{"id":585,"date":"2006-03-18T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:14:16","slug":"lookalike-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Lookalike, I Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was paying at the mamak, when the mamak dude says:<\/p>\n

“You look like John Michael.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

His face was relatively near mine, but I couldn’t hear what he said.<\/p>\n

“Huh?<\/i>”<\/p>\n

“You look like John Michael. You know, the wrestler.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

The way he said it, it was as if he was going to challenge me for my trophy belt right there.<\/p>\n

Does anybody know this wrestler, since I don’t watch wrestling?<\/p>\n

My hair was tied back, so I guess I looked more aggressive.<\/p>\n

Edit<\/b>: He probably meant Shawn Michaels.<\/p>\n

I have a common face, or a face to link them all. I’ve been likened to the Alien Workshop<\/b> logo in secondary school, Neo (Keanu Reeves)<\/b> when I wear sunglasses, David Spade<\/b> of Just Shoot Me<\/i>, Topher Grace<\/b> (who plays Eric Forman in That ’70s Show<\/i>), Gavin Yap<\/a> (the local thespian), some dude in APIIT Damansara Heights<\/i>, some Malay dude who worked in Nando’s Midvalley<\/i>, a handsome lecturer in Lim Kok Wing<\/i>, a guitar-playing maestro who also plays chess, among other people. And maybe a peacock, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nPardon the crude, crude Photoshopping. These are the four best impressions of the famous actors I can look like.<\/p>\n

And hey, I secretly enjoy being told that I look like somebody, especially if that someone is famous and good-looking.<\/p>\n

So, I myself find delight in spotting people who do look like someone else. I swear, when I say, “hey you look like my friend<\/i>“, it is not a pickup line<\/b>. It gives me great joy to spot lookalikes, great joy to tell them, and hopefully, the person will be overjoyed as I am, too, secretly. Well, if I freaked you out then I am sorry. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Edit<\/b>: Check out Jenifer’s celebrity lookalike<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was paying at the mamak, when the mamak dude says: “You look like John Michael.” His face was relatively near mine, but I couldn’t hear what he said. “Huh?” “You look like John Michael. You know, the wrestler.” The way he said it, it was as if he was going to challenge me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}