07-04-2019, 10:43 AM
Random observation of Master Ma that I just remembered - he was wearing a rasta bracelet. It was a hemp red, green & gold strung piece, with a black oval ornament that had a distorted pot leaf engraved into it. Of course, I asked. He said it was just for fun - something that came with a lion shirt that he had recently acquired that he was rather fond of - he likes lions. I mentioned that it was Jamaican but it went past everyone in the room. Due to the oval shape of the ornament, the pot leave didn't look so pot-like. I thought about saying 'zhege shi mafi' which is slang for 'this is cannabis' (as if any of you would be impressed that I can say that in Mandarin) but didn't. He has no idea.
It reminds me of two similar occasions. Master Meng was wearing a dress shirt at our 25th that had Tiger Rose embroidered on it (the descending tiger set in mother-of-pearl on Jerry's guitar). I asked him if he knew what it was. He had no idea. He liked it because it was a white tiger and that had some symbolic meaning for him. I told him what it meant and to not be surprised if he got solicited for drugs while wearing it. He thought that was hilarious.
I used to use a butt pack with a Lion of Judah symbol set in a red, green & gold Star of David. Master Painter, who is this huge cowboy combat trainer for the Texas Rangers (the cops not the baseball team), saw it and said that he liked my 'Israeli Military' patch. He had no idea. I told him it as actually Ethiopian, but I'm not sure he knows where that is.
It reminds me of two similar occasions. Master Meng was wearing a dress shirt at our 25th that had Tiger Rose embroidered on it (the descending tiger set in mother-of-pearl on Jerry's guitar). I asked him if he knew what it was. He had no idea. He liked it because it was a white tiger and that had some symbolic meaning for him. I told him what it meant and to not be surprised if he got solicited for drugs while wearing it. He thought that was hilarious.
I used to use a butt pack with a Lion of Judah symbol set in a red, green & gold Star of David. Master Painter, who is this huge cowboy combat trainer for the Texas Rangers (the cops not the baseball team), saw it and said that he liked my 'Israeli Military' patch. He had no idea. I told him it as actually Ethiopian, but I'm not sure he knows where that is.
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