everybody knows who bruce lee is, right? well, for some reason one day i started thinking about it, and realised that for the life of me i had no idea even whether his movies were in english or canto (as it turns out, they are in both). well, 35 years after the fact, i have to say that he is really, really cool! by which i do not mean because he can bash people to bits, but because he is totally 潇洒… the way he scripts his english lines and says them with a canto twang (“awwn the cawntrary…”) and so authoritatively; how he strolls around like a random 流氓; how he continually emits those odd hoots and shrieks (took me ages to figure out where they were coming from); how he’s totally cool with trotting about in a banana-yellow unitard (my sisters called it “a kill bill outfit”. 有眼不知泰山).
anyway, it suddenly appears that that everybody knows how to use nunchaku. i suppose one shouldn’t be surprised that my recently-married cousin’s husband does them, since he’s a fitness instructor cum martial arts exponent. however, my sister has just informed me that our (apparently) sedentary dad used to have a pair (they got confiscated by the police in singapore). guess it’s my turn to 有眼不知泰山.
