Almayer marries the adopted Malay child of his patron Captain Lingard and runs his trading post in Sambir, Borneo. Almayer builds a large trading house (his “folly”) in anticipation of wealth. His marriage loveless, Almayer’s affections are invested in his beautiful daughter Nina, who, returning from her European education, elopes [Read more…]
DEH 4 v AC Telan 0: The DEH boys march on!Our new goal-scoring hero is third from right.(Photo: Jaime, 20/5/07) There was a time when The Poor Little Cypriot and most of the football team he played for, Inter-Milang, a team of English teachers, Peruvian labourers, and one or two [Read more…]
The inverse-correlation between mahjong results and football results continues apace. Until last weekend we had confined our speculations to the English Premiership and Championship, however, when Jaime finished top last in last Friday’s game the feeling was that it boded ill for his team, MUFC, which was to play Chelsea [Read more…]
There were just the three regular gaijin in tonight’s game so we took the opportunity to head over to Koyo Janso, aka Jantopia where the Mama-san is very friendly and cheerful but the food not so good. Actually, the food is non-existent and has to be ordered in from some [Read more…]
Hey David, So last night I was playing and this situation came up: Player 1 (Oya) has declared Riichi. Play goes twice around, then Player 2 declares Riichi. I’m Player 3 and I don’t go Riichi but wait (if a 9-Circles comes I can go Ron with Itsuukan, but otherwise [Read more…]
Challenged by Andrew Carnegie to discover the secrets of wealth, Napoleon Hill spent twenty years interviewing five hundred wealthy men and distilling their revelations into thirteen principles of money making described in Think and Grow Rich, a book that made him rich and famous. Necessary qualities are Desire, Faith, Decision, [Read more…]
Enami-san returned to the table from a holiday in New York dedicated to watching baseball and basketball. The change of scene had a deliterious effect on his game as he failed to get into the black at any point in the evening, got stuck with his Yakitori on the table [Read more…]
On Wednesday I lengthened out Doctor M’s “History in English” class so that we could finish the book we have been reading over much of the past year, “A Mighty Fortress” by Steven Ozment. It has been an interesting read, although the style leaves much to be desired. Ozment’s conclusions [Read more…]
Tonight’s was another active session which saw Jaime plunge into the red, David consolidate his position at the top and Kenyon and Noda make further upward progress towards zero. There were also two Chombo mishaps, two failures to win a single hand in a game, one quotation that shall live [Read more…]
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