I arrived a little bit earlier than usual at the Docs’ last night so Dr. M. Sr. and I entertained ourselves with some cheerful chat about warfare, particularly a somewhat doctored version, if I may put it like that, of what my late pater had been up to during the [Read more…]
It was an “Old Foreigners” game last Friday. Two of them, David and Jaime, had bought cuban cigars at Kemby’s, or rather at the bar on the second floor of Kemby’s. We were rather hoping to smoke out the Japanese players on the other tables, but when we got to [Read more…]
I don’t know about Noda going senile… I completely forgot to mention the presence of Nobu in my previous blog; but there he most definitely was. He even drove me home afterwards! Nobu is a pretty quiet sort of chap at the mahjong table. He has a disconcerting habit of [Read more…]
If you had been a savvy Japanese greengrocer in the late summer of 2008 you might have thought to buy in two or three times as many boxes of bananas than usual, oh and double the price of your bananas at the same time! Yes, we have no banana[zu]If you [Read more…]
Last Friday the Old Guard (Noda, David) and one detachment of the Middle Guard (Jaime) formed up around the corner table of Kodama jansou. David arrived from a TOEFL class which he terminated early as there was only one student and she raced through the alloted tasks in double-quick time. [Read more…]
Friday 7th November was one of those evenings at the games table when the tiles always looked promising to the Poor Little Cypriot and were almost always treacherous. There was the case of being Tempai after four turns, but on such a dreadful wait that it was pointless to go [Read more…]
Kenyon reports on the action at Kodama last Friday. He was the only foreign player up against Noda, Hide and Kiyo… How did he do? Friday 31st OctoberKodama JansouHiroshima After finding out that Dave was unavailable, Hide contacted me to tell me that he had the day off so he [Read more…]
My fortunes at standard Japanese mahjong have been rather mixed lately. I play a short game on some Friday afternoons in what was originally an English class but has, by student demand, morphed into a 90 minute mahjong session, just enough for either a single game played at learners’ pace, [Read more…]
On Friday 24th October Noda, David, Jaime were joined by Kenyon, who hadn’t been around for a while. Kenyon promptly won the first game on a healthy +67 and went out with Suuanko in one of the early hands, but it turned out to be no more than a subsidy [Read more…]
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