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Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I...
Friday, January 21, 2011 | 12:45 PM | 0 flower(s)
"Ladies and gentlemen, introducing, directly from my mother's womb, New Zealand via the Cook Islands, South Pacific, and Brunei Darussalam...me! The one and only (my fingerprints tell me so); the only one of a kind (my parents can testify)...Mr.Wayne; Sir; Cher; Mohd Wayne; Big Banana; Wayne Robert Stagg. Wayne: My mum's choice to avoid my living a life as 'Leonard'. Robert - my mum again linking me with her middle name, Roberta. And Stagg: my dad's surname. Allow me to speak Ladies and gentlemen, my modesty tucked beneath my arm, myself, here - which you all are now. Be here now... and listen.Exuberant as I am often, especially when in the class room - guessed my occupation yet? - Seemingly confident, I am but a quivering mass of jelly inside. To my Thespian abilities I owe a debt of hiding: giving one appearance to something else hidden inside. Born in that auspicious month named after that great and first autocratic Roman Emperor, Augustus Caesar, the day was 14 and the year that of Presley's height: 1958. I roar - my sign being? - and this astrological fact of life has given me a love for affinity with, creatures feline ever since. Luxuriating, dependent, lazy and forever foraging from the bowl; one who loves indeed to be petted. The domesticated creature and I share a great deal in common - except perhaps in the sleeping department. One of five, the runt of the litter and out seven years behind my next sibling, Colin who flies with Cathay, a kindly dumpling rich man; and another brother 14 years ahead - Graeme, RAF man with a heart of gold and generous to a fault with talk that elicits friends from strangers; and still another (the eldest) 21 years ahead, Brian devout, gentle and modest in his relative poverty; between the latter two and 17 years from my birth my red headed, wonderfully kind but also snarky bending sister, Eleanor. Parents have passed: Ron, a short, brown and balding post office career man with a loquacious tongue sprinkled with many multi-syllable words and phrases; Jean of white hair and by this ostensibly pure natured; a good woman who learned to be good by doing good to others. And what to now? A closing fascination; an interest that has informed my life and shaped it from without, within. Since 5 or 6 I have been a fan of the Fab Four who are in reality? Through Primary School, exploding in High School and entertaining back to these places, days and friends in older age as i am now, the Beatles by their unique music - persuasive melodies and tunes; intellect exercising lyrics and deep mystery: like a single life of immense interest they lived: band as person, not least engaging personalities off who John Lennon won my adoring pop heart - they have moulded, shaped, styled, infused and informed my life. "Look how my abridgements come!" declares Hamlet as he espies the players come to Elsinore. Thus too have the Beatles been my abridgements; helping me cross from one facet of 'this' life, to another of its others. So have you ladies and gentlemen been here now, the words 'be here now' coined by John Lennon to the question; What would you say to people if rock and roll had just been invented where you are? Jelly hidden by a chocolate exterior; and family of oldies which I am youngest - but what does that mean at 52? Missing parents - car keen and philanthropic; and John, Pail, George and Ringo spread across my own universe, let it be, and wanting to hold hands all over again. Here I am, or should I say 'was' Ladies and Gentlemen, since I take my bow and exit the stage left wondering should I be, or not be? That is the question, isn't it? Thank you. Please stay in your seats while I return your ears. PS closing quiz question: which famous Renaissance bard love, me do?" how I wish my English skills met a miracle worker and miraculously exceeded my expectations and had levelled to his. NOW YOU KNOW ... MY ENGLISH TEACHER. :) this is how he would conduct a speech about himself. how awesome is that? p/s: I'll post up mine (this is for homework btw) next time... after I finished it. :p
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