onmode, I dont know if I would call it fluent by no means. Saya lupa banyak kosa kata, kerena saya tidak punyai teman teman bahwa berbicara bahasa. I have only been to Iraq and Afcrapistan so far. My job regionally aligns me with South East Asia though so I hope to go sooner than later. I'm fairly sure we only have 2 people in Indo. at a time from my job area. Actually, I think 2 period. Thats common knowledge and not classified, lol.
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I don't actually know Indonesian, so I have no idea what names you just called me. :) I just thought it was pretty cool that you knew a language that's fairly obscure in the US. Certainly, it isn't a language you'll find offered in any public high school. Do you think your grammar is better in English or Indonesian? :D It is certainly possible for one's grammar to be better in a language they learned in a structured environment compared to one they just picked up automatically as a kid.
When you were in Afghanistan, were you there long enough to see any change in the living conditions for the general population? Or did you not see much of them in your position? The nation seems like a really rough place to live, even when you aren't under constant threat of attack.
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ChaosRandom
MemberI was in the city of Khost (same as the Rambo movie) in 2005. Havent been back since, but it was pretty rough while I was there. I didnt really see any changes. It was too early in the war. US soldiers were amazing sights in some of the villages I went to. Many Afghans had never seen a soldier before. I've been to Iraq 3 times, the first being Jan. 2004. I was last there in 2009-2010. Lot of changes I've seen. Terrorists...I mean locals are getting Americanized more and more these days.
Oh yea, I only said that I had forgot a lot of vocab cause I dont have any friends that speak it. No name calling, lol.
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I wish I could meet Jackie Chan. He seems like such a cool guy.
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Not really, since Sammo and Yuen Biao are nowhere near as well known in the American mainstream as Jackie. Sammo, who starred in late 90s CBS cop show Martial Law (co-starring Arsenio Hall and Kelly Hu), has a higher American profile than Yuen.
For fans of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, though, Sammo, Jackie, and Yuen are known as "The Three Brothers" or "The Three Dragons" (Sammo is the eldest). All three studied together when they were kids at the Peking Opera School and then went into the film industry as post-Bruce Lee martial arts actors--actually, a YouTube video I just found shows that not only did Sammo and Jackie
fightget beaten by Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, Yuen Biao's in a crowd scene, too.All three found success in Hong Kong film, Jackie more so than his former classmates. Sammo made a career not only as a star but also a director, while Yuen Biao distinguished himself as the best acrobat of the trio. The three of them starred together in a few films, but unfortunately, it's been almost 25 years since the last movie with all three together.
Here is a fun scene from that film, Dragons Forever. Yuen Biao is the skinny guy; Sammo is the fat guy, and he's also the director of this film.
Here is part of the final fight scene in Dragons Forever. Yuen Biao does some awesome stuff here (Sammo's character is incapacitated in this scene). The cigar-smoking baddie is another of their Peking Opera School classmates, Yuen Wah. Might as well also add in the movie's big final fight between Jackie and kickboxing champion Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. The slow-motion spin kick Jackie's character does here is actually performed by Yuen Biao.
As an example of some great Hong Kong action with Sammo and Yuen Biao but no Jackie, here is the final big fight from director Sammo's Millionaire's Express. This comedy, in a way reminiscent of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Cannonball Run, included a bunch of Hong Kong action movie stars (e.g., white guy = Richard Norton; white girl = Cynthia Rothrock; Japanese girl = Yukari Oshima in what I think is her first HK movie appearance) as well as Hong Kong non-action stars, like some comedians I don't recognize. Yuen Biao (white suspenders) does some more amazing stuff in this clip--he jumps off the roof of a multi-story building earlier in the movie, too, down to the GROUND!
Anyway, by the time I really got interested in Hong Kong action movies, the trio had stopped working together. So, I'd like to see them join up once more, before they really do get too old to do it anymore.
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Member*machine calibration 100% complete. commencing fun*
*spewing rainbows and fun again*
This little something here will start things off...
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