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Hehehe.. an Aussie ape visits Noo York! Sounds like a bad idea for a movie, like 'Gorilla Dundee' or somefing...

But I could follow in the steps of my great uncle Kong. He went to da 'Big Apple' many years ago (no, He didn't think it was da 'Big Banana..') (although it could be...) to find a doctor to help him wiv a 'growth gland' problem he was suffering wiv (He kept bumping his head on things) (Like low clouds..), but ended up in show bizness as a movie star! Wow! You'd think 'only in Amerika!' or 'only in Noo York', but he was in the right place at the right time. That year it was Gorillas... next it might be big radioactive lizards, or something stoopid like that!

Uncle Kong told us all about his time in the movies, how he thought he was making slapstick comedies like Charlie Chaplin, and tripping over buildings, and mistaking small planes for flies, you know, funny stuff like that! He told us he thought that miss Fay Wray was a 'real doll'.

Anyway, I was in Noo York four times, but all I got to see was stuff like JFK (how do ya pronounce that??? ) AIRPORT and the road to Pencilvania. I had no real time to be too showbizzy, but I did meet a guy who looked like he was trying to break into that... When Me an' John an' Mark Hurst flew back from Jamaica, we went thru JFK on our way to Pittsburgh. We went to TGIF's (how do ya pronounce THAT??) for a pineapple joose and a 'nana. Poor little ape, smaller than me, was working at TGIF's, helping the waiter. He was sitting in the waiter's hat, looking a bit self-concious, and helping the guy wiv his orders.. I felt embarrassed for him, But then I realised that he had to make a living, he was doing what he could till something better came along. I don't know why he came to Noo York, I don't know what his plan was, to break into Showbiz and be a leading light on Broadway, or to make a killing on Wall Street (although, I think they have laws against that...) 'cos doesn't EVERYONE go to Noo York? (Did I mention I've bin there 4 times? I did? oh...). It seemed like a nice town....

But it made me think. What is the purpose for my life? Why was I placed right here, right now? What do I do next? (deep thoughts for a small ape, huh?) but then I remembered something a guy called Jeremiah jotted down a long time ago. He jotted down lots of stuff that was anthologised in a big book called the Bible. Anyway, what he wrote was something God told him. "For I know the plans I have for you" declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.."(Jer 29:11) pretty cool huh? Even though I don't know what I'll do for the rest of my life, God knows! and if I do what God wants, it'll all turn out pretty good in the end! I just hope that the little guy at TGIF knows that too...