Glay

Being an avid listener of J-Rock, naturally I listen to Glay. If you were to check out my zen micro, tracks by Glay were the most listened to even though there are nearly 300+ song in my database. Other J-Rockers like L’arc en ciel, Luna Sea & X-Japan are great but Glay is just simply splendidly unrivalled.

Maybe I am being bias since Glay was my first love. During those days when I am still a virgin to J-Rock, one of my my Indon college classmate introduced me to Glay. He literally shoved his Glay CDs into me. Back then I was still faithfully listening to the J-Pop likes of Speed, Smap & Morning Musume. But one track from Glay was all it took to turn me into a Glay junkie.

The song “Aitai Kimochi” which is in my Friendster profile at the moment, was their first song I listened to. I still remembered painstakingly searching high & low for its lyric in romanji version and printed them out in my college library (that’s because my bro’s expensive printer went busted). History & Economics lectures for the next few weeks were spent memorizing every single words & intonations. For the next few months I would scourge the net for anything “GLAY”. I would type out “GLAY” on Yahoo and actually click on every single finding results. Ok not really every single one but maybe 100 or 200+ of them only.

I also also can recall vividly the day I bought my very first Glay album, Heavy Gauge, at Sembawang Music Centre outlet at Bt Panjang Plaza. One of their track "Winter Again" remains my all time favourite song even up till this day.

Hmm….

Thinking back about it now suddenly made me realized just how freakish I can be back then.

I simply love this song by Glay titled “Happiness”. Don’t be fooled by the titled though, every time I listen to this song it made me feel soooooo sad. Why in the world one would name a song with a super melancholic tune “Happiness” beats the hell out of me. Every time I listen to this song its haunting melody suddenly made me feel so lonely & down. Creepy but ironically enough it made me yearn for more and I kept pressing the “back track” button over & over again. Goodness me man. You just got to check them out at YouTube to understand me.

サラリーマン

I guess I am now living the life of a サラリーマン (sararīman). It is a Japanese term which refered to the average office worker in Japan. Being a サラリーマン is not really living life to the fullest but strangely enough I find fulfillment in the job. I find myself being totally blessed to spend the rest of my N.S days working in higher management level and earning the highest rank & pay obtainable by full time N.S standards.
As one of the typical trait of a サラリーマン, the working hours are long. I reached my work place before 8am every weekday and knocked off tentatively only at 6pm. As always the case, 6pm is just the tentative knockoff timing and I soon found out that on some days it can streched all the way to 8pm. My in-tray always seems to eclipse my out-tray and I always curse when I have to write minutes (regularly it seems) for meetings which can last 3-4 hours long.
The journey back home is also a killer. 14 MRT stations followed by 5 LRT's is like a journey to Lala~Land to meet the Tellytubbies. And its not surprising to say that my social life is also affected as well. For the last 3 months or so I can probably count using my hands the number of old acquaintance (pri sch-mates to fellow Cadets) I have met.
Instead I sought solace through literature and the various electronic gadgets I owned. My Zen micro and Sony PSP are like god-sent & I have devoured quite a number of books so far (something which I have no time for previously).
Call me eccentric or kooky but somehow or another I relish my new found lifestyle. I have read Sputnik Sweetheart, a wonderful novel by Haruki Murakami recently and I find a phrase in the book which I can truly connect with ;

I don't want to bother anyone,

I don't want anyone to bother me too.

Being isolated from the others and in a world of my own, I find this life almost too perfect. I dread the time when school starts again and I have to deal with other forms of lifeforms again. As of now I am living my life to the fullest, every precious seconds of it.