Feb 27, 2008 16:03
I have decided that being an Office Lady is clearly about the most awesome thing imaginable, according to Japanese dramas. While characters talk about hardships of not fitting in the norm, not being promoted and loved, my keen brain enabled me to make the following observations which all contradict the apparent complaints.
So, why is being an OL about the greatest thing in history?
1. You get to wear incredibly pretty clothes and even prettier shoes. In fact, while you/your parents/your friends/the neighborhood’s grocery store’s clerk’s second cousin’s aunt might all worry about your OL unattractiveness, my keen and beady eyes have noted the perfect skin, the gorgeous hair, and the fashionably-thin figure. You are cute enough to be an actress, in fact.
2. Kimura Takuya falls in love with you.
3. You work in adorably designed office space and with sweet, quirky, and cool coworkers. If there are any annoying cows and jerks among them, never fear, triumph shall be yours anyway.
4. Your boss is Fujiki Naohito. Fujiki Naohito moves in with you and then falls in love with you. Did I mention that he is Fujiki Naohito?
5. Whenever you have to pull that workaholic all-nighter, you look bright and fresh in the morning anyway.
6. Kimura Takuya falls in love with you.
7. You can keep Matsujun as your pet.
8. Did I mention that you can spend your days following KAT-TUN boys? Without worries about a restraining order?
9. The temp help is not only bright and useful, but is also damn hot.
10. Younger men find you irresistable.
11. You seem to ferret out the coolest restaurants around, solely for the puposes of hanging out/moping/girl-talking, with all the eating and drinking not making you gain an ounce.
12. The brilliant heir of a tea company shall be smitten with you forever.
13. You never run out of coffee. Or wardrobe space.
14. Kimura Takuya falls in love with you.
15. Kame labors all night in a vineyard to get you a bottle of wine.
16. You have your own theme music.
17. It has not escaped my notice that while you worry about eternal spinsterhood and unattractiveness to men, you inevitably end up with a bit of arm candy so sweet as to give other envious gals diabetes..
17. Since I don’t think I mentioned this before: Kimura Takuya falls in love with you.
Clearly, OL is where it’s at.
doramas,
japan