Noda does not manage his game by standing on the sidelines sheltering from inclement weather conditions beneath a massive umbrella and keeping himself warm with a paper cup of coffee. Despite that fact that Noda has not always had its eye on the ball and that his defence was a [Read more…]
The attentive reader of this blog, if there is one, may recall that its author has a penchant for the things of the flesh, preferably female and of ample but pleasing proportion and a comely countenance. Save your fasting for Lent and Advent, sweet ladies mine, and in the meantime [Read more…]
Ray came into town from the sticks tonight and joined us at the table of conviviality. The first two games were played by him, Noda and Jaime. David arrived towards the end of the first game and already the foreign players had a gloomy air about them. David ordered yakimeshi [Read more…]
This evening at Kodama went on for longer than anticipated and was full of incident and variety. The first thing that greeted us on entering the mahjong parlour was the site of Noda’s Mask. Noda had a cold and spent much of the evening coughing and spluttering like an old [Read more…]
Suffering from indigestion during a crucial portion of the afternoon of 18th June 1815, the Upstart Emperor of the French removed himself from the field of battle to seek relief by lying down in a barn. I don’t know if Jaime spent the evening lying down in a barn but [Read more…]
Jaime was the starting Oya in the first game and opened the scoring by taking 12,000 points off David in the first hand and 13,000 off Noda in the second, however, those two players then took the next two hands and ended up in the black. The second game progressed [Read more…]
In 1966 a national Health and Sports Day holiday was established on 10th October to commemorate the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Then, in 2,000, several national holidays were moved to Monday to give the working masses several three-day weekends to enjoy during the course of the year. So now Health [Read more…]
Went on a trip to the zoo today. Asa Zoo is a fairly mouldy sort of zoo near Hiroshima. Little E somehow knew that there were “ressapanda” there and after we had had our fill of the fighing apes and the pitiful “frog exhibition” little E went marching down the [Read more…]
Noda dominated the first half of the evening. Kenyon was relieved to be sat on his left and therefore out of the games in which Noda presided as Oya. Kenyon’s approach seemed more cautious than usual. Here we have a photo of how he responded to Jaime’s Double Riichi declaration [Read more…]
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