Continuation of the Journey

You see , I was the baby of the family. In the house, I'll be the servant. Helping mom folding the clothes; my sister paid me 50 cents to wash her gigantic shoes size 7! my eldest brother Steven asking me to help him like holding the hose when he was cleaning the aquarium; my second brother Ivan asking for scissors or anything else; I'll be their servant. The boy that obeyed everything, right down to the level of the maid! Haha! :)

I was like Oliver Twist in Charles Dicken's book. I pictured myself as Mark Lester. When I saw Oliver! The movie on TV ...it was part of the Dunhill Film Festival on TV2. I told myself, " I want to be an actor like Mark someday!" Famous and handsome and all the girls will be running after me for an autograph! :)

I remembered sitting on the toilet and singing "Where is Love?" pretending to be Mark! I wished I knew him personally. He had a voice of an Angel. From then on, I started fantasising about becoming a child actor in Hollywood! I wanted to become Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone!, Elijah Wood from Forever Young, Joseph Mazello from The Cure, Max Pomeranc from Searching for Bobby Fischer; Hal Scardino from the Indian in the Cupboard....etc

I was in love with films! Free Willy 1993. I watched it with Penny in the old Federal Cinema. I was so excited I bought the soundtrack. My first soundtrack; a cassette! Cost me RM 11.90 of my allowance. I listened to it over and over again. I pretended I was Jason James Ricthter! the boy that played Jesse in the movie. I imagined I had a gigantic friend Willy the orca. What a coincident my dad's name is also Willy. :D Now I wanted to be a film director! Make movie in Hollywood! A screenplay Writer...a cinematographer...Everything about movies! My escape from real life was the movies.