Only three players met at Kodama last night, Noda, Nobu and Jaime. The night lasted four hours, saw three chombo, two games and one yakitori. Amazingly Noda did not finish as top dog, but no surprise in him still eking out a finish in the black. Nobu, unfortunately took the [Read more…]
I had expected to squeeze in a little bit of mahjong in April, but it is not to be, neither in April nor during Golden Week as the Great Spotted Hostage-To-Fortune is off on a study weekend and the Poor Little Cypriot is to be left to hold the jolly [Read more…]
I knew it was going to be one of those epic nights at the mahjong table when I received this photo from Jaime. It shows the hand that Noda went out on at Nobu’s expense. It is a beautiful hand. Of course, Noda was Oya at the time and won [Read more…]
There has been nothing to report of late at the Cockseye Club as spring holidays, the travels and the preoccupations of the various members have lengthened out the spring holiday recess. I had thought that April would bring in both a return of a relatively busy teaching schedule and Friday [Read more…]
All has been quiet on the mahjong front of late, here in Hiroshima. What with marriages and holidays, everything else has been in abatement. I headed off to England with my daughter for almost a month, during which time there was an earthquake and a hurricane, so in some respects [Read more…]
It is Monday morning, and I think I have recovered. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were spent celebrating Jaime’s wedding. Activities included golf, bowling, mahjong, cigars, booze, the wedding ceremony itself and the reception at the Rihga-Royal Hotel, and parties at three bars: Kembys, Kulcha and Plasir, as well as regular [Read more…]
Nobuhiro spent his free last week boning up on the rules of mahjong. He joined the four of us at Kodama midway through the evening. Midway. Hmm, an apposite allusion considering how the evening went for the Poor Little Cypriot. His aircraft scored some early hits, but unfortunately, his aircraft [Read more…]
A rather odd sight presented itself to the Japanese players at Kodama jansou on Friday evening – the sight of a JAPANESE fellow being taught the rules of JAPANESE mahjong by three JOHNNY FOREIGNERS. I use the word “taught” rather loosely. Nobuhiro, for that is the name of our new [Read more…]
Noda received the 2007 Cock’s-Eye 3-Player Mahjong Trophy at Kodama jansou on Friday 18th January. This years trophy is in the likeness of a hawk louring on a rock, or a craggy outcrop, or a tree trunk or something. It replaces the misplaced “Bull” trophy* and is a particularly fine piece. [Read more…]
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