tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27863241.post115245015279988239..comments2023-10-31T01:41:17.306+13:00Comments on Waatea News Update: Tamihere says benefit systems harming MaoriAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16322691526769767082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27863241.post-80295875896395057472007-07-19T23:43:00.000+12:002007-07-19T23:43:00.000+12:00Kia ora Waatea News Update! My name is Kevin Whana...Kia ora Waatea News Update! My name is Kevin Whana a.k.a Starfish ,I was born in Hawera ,a small dairy-farming community on the South-side of Mt Taranaki .I am writing this to put the record straight about an untrue comment i found offensive,about an interview with Rhonda Kite after the Squeegeebandit screening at the Wairoa Film Festival 2006 in which it took the award of Best Maori Film Documentury ,she had been asked why out of all the other window-washers did this particular one stand-out,to which she was said to have replied quote;"Starfish stood out among the window-washers because of the way he bombarded the film-makers with questions" by now if you havent already figured it out that window-washer is me!..I guess its not that all big a deal,but to me the truth should always be written or if wrong be corrected...there were'nt FILM-MAKERS involved ,there was only just ONE!..Sandor Lau ,and he met me at the Otara flea-market Sth Auckland ,where he had been coming for the past month or so prior to our engagement in search of window-washers to make a documentry about WINDOW-WASHING .Around about that time prior to meeting Sandor ,i was only a baby in window-washing terms having only been in the game for 6 months or so ,due to unforseen cicumstances ,finding myself on the end of a squeegee, more like bombarding car windscreens than film-makers!..and like i said as fate may have..Sandor saw me at the "mouth of the hinaki"{entrance to Otara-fleamarket controlled by traffic lights ,where the Otara version of coin-divers, swamp all the trapped cars} And may i remind you only one film-maker Sandor Lau is ,involved ,remember he's wanting to make a WINDOW-WASHING film ,he met me ,and after three more encounters at the weekly Otara market,Sandor more or less had his man ,and for the next 9 months or so i took him on a journey of just a spec in the life of Kevin Whana ,and as you may have now gathered he had changed the script from WINDOW-WASHERS...to..WINDOW-WASHER! and thats where it all changed ,and at first was real hard for me to talk about my past!..but hey!..everybody in the whole-wide world got something good i hope ,and as the makers suggest see a little bit of themselves too in the character Starfish ,and just like i ended on Squeegeebandit..."everybody got what they wanted"..and this is my cake..,what you see is what you get! thanx Waatea News...just another maori boy..Kevin Graeme Whana a.k.a STARFISHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com