Archbish Emeritus Desmond and the Dalai Lama arrived in Hiroshima today along with their fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams. They were presiding over some sort of peace conference with a stiff entrance fee. However, after that was done and dusted Desmond Tutu and Betty williams took part in [Read more…]
This was the game that almost didn’t happen – and somehow I wish it hadn’t although the evening was certainly diverting. With Jaime absent and nobody seeming to be able to fill the gap at the table I called off the game at 5:30pm. Then at 5:31pm Eri mailed me [Read more…]
An eventful evening. For now, here are the results: David +32, +56*, -14, -34, +47 = +87 Noda +14, -8, +74, –, — = +80 === Hide –, –, –, +8, -20 = -12 Kenyon –, -19, -47**, +26, -27 = -67 Jaime -46, -29, -13, –, — = -88 [Read more…]
An interesting result tonight inasmuch as Jaime came top but what sticks in the mind (several memory-clouding days later) is “the luck of the Noda” (as P. G. Wodehouse might have put it). As in any endeavour in this mortal life of ours, the best player creates his own luck, [Read more…]
Noda had once again been dominating play by the time Hide arrived for the second game. Jaime staged a second game recovery to bring him within 3 points of parity and David staged a recovery in the third. However, in the last game of the evening Hide suddenly emerged from [Read more…]
Now that the autumn term has begun I have had to shuffle my schedule and am no longer able to spend a leisurely Wednesday afternoon teaching Doctor M “German History in English” prior to an extended session of mahjong with him and his parents. However, by shifting his class to [Read more…]
I popped into Bizenya for a bowl of “yasai ramen” and then headed across Peace Park on my way to play mahjong with Mr and Mrs Nakano. They had heard about me from a former student of mine and Mrs N had contacted me by e-mail to arrange a game [Read more…]
A refreshing change to the proceedings tonight as Noda stumbled and bumbled in the first two games of the evening, setting up David and Jaime for a profitable evening. In the second game Noda gave away the 8Coins to Jaime twice in a row… Kenyon joined us for the third [Read more…]
Jaime and I spent the early part of this evening up at the Mitaki golf practice range in preparation for Tuesday’s round of golf at Forest Hills. More practice is definitely needed, and more time reading David Leadbetter’s “The Golf Swing”. We met up again at Kodama jansou and were [Read more…]
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