Something interesting that I learnt.
While in Capri, I had the most interesting conversation between new friends Andrea and Dario, and Cartcart. I don’t remember how it started, but all of a sudden Cartcart demonstrated at how you can tell if a person was left handed or right handed by the way they fold their hands.
I’m right handed because when I fold, my right hand naturally tucks in and the left goes under. Like this :
Left handers on the other hand, does it with the opposite hands. But when I try to do the opposite side, I get confused and the most that I can do is this awkward looking “Dikir Barat” move.
Cart also demonstrated that the way a person claps will reveal if that person is a left hander or a right hander. For me, my right hand naturally goes up higher than the left. But at this point of time, I was a little confused as all my life, I’ve never clapped this way before.
Normally, I’d raise my hands all the way up till they are close to my mouth and almost parallel to my body and we clap like this :
Sidenote : Don’t I have beautiful and lustrous hair?
Cart looked at me all puzzled, “Do you really clap that way? That’s how kids clap! The way we clap is more loud and bla bla bla pet pot pet pot” And I glared back at him, annoyed, “But this has been how we clap all this while! Che problema hai? Nak kena tendang ke apa?”
And that’s when Dario broke it up by informing that his Japanese colleague claps the same way I did too, as that way, it is considered more elegant and refined. So it’s more a cultural thing.
But I suppose I can slowly try to adopt this new way of clapping. Even though it feels quite strange to me.
*dolphin clap* Yaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
Interesting! Hmmm I’m right-handed but I usually fold my arms the “left-handed” way. But then again I am a little schizophrenic.
(I say “usually” because I can fold my arms both ways.)
This means that you are ambidextrous!
I should say: As a left hander, I thought I would do the things you mentioned “left-handedly” but it turns out I clap and fold my hands in the right hand way! I suspect this is coz one follows his peers, even subconsciously…
Hmm … this is interesting … let’s find more left handed people :-)
oo.. I didn’t realise most of us clap the “kids way” too. :p
It’s a cultural thing. People can say what they want to say, but hey, once they start eating durians, then their words have more weight :p
Hahaha…I clap the “Italian way”, even though I’m English. I smack the partly cupped fingers of my right hand into my cupped left palm (yes, I am right handed). This makes a very loud, resounding sound. I do have a reputation as a rather loud clapper but then I did study flamenco at college…so I suppose my clap is more Spanish than Italian!!
Charlotte