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…]
Meanwhile, Ray was in town and he, Tim and Jaime were ensconsed in Kemby’s sinking a few preliminary beers and were joined in this endeavour by David a while later. David had had the shock of hearing a voice like Noda’s shouting at him from across the street just as [Read more…]
All is doom and gloom among the foreign contingent of the Cock’s-Eye 3-Player Mahjong Club this year. Last Friday was another episode of Noda beating up the foreigners, especially in the second game when the Poor Little Cypriot, who was quite happy finishing the first on zero, suddenly found himself [Read more…]
On my last trip to the doctor’s I was asked a few questions about my drinking habits… “Can you drink Asahi Super Dry?” DH: “Well, yes, I do sometimes drink Asahi Super Dry. Yes, indeed.” “Ah so desu ka… How about Kirin Original Brew?” DH: “Oh yes, I quite often [Read more…]
Two weeks ago Kenyon returned to the table from his summer holidays. Tim was present for a beer and the talk inevitably turned towards Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. I shall spare the blogosphere yet another ramble on the intertwined subjects of BO’s prospects, policies, race and religion. Far more important [Read more…]
Noda, Ray and David arranged an Obon holiday season game of mahjong but neglected to inform Mama-san at Kodama, who shut up shop in order to go and pray at her ancestors’ ancient monument as is the custom of the inhabitants of these islands so to do. Noda had spent [Read more…]
This was not a good night for foreign players! It was probably all the fault of the Poor Little Cypriot. When Noda was on his first hand as Oya the PLC moved off Tempai to try and build a pure bamboo hand, a tactic that backfired and that went against [Read more…]
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes