Today, July 20 2009 is the 36th anniversary of the passing away

of Bruce Lee or Lee Siau Loong or Lee Jun Fan.

Bruce was singularly responsible for producing a huge and immense

love for martial arts movies in East Asia, including parts of S.E.
Asia. So popular was he that the authorities had to introduce a
law banning possession of the nunchaku in this country. This law
is still in force today. And its very existence partly explains
why there are so many murders and assaults and robberies with deadly
weapons now seen to be so easily occurring today.

Bruce was also seen as a person who held fast to basic principles
no matter how tough things were and he was regarded as a person who
would never surrender to either intimidation or bribery.

These are the kinds of human traits that everyone should emulate
and take up. He was not one to bow to others just because they
were powerful or strong. He was prepared to be humble to others
but only if they themselves were humble to him as well. He refused
to live on other people's money even when he was passing through
very difficult times and he preferred to deal with strangers from
a position of strength whenever possible. His story is full of
precious lessons that should never be missed but needed to be
learnt instead.

Bruce was born in the US in 1940 but he grew up in Hong Kong. He

learnt kungfu from a local master while still attending school.
Hong Kong at that time was just recovering from the effects of
the Japanese occupation and the British colonial masters neither
had the money nor the interest to improve the lot of the people.
As a result organised crime and gangsterism became rife in the
territory due to the poverty and poor living conditions. Bruce
was not in any way insulated from all this and thus he had his
fair share of scrapes with the undesirable characters of Hong
Kong society. His parents feared for his life and eventually he
was sent to the US to continue his studies. Going over to the
US however did not mean that he would never again meet bad hats
or social misfits anymore in his life. He was to cross paths
with many such characters even long after he had landed there.

He arrived in the US in 1959 and enrolled in a trade school but

not before first embarking on a short career of taking up one
brief job after another. After finishing trade school, he managed
to enroll himself in the university in Seattle, Washington state
where he studied philosophy. While still at university Bruce got
involved in some encounters with some martial arts exponents and
one of them eventually teamed up with him to set up classes to
teach unarmed combat to other students.

Along the way, Bruce had further personal encounters with many
other exponents which eventually led him back to California for
major competitions including the one at Long Beach. By this time
he had abandoned his university studies and after winning his
first important title he decided to set up a martial arts school
in the area which soon came to the attention of the local kungfu
associations. As a result Bruce decided to set out on his own
path and declared his martial arts as Jeet Kune Do, a sort of
combination of all the best of the prevailing martial arts then
present in the US. His skills brought him fame and contacts with
Hollywood film promoters. He managed to star in a minor role in
some TV serials but however, on the whole his dealings with all
the Hollywood bigshots left him with a bad taste in the mouth and
when he was offered a chance to participate in a Hong Kong movie
project by Raymond Chow he quickly accepted.

Bruce starred in several Raymond Chow productions starting with

'The Big Boss' (1971 a.k.a. 'Fists Of Fury'), 'Fist Of Fury'
(1972 a.k.a. 'School Of Chivalry'), 'Return Of The Dragon' (1972
a.k.a. 'Way Of The Dragon'), 'Enter The Dragon' (1973) and
'Game Of Death' (1973). The last movie was never completed by
Bruce as he had died on 20 July 1973 and it was released only
in 1978 after a lookalike actor filmed the rest of the movie's
uncompleted scenes.

Bruce has remained as a cinema icon with few equals even after
nearly forty years have passed by. He is well remembered for
his bravery and courage both in real life and in his movies.
He was not one to follow the crowd but he instead only followed
his heart and his conscience. He refused to take advantage of
others and he refused to allow others to take advantage of him
too. He did not even allow his relatively small stature to stand
in his way when he competed with or faced bigger opponents. He
was truly determined to always succeed in all quests. Bruce is
a really perfect example for many to follow.

Today, only Pyongyang is the one among us all who dares to show
anything that resembled the tough spirit demonstrated by Bruce.
Despite handing over its nuclear dossier over to the other parties
in the Six-nation Talks last June and blowing up the cooling tower
at its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, Pyongyong has been denied
a chance to savour peace and reconciliation. Instead it was forced
to adopt a hard stance on account of the irresponsible behaviour
of the George Bush-Christopher Hill-Tokyo clique. This clique
has since been replaced by the Obama-Clinton-Tokyo-Seoul clique
which has absolutely no desire to make peace with Pyongyang at
all. This clique wants nothing except to wait out the imminent
collapse of Pyongyang and seize the spoils. Only trouble is that
the clique has not heard of Bruce Lee or Lee Siau Loong. Never
surrender and never yield to the enemy who is really nothing but
a coalition of demons and devils. In Pyongyang's case, these devils
only know how to issue threats, whip up bellicose statements and
clamour for sanctions night and day. They ceaselessly put forward
unreasonable demands and bellow non-stop denunciations and just
cannot wait to strangle a sure victim. Those devils in Washington,
Tokyo and Seoul deserve to roast in Hell forever.

Beijing should remember that in 1964 when the PRC's first nuclear
device was tested the PRC was still not a member of the UNSC and
like Pyongyang today, she was just as vulnerable to US-UN sanctions.
Beijing should also remember that, like her in 1964, Pyongyang now
has nuclear arms and the city has very close proximity to Pyongyang.
So are Seoul and Tokyo. Do not say you do not know. Fans of Bruce
know it all. You should too.

Clinton, Obama, Gary Roughead, Lee Myung-bak and Aso and company
are the kind of warmongering demons and devils typical of Bruce's
opponents in his much-loved movies. These devils are totally evil
and deserve nothing except a good hard kick in the behind. Bruce,
for sure, knew how to deliver such a kick during his time on earth.

Long after his passing, Bruce is still well remembered. Pyongyang

will never ever be denied this honour as well if push comes to
shove. Be aware. Be fully aware. Be totally aware.