While I was having lunch with Eva at the Faculty Lounge yesterday, I sensed a quiet whirl of attention around the guy at the next table. He looked athletic, tall enough, no question good-looking. And he looked very familiar.

Two to three people (who were clearly smitten by him) kept calling him Aki. I was too preoccupied with the ensuing discussion that the minimum information I absorbed about him was that he ordered the mixed vegetables bowl and pretty much kept to himself, very low-key.

It wasn't until I was on the bus back to LB this morning that I had my belated realization - was Aki at the Faculty Lounge the half-Japanese, half-Brazilian Akihito Sato, a.k.a. the hot model of the moment, a model who was agreeably good-looking and, as one magazine suggested, appealed to all aesthetic preferences?

Turns out I was right. It was Akihito Sato.



This was from a recent modelling gig. But who are kidding? Of course we want the close-up shot.



Wee hee hee.

(Photos courtesy of akihirosato.blogspot.com)