from a marketing campaign well-executed with desired outcomes achieved.A celaning lady gets satisfation from scrubbing a toilet bowl clean enough to use as a mirror.Me?I write my reports and gets it put onto the intranet...and then...nothing...that's that.What's the value in that?Sometimes my inputs get published and dispersed throughout the organisation...only to get feedback that we wrote a "funny little book".Hahah...damn.

Dazzler gave me a dying plant the other day and told me to try and nurse it back to health.But looking at the shrivelling organism,it seems obvious to me that I wouldn't make a decent botanist...or farmer.In all fairness,when she handed the plant to me,the plant was like half-dead.Probably only Jesus could have resurrected it.I tried my best though but hey,don't follow the things I do.I put at my window to ensure that it got all the sunlight it needs but to no avail.The plant hardly looked any better.Looking at and touching the plant,I could feel the thing drying up.So I watered it...again and again and again...until the whole thing is practically immersed in water.Woah.Too much of a good thing can kill you evidently.It's now about 3/4 dead now and is waiting for rigor mortis.I didn't mean to kill you,plant,don't come and look for me in my dreams.

Hey back to my Mika.I think Colossus and Jubilee is acutely aware of my obssession with this Japanese lass.Colossus tried to throw me off by saying thatshe's pretty but not gorgeous lah.What the...of course,she's gorgeous,you mad X-Man.Any blind man could tell you that.But my obssession might be getting the better of me.I have her on as my PC wallpaper in the office and as my wallpaper in my phone.I don't have her song as my ringtone though.That's Bolero.Better than Jang Nara anyday.Right,Jubilee?

I haven't really talked about why I like Mika.Ok,one thing is obvious,I find her gorgeous so that's one reason.Another thing is that her songs are really good.Most of them.She does jazz and R&B and fuses together in a way that I can't really find in any other Japanese or Chinese artistes.In fact,which other Japanese/Chinese females singer does jazz?I can't think of a single person.I hear that Joi Chua does jazz but I have not heard her songs as yet so I can't comment.Most are engrossed in this hip hop/R&B/rock/dance obssession that sounds all too samey to the ear nowadays.I applaud anyone who dare to do something different.Like Joi Chua with her folk/jazz leanings.Kit Chan tried to do lounge as well.Hmmm,how come they're all local?

From what I read,Mika also has a strong personality.Ooooh,that's lovely.Apparently,she gave up her studies because she was clear very early on that what she wanted to do was sing and she worked hard at it until she got what she wanted.A clear focus and direction.Isn't that wonderful or what?She's apparently also very clear about the genres she wants to do.So nice.

Wait a second,I am swooning like a love-struck puppy.What am I doing???Oh,by the way,just now as I was typing,Banshee suddenly swooped down into my cubicle and started flipping through a stack of old newspaper that doesn't hold any relevant information for him.What was he doing?Spying on me?What does he know that I don't know he knows?What does he know that i don't know?Am I paranoid?Do I need medication?Yes,I do.

Oh,back to Mika...Jubilee pointed out one thing to me,that Mika looks like Elva Hsiao,another of my favourite girls.I disagreed at first but after observing for a while,I have to concede,they do look alike from certain angles.I seem obssessed with petite girls with small eyes(Mika is only 1.60m tall and weighs gasp...40kg).It's a sub-conscious thing.I probably just tend to look out for them without my knowing it.But doesn't mean I'd end up with one.

Rogue is away for the afternoon for some kind of pre-retreat thingy for my department.Great great great great great.Life in an ungoverned state is bliss.But boring.As can be seen from the fact that I don't have too many interesting things to write about besides Mika Nakashima...swooon.