The 70s

The Yesteryears

As this group begins to remember its past, I thought I'd add in a little bit of nostalgia from the entertainment angle.

The 70s was probably the time when the estrogen and testosterone started its manufacture for our batch. I was told that girls knew things boys of the same age knew years later.........

The idols of that period were probably........





Chin Han, one of the main romantic actors. They were supposed to be suave, good looking and their hair-style and clothings were vigorously imitated. Can one imagine wearing a thick blue-denim Levis jacket in this hot and humid weather, like Pontian? What about the long hair that we tried to keep against our parents' wishes!!!


Here's a photo of Alan Tang Kwong Wing:



Now you can probably guess why the boys then parted their hair in the centre, instead of keeping the 'curry-puff' hairdo which required heaps and heaps of brylcreem to keep them in place.














The Pontian swampy beach was a favourite spot for the boys to bring their girl-friends to........ I now begin to wonder if there were other secret rendezvous ...........

Ah, yes the cinema..... lots of things to learn from the movies those days.




The main actors were always very cool. They always knew what to say to make those beautiful actresses smile. Despite having cried their eyes out, they still come back to the arms of the hunks.. They get to live happily ever after too.

Every New Year, we'd have new calenders of the latest stars and we sometimes keep them on the walls of our rooms....


Lin Ching Hsia is one famous actress whose fame lasted till now.








Run Lover Run was one of the popular love movies of the time... I can't remember the gist of the movie now but I wonder if it was "you can run but you cannot hide!!!"



Having a trim body helps right?



















Right: A cool Alan Tang.

Even during that time we already knew this:
"Behind
every successful
man
there
is
a
woman!"

As the film stars grew older, so did we. That's when reality sets in What was in the movies definitely did not work. The attention was switched to the swords-welding heroes.

Wang Yu was so popular in his "The One-Armed Swordsman" that there were so many sequels to it..... such as

"The Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman",

"The New One-Armed Swordsman".....


























There were other swordsmen movies like "Have Sword Will Travel", more like imitating the English cowboy series, "Have Gun Will Travel"














Of course this "Buddha's Palm" was very popular as it gave the gullibles then the HOPE that super-powers is a possibility!!






















Then ShaoLin Kung Fu came into play. Some teenagers then became interested in Karate and Tae Kwan Do. They became more obsessed with the birth of a new genre, a kung fu never seen before. A man they had not heard of... that is until his first movie came to the cinema.

He was Bruce Lee:


He was super-fast, super aggressive, super-good.


The kung fu lovers were awe-strikened with his "triple kicks - Lee 3 legs"

His second movie made the Chinese proud to be Chinese. It made the Westerners were more cautious. They thought all Chinese know kung fu.





Soon, we were all awaiting for his new movies to come to the cinema.......

The teenagers began to learn his kicks, learn the nunchakus, and they did lots of sit-ups, like the 2-finger sit-ups which he displayed.

And of course, we began training the body to look like the one on the left.... V-shaped body. I don't think the girls appreciated this type of body


Maybe they preferred Alan Tang's slim body and his smile more.... Or maybe they were already into something else when we were so mesmerized by Bruce Lee.....

This small little world that I lived in may not be the same as the rest of the guys. Nevertheless, it was a small little world that I did share with a few close friends. It is wonderful, if I may add, that those close friends of so many years ago ARE still my close friends NOW.....

I am proud. Yet I am humbled by the fact that they still treat me as their friend.