Yu-chan no Megane

Well, it comes as no surprise for those of you familiar with the school system here in Singapore. It’s the last day of the holidays and while I feel some lingering need to prolong it, I’d much rather get my much-needed rest.

So much for blogging more during the holidays. Heh.

The brief break from the kids was decent enough and I must say I’m looking forward to seeing them again. Though I’m not really pleased about the mountain of work that I know we must complete together. I’ve resolved not to complain, however, and to speak blessings upon literally everything around me so… slap me if I degenerate into a pile of grumbling animal defecation. ;)

In other news, while I wasn’t part of the initial tide of downloaders for the latest release of the anticipated Firefox 3 (that might’ve garnered a World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours, apparently), I did eventually get wind of its availability. So here I am typing this in the latest release of my favourite browser (after Safari, of course) and the experience has been stellar so far. There’s also a smorgasbord of add-ons available for it.

And as usual, I’ve been catching up with anime. That’s old news.

In a final note, I shall leave you with an adorable screenshot of two high school girls from my favourite anime, Ouran High School Host Club, going gaga over the Hitachiin twins.

Kyaaaaaa! Life’s just so exciting when you’re filthy rich and literally do nothing but be entertained by bishounen all day! Especially excessively loving twins!

Be blessed, those of you who chance upon this blog! May you receive fruitfulness in every conceivable area of your life.

I’ve been working on another post the past two weeks, but that has barely made it past a few lines, so in the meantime, I’ll wax lyrical on my latest obsession, Kimura Takuya.

Rather, Kimura Takuya in cheesy Gatsby ads.

Let’s put it this way, I don’t really know who Kimura Takuya is or what he does despite my love for JEntertainment (JDoramas and JPop, I suppose), but whatever it is, I’m pretty sure he’s better known for his Gatsby ads.

For those of you not in the know, Gatsby is a brand of beauty products for men. Well, if that isn’t an oxymoron… Anyway, hair wax, hair colour, deodorant, etc etc. So, the reasonably pretty Kimura is the main focus of these ads with the ridiculously funny jingle (you’ll hear it shortly), while using these products with complete abandon. And I do mean complete abandon.

That’s his ad for the Gatsby Biocore Deodorant Spray. Almost convinces you that you’ve got to have it. Although, my primary observation would be that it’s such a counterproductive way to keep yourself smelling fresh.

If you’ve got the time, check out the ads at the Gatsby website. They load pretty quickly so you can watch the 30s ones which are double the hilarity.

Kimura’s ads are so popular that there are spoofs out there, like this one. (I’d embed the YouTube vid here, but unfortunately my plugin doesn’t allow me to post more than one video per post. I’ll work on it.)

While I did spend some time converting the ads into nice little videos to watch on my phone, that spoof above operates on a totally different level of Pathetic.