Monday, February 16, 2009

Vanity, narcissism, or self-derogatory

I woke up one morning sitting on the edge of the bed looking into the cloth cabinet mirror. After a little post-waking up stretching, did some facial exercise while looking at my image. Having done a clean facial shave and just had a close haircut the night before, I thought I resemble a bit like Laurence Fishburne. With a bit more puffed-up face of course. I think it was “in the chin”…
Although I would much prefer to be put alongside the likes of Denzel Washington (since Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt is too far off the mark), Larry’s resemblance is not too bad. Having said that, Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson also come into the picture.
Of course Big Sam is more similar to Laurence Fishburne but it’s “the snow on the head” that made me relate more to Freeman than Jackson. Well, I guess a little too much incidental spilling of talcum powder onto the head when applying it under the armpit could be one of the causes to that.
I did sometimes put on my dark sunglasses at night. (“I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can so I can” - Corey Hart). Anyway, with the dark sunglasses on, had done a Stevie Wonder on the piano giving a rendition of Superstition song. Most people said that I got it right (minus the dreadlock and the full gleaming teeth) but did get a feedback that it turned out to be more like Ray Charles! Haven’t done it yet but at the next opportunity I should try to do a Ray Charles belting out the Great Balls of Fire.
Actually it was a compliment that I was more of a Ray Charles than Stevie Wonder. More macho, you…
Quite far off the mark for any resemblance (on the stomach, maybe) but tried to do a Ron Jeremy last night. I got off the bed to take a bath feeling like the country’s international soccer player after a losing game against Laos.

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